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Unbounded
- Manifesting a Life Without Limits
- By: Maria Thattil
- Narrated by: Maria Thattil
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Revealing ten steps to self-mastery, Unbounded offers a path towards active growth, fearless self-love and liberation....
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Really worthwhile. A "must listen" Audiobook
- By Amazon Customer on 16-03-2023
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Anzac Girls
- The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses
- By: Peter Rees
- Narrated by: Anna McGahan
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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The harrowing, dramatic and profoundly moving story of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War....
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Brilliant.
- By Georgie on 01-07-2016
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The Story of Art Without Men
- By: Katy Hessel
- Narrated by: Katy Hessel
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many artforms often ignored or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it's never been told before....
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Last Woman Hanged
- The Terrible True Story of Louisa Collins
- By: Caroline Overington
- Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a mother of 10 children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands had died suddenly and the Crown, convinced that Louisa poisoned them with arsenic, put her on trial....
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good
- By Cherylee on 24-06-2018
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Anne Boleyn
- 500 Years of Lies
- By: Hayley Nolan
- Narrated by: Hayley Nolan
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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In this electrifying exposé, Hayley Nolan explores for the first time the full, uncensored evidence of Anne Boleyn’s life and relationship with Henry VIII, revealing the shocking suppression of a powerful woman....
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Fantastic, gripping read!
- By Anonymous User on 24-09-2022
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Sisters in Captivity
- Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Courageous Story of Australian Army Nurses in Sumatra, 1942–1945
- By: Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Sisters in Captivity is the incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of hospital ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra....
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Unbounded
- Manifesting a Life Without Limits
- By: Maria Thattil
- Narrated by: Maria Thattil
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Revealing ten steps to self-mastery, Unbounded offers a path towards active growth, fearless self-love and liberation....
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Really worthwhile. A "must listen" Audiobook
- By Amazon Customer on 16-03-2023
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Anzac Girls
- The Extraordinary Story of Our World War I Nurses
- By: Peter Rees
- Narrated by: Anna McGahan
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
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The harrowing, dramatic and profoundly moving story of the Australian and New Zealand nurses who served in the Great War....
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Brilliant.
- By Georgie on 01-07-2016
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The Story of Art Without Men
- By: Katy Hessel
- Narrated by: Katy Hessel
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Have your sense of art history overturned and your eyes opened to many artforms often ignored or dismissed. From the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the history of art as it's never been told before....
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Last Woman Hanged
- The Terrible True Story of Louisa Collins
- By: Caroline Overington
- Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
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In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a mother of 10 children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands had died suddenly and the Crown, convinced that Louisa poisoned them with arsenic, put her on trial....
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good
- By Cherylee on 24-06-2018
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Anne Boleyn
- 500 Years of Lies
- By: Hayley Nolan
- Narrated by: Hayley Nolan
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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In this electrifying exposé, Hayley Nolan explores for the first time the full, uncensored evidence of Anne Boleyn’s life and relationship with Henry VIII, revealing the shocking suppression of a powerful woman....
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Fantastic, gripping read!
- By Anonymous User on 24-09-2022
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Sisters in Captivity
- Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Courageous Story of Australian Army Nurses in Sumatra, 1942–1945
- By: Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Sisters in Captivity is the incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of hospital ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra....
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Toksvig's Almanac 2021
- An Eclectic Meander Through the Historical Year by Sandi Toksvig
- By: Sandi Toksvig
- Narrated by: Sandi Toksvig
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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Let Sandi Toksvig guide you on an eclectic meander through the calendar, illuminating neglected corners of history to tell tales of the fascinating figures you didn't learn about at school....
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An excellent listen.
- By Peter acton on 29-05-2022
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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
- How Women (Also) Built the World
- By: Kate Mosse
- Narrated by: Jade Anouka, Kate Mosse
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard women’s history....
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Women did everything
- By Sal on 24-01-2023
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Nine Parts of Desire
- The Hidden World of Islamic Women
- By: Geraldine Brooks
- Narrated by: Geraldine Brooks
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women is the story of Brooks’ intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils.....
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Outstanding: a must read for all - not only women.
- By Jones on 08-07-2015
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Tell Her Story
- How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
- By: Nijay K. Gupta, Beth Allison Barr - foreword
- Narrated by: Nijay K. Gupta
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in the church. But there is ample evidence right in the New Testament that women were actively involved in ministry, at the frontier of the gospel mission, and as respected leaders....
