Revolutionary Feminists tells the story of the radical women’s liberation movement in Seattle in the 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of a founding member, Barbara Winslow. Drawing on her collection of letters, pamphlets, and photographs as well as newspaper accounts, autobiographies, and interviews, Winslow emphasizes the vital role that Black women played in the women’s liberation movement to create meaningful intersectional coalitions in an overwhelmingly White city. Winslo...

Along with her mother Emmeline, and her sister Christabel, Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading women's suffrage activists in early twentieth-century England, working with the militant Women's Social and Political Union. Unlike her family, however, who looked to parliament and spoke to elite and middle-class women's concerns, Sylvia consistently looked to working women and the labour movement as central to her feminist politics.In this illuminating political biography, feminist ...

A staunch proponent of breaking down racial and gender barriers, Shirley Chisholm had the esteemed privilege of being a pioneer in many aspects of her life. She was the first African American woman from Brooklyn elected to the New York State legislature and the first African American woman elected to Congress in 1968. She also made a run for the Democratic Party nomination for president in 1972. Focusing on Chisholm's lifelong advocacy for fair treatment, access to education, and equal pay...

The novel follows Barbara Winslow, who lives in the Southern United States during the Civil War. As the war disrupts her life and the lives of those around her, Barbara is drawn into the turmoil and conflict of the time. Her journey is marked by personal and societal challenges, and she grapples with the complexities of loyalty, bravery, and the changing roles of women in wartime.Barbara's character is portrayed as strong-willed and independent, embodying the spirit of rebellion against th...

Gender and racial politics were at the center of the 2016 US presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The election was historic because Clinton was the first woman nominated by a major political party for thepresidency. Yet it was also historic in its generation of sustained reflection on the past. Clinton's campaign linked her with suffragist struggles--represented perhaps most poignantly by the parade of visitors to Susan B. Anthony's grave on Election Day--while Tr...

Over the last four decades, women's history has developed from a new and marginal approach to history to an established and flourishing area of the discipline taught in all history departments. Clio in the Classroom makes accessible the content, key themes and concepts, and pedagogical techniques of U.S. women's history for all secondary school and college teachers. Editors Carol Berkin, Margaret S. Crocco, and Barbara Winslow have brought together a diverse group of educators to ...

Elizabeth Camden's inspirational fiction takes readers on an unparalleled emotional journey. In The Rose of Winslow Street, Libby Sawyer and her father return from summer vacation to find another family living in their home. Widower Michael Dobrescu brought his family all the way from Romania to stake a decades-old claim on their house, and he has no plans to leave. As a contentious legal battle drags on, Libby finds herself drawn to Michael and his mysterious past. But she'll soon have to...

More stories for our future - with less tech, probably, but still life on our planet. Post-apocalypse, dystopia, last men and women usually struggling to survive. Bookstores as treasure troves or abandoned places, factories and cities in various states of disrepair, locations from North America to Europe to Japan, all over our beautiful planet.The Book Store by Jason A. AdamsThe Last Books of Nara by M.L. BuchmanAccess All Areas by Fulvio GattiLisa's Odyssey by ...

Let's imagine a future where humanity left this lovely ball of atmosphere to colonize the solar system and beyond. Visit the Moon, Mars, Pluto and alien worlds, sometimes meeting non-human life forms.Ten stories of space exploration and colonization by a batch of talented authors.The stories:Personal Rules by Richard FreebornIt's Lechtenbrink, Libby Lechtenbrink by Mary Jo RabeMerry Olde England by M.L. BuchmanTerraforming Eden by Kate Pavell...

"All the heavy hitters...came out for USA Noir...an important anthology of stories shrewdly culled by Johnny Temple."--New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)One of Zoom Street Magazine's Favorite Books of 2014Indie Books Roundup #1 Pick, Barnes & Noble Book BlogIncluded in Zoom Street Magazine's Summer Reading (Mysteries/Noir) RoundupOne of "1...

Space opera galore! Real planets and star systems as well as made up one, hard SF and science fantasy, mystery and romance. Humans trying to meet aliens for the first time or trying to avoid them. Humans living with aliens in so-called harmony. Earth-based civilizations and alien humanoids.From Alpha Centauri to Epsilon Eridani and everything in between, the Milky Way in all its glory!“Murder on Marawa Prime” by Vonnie Winslow Crist“Astromancer” by Debbie Mumford

Jeśli zapytasz przeciętnego Amerykanina o najdłuższą amerykańską wojnę, zapewne wymieni Wietnam, a potem szybko się poprawi: Afganistan. Tymczasem powinien powiedzieć: wojna narkotykowa. Trwa już pięćdziesiąt lat i nie ma końca.Przez ponad cztery dekady Art Keller był na pierwszej linii frontu najdłużej trwającego konfliktu Ameryki wojny narkotykowej. Jego obsesja pokonania ojca chrzestnego kartelu Sinaloi, Adana Barrery, kosztowała go życie bliskich i zabrała część jego duszy.Teraz Keller...