Women's History Month

The Women of General Motors

$36.99

Based on interview with more than 100 current and former female GM employees,  discusses the role women have played in the American auto industry, a traditionally male-dominated industry. An authoritative guide to the role women have played in the automotive...

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Heroines of Horticulture

$39.99

A celebration and a salute to 100 brave, determined, creative women over the past few centuries who have shaped North America’s heritage and landscapes through their horticulture work and contributions.     Through tales of invention, creativity, dogged research, innovation,...

Women Artisans of Morocco

$34.95

The stories of 25 women who practice Moroccan textile traditions with an inspiring energy, pride, and fortitude. Morocco: Ancient cities, adobe fortresses of centuries past, fertile plains of wheat and olives, carpets of wildflowers, endless deserts, wild mountains, and isolated...

Damsels in Design

$34.99

In the mid-1950s, an innovative group of women at General Motors (dubbed the Damsels of Design by marketers) and their counterparts at Ford, Hudson, Studebaker, Packard, and Tucker changed automotive history forever. Read the untold story of the women who excelled in the Mad Men...

Portable Patchwork

$29.99

The only illustrated history of 19th-century potholder quilts, their origins, and the women who made these quilts. Want to make your quilting easier to carry with you? Try the quilt-as-you-go methods that women of the 1800s invented so they could...

OURstory Quilts

$34.99

Today’s renewed interest in our basic rights has become part of popular culture and breaking news, and this colorful new way to approach human rights answers the demand for new perspectives on the issues. From the Mexican border to the...

50 Contemporary Women Artists

$45.00

A showcase of the world's most influential women artists and architects who have made significant contributions to contemporary art This one-of-a-kind compendium features a selection of women artists and architects who have made groundbreaking contributions to contemporary art. Profiling an...

Grit and Grace

$39.99

Powerful images and stories of women who are rising above their circumstances in developing countries, by award-winning photographer Alison Wright, who has spent a career documenting the human condition around the world. From tea fields to technology, women are the...

Women For Victory Vol 2

$89.99

The second volume of the Women for Victory series records the history and uniforms of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC), the first American servicewomen's organization in World War II to enlist female noncombatant volunteers for service with the United States...

Women for Victory

$89.99

The Women for Victory series provides a thorough and authoritative reference for American servicewomen’s history and uniforms of WWII, and is designed for scholars of women’s or military history, veterans, collectors, re-enactors and others interested in the history and dress...

The Motherhood of Art

$29.99

Balance motherhood and creative pursuits! Women and new mothers are constantly encountering the message that they can never do anything for themselves once they have children. This conversational book is like brunch with girlfriends, offering you friendly advice, community encouragement,...

Deeds Not Words

$19.99

28 contemporary art quilts by award-winning artists, both men and women, recognizes unsung suffragists.  An unusually creative honoring of the 19th Amendment's centennial—it was ratified August 18, 1920. Twenty-nine award-winning textile artists from across the United States each crafted a quilt...

In Bohemia

$24.99

The day her fiancé died suddenly of a heart attack, Katie Swenson retreated to “Bohemia,” the third-floor loft that the couple had renovated in their home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and began to write. A visceral account of grief and the...

I Shock Myself

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Ceramist Beatrice Wood tells us the story of her unorthodox life and her influence on 20th-century art in this illustrated autobiography. Rebellious, radical, and romantic, ceramist Beatrice Wood (1893–1998) defied propriety to become a true national, and international, treasure. Here,...

The Women of Ink

$34.99

Become acquainted with 16 of the world’s most talented and highly influential female tattoo artists through interviews and more than 600 photographs of their best work. Discover insights into their inspiration, artistic motifs, tattooing methods, and opinions on the state...

Women in the Dark

$45.00

Recover the stories of long-overlooked American women who, at a time when women rarely worked outside the home, became commercial photographers and shaped the new, challenging medium. Covering two generations of photographers ranging from New York City to California’s mining...

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