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![Kristin Hannah's The Women is available on Nooks at the Maury Loontjens Memorial Library in Narragansett](/files/original/imageWant to skip the line on The Women (600 × 150 px).png)
Author
Publisher
Grand Central
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Based on hours of conversations between her and her patients, an award-winning psychotherapist, through relatable and moving stories of seven very different women, sheds light on our most fundamental needs and desires, in this extraordinary book that liberates and empowers us to claim what we truly want."--
44) Girlhood: essays
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations ... Blending...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A literary memoir of one woman's journey from wife to warrior, in the vein of breakout hits like Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle. At thirty-six years old, Caitlin Myer is ready to start a family with her husband. She has left behind the restrictive confines of her Mormon upbringing and early sexual trauma and believes she is now living her happily ever after . . . when her body betrays her. In a single week, she suffers...
46) The captain's widow of Sandwich: self-invention and the life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Perceptively identifying a paradox at the very heart of feminism, editor Robin Romm has marshaled a stunning constellation of thinkers to examine their relationships with ambition with candor, intimacy and wit"--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What Makes Girls Sick and Tired is a feminist manifesto that denounces the discrimination against and unfairness felt by women from childhood to adulthood. The graphic novel, illustrated in a strikingly minimalist style with images of girls with varied body types and personalities, invites teenagers to question the sexism that surrounds us, in ways that are obvious and hidden, simple and complex."--
50) Snapshots
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Ilana Tsuriel was a beautiful, brilliant Israeli intellectual and architect, the estranged wife of a prominent Holocaust scholar and the daughter of a legendary founding Zionist. At the beginning of Snapshots, she dies in a tragic car wreck, leaving her husband, Alain, to piece together the woman he thought he knew from the documents she left behind. Snapshots is assembled from her notes, photos, and drawings, which reveal Ilana's passionate, turbulent,...
51) Desirada
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Ranelise is a cook in the small village of La Pointe in Guadeloupe, where she rescues a teenage girl from suicide by drowning. The girl, Reynalda Titane, lives at the local jeweler's grand house, where her mother, Nina, is a maid. Reynalda is pregnant and in a state of despair. Ranelise cares for her and the child, christened Marie-Noelle, but Reynalda soon flees to France, intent upon getting the education that will allow her to rise above her mother's...
Author
Publisher
Weiser Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the untamed crossroads where 'the feline' and 'the feminine' mingle and make magic. From ancient Egypt to early modern Venice to Edo Japan, the witch trials to the Women's March, Catwoman to cat ladies, kitten play to cat conventions, this book tracks the cat's circuitous connection to women and femininity through a magical lens. By combining historical research, pop culture and art analyses, and original interviews, this book uncovers...
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes I think that carrying -- other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday -- is the main thing that women do. In Marina Benjamin's new set of interlinked essays, she turns her astute eye to the tasks once termed 'women's work'. From cooking and cleaning to caring for an aging relative, A Little Give depicts domestic life anew: as a site of paradox and conflict, but also of solace and profound...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Karen Shepard's Kiss me someone is inhabited by women who walk the line between various states: adolescence and adulthood, stability and uncertainty, selfishness and compassion. They navigate the obstacles that come with mixed-race identity and instabilities in social class, and they use their liminal positions to leverage power. They employ rage and tenderness and logic and sex, but for all of their rationality they're drawn to self-destructive behavior....
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In SARAHLAND, Sam Cohen brilliantly (and often hilariously) explores the ways in which traditional stories have failed us, giving its cast of Sarahs new origin stories, new ways to love the planet and those inhabiting it, and new possibilities for life itself. In one story, a Jewish college girl named Sarah suffers from passively consenting to a form-life devoted to getting one's "mrs." degree. Yet another reveals a version of Sarah finally finding...
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An essay collection about the iconic bond between girls and horses dispels the stereotypes that once pegged devoted female riders as weird, overzealous, and socially awkward horse girls. This collection that smashes stereotypes and redefines the meaning of the term "horse girl", broadening it for women of all cultural backgrounds.As a child, horses consumed Halimah Marcus' imagination. When she was no;t around horses she was pretending to be one,...
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In this collection of essays, women talk about their hair-- and in doing so, offer up reflections and revelations about family, race, religion, ritual, culture, motherhood, politics, and celebrity. Layered into these essays you'll find surprises, insights, hilarity, and the resonance of common experience. Many things in life matter more than hair, but few bring as much pleasure as a really great hairdo." --
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror. In this electric, provocative debut, Machado presents narratives that map the realities of women's lives to the violence visited upon their bodies." --
"Una mujer se niega a permitir que su marido le quite una misteriosa cinta verde que lleva alrededor del cuello; otra mujer relata sus encuentros...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"Maternal Desire is the first book to treat women's desire to mother as a legitimate focus of intellectual inquiry and personal exploration. Shedding new light on old debates, Daphne de Marneffe provides an emotional road map for mothers who work and mothers who are at home. The book both explores the enjoyment and anxieties of motherhood and offers mothers in all situations valuable ways to think through their self-doubts and connect to their capacity...
Author
Publisher
Laurence King Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A new generation of female artists is emerging who have grown up in a culture saturated with social media and selfies. This book looks at how young women are using photography and the internet to explore issues of self-image and female identity, and the impact this is having on contemporary art. Forty artists are featured, all of whose principal subject matter is either themselves or other women. Each is accompanied by a short profile based on personal...
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