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Australian Women in Papua New Guinea: Colonial Passages 1920-1960

Australian Women in Papua New Guinea: Colonial Passages 1920-1960

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By the time Australia withdrew from Papua New Guinea in 1975, about 10,000 Australian women had lived there at some stage since 1920. Many came with their husbands who were...
Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer: One Woman's Private Diary from

Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer: One Woman's Private Diary from

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A gripping and important memoir by a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin's Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer was originally...
The Fabulous Frances Farquharson: The Colourful Life of an American in

The Fabulous Frances Farquharson: The Colourful Life of an American in

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Born in 1902 in Seattle, Washington, Frances Lovell Oldham left her hometown in her early twenties to pursue a journalism career in Europe. At a time when women rarely found...
Women Jewellery Designers

Women Jewellery Designers

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This sumptuous book showcases the work of women jewellers in the 20th century. Beginning with Arts & Crafts jewellers in Britain, Europe and North America, the author then examines the...
What Happened

What Happened

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A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful...
Ladies' Haircult

Ladies' Haircult

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Women's hairstyles have changed dramatically over the past century. Charting the progression from styles dictated by fashion and tradition towards more unique and individualised looks, this book explores how the...
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

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Created in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency relied on women even as it attempted to channel their talents and keep them down. Women sent cables,...
NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America

NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America

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This wry and highly readable investigation of the role of space travel in popular imagination looks at the way NASA has openly borrowed from the TV show Star Trek to...
Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

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'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling author Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women...
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World

Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World

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"Our women are serving actively in many ways in this war, and they are doing a grand job on both the fighting front and the home front." -- Eleanor Roosevelt,...
Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China

Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China

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In this compelling new study, Louise Edwards explores the lives of some of China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies through history. Focusing on key figures including Hua Mulan,...
Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon

Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon

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This first anthology of women's international thought explores how women transformed the practice of international relations, from the early to middle twentieth century. Revealing a major distortion in current understandings...
Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power, from the bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance

Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power, from the bestselling author of A Woman of No Importance

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An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players, from the bestselling author of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR...
Becoming

Becoming

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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir from the First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the...
Becoming

Becoming

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An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir; 17 million copies sold worldwide Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self,...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

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The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries. 'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of

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A major new biography from the internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, Mao and Empress Dowager Cixi- a gripping story of sisterhood, revolution and betrayal, and three women who helped...
Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence

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'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling authorSince the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades

Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades

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Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian...
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret

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As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and...
Edwardian Ladies' Hat Fashions: Where Did You Get that Hat?

Edwardian Ladies' Hat Fashions: Where Did You Get that Hat?

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Based upon the author's large personal collection of beautiful fashion postcards from Edwardian times, this book takes the reader on a journey through that era covering the hat fashions and...
Some Liked It Hot

Some Liked It Hot

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Women have been involved with jazz since its inception, but all too often their achievements were not as well known as those of their male counterparts. Some Liked It Hot...
In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

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The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold WarJonna Hiestand Mendez began her...
In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

In True Face: A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

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The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold WarJonna Hiestand Mendez began her...
A Circle of Five

A Circle of Five

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On a misty Monday-21st June 1948-the MV Empire Windrush sailed up the Thames and anchored at Tilbury Dock, London. There were a total of 1027 passengers on board with 802...
A Circle of Five

A Circle of Five

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On a misty Monday-21st June 1948-the MV Empire Windrush sailed up the Thames and anchored at Tilbury Dock, London. There were a total of 1027 passengers on board with 802...
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSAt the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened...