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Women is a 1978 novel written by Charles Bukowski, starring his semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. In contrast to Factotum , Post Office and Ham on Rye , Women is centered on Chinaski's later life, as a celebrated poet and writer, not as a dead-end lowlife.
The Women is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press in 2024. The book tells the story of Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a young nurse who serves in the United States Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. [1] [2] The novel debuted at number one on The New York Times fiction best-seller list.
Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood.
The Women's Room is the debut novel by American feminist author Marilyn French, published in 1977.It launched French as a major participant in the feminist movement and, [1] while French states it is not autobiographical, the book reflects many autobiographical elements. [2]
Carol Tavris reviewed it for Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, stating that the "theoretical underpinning of this book is not new; every generation of feminist scholars rediscovers Simone de Beauvoir's 1949 observations that women are the second sex", referring to the French philosopher's book. [4]
To the Women of Kooyong, Vida Goldstein (1914) [170] Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times, Alice Duer Miller (1915) [171] "How It Feels to Be the Husband of a Suffragette", Mr. Catt (married to Carrie Chapman Catt) (1915) [172] In Times Like These, Nellie L. McClung (1915) [173] "The Fundamental Principle of a Republic", Anna ...
The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 & 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–2008) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, [4] [5] [6] annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English ...
We Are Afghan Women; Wheat of Fire; Why We Can't Sleep; The Widows' Adventures; The Woman Who Knew Too Much; Women and the Economic Miracle; Women at the World's Crossroads; Women in Tech; Women of Mayo Clinic; The Women of the Cousins' War; Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890; Women Who Work (book) The Worth of Women