A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot
10 best books like A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot (Mary Walton): Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II, Alice Paul: Claiming Power, Fall of Hades, Not Our Kind, You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir, Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement, Goblin Market and Other Poems, Iron-Jawed Angels: The Suffrage Militancy of the National Woman's Party 1912-1920, From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity, The Prince's Progress: And Other Poems (1866)
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II
| Author | Emily Yellin |
| ISBN | 0743245164 |
Our Mothers' War is an eye-opening and moving portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women's experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, Our Mothers' War re-creates...
| Author | J.D. Zahniser |
| ISBN | 0199958424 |
Alice Paul redirected the course of American political history. Raised by Quaker parents in Moorestown, New Jersey, she would become a passionate and outspoken leader of the woman suffrage movement. In 1913, she reinvigorated the American campaign for a constitutional suffrage amendment and,...
Michael and his friends try to recruit Hatch’s Electric Youth to their side as the thrilling action continues in this electrifying sixth installment of the New York Times bestselling series!
Michael and the Electroclan are about to embark on their deadliest mission yet. Some of them may...
With echoes of The Rules of Civility and The Boston Girl, a compelling and thought-provoking novel set in postwar New York City, about two women—one Jewish, one a WASP—and the wholly unexpected consequences of their meeting
One rainy morning in June, two years after the end of World War...
You're on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir
| Author | Parker Posey |
| ISBN | 0735218196 |
It's hard not to love Parker Posey. A singularly gifted actress with a wickedly funny personality that belies her movie star status, her cross-generational fame stems from starring roles in such unforgettable movies as Dazed and Confused, Party Girl, and You've Got Mail, and her recurring roles in...
Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement
| Author | Sally G. McMillen |
| ISBN | 0195182650 |
In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history. The implications of that remarkable convention...
| Author | Christina Rossetti |
| ISBN | 0486280551 |
An important and often-quoted literary figure, the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) wrote some of the most beautiful and voluptuous poetry in the English language. Like Emily Dickinson, she lived in self-imposed isolation, writing of God and lost love with a sensuality and passion...
Iron-Jawed Angels: The Suffrage Militancy of the National Woman's Party 1912-1920
| Author | Linda G. Ford |
| ISBN | 0819182060 |
This book is an in-depth analysis of how the National Woman's Party's militancy evolved during the period of early twentieth century feminism and American suffrage as a response to the intransigence of male-centered government. Working first as aggressive political lobbyists in an era of progressive...
From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity
| Author | Leo Braudy |
| ISBN | 0679768300 |
Manliness has always been linked to physical prowess and to war; indeed the warrior has been the archetypal man across countless cultures throughout time. In this magisterial excursion through literature, history, warfare, and sociology, one of our most prominent scholars tracks the complex relationship...
The Prince's Progress: And Other Poems (1866)
| Author | Christina Rossetti |
| ISBN | 1165626233 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment...
I have just finished reading Jan Marsh’s monumental biography of the Victorian poet, Christina Georgina Rossetti, entitled, “Christina Rossetti: A Literary Biography,” and all I can say is “Bravo!” This extremely well written biography leads the reader through Christina’s interesting...
Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan go on their most dangerous mission yet as the thrilling action continues in this electrifying fifth installment of the New York Times bestselling series!
The Electroclan is on the run. The resistance movement has been compromised....
| Author | Richard Paul Evans |
| ISBN | 1481497030 |
The Electroclan is facing a devastating loss: Michael is missing. What’s next?
The battle on the island of Hades ended with a devastating explosion that left the island a smoking ruin and much of Hatch’s army dead. Hatch survived, however, and while his plans have certainly suffered a...
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
| Author | Elizabeth Keckley |
| ISBN | 0195060849 |
Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, we see a wide range of historical figures and events...
The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
| Author | Lisa Tetrault |
| ISBN | 1469614278 |
The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her...
| Author | Kelli Estes |
| ISBN | 1492664189 |
Seattle, Washington. Larkin Bennett has always known her place, whether it’s surrounded by her loving family in the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest, or riding on a dusty convoy in Afghanistan. But all that changed the day tragedy struck her unit and took away everything she held dear. Soon...
The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film
| Author | Barry Keith Grant |
| ISBN | 0292727941 |
An undying procession of sons of Dracula and daughters of darkness has animated the horror film genre from the beginning. Indeed, in this pioneering exploration of the cinema of fear, Barry Keith Grant and twenty other film critics posit that horror is always rooted in gender, particularly in anxieties...
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Companion
| Author | Stefan Jaworzyn |
| ISBN | 1840236604 |
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