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Send Us a Lady Physician: Women Doctors in America 1835-1920

Abram, Ruth J., ed.

1985

Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats

Aikman, Duncan

1927

Talking Woman

Alexander, Shana

1976

Strange Necessity (The)

Anderson, Margaret

1969

Medicine Woman

Andrews, Lynn V.

1981

Sisters Of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Ninteenth Century

Andrews, William L., ed.

1986

Gather Together in My Name

Angelou, Maya

1974

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Angelou, Maya

1969

Oh Pray My Wines are Gonna Fit Me Well

Angelou, Maya

1975

Women's West (The)

Armitage, Susan and Elizabeth Jameson

1987

Portraits of American Women: From Settlement to the Present

Barker-Benfield, G.J. & Catherine Clinton, eds.

1991

Composing a Life

Bateson, Mary Catherine

1989

Passion And Predjudice: A Family Memoir

Bingham, Sallie

1989

One Hundred Years of Colorado Women

Bluemel, Elinor

1973

Gerry!: A Woman Making History

Breslin, Rosemary and Joshua Hammer

1984

Herself: An Autobiographical work by Hortense Calisher

Calisher, Hortense

1972

Road from Coorain (The)

Conway, Jill Ker

1989

Doc Susie: The True Story of a Country Physician in the Colorado Rockies

Cornell, Virginia

1991

Day At a Time (A): The Diary Literature of American Women from 1764 to the Present

Culley, Margo, ed.

1985

Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence

Curb, Rosemary and Nancy Manahan

1985

American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams

Davis, Allen F.

1973

Fall of A Doll's House (The): Three Generations of American Women and the Houses They Lived In

Davison, Jane

1980

All Said and Done

De Beauvoir, Simone

1975

Woman in Revolt (A): A Biography of Flora Tristan

Desanti, Dominique

1972

Las Mujeres: Conversations from a Hispanic Community

Elasser, Nan, et al.

1980

Wild Women Don't Get the Blues

Emrys, Barbara

1977

Rosa Luxemburg: A Life

Ettinger, Elzbieta

1986

Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape

Fairstein, Linda A.

1993

Ferraro: My Story

Ferraro, Geraldine A.

1985

It Changed My Life: Writings on the Women's Movement

Friedan, Betty

1976

Woman As Revolutionary

Giffin, Frederick C., ed.

1973

Educated American Women: Life Styles and Self-Portraits

Ginzberg, Eli

1966

Rebecca West: A Life

Glendinning, Victoria

1987

From Parlor to Prison: Five American Suffragists Talk About Their Lives

Gluck, Sherna, ed.

1976

Lives of American Women: A History with Documents

Goodfriend, Joyce D. & Claudia M. Christie

1981

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can

Gordon, Barbara

1979

By a Woman Writt

Goulianos, Joan, ed.

1974

True to Life Adventure Stories: Volume One

Grahn, Judy, ed.

[1978] 1983

True to Life Adventure Stories: Volume Two

Grahn, Judy, ed.

1981

Women Of the West

Gray, Dorothy

1976

Solo: Women on Woman Alone

Hamalian, Linda and Leo Hamalian, eds.

1977

Feminist Legacy (A): The Ethics of Wilma Scott Heide and Company

Haney, Eleanor Humes

1985

Woman In Residence: A Doctor's Personal & Professional Battles Against an Insensitive Medical System

Harrison, Michelle

1982

Woman Doctor

Haseltine, Florence and Yvonne Yaw

1976

Lucy Stone: One of America's First and Greatest Feminists

Hays, Elinor Rice

1961

Pentimento

Hellman, Lillian

1973

Mistress To An Age: A Life of Madame de Stael

Herold, J. Christopher

1979

One Teenager in 10: Writings by Gay and Lesbian Youth

Heron, Ann, ed.

1983

An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43

Hillesum, Etty

1981

Different Woman (A)

Howard, Jane

1973

Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate 1889 (The)

Hufsmith, George W.

1993

Anne Royall's USA

James, Bessie (Rowland)

1972

Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi West 1840-1880

Jeffrey, Julie Roy

1979

From Housewife to Heretic

Johnson, Sonia

1989

Autobiography of Mother Jones (The)

Jones, Mary Harris (ed. Mary Field Parton)

[1925] 1976

Devil At Large (The): Erica Jong on Henry Miller

Jong, Erica

1993

Is This Where I Was Going?

Josefowitz, Natasha

1983

I Am the Fire of Time: The Voices of Native American Women

Katz, Jane B., ed.

1977

My Name is Geraldine Ferraro

Katz, Lee Michael

1984

Kathe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist

Kearns, Martha

1976

Courage & Candlelight: The Feminine Spirit of '76

Kelly, Joseph J. and Sol Feinstone

1974

Woman Warrior (The): Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Kingston, Maxine Hong

1975

Aline

Klein, Carole

1979

Mirror Dance (The): Identity in a Women's Community

Krieger, Susan

1983

Mother Knot (The)

Lazarre, Jane

1976

Up the Hemline

Lehrer, Margaret J., ed.

