Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World

7 best books like Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World (Claudia Roth Pierpont): Foucault's Pendulum, I, Claudius, Titus Andronicus, The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work, 500 Great Books By Women, A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman, Women of the Left Bank

Foucault's Pendulum

Author

Umberto Eco

Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic...

I, Claudius

Author

Robert Graves

Into the 'autobiography' of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite of himself, Graves packs the everlasting intrigues, the depravity, the bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, soon to culminate in the deified insanity...

Titus Andronicus

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0671722921

Literally years after people began suggesting that I do this, I finally got around to reading the damn play. So in the words of Bette Davis: fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night. Because here's

TITUS ANDRONICUS, ABRIDGED:

TITUS: Man, it's great to be me! I'm an awesome...

The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work

Author	Germaine Greer
ISBN	1860646778

If men and women are equally capable of genius, why have there been no female artists of the stature of Leonardo, Titian or Poussin? In seeking to answer this question, Germaine Greer introduces us to major but underestimated figures in the history of Western painting--Angelica Kauffmann, Natalia...

500 Great Books By Women

Author	Erica Bauermeister
ISBN	0140175903

Here is an articulate guide to more than 500 books written by women, a unique resource that allows readers the joy of discovering new authors as well as revisiting familiar favorites. Organized by such themes as Art, Choices, Families, Growing Old, Growing Up, Places and Homes, Power, and Work, this...

A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman

Author	Sharon Rudahl
ISBN	1595580646

The anarchist and radical hero Emma Goldman, brought to vivid life in a graphic biography by an acclaimed artist.

"You are a terrible child and will grow into a worse woman! You have no respect for your elders or for authority! You will surely end on the gallows as a public menace!"—Emma Goldman's...

Women of the Left Bank

Author	Shari Benstock
ISBN	0292790406

Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's...