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Women and Leadership by Deborah L. Rhode 9780190931773
RRP: £24.49£18.09For most of recorded history, men have held nearly all of the most powerful leadership positions. Today, although women occupy an increasing percentage of leadership positions, in America they hold less than a fifth of positions in both the public and... -
Images of Women in Chinese Thought & Culture by Robin Wang 9780872206519
RRP: £19.99£16.44This rich collection of writings--many translated especially for this volume and some available in English for the first time--provides a journey through the history of Chinese culture, tracing the Chinese understanding of women as elucidated in writings... -
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship by Jeffrey Zaslow 9781592405329
RRP: £18.85£14.42Apologies 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... -
Playing With the Boys: Why Separate is Not Equal in Sports by Eileen McDonagh
RRP: £20.49£13.33Athletic contests help define what we mean in America by "success." By keeping women from "playing with the boys" on the false assumption that they are inherently inferior, society relegates them to second-class citizens. In this forcefully argued book,... -
Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century by Susan Mann 9780804727440
RRP: £24.99£21.67This first book-length study of gender relations in the Lower Yangzi region during the High Qing era (c. 1683-1839) challenges enduring late-nineteenth-century perspectives that emphasized the oppression and subjugation of Chinese women. Placing women at... -
Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994 by Deborah Gray White 9780393319927
RRP: £20.00£16.73Too Heavy a Load celebrates this century's rich history of black women defending themselves, from Ida B. Wells to Anita Hill. Although most prominently a history of the century-long struggle against racism and male chauvinism, Deborah Gray White also... -
The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability by Kristen Hogan 9780822361299
RRP: £22.99£20.01From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminism's most complex conversations. Kristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movement's rise and eventual fall,... -
Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South by Victoria E. Bynum 9780807843611
RRP: £42.95£39.20In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates ""unruly"" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War. Analyzing the complex and interrelated impact of gender, race, class, and region on the... -
The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier by Cathi Hanauer 9780062389527
£10.95More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young woman, nine of the original contributors are back-along with sixteen captivating new voices-sharing their... -
The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century by Lindy McDougall
RRP: £19.99£17.54In the West, a specific ideal for female genitalia has emerged: one of absence, a "clean slit," attained through the removal of pubic hair and, increasingly, through female genital cosmetic surgery known as FGCS.In The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in... -
Women, Privilege, and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present by Amanda Vickery 9780804742849
RRP: £70.00£60.71This book examines the many different ways in which women achieved public standing and exercised political power in England from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. It shows how rank, property, and inheritance could confer de facto power... -
UN/MASKED: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour by Donna Kaz 9781510709430
RRP: £24.99£15.41An unknown actress on movie star's arm was how she began. An anonymous activist in a rubber gorilla mask is where she wound up. UN/MASKED: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl On Tour follows the surprising twenty-five-year journey of a young artist, Donna Kaz,... -
Integrating Gender: Women, Law and Politics in the European Union by Catherine Hoskyns 9781859840788
RRP: £18.99£17.39During 1996-97, the European Union's Intergovernmental Conference is reviewing the competence, institutional structure and working methods of the Union. This book seeks to make an intervention in the debate on these issues by highlighting the obstacles... -
Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh by Lamia Karim
RRP: £21.99£19.19FINALIST FOR THE GREGORY BATESON PRIZE FROM THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONDispelling stereotypes about garment workers in the global apparel industryCastoffs of Capital examines how female garment workers experience their work and personal... -
Talk Dirty to Me: An Intimate Philosophy of Sex by Sallie Tisdale 9780385468558
RRP: £19.00£13.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385468558Author Sallie TisdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 314gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century, Volume 3: Letters from the Front (Revised) by Sandra M. Gilbert 9780300066609
£34.40Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-culturally by Eleanor Burke Leacock 9780853455387
£21.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853455387Author Eleanor Burke LeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
Sex, Gender, and the Body: The Student Edition of What Is a Woman? by Toril Moi 9780199276226
RRP: £45.49£35.64This affordable, compact edition, designed specially for use in university courses, consists of two of the most celebrated essays from Toril Moi's highly-acclaimed What Is a Woman? What is a woman? Does it make sense to think of a woman as the... -
Women's Studies: The Basics by Bonnie G. Smith 9781138495937
RRP: £19.99£17.69Women's Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the pathbreaking and cross-disciplinary study of women-past and present. Tracing the history of the field from its origins, this revised and updated text sets out the main topics making up the... -
