Books

Contemporary Classics

Women Who Kill

Ann Jones
From Lizzie Borden to Aileen Wuornos, Women Who Kill remains the most important book on why women have killed and what their cases reveal about social prejudices and legal practices in the US. With a new introduction by the author.

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His Own Where

June Jordan
Set in 1970, as inner city blues envelop Brooklyn, His Own Where tells the story of Buddy and Angela, fifteen-year-old runaways who take refuge in one another as their worlds begin to fall apart.

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Witches, Midwives, and Nurses (Second Edition)

A History of Women Healers
Barbara Ehrenreich & Barbara Ehrenreich
Medicine has always been an arena of struggle between women healers and male doctors. The fascinating, updated account explores the suppression of witches in medieval Europe, the rise of the male medical profession, and pop culture's obsession with witches today.

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