In Mere Equals, Lucia McMahon narrates a story about how a generation of young women who enjoyed access to new educational opportunities made sense of their individual and social identities in an American nation marked by stark political inequality between the sexes. McMahon's archival research into the private documents of middling and well-to-do Americans in northern states illuminates educated women's experiences with particular life stages and relationship arcs: friendship, family, courtship, marriage, and motherhood. In their personal and social relationships, educated women attempted to live as the "mere equals" of men. Their often frustrated efforts reveal how early national Americans grappled with the competing issues of women's intellectual equality and sexual difference. In the new nation, a pioneering society, pushing westward and unmooring itself from established institutions, often enlisted women's labor outside the home and in areas that we would deem public. Yet, as a matter of law, women lacked most rights of citizenship and this subordination was authorized by an ideology of sexual difference. What women and men said about education, how they valued it, and how they used it to place themselves and others within social hierarchies is a highly useful way to understand the ongoing negotiation between equality and difference. In public documents, "difference" overwhelmed "equality," because the formal exclusion of women from political activity and from economic parity required justification. McMahon tracks the ways in which this public disparity took hold in private communications. By the 1830s, separate and gendered spheres were firmly in place. This was the social and political heritage with which women's rights activists would contend for the rest of the century.

New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia as two mothers—a housewife and a battle-hardened veteran—fight to protect those they love in The Mere Wife. This modern fantasy tale transports you from the ancient mead halls of the Geats to the picket-fenced, meticulously planned community of American suburbia, known as Herot Hall. In the expert hands of Maria Dahvana Headley, this vibrant retelling underscores the timeless struggle between the protected and the outsiders. Enter the confines of Herot Hall, a gated community sequestered from the wild surroundings by sophisticated security systems. Here, life is a series of cocktail hours and playdates for Willa, the charming wife of Herot's heir, and her son Dylan. Meanwhile, deep in a nearby mountain cave lives Dana, a hardened soldier and mother of Gren, a child of mysterious origin. Their worlds collide in a shocking turn of events when Gren breaks into Herot Hall and escapes with Dylan. A brilliant literary novel that effortlessly melds modern literature with ancient mythology, The Mere Wife is a captivating testament to unintended consequences, the brutality of PTSD, and the enduring power of motherhood.

Written over two decades, these essays describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies. Young combines theoretical description of experience with normative evaluation of the unjust constraints on their freedom & opportunity that continue to burden many women.

From 1865, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led campaigns for equal rights for all but were ultimately defeated by a Congress and reformers intent on applying suffrage established with constitutional amendments and legislation to men only. Ignoring all women, black and white, advocates argued that enfranchising black men would solve race problems, masking the effect on women. This book weaves Anthony's and Stanton's campaigns together with national and congressional events, in the process uncovering relationships among these events and revealing the devastating impact on the women and their campaign for civil rights for all citizens.

VELOCITY GIRL'S THIRD ADVENTURE AND HER FIRST MEETING WITH SMERD An old foe returns in the third novelized adventure of Velocity Girl and Xuan Hu. When Titan sends his minions back to Earth from deep space to collect hidden weapons, the teen speedster and her mentor engage them in combat, only to become separated as Velocity Girl is warped into space along with the villains Null and Voyd, as they flee. While Xuan Hu recovers from his wounds and desperately seeks a way to rescue her, Velocity Girl meets several new friends, including Smerd the p'ckit dragon, a symbiotic being who becomes bonded to her. Events accelerate as Xuan Hu enlists the aid of the mysterious Knightshade to help him locate Velocity Girl. WIll she be able to do her part to fulfill and alien prophecy to save an entire planet of psychic aliens from extinction at the hands of an ancient and powerful demon?

Finally! A book for Christian husbands from a Christian wife! Marriage can be fun, and marriage can be challenging. The biggest obstacle in marriage is a lack of knowledge. The husband can’t understand the wife, and the wife can’t understand the husband, but that’s about to change! From His Wife to Her Husband is a book that teaches Christian husbands how to better understand their wives, and learn how to restructure their marriage the way GOD designed it to be! An absolute must read for all Christian husbands and husband-to-bes! In addition, this book is GREAT for wives and wives-to-be to help them better understand their design, and how to better communicate what they need from their husbands.