In this book, Rosemary Auchmuty looks at school novels with popular female heroines, such as the Abbey Girl books and the Chalet School series. She questions their ability to portray strong, independent women, and asks why the female authors often resort to the conventions of society, marrying the characters off into a life of domesticity.

A World of Women: Growing Up in the Girls' School Story

Literature & Fiction

Auchmuty, Rosemary

History & Criticism

Women's Press, Ltd. (UK)

In A Second Skin, top contemporary writers explore the significance of clothes which have marked a particular point in their lives, touching on themes such as identity, memory, family, sexulaity, rebellion, and tradition. From Joan Smith's rumination on underewar and sexual politics to Helen Dunmore's sumptuous description of her mother's red velvet dress, this varied and resonant collection examines the place clothes hold in our lives.

Second Skin: Women Write about Clothes

Arts & Photography

Dunseath, Kirsty

Fashion

<p>The writers in Life After Work, no longer accountable to a boss, have realized their wildest dreams. They administrate theater companies, become counselors and teachers, build houses and run marathons. They also discuss the challenges of adjusting to a new lifestyle, the difficulties of living on a pension, and the experiences of solitude and loss of perceived status and responsibility.</p>

Life After Work: Stories of Freedom, Opportunity and Change

Curtis, Zelda

Parenting & Relationships

In this collection of essays, leading female thinkers and writers share their visions for the new millennium.

The Female Odyssey: Visions for the 21st Century

Essays & Correspondence

Britain has the highest levels of mixed race relationships in the developed world. Nearly half of all Carribean children in this country have one white parent. In many areas there are more mixed race children in care than any other group. Issues of race lie at the heart of "New Britain" and in this title the author gives an analysis of mixed race issues, supplying a history before going on to analyze dilemmas such as guilt, and the absence of social policy. Her book aims to reflect the complex lives of this growing and increasingly visable population.

Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons

Politics & Social Sciences

Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin

Social Sciences

<p>A fascinating and innovative look at the traditional interpretations of the components of the horoscope—the signs of the zodiac, the planets, and the elements—that reclaims a lost heritage of history and mythology.</p>

The Knot of Time: Astrology and Female Experience

Religion & Spirituality

River, Lindsay

Gillespie, Sally

New Age & Spirituality

Edna Pontellier is a young woman living comfortably in the beautiful city of New Orleans. She is fond of her husband and proud of her sons but finds it impossible to accept that "for women it is a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals." She fights back in the only way she knows, and her solution is extreme. Infamous in its time, The Awakening is now recognized as a radical work of fiction -- sensuous, arresting, and clear-eyed in its commitment to freedom and independence.

The Awakening

CHOPIN, KATE

Classics

Jade lives with her mom, a successful business woman but who is also overprotective. When Jade starts dating Dicey, there is hell to pay. Jade is smart; she won't get caught out. But when things start heating up with Dicey, she feels herself being swept away by powerful new emotions and sensations.

Jade

Teen & Young Adult

Murray, Millie

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