The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women
10 best books like The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women (Susan J. Douglas): A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice, Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95, Malala's Magic Pencil, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition), Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High, How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex, Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
| Author | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| ISBN | 0141441259 |
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity,...
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
| Author | Adrienne Rich |
| ISBN | 0393312844 |
Motherhood as Experience and Institution.
"In order for all women to have real choices all along the line," Adrienne Rich writes, "we need fully to understand the power and powerlessness embodied in motherhood in patriarchal culture." Rich's investigation, in this influential and landmark...
A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice
| Author | Jack Holland |
| ISBN | 0786718234 |
In this compelling, powerful book, the late Irish journalist and essayist Jack Holland set out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history? The result is an eye-opening journey through centuries,...
| Author | Phillip Hoose |
| ISBN | 0374304688 |
B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. It’s time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.
He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists...
Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai's first picture book, inspired by her own childhood.
Malala's first picture book will inspire young readers everywhere to find the magic all around them.
As a child in Pakistan, Malala made a wish for...
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.
On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range...
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
| Author | Melba Pattillo Beals |
| ISBN | 0671866397 |
The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. They ran the gauntlet between a rampaging mob and the heavily armed Arkansas...
| Author | Cristina Page |
| ISBN | 0465054900 |
this book made me really angry. like gripping the book so hard that my knuckles turned red angry. so i think page accomplished her goal. it's a look at the measures that the anti-choice movement goes to to prevent access to contraceptives. of course, there is a talk on abortion but it's main focus is birth...
Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century
| Author | Betsy Israel |
| ISBN | 0380976498 |
In this lively and colorful book of popular history, journalist Betsy Israel shines a light on the old stereotypes that have stigmatized single women for years and celebrates their resourceful sense of spirit, enterprise, and unlimited success in a world where it is no longer unusual or unlikely to...
Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons
| Author | Lynn Peril |
| ISBN | 0393323544 |
Deluged by persuasive advertisements and meticulous (though often misguided) advice experts, women from the 1940s to the 1970s were coaxed to "think pink" when they thought of what it meant to be a woman. Attaining feminine perfection meant conforming to a mythical standard, one that would come wrapped...
One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
| Author | Rebecca Mead |
| ISBN | 1594200882 |
Astutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commentary to explore the workings of the wedding industry an industry that claims to be worth $160 billion to the U.S. economy and which has every interest in ensuring that the American wedding...
| Author | Ann Crittenden |
| ISBN | 0805066195 |
Bold and galvanizing, full of innovative solutions, The Price of Motherhood reveals the glaring disparity between the value created by mothers' work and the reward women receive for carrying out society's most important job.
In this provocative book, award-winning economics journalist...
Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town
| Author | Warren St. John |
| ISBN | 0385522037 |
The extraordinary story of a refugee football team and the transformation of a small American town.
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement centre in the 1990s, becoming home to scores of families in flight from the world's war zones—from...
Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
| Author | Judith Warner |
| ISBN | 1594481709 |
A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about parenting
What is wrong with this picture? That's the question Judith Warner asks in this national bestseller after taking a good, hard look...
The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the Twenty-First Century
| Author | Anne Kingston |
| ISBN | 0312425007 |
Delving into the complex, troubling, and sometimes humorous contradictions, illusions, and realities of contemporary wifehood, this book takes the reader on a journey into the wedding industrial complex. Anne Kingston looks at "wife backlash," and the new wave of neo-traditionalism that urges...
Nobel Peace Prize-winner Malala Yousafzai will start with her own story of displacement as an Internally Displaced Person to show what it means to lose your home, your community, and the only world you've ever known. She will also share the personal stories of some of the girls she has met on her various...
Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights
| Author | Malala Yousafzai |
| ISBN | 1549147846 |
A memoir by the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday.
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought...
Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
| Author | Lopez Lomong |
| ISBN | 1595555153 |
Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track and field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible faith, diligence, and the desire to give back. It is the American dream come true and a stark reminder that saving one can help to save thousands more.
Lopez...
