Women's Studies

In Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to "love your body" and "believe in yourself" imply that psychological blocks rather than entrenched social injustices hold women back. Interrogating the...

In ancient Egypt women enjoyed a legal, social and sexual independence unrivalled by their Greek or Roman sisters, or in fact by most women until the late nineteenth century. They could own and trade in property, work outside the home, marry foreigners...

The Rover, or, The Banished Cavaliers is the most popular play by the Restoration playwright (and spy) Aphra Behn, first performed in 1677. Although Behn's work as a spy for Charles II came to a sudden end with a spell in debtor's prison, she was a stout...

This 7-week Bible study from the Gospel Coalition explores the question Who is Jesus? by walking through his 7 "I am" statements in the Gospel of John.About the AuthorCourtney Doctor (MDiv, Covenant Theological Seminary) serves as the director of women's...

'A brave new voice that reaches out to us all' Miranda Doyle, author of A Book of Untruths 28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia amid patriarchal customs reminiscent of The Handmaid's Tale, and her journey to find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807062074Author Carol P. ChristFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 213g

"accessible, if not downright addicting." - Shelf-Awareness The multi-award-winning series, Strangers In Paradise, gets a brand new update in four exciting volumes! Strangers in Paradise is the compelling love story of three unlikely friends who...

'The paciest and most entertaining history book to come my way' Ian McIntyre, The Times'Riveting and beautifully illustrated' The Lady'Engrossing . . . far more than a sartorial survey' The Oldie* * * * * * A vivid history of ordinary women and their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588544Author Dani McClainFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 385gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 144mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Bancroft Prize 1991.Book InformationISBN 9780679733768Author Laurel Thatcher UlrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...

At its core, an economy is about providing goods and services for human well-being. But many economists and critics preach that an economy is something far different: a cold and heartless system that operates outside of human control. In this impassioned...

Feminist political economy is essential to understanding the power relations and hierarchies that shape and sustain contemporary capitalism. Motivated by the rejection of gender-blind approaches in economics feminist political economy provides compelling...

A vivid and compelling memoir recounting the real lives, loves and friendship of 1940s Soho and its working girls.Barbara Tate was 17 when she heard the whispered word that would change her life: Soho. It would take four years for Barbara to escape her...

From the bestselling author of Persepolis comes this humorous and enlightening look at the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane's tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250235169Author Jeffrey RosenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams)...

State responses to feminicide in Latin America, characterised in many cases by indifference and incompetence, have caused global concern. This book provides a new and refreshingly positive story from the region by tracing the transformation of state...

Written by Europe's first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623170516Author Vandana ShivaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Frog LtdPublisher Frog LtdWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 17mm

The study of gender in classical antiquity has undergone rapid and wide-ranging development in the past. The contributors reassess the role of women in diverse contexts and areas, such as archaic and classical Greek literature and cult, Roman imperial...

Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation. For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a "dark...

Charting the stories of Olympic athletes and lesbian memoirists, via Sappho, Lesbian Love Story is a genre-defying respository of sapphic romance like no other.On her quest to discovering lesbian role models overlooked by history, Amelia Possanza...

Winner of the Untapped Award 2018. Fringe First and Total Theatre Award-winning Breach (Tank, The Beanfield) restage the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Based on surviving court transcripts, this...

A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. 'To read Rose is to understand that there is no border between us and the world; it is an invitation to a radical kind of responsibility.'NEW YORK...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061864513Author Ann KirschnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

'A meticulous guide not only to the vagina but to changing perceptions of womanhood' OBSERVER'An empowering and enlightening book' IRISH TIMESThe vagina is the ultimate symbol of female power. Sexual power, creative power and the power to prevent harm...

The stereotypical medieval woman is a pious, helpless creature of little intelligence, and still less drive and ambition. Completely at the mercy of the men in her life, she was married young, had copious offspring and died, often in childbirth, to make...

From militant suffragette at the beginning of the twentieth century to campaigner against colonialism in Africa after the Second World War, Sylvia Pankhurst dedicated her life to fighting oppression and injustice. In this vivid biography Katherine...

Every one of us will need care at some point in life: social care, healthcare, childcare, eldercare. In the shadow of COVID-19, care has become the most urgent topic of our times. But our care systems are in crisis. Concern for the most vulnerable has...

This book starts from the position that gender injustice is the greatest human rights abuse on the planet. It blights First and developing worlds; rich and poor women. Gender injustice impacts health, wealth, education, representation, opportunity and...

Edith Stein's Life in a Jewish Family, 1891-1916 is a treasure trove for the study of Stein's youth and early adulthood, her approach to writing autobiographically, and her intricate relationship with historical influences of her time and place. Through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399534973Author Kate HardingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 191mm *...

This book considers how a phenomenon as complex as coercive control can be criminalised. The recognition and ensuing criminalisation of coercive control in the UK and Ireland has been the focus of considerable international attention. It has generated...

This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty years of conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and...

"[Women in the Civil Rights Movement] helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles, and places them in front, behind, and in the middle of the Southern movement that re-made America. . . . It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953052001Author Kimberly D RussawFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Wesley's Foundery BooksPublisher Wesley's Foundery BooksWeight(grams)...

In a time when the ordination of women is an ongoing and passionate debate, the study of women's ministry in the early church is a timely and significant one. There is much evidence from documents, doctrine, and artifacts that supports the acceptance of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679771265Author Angela Y. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420g

'Honor' is used as a justification for violence perpetrated against women and girls considered to have violated social taboos related to sexual behavior. Several 'honor'-based murders of Kurdish women, such as Fadime Sahindal, Banaz Mahmod and Du'a...

Journalist Rebecca Traister's New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is "a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can...

*A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*'Raw, tender and urgent' Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater'Irreducible. Once read, it will never be forgotten' Helen Mort, author of Division StreetThis is the story of an abortion. The days and hours before the...