Women's Studies from I Cannot Live Without Books

Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom by Keisha N. Blain In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers… Read more about this item

Our Woman in Havana: A Diplomat's Chronicle of America's Long Struggle with Castro's Cuba by Vicki Huddleston Our Woman in Havana chronicles the past several decades of US-Cuba relations from the bird's-eye view of State Department veteran and longtime Cuba hand Vicki Huddleston, our top diplomat in Havana under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. After the US embassy in Havana was… Read more about this item

The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on the World's Most Powerful Mafia by Alex Perry THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES The Calabrian mafia -- known as the 'Ndrangheta -- is no myth or movie but one of the richest and most ruthless crime syndicates ever to exist, with operations from America… Read more about this item

A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot by Mary Walton THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES. Alice Paul began her life as a studious girl from a strict Quaker family in New Jersey. In 1907, a scholarship took her to England, where she became passionately devoted to the suffrage movement. Upon her return… Read more about this item

You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances Fitzgerald, a blue-blood American intellectual arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were… Read more about this item

We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to Covergirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler Feminism has hit the big time. Once a dirty word brushed away with a grimace, "feminist" has been rebranded as a shiny label sported by movie and pop stars, fashion designers, and multi-hyphenate powerhouses like Beyonce. It drives advertising and marketing… Read more about this item

The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate Moore 1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife, and mother of six is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room.… Read more about this item

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans -- A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz Tensions at Yalta threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine Grace Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three daughters who were chosen by their… Read more about this item

Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast by Joan DeJean In 1719, a ship named La Mutine sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the place the French called "the Mississippi." It was loaded with urgently needed goods for the fledgling French colony, but its principal commodity was a new kind of export:… Read more about this item

Poor Richard's Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father by Nancy Rubin Stuart We can't seem to get enough of Ben Franklin -- the thrifty inventor-statesman of the revolutionary era with remarkable achievements in publishing, business, politics, diplomacy, and invention. A man so confident in his own immortality that he tempted lightning to strike the same… Read more about this item

Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis by Tilar J. Mazzeo In 1944, news of secret diaries kept by Italy's foreign minister, Galeazzo Ciano had permeated the public consciousness. What wasn't reported, however, was how three women -- a fascist leader's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite -- risked their… Read more about this item

A Cool and Lonely Courage: The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France by Susan Ottaway The death of an eccentric recluse is rarely an event for international headlines. But when police were called to the tiny apartment of the elderly Eileen Nearne, they found a small bundle of possessions that told an amazing story. It was soon discovered that Eileen… Read more about this item

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington At the height of the Holocaust, twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp -- mainly Jewish women and girls -- were selected to design, cut, and sew beautiful fashions in a dedicated salon for elite Nazi women. It was work that they… Read more about this item

The Lost Girls: Love & Literature in Wartime London by D.J. Taylor Who were the Lost Girls? Chic, glamorous, and bohemian, as likely to be found living in a rat-haunted maisonette as dining at the Ritz, Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton, and Janetta Parlade cut a swath through English literary and artistic life at the height of World War II. Three… Read more about this item

Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Telfer THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, the history of confidence artists is long, venerable, and wildly compelling. And as Tori Telfer reveals, its female practitioners are some of the best -- or… Read more about this item

Queens of Jerusalem: The Women Who Dared to Rule by Katherine Pangonis In 1187, Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the Battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defense was being led by an unlikely trio -- including Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. They could not resist Saladin, but,… Read more about this item

Beyond the Call of Duty: Army Flight Nursing in World War II by Judith Barger At the height of World War II, five hundred Army flight nurses served with the Army Air Forces as members of thirty-one medical air evacuation squadrons located throughout the world on both the European and Pacific fronts. Their work was not insignificant -- over one million… Read more about this item

Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany by James Wyllie Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann -- these names were synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margaret, Lina, Ilse, and Gerda. These are the women behind the infamous men -- complex individuals with distinctive personalities who were captivated by… Read more about this item

Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America by Karen Cook Bell Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual… Read more about this item

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones Popular accounts of the suffrage crusade often begin in Seneca Falls in 1848 and end with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. But this overwhelmingly white women's movement did not win the vote for most Black women. To secure their… Read more about this item