Women's Studies

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  1. Book ImageThe Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English

    Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar

    Third Edition / Volume(s): Two-Volume Set

    Long the standard teaching anthology, the landmark Norton Anthology of Literature by Women has introduced generations of readers to the rich variety of women’s writing in English.More

  2. Book ImageAnne of Green Gables

    L. M. Montgomery, Mary Henley Rubio, Elizabeth Waterston

    Since its publication in 1908, Anne of Green Gables has been an enduring bestseller and arguably Canada’s most famous novel.More

  3. Book ImageLove My Rifle More than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army

    Michael E. Staub, Kayla Williams

    “Brave, honest, and necessary.”—Nancy Pearl, NPR SeattleMore

  4. Book ImageMiss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe

    George Johnson

    “A short, excellent account of [Leavitt’s] extraordinary life and achievements.”—Simon Singh, New York Times Book ReviewMore

  5. Book ImageThe Secret Garden

    Frances Hodgson Burnett, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

    Frances Hodgson Burnett was the highest paid and most widely read woman writer of her time, publishing more than fifty novels and thirteen plays.More

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

    Gertrude Stein, Marianne DeKoven

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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. Book ImageWuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn

    Fourth Edition

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

  15. 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

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