Gender, Sexuality and LGBTQIA+

Featuring 25 remarkable and inspiring female friendships throughout history, Bosom Buddies is an illustrated celebration of these empowering relationships. From the formidable Trung Sisters, to friendly rivals Katherine Mansfield and...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025, as chosen by Martin Wolf ' Economica is an epic story . . . an important retelling of global economic history that puts...

In a giddy rush, a young woman and her older lover escape the rising fascism of 1930s Berlin for a summer vacation on the Cote d'Azur. As they drive along...

The defining book on the iconic noughties-era of pop culture in London as told by DJ Jodie Harsh, who saw, did and survived it all. Jodie Harsh arrived in London...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minimal wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Tight and intact. No stickers or labels visible. This authoritative biography chronicles...

Grow your confidence and embrace self-love with this proactive guide to becoming a stronger, more empowered you Low self-confidence affects us all from time to time, but studies have shown...

And I have done more than just simply get bySo much more than escape or surviveThrough the galvanisation of love, time and patienceI'll take hold of my story and thrive.After...

This brilliant, adult nonfiction debut from the acclaimed MG author and poet weaves two wrenching personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-culture The Dead Don't...

When "The Naked Ape" was first published in 1967, it shocked many people and became the subject of heated debate, the main objection being that Desmond Morris had written about...

This book is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ activists, artists, comedians, writers, musicians and pop culture giants who have shaped our worlds, expanded our horizons and radically increased queer visibility. Featuring...

This book is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ activists, artists, comedians, writers, musicians and pop culture giants who have shaped our worlds, expanded our horizons and radically increased queer visibility. Featuring...

'Women's work' has historically been relegated to the domestic - absent from galleries and discussions of 'art'. From cross-stitching and quilts to baskets and decorative ceramics, women have spent centuries...

A self-empowerment gift book for woman of every age, these quotes and slogans are guaranteed to bring out your inner badass. Celebrating female power and potential, the sayings will inspire...

An NPR Best Book of 2017 Celebrate the witchiest women writers with an inventive guidebook that pairs imaginative vignettes with whimsical, folkloric illustrations. Literary Witches reimagines visionary writers as witches:...

Meet 20 beautiful, creative French women who live with passion; work every day; and love to take care ot their homes and families. Visit them in their grand chateaux or...

Have you ever been so overwhelmed by responsibilities or other people's needs that you forgot to make time for yourself They say beauty is only skin-deep, but there is power...

In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel is a fierce, self-possessed child, schooling herself in "chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay" and convinced that she will become a boy at age four. Catholic...

An accessible, inspirational and engaging introductory survey of LGBTIQ+ photography, as told through the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Drawing on one of the oldest and largest...

Judy Chicago is America's most dynamic living artist. Her works comprise a dizzying array of media from performance and installation to the glittering table laid for thirty- nine iconic women...

Julie Powell needs something to break the monotony of her life. So, she invents a deranged assignment: She will take her mother's dog-eared copy of Julia Child's 1961 classic, Mastering...

"[A] remarkable biography....Moorehead deftly wields periods detail...to tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the vicissitudes of politics." -- Vogue From acclaimed biographer...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerA landmark work of Australian literary history and feminist criticism, Exiles at Home chronicles the lives and careers...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: Previous ownerAn indispensable reference work in feminist literary scholarship, The Feminist Companion to Literature in English presents a comprehensive and authoritative guide to...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA candid and revelatory memoir, Christopher and His Kind: 1929–1939 chronicles the decade Christopher Isherwood spent living as a young...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of biographical scholarship, Phyllis Grosskurth's authoritative study chronicles the life of Havelock Ellis,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark work of feminist literary biography, Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages by Phyllis Rose examines the intimate partnerships...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly detailed literary biography, Colette: Free and Fettered chronicles the extraordinary life of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, one of France's most...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly detailed biographical work, Phyllis Grosskurth's study chronicles the life of Havelock Ellis, the pioneering Victorian-era sexologist, essayist, and...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsVictoria Glendinning's authoritative literary biography chronicles the remarkable life of Dame Rebecca West — journalist, novelist, critic, and one of...

Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - faded spine. Binding - tight. Clean text. A landmark work of feminist and pacifist thought,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of social history, The Weaker Vessel chronicles the lives of women in seventeenth-century England with remarkable depth...

Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Pencil annotations throughout. Mylar sleeve.A rigorous work of literary and cultural criticism, Jane Goldman's The Feminist...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly illustrated work of social and domestic history, A Woman's Place: An Illustrated History Of Women At Home From...

This book is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ activists, artists, comedians, writers, musicians and pop culture giants who have shaped our worlds, expanded our horizons and radically increased queer visibility. Featuring...

The first illustrated book to celebrate the remarkable stories and achievements of twenty of the most daring women mountaineers from around the globe. As adventure pursuits like climbing and mountaineering...

"Even if you have never thrilled to the drone of powerful cars jockeying for position on a racetrack," writes London's "Literary Review, ""Miranda Seymour's biography of the daring female driver...

In a work that re-investigates archival materials and deploys an innovative theoretical framework, Jean Mills explores the intellectual and political relationship between Virginia Woolf and the Cambridge classicist Jane Ellen...

The mental labor that keeps families afloat and why women do most of it. Mothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on...

This work covers feminist art history. It tells how the depiction of women in art defined and confined their role in Victorian Britain. It offers an analysis of the regulation...

An accessible, inspirational and engaging introductory survey of LGBTIQ+ photography, as told through the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Drawing on one of the oldest and largest...

An accessible, inspirational and engaging introductory survey of LGBTIQ+ photography, as told through the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Drawing on one of the oldest and largest...

Beautiful, romantic and spirited, Pannonica, known as Nica, named after her father s favorite moth, was born in 1913 to extraordinary, eccentric privilege and a storied history. The Rothschild family...

In Victorian England there was only one fail-safe authority on matters ranging from fashion to puddings to scullery maids: "Beeton's Book of Household Management." In this delightful, superbly researched biography,...

The book titled Homosexuality in History by the author Spencer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Leap by the author Terry Tempest Williams. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Twenty eight women, ranging from Anita Roddick and Prue Leith to less well known names, write their own personal stories which are accompanied by Elizabeth Handy's black and white photographs...

The book titled Damn' Rebel Bitches: Women of the '45 by the author Maggie Craig. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From Martha Gellhorn's critically acclaimed biographer, the first collected letters of this defining figure of the twentieth-century Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines...