Women's Studies

Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism,...

Back in print for the first time in a decade, this is the hilarious autobiography of a pioneer of the 1990s zine movement. A young woman named Pagan, having just graduated from a writing program at a very prestigious university, is left with a single...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062856463Author Gemma HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

What was it like to participate in the Women's Liberation Movement? What made millions of women step forward from the 1960s onwards and join it in different ways? Many of the 56 women in this book were there. They describe how they have contributed in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735223721Author Chanel MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm...

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)...

Human genomes are 99.9 percent identical--with one prominent exception. Instead of a matching pair of X chromosomes, men carry a single X, coupled with a tiny chromosome called the Y. Tracking the emergence of a new and distinctive way of thinking about...

Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar; and not in the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife,...

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...

Apologies 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

Who were the women who fought back at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet? Striking Women gives a voice to the women involved as they discuss their lives, their work and their trade unions. Striking Women is centred on two industrial disputes, the famous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573111822Author Jaki McCarrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'There simply is no better literary voice for this moment in history than Jessica Wilson.'Sonya Renee Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of The Body is Not an ApologyWe will rewrite the narrative of Blackness that centres and celebrates our joy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385343374Author Rachel FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

The story of how women's lives, loves, and dreams have been re-shaped since 1950, the year of Walt Disney's Cinderella and a time when teenage girls dreamed of marriage, Mr Right, and happy endings... Cinderella stories captured the imagination of...

Millions of women in our country experience some mix of low desire, absent pleasure, tanking lust and elusive orgasms. It's just stress, motherhood, anxiety, poor body image, or plain old boring monogamy though, right? Wife loses interest, husband is...

"Leah Darrow uses her experience in the beauty industry to help the women of our culture see what true beauty looks like." -Jennifer Fulwiler, host of The Jennifer Fulwiler Show and author of Something Other than GodDo you feel like you're never good...

Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950-2015)-underground actress, porn star, producer of adult movies, and staunch feminist-she made a business of...

A critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st century Since the turn of the millennium, American media, scientists, and environmental activists have insisted that the global population crisis is...

Abortion is now recognised as primarily a medical issue, rather than one of political and social importance; its regulation determined by the authority of doctors and other medical professionals. In the first comprehensive historical study of the...

Erika Bachiochi offers an original look at the development of feminism in the United States, advancing a vision of rights that rests upon our responsibilities to others. In The Rights of Women, Erika Bachiochi explores the development of feminist...

This text reassesses how women are talked about and constructed visually across a range of popular media. Arguing for the importance of a historical approach, this book examines continuities and changes in dominant myths of femininity, especially in the...

Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England represents one of the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period to be undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of reading and discussing...

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 *...

Margaret More Roper may be remembered as the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas More, but she was much, much more. Well-educated, loyal, passionately pious, and a skilled writer and translator, Margaret inspired a generation and proved to Tudor England and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036661Author Hugh RyanFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 560gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 156mm *...

Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women's liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists, whether "bourgeois" and...

A stunning photography book that explores the power, rebellion, and resilience held within the voices of trailblazing Black female musicians. From entertainment journalist and fashion stylist Marcellas Reynolds, the author of Supreme Models and Supreme...

Men and women in early modern England lived their lives within a social and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy-the social and cultural dominance of the male-has long been a fundamental feature of western civilization yet has only...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307476074Author Cheryl StrayedFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312655402Author Ann CrittendenFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399590528Author Tara WestoverFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

* NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION * BEST BOOKS OF 2016 SELECTION BY THE BOSTON GLOBE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * NPR * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY * The New York Times bestselling investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568585901Author Saadia ZahidiFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 245mm * 171mm...

In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women - mostly Korean women forced into prostitution by the Japanese army - endures as one of the darkest events of World War II. These women have usually...

Is there gender equality in Buddhist traditions? What do Buddhist texts say about women? How have Buddhist women responded to misogyny? Collett is well placed to review both recent scholarship and original writing by and about women in Buddhism. She...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449906149Author Elisabeth BumillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 253gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449906149Author Elisabeth BumillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 253gDimensions(mm) 206mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807039823Author Charlene CarruthersFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press