By David P Barash, Judith Eve Lipton

So how did ladies get their curves? Why have they got breasts, whereas different mammals in simple terms improve breast tissue whereas lactating, and why do ladies menstruate, while almost no different beings accomplish that? What are the explanations for girl orgasm? Why are human women saved at nighttime approximately their very own time of ovulation and greatest fertility, and why are they the single animals to adventure menopause?

David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, coauthors of acclaimed books on human sexuality and gender, talk about the theories scientists have complex to give an explanation for those evolutionary enigmas (sometimes known as "Just-So tales" by means of their detractors) and current hypotheses in their personal. a few medical theories are in response to valid empirical information, whereas others are natural hypothesis. Barash and Lipton distinguish among what's good and what continues to be doubtful, skillfully incorporating their professional wisdom of biology, psychology, animal habit, anthropology, and human sexuality into their wonderful evaluations. Inviting readers to ascertain the facts and draw their very own conclusions, Barash and Lipton inform an evolutionary suspense tale that captures the thrill and thrill of precise medical detection.

By Dale Evva Gelfand, Gloria Blakely

By Elizabeth Benedict

Ask a girl approximately her hair, and he or she simply may well let you know the tale of her existence. Ask lots of of ladies approximately their hair, and also you might get a heritage of the realm. unbelievable, insightful, often humorous, and regularly forthright, the essays in Me, My Hair, and that i are reflections and revelations approximately each point of women’s lives from family members, race, faith, and motherhood to tradition, healthiness, politics, and sexuality.

They happen in African American kitchens, at Hindu Bengali weddings, and within Hasidic Jewish houses. The dialog is intimate and worldwide right now. Layered into those memories are tributes to impacts all through heritage: Jackie Kennedy, Lena Horne, Farrah Fawcett, the thankful useless, and Botticelli’s Venus.

The lengthy and the fast of it really is that our hair is our glory—and our nemesis, our heritage, our vainness, our pleasure, our mortality. each girl is aware that many stuff in lifestyles topic greater than hair, yet few carry as a lot excitement as a truly nice hairdo.

"A remarkable learn for these folks who obsess approximately our hair. Or those that dwell with these folks who do. a suite that’s, I dare say, a lower above the rest.” —Mary Morris, writer of The Jazz Palace
 

By Wayne Ross

By Catherine Reef

The Brontë sisters are one of the such a lot cherished writers of all time, top identified for his or her vintage nineteenth-century novels Jane Eyre (Charlotte), Wuthering Heights (Emily), and Agnes Grey (Anne). during this occasionally heartbreaking younger grownup biography, Catherine Reef explores the turbulent lives of those literary siblings and the oppressive instances during which they lived. Brontë lovers also will enjoy the insights into their favourite novels, the plethora of poetry, and the exceptional number of greater than sixty black-and-white archival pictures. a robust testimony to the lifetime of the brain. (Endnotes, bibliography, index.)

By Martin Pugh

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The suffragettes outraged Victorian society yet their own lives have been simply as dramatic as their public activities. during this gripping and incisive account of the Pankhursts, Martin Pugh unearths the total tale in the back of this certain kinfolk: Emmeline, the domineering mom; Christabel, the favorite daughter, who turned an Adventist and admirer of Mussolini; Sylvia, the 'scarlet woman'; adn Adela, banished to Australia after a sour rift.

The result's a story that reads like a singular, and a super perception into the heritage of a kin that modified the face of British society for ever.

By Barbara Ulrich

This full of life university of excerpts from German periodicals indicates a tradition at its decadent height ahead of the Nazi suppression. As an homage to the sexually liberated ladies of pre-Nazi Germany, colour and black-and-white full-page pix, images, and ads are featured. additionally incorporated are colour pictorials, erotic cartoons, recommendation for lesbians, aphrodisiac recipes, naughty parlor video games, and horny bedtime tales.

By Heather E. Schwartz

You possibly comprehend Adele because the strong, Grammy Award-winning soul singer of hits like "Rolling within the Deep" and "Set fireplace to the Rain." yet were you aware that she:

• was once nearly expelled from the BRIT university for acting Arts?

• wrote her first unmarried, "Hometown Glory," in exactly ten mins?

• has an adjust ego named Sasha Carter?

Want to grasp extra approximately this proficient singer-songwriter? learn directly to research all approximately Adele's kin, her college days, upward thrust to stardom, musical suggestion, and extra!

By Lisa Tucker McElroy

Mom of 5, grandmother of six, and Speaker of the home! Nancy Pelosi made historical past whilst she grew to become the 1st girl Speaker of the home in January 2007. As moment within the line of succession for the U.S. presidency, should still whatever take place to the president and vice chairman, she has attained the top political place ever held through a girl.

By Liz Sonneborn

Liz Sonneborn profiles 152 American Indian ladies who've had an impression on their society and the area at huge. This quantity offers tales of ladies from a variety of areas of North the United States, in addition to from an enormous array of tribes.