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Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred by M. Jacqui Alexander
RRP: $48.01$41.27M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact... -
The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-century Venice by Margaret F. Rosenthal 9780226728124
RRP: $42.88$41.75The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the "cortigiana onesta" - the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered... -
South Asian Women in the Diaspora by Parvati Raghuram 9781859736029
RRP: $61.73$54.36South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful... -
Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing, and Self-Trust by Chloe Dulce Louvouezo
RRP: $37.74$25.70Foreword by Elaine WelterothIn this stunningly illustrated essay collection inspired by the popular podcast Life, I Swear, prominent Black women reflect on self-love and healing, sharing stories of the trials and tribulations they've faced and what has... -
We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives by Manon Garcia 9780691223209
RRP: $32.57$25.37A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers-especially Simone de Beauvoir-to reveal the complexities of women's reality and lived experienceWhat role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one... -
The Great Miss Lydia Becker: Suffragist, Scientist and Trailblazer by Williams, Joanna M 9781399014809
RRP: $42.88$30.22Fifty years before women were enfranchised, a legal loophole allowed a thousand women to vote in the general election of 1868/. This surprising event occurred due to the feisty and single-minded dedication of Lydia Becker, the acknowledged, though... -
Women and the Vote: A World History by Jad Adams 9780198706854
RRP: $32.57$24.03Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, and it was a sign of backwardness not to have done so. This is the story of how this momentous change... -
Daughters, Wives and Widows after the Black Deat - Women in Sussex, 1350-1535 by Mavis E. Mate
RRP: $128.65$123.38Did the expanding economic life of England after the Black Death improve the lot of women, as is commonly thought? This study argues not. It has long been thought that the post Black Death period offered unparallelled opportunities for women. However,... -
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich
RRP: $27.43$18.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078004Author Barbara EhrenreichFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)... -
The Battered Woman by Lenore E Walker 9780060907426
RRP: $24.01$20.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060907426Author Lenore E WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Rickie Solinger 9780199811410
$19.57Reproductive politics is a term coined by feminists in the 1970s to describe contemporary, Roe v. Wade-era power struggles over contraception and abortion, adoption and surrogacy, and other satellite issues. Forty years later, questions of reproductive... -
Dancing Girls of Lahore by Louise Brown 9780060740436
RRP: $23.93$21.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060740436Author Louise T. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance by Jayne Ann Krentz
RRP: $37.72$32.23In Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women, Jayne Ann Krentz and the contributors to this volume-all best-selling romance writers-explode myths and biases that haunt both the writers and readers of romances. In this seamless, ultimately fascinating, and... -
Promiscuities: An Opinionated History of Female Desire by Naomi Wolf
RRP: $22.28$15.59By following a group of four contemporary girls - including her younger self - as they come of age in the seventies, Wolf shows how our culture tries to shape and confine women's desire. Embarking on a voyage of discovery, she illustrates how flawed and... -
I Am An Emotional Creature by Eve Ensler 9780812970166
$5.49 - $12.30Apologies 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 -
Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles by Özge Yaka 9780520393615
RRP: $42.88$32.90Fighting for the River portrays women's intimate, embodied relationships with river waters and explores how those relationships embolden local communities' resistance to private run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plants in Turkey. Building on extensive... -
Illuminating Women in the Medieval World by Christine Sciacca
$38.23When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female labourers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In reality, however, medieval conceptions of womanhood... -
My Song is My Own: 100 Women's Songs by Kathy Henderson 9780861040322
RRP: $46.30$30.17A collection of powerful, evocative and hilarious songs collected in the 1970s, My Song is My Own takes the reader on a musical journey of courtship, desire and sex, marriage, motherhood,childhood and work from the last five centuries. With full sheet... -
Making Up the Difference: Women, Beauty, and Direct Selling in Ecuador by Erynn Masi de Casanova
RRP: $37.72$32.23Globalization and economic restructuring have decimated formal jobs in developing countries, pushing many women into informal employment such as direct selling of cosmetics, perfume, and other personal care products as a way to "make up the difference"... -
Why She Buys by Bridget Brennan
RRP: $30.02$20.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307450395Author Bridget BrennanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa J. Fuentes
RRP: $44.58$37.81In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only... -
Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation by Renate Klein 9781925581034