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The Women of Little Lon
- Sex Workers in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne
- By: Barbara Minchinton
- Narrated by: Fiona Macleod
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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Sex workers in 19th-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brothels were usually managed by women....
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Great book!
- By Anjella on 13-11-2022
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Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen
- By: Rory Muir
- Narrated by: Sarah Coomes
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
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Marriage is at the center of Jane Austen’s novels. But what were love and marriage like in reality? Rory Muir uncovers the excitements and disappointments of courtship and the pains and pleasures of marriage, drawing on fascinating first-hand accounts as well as novels of Regency England....
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Flowers of Fire
- The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide
- By: Hawon Jung
- Narrated by: Kathleen Li
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Author Hawon Jung illuminates the strength and tenacity of trailblazing South Korea women who have taken to the streets, and takes the listener into the trenches of the fight for gender equality....
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Fascinating
- By Anonymous User on 07-10-2023
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Embroidering Her Truth
- Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
- By: Clare Hunter
- Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Catholic symbol of martyrdom....
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incredibly well researched.
- By Shmeccles Shwifty on 05-03-2024
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The Once and Future Sex
- Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
- By: Eleanor Janega
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior....
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I strongly recommend reading this book!
- By Amazon Customer on 16-08-2023
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A Spell in the Wild
- A Year (and Six Centuries) of Magic
- By: Alice Tarbuck
- Narrated by: Alice Tarbuck
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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In A Spell in the Wild, Alice Tarbuck explores what it means to be a witch today. Rooted in the real world, but filled with spells, rituals and recipes, this audiobook is an accessible, seasonal guide to witchcraft in the 21st century....
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Seven Women
- And the Secret of Their Greatness
- By: Eric Metaxas
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 7 hrs
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Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of history's greatest women, all of whom changed the course of history by following God's call upon their lives - as women....
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An excellent account of remarkable women.
- By Scott M on 21-11-2017
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Women in Intelligence
- The Hidden History of Two World Wars
- By: Helen Fry
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 17 hrs and 6 mins
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A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, Women in Intelligence reveals their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century....
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Nancy Wake
- World War Two's Most Rebellious Spy
- By: Russell Braddon
- Narrated by: Nico Evers-Swindell
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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This is the incredible true story of the greatest spy you’ve never heard of - as told to the author by the woman herself. At the outbreak of World War Two, Nancy Wake’s glamorous life in the South of France seemed far removed from the fighting....
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Brilliant book
- By Avid Reader on 21-12-2023
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How to Think Like a Woman
- Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
- By: Regan Penaluna
- Narrated by: Angie Kane
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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In How to Think Like a Woman, Penaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell the stories of four women, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy. This is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally....
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All the Single Ladies
- Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
- By: Rebecca Traister
- Narrated by: Candace Thaxton, Rebecca Traister - introduction
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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All the Single Ladies is a remarkable portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single American woman....
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Deceptive title to a pointless book
- By Sharon on 27-04-2016
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A Brief History of the Female Body
- An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be
- By: Dr. Deena Emera
- Narrated by: Deena Emera
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause—A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the mysteries of the female body through an evolutionary lens....
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Warriors' Wives
- Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience
- By: Emma Bridges
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
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Bridges traces aspects of the lives of warriors' wives—mythical and real, ancient and modern—from the moment of farewell, through periods of separation and reunion, to the often-traumatic aftermath of war, to consider the emotional, psychological, and social impacts of life as a military spouse.
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The Riddles of the Sphinx
- Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle
- By: Anna Shechtman
- Narrated by: Anna Shechtman
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
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The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, spearheaded the The New Yorker’s popular crossword section....
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America's First Female Serial Killer
- Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster
- By: Mary Kay McBrayer
- Narrated by: Mary Kay McBrayer
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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This book is for listeners of true crime podcasts and audiences of both fiction and true-crime nonfiction. It's the true story of first-generation Irish-American nurse Jane Toppan, born as Honora Kelley. Jane Toppan was absolutely a monster, but she did not start out that way....
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Absolutely loved it!
- By Joey on 15-06-2021
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The Queens of Animation
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History
- By: Nathalia Holt
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt Disney Studios have moved and entertained millions. But few fans know that behind these groundbreaking features was an incredibly influential group of women who fought for respect....
