Daughter of Earth
8 best books like Daughter of Earth (Agnes Smedley): Love Medicine, In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution, Bread Givers, Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States, Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, वोल्गा से गंगा, Black Thunder, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (Free Press)
| Author | Louise Erdrich |
| ISBN | 0060786469 |
A member of the Chippewa and Obijwe tribes, Louise Erdrich has been a leading voice in Native American literature for over thirty years. Determined to publish her first book before she turned thirty, Erdrich wrote Love Medicine at the age of twenty nine, and this debut novel won the National Critics...
| Author | Susan Brownmiller |
| ISBN | 0385314868 |
Male-only admissions policies. Back-alley abortions. The pervasive belief that rape was a woman's fault. These were the shocking conditions that stirred students, mothers, businesswomen, and grandmothers to activism in the latter half of the twentieth century. In this stirring memoir, Susan...
| Author | Anzia Yezierska |
| ISBN | 0892552905 |
This masterwork of American immigrant literature is set in the 1920s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and tells the story of Sara Smolinsky, the youngest daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, who rebels against her father's rigid conception of Jewish womanhood. Sarah's struggle towards independence...
| Author | Pete Jordan |
| ISBN | 0060896426 |
Dishwasher is the true story of a man on a mission: to clean dirty dishes professionally in every state in America. Part adventure, part parody, and part miraculous journey of self-discovery, it is the unforgettable account of Pete Jordan's transformation from itinerant seeker into "Dishwasher...
Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin
| Author | Andrea Dworkin |
| ISBN | 1635900808 |
Selections from the work of radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin, famous for her antipornography stance and role in the feminist sex wars of the 1980s.
Radical feminist author Andrea Dworkin was a caricature of misandrist extremism in the popular imagination and a polarizing figure within...
| Author | Rahul Sankrityayan |
| ISBN | 8122500870 |
Volga Se Ganga is a collection of stories by great scholar and Writer Rahul Sankrityayan. Rahul Sankrityayan was a true vagabond who traveled to far lands like Russia, Korea, Japan, China and many others. He mastered the languages of these lands and was an authority on cultural studies.
It...
| Author | Arna Bontemps |
| ISBN | 0807063371 |
This is a most impressive, wonderful, lyrical and engaging historical novel about one of the first recorded slave revolts in America. Writing at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance, Bontemps benefits both from previous writers in that movement as well as the modernist experimentation of William...
Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America (Free Press)
| Author | Sara M. Evans |
| ISBN | 0684834987 |
In opening the section on Women and Modernity, 1890-1920, Evans sets the scene for the response to industrialization by relating the speech given by the black reformer Frances Harper at the 1893 World's Fair at Chicago. Speaking to the role that women could play in the future of America, she was all to...
