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Shortlisted for Lesbian Memoir/Biography Lammy Award Rendered in bronze, covered in white lacquer, two women sit together on a park bench in Greenwich Village. One of the women touches the...

Volume Nine in Methuen's highly successful series of anthologies provides a stunning selection of plays chosen by theatre director Annie Castledine. In addition to 'these fine new translations by Tinch...

Lyrical, immersive non-fiction chronicling the stories of nine Muslim women on the margins of modern India, from anthropologist and ethnographer Dr Lexi Stadlen Revelatory, lyrical and immersive, this is an...

Women are usually more in touch with their emotions than men and more readily seek help from professional sources when they encounter stress. The response they meet from doctors and...

I hope with the women who break their silence and contribute to this survey some very much needed changes will take place. God knows we need them.This book is the...

Arguably the most influential of all women throughout history, Mary, the Virgin Mother is also, paradoxically, the least known. In this unprecedented brilliantly wrought biography, Mary comes believably to life....

The definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat From Boudicca's rebellion to the war in Ukraine, battlefields have always contained...

In an affirming and healing manner, therapist Sue Patton Thoele identifies the fears that keep women emotionally dependent, helps the reader change self-defeating beliefs and patterns of behavior, and teaches...

Sarah Waters meets The Girls in this haunting, wickedly perceptive debut set in an all-girl school and seeking to answer the timeless question- Who has authority over a woman's body?...

Ever since Freud first unveiled his theories of female psychology arguments have raged - from his contemporaries' denial of "infantile sexuality" to the feminist attacks of today. This reader contains...

Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer's, a butcher...

This introductory women's studies text synthesizes ideas from a variety of disciplines to explore the simultaneously political, social, and personal topic of how patriarchal society has imposed an inferior identity...

Five women - all HIV-positive - tell their diverse stories with honesty and determination. These powerful narratives reveal how each woman approached her predicament and the inner qualities she drew...

" A Girl's Guide to Personal Hygiene is everything I never knew I wanted: a disgusting, hilarious, and honest book that pays tribute to the female body and all of...

Rivtow was just a three-boat log-towing operation when Lucille Johnstone came aboard as an unskilled girl Friday in the late 1940s. By the 1980s, Rivtow had taken over its biggest...

As seen in the HBO docuseries THE VOW: A jaw-dropping insider look into the world of the so-called "Hollywood Sex Cult" NXIVM chronicling the rise of enigmatic cult leader, Keith...

Acting the Right Part is a cultural history of huaju (modern Chinese drama) from 1966 to 1996. Xiaomei Chen situates her study both in the context of Chinese literary and...

Descendants of indentured labourers brought from India to the Caribbean between 1845 and 1917 comprise more than forty percent of Trinidad's population today. While many Indo-Trinidadians identify themselves as Indian,...

In 1957, a children's book called The Lonely Doll was published. With its pink-and-white-checked cover and photographs featuring a wide-eyed doll, it captured the imaginations of young girls and made...

A stunning and revelatory oral history of Queen Elizabeth II and her reign. There seems an unquenchable fascination with the British royal family on both sides of the Atlantic, borne...

Millions of women learned to sew while watching the inimitable Nancy Zieman on public television's, Sewing with Nancy. Many of them have Googled phrases like "stroke Nancy Zieman" in an...

Concentrating on carefully chosen selections from ten writers, Mary Helen Washington explores the work, the realities, and the hopes of black women writers between 1860 and 1960. Featuring works by...

The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth uses the personal to explore the 'birth myth', the culture and practices of pregnancy and childbirth, with ferocity and passion. Every year, millions...

A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in...

Based on new, original research and interviews with pioneering women including Baroness Hale, Mary Beard and Bernadine Evaristo, this is a fresh feminist take on how to address and counteract...

'This book is a miraculous event.' - Elizabeth Gilbert, from the foreword A transformative path for women to reclaim their power in a world all too eager to strip it...

Grit & Grace is a collection of quotes, thoughts, and advice from female pioneers to inspire young girls and women who want to lead. With powerful words from powerful female...

This book features a number of autobiographical accounts as to how various persons have come to change their minds about women in leadership. Well-known Evangelical leaders-individuals and couples, males and...

From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era's most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing...

In 1974, a twenty-year-old Christie Brinkley was “discovered” outside a Paris phone booth, which set off a meteoric modeling career that would land her on the covers of hundreds of...

'A moving collection' GRAZIA 'Danielle is a sharp new talent.' SIRIN KALE 'Vibrant, intense and darkly comic' ABIGAIL BERGSTROM 'Danielle Pender explores that impact on women's exterior and interior lives...

Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her...

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls is a manifesto and call to arms for people of all sizes and ages. With her trademark wit, veteran blogger and advocate Jes...

Margaret Mulvihill has written a biography of Charlotte Despard (1844-1939), the woman who, with Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs Fawcett, was one of the three widow-leaders of the Votes for Women...

A "smart, juicy, deeply reported" (Katie Couric) biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time-Barbara Walters-a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules...

This inspiring and fascinating book is the first truly comprehensive study of women's letters ever published. Organised by subject matter, and covering a wide range of topics from politics, work...

America's sweetheart, impassioned lifelong animal welfare advocate, and New York Times bestselling author Betty White shares intimate, funny, and enlightening stories about her very best friends in the world... All...

"In this hilarious, uplifting memoir, Wolfe describes her intense bond with Harlow...as she grapples with the chaos of her 20s, marriage, and eventually new motherhood."- Washington Post "An engaging debut...

In the tenth century, Japan stood physically and culturally isolated from the rest of the world. Sei Shonagon a young courtesan of the Heian period kept a diary, which provides...

"Winning, cheeky, and illuminating....What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke's intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise." - The...