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illuminating
- By Amazon Customer on 04-01-2022
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Bunny Mellon
- The Life of an American Style Legend
- By: Meryl Gordon
- Narrated by: Vanessa Cortland
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
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A new biography of Bunny Mellon, the style icon and American aristocrat who designed the White House Rose Garden for her friend JFK and served as a living witness to 20th century American history....
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Wonderful narrator
- By Anonymous User on 15-12-2022
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The Book of Gutsy Women
- By: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton
- Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chelsea Clinton
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them - women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.....
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I greatly enjoy this audible book
- By Kindle Customer on 22-10-2019
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Witches, Sluts, Feminists
- Conjuring the Sex Positive
- By: Kristen J. Sollee
- Narrated by: Kristen J. Sollee
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
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“Like being deemed a witch hundreds of years ago, being presumed a slut today is cause for ostracism, abuse, and death”.... Archetypes of “witch” and “slut” have been used to police female sexuality and punish women; now, feminists are reclaiming them as positive affirmations....
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A History of the World in 21 Women
- By: Jenni Murray
- Narrated by: Jenni Murray
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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Boadicea battled the Romans. Nancy Astor fought in Parliament. Emmeline Pankhurst campaigned for female suffrage. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became a pioneering physician in a man’s profession. Mary Quant revolutionised the fashion industry....
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Enjoyable and enlightening to women's struggles
- By Anonymous User on 22-02-2022
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The Waiting Game
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
- By: Nicola Clark
- Narrated by: Karen Cass, Nicola Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Every queen had ladies-in-waiting. Her confidantes and chaperones, they are the forgotten agents of the Tudor court. Ever present and yet hidden behind the scenes, these women held the secrets and the hearts of some of the Tudor period's most powerful men and women. Experts at survival, negotiating the competing demands of their families and their queen, the ladies-in-waiting of Henry VIII's wives were far more than decorative 'extras': they were serious political players who changed the course of history, and four of them became queen themselves.
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Moederland
- Nine Daughters of South Africa
- By: Cato Pedder
- Narrated by: Micheline Aiton
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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How did South Africa turn out the way it did? In Moederland - 'Motherland', in Afrikaans - Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey across four centuries, tracing the country's turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid (and her family's charged legacy) through the lives of nine very different women.
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The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
- By: Eliza Frances Andrews
- Narrated by: Aundrea Cery
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
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"The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865" is an evocative and historically significant diary penned by Eliza Frances Andrews, which vividly captures the tumult and transformation of the American South during the waning days of the Civil War and the onset of Reconstruction.
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The Cocktail Parlor
- How Women Brought the Cocktail Home
- By: Nicola Nice, Robert Simonson - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Allyson Voller
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Journeying through the decades, this book profiles a diverse array of influential hostesses. With each historic era comes iconic recipes, featuring a total of forty main cocktails and more than 100 variations that listeners can make at home. Whether its happy hour punch a la Martha Washington or a Harlem Renaissance-inspired Green Skirt, listeners will find that many of the ingredients and drinks they're familiar with today wouldn't be here without the hostesses who served them first.
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All the Rage
- Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960
- By: Virginia Nicholson
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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At the heart of this history is the female body. The century-span between the crinoline and the bikini witnessed more mutations in the ideal western woman's body shape than at any other period. In this richly detailed account, Virginia Nicholson takes us to the Frontline of Beauty to reveal the power, the pain and the pleasure involved in adorning the female body. Encompassing two world wars and a revolution in women's rights, All the Rage tells the story of western female beauty from 1860 to 1960.
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The Rise and Fall of Patriarchy: Herstory
- A Historical Novel About Gender Reconciliation (Journey of Lives, Book 1)
- By: Kenneth Edwin Sloan
- Narrated by: Stephanie Barton-Farcas
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The patriarchy has not been with us forever. There is archaeological evidence that until the late neolithic period (around 2500 B.C.E.) human communities were egalitarian or matriarchal. But then a combination of environmental and social forces drove a dramatic change: men became the masters and the lawgivers and repressed any resistance to their dominion at the personal as well as at the religious, social and political levels.
