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Lambda Award and American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award-winning author Dorothy Allison is known for her bold and insightful writing on issues of class and sexuality. In Skin, she approaches these topics through 23 impassioned essays that explore her identity - from her childhood in a poor family in South Carolina to her adult life as a lesbian in the suburbs of New York - and her sexuality.

In An Extravagant Hunger, time slows and is relished, and the turning points and casual strolls of M. F. K. Fisher's life are unwrapped and savored. From the Berengaria, which washed her across the sea to France in 1929, to Le Paquis, the Swiss estate that later provided a backdrop for some of the most idyllic and fleeting moments of her life, the stories of Fisher's love for food and her love for family and men are meticulously researched and exquisitely captured in this book.

In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors - Sutematsu Yamakawa, Shige Nagai, and Ume Tsuda - grew up as typical American schoolgirls. Upon their arrival in San Francisco, they became celebrities.

"How did you get this number?" Those were the first words Jill Biden spoke to US senator Joe Biden when he called her out of the blue to ask her on a date. Growing up, Jill had wanted two things: a marriage like her parents' - strong, loving, and full of laughter - and a career. An early heartbreak had left her uncertain about love until she met Joe. But as they grew closer, Jill faced difficult questions: How would politics shape her family and professional life? And was she ready to become a mother to Joe's two young sons?

Alexandra Kollontai was a key leader of the Russian Socialist movement, the only woman in the early Soviet government, and one of the most famous women in Russian history. She worked tirelessly all her life as a speaker, writer, and organizer for women's emancipation. This compelling biography recounts her life for an emerging generation of fighters for women's liberation.

Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl is one of the most memorable books in the face of the holocaust that Nazi Germany and its collaborators unleashed on European Jews between 1941 and 1945 across German-occupied Europe. Anne Frank was a German-born Jew hiding in Amsterdam with her family in 1942 when Nazis occupied Holland. She started keeping a diary in hiding - a diary she’d received for her 13th birthday from her parents.

Where does a moderately popular internet star who never leaves her house look for potential suitors? Online. Tinder, Bumble, Match.com, OkCupid - I tried them all. My 31-year-old self clicked and swiped her little heart out, leading to more dates than I could count, and more disappointment than I was prepared for. Maybe you can relate. Maybe you know all too well the perils of modern dating.

From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on a confident woman's approach to friendship, singlehood, and relationships. "Girl Logic" is Iliza's term for the way women obsess over details and situations that men don't necessarily even notice. She describes it as a characteristically female way of thinking that appears to be contradictory and circuitous but is actually a complicated and highly evolved way of looking at the world.

Who could forget the sexy "Cherry Pie" girl from hair metal band Warrant's infamous music video? Bobbie Brown became a bona fide vixen for her playful role as the object of lead singer Jani Lane's desires. With her windblown peroxide mane, seductive scarlet lips, and flirtatious curves, she epitomized every man's fantasy. But the wide-eyed Louisiana beauty queen's own dreams of making it big in Los Angeles were about to be derailed by her rock-and-roll lifestyle.

Doaa Al Zamel was once an average Syrian girl growing up in a crowded house in a bustling city near the Jordanian border. But in 2011 her life was upended. Inspired by the events of the Arab Spring, Syrians began to stand up against their own oppressive regime. When the army was sent to take control of Doaa's hometown, strict curfews, power outages, water shortages, air raids, and violence disrupted everyday life.

Ritanna Armeni resgata a trajetória de Inessa Armand, uma figura fascinante que teve seus registros apagados pelo regime soviético para ocultar um relacionamento que desafiava a moral da época. Considerada o grande amor e a colaboradora mais fiel de Lênin desde 1909, Inessa foi uma intelectual dedicada de corpo e alma à causa bolchevique. Através de uma pesquisa rigorosa, a autora reconstrói a vida dessa mulher indomável que confrontava o líder russo em debates sobre feminismo, amor livre e o papel feminino na revolução.

À la suite de son diagnostic de lipœdème, Guylaine Guay a réalisé avec stupeur que cette maladie héréditaire, touchant une femme sur dix, n’était prise en charge ni au Québec ni au Canada. Dans cet essai personnel, construit au fil de ses réflexions et de conversations avec des experts et d’autres femmes atteintes, elle espère bien humblement amorcer une discussion importante sur cette condition à la fois méconnue et répandue.

Verdadeira celebração do poder das memórias, livro de estreia de Genevieve Kingston conta sua experiência de luto pela mãe. Dez dias antes de Gwen Kingston completar doze anos, sua mãe faleceu após uma árdua batalha contra o câncer. Ela deixou dois baús cheios de presentes e cartas embrulhados com cuidado, que representavam os marcos que perderia na vida dos dois filhos: o momento em que tirariam a carteira de motorista, as formaturas, todos os aniversários até os trinta anos.

Using the story of Raven and the Box of Daylight (and relating it to Sun Tzu’s equally timeless Art of War) to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land, but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her 50s and becoming a professor and a writer.

New York Times best-selling author Firoozeh Dumas is used to making people laugh, but in 2022, she found herself drowning in tears of sadness. After her 2022 Los Angeles Times article "What I needed was a rest break on the Island of Grieving and Useless Folks" went viral, she was inspired to write Sob, a one-hour audio story about grief, healing, and miracles that will leave you spellbound. In this unflinching story, Firoozeh Dumas, author of the international best seller Funny in Farsi, takes you into the worst year of her life, which she describes as “a bouillon cube of grief”.

She was 17 years old on a Christmas Eve flight 40 years ago to join her father for Christmas when the unimaginable happened. The Lockheed L-188A Electra, on the way from Lima to Pucallpa, flew directly into a thunderstorm. A strike of lightning left the plane incinerated and Juliane Diller (Koepcke) still strapped to her plane seat falling through the night air two miles above the Earth. Her survival is unexplainable and considered a modern-day miracle. Her mother was among the 91 dead and Juliane the sole survivor.

After losing her job due to the coronavirus pandemic, a vet tech decides to confront the roots of her childhood traumas by hiking the Appalachian Trail. Pack Light follows a woman's journey changing the narrative of hiking while Black—because the great outdoors belongs to everyone.

Luísa Marilac nasceu em Minas Gerais e assumiu-se travesti aos 17 anos. Além dos tradicionais traumas associados à transição de gênero em uma família conservadora e de classe baixa, levou sete facadas aos 16 anos, foi vítima de tráfico sexual na Europa, prostituiu-se, foi estuprada e presa mais de uma vez. Alçou-se à fama depois que viralizou no YouTube um vídeo seu com o bordão "E disseram que eu estava na pior".

È una giornata di primavera del 1864 quando il giudice Cochran mostra orgoglioso ai propri figli il fagottino rosa della neonata Elizabeth. Il loro è un piccolo borgo di tranquillo benessere in Pennsylvania, dove i ruoli sociali seguono schemi quasi inviolabili, ma Pink – come viene soprannominata la bambina – si dimostra presto inquieta e ribelle, più attratta dalle scorribande dei fratelli maggiori che dalle bambole, e al tempo stesso incuriosita dalla ricca biblioteca paterna.

Com o advento da internet e a ascensão das redes sociais, que estão cada vez mais; evidência, diversos assuntos surgem e ganham espaço para discussões. O feminismo, apesar de não ser recente, tem crescido na internet e quase sempre intrínseco nos assuntos mais comentados do Twitter, mas até que ponto essas discussões realmente abordam pautas necessárias? Até onde vai o recorte social da briga de egos e likes?