women authors

Throughout history, women have made countless contributions to all forms of art. This informative volume introduces readers to female musicians, writers, painters, and performers from many different countries and cultures. With the help of beautiful illustrations and engaging text, the stories of these women are delivered with fascinating detail. Detailed biographies of artists, such as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, will captivate readers and perhaps inspire them to become involved in art in their own ways.

"A book about the most influential female writers in history"--Provided by publisher.

A collection of essays in which Kate Zambreno draws on research and personal experience to examine the influence of women, such as Vivienne Eliot, Jane Bowles, and Jean Rhys, on famous male authors and the treatment of female authors during the twentieth century, who she believes were exiled and silenced for going against theories of what literature should be.

"Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men her world fractures even more. Casey's fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink"--OCLC.

The author shares her childhood living in Los Angeles during the Vietnam War, including her way of finding solace in her education.

"In this memoir . . . author, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit relates how she found her voice as a writer and as a feminist during the 1980s in San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. Then in her early twenties, Solnit tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city, which became her great teacher; of the small apartment she found, which became a home in which to metamorphosize; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. Solnit explores the way some men attempted to erase her, to shut her up, keep her out and challenge her credibility, as well as contemplating other kinds of nonexistence of groups for gender, ethnicity, and orientation . . ."--Provided by publisher.

The author's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.

Traces the life of author Louisa May Alcott, discussing the influences and circumstances of her life, parents, friends, and sisters that led to the writing of her masterpiece "Little Women." Includes illustrations.

"Like many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob's half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she's gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality, and, of course, love"--Amazon.com.

"A middle-grade biography about literary icon Louisa May Alcott"--Provided by publisher.