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52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
by Rachel Swaby
Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists. In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: “She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three children.” It wasn’t until the second paragraph that readers discovered why the Times had devoted several hundred -
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The Women's History of the World
Who Cooked the Last Supper? overturns the phallusy of history and gives voice to the untold history of the world: the contributions of millions of unsung women.Men dominate history because men write history. There have been many heroes, but no heroines. Here, in Who Cooked the Last Supper?, is the history you never learned--but should have! Without politics or polemics, this brilliant and witty -
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A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
The highest-rated drama in BBC history returns to PBS Presents in March 2013 Less than a year after the first season finale, PBS’s hit series Call the Midwife returns to Sunday nights this spring with an all-new eight-episode season. Fans of Downton Abbey and Mad Men have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable -
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by Nicholas D. Kristof and 1 more
#1 National BestsellerFrom two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world.With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a -
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Conoce y sana a todas las mujeres que hay en ti
Las hijas de Eva y Lilith desvela la verdad sobre la historia de la mujer y propone vivir con mayor libertad, sin la lápida de la interpretación y el invento. ¿Por qué volver a contar la historia de Eva? ¿Para qué? ¿Quién es Lilith? ¿De dónde surgió? ¿Y qué relación tienen ellas conmigo en el presente? Elisa Quejeiro, colaboradora en el programa de Martha Debayle y la revista Algarab... -
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How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us
by Ina May Gaskin and 1 more
Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth -
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by Ariel Levy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeous memoir about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention“Cheryl Strayed meets a Nora Ephron movie. You’ll laugh, ugly cry, and finish it before the weekend’s over.”—theSkimmNamed one of the best books of 2017 so far by Time and Entertainment WeeklyWhen Ariel Levy left for a reporting trip to Mongolia in 2012, she was pregnant, married, -
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America's First Women Soldiers
In 1918 the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France to help win World War I. Elizabeth Cobbs reveals the challenges these patriotic young women faced in a war zone where male soldiers resented, wooed, mocked, saluted, and ultimately celebrated them. Back on the home front, they fought the army for veterans’ benefits and medals, and won. -
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Gender and Sexuality in Modern Chinese History
Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that there is a massive amount of historical evidence on the subject. China's late imperial government was arguably more concerned about gender and sexuality among its subjects than any other pre-modern state. How did these and other late imperial legacies shape twentieth-century notions of -
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The Provocative Path to Waking Up and Turning On the Wisdom of Being a Woman
There is a particular kind of insanity running rampant in the world that compels most women to stuff down, ignore, or hide parts of ourselves in order to be acceptable, attractive, or taken seriously. Which doesn’t work. It actually ensures we remain unfulfilled, miserable, and at war with ourselves—and that is a war no woman can win. So now comes the good news:There is a path to help you
