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Women's Studies

1. Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Intervention and Hope

   Martha B. Straus

   Millions of adolescent girls are in a crisis of rage and despair.More

2. Passing

   Nella Larsen, Carla Kaplan

   Nella Larsen is a central figure in African American, Modernist, and women’s literature.More

3. Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism: A Norton Reader

   Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar

   Additional information is forthcoming.

4. An Illuminated Life: Bella da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege

   Heidi Ardizzone

   The secret life of the sensational woman behind the Morgan masterpieces, who lit up New York society.More

5. Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women

   Jean Said Makdisi

   Rich in warmth and insight, a personal and cultural history of three generations of Arab women.More

6. Jacob's Room

   Virginia Woolf, Suzanne Raitt

   Jacob’s Room is Virginia Woolf’s experimental third novel, set in England during the halcyon days before World War I. The text reprinted here is the first British edition, which Woolf approved, and which retains her original layout, including paragraph spacing.More

7. Roughing It in the Bush

   Susanna Moodie, Michael Peterman

   In 1832, Susanna Moodie immigrated to Canada from Britain with her husband and daughter in search of comfort and independence in the unsettled Canadian backwoods.More

8. The 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

9. How to Read Beauvoir

   Stella Sandford, Simon Critchley

   “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”—Simone de BeauvoirMore

10. Anne 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

11. The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Hollis Robbins

    Henry Louis Gates Jr. redefines Uncle Tom's Cabin with this seminal interpretation of the great American novel.More

12. Love 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

13. College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now

    Lynn Peril

    The author of Pink Think takes on a twentieth-century icon: the college girl.More

14. Miss 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

15. The 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