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How the children stopped the wars
A shepherd boy sets out to stop wars and persuades hundreds of children to follow his banner.
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Looking at the stars
Amina's community is ravaged by war, and her family welcome what they hope is a liberating force. However, they face further oppression, from a regime which enforces the subordination of women, and everyone is force to wear badges indicating their class. Amina's family is separate, and she tries to survive and remain whole by telling stories to her sister. First person recount.
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Room of Ones Own Three Guineas
A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. Three Guineas was published almost a decade later and breaks new ground in its discussion of…
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Die Frau und der Sozialismus
Das Buch **Die Frau und der Sozialismus** ist die am meisten verbreitete und übersetzte Schrift von August Bebel. Seit mehr als hundert Jahren stehen Bebels Thesen im Mittelpunkt der Diskussionen um die Gleichberechtigung der Frau in der Gesellschaft.
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A Vindication of Rights of Woman
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Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity, and instead laid out the principles of emancipation: an equal education…
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Dead Men's Money
A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself…
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The Awful Secret
The Awful Secret
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The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers
The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her household for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's…
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Philosophy and living
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The Slopes of War
In the summer of 1863, Bekah Summerhill watches as Confederate troops sweep through her sleepy Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, in a panoramic tale about the turning point of the Civil War.
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Das Sexualleben unserer Zeit
Frühes Werk der Sexualwissenschaft, noch vor Magnus Hirschfeld. 1907 erschien Iwan Blochs »Das Sexualleben unserer Zeit«, mit mehreren Nachauflagen in rascher Folge. In dem Buch behandelt Bloch auf 840 Seiten alle Aspekte der Sexualität aus damaliger Sicht. Unter dem Begriff »psychische Hermaphroditen« beschreibt Bloch auch 2 Fälle von trans* Personen (die man damals eben noch nicht einordnen…
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The common sense of science
Discusses science as a characteristic part of human activity and as an effort to render the world predictable.
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The Women's Room
Relates a woman's experiences and changing attitudes from her marriage in the 1950's to her increasing independence in the 1970's.
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The Subjection of Women
On equality and women's rights.
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Hawksong: The Kiesha'ra
DANICA SHARDAE IS an avian shapeshifter, and the golden hawk's form in which she takes to the sky is as natural to her as the human one that graces her on land. The only thing more familiar to her is war: It has raged between her people and the serpiente for so long, no one can remember how the fighting began. As heir to the avian throne, she'll do anything in her power to stop this war--even…
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On Liberty
Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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Women and economics
Women and Economics is Gilman's most original and famous work of nonfiction. In it she examines the origins of women's subordination and its function in society. Woman, she argues, makes a living by marriage - not by the work she does - and thus man becomes her economic environment. As a consequence, her "female" attributes dominate her "human" qualities because they determine her…
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Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Receiving a letter from a friend asking her how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist, Adichie responded with fifteen suggestions for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Her suggestions ranged from options for non-stereotyped toy options, to debunking myths that women are somehow biologically programmed to be in the kitchen instead of having a career. Adichie's…
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