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Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait
By Barbara Jordan. 1979
Autobiographical account of the former Congresswoman's childhood in Houston, her education, and her political struggles. Jordan credits her maternal grandfather…
for her firm backbone; her mother, a church orator, for a speechmaking tradition; and the rest of her family for personal strengths. Some strong languageStop the world ... our gerbils are loose!
By Ann Toland Serb. 1979
Two outspoken mothers take an amusing look at family life, child raising, and general coping. They reveal the joys and…
traumas of two husbands, thirteen children, countless pets, and a hamperful of household anticsOur bodies, ourselves: a book by and for women
By Boston Women's Health Book Collective. 1976
Second edition of the 1971 publication (RD 6735) has been expanded to include the responses of readers. Some chapters have…
been rewritten and additional material on rape, sexuality, parenthood, and menopause incorporated. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sexThe Latin Americans: their love-hate relationship with the United States
By Carlos Rangel Guevara. 1977
These were the Sioux
By Mari Sandoz. 1961
Miss Marks and Miss Woolley
By Anna Mary Wells. 1978
Portrait of a lifelong loving relationship between two prominent and independent women that began in the late 1890s at Wellesley…
College. Miss Woolley, a professor of Biblical history, became President of Mt. Holyoke College and Miss Marks, her student, became an author and English professor thereThe culture of narcissism: American life in an age of diminishing expectations
By Christopher Lasch. 1979
Exploration of a way of life that the author believes is destructive. Lasch believes that the pursuit of happiness and…
the preoccupation with self is leading to a dead end. He cites aspects of narcissism in public attitudes, disregard of conventions, erosion of intellectual standards, and ideologies of public commentatorsWomen of crisis: lives of struggle and hope (Radcliffe biography series)
By Robert Coles. 1978
Focuses on five working-class women, their individual situations, and some beliefs they share together. Includes an unmarried black migrant worker…
who manages a gas station; a small-town Eskimo woman from Alaska, a free spirit who marries; a supermarket checker; a Chicano hotel maid; and a maid in a Cambridge, Massachusetts, household who appears to be more observant than her liberated employerGiovanni's room: a novel
By James Baldwin. 1976
Homosexuality and the physical aspects of male love are explored in a Paris setting where the narrator, a young American,…
is involved both with a woman and man, and is eventually compelled to make a choiceLeakey's luck: the life of Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, 1903-1972
By Sonia Mary Cole. 1975
A veteran in the field of special education takes a close look at why society fears disabled people. She also…
offers realistic hope to parents of disabled children and to disabled adults about education for the disabled, access, medicine and technology, and the portrayal of disabled people in the mediaSelf-portrait of a family
By Jessie Shirley Bernard. 1978
A widowed sociologist-author examines her life as a professional woman and her relationship to her three growing children. Her extensive…
traveling as a lecturer gave rise to a correspondence which linked the family together. Expressions of advice, love, and affection offer a unique perspectiveHeiress: the rich life of Marjorie Merriweather Post
By William Wright. 1978
Portrait of cereal tycoon C. W. Post's only child reveals the way she handled her wealth until death at the…
age of eighty-six. Examines her enormous estates, art treasures, accomplishments, and marriagesCertain people: America's black elite
By Stephen Birmingham. 1977
Priceless gifts: how to give the best to those you love
By Daniel A Sugarman. 1978
Aimed as a challenge to what Dr. Sugarman calls the New Narcissism in which " plain, old-fashioned selfishness is too…
frequently being called self-actualization." He pleads instead for a lifestyle of sharing and declares that psychological gifts satisfy the recipient and generate rewards for the giverDie, nigger, die!
By Jamil Al-Amin. 1969
A former chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee describes his childhood in Louisiana and his role as a black…
militant. He criticizes white society and middle-class blacks, and explains the Black Revolutionary Movement. Strong language and violenceWarning to the West
By Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn. 1976
Insights from the blind: comparative studies of blind and sighted infants
By Selma H Fraiberg. 1977
Professor Fraiberg and her associates have found that blind children, while they develop slowly in some communication skills, compensate in…
ways unusual to sighted persons. There are many findings and conclusions of interest to the blind individual and those working with blind peopleBeyond the male myth: what women want to know about men's sexuality : a nationwide survey
By Anthony Pietropinto. 1977