Women's Studies

In the majority of mainstream writing and discussions on music, women appear purely in relation to men as muses, groupies or fangirls, with our own experiences, ideas and arguments dismissed or ignored. But this hasn't stopped generations of women from...

An introduction to the study of women in diverse religious cultures While women have made gains in equality over the past two centuries, equality for women in many religious traditions remains contested throughout the world. In the Roman Catholic Church...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353168Author William C. AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

What Not is Rose Macaulay's speculative novel of post-First World War eugenics and newspaper manipulation that anticipated Aldous Huxley's Brave New World by 14 years. Published in 1918, it was hastily withdrawn due to a number of potentially libellous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497486416Author Luise EichenbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767908207Author Julia IndichovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

INSIDE IRAN'S NEW REVOLUTIONI've stopped pulling up my scarf to cover my hair when I pass by the guards. I know that nothing can stop one of them from raising his gun and targeting me. But this is for the greater good.Following the death of Mahsa-Jina...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830845514Author Mary T. LederleitnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476777122Author Shonda RhimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint S&s/ Marysue Rucci BooksPublisher S&s/ Marysue Rucci BooksWeight(grams)...

After the 1993 Oslo Accords, a handful of Palestinians were allowed to return to their hometowns in Israel. Fida Jiryis and her family were among them. This beautifully written memoir tells the story of their journey, which is also the story of...

Winner, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, awarded by the National Communication Association Winner, 2022 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet Researchers Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist...

Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438483641Author Stephanie Y. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Midwest Bookseller's Choice Awards.Book InformationISBN 9781592405329Author Jeffrey ZaslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham...

Psychoanalysis is certainly one of the most contested areas of debate within feminism. This book presents articles on feminine sexuality by Lacan and members of the ecole freudienne, the school of psychoanalysis that Lacan directed in Paris from 1964 to...

What makes art 'feminist art'? Although feminist artists do have a unique aesthetic, there can be no essential feminist aesthetic, argues Kathy Battista in this exciting new art history. Domesticity, the body, its traces and sexuality have become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425243077Author Deborah J. SwissFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 373g

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...

The fascinating memoir of influential French filmmaker Alice Guy Blache, one of the industry's most significant pioneers and a trailblazer for female directors.Alice Guy Blache (1873-1968) is a unique pioneer of the motion picture, being not only a...

The critically acclaimed biography of Shakespeare's most enduring heroine, Rosalind, now in paperback. Into the spotlight steps Rosalind, the actor-manager of As You Like It. She's alive. She's modern. She's also a fiction. Played by a boy actor in...

Finding Your Sexual Voice promotes the genuine understanding of strong female sexuality and empowers women to value desire, pleasure, eroticism, and satisfaction. The book confronts myths and misunderstandings about female sexuality, especially desire,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916182769Author Caroline LisaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint BOLDvoice pressPublisher BOLDvoice press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553379716Author Barbara TedlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

The social sciences are about people and the relationships between individuals and the social and material world we live in. They are about the social structures which shape - and are shaped by - social forces such as ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality...

Where racism and sexism meet-an understanding of anti-Black misogyny When Moya Bailey first coined the term misogynoir, she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756030Author Eve EnslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint VillardPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312263935Author Caroline KettlewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Convinced that the veil is a symbol of unjust male authority over women, in The Veil and the Male Elite , Moroccan feminist Fatima Mernissi aims to investigate the origins of the practice in the first Islamic community.About the AuthorFatema Mernissi...

To this day, women globally are subjected to forms of control over their bodies, and their ability to exercise their reproductive rights in particular is still constrained. Amid a rise of challenges to the advancement of women's rights, including the...

From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that is "rich in reflection on contemporary sanctity" (George Weigel).Mother...

"There is hardly a page in this collection of hard-thought and brilliantly written essays that does not yield some new insight." -Hayden White" . . . de Lauretis's writing is brisk and refreshingly lucid." -International Film GuideA landmark study in...

An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626-1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century. Her memoir documents...

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2016 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015 When Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" first appeared, it immediately...

More than 60 female comics creators share their personal experiences with sexual violence and harassment through new and original comics Inspired by the global #MeToo Movement, Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780945397762Author Lael MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Epicenter Press (WA)Publisher Epicenter Press (WA)Weight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

A groundbreaking new book about the misogynistic nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focusing on the renowned Salpetriere Hospital in Paris. 'Fascinating and beautifully written' Guardian 'Fascinating ... gives us a disturbing insight into...

In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more...

HOW DO YOU DEFINE YOURSELF? IN A VERY REAL SENSE, we define ourselves through our stories. If we can truly understand the stories that made us the women we are, including the motivations behind our actions and thoughts, we can take charge of how our...

John Alexander has provided the first popular biography of one of the most powerful, infamous, and colourful figures in modern history. Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous...