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What if being “over the hill” isn’t an ending, but a beginning? Infinite Women creator Allison Tyra shares the stories of more than 300 women who made their mark on the world in their 40s or later. They come from around the world, across centuries and from all different fields: arts, sciences, business, military and more. Taken together, they challenge the myth that a person’s value–particularly a woman’s–diminishes as they grow older. Instead, these women prove that many of us only get better with age.

A provocative exploration of the life of Anne Boleyn through a feminist lens, examining her influence on the reformation and relevance for a new generation. In a story that has intrigued people for generations, this Queen of England has been portrayed as a power-hungry manipulator and as a patsy...

Barbie: A Timeless Tale of Fashion and Imagination is a captivating journey through the history and cultural impact of the world’s most iconic doll. From her debut in 1959 to her evolution as a symbol of empowerment and creativity, Barbie has inspired generations of children and collectors alike. This book explores her groundbreaking influence on fashion, design, and popular culture, tracing her transformation through the decades.

Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries—beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, and ending with the marine...

A Recommended Book from: New York Times * Publisher's Weekly * Kirkus * BookRiot * Booklist * Boston Globe * Goodreads * Town & Country * Refinery29 * CrimeReads * Glamour Dive into a "tour de force of investigative reporting" (Ron Chernow): a "searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing"...

Now an eight-part docuseries on Apple TV+ Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them—women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done. She couldn’t have been more than seven or...

Helen Lewis argues that feminism’s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It’s time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history of difficult women.

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From the trenches of World War I to the battlefields of modern Ukraine, discover the untold stories of courage that changed the face of warfare forever. Throughout history, women have answered the call to defend freedom, often in the shadows of official recognition. "Women at War" brings these extraordinary stories to light, revealing how female warriors, medics, spies, and leaders have shaped military history across more than a century of conflict.

"Masterful." —Kate Brower Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of The Residence An in-depth examination of women and power in Washington through the lens of the complex relationship between First Ladies and their staffs by Pulitzer finalist Azadeh Moaveni. It could be said that every...

“Moving, courageous, enlightening.”—Sunday Times bestselling author Elizabeth Day Written with deep empathy and clear-eyed analysis reminiscent of Angela Garbes and Peggy Orstein, an exciting and thought-provoking debut memoir about fertility, the desire for parenthood, and family in all...

A sweeping, definitive work of history exploring the road to the September 1968 protests of the Miss American Pageant—one led by women’s liberationists and the other organized by the emergent Miss Black America Pageant—and the birth of a new politics of beauty. A revolution was brewing. In...

The captivating, compassionate account of a moral panic that swept across Britain in the decades before the Salem Witch Trials, leaving hundreds of so-called witches dead in its wake, by acclaimed historian and bestselling author Marion Gibson. During the English Civil War of the 1640s, a series...

Elizabeth Wayland Barber teje los hilos de la mitología y la literatura, la etnología y la historia documentada en un rico tapiz, iluminando el papel vital que desempeñaban las mujeres en las sociedades preindustriales. De hecho, hasta la Revolución Industrial, las artes textiles eran una enorme fuerza económica que pertenecía principalmente a las mujeres.

"Um dia raiará mais propício para nós, em que os escolhidos da nação Brasileira se dignem de achar a educação da mulher um objeto importante para delo ocuparem-se." Nestes trechos selecionados do seu livro Opúsculo humanitário , Nísia Floresta critica a falta de ação do governo com relação à educação feminina, comentando o quanto de especulação havia, seja nas escolas públicas quanto nas particulares – o que soa surpreendentemente atual.

Have you ever heard about the "Hello Girls" of World War I? These heroic women worked as telephone switchboard operators for the U.S. military. Despite the dangers of war, they kept American officers in contact with their soldiers during battle, and spoke in French and English. Yet, "Hello Girls" weren't recognized for their wartime service. What historic year did women win the right to vote?

Brought to you by Penguin. The Number 1 Bestseller Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived...

هذا الكتاب يتتبع جانبًا مهمًا من التاريخ الثقافي للمرأة في الأندلس، موثقًا تطور الشعر النسائي عبر ثمانية قرون من الحكم العربي، كما يسلّط الضوء على الشاعرات الأندلسيات، من الحرائر إلى الجوارٍ، مستعرضًا نماذج من أشعارهن وأطرف ما نُقل من حكاياتهن

'BURN THIS!' Why did so many letters between Lady Frances and Lady Betty Balfour begin this way? What did they have to hide? Alike in so many ways - political, passionate, argumentative and deeply intelligent. It's no surprise that once Frances and Betty became sisters-in-law, they became close...

Written in the early 20th century, Henry W. Shoemaker’s historical address and biographical sketches move beyond fame and rank to honor women whose lives were defined by endurance, service, and moral resolve. From the Pennsylvania frontier to the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, these narratives illuminate acts of quiet heroism carried out in cabins, villages, battlefields, and along the edges of recorded history.

Elegant, immersive, and meticulously researched, The Sultanate of Women reveals the true rulers behind the curtain—and rewrites what you thought you knew about power in a male-dominated empire. Richly detailed storytelling across 30 engaging chapters.

Did you know that . . . Women outnumber men by five to one in shoplifting convictions? The very first Artichoke Queen was Marilyn Monroe in 1947? Diamonds didn’t become a girl’s best friend until the thirteenth century? (Before that, they were for men only.) The first human cannonball was female? The cocktail known as the Bloody Mary was named after a notorious English queen? Research shows that men change their minds two to three times more than women?

