Women's Studies

1. Pride and Prejudice

   Jane Austen, Donald J. Gray

   Third Edition

   The text of Pride and Prejudice is the 1813 first edition text.More

2. Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape

   Charlotte Pierce-Baker

   In this "intelligent", "stunning", and "honest" book, Charlotte Pierce-Baker weaves together the accounts of black women who have been raped and who have felt that they had to remain silent in order to protect themselves and their race.
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3. Emma

   Jane Austen, Stephen M. Parrish

   Third Edition

   The text reprinted in this new edition of Austen’s comedic novel is based on the 1816 text, which has been carefully edited in light of later editions, including the Chapman edition.More

4. Middlemarch

   George Eliot, Bert G Hornback

   The text of Middlemarch is that of the 1874 edition, the last corrected by the author.More

5. Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994

   Deborah Gray White

   "Meticulously researched. . . . Too Heavy a Load reads like a wonderful historical novel."--Akilah Monifa, EmergeMore

6. The Improvised Woman: Single Women Reinventing Single Life

   Marcelle Clements

   "A remarkable new book. . . . Marcelle Clements's The Improvised Woman has that exhilarating Eureka! quality. . . . In its modest, quizzical way, The Improvised Woman is a visionary work." —MirabellaMore

7. Wide Sargasso Sea

   Jean Rhys, Judith L. Raiskin

   Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839–45.More

8. Nadia Boulanger: A Life in Music

   Leonie Rosenstiel

   A detailed, authoritative portrait of a commanding figure in twentieth-century music.More

9. Evelina

   Frances Burney, Stewart J. Cooke

   The text is that of the third edition text of this influential novel, which incorporates all of Burney’s changes.More

10. Mansfield Park

    Jane Austen, Claudia L. Johnson

    The text is that of a new authoritative text, which closely follows the one Austen oversaw when the novel was revised and reprinted in 1816.More

11. Woman in the Nineteenth Century

    Margaret Fuller, Larry J. Reynolds

    The text is that of the first edition and includes comprehensive textual annotations.More

12. The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War

    George L. Hicks

    "The most extensive record available in English of the ugly story."—Elisabeth Rubinfein, New York NewsdayMore

13. The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan

    Christine de Pizan, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Kevin Brownlee

    Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-ca. 1421) is Europe’s first professional woman writer. She wrote an astonishing body of work in many genres, including lyric poetry, allegorical dream visions, history, political treatises, and biography.More

14. Oroonoko

    Aphra Behn, Joanna Lipking

    This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Aphra Behn’s best-known and most influential work makes available the original 1688 text, the only text published in her lifetime.More

15. Secret Paths: Women in the New Midlife

    Terri Apter

    "The author of Altered Loves . . . now turns her analytical eye toward middle-aged women. The result is both lively and revealing." --New York Times Book ReviewMore