Interviews with the poet, actress, and playwright share her views on her li fe, her career, her approach to writing, and the Civil Rights movement Involvement in Black and white : interviewing author/actress results in fas cinating afternoon / Susan Berman -- Maya Angelou's lonely, Black outlook / George Goodman, Jr. -- Work in progress : Maya Angelou / Sheila Weller -- A conversation with Maya Angelou / Bill Moyers -- Maya Angelou : an intervi ew / Stephanie Caruana -- Listening to Maya Angelou / Walter Blum -- Maya A ngelou : no longer a caged bird / Beth Ann Krier -- The Black scholar inter... View More...
Carmen Renee Berry and Tamara Traeder celebrate the role female friendships play in women's lives with this endearing study of the many faces these re lationships can take. This book brings to life, warmth and vitality to the subject as they recount women's vast and varied experiences with lifelong f riends, artfully lending credibility to generalizations the authors make. View More...
This compilation of experiences, thoughts, scholarly research, and, above a ll, the feelings of a woman at midlife amounts to a revelation. On pilgrima ge to sacred sites including Chartres, Glastonbury, and Iona, Bolen, a phys ician, Jungian analyst, and professor of clinical psychiatry, traces their histories and significance. She relates these places' earliest uses by soci eties with earth-based belief systems to the concept of key energy centers all about the globe, and she links her inner journey of the spirit to her p hysical travels and the primal knowledge of the sacred that women have... View More...
Young, White, and Miserable is a critically acclaimed study that compelling ly shows how the feminist movement of the 1960s found momentum in the seemi ngly peaceable time of the 1950s. Wini Breines explores white middle class America and argues that mixed messages given to girls during this decade le nt fuel to the fire that would later become known as feminism. Concluding w ith a look at the life and suicide of social scientist Anne Parsons, this b ook is a poignant and important look into conditions that led to the women' s movement. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. In this pathbreaking book, King-Kok Cheung sheds new light on the thematic and rhetoncal uses of silence in fiction by three Asian American women: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and JoyKogawa. Boldly articulating the unspeakable, these writers break the silence imposed by families or ethnic communities and defy the dominant culture that suppresses the voicing of minority experiences. Yet at the same time, they demonstrate how silencesâ??voicel... View More...
Madame Sadayakko was the ultimate geisha, so exquisite that the prime minis ter of the day paid a fortune to deflower her. But she was a rebel who want ed to carve her own path in life. In 1899 she married a subversive avant ga rde actor and, with a troupe of other actors, they set out on the first eve r tour of the West by a Japanese theatre company. Sadayakko took to the sta ge and became an instant star. She danced for the American President and fo r the Prince of Wales in London, Picasso painted her, Gide swooned over her and Rodin admired her. But back in Japan, she suffered the stigma of... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The classic Crazy Salad, by screenwriting legend and novelist Nora Ephron, is an extremely funny, deceptively light look at a generation of women (and men) who helped shape the way we live now. In this distinctive, engaging, and simply hilarious view of a period of great upheaval in America, Ephron turns her keen eye and wonderful sense of humor to the media, politics, beauty products, and women's bodies. In the famous "A Few Words About Breasts," for... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Charlotte Stetson Gilman was known as a crusading feminist intellectual, concerned especially with gender inequality within marriage. Most married women of her time had little chance of participating in any creative or professional career - an enforced domestic slavery that was, for Gilman, not only patently unjust, but made neither partner happy or content. In 'Herland', Gilman weaves these themes into an adventure story of three young men, schooled ... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references , library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most impor tant libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This collection of essays on ethnic and sexual identity revolves around the persona that the author calls Ono Ono Girl. Challenging assumptions about genre and gender and acting out the notion that language is a function of the body, these essays are soundbites of Ono Ono Girl inventing herself. View More...
The book that launched a feminist revolution-the hilarious memoir/manifesto from Caitlin Moran, "the UK's answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Len a Dunham all rolled into one" (Marie Claire). Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches s ince 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. T hey are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do m en secretly hate them? Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on women's lives with laug... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. View More...
A tight clean hardback, no markings throughout: A treasury of more than 15,000 quotations from women throughout the world and throughout history. View More...
