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Women's History Audiobooks

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Take women's history for a walk, to the gym, or for a drive: download audiobooks and take women's history with you. These books are about a variety of women's history topics. An update on the books on tape concept, these books can be downloaded to your computer, then played as you work or uploaded to an MP3 player or burned to a CD.

1. America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

by Gail Collins. This overview of women's part in American history is written with the journalist's touch. You'll meet quite a variety of America's women. Unabridged selections: 6 hours, 18 minutes.

2. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation

by Cokie Roberts. Roberts tells a great story -- and here, she tells the stories of women of the founding generation of American history. Some of whose names will be familiar, some will likely be new to the listener. These women's work and sacrifice laid the foundation for the new republic. Abridged; 6 hours and 33 minutes.

3. The Chalice and the Blade

by Riane Eisler. Controversial story of the prehistory of humanity, stressing the time when women and men ruled as partners, before the coming of metallic weapons and widespread warfare along with patriarchal rule.

4. Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought

by Kathleen Krull. One of a series of books about famous lives, told in a gossipy style, this one focuses on twenty women of influence in many different ages of history. Unabridged; 2 Hour and 16 Minutes.

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