1975

Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry

Ling, Amy

1990

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

Lorde, Audre

1984

Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche

MacIntyre, Ben

1992

Shoulder to Shoulder

MacKenzie, Midge

1975

Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention

Macdonald, Anne L.

1992

Isabella Beecher Hooker Project (The)

Margolis, Anne Throne, ed.

1979

Lesbian/ Woman

Martin, Del and Phyllis Lyon

1983

Sound of Our Own Voices (The): Women's Study Clubs 1860-1910

Martin, Theodora Penny

1987

Passion for Freedom (A): The Life of Sharlott Hall

Maxwell, Margaret F.

1982

World Of Mary Cassatt (The)

McKown, Robin

1972

Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years

Mead, Margaret

1972

Growing Up Female in America: Ten Lives

Merriam, Eve, ed.

1971

Flying

Millett, Kate

1974

Place in the News (A): From the Women's Pages to the Front Page

Mills, Kay

1988

This Bridge Called by Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Moraga, Cherrie and Gloria Anzaldua, eds.

1981

Making of a Woman Surgeon (The)

Morgan, Elizabeth

1980

Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist

Morgan, Robin

1978

So Much to be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier

Moynihan, Ruth B., et al., eds.

1990

Seven Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition

Nies, Judith

1977

D.H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study

Nin, Anais

[1932] 1964

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Oakley, Mary Ann

1972

Little School (The): Tales of Disappearance and survival in Argentina

Partnoy, Alice

1986

Cabin Journal

Pepin, Yvonne

1984

Simone Weil: A Life

Petrement, Simone

1976

Killing of Karen Silkwood (The): The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case

Rashke, Richard

1981

Coming Out of Cancer

Brownworth, Victoria A.

2000

American Feminists

Riegel, Robert E.

1963

New World for Women (A): Stella Browne - Socialist Feminist

Rowbotham, Sheila

1977

Working It Out: 23 Women Writers, Artists, Scientists & Scholars Talk about their lives & work

Ruddick, Sara and Pamela Daniels, eds.

1977

Beyond Survival

Saldana, Theresa

1986

Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey

Schlissel, Lillian

1982

Saturday's Child: 36 Women Talk About Their Jobs

Seed, Susanne

1973

Immigrant Women

Seller, Maxine Schwartz, ed.

1981

You May Plow Here: The Narrative of Sara Brooks

Simonsen, Thordis, ed.

1986

Movers and Shakers: American Women Thinkers and Activists 1900-1970

Sochen, June

1973

Abortionist (The): A woman against the law

Solinger, Rickie

 

Experience of the American Woman (The): 30 Stories

Solomon, Barbara H., ed.

1978

Curriculum Vitae

Spark, Muriel

1993

Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies

Sprull, Julia Cherry

[1938] 1972

Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Women's Medicine

Stage, Sarah

1979

Glittering Misery: Dependents of the Indian Fighting Army

Stallard, Patricia Y.

1978

Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (The)

Stein, Gertrude

1933

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1st edition)

Steinem, Gloria

1983

Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke (The)

Stevenson, Brenda, ed.

1988

Lady Cop: True Stories of Policewomen in America's Toughest City

Taubman, Bryna

1987

Generations of Denial: 75 Short Biographies of Women in History

Taylor, Kathryn

1971

Angela: Portrait of a Revolutionary

The Professor

1971

Living Biographies of Famous Women

Thomas, Henry and Dana Lee Thomas

1942

Doris Tijerino: Inside the Nicaraguan Revolution

Tijerino, Doris (as told to Margaret Randall)

1978

Ravensbruck: An Eyewitness Account of a Women's Concentration Camp

Tillion, Germaine

1975

Papago Woman

Underhill, Ruth M.

[1933] 1985

Constance de Markievicz (and her fight for the liberation of Ireland and of women)

Van Voris, Jacqueline

1972

Declaration of Rights of Women (The): 1876

Wagner, Sally Roesch

1975

Westward to a High Mountain: The Colorado writings of Helen Hunt Jackson

West, Mark I., ed.

1994

Calling Home: Working-class Women's Writings, An Anthology

Zandy, Janet, ed.

1990

Evelina

Burney, Fanny

1982 (1777)

Journal of a Solitude

Sarton, May

1973

Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs (A)

Taylor, Susie King

1994 (1902)

Mother & Daughter: Letters of Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt (M)

Asbell, Bernard, ed.