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The Waiting Game
- The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
- By: Nicola Clark
- Narrated by: Karen Cass, Nicola Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Every queen had ladies-in-waiting. Her confidantes and chaperones, they are the forgotten agents of the Tudor court. Ever present and yet hidden behind the scenes, these women held the secrets and the hearts of some of the Tudor period's most powerful men and women. Experts at survival, negotiating the competing demands of their families and their queen, the ladies-in-waiting of Henry VIII's wives were far more than decorative 'extras': they were serious political players who changed the course of history, and four of them became queen themselves.
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Moederland
- Nine Daughters of South Africa
- By: Cato Pedder
- Narrated by: Micheline Aiton
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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How did South Africa turn out the way it did? In Moederland - 'Motherland', in Afrikaans - Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey across four centuries, tracing the country's turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid (and her family's charged legacy) through the lives of nine very different women.
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The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
- By: Eliza Frances Andrews
- Narrated by: Aundrea Cery
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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"The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865" is an evocative and historically significant diary penned by Eliza Frances Andrews, which vividly captures the tumult and transformation of the American South during the waning days of the Civil War and the onset of Reconstruction.
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The Cocktail Parlor
- How Women Brought the Cocktail Home
- By: Nicola Nice, Robert Simonson - Foreword by
- Narrated by: Allyson Voller
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Journeying through the decades, this book profiles a diverse array of influential hostesses. With each historic era comes iconic recipes, featuring a total of forty main cocktails and more than 100 variations that listeners can make at home. Whether its happy hour punch a la Martha Washington or a Harlem Renaissance-inspired Green Skirt, listeners will find that many of the ingredients and drinks they're familiar with today wouldn't be here without the hostesses who served them first.
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All the Rage
- Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960
- By: Virginia Nicholson
- Narrated by: Elaine Claxton
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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At the heart of this history is the female body. The century-span between the crinoline and the bikini witnessed more mutations in the ideal western woman's body shape than at any other period. In this richly detailed account, Virginia Nicholson takes us to the Frontline of Beauty to reveal the power, the pain and the pleasure involved in adorning the female body. Encompassing two world wars and a revolution in women's rights, All the Rage tells the story of western female beauty from 1860 to 1960.
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The Rise and Fall of Patriarchy: Herstory
- A Historical Novel About Gender Reconciliation (Journey of Lives, Book 1)
- By: Kenneth Edwin Sloan
- Narrated by: Stephanie Barton-Farcas
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The patriarchy has not been with us forever. There is archaeological evidence that until the late neolithic period (around 2500 B.C.E.) human communities were egalitarian or matriarchal. But then a combination of environmental and social forces drove a dramatic change: men became the masters and the lawgivers and repressed any resistance to their dominion at the personal as well as at the religious, social and political levels.
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Warriors' Wives
- Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience
- By: Emma Bridges
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Epic poetry and tragic drama provide us with some of the richest ancient Greek depictions of women who are married to soldiers. In tales of the Trojan War, as told by Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, we encounter these mythical warriors' wives: Penelope, isolated but resourceful as she awaits the return of Odysseus after his lengthy absence; the war widow Andromache, enslaved and displaced from her homeland after the fall of Troy; the unfaithful and murderous Clytemnestra; and Tecmessa, a war captive who witnesses her partner's breakdown and suicide in the aftermath of battle.
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Who Is a Worthy Mother?
- An Intimate History of Adoption
- By: Rebecca Wellington
- Narrated by: April Doty
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Nearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, the renewed debate over women's reproductive rights places an even greater emphasis on adoption. Wellington's timely–and deeply researched–account amplifies previously marginalized voices and exposes the social and racial biases embedded in the United States' adoption industry.
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Calling Sergeant Crockford
- By: Ruth D'Alessandro
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
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It's the dawn of the Swinging Sixties. The Cold War is at its height and support for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is building. The Berkshire Constabulary's Detective Gwen Crockford is promoted to Woman Police Sergeant in Newbury – the town at the heart of Britain's atomic weapons program. Gwen's initial reservations that her posting in rural Berkshire will be boring soon prove to be unfounded. A serial sex attacker on the loose, an attempted murder at Greenham Common US Airforce Base, and a charismatic heiress with a family secret keep things interesting for the capable sergeant.
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Shakespeare's Sisters
- Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance
- By: Ramie Targoff
- Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare's England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid-16th century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men: Mary Sidney, accomplished poet and sister of the famous Sir Philip Sidney; Aemilia Lanyer, the first woman in the 17th century to publish a book of original poetry; Elizabeth Cary, who published the first original play by a woman and Anne Clifford, a lifelong diarist.
