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The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell 13 reviews
Loraine Despres
audible.com
Brief Review
This is an excellent novel written by a cleaver woman who obviously grew up in New Orleans. I enjoyed it emensely and highly recommend it.
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Bodies and Souls: The Century Project22 reviews
Frank Cordelle
Heureka Productions, 2006
The Anti-Porn
This is not the kind of book with pictures of naked women that most men get interested in. This volume is not about sex, though it clearly deals with sexuality. Frank Cordelle's photos of naked women, at various ages and stages of life, serves as a kind of anti-porn - showing women for who they really are, as opposed to who society thinks they should be. There are some tragic stories and some ...
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Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, ...37 reviews
Anita A. Johnston PhD.
Gurze Books, 2000
This book is wonderful
For people who want to recover from an eating disorder this book is a must for your library. It is conforting, interesting and soulful. It prompts the inner self to open its mouth and get ready to be fed what will truly nourish you.
An eating disorder can be a catalyst to your growth as a person if you surrender to it with awareness and be open to its teachings. This book can help you do that. ...
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times15 reviews
Elizabeth Wayland Barber
W W Norton & Co Inc, 1994
One of the best books I've ever read
Anyone interested in so-called gender studies, textiles, prehistory, or just in regular people ought to read this book. The authoress, in incredibly simple language (she can't REALLY be an academic, can she?), tells the story of women and the textile work that has (pre-) historically been theirs. Bringing the insight that only a practicing weaver or spinner could have to the dusty world of ...
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Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, The13 reviews
E. Lockhart
Hyperion Book CH, 2008
Amazing!
Definitely one of the best books I've had the fortune of reading. Very reminiscent of Jaclyn Moriarty's "The Spell Book of Listen Taylor" (also similar due to their sudden shift from girly books to girl-power mysteries). I love the funniness, the cliche and the totally NOT. The basset hounds and the guppy and the whole idea of a secret society. Love love love Frankie's whole thing with making ...
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Women's Lives, Women's Legacies: Passing Your Beliefs and Blessings to Future Generations13 reviews
Rachael Freed
Fairview Press, 2003
Women's Lives, Women's Legacies - a radiant guidebook
I'm a woman who's been blessed with a long and varied life. I've always wanted to share my experiences with my nieces, and to offer them my hard-earned wisdom so that they might move into womanhood a little better informed than I was. I've also had an inner desire to be seen and valued by them. The beautifully written and accessible WOMEN'S LIVES, WOMEN'S LEGACIES offers encouragement and serves ...
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Spiritual Life, A (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)13 reviews
Merle Feld
State University of New York Press, 2000
Reflections on hidden memories
"A Spiritual Life" gave me permission to digest my past. At the end of each vignette I was surprised to find myself face to face with "me"-my own experiences of decades ago. I suddenly slowed down and felt deep parts of my life that I had been too frightened to listen to long ago. I keep it on my night table and read it again and again reflecting on my own memories. Reading "A Spiritual ...
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In Search of Our Mothers' Garden15 reviews
Alice Walker
Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 2000
The Loss of Black Creativity Due To Slavery
In her essay concerning post-Reconstruction African-American women, Alice Walker seeks to put a human face on what Americans may otherwise only remember as an unfortunate scar on our glorious history. She asks, "Who were the Saints? These crazy, loony, pitiful women?" And in answering herself, she replies in repetition, "our mothers and grandmothers." These are the human faces to which she has ...
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A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam15 reviews
Keith Walker
Presidio Pr, 1986
There's a special place in Heaven...
... for all of the women who served in Vietnam. Read this book, plus the late Lynda Van Devanter's Home Before Morning and you'll see why. While Lynda's book is a hauntingly graphic record of the triumphs and tragedies that the ANC nurses and Army surgeons experienced in Nam, A Piece Of My Heart gives the reader a very broad perspective of the contributions of women in many other areas. The ...
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The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel17 reviews
Meg Waite Clayton
Ballantine Books, 2008
"You've come a long way baby"
In the late 1960s the five young mothers meet in Palo Alto at a park. They have plenty in common as they dream of being much more than just a wife and mother while hearing tales of the counter culture and the Summer of Love. The quintet love books especially those they can escape into so they can forget their somewhat tedious lives especially the household chores, but each sees a different role ...
