Whistling Women
10 best books like Whistling Women (Kelly Romo): The Street, The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, Prayers for Sale, South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves, In the Light of What We See, Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement, Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry, Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars
| Author | Ann Petry |
| ISBN | 0395901499 |
The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. Originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork, The Street was...
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells
| Author | Andrew Sean Greer |
| ISBN | 0062213849 |
1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the break up with her long-time lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives...
| Author | Thomas G. Andrews |
| ISBN | 0674031016 |
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children...
| Author | Sandra Dallas |
| ISBN | 0312385188 |
Hennie Comfort is eighty-six and has lived in the mountains of Middle Swan, Colorado since before it was Colorado. Nit Spindle is just seventeen and newly married. She and her husband have just moved to the high country in search of work. It's 1936 and the depression has ravaged the country and Nit and...
| Author | Marcia Chatelain |
| ISBN | 0822358549 |
In South Side Girls Marcia Chatelain recasts Chicago's Great Migration through the lens of black girls. Focusing on the years between 1910 and 1940, when Chicago's black population quintupled, Chatelain describes how Chicago's black social scientists, urban reformers, journalists and activists...
| Author | Kristina McMorris |
| ISBN | 1496725840 |
In this poignant and evocative novel by New York Times bestselling author Kristina McMorris, a country is plunged into conflict and suspicion—forcing a young woman to find her place in a volatile world.
Los Angeles, 1941. Violinist Maddie Kern's life seemed destined to unfold with the...
In the Light of What We See
| Author | Sarah Painter |
| ISBN | 1477849963 |
Brighton, 1938: Grace Kemp is pushed away by the family she has shamed. Rejected and afraid, she begins a new life as a nurse. But danger stalks the hospital too, and she’ll need to be on her guard to avoid falling into familiar traps. And then there are the things she sees…Strange portents that have...
Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement
| Author | Katherine M Marino |
| ISBN | 1469649691 |
This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M. Marino introduces readers to a cast of remarkable...
Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry
| Author | Tiffany M. Gill |
| ISBN | 0252076966 |
Looking through the lens of black business history, Beauty Shop Politics shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. Tiffany M. Gill argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in...
Women at the Wheel: A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars
| Author | Katherine J. Parkin |
| ISBN | 0812249534 |
Ever since the Ford Model T became a vehicle for the masses, the automobile has served as a symbol of masculinity. The freedom of the open road, the muscle car's horsepower, the technical know-how for tinkering: all of these experiences have largely been understood from the perspective of the male driver....
Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
| Author | Vicki L. Ruiz |
| ISBN | 0826309887 |
Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography--a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers...
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in United States
It is a commonplace that the United States lagged behind the countries of Western Europe in developing modern social policies. But, as Theda Skocpol shows in this startlingly new historical analysis, the United States actually pioneered generous social spending for many of its elderly, disabled,...
The New Deal: A Global History
| Author | Kiran Klaus Patel |
| ISBN | 0691149127 |
The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in U.S. history. The first comprehensive study of the New Deal in a global context, the book compares American responses to the international crisis of capitalism and democracy during the 1930s to responses...
