Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
10 best books like Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich): The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America, Virgin: The Untouched History, Bachelor Girl: The Secret History of Single Women in the Twentieth Century, America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1, Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life, For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women, College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now, Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America
| Author | Ruth Rosen |
| ISBN | 0140097198 |
The Newly Revised and Updated Edition
In this enthralling narrative-the first of its kind-historian and journalist Ruth Rosen chronicles the history of the American women's movement from its beginnings in the 1960s to the present. Interweaving the personal with the political, she vividly...
Virgin: The Untouched History
| Author | Hanne Blank |
| ISBN | 1596910100 |
Why has an indefinable state of being commanded the attention and fascination of the human race since the dawn of time? In Virgin, Hanne Blank brings us a revolutionary, rich and entertaining survey of an astonishing untouched history.
From the simple task of determining what constitutes...
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...
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
| Author | Gail Collins |
| ISBN | 0061227226 |
A landmark work of history telling the story of more than four centuries of history featuring a stunning array of personalities.
America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the...
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
| Author | Joan Jacobs Brumberg |
| ISBN | 0679735291 |
"Timely and sympathetic . . . a work of impassioned advocacy." --People
A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today...
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World, Vol. 1
| Author | Marilyn French |
| ISBN | 1558615652 |
Origins is the first of four volumes of a momental, readable, and unprecedented history of women throughout the world. The internationally celebrated author of The Women's Room, Marilyn French, spent over fifteen years with a team of researchers and prominent historians examining women's lives...
| Author | Lori D. Ginzberg |
| ISBN | 0809094932 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a brilliant activist-intellectual. That nearly all of her ideas—that women are entitled to seek an education, to own property, to get a divorce, and to vote—are now commonplace is in large part because she worked tirelessly to extend the nation’s promise of radical...
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women
| Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| ISBN | 1400078008 |
First published in 1978, this classic history, now revised and updated, brilliantly exposes the constraints imposed on women in the name of science. Authors Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English have never lost faith in science itself, but insist that we hold those who interpret it to higher standards....
| Author | Lynn Peril |
| ISBN | 0393327159 |
A geek who wears glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This is the dual vision of the college girl, the unique American archetype born when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest. College was a place where women found self-esteem, and yet images in popular culture reflected a...
Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
| Author | Deborah Siegel |
| ISBN | 1403973180 |
Contrary to clichés about the end of feminism, Deborah Siegel argues that younger women are reliving the battles of its past, and reinventing it--with a vengeance. From feminist blogging to the popularity of the WNBA, girl culture is on the rise. A lively and compelling look back at the framing of one...
What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety
| Author | Jaclyn Friedman |
| ISBN | 1580053440 |
In this empowering, accessible guide, Jaclyn Friedman—co-editor of Yes Means Yes—gives young women the tools to decipher the modern world’s confusing, hypersexualized, sometimes dangerous landscape so they can define their own sexual identity. Friedman decries the hypocrisy and mixed...
When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973
| Author | Leslie J. Reagan |
| ISBN | 0520216571 |
As we approach the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, it's crucial to look back to the time when abortion was illegal. Leslie Reagan traces the practice and policing of abortion, which although illegal was nonetheless widely available, but always with threats for both doctor and patient. In a time when...
| Author | Jennifer Baumgardner |
| ISBN | 1933354593 |
“In her role as author and activist, Jennifer Baumgardner has permanently changed the way people think about feminism . . . and will shape the next hundred years of politics and culture.”—The Commonwealth Club of California, hailing Baumgardner as one of Six Visionaries for the Twenty-First...
| Author | Melody Berger |
| ISBN | 1580051820 |
We Don’t Need Another Wave is a critique of the ways in which feminism is discussed in the mainstream media. Today’s young feminists are wary of being labeled. They are media-savvy, hyper-aware of being categorized and marginalized, and are here to tell the world that feminists are feminists —...
| Author | Rosalind C. Barnett |
| ISBN | 0465006132 |
From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych gurus like John Gray, and even the controversial Harvard President Lawrence Summers, the message has long been the same: Men and women are fundamentally different, and trying to bridge the gender gap can only lead to grief. But as the New York...
Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time
“As this book, which is greater than the sum of its brilliant parts makes clear, Katha Pollitt, who is famously a feminist, is also a humorist, a moralist and a most hilarious, wise, and incisive observer.”
–Victor Navasky, author of A Matter of Opinion
Through presidential administrations...
| Author | Tonya Bolden |
| ISBN | 0375811222 |
Here’s the perfect book for anyone interested in learning more about girls and women in the United States from the 18th century to the present. Featuring contributions from a wide variety of women, including well-known nonfiction writers, a children’s librarian, historians, and many more,...
Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystique
| Author | Jaclyn Geller |
| ISBN | 1568581939 |
In Here Comes the Bride, Jaclyn Geller exposes the social forces that shape how people feel about weddings, calling into question some of the deepest-held beliefs about this tradition. Divided into three sections, the book begins with how-to-get-your-man manuals and ends with the newlywed year....
| Author | Jean Zimmerman |
| ISBN | 0156032244 |
The remarkable Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse arrived in New Amsterdam from Holland in 1659, a brash and ambitious twenty-two-year-old bent on making her way in the New World. She promptly built an empire of trading ships, furs, and real estate that included all of Westchester County. The Dutch called...
Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness
| Author | Diane Mapes |
| ISBN | 1580052029 |
Are single women happy individualists? Neurotic man-hunters? Crazed cat ladies? Are they confused, or content? Bitter, or better off?
No one seems to know. The popular media gives us shoe shopaholics, ditzy desperados, wannabe brides forever making cow eyes at The Bachelor. But what do...
It's a Jungle Out There: The Feminist Survival Guide to Politically Inhospitable Environments
| Author | Amanda Marcotte |
| ISBN | 1580052266 |
For all of you humming “I Will Survive” while watching the political debacles gracing the evening news, when getting an earful from your Limbaugh-loving brother-in-law, or as you’re ducking into the bathroom to avoid the date espousing the wisdom of those Mars versus Venus books, this book...
Fight Like a Girl: How to Be a Fearless Feminist
| Author | Megan Seely |
| ISBN | 0814740014 |
View the Author's website! Seely, the youngest elected president of California's chapter of the National Organization for Women, combines her own story of third-wave feminism with an overview of the feminist movement and words to guide others. Third-wave feminists are aware of both the victories...
Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (Revised)
| Author | Nancy F. Cott |
| ISBN | 0674008758 |
We commonly think of marriage as a private matter between two people, a personal expression of love and commitment. In this pioneering history, Nancy F. Cott demonstrates that marriage is and always has been a public institution.
From the founding of the United States to the present day, imperatives...
A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique & American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
| Author | Stephanie Coontz |
| ISBN | 0465022324 |
In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it. In A Strange...
Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
| Author | Stephanie Staal |
| ISBN | 1586488724 |
When Stephanie Staal first read The Feminine Mystique in college, she found it “a mildly interesting relic from another era.” But more than a decade later, as a married stay-at-home mom in the suburbs, Staal rediscovered Betty Friedan’s classic work—and was surprised how much she identified...