A haunting and brilliantly researched history which interrogates the culture of shame in Ireland, and tells the full story, for the first time, of the women confined within the walls of the Magdalene Laundries in the 20th century. Everyone familiar with Ireland’s history has heard of the...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Capote’s Women, a penetrating examination of President John F. Kennedy’s complicated, tumultuous life as told through the lens of the fascinating women left as footnotes in his legacy. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a born leader—bold, charismatic...

The heroic accounts of Australian Army Nursing Sisters Margaret Anderson and Vera Torney who survived the perilous evacuation of Singapore in 1942. The nursing profession is one historically filled with everyday heroes whose work often makes the difference between life and death. Yet Nursing...

Throughout history, African-American women have played a vital and often overlooked role in both the suffrage and civil rights movements in the United States. For more than two centuries, they have stood at the intersection of two monumental struggles, racial equality and women’s rights, refusing to be excluded from either. Their contributions were integral to the very structure and progress of each movement.

Brought to you by Penguin. The definitive character-led history of the most famous year in history. On 5 January 1066, Edward the Confessor's death plunged the nation into a succession crisis that would indelibly change England forever. Mere hours after Edward’s remains had been laid to rest...

A hundred years. Thousands of women. One extraordinary pond. I have learned about peacocks and terrapins, giant cobras and booming widgeons; I have heard about celebrity spottings and al-fresco lovemaking and digestive biscuits. These things make up the history of the Ladies’ Pond, but they...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'This book is an act of excavation, and an act of remembering.' As Kim Willis drifts from the traditional path of marriage and motherhood, she yearns for a new set of stories to light her way. Here, she is pulled towards the source of the Severn, hearing whispers of...

1,682 miles. The First Lady of the United States. One incredible journey. At a time when political candidates' wives were expected to be seen and not heard, Lady Bird Johnson made history as the first presidential spouse to take a leading role on the campaign trail. Her mission: to aid her...

For 140 years, women’s soccer has been a powerful global force and a vehicle for sparking change. That power has shone through 140 years of obstacles and setbacks, bans and ridicule, dismissal and devaluation. Today, investors and audiences recognize the value of women’s soccer not because it can raise money for charity or inspire young girls (although it can) but simply because it is good business. This sport and the women who play it have captured the world’s attention and will continue to advance the game—and the culture around it.

From bestselling author Celeste Headlee, an urgent and eye-opening story of the women who risked everything to ensure a generation of Black Americans had the right to read. In the waning days of the antebellum South, millions of African Americans were suddenly released from enslavement. But they...

In Women Money Power, business journalist Josie Cox tells the story of women’s fight for freedom and economic equality. This is an inspirational account of brave pioneers who took on social mores and the law, including the “Rosies,” who filled industrial jobs and helped win World War II, the heiress whose fortune helped create the birth control pill, the brassy banker who broke into the boys’ club of the New York Stock Exchange, and the namesake of landmark equal-pay legislation who refused to accept discrimination.

This is a historical journey like no other - unlike every other book on the subject, Goddess with a Thousand Faces transcends geographical boundaries and breaks down cultural barriers. From Rangda in Bali, to Freyja in Iceland and more recognisable faces such as the Greek goddess Artemis, it is a work of true inclusion - listeners are invited to consider these dazzling goddesses as part of a cultural cannon of human femininity; regardless of race, sex, or gender. Goddess with a Thousand Faces asks us to interrogate our past through a fresh new lens.

From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both world wars, far from being a small part of covert operations, women ran spy networks and escape lines, parachuted behind enemy lines, and interrogated prisoners. And, back in Bletchley and Whitehall, women's vital administrative work in MI offices kept the British war engine running. In this major, panoramic history, Helen Fry looks at the rich and varied work women undertook as civilians and in uniform.

Con el propósito de que públicos amplios se acerquen a aspectos fundamentales de las luchas por los derechos de las mujeres, este libro narra el largo periplo de las feministas en América Latina. En un extraordinario esfuerzo de síntesis, se revisan propuestas y acciones emprendidas por una variedad de colectivos de mujeres: desde la formulación de los primeros feminismos hasta la experiencia inédita de nuestros días, cuando los reclamos de las mujeres nutren masivas expresiones populares, como nunca antes había ocurrido.

Frieda "Fritizie" Mann had several identities during her brief life, and the mysterious circumstances of her death raise as many questions as they do answers. She was born in 1903 near the present border between Poland and Ukraine. And in the last year of her life, Mann became locally famous. She had reinvented herself as a flapper and "Oriental" dancer. She claimed to have friends in Hollywood and a movie contract. On the night of her murder, she said she was going to a party to meet her Hollywood friends; instead she traveled to an isolated roadside hotel where she met her death.

Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905-1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a "sex and race discriminating world." Against all odds, the brilliant and hardworking Tate earned degrees in international relations from Oxford University in 1935 and a doctorate in government from Harvard in 1941. She then joined the faculty of Howard University, where she taught for three decades of her long life spanning the tumultuous twentieth century.

Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely perform a procedure known as menstrual extraction, which can end a pregnancy, using equipment that can be easily bought and assembled at home. This "self-help" movement grew into a robust national and international collaboration of activists and health workers determined to ensure access to reproductive healthcare, including abortion, at all costs.

2025 ASSOCIATION FOR RECORDED SOUND COLLECTIONS AWARDS CERTIFICATE OF MERIT * AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE EARPHONES AWARD The audiobook edition of How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History brings listeners closer than ever to their creative heroes. Featuring rare interview excerpts with Nina Simone...

"There are many women like Belén whose names we don’t know, but whose stories are just as important. An uplifting chronicle of one woman’s fight for justice."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Foreword by Margaret Atwood The heartbreaking true story of an Argentinian woman imprisoned for...