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Women's Studies

1. Three 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

2. Obsessive 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

3. Katherine Mansfield's Selected Stories

   Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan

   This Norton Critical Edition includes thirty-five of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories with explanatory annotations.More

4. Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun

   Faith Adiele

   A wry account of the road from Harvard scholarship student to ordination as northern Thailand's first black Buddhist nun.More

5. Breaking 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

6. North 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

7. Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up in Polygamy

   Dorothy Allred Solomon

   "Probably the best book ever written about polygamy. Neither an apologia nor an exposé."—Salt Lake City Tribune
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8. Northanger 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

9. The 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

10. Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women

    Meri Nana-Ama Danquah

    "Not since Breaking Ice has an anthology so freed the spirits of African American women."—AiMore

11. Little 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

12. Women Seeing Women: From the Early Days of Photography to the Present

    Lothar Schirmer, Naomi Rosenblum

    A comprehensive survey of women photographers and their female subjects.More

13. The 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. Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë, Richard J. Dunn

    Fourth Edition

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

15. Pink 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