Gertrude Stein, Marianne DeKovan
This Norton Critical Edition includes both Three Lives and Q.E.D., first published in 1909 and 1950, respectively.More
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
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
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
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
Julian of Norwich, Denise N. Baker
Julian of Norwich is among the most intriguing religious visionaries in Christian history.More
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
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
Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn
Fourth Edition
The text of the novel is based on the first edition of 1847.More
Lynn Peril
From board games to beauty pageants, a smart, witty, pop-culture history of the perilous path to achieving the feminine ideal.More
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
Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen
The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world.More
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
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
Margery Kempe, Lynn Staley
The text presented here remains as faithful to the original Middle
English as possible, without sounding archaic.More