The Ascent of Woman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
The Ascent of Woman on X
Twitter home of @DrAmandaForeman's landmark 4-part series on @NETFLIX #TheAscentofWoman and her forthcoming book 'The World Made by Women' (2023)
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood
Helen McCarthyThe Ascent of WomanWe don’t talk of a ‘working father’ — so why do we still refer to a ‘working mother’? Sarah Ditum for @spectator on Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, a new book by Helen McCarthy https://t.co/SsesQZqyJm
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She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next
Bridget QuinnThe Ascent of WomanIn "She Votes: How U.S. Women Won #Suffrage, and What Happened Next", author Bridget Quinn and 100 female artists survey the complex history of the struggle for women’s rights. #WorldMadeByWomen #AscentofWoman https://t.co/t8IbQmpFwr
Hardcover, 2020
$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Second Sex
Simone de BeauvoirThe Ascent of Woman“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female—whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.” —Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949 #AscentOfWoman #WorldMadeByWomen
Paperback, 2011
$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Troop 6000: The Girl Scout Troop That Began in a Shelter and Inspired the World
Nikita StewartThe Ascent of Woman"Troop 6000 was not an ordinary troop. It had hurdles to overcome that other new troops did not face." Inside the Creation of a #GirlScout Troop Unlike Any Other Meet the Young Women Who Made it Happen By Nikita Stewart for @lithub #WorldMadeByWomen https://t.co/NKW69roWPB
Paperback, 2021
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy
Emma GriffinThe Ascent of Woman‘Bread Winner’ by Emma Griffin Reviewed in @WSJ by Ruth Goodman “Girls were so very inferior to boys. They were the breadwinners. They could always get work in the mines. Girls were nobodies. They could only go into domestic service.” https://t.co/EqouOlZNYi
Hardcover, 2020
$35.00Member price:$35.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Natasha TretheweyThe Ascent of Woman@NPR "Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir, by Natasha Trethewey" "I need now to make sense of our #history, to understand the tragic course upon which my mother's life was set and the way my own life has been shaped by that legacy" https://t.co/Ivdpot0vlv
Paperback, 2021
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Burnt Sugar
Avni DoshiThe Ascent of WomanThe #BookerPrize announced its longlist on Tuesday. It includes nine books by #femaleauthors, including Avni Doshi's debut novel Burnt Sugar. https://t.co/vlgWrhZ5zz
Paperback, 2022
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sex and World Peace
Valerie HudsonThe Ascent of WomanA conversation between actor and activist Emma Watson and Sex and World Peace author Valerie Hudson on feminism, marriage, #MeToo, and more, with a special mention to #AscentOfWoman https://t.co/xdpMTcXH61
Paperback, 2014
$18.95Member price:$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book