Female books

Egyptologist Kara Cooney has found that ancient Egypt turned to female leadership to rule and protect ancient Egypt in times of trouble. What lessons does the past hold for the women of today?

My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel [Moshfegh, Ottessa] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel

As you may or may not have noticed, I love a good campus novel. This is the time of year—the tail end of summer, counting the days until the relief of autumn—when I always want to read about clique…

the intimacy that comes with being a vulnerable yoruba girl who writes

Buy Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran Second by Shahrnush Parsipur (ISBN: 9781558617537) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

"A fresh feminist appraisal of the pop culture canon." —Publishers Weekly How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women from having to be nice. Female characters throughout history have been burdened by the moral trap that is likeability. Any woman who dares to reveal her messy side has been treated as a cautionary tale. Today, unlikeable female characters are everywhere in film, TV, and wider pop culture. For the first time ever, they are…

Read 21 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. The fascinating, little-known history of female sex fluids through the millennia. For over…

Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles: famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined with his. No one knows it yet, but there are just ten weeks to go until the Fall of Troy, the end of this long and bitter war. This is the start of The Iliad: the most famous war story ever told. The next ten weeks will be a story of male power, male…