RRP: $22.21$14.00Surrogacy is heavily promoted by the stagnating IVF industry which seeks new markets for women over 40, and gay men who believe they have a 'right' to their own children and 'family foundation'. Pro-surrogacy groups in rich countries such as Australia... -
The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home by Arlie Russell Hochschild
RRP: $32.59$20.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120339Author Arlie HochschildFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
Literary Witches by Taisia Kitaiskaia
RRP: $22.28$21.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580056731Author Taisia KitaiskaiaFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing Group -
Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory by Deborah Paredez 9780822345022
RRP: $41.15$35.01An outpouring of memorial tributes and public expressions of grief followed the death of the Tejana recording artist Selena Quintanilla Perez in 1995. The Latina superstar was remembered and mourned in documentaries, magazines, websites, monuments,... -
Lean in: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg 9780385349949
RRP: $48.03$27.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385349949Author Sheryl SandbergFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 243mm... -
Life and Death: Unapologetic Writings on the Continuing War Against Women by Andrea Dworkin 9780743236263
$25.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743236263Author Andrea DworkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Women's American Football: Breaking Barriers On and Off the Gridiron by Russ Crawford 9781496233332
RRP: $51.44$37.91Tackle football has been primarily viewed as a male sport, but at a time when men's participation rates are decreasing, an increasing number of women are entering the gridiron-and they have a long history of doing so. Women's American Football is a... -
Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History by Briar Levit
RRP: $34.29$23.35The lives and work of diverse unsung heroes of design gathered in smart new book. Familiar histories of graphic design have placed women in the margins, their work unworthy of discussion and preservation. The good news is that with a little digging, we... -
The Muslim Family and the Woman’s Position: Women’s Emancipation during the Prophet’s Lifetime by Abd al-Halim Abu Shuqqah 9781847742056
RRP: $13.71$9.43The Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) established complete equality between men and women, with both having their respective special functions. This volume draws on the features of the Muslim Woman pertaining to marriage in accordance to the Qur'an and Sunnah... -
Rad Girls Can: Stories of Bold, Brave, and Brilliant Young Women by Kate Schatz
RRP: $24.00$17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399581106Author Kate SchatzFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press -
Lost Goddesses Of Early Greece by Charlene Spretnak 9780807013434
RRP: $42.88$28.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013434Author Charlene SpretnakFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 184gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 147mm *... -
Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic by Serene J. Khader 9780190664206
RRP: $57.45$45.11Decolonizing Universalism argues that feminism can respect cultural and religious differences and acknowledge the legacy of imperialism without surrendering its core ethical commitments. Transcending relativism/ universalism debates that reduce feminism... -
Radicals and Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern by Lottie Whalen 9781789147865
RRP: $34.31$24.51This is the story of a group of women whose experiments in art and life set the tone for the rise of New York as the twentieth century's capital of modern culture. Across the 1910s and '20s, through provocative creative acts, shocking fashion, political... -
Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2 by Jennifer Jordan 9780060587161
RRP: $15.42$10.33Here is narrative nonfiction at its most gripping. Journalist Jennifer Jordan chronicled the individual stories of the five courageous women who have climbed K2, the most fearsome mountain in the world. Climbers call K2 "The Savage Mountain." It is not... -
Hela by Mari Izzard
RRP: $18.85$18.49"Do's dim hawl 'da ti adael, Do's dim hawl 'da ti anghofio pwy wyt ti" "You don't get to leave, You don't get to forget who you really are" Erin, a young mother, has lost her son - but no one will listen. Driven and desperate, she must find him... -
Strange and Difficult Times: Notes on a Global Pandemic by Nanjala Nyabola
RRP: $25.71$22.86A devastating critique of global inequities and prejudices exposed by Covid-19, and a vivid first-hand account of Africa's pandemic. In this new collection, Nanjala Nyabola takes stock of a world in crisis. Her incisive yet moving prose unpacks the... -
100 Voices: Female writers share their stories of achievement by Miranda Roszkowski
RRP: $18.85$12.45'Remarkably brought together, heartwarming and uplifting . . . showing that despite differences in age and background, geography and lifestyle, there is so much that binds up, so much we share' Kit de Waal'A stimulating collection of women's voices to... -
Recipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England by Elaine Leong
RRP: $48.03$46.98Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts and practitioners, and a wide array of printed materials. Recipes were tested, assessed, and modified by... -
Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust by Sonja M. Hedgepeth
RRP: $65.18$62.93Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women's experiences of rape and other forms of sexual violence during the Holocaust. The book goes beyond previous studies,...