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Women's Studies

1. Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office

   Lynn Peril

   Feed your boss’s ego. Dress for success. And don’t let your heels trip you up on the corporate ladder.More

2. Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun

   Liza Bakewell

   Why is the word madre, "mother," so complicated in Spanish—especially in Mexico?More

3. Jane Addams: Spirit in Action

   Louise W. Knight

   In this landmark biography, Jane Addams becomes America's most admired and most hated woman—and wins the Nobel Peace Prize.More

4. Charlotte Temple

   Susanna Rowson, Marion L. Rust

   The best-selling Early American novel is now available in a Norton Critical Edition.More

5. Uncle Tom's Cabin

   Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Ammons

   Second Edition

   One of the most important activist texts in American Literature is now available in a thoroughly updated and revised Norton Critical Edition.More

6. Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors

   Lisa Appignanesi

   “[A work of] wit, wisdom and richness. . . . A grand tour of derangement, from matricide to anorexia.” —John Leonard, Harper’sMore

7. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

   Mary Wollstonecraft, Deidre Shauna Lynch

   Third Edition

   Arguably the most original book of the eighteenth century, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is a pioneering feminist work.More

8. Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie

   Rachel Corrie

   "A testament to how deeply we need the power and vision and energy of young women to transform the world."--Eve EnslerMore

9. Equal: Women Reshape American Law

   Fred Strebeigh

   The dramatic, untold story of how women battled blatant inequities in America's legal system.
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10. Elizabeth I and Her Age

    Susan M. Felch, Donald V. Stump

    Four centuries after her death, Elizabeth I remains a powerful and fascinating figure.More

11. Writing a Woman's Life

    Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Katha Pollitt

    "A provocative study that should be in every writer's library."—Washington PostMore

12. Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave

    Ellen Sussman

    “Makes for seriously sexy (and smart) summer reading.”—ElleMore

13. Mary Barton

    Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Recchio

    Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the nineteenth century’s most significant novelists, was widely held to be the social conscience of Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution.More

14. Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction

    Sue William Silverman

    Now a Lifetime Television original movie airing April 2008 with Sally Pressman, star of Army Wives.More

15. O Pioneers!

    Willa Cather, Sharon O'Brien

    Willa Cather's masterful 1913 novel marks her return to the Nebraska of her youth, and to the stories of the immigrant settlers she had known during her childhood and teenage years in Red Cloud.More