Women

Madam Millie contains sordid details and frank language that will make many readers blush. It is unvarnished language, as recorded directly from Millie by Max Evans over a period of almost twenty years. It presents a complete picture of the business of prostitution as it was practiced in the west from the late 1920s to the mid 1970s, told by the most successful madam in the business.

A touching and funny coming-of-age novel set in 1969 with a background of family and the Vietnam war.

The seventeen essays reprinted in this anthology address the ways in which western women have experienced the twentieth century.

These poems treat the condition of Jewish women in the Bible as a prelude to the trials, misfortunes, and victories of the twentieth century.

These plays document the incursion of the white world of power and authority into poor, racially mixed communities.

Penelope, a girl in Depression-era rural Iowa, is witness to the personal and political dramas of her family and neighbors during hard times.

Poems of modern day survival, set in Los Angeles.

Documents and discusses the major contributions to this country's social and political mosaic for over 150 years by women leaders, organizers, and activists from diverse Hispanic backgrounds.

Boyer lets these Mexican people speak for themselves about how they got into trouble with the Inquisition.

A bilingual anthology of writings by both secular and religious women writers from colonial Latin America through the 19th century.