Haunting, firsthand accounts and photographs from the aftermath of the hurricane...

The stunning, critically-acclaimed memoir of living with disability. Emily Rapp was born with a congenital defect that required, at the age of four, that her left foot be amputated. By the time she was eight she’d had dozens of operations,...

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When Maria Flook's fourteen-year-old sister Karen disappeared from their suburban home, the author was changed forever. My Sister Life maps the story of two castaways from American suburbia who, while apart from each other, live mysteriously parallel lives.With unrelenting realism...

Discover 13 extraordinary women from Arizona's past, including healer and preacher Teresa Urrea; Apache warrior Lozen; rancher and writer Mary Kidder Rak; photographer Carmen Lee; and stagecoach robber Pearl Hart. Edna Boardman - KLIATT Brown profiles 12 women...

Fresh out of the Israeli Army, twenty-year-old Iris Bahr decides to follow the footsteps of many before her and backpack through Asia. Only unlike the average traveler, she has more in mind than just seeing the sights: she is on...

Although Southern women are often portrayed as belles, the photographic record suggests the true diversity, complexity, and richness of their lives. In their roles as wives, mothers, teachers, pilots, businesswomen, and reformers, among others, women contributed greatly to the growth...

In this brief and powerful book, Diana Fuss takes on the debate of pure essence versus social construct, engaging with the work of Luce Irigaray and Monique Wittig, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Houston Baker, and with the politics of...

Edited by Larry Gilman. Essays by Kristin Chambers. Introduction by Jill Snyder.Interviews by Roxana Marcoci....

An examination of biblical interpretation, this work explores the unusual interest in the characterizations of women in the Book of Jubilees, written in the second century BCE....