Tag: Women

The Women Could Fly A Novel [Audiobook]


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English | August 09, 2022 | ASIN: B09M9BLSVC | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 9m | 498 MB
Author: Megan Giddings | Narrator: Angel Pean
Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times-a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in which witches are real and single women are closely monitored.

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The Fly Girls Revolt The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CDXZ8CP8 | 2023 | 9 hours and 5 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 262 MB
Author: Eileen A. Bjorkman
Narrator: Lisa S. Ware

In 1993, U.S. women earned the right to fly in combat, but the full story of how it happened is largely unknown. The Fly Girls Revolt chronicles the actions of a band of women who overcame decades of discrimination and prevailed against bureaucrats, chauvinists, anti-feminists, and even other military women. Drawing on extensive research, interviews with women who served in the 1970s and 1980s, and her personal experiences in the Air Force, Eileen Bjorkman weaves together a riveting tale of the women who fought for the right to enter combat and be treated as equal partners in the U.S. military.

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To Her Credit Historic Achievements-and the Women Who Actually Made Them Happen [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CBVTY814 | 2023 | 6 hours and 7 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 328 MB
Author: Kaitlin Culmo, Emily McDermott
Narrator: Christina Delaine

You may think you know the stories behind the world’s most well-known, groundbreaking achievements, but To Her Credit is here to make you reevaluate our collective story. This book celebrates the stories of women, from ancient times until the 1990s, whose contributions have been overwritten and accredited to men. The pattern of female achievements being stolen, overwritten, or straight-up ignored is as old as time. Authors Kaitlin Culmo and Emily McDermott reclaim the work of these heroines and offer reminders of what we lose when we don’t question history as it has been written. It’s time to talk about the thousands of years’ worth of art, inventions, innovations, and world-changing achievements made by women that have been ascribed to men.

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Mother Tongue The Surprising History of Women’s Words [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BP584V97 | 2023 | 8 hours and 31 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 246 MB
Author: Jenni Nuttall
Narrator: Beth Hicks

An enlightening linguistic journey through a thousand years of feminist language-and what we can learn from the vivid vocabulary that English once had for women’s bodies, experiences, and sexuality. So many of the words that we use to chronicle women’s lives feel awkward or alien. Medical terms are scrupulously accurate but antiseptic. Slang and obscenities have shock value, yet they perpetuate taboos. Where are the plain, honest words for women’s daily lives? Mother Tongue is a historical investigation of feminist language and thought, from the dawn of Old English to the present day. Dr. Jenni Nuttall guides listeners through the evolution of words that we have used to describe female bodies, menstruation, women’s sexuality, the consequences of male violence, childbirth, women’s paid and unpaid work, and gender.

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Young Queens Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0C5PF4K67 | 2023 | 18 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 532 MB
Author: Leah Redmond Chang
Narrator: Olivia Dowd

Orphaned from infancy, Catherine de’ Medici endured a tumultuous childhood. Married to the French king, she was widowed by forty, only to become the power behind the French throne during a period of intense civil strife. In 1546, Catherine gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth de Valois, who would become Queen of Spain. Two years later, Catherine welcomed to her nursery the beguiling young Mary Queen of Scots, who would later become her daughter-in-law. Together, Catherine, Elisabeth, and Mary lived through the sea changes that transformed sixteenth-century Europe, a time of expanding empires, religious discord, and populist revolt, as concepts of nationhood began to emerge and ideas of sovereignty inched closer to absolutism. They would learn that to rule as a queen was to wage a constant war against the deeply entrenched misogyny of their time. Following the intertwined stories of the three women from girlhood through young adulthood, Leah Redmond Chang’s Young Queens paints a picture of a world in which a woman could wield power at the highest level yet remain at the mercy of the state, her body serving as the currency of empire and dynasty, sacrificed to the will of husband, family, kingdom.

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Valiant Women The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0B8SYVYVS | 2023 | 9 hours and 4 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 259 MB
Author: Lena S. Andrews
Narrator: Courtney Patterson

A groundbreaking new history of the role of American servicewomen in WWII, illuminating their forgotten yet essential contributions to the Allies’ victory. Valiant Women is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. These incredible women served in every service branch, in every combat theater, and in nearly two-thirds of the available military occupations at the time. They were pilots, codebreakers, ordnance experts, gunnery instructors, metalsmiths, chemists, translators, parachute riggers, truck drivers, radarmen, pigeon trainers, and much more. They were directly involved in some of the most important moments of the war, from the D-Day landings to the peace negotiations in Paris.

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The Women of NOW How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BK338T5R | 2023 | 12 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 372 MB
Author: Katherine Turk
Narrator: Kimberly M. Wetherell

The history of NOW-its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission-told through the work of three members. In the summer of 1966, crammed into a DC hotel suite and passing paper cups of liquor, twenty-eight women hatched a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the civil rights movement, had quietly pulled away attendees from the State Womens’ Commissions annual conference. Frustrated with government inertia, they laid out a vision for an organization to unite and advocate for all women. Inspired, challenged, skeptical, they debated the idea late into the night and the next day. By the end of the conference, the National Organization of Women was born.

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