Women's Studies

2018 marks the centenary of the year when (some) women in Britain were allowed to vote for the first time. It is also the year of the `Great Exhibition of the North' when we are reflecting on the North's past successes, drawing on these for future...

Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2022Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021Sport has an extraordinary, unique capacity to challenge and change society - to bring joy and hope; to improve physical and mental...

In the first major update to this classic book in many years, Collins traces the history and contours of Black women's ideas and actions to argue that Black feminist thought is the discourse that fosters Black women's survival, persistence, and success...

With intolerance and inequality increasingly normalised by the day, it's more important than ever to share real experiences and hold the truth to account in the midst of sensationalism and international political turmoil. Nasty Women is a collection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629635682Author Silvia FedericiFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Previously published as 'In the Skin of a Jihadist' Twenty-year-old 'Melodie', a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an ISIS brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has 'fallen in love' with her, calls her every hour, urges her to marry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062515223Author R CarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperSanFranciscoPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 342gDimensions(mm)...

'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 9780451529107Author Carolina Maria de JesusFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 171mm *...

The definitive account of an icon who shaped gender equality for all women. In this comprehensive, revelatory biography - fifteen years of interviews and research in the making - historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that...

Entrepreneurial Selves is an ethnography of neoliberalism. Bridging political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism. Steeped in more than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912408061Author Sohaila AbdulaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781573246286Author Jean Shinoda BolenFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Conari Press,U.S.Publisher Conari Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 1g

'Anyone who can read should read this book' Maya Angelou'Estes points to storytelling, our ancient narratives, as a way for women to reconnect to the Wild Woman all women have within themselves, but have lost' Emma WatsonGo out in the woods, go out. If...

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. ...

Witch' is a powerful word with humble origins. Once used to describe an ancient British tribe known for its unique class of female physicians and priestesses, it grew into something grotesque, diabolical and dangerous. A History of Women in Medicine:...

When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were...

Powerful. Self-assured. Independent. Unattached.Thirty women, from Megan Barton-Hanson and Shaparak Khorsandi to Shon Faye and Stephanie Yeboah write on what single womanhood in the modern age means to them.Have you ever worried about going on holiday...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505110265Author Carrie GressFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 218mm...

An urgent call to reform capitalism so that it stops failing women. Although the #MeToo movement has been hugely important, empowerment of the mind will not achieve full power for women while there remains economic inequality. Leading economist Vicky...

This timely and engaging book argues that technoscientific advances are radically transforming the woman-machine relationship. However, it is feminist politics rather than the technologies themselves that make the difference. TechnoFeminism fuses the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036678Author Stephanie CoontzFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

Black British Feminism: A Reader is a unique collection of classic texts and new black feminist scholarship. Exploring postmodern themes of gendered and racialized exclusion, 'black' identity and social and cultural difference this volume provides an...

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 one hankering for a second volume.' The Sunday Times Francesca...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621643210Author Sue Ellen BrowderFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, ageing in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the 'new', in a ruling orthodoxy daily disparaging all it portrays as the 'old'? Delving into her own life and those of others who...

The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century. Many of the sources come from the period between 1400...

The rise of urbanization and mass communication and the decoupling of sexuality from reproduction and moral regulation have contributed to the late modern expansion of specialized erotic worlds catering to a variety of sexual tastes. Organized by...

There has, in recent years, been an explosion of writing about place, landscape and the natural world. But within this, women's voices have remained in the minority. This anthology gathers the voices of women from the fourteenth to the twenty-first...

One of the most provocative and talked-about books of the year, Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed is the stunning collection exploring one of society's most vexing taboos. One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807001547Author Gail DinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 1978 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 1976.Book InformationISBN 9780679721888Author Maxine Hong KingstonFormat PaperbackPage...

Discover the Womb Rites and initiatory magic of Mary Magdalene, who was revered as a Priestess and human embodiment of the Goddess * Reveals how Mary Magdalene was a sacred priestess of the ancient Womb Mysteries and how she was connected to sacred...

As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman's perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes-identity, money, love, and protest-to explore what makes punk such a...

'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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982191573Author Reshma SaujaniFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Atria/One Signal PublishersPublisher Atria/One Signal PublishersWeight(grams)...

'A rich and intimate examination of female desire, Maxine's book is full of wisdom and insight. I cannot recommend it enough' Julia SamuelAfter thirty years of research, Sigmund Freud still felt the great unanswered question was: 'What does a woman...

Feminist icon Phyllis Chesler's pioneering work, Women and Madness, remains startlingly relevant today, nearly fifty years since its first publication in 1972. With over 2.5 million copies sold, this landmark book is unanimously regarded as the...

From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in...

The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have, for the most part, eluded the historian's pen? The Tudor Housewife aims to answer this question, providing a...