Women's Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714534053Author Penelope ShuttleFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers LtdWeight(grams)...

This book is an invaluable key to self-understanding. Using examples from her own life and the lives of her clients, as well as from dreams, fairy tales, myths, films, and literature, Linda Schierse Leonard, a Jungian analyst, exposes the wound of the...

A 'retired career anorexic' examines herself and her, and our, culture in a masterpiece of confessional literature. At the age of four Marya Hornbacher looked in a mirror and decided she was fat. At nine, she was bulimic. At twelve, she was...

An illustrated compendium of kickass women in sport, from around the world and throughout history, including legends like Billie Jean King and modern-day superstars like Simone Biles and Dina Asher-Smith. The perfect book to inspire any sports fan. Meet...

In this anthology of fables, each tells the story of a woman facing the threat of violence who, through bravery, intellect, and the use of a bit of magic, is able to overcome circumstances and take control of her own destiny.About the AuthorAn...

Featured in Stylist's 'Can't Miss' Books of 2023 Sometimes I think that carrying - other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday - is the main thing that women do. In Marina Benjamin's new set of...

In Field Stories, William H. Leggett and Ida Fadzillah Leggett have pulled together a collection of ethnographic research and classroom experiences from around the world. Drawing on moments both unfamiliar and all too familiar to those accustomed to...

Acclaimed as a foundational study of rodeo women, Cowgirls of the Rodeosurveys the early rodeo cowgirls' achievements as professional athletes. Mary Lou LeCompte follows the story through the near-demise of women's rodeo events during World War II and...

As a collective, the lives of the Princesses of York span across seven decades and the rule of five different Kings. The daughters of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, they were born into an England that had been ruled over by the great Plantagenet...

In 1135, Stephen of Blois usurped the throne, stealing it from his cousin Empress Matilda and sparking a nineteen-year civil war that would become known as the Anarchy, one of the bloodiest periods in English history. On the one side is Empress...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089712Author Jane DuffusFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent BooksWeight(grams) 750gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 30mm

Philip Astley first pegged out his circular 'ride' on the banks of the Thames in 1768 and so laid down the foundations of the modern circus. Performing feats of trick riding with his wife Patty Jones, little did he realise that before long women would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156961585Author Merlin StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 340g

In 1941 as the Nazi hordes swept eastward into the Soviet Union, the desperate call went out for women to join the Russian air force. Women responded and flew incessant bombing runs; the Germans, who came to dread them, called them 'night witches'.About...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060751029Author Tatum O'NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Introduction to Data Science: Data Analysis and Prediction Algorithms with R introduces concepts and skills that can help you tackle real-world data analysis challenges. It covers concepts from probability, statistical inference, linear regression, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576876138Author Margot MifflinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 688g

Rooted in feminist political thought, She City illuminates how gender shapes our urban spaces and city design. Through three sections: 'Resisting Sexist Cities', 'Designing Feminist Cities', and 'Prioritizing Safer Cities', Kalms examines barriers to...

'Part autobiography, part heartfelt plea to change the way we look at gender, Girls will be Girls is an excellent primer on feminist theory. Every teenage girl should be given a copy' HOT PRESSBeing a woman is, largely, about performance - how we dress...

Autobiography of the famous flyer which describes her own ambitions to become a pilot and offers advice to others.ReviewsMiss Earhart knows a great deal about aviation, especially as arts and business and her pages are full of experiences, the...

Do You Know...where the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from why "mama" is a word understood in nearly all languageshow the custom of kissing beganwhether there really was a female popewhy Cinderella's glass slipper was so important to the Prince The...

'Fascinating . . . the most incredible argument for why a female model of leadership might actually be the more powerful and sustainable one' Scarlett Curtis'A bold, rigorous and lyrical work which feels both timely and essential' Musa Okwonga, author of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558616066Author Marilyn FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 325Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115656Author Ruth FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm *...

How can women create a meaningful and joyous life for themselves? Is it enough to be equal with men? In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Drucilla Cornell argues that women should transcend the quest for equality and focus on what she shows is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942185888Author Helen FrankenthalerFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Radius BooksPublisher Radius Books

MARIE CLAIRE BEST BOOKS OF 2023'Funny, clever and unexpectedly profound - I couldn't put it down' Helena Attlee'It is remarkable how much information she can convey about Kitty's life . . . solely using wall labels' IndependentPrized, collected,...

Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. ...

An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis. Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls...

Why do so many women feel that men don't tell them anything, but just lecture and criticise? Why do so many men feel that women nag them and never get to the point? In this pioneering book Deborah Tannen shows us how women and men talk in different ways,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570623134Author Marion WoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788878341609Author Norma LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Shang Shung PublicationsPublisher Shang Shung PublicationsWeight(grams)...

This is the little book that started a revolution, making women's voices heard, in their own right and with their own integrity, for virtually the first time in social scientific theorizing about women. Its impact was immediate and continues to this day,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593447574Author Lilly DancygerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Collecting a handful of self-published shorts along with a mix of serialized stories and essays, panpanya's English-language debut mixes art styles and narratives from a range of genres. If you are ever fortunate enough to see a crab strolling through...

'Visceral, raw and tender, this candid and timely memoir is, at heart, a love-letter to the profound and redemptive power of literature' Annabel Abbs'Among the very finest and most intelligent memoirs ever written' Clancy Martin'An immensely talented...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553446791Author Rachel SwabyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher...

A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World WarUsing diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research, this book looks at life-expectancy, sex, marriage and childbirth, and work inside and outside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629631103Author Alexis Pauline GumbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 314g

To what extent do women accept, adjust and challenge the intersecting and shifting relations of cultural, political and religious discourses that organize their (sexual) lives?Seeking to expand the focus on changing gender roles and construction of...