Women's Studies

Motherhood In and After Prison describes the devastating impact of sending mothers to prison, including on the women, their children, wider family and place in society. Using the same lens as for her acclaimed Mothering Justice (Waterside Press, 2015)...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458302Author Cherryl WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 309Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524857561Author Florence GivenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Andrews McMeel PublishingPublisher Andrews McMeel PublishingWeight(grams)...

From Title IX cases on campus, to #metoo and #timesup, rape is a definitive issue at the heart of feminism, and lately, it's barely out of the news. Cultural critic Mithu Sanyal is picking up where Susan Brownmiller left off in her influential 1975 book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816548538Author Julia S. Jordan-ZacheryFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona...

This is a charming book, describing, in the words of Chris Wright, 'one of the greatest partnerships in church history.' It is a story which John Stott himself hoped would one day be told. It is widely agreed that Stott could not have been half so...

Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by...

When the movie business adopted some of the ways of other big industries in 1920s America, women--who had been essential to the industry's early development--were systematically squeezed out of key behind-the-camera roles. Yet, as female producers and...

Shortlisted for the British Army Book of the Year 2021. 'A long overdue assertion on the role of women on the battlefield. This book is going straight on my daughter's bookshelf.' Dan Snow, historian, TV presenter and broadcaster 'Sisters in Arms...

New York Times Bestseller "Sharp and prescient...The appeal of Valenti's memoir lies in her ability to trace objectification through her own life, and to trace what was for a long time her own obliviousness to it...Sex Object is an antidote to the fun...

The cultural imagery of women is deeply ingrained in our consciousness. So deply, in fact, that feminists see this as a fundamental threat to female autonomy because it enshrines procreative heterosexuality as well as the relations of domination and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615932573Author Helen JaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Best Book of 2017, Chicago Public Library 2017 (United States). Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards Finalist, LGBTQ Nonfiction 2018 (United States) and...

What does it mean for the Sun to call Shami Chakrabarti 'the most dangerous woman in Britain' or the Daily Mail to label Nicola Sturgeon 'the most dangerous wee woman in the world'? What, really, does it mean to be a dangerous woman? This powerful...

A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Winner of the Rubery Book Award 2020 (Non Fiction) Edith Nesbit is considered the inventor of the children's adventure story and her brilliant children's books influenced bestselling authors including C.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590035320Author Victoria MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Red WheelPublisher Red WheelWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 174mm * 126mm * 22mm

During the past forty years, South Asia has been the location and the focus of dynamic, important feminist scholarship and activism. In this collection of essays, prominent feminist scholars and activists build on that work to confront pressing new...

For 170 years, Harriet Taylor Mill has been presented as a footnote in John Stuart Mill's life. This volume gives her a separate voice. Readers may assess for themselves the importance and influence of her ideas on "women's" issues such as marriage and...

Why Women Mean Business showed you why business needs to change. Now Avivah Wittenberg-Cox's new book shows you how to achieve a healthy and profitable balance. We know that business needs more women. Gender balance has been proven time and time again...

History is rife with tales of fighting women. More often than not, these stories prove more legend than history. Dating back to the Amazons of ancient Asia Minor, myths of fierce, autonomous women of martial excellence abound. And yet, the only...

One of NPR's Best Books of 2017 The first in-depth social investigation into the development and rising popularity of Botox The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery estimates there are about two-and-a-half million Botox procedures...

In 1990, the groundbreaking television series Twin Peaks, co-created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, opened with a murder mystery when a beautiful homecoming queen, wrapped in plastic, washed up on a cold and rocky beach. Laura Palmer's character began as...

Empowering Stories of Strong Women"These soaring stories will inspire you to live your dreams!" -Becca Anderson, author of The Book of Awesome WomenFinalist Pacific Book Awards 2018Dorothy Parker observed, "It's a man's world;" the lady entrepreneurs and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503390362Author Dekeshia S HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Anthology) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781558618183Author Tristan TaorminoFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Feminist Press at The...

Looking deeply into biblical stories of female friendships in order to extract greater truths, this compelling work explores the sacred dimension of friendship through the lenses of faith, tradition, and scripture, revealing the often overlooked voices...

The most comprehensive study Bible ever prepared for women and by women, the CSB Study Bible for Women invites you to explore the riches of God's Word. Follow God's grand story across the Bible, guided by threads of specialized study that explain...

In "Nightwork", Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or...

The women of the Third Reich were a vital part in a complex and vilified system. What was their role within its administration, the concentration camps, and the Luftwaffe and militia units and how did it evolve in the way it did? We hear from women who...

This book brings together two vitally important strands of 20th-century thinking to establish a set of simple and elegant principles for planning, project design and evaluation. It explains the backgrounds of cultural ecofeminism and critical systems...

Luce Irigaray is a practising psychoanalyst, and formerly a member of the Ecole freudienne de Paris. She has also held a research post at the Centre National de Research Scientifiques since 1964, where she is now a Director of Research in Philosophy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957590349Author Jenn HigginsFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Canyon Press LLCPublisher Canyon Press LLCWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In this extraordinary study, D. A. Spellberg examines the life of 'A'isha bint Abi Bakr, Muhammad's most beloved and controversial wife, and a central figure in Islamic cultural history. Instead of employing the traditional chronological technique of the...

In Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance, John M. Riddle showed, through extraordinary scholarly sleuthing, that women from ancient Egyptian times to the fifteenth century had relied on an extensive pharmacopoeia of herbal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802868435Author Prudence AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 574Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851322565Author Margaret WardFormat PaperbackImprint Arlen HousePublisher Arlen House

'Fascinating . . . the most incredible argument for why a female model of leadership might actually be the more powerful and sustainable one' Scarlett Curtis'A bold, rigorous and lyrical work which feels both timely and essential' Musa Okwonga, author of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062933355Author Mishal HusainFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 157mm...

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...