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In the Streets of Tehran: Woman. Life. Freedom.
INSIDE IRAN'S NEW REVOLUTIONI've stopped pulling up my scarf to cover my hair when I pass by the guards. I knowthat nothing can stop one of them from raising his...
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture - 'An
Lesbians are a people without a home. Perhaps that's why the ones we make for ourselves are so important.A highly readable cultural history of queer women's lives in the second...
Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace
From the powerhouse author of? The Memo, the essential self-help book for women of color to heal and thrive in the workplace In workplaces nationwide, women of color need frank...
People Who Lunch: On Work, Leisure, and Loose Living
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A riveting investigation of the utopian experiments attempting to resist the unrelenting demands of late-stage capitalism-only to end up living comfortably alongside itWhat do post-work politics, the cult of crypto,...
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture - 'An
Lesbians are a people without a home. Perhaps that's why the ones we make for ourselves are so important.A highly readable cultural history of queer women's lives in the second...
Ride-Or-Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women
Cultural criticism and pop culture history intertwine in this important book, which dissects how hip hop has sidelined Black women's identity and emotional well-being.A "ride-or-die chick" is a woman who...
A Circle of Five
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
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...
All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline [...]
'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' SARAH DITUM, SUNDAY...
All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960
'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a place of dreams, doubts, self-harm and hopes' SARAH DITUM, SUNDAY...
Witches
A bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of Latin American writers.'You can't really know another woman until you know yourself.'Weaving together...
Sex Bomb: a 'hilarious, raw and poignant' memoir
For fans of Everything I Know About Love, Wrong Knickers and The Right Sort of Girl this is the incredibly honest and brilliantly raunchy memoir you don't want to miss.'Honest....
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]
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...
Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the [...]
For fans of The Queen's Gambit, this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling the world to compete in a male-dominated sport with the most famous...
Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music
The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man's world. 'Lucid, engaging and exuberant... [Sounds and Sweet Airs] is terrifically enjoyable and accessible, and leaves...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
She Captains: Heroines and Hellions of the Sea
Author: Joan Druett
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 304
Tells the stories of women sea captains, pirates, and ship owners from the sixth century B.C. to the nineteenth century.
Watching Women & Girls
'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 with brevity, depth...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
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Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
Extraordinary Wing Women: True Stories of Life-Altering, World-Changing Sisterhood
A beautifully illustrated gift book celebrating the beauty, power, and joy of female friendship. Wingman: a pilot who flies behind and outside the leader of a flying formation.While researching her...
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of...
Poor Women in Rich Countries: The Feminization of Poverty Over the Life Course
The first book to study women's poverty over the life course, this wide-ranging collection focuses on the economic condition of single mothers and single elderly women--while also considering partnered women...
The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes by Christine de Pizan: Volume 457
Christine de Pizan attracted an international audience of admirers her during her lifetime, including many readers in England. The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes (1521) is the earliest English...
Gender, Power, and Talent: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China
During the Tang dynasty (618-907), changes in political policies, the religious landscape, and gender relations opened the possibility for Daoist women to play an unprecedented role in religious and public...
Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell
Time Must-Read Books of 2024Independent Best Non-Fiction Books 2024Mojo Books of the Year 2024"A vibrant, multifaceted portrait of a music enigma" Guardian"A powerful portrait" Irish Independent"Displays a bracing rigour and...
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
A Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year"Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable."-Sadie Stein, The New York Times"A tour de force. . . . The stories are...
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
A Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year"Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable."-Sadie Stein, The New York Times"A tour de force. . . . The stories are...
What It Takes: My Playbook on Life and Leadership
Winning strategies of one of football's most successful coaches As FIFA's most decorated female football manager and a former player, Sarina Wiegman has led both the Netherlands and England women's...
Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-Class Dress and Rural Life
Author: Rachel WorthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2018In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of York)Format: Hardback, 147mm x 225mm, 680g, 420 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1992This is an innovative...
Women and War in Antiquity
Author: Jacqueline Fabre-SerrisFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 612g, 360 pagesPublished: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States, 2016The martial virtues-courage, loyalty, cunning, and strength-were central to male identity in the ancient...
Strong Like a Woman: 100 Game-changing Female Athletes
Author: Laken LitmanFormat: Hardback, 203mm x 254mm, 256 pagesPublished: Universe Publishing, United States, 2022Marking the 50th anniversary of Title IX, this is an inspiring celebration of 100 women who are...
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich (Y)Format: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 235g, 288 pagesPublished: Granta Books, United Kingdom, 2003Barbara Ehrenreich's bestselling Nickel and Dimed exposed the impossibility of living on the minimum wage...
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
Author: Cody KeenanFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 265g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"At a time when the meaning of America is up...
Women of Myth: From Deer Woman and Mami Wata to Amaterasu and Athena, Your Guide to the Amazing and Diverse Women from World Mythology
Author: Jenny Williamson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Uncover the fascinating and complex women from mythology and folklore with this collection of stories profiling powerful goddesses, mighty queens, and...
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
Author: Rachel Devlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education The struggle...
A Woman's Place: 50 Women Who Made History in the Kitchen
Author: Deepi Ahluwalia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 For centuries, professional cooking was a job exclusively for men. As a result, most histories of food and cooking, even today,...
Mum Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood
Author: Minna Dubin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Mothers aren't supposed to be angry. Still, Minna Dubin was an angry mum: exhausted by the gruelling, thankless work of full-time...
Sex Bomb: a 'hilarious, raw and poignant' memoir
Author: Sadia Azmat Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 For fans of Everything I Know About Love, Wrong Knickers and The Right Sort of Girl this is the incredibly honest...
Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow
Author: Charles Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next...
Women & Power: A Manifesto
Author: Professor Mary Beard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda...
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
Author: Hugh Ryan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing...
I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records
Author: Audrey Golden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades
Author: Caitlin Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been...
I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records
Author: Audrey Golden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Factory Records has become the stuff of legend. The histories of the label have been told from many perspectives, from visual...
Women Without Kids
Author: Ruby WarringtonFormat: Hardback, 144mm x 218mm, 340g, 240 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2023What is "woman" if not "mother"?Anything she wants to be.Foregoing motherhood has traditionally marked a...
Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace
Author: Minda Harts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From the powerhouse author of? The Memo, the essential self-help book for women of color to heal and thrive in the...
Death in Ten Minutes: The forgotten life of radical suffragette Kitty Marion
Author: Fern Riddell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Fierce, fresh and feminist, Fern Riddell tells the story of Suffragette Kitty Marion in a way that fizzes and shocks. Exciting,...