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The Art of Sleeping Alone
Scribner 2013; US$ 19.99A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
A House in the Sky
Scribner 2013; US$ 27.00The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia?a story of courage, resilience, and extraordinary grace. At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved from her hardscrabble... more...
Maternity Leave
CRC Press 2013; US$ 59.95This book examines contemporary maternity leave. It covers the historical and current public policies and their legislative intent, the parameters of maternity leave as a public health issue, and types of leave offered as employee benefits. The book also offers an illuminating perspective on how the policies of maternity leave play out in the practice... more...
The Hundred Dresses
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 19.99From the Sack to the Sari, each dress makes a powerful statement about the woman who wears it. Inspired by the Eleanor Estes' children's classic The Hundred Dresses , Erin McKean's classic-to-be by the same title, with chic illustrations by Donna Mehalko, is a definitive and witty look at what one hundred iconic dress styles, vintage and... more...
On My Knees
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 12.99On My Knees is Periel Aschenbrand?s seriously funny follow-up to her debut memoir The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own . At the beginning of On My Knees , we find Periel chain-smoking her days away on a plastic-covered couch, watching reruns of Law & Order while she squats in her deceased grandmother?s apartment and adjusts to being alone for the... more...
Women's Reality
HarperCollins 2013; Not AvailableDefines the Female System as an emerging reality--a system in which women are valued, first-class citizens. Now with a new foreword by Carol S. Pearson. more...
Women's Reality
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 9.99Defines the Female System as an emerging reality--a system in which women are valued, first-class citizens. Now with a new foreword by Carol S. Pearson. more...
Bear With Me
McClelland & Stewart 2013; US$ 24.99Toronto comedy writer/performer Diane Flacks has written a frank and funny account of her pregnancy and the first months with her newborn. In the twenty-first century, it is hard to imagine that having a baby is still shrouded in secrecy and mythology. And yet many women go through their pregnancy with a sense of isolation and without an outlet to... more...
Black Slaves, Indian Masters
The University of North Carolina Press 2013; US$ 34.95From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and marginalized... more...
Reclaiming the F Word
Zed Books 2013; US$ 14.95Feminism is so last century. Surely in today's world the idea is irrelevant and unfashionable? Wrong. Since the turn of the millennium a revitalised feminist movement has emerged to challenge these assumptions. Reclaiming the F Word is a generation-defining book that reveals the what, why and how of today's feminism, from cosmetic surgery to... more...









