Women's Studies

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!"Secrets of the Sprakkar is a fascinating window into what a more gender-equal world could look like, and why it's worth striving for. Iceland is doing a lot to level the playing field: paid parental leave, affordable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984295197Author Carol MithersFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beast BooksPublisher Beast BooksWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 157mm * 19mm

In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile making...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812970166Author Eve EnslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint VillardPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062114020Author Lisa A PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Through the novels of England's foremost woman writer, we explore the Regency world at the time of the Napoleonic wars, its manners, fashion and style, pastimes and entertainments. Jane Austen - loved now by a huge audience, thanks partly to modern-day...

From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of these extraordinary women whose lives and achievements have too long been hidden. ...

Imagine missing school or work every month because you lacked proper menstrual supplies. How many days per year would you lose in education and wages simply because you got your period? What if no one ever taught you about menstruation, or worse - if...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944503529Author Rebekah MerkleFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Canon PressPublisher Canon PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 15mm

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021 One of The Times 50 Best Sports Books of 2021 Little Wonder tells the epic, and until now largely unchronicled, story of Lottie Dod, the first great heroine in women's sports. Dod was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612196015Author Jessa CrispinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

The allure of the Frenchwoman-sexy, sophisticated, flirtatious, and glamorous-is legendary. More than an eye for fashion or a taste for elegance, the French je ne sais quoi embodies the essential ingredients for looking and feeling beautiful.With wit,...

In this powerful critique, the esteemed historian and philosopher of science Evelyn Fox Keller addresses the nature-nurture debates, including the persistent disputes regarding the roles played by genes and the environment in determining individual...

14 COUNTRIES, 42 WOMEN - FROM PERIODS TO ORGASMS TO FGM. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS OVERSHARING. 'Nimko's book is going to shift the conversation around women's bodies. Our bodies, and everything they do, make us who we are' - Amika George, founder of...

This anthology brings together the key statements from the main debates in feminist film theory in Britain and the United States since 1970. The book maps the impact of major theoretical developments - structuralist and semiotic theory; psychoanalysis;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036616Author Ruth ReichlFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *...

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. Much needed.' FRANK SKINNER'A hilarious, courageous and compelling read that...

This survey of women-led fashion design centered around the twentieth and twenty-first centuries emphasizes the creative agency and artistic legacy of female creators Exploring the enduring impact of fashions created by and for women, this book traces a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645157802Author Christina Von DitfurthFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Christina Von DitfurthPublisher Christina Von DitfurthWeight(grams) 272g

This book is concerned with the notion of the stranger-the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own-as well as the notion of strangeness within the self, a person's deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance and...

Mary Queen of Scots is perhaps the most romantic and tragic figure in British history. Was her tragic life a product of bad luck, bad advice, or ambition? Destined to marry the Dauphin of France and reign as his queen, his early death changed Mary's life...

Poems of loneliness and late nights, liquor and loss.About the AuthorKim Addonizio is the author of Tell Me, a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award for Poetry. She is co-author with Dorianne Laux of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of...

Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn. Now 27, she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Would she and her...

The indomitable Jean Bolen gives meaning and purpose to women's lives through the retelling of important archetypal myths and her bestselling classic Goddesses in Everywoman has been widely read and soundly praised by women everywhere - from fictional...

This richly illustrated books tells the story of the different ways in which women were represented in Italian Renaissance painting. It is clearly arranged into four distinct areas that relate to the function of the art work: marriage furniture,...

Rise celebrates the inspirational stories of 100 remarkable women of colour. From the entrepreneur with a homemade marmalade business who went on to found Women's World Banking, to the educator who built the first university in the world; and from the...

Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. Under pressure to shine - not least from their mothers - the girls became the...

Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. Under pressure to shine - not least from their mothers - the girls became the...

Love and Liberation reads the autobiographical and biographical writings of one of the few Tibetan Buddhist women to record the story of her life. Sera Khandro Kunzang Dekyong Chonyi Wangmo (also called Dewe Dorje, 1892-1940) was extraordinary not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637068Author Silvia FedericiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Millennial Generation vs. All Others"Millennials are killing it. It's time we stopped blaming them, and started thanking them. Caitlin Fisher explains why in this insightful, relatable book." L.S. Quinn, Founder, Reading Room CLE#1 New Release in...

With the Lapps in the High Mountains is an entrancing true account, a classic of travel literature, and a work that deserves wider recognition as an early contribution to ethnographic writing. Published in 1913 and available here in its first English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060929237Author Shinoda Jean BolenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Despite real progress, women remain rare enough in elite positions of power that their presence still evokes a sense of wonder. In Through the Labyrinth, Alice Eagly and Linda Carli examine why women's paths to power remain difficult to traverse. First,...

Who were the women who fought back at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet? Striking Women gives a voice to the women involved as they discuss their lives, their work and their trade unions. Striking Women is centred on two industrial disputes, the famous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250271358Author Skye C ClearyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martin's EssentialsPublisher St. Martin's EssentialsWeight(grams)...

The Sunday Times bestseller From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls, G.I. Brides weaves together the real-life stories of four women who crossed the ocean for love, providing a moving true tale of romance and resilience. The...

Everything can be exhibited: trinkets from the Second French Empire, a collection of photographs, a boudoir from beyond the grave, a heroine famous for her beauty, her extravagance and her pitiful end. Everything can be exposed: a woman for another...

Retracing my mother's footsteps in search of women's freedom 1974. A 22-year-old Jacqui French stands for a photograph in Omaha, Nebraska, thousands of miles from home. Behind a carefree smile lies a...

" . . . methodologically innovative . . . precise and perceptive and conscious . . . " -Text and Performance Quarterly"Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing...