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South Asian Women in the Diaspora Nirmal Puwar 9781859736029
RRP: €42.83€37.71South 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... -
£pread: The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution by Rachel Aimee
RRP: €21.41€19.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558618725Author Rachel AimeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City... -
Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45 by Maggie Craig 9781910948293
RRP: €13.08€10.15'A racily written, well-researched and heart-warming account' Scots MagazineToo many historians have ignored the role of women in the '45. This book aims to redress the balance. Damn' Rebel Bitches takes a totally fresh approach to the history of the... -
Globalization and Inequalities: Complexity and Contested Modernities by Sylvia Walby 9780803985186
RRP: €65.45€57.63How has globalization changed social inequality? Why do Americans die younger than Europeans, despite larger incomes? Is there an alternative to neoliberalism? Who are the champions of social democracy? Why are some countries more violent than others? In... -
Daughters, Wives and Widows after the Black Deat - Women in Sussex, 1350-1535 by Mavis E. Mate
RRP: €95.20€91.17Did 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,... -
The Women'S Suffrage Movement: *New Feminist Perspectives* by Maroula Joannou 9780719080456
RRP: €23.79€20.96Available in paperback for the first time, this important collection of essays illustrates the complexity, richness and diversity of the suffrage movement.Combining historical reappraisal with lively accounts of the culture of the women's suffrage... -
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women Barbara Ehrenreich 9781400078004
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies 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 Women's Khutbah Book: Contemporary Sermons on Spirituality and Justice from around the World by Sa'diyya Shaikh
RRP: €29.75€28.49A first-ever collection of contemporary Muslim women's khutbahs (sermons) drawing on their social, religious, and spiritual experiences and framed by original reflections on an emerging Muslim feminist ethics Within the Muslim world, there is a dynamic... -
Britannia's Daughters: Women of the British Empire by Joanna Trollope 9781845950187
RRP: €15.46€10.82In Britannia's Daughters, bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining the British Empire. She draws on a vast range of sources, including diaries and letters home. She provides a panoramic picture of... -
Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Rickie Solinger 9780199811410
RRP: €13.08€9.78Reproductive 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... -
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology by Roger Lonsdale 9780192827753
RRP: €22.60€16.20Who were the women poets of the eighteenth century? More than a hundred are represented in this anthology, yet only few have hitherto featured in conventional surveys and anthologies of eighteenth-century verse. Unlike the women who wrote fiction, the... -
How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job by Sally Helgesen 9780316440127
RRP: €34.51€24.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316440127Author Sally: Goldsmith, Marshall HelgesenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company -
Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance by Meredith K. Ray 9780367533991
RRP: €23.79€21.05Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance takes readers on a journey through early modern Italy that places women at the heart of the artistic and cultural developments of this transformative era. Highlighted here are figures like Caterina... -
Spinning and Weaving: Radical Feminism for the 21st Century by Elizabeth Miller 9780997146745
RRP: €30.94€22.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997146745Author Elizabeth MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 710Imprint Tidal Time Publishing, LLCPublisher Tidal Time Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 152g -
Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM by Waris Dirie
RRP: €14.27€9.52Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the world's attention with the publication of her autobiography, Desert Flower. The book was subsequently made into a film and little Safa Nour, from one of... -
Illuminating Women in the Medieval World by Christine Sciacca
RRP: €26.17€22.55When 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... -
Why We Lost the Sex Wars: Sexual Freedom in the #metoo Era by Lorna N Bracewell
RRP: €23.79€20.87Reexamining feminist sexual politics since the 1970s-the rivalries and the remarkable alliances Since the historic #MeToo movement materialized in 2017, innumerable survivors of sexual assault and misconduct have broken their silence and called out their... -
Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles by Özge Yaka 9780520393615
RRP: €29.75€23.31Fighting 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... -
On My Own: The Art of Being a Woman Alone by Florence Falk 9781400098118
