Women's Studies

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  1. Book ImageThree Lives and Q.E.D.

    Gertrude Stein, Marianne DeKovan

    This Norton Critical Edition includes both Three Lives and Q.E.D., first published in 1909 and 1950, respectively.More

  2. Book ImageObsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie

    Barbara Goldsmith

    Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth—an all-too-human woman struggling to balance a spectacular scientific career, a demanding family, the prejudice of society, and her own passionate nature. Obsessive Genius is a dazzling portrait of Curie, her amazing scientific success, and the price she paid for fame.More

  3. Book ImageBreaking the Bowls: Degendering and Feminist Change

    Judith Lorber

    In Breaking the Bowls, the sequel to Paradoxes of Gender, Judith Lorber shows the cracks, anomalies, and resistances that are breaking down the gendered social order in Western post-industrial societies and lays out how we can take this process further by deliberate degendering.More

  4. Book ImageNorth and South

    Elizabeth Gaskell, Alan Shelston

    A revolutionary social and political commentary, North and South solidified Gaskell’s place in the company of Victorian England’s finest novelists.More

  5. Book ImageNorthanger Abbey

    Jane Austen, Susan Fraiman

    Northanger Abbey, written in Jane Austen’s youth and posthumously published, is arguably her most mysterious, imaginative, and optimistic novel.More

  6. Book ImageThe Showings of Julian of Norwich

    Julian of Norwich, Denise N. Baker

    Julian of Norwich is among the most intriguing religious visionaries in Christian history.More

  7. Book ImageLittle Women

    Louisa M. Alcott, Gregory Eiselein, Anne K Phillips

    This authoritative, accurate text of the first edition (1868–69) of Little Women is accompanied by textual variants and thorough explanatory annotations.More

  8. Book ImageThe Age of Innocence

    Edith Wharton, Candace Waid

    The text of Wharton’s richly allusive Pulitzer Prize–winning 1921 novel of desire and its implications in Old New York has been rigorously annotated by a prominent Wharton scholar.More

  9. Book ImageWuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn

    Fourth Edition

    The text of the novel is based on the first edition of 1847.More

  10. Book ImagePink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons

    Lynn Peril

    From board games to beauty pageants, a smart, witty, pop-culture history of the perilous path to achieving the feminine ideal.More

  11. Book ImageSense and Sensibility

    Jane Austen, Claudia L. Johnson

    Sense and Sensibility is Austen’s first published novel and the one now most scrutinized by historicist and feminist scholars, who offer new, complex readings of the work.More

  12. Book ImageThe Feminine Mystique

    Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen

    The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world.More

  13. Book ImageIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Harriet Jacobs, Frances Smith Foster, Nellie Y. McKay

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the first full-length narrative written by a former woman slave in America.More

  14. Book ImageJane Eyre

    Charlotte Brontë, Richard J. Dunn

    Third Edition

    The text reprinted in this new edition is that of the 1848 third edition text--the last text corrected by the author.More

  15. Book ImageThe Book of Margery Kempe

    Margery Kempe, Lynn Staley

    The text presented here remains as faithful to the original Middle English as possible, without sounding archaic.More

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