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The Liverbirds
- Our life in Britain's first female rock 'n' roll band
- By: Mary McGlory, Sylvia Saunders
- Narrated by: Mary McGlory, Sylvia Wiggins
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In the early '60s, four friends from Liverpool formed a band. But this is not the 'fab four' story we know... Mary, Sylvia, Valerie and Pamela - also known as The Liverbirds - were one of the world's first all-female rock'n'roll bands. At an early gig, backstage at the Cavern Club, a young John Lennon told them that 'girls don't play guitars'. But they took that as a challenge. Despite the early scepticism, they won over tough crowds, toured stadiums, recorded two hit albums, and played with the Kinks, Rolling Stones and Chuck Berry - all in the space of just five years.
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Her Neighbor's Wife
- A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
- By: Lauren Jae Gutterman
- Narrated by: Sheree Galpert
- Length: 12 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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In the late 1960s and 1970s, the lesbian feminist movement and the no-fault divorce revolution transformed the lives of wives who desired women. Women could now choose to divorce their husbands in order to lead openly lesbian or bisexual lives; increasingly, however, these women were confronted by hostile state discrimination, typically in legal battles over child custody. Well into the 1980s, many women remained ambivalent about divorce and resistant to labeling themselves as lesbian, therefore complicating a simple interpretation of their lives and relationship choices.
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Bringing Home the White House
- The Hidden History of Women Who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century
- By: Melissa Estes Blair
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In Bringing Home the White House, Melissa Estes Blair introduces us to five fascinating yet unheralded women who were at the heart of campaigns to elect and reelect some of our most beloved presidents. By examining the roles of these political strategists in affecting the outcome of presidential elections, Blair sheds light on their historical importance and the relevance of their individual influence.
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Some Eminent Women of the 19th Century
- By: Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
- Narrated by: Lianne Walker
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Some Eminent Women of Our Times (which has been renamed Some Eminent Women of the 19th century) was written by Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett in 1889. It is available in the public domain and contains short biographies of various women who achieved great things both socially and in the literary field. The women Dame Millicent includes were singled out by her because of their unstinting dedication, selflessness, and in many cases bravery to do what they thought was right.
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A History of Women in 101 Objects
- A Walk Through Female History
- By: Annabelle Hirsch, Eleanor Updegraff - translator
- Narrated by: Gillian Anderson, Katy Hessel, Anita Rani, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A single journey, picked out in 101 objects, through the fascinating, too-often-overlooked, manifold histories of women. Through the variety and nuance in all these objects, Annabelle Hirsch has created a new history – teeming, unexpected, witty and always illuminating.
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Excellent and short thoughtful pieces
- By Fran Paroissien on 23-04-2024
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Women Money Power
- The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality
- By: Josie Cox
- Narrated by: Josie Cox
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In Women Money Power, business journalist Josie Cox tells the story of women’s fight for freedom and economic equality. This is an inspirational account of brave pioneers who took on social mores and the law, including the “Rosies,” who filled industrial jobs and helped win World War II, the heiress whose fortune helped create the birth control pill, the brassy banker who broke into the boys’ club of the New York Stock Exchange, and the namesake of landmark equal-pay legislation who refused to accept discrimination.
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The Riddles of the Sphinx
- Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle
- By: Anna Shechtman
- Narrated by: Anna Shechtman
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The indisputable “queen of crosswords,” Anna Shechtman published her first New York Times puzzle at age nineteen, and later, spearheaded the The New Yorker’s popular crossword section. Working with a medium often criticized as exclusionary, elitist, and out-of-touch, Anna is one of very few women in the field of puzzle making, where she strives to make the everyday diversion more diverse.
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Unruly Figures
- Twenty Tales of Rebels, Rulebreakers, and Revolutionaries You've (Probably) Never Heard Of
- By: Valorie Castellanos Clark
- Narrated by: April Doty
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
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Unruly Figures gives you access to the lives and often—untold stories of twenty of history's most fascinating individuals. Of all the rebels and revolutionaries who have acted around the world, these are often overlooked. Whether they are a bit familiar or entirely new to you, each of these historical figures provides a vivid example of what it means to live life on one's own terms and have a lasting influence on society.