RRP: €22.61€15.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Books for a Better Life (Motivational) 2007.Book InformationISBN 9781400098118Author Florence FalkFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House... -
We Are Not Born Submissive: How Patriarchy Shapes Women's Lives by Manon Garcia 9780691223209
RRP: €22.60€17.99A 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... -
Feminine Ingenuity by Anne Louise MacDonald 9780345383143
RRP: €23.49€17.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345383143Author Anne Louise MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 529Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 609g -
Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front 1939-45 by Raynes Minns 9781844088737
€18.17'Women of Britain, your country needs you!'Bombers and Mash tells the story of the Second World War on the domestic front. It takes us from the kitchen to the nursery showing how women managed without almost everything from potato peelers, cosmetics and... -
Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation Klein Renate Klein 9781925581034
RRP: €15.41€9.71Surrogacy 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 Iris Trilogy: Memoirs of Iris Murdoch by John Bayley
RRP: €35.70€23.66Dame Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) was one of the greatest British novelists and philosophers of the twentieth century. She read philosophy at Oxford where she met and later married John Bayley, a literary critic and fellow novelist. So began a forty-year,... -
Telling Memories Among Southern Women: Domestic Workers and Their Employers in the Segregated South by Susan Tucker 9780807127995
RRP: €21.36€16.33In Telling Memories Among Southern Women, Susan Tucker presents a revealing collection of oral-history narratives that explore the complex, sometimes enigmatic bond between black female domestic workers and their white employers from the turn of the... -
The Kurdish Women's Movement: History, Theory, Practice by Dilar Dirik
RRP: €22.60€15.17'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,... -
Literary Witches by Taisia Kitaiskaia
RRP: €15.46€14.65Apologies 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 -
War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa by Joshua S. Goldstein 9780521001809
RRP: €36.88€30.82Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war. Yet contentious debates, and the scattering of scholarship across academic disciplines, have obscured understanding of how gender affects war and vice versa. In this authoritative and lively review of... -
Fay Taylour, 'The World's Wonder Girl': A Life at Speed by Stephen M Cullen 9781399099387
RRP: €29.75€20.97Fay Taylour (1904-1983) remains the most successful female motorsports champion. She defeated the foremost male motorcycle speedway stars of the 1920s and 1930s. A household name in Britain and her native Ireland, she won further fame on the track in... -
Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers by Jane Robinson
RRP: €23.79€16.99Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical... -
End of Equality Beatrix Campbell 9780857421135
RRP: €8.33€7.45Among 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 -... -
The Great Miss Lydia Becker: Suffragist, Scientist and Trailblazer by Williams, Joanna M 9781399014809
RRP: €29.75€20.97Fifty 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... -
You Are Free: Be Who You Already Are by Rebekah Lyons 9780310349570
RRP: €16.65€13.03Have you bought the lie? Many of us do. We measure our worth by what others think of us. We compare and strive, existing mostly for the approval of others. Pressure rises, anxiety creeps in and we hustle to keep up.Jesus whispers, I gave my life to set... -
When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies: Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession by Jane R. Hirschmann 9780449910580
RRP: €23.80€15.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449910580Author Jane R. HirschmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 351gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Ada Lovelace: The World's First Computer Programmer by Beverley Adams
RRP: €23.80€17.01The name Ada Lovelace perhaps is not a name that you would automatically link to computer science but she was in fact the first person to create a computer algorithm. Working with the renowned scientist Charles Babbage, Lovelace translated a set of notes... -
Why She Buys by Bridget Brennan
RRP: €20.83€14.09Apologies 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... -
Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic by Serene J. Khader 9780190664206
RRP: €42.83€31.30Decolonizing 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... -
Sisterhood Of The Squared Circle by Pat Laprade
RRP: €21.41€15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770413078Author Pat LapradeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada -
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives by Sandra Harding
RRP: €30.93€26.76Sandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we know.Following a... -
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
RRP: €33.32€20.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735225299Author Sonia PurnellFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 31mm