Books written by female authors (3279)
1981.
GermanyDescription:
Gwyneth Shepherd's sophisticated, beautiful cousin Charlotte has been prepared her entire life for traveling through time. But unexpectedly, it is Gwyneth who in the middle of class takes a sudden spin to a different era! Gwyneth must now unearth the mystery of why her mother would lie about her birth date to ward off suspicion about her ability, brush up on her history, and work with Gideon--the time traveler from a similarly gifted family that passes the gene through its male line, and whose presence becomes, in time, less insufferable and more essential. Together, Gwyneth and Gideon journey... continue
1982.
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Classic modern American novel orig. pub. 1973. Celebrates lesbian sexuality.
1983.
French Guiana1984.
Run Towards the Danger : Confrontations with a Body of Memory by Sarah Polley EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven’t told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to carry. In this extraordinary book, Sarah Polley explores what it is to live in one’s body, in a constant state of becoming, learning, and changing. Each of these six essays captures a piece of Polley’s life as she remembers it, while at the same time exami... continue
1985.
Runaway by Alice Munro EN
Country: North America / Canada
Canada
Description:
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes these stories more powerful and compelling than anything she has written before. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009.
1986.
S. : A Novel about the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulić EN
CroatiaDescription:
Through a series of flashbacks, a Bosnian woman called S. recalls repeated rapes by Serbian soldiers in the "women's room" of a prison camp in Bosnia and the subsequent birth of a child who is unwanted, "one without a country, a name, a father, or a language."--Jacket.
1987.
Sab by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda EN
Country: North America / 
Cuba
Cuba
Description:
This tale of a slave's unrequited love for the woman who owns him is set in nineteenth-century colonial Cuba and was the only feminist-abolitionist novel published during the century in Spain or its colonies. This unique text raises important issues concerning power, race, gender and class in colonial societies, colonial and post-colonial subjectivity and identities, feminist appropriations of the abolitionist agenda, human rights discourse, and literary and philosophical issues associated with enlightenment thought. This new annotated critical edition is the first to provide the original Span... continue
1988.
Sabriya : Damascus Bitter Sweet by Ulfat Idilbi EN
SyriaDescription:
Sabriya portrays life in Damascus in the 1920's. Central to the story is Sabriya's journey to self-knowledge, intertwined with the rise and eclipse of national and feminist awareness during her painful life. The national revolt is crushed by superior foreign power and Sabriya's personal emancipation is stifled by the traditional values of a patriarchal society. Written from the point of view of a young girl passionately committed to the nationalist cause but unable, because of her sex, to take an active part, it seethes with the frustrated energy of the reluctant bystander and vividly expresse... continue
1989.
Saddlebag : A Fable for Doubters and Seekers by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani EN
IranDescription:
A beautifully told, transcendent tale of truth, salvation, and the power of desire.
1990.
Sado by Mikaela Nyman EN
VanuatuDescription:
Sado n. shadow 2. reflection 3. humiliation, dishonour ¿A New Bislama Dictionary Friday 13 March, 2015: Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Pam makes landfall with devastating consequences. Vanuatu is bruised but not broken. Reeling from the loss of livelihood and struggling to meet basic human needs, people start to reassemble their lives. Cathryn is an NGO worker from New Zealand who has a ruined home, a teenage son and a Ni-Vanuatu boyfriend she hasn¿t heard from since the phone lines went dead. Faia is a community organiser, a radio journalist and a survivor who fights for women to be heard. Toget... continue