1988

Taking Back My Life

Ziegenmeyer, Nancy

1992

Times of Our Lives: A Guide to Writing Autobiography and Memoir, The

Moffat, Mary Jane

1989

Beatrice Webb: A Life

Seymour-Jones, Carole

1992

In My Place

Hunter-Gault, Charlayne

1993

Breasts: Women Speak About Their Breasts and Their Lives

Ayalah, Daphna and Issac J. Weinstock

1979

Women and Philosphy: Toward a theory of Liberation

Gould, Carol and Marx W. Wartofsky

1976

Writer On Her Work, The

Sternburg, Janet (Edited)

1980

An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

Hellman, Lillian

1969

Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul

Feinberg, Leslie

1996

Through The Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist

Chicago, Judy

1977

Womanlist

Weiser, Marjorie and Jean S. Arbeiter

1981

Nisa: The Life and Works of a !Kung Woman

Shostak, Marjorie

1983

Daybreak

Baez, Joan

1968

Women of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf

Rose, Phyllis

1978

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Lorde, Audre

1982

Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay & Lesbian Liberation

Vaid, Urvashi

1995

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People

Mankiller, Wilma and Michael Wallis

1993

Latina: Women's Voices From the Borderlands

Castillo-Speed, Lillian

1995

Lesbian Culture: An Anthology

Penelope, Julia and Susan Wolfe

1993

Gay & Lesbian Literary Companion( The)

Malinowski, Sharon and Christa Brelin

1995

Writing For Their Lives: The Modernist Women 1910-1940

Hanscombe, Gillian and Virginia L. Smyers

1988

In The Weather Of Heart: a memoir of a shattered marriage and a reckoning with recovery

Monroe, Valerie

1996

First Comes Love

Winik, Marion

1996

Apprentice To Power: A Woman's Awakening

Morse, Jennifer

1996

Lifelines

Caine, Lynn

1978

Woman Who Ran for President (The)

Underhill, Lois Beachy

1995

Woman He Loved: the story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, The

Martin, Ralph G.

1974

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Jacobs, Harriet A.

1987

Encore: A Journal of the Eightieth Year

Sarton, May

1993

Kill the Body and the Head Will Fall: A Closer Look at Women, Violence and Aggression

Denfeld, Rene

1997

Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard

Thatcher Ulrich, Laurel

1990

Rice Bowl Women

Blair Shimer, Dorothy (Edited)

1982

Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home?

Thompson, Karen and Julie Andrzewski

1988

Women and Wilderness

LaBastille, Anne

1980

Trying To Get To Heaven

Carter, Dixie

1996

Generations

Miedzian, Myriam and Alisa Malinovich

1997

Vita

Glendinning, Victoria

1983

Girlfriends

Berry, Carmen Renee and Tamara Traeder

1995

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent

Alvarez, Julia

1992

To Herland and Beyond

Lane, Ann J.

1990

Alice Henry: The Power of Pen and Voice

Kirkby, Diane

1991

Always a Sister: The Feminism of Lillian D. Wald

Daniels, Doris Groshen

1989

Patriarchs and Politics: The Plight of the Mormon Woman

Warenski, Marilyn

1978

Mothers of Psychoanalysis

Sayers, Janet

1991

Body Project (The): An Intimate History of American Girls

Jacobs Brumberg, Joan

1997

Having Our Say

Delany, Sarah L. and A. Elizabeth Delany

1993

After Silence: Rape and My Journey Back

Raine, Nancy Venable

1998

Girl Power

Carlip, Hillary

1995

Pay, Pack and Follow

Ewart-Biggs, Jane

1986

Fun of It, The

Earhart, Amelia

1932

Caroline Norton's Defense

Norton, Caroline

1982

Theodora

Bridge, Antony

1993

Fat Women's Joke, The

Weldon, Fay

1967

Down Among the Women

Weldon, Fay

1983

Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, The

Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor

1961

Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Slant

Marcus, Jane

1983

Women of 1798, The

Keogh, Daire ande Nicholas Furlong, eds.

1998

With All Her Might: The Life of Gertrude Harding, Militant Suffragette

Wilson, Gretchen

1996

Marie Curie: A Life

Giroud, Francoise

1986

Almost a Woman

Santiago, Esmeralda

1998

Powerful Black Women

Smith, Jessie Carney

1992

Portraits of American Women: From Settlement to the Present

Barker-Benfielde, G.J. & Catherine Clinton

1998

Book of Margery Kempe, The

Kempe, Margery

1985

Deep in Our Hearts

Curry, Constance, et al.

2000

Listen Up, Voices from the next feminist generation

Findlen, Barbara

1995

Book of Shadows

Curott, Phyllis

1998

American Daughter

Thompson, Era Bell

1986

Speaking Truth to Power

Hill, Anita

1997

Jane Addams

Fishwick, Marshall W.

1968

Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860

Hafen, Mary Ann

1983

We Fed Them Cactus

deBaca, Fabiola Cabeza

1954

Women's West, The

Armitage, Susan and Elizabeth Jameson

1987

Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico

Drumm, Stella M.

1962

We Flew Over the Bridge

Ringgold, Faith

1995

Women and New Orleans : A History

Gehman, Mary

1988

Women of White Earth

Vannote, Vance

1999

Woman : An Affirmation

Fannin, Alice et al. eds

1979

Betty Ford: The Times of my Life

Chase, Chris

1978

Eleanor Roosevelt Volume 1 or 2

Cook, Blanche Wiesen

1999

Barbara Jordan: American Hero

Rogers, Mary Beth

1998

Scoundrel Time

Hellman, Lillian

1976

Woman Who Ran for President, The

Underhill, Lois Beachy

1995

Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America

Chesler, Ellen

1992