Women Studies


The Second Sex
We Should All Be Feminists
The Feminine Mystique
A Room of One’s Own
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The Beauty Myth
The Handmaid's Tale
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Bad Feminist
Women, Race & Class
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
New Science by Giambattista VicoThe Contest for Knowledge by Maria Gaetana AgnesiBernini's Beloved by Sarah McPheeBernini by Franco MormandoMonteverdi's Voices by Tim Carter
Early Modern Italy (1600-1800)
56 books — 7 voters
Men Who Hate Women by Laura BatesWriting IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsHood Feminism by Mikki KendallTavan Arasındaki Buda by Julie OtsukaKahramanlar Hep Erkek by Duygu Asena
My Feminist (W.I.T.C.H) Library
62 books — 2 voters

Jean Elson
If they could not prove adultery or extreme cruelty, Nina's attorneys had an alternate strategy available. Rhode Island was unique in allowing divorce based upon other, more ambiguous grounds, as well...[as] an omnibus clause in the state's legal code authorized divorce based upon..."gross misbehavior and wickedness in either of the parties repugnant to and inconsistent with the marriage contract"...the relative vagueness of the terms "gross misbehavior and wickedness" left room for interpretati ...more
Jean Elson, Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America

Jean Elson
When her husband recovered, it was to shout abusively at her…. Later, when she reflected on it throughout the tedious courtroom proceedings, she realized this was the moment she had irrevocably determined to divorce her husband.
Jean Elson, Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America

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