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12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and
How is AI changing the way we live and love? This is the hugely entertaining, eye-opening new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author. 'Joins the dots in a neglected...
Moral Voices, Moral Selves: Carol Gilligan and Feminist Moral Theory
This book is an original discussion of key problems in moral theory. The author argues that the work of recent feminist theorists in this area, particularly that of Carol Gilligan,...
Rethinking Feminist Ethics: Care, Trust and Empathy
The question of whether there can be a distinctively female ethics is one of the debates in gender studies, philosophy and psychology today. This text examines these debates and seeks...
Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression
Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression is a penetrating and comprehensive study of the development of feminism over the last thirty years. The first part of this major new textbook...
Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism
'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard 'A call for cool heads at a time of...
Kalki
Investigative journalist and aviatrix Teddy, who narrates Gore Vidal's metaphysical thriller, has moulded herself on flying ace Amelia Earhart. Although she's aware that's a bit anachronistic, it qualifies her to...
Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives
... rich and thought-provoking... That kind of collaborative writing is feminist scholarship at its best, and exhaustingly difficult." -The Women's Review of Books A substantial contribution to women's studies and...
The Sexual Imagination: From Acker to Zola - A Feminist Companion
This book on the sexual imagination includes work by writers such as Martin Amis, Angela Carter, Norman Mailer and Jeanette Winterson on topics which range from AIDS, cross dressing and...
Loose Women, Lecherous Men: A Feminist Philosophy of Sex
Linda LeMoncheck introduces a new way of thinking and talking about women's sexual pleasures, preferences, and desires. Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, she discusses methods for mediating the...
A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophy of Female Affection
Janice Raymond offers a vision of female friendship that is as exhilarating as it is controversial. In this feminist classic, she explores the many manifestations of friendship between women, including...
Women's Circus
Have you ever wanted to join the circus? Wondered what goes on behind the scenes? What trapeze artists think about as they swing through the air? How fit you have...
Princess Sultana's Circle
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With Princess Sultana's Circle, the extraordinary story of Princess Sultana continues. The forced marriage of Sultana's niece to a cruel and depraved older man, and Sultana's discovery of the harem...
The Feminist Critique of Language: A Reader
Feminism has placed language firmlu on the political agenda. A 'feminist critiqwue of language' now undeniably exists: its influence on public, and especially academinc discourse has grown to the point...
Sex, Power and Justice
This book should meet the demands of students and teachers seeking historical material to broaden legal education, and be an aid to all those interested in the law in Australian...
Pants Wear Skirts: The Erfurt Women Artist's Group 1984-1994
Founded in 1984 by women around Gabriele Stoetzer, the Erfurt Women Artists' Group pursued a radically creative lifestyle to counter the rigid structures of everyday life in the GDR, over...
Modern Girl
In the early 1960s, Betty Friedan made a plea for women to grow up, to become - in her terms - fully developed persons. In doing so she placed the...
Vindication: A Life Of Mary Wollstonecraft
In this stunning new biography of the eighteenth-century writer Mary Wollstonecraft, Lyndall Gordon explores the life of a woman often criticised by biographers, historians and feminists alike. Gordon challenges such...
The Natural Way of Things 10th Anniversary Edition: From the Booker
Winner, 2016 Stella Prize Co-winner, 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award Winner, Fiction Book of the Year, 2016 Indie Awards Winner, 2016 Indie Book of the Year Award Shortlisted, 2016 Miles...
The Panic Years: dates, doubts and the mother of all decisions
A compassionate, funny and beautifully written exploration of contemporary womanhood - the book may have 'panic' in the title, but Nell's words calmed and soothed me deeply.' - Daisy Buchanan...
A Room of One's Own
A reissue of the successful PMC edition of Woolf's landmark feminist polemic A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the...
The Awakening
Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series 'The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander...
Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend
A joyful, rule-breaking experiment in biography, which celebrates 'country life' as a state of mind 1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion and...
The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud approach to teaching women and girls to harness their power through what she calls...
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
At once a heart-wrenching personal narrative and a unique historical document, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt is the ultimate example of the personal as political. Eleanor Roosevelt stands as one...
Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates
When Alisse Portnoy recovered petitions from the early 1830s that nearly 1,500 women sent to the U.S. Congress to protest the forced removal of Native Americans in the South, she...
Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel
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#1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD * Meet Elizabeth Zott: "a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention" ( The Washington Post )...
More Than a Woman: The instant Sunday Times number one bestseller
The follow-up to the international bestseller and multi-award-winning How To Be a Woman, with Caitlin exploring the lives of older women in her inimitable style. THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE...
Disobedient: The gripping feminist retelling of a seventeenth century
A young woman is put on trial. She has accused her painting teacher of the darkest betrayal - he accuses her of being a immoral liar. What really happened? Rome...
My Brilliant Career
The beloved Australian classic, published in a stunning Penguin Clothbound Classics edition for the first time Miles Franklin's debut novel follows the vivacious and rebellious sixteen-year-old Sybylla Melvyn - closely...
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
'Fiercely argued and timely' (New Yorker), this is a must-read for the #MeToo era from a rising star philosopher Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is...
Bad Men: The serial killer you've been waiting for, a BBC Radio 2 Book
'Fans of How To Kill Your Family will love Saffy, the serial-killing heroine of Bad Men' - RED MAGAZINE ' Silence of the Lambs meets Sex and the City '...
True Story: this genre-defying novel marks the arrival of a powerful
Inventive, electrifying and daring, True Story is a novel like nothing you've ever read before. After a college party, two boys drive a girl home: drunk and passed out in...
Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back
Feminists have long challenged the ways in which men tend to sexualize women. But pioneering activist, biologist, and trans woman Julia Serano argues that sexualization is a far more pervasive...
Desert Flower
"Waris's story is one of remarkable courage. From the deserts of Somalia to the world of high fashion, she battles against oppression and emerges a real champion. She is the...
English People: Experience of Teaching and Learning English in British
"English People" is a portrait of the subject "English" as it is experienced by teachers and students in British higher education. The author has interviewed staff and students in the...
All In: The Autobiography of Billie Jean King
An intimate self-portrait encompassing the life, times, and career of one of the most transformative individuals -- let alone athletes -- of recent times. An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of...
The Hop: A Novel
"A fresh ode to sisterhood and sexual agency that crackles with verve and wit. I couldn't put it down."-Gabriela Garcia, author of the New York Times bestseller and Good Morning...
Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
Sara is a comedian who has talked and joked about female sexuality, psychology and the media's portrayal of women on stage and screen. While researching her most recent live show,...
That Dangerous and Persuasive Woman: Vida Goldstein
The first biography of Vida Goldstein, one of the Australian heroes of first-wave feminism. This is the first biography of Vida Goldstein, one of Australia's remarkable women and one of...
She Must Be Mad
'Brave and beautiful.' Stylist Magazine 'Social media's answer to Carol Ann Duffy' Sunday Times STYLE 'Divine.' Cecelia Ahern She Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love,...
Fight Like a Girl: 50 Feminists Who Changed the World
Feminism is a hot topic. The battle for gender equality is being fought by everybody from politicians to indie social media campaigners, celebrities to school girls. But how did we...
A Woman's Work
One woman's inspiring story of a life in politics and the women's movement. Why does the political representation of women matter? And which hurdles - personal, political and societal -...
Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women
Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...
All Women Want: An intimate look inside women's love lives and
The truth about why straight women aren't satisfied in the bedroom - and what to do about it Pleasure should be a simple thing, but straight women are at the...