In this smart, funny, impassioned call to arms, a pop culture critic merges memoir and commentary to explore how our culture shapes ideas about who women are, what they are meant to be, and where they belong. Who is "the girl...
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
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Author:Chocano, CarinaSummary: -
Author:Addams, JaneSummary:The classic memoir of one of the Progressive Era's most important reformers and social activists. If it is natural to feed the hungry...'t is certainly natural to give pleasure to the young, comfort to the aged, and to...
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Author:Gilliam, Dorothy ButlerSummary:Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose fifty-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US, covering a wide swath of media history--...
- Author:Coburn, Davin, Bakos, NadaSummary:
Filled with on-the-ground insights and poignant personal anecdotes, this memoir shows us the great personal sacrifice that comes with intelligence work. This is Nada's story, but it is also an intimate chronicle of how a group of...
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Author:Moore, KateSummary:The incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical...
- Author:Johansen, Ilse, Marshall, Heather, Gahler, Hans Rudolf, Seadle, MichaelSummary:
“The terrified yell of my comrades makes me stop. I drop the potatoes into the grass and turn around. He has pulled out the pistol and is taking aim. Slowly I come back.” Surviving the Gulag is the first-person account of a...
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Author:Monroy, LizaSummary:Liza Monroy's new book is collection of deeply personal essays that tackle the universal themes of romantic and familial love, fate and chance, all told in a humorous and intelligent manner that keeps the reader yearning for more....
- Author:Kluthe, JessicaSummary:
Between 1870 and 1970, 26 million Italians left their homeland and travelled to places like Canada, Australia and the United States, in search of work. Many of them never returned to Italy. Against this historic backdrop comes the story...
- Author:Duguay, Louise, Stewart, S.E.Summary:
In the first part of the twentieth century few women in western Canada had careers as artists—Pauline Boutal had three: 23 years as a fashion illustrator for the Eaton’s catalogue for the graphic design company, Brigden’s of Winnipeg,...
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Author:Kear, Nicole C.Summary:This funny and poignant memoir is written by a woman who, at the age of nineteen, is told she'll be blind by thirty and how she chooses to hide her blindness--until she no longer can.
- Author:Young, Kathryn A., McKinnon, Sarah M.Summary:
What force of will and circumstance drove a woman from a comfortable life painting china tea services to one of hardship and loneliness in the battle zones of France and Belgium following the Great War? For western Canadian artist...
- Author:Tolstaya, Sofia Andreevna, Donskov, Andrew, Woodsworth, John, Klioutchanski, ArkadiSummary:
The Modern Language Association (MLA) awarded the Lois Roth Award to John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski of the University of Ottawa’s Slavic Research Group for their translation of Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya’s My Life memoirs. My...
- Author:Joplin, LauraSummary:
A revealing and intimate biography about Janis Joplin, the Queen of Classic Rock, written by her younger sister. Janis Joplin blazed across the sixties music scene, electrifying audiences with her staggering voice and the way she seems...
- Author:Zaman, ReemaSummary:
Reema Zaman tells the story of her unwavering fight to protect and free her voice from those who have sought to silence her. From Bangladesh, to Thailand, to New York, to Oregon, through gorgeous prose as beautiful as it is biting,...
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Author:McGaha, JenniferSummary:When life gets your goat, bring in the herd Jennifer McGaha never expected to own a goat named Merle. Or to be setting Merle up on dates and naming his doeling Merlene. She didn't expect to be buying organic yogurt for her chickens...
- Author:Funk, CarlaSummary:
From an award-winning essayist and acclaimed poet comes this radiant, observant, and warmly funny memoir about childhood, family, and small-town life.Carla Funk grew up in a place of logging trucks and God, pellet guns and parables....
- Author:Obama, MichelleSummary:
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First...
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Author:Perry, SarahSummary:"Stunning." -Entertainment Weekly | "Raw and perfect." -Laura Miller, Slate"Heartbreaking yet hopeful." -Samantha Irby, Marie Claire A fierce memoir of a mother's murder, a daughter's coming-of-...