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The Shadow King: The Invisible Force That Holds Women Back12 reviews
Sidra Stone
Backinprint.com, 2000
This book is revolutionary for women and for men too!
Sidra Stone shows us that the feminist revolution has to be an inside job. It doesn't matter how much we try to change the world outside of us - if we're still carrying the expectations of the patriarchy within our own psyches, it's not too likely that we'll be able to change. Dr. Stone not only shows how the Inner Patriarch functions within women, she gives clear and creative ideas about how ...
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Pioneer Women11 reviews
Joanna Stratton
Touchstone, 1982
Frontier Kansas
I read somewhere that a statistically large number of prominent Americans were born in 19th century Kansas. That was perhaps a result of the hard, but ultimately rewarding pioneer life that is described in these pages. Kansas and the West a century ago were in the vanguard of social innovation and progressive politics in the U.S.
Author Stratton re-discovered the oral histories of 800 ...
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Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women12 reviews
Virginia Valian
The MIT Press, 1999
Finally, some data
If you're interested in the empirical findings which back-up many often dismissed feminist claims that women have a raw deal...then read this book.
Easy to read with some engrossing anecdotes (included only to illustrate, not prove, her points as pointed out by Valian herself), this book is a convincing tour guide of women's achievement in male-dominated professions.
My advisor in graduate ...
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Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building11 reviews
Terry Wolverton
City Lights Publishers, 2002
Fascinating memoir!
What a pleasure to read. Wolverton weaves through the book personal history and her experiences at the Los Angeles Woman's Building to bring art history and feminism in LA to life. Wolverton easily evokes engaging images with just a few strokes of the pen.
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Breaking Point:: Why Women Fall Apart and How They Can Re-create Their Lives11 reviews
Martha Beck
Crown, 1997
A woman's working manual
Apparently this book did not have the success that Martha Beck's subsequent books have had - perhaps the reason why it is out of print. I have read most of her books, but this one, in my view, surpasses them all; I regard it as a superlative working manual. I agree with previous reviewers that Beck is both scholarly and humorous, but I think the book's greatest strength is the way the author ...
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Women Without Superstition : No Gods - No Masters11 reviews
Freedom from Religion Foundation, 1997
Why didn't I study this stuff in school
I wish I had been given the chance to study this stuff in school. I spent a long time struggling with these ideas. If only I had access to this book at an earlier age. Great book, wonderful works by highly intelligent authors. Helped me to cast off my old doubts.
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The Morrigan: An Erotic Tale of Reincarnation, Magic, and Murder11 reviews
Annette Maxberry
Iceni Books, 2005
ah the legend and might of Morrigan with a twist!
love the reincarnation twist! steamy and a thriller!
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Half-Life of a Zealot10 reviews
Swanee Hunt
Duke University Press, 2006
A candid rendition of a zelots' life
I am just one-half way through this book but must say, at this point, it is probably one of the "best" books I have ever encountered. The factors contributing to this assessment are readibility, candor, lessons learned that I might use, subject matter and on and on. The author has led an unusual life, not just because she could because of her fortune and fame,but equally because she had the ...
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Ruby Slippers: How the Soul of a Woman Brings Her Home11 reviews
Jonalyn Grace Fincher
Zondervan, 2007
A Must Read for Women
I tend to rate books by how much text I underline. I underlined a lot in Ruby Slippers! Jonalyn combines personal anecdotes with solid research resulting in a thought-provoking and insightful book. And the writing is as energetic and sparkly as its killer cover.
I'm a sucker for books that take on the stereotypes of the Christian woman, but what I loved most about Ruby Slippers is that it is ...
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Reclaiming Your Christian Self in a Secular World: A Woman's Bible Study11 reviews
Cheryl Dickow
Pleasant Word-A Division of WinePress Publishing, 2005
Inspiring
I thoroughly enjoyed Cheryl Dickow's latest book, "Reclaiming Your Christian Self in a Secular World: A Woman's Worth." In this book, I found support and encouragement for my own spiritual journey. It inspired me to more consciously consider the calling that God has for my life. Through the examples of women in Scripture, I've identified ways to practice some of their traits in my life. I ...
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