Women's Studies

Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality - in the workplace, on the street, and in the home. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress has stopped -...

This accessible book offers support and advice for women in heterosexual marriages who discover, or are coming to terms with, their lesbianism or bisexuality. It also offers guidance for the single lovers of married women. In sharing the author's...

A History of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts: Brownies, Rainbows and WAGGGS charts the evolution of the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from its early days as a movement started before WW1 right through to the modern day. With real life interviews with Girl...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849351805Author Valerie SolanasFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 89g

In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie...

Written by an award-winning leadership trainer and career coach, Her Allies is a practical toolkit that empowers men to lead through advocacy and champion gender equality. Hira Ali introduces readers to the knowledge, strategies, and confidence needed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Anthology) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781551523972Author Ivan E CoyoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Arsenal Pulp...

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...

This book discusses about Nimo, Maha, Safah, Shatha, Emma, Danielle, Kim, Charlene. In a book that once again blends her distinctive flair for capturing the texture of everyday life with shrewd political insights, Cynthia Enloe looks closely at the lives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578636327Author Cherry GilchristFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1g

The notion of "happily ever after" has been ingrained in many of us since childhood-meet someone, date, have the big white wedding, and enjoy your well-deserved future. But why do we buy into this idea? Is love really all we need? Author Laurie Essig...

Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from--or antidote to--ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval...

'One the foremost writers and participants in the Kurdish women's movement' - Harsha Walia The Kurdish women's movement is at the heart of one of the most exciting revolutionary experiments in the world today: Rojava. Forged over decades of struggle,...

The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it. Jeffreys argues that beauty practices are not related to individual female choice...

Contemporary women writers in these two societies are still writing about similar issues as did earlier generations of women, such as exclusions from discourses of nation, a problematic relationship to place and belonging, relations with indigenous...

A frank, honest, and insightful look into the lives of women over fifty. The Second Half explores, in photographic portraits and interviews, how the second half of life is experienced by women from many different cultures. From a French actress to a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781741177121Author Michelle LawFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Hardie Grant ExplorePublisher Hardie Grant Explore

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802829962Author Dorothy L. SayersFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Why the gender gap persists and how we can close it.For years women have made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States. In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the workforce was the smallest...

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...

Now in its updated second edition, Full Frontal Feminism is a book that continues to embody the forward-looking messages that author Jessica Valenti propagated as founder of the popular website, Feministing.com. Full Frontal Feminism is a smart and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524762353Author Reshma SaujaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Crown CurrencyPublisher Crown CurrencyWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617759222Author Justine BatemanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

This transnational volume examines innovative women artists who were from, or worked in, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sapmi, and Sweden from the emergence of modernism until the feminist movement took shape in the 1960s.The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632863164Author Marjorie J. SpruillFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 482g

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...

"The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran's Paid For fuses the memoirist's lived poignancy with the philosopher's conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incontestable. Impossible to put down. This book provides...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808247Author Jen HewettFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Roost BooksPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Flora Tristan (1803-44) was a leading nineteenth-century French social theorist and author who influenced the likes of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Five years before the publication of The Communist Manifesto, Tristan urged French workers to put aside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595137558Author Sidra StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 142mm * 14mm

Every seven minutes, someone in America commits a rape. And whether that's a football star, beloved celebrity, elected official, member of the clergy, or just an average Joe (or Joanna), there's probably a community eager to make excuses for that person...

Depicted as duplicitous, traitorous, and promiscuous, bisexuality has long been suspected, marginalized, and rejected by both straight and gay communities alike. Bi takes a long overdue, comprehensive look at bisexual politics- from the issues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788891838278Author Lola KramerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint RizzoliPublisher RizzoliWeight(grams) 1344gDimensions(mm) 288mm * 229mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612198347Author Sam George-AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

A White Side of Black Britain explores the racial consciousness of white women who have established families and had children with black men of African Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom. Filling a gap in the sociological literature on racism and...

THE GRIPPING TRUE STORY OF A MURDER WHICH HAUNTED CANADA AND BECAME A RALLYING CRY FOR JUSTICE'If you were hooked on the Serial podcast, then you need to order this now' RedLonglisted for the Crime Writers' Association ALCS Gold Dagger for...

Reissued for the twentieth anniversary of Diana's death, this sensational bestseller is an explosive account of her life, from the man who was by her side throughout its most turbulent period. In 1981 Lady Diana Spencer was seen by many as a...

An award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female. The idea that gender is a performance-a tenet of queer feminist theory since the nineties-has...

In the second book in Osho's Foundation of a New Humanity series, he explores the integral role of women in our society. The realm of spirituality, he poses, has remained male-dominated - not only male-dominated but male-chauvinistic. There were reasons...