"A fresh and provocative debut novel about a reclusive young woman saving up for weight loss surgery when she gets drawn into a shadowy feminist guerilla group called "Jennifer"--equal parts Bridget Jones's Diary and Fight Club"--

Presents a series of essays by the American writer and comedian, dealing with issues of body image, popular culture, feminism, and social justice,"--NoveList.

The Bostonians, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of contemporary...

Women all around the world have been defying expectations for centuries, yet the fight for equal rights is far from over. Feminists have cracked the glass ceiling, but both men and women now and in the future will have to continue breaking boundaries to shatter it. Riveting examples of feminism will engage readers and teach them what it means to be a feminist, why it's so important, and the steps they can take to join the movement and make their voices...

Susan B. Anthony helped women win the right to vote. Photographs and easy-to-read text tells the story of this great woman in history.

An irreverent and deeply moving comedy about friendship, fertility, and fighting for one's sanity in a toxic workplace."--Provided by publisher. Jen, a once-promising painter, takes a job at a feminist nonprofit. The foundation's aim is to empower women, but staffers spend all their time devising acronyms for imaginary programs, ruthlessly undermining one another, and stroking the ego of their boss, celebrity philanthropist Leora Infinitas. Jen is...

How the Personal Became Political In the Fight to Grant Women Civil Rights They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the most influential leaders of the women's rights movement of the 19th century. From her work for the women's rights convention of 1848 and friendship with Susan B. Anthony to her connection with the antislavery movement, her life story brings an important social movement and part of world history to life.