Women Film Editors: Unseen Artists of American Cinema by David Meuel 9781476662947
RRP: £21.99£18.83When 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... -
Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters by Wally Lamb 9780060595371 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99£2.94The author recounts his work with the York Correctional Institution and shares the stories of his women inmate students, describing the circumstances that led to their incarcerations and how they found their literary voices.Book InformationISBN... -
Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters by Wally Lamb 9780060595371
RRP: £17.99£12.18The author recounts his work with the York Correctional Institution and shares the stories of his women inmate students, describing the circumstances that led to their incarcerations and how they found their literary voices.Book InformationISBN... -
Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape by Charlotte Pierce-Baker 9780393320459
RRP: £19.00£16.38It opens with the author's harrowing and courageous account of her rape and includes the stories of the author's own family's response, plus the voices of black men who have supported rape survivors.About the AuthorCharlotte Pierce-Baker is a professor... -
Women of the Twelfth Century: v. 1 by Georges Duby 9780745619477
£15.23This is an engaging account of the lives of high-born women in the Middle Ages, by one of the foremost historians in Europe. Focusing on France in the twelfth century, Duby recreates the image of women that the men of high society made for themselves... -
Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies & the Battle Over Women's Freedom by Janice G. Raymond 9781875559411
RRP: £14.95£14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781875559411Author Janice G. RaymondFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Spinifex PressPublisher Spinifex PressWeight(grams) 278g -
The Motherhood Manifesto: What America's Moms Want - and What To Do About It by Joan Blades 9781560258841
£14.01Women shouldn't be discriminated against simply because they are mothers...but they are! The Motherhood Manifesto shares the heartfelt stories of mothers in America who dream of jobs with flexibility and benefits, mothers who can't afford their... -
Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
RRP: £19.99£17.54Black Venus is a feminist study of the representations of black women in the literary, cultural, and scientific imagination of nineteenth-century France. Employing psychoanalysis, feminist film theory, and the critical race theory articulated in the... -
Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire by Adria L. Imada
RRP: £23.99£20.84Aloha America reveals the role of hula in legitimating U.S. imperial ambitions in Hawai'i. Hula performers began touring throughout the continental United States and Europe in the late nineteenth century. These "hula circuits" introduced hula, and... -
The Intersectional Approach: Transforming the Academy through Race, Class, and Gender by Kathleen Guidroz 9780807859810
RRP: £37.95£22.89This book features the social literacy of scholarship. Intersectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made by scholars in the field of women's studies that now broadly... -
Night In The American Village by Akemi Johnson
RRP: £19.99£13.56At the southern end of the Japanese archipelago lies Okinawa, host to a vast complex of U.S. military bases. A legacy of World War II, these bases have been a fraught issue in Japan for decades. In Night of the American Village, journalist Akemi Johnson... -
Love, Loss, and What I Wore by Ilene Beckerman 9781565124752
RRP: £12.99£9.25"Illuminates the experience of an entire generation of women . . . This small gem of a book is worthy of a Tiffany box." -The New York Times Book Review "A memoir every reader will wish to copy in her own size." -Glamour "Ilene Beckerman's sleek... -
The Violent Woman: Femininity, Narrative, and Violence in Contemporary American Cinema by Hilary Neroni 9780791463840
RRP: £25.51£23.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791463840Author Hilary NeroniFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism by Mari Yoshihara 9780195145342
RRP: £35.49£22.85As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, submissive East. Yet, this binary model does not account for the important role of white women in... -
Feminism and History by Joan Wallach Scott 9780198751694
£49.17The question of difference - between women and men and among women - is at the heart of feminist theory and the history of feminism. Feminists have long debated the meanings of sexual difference: is it an underlying truth of nature or the result of... -
Framing the Rape Victim: Gender and Agency Reconsidered by Carine M. Mardorossian 9780813566023
RRP: £31.00£22.81In recent years, members of legal, law enforcement, media and academic circles have portrayed rape as a special kind of crime distinct from other forms of violence. In Framing the Rape Victim, Carine M. Mardorossian argues that this differential... -
Normative Motherhood:: Regulations, Representations, and Reclamations by Andrea O'Reilly
RRP: £26.00£24.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772584479Author Andrea O'ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter PressWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm *... -
Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women over Sixty by Deirdre Fishel 9781583333532
RRP: £24.00£16.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583333532Author Deirdre FishelFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin Adult Hc/TrPublisher Penguin Adult Hc/TrWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)... -
The Essential Difference by Naomi Schor
RRP: £11.99£10.94What is essentialism? What is anti-essentialism? The Essential Difference attempts to answer questions at the heart of current feminist theory and cultural study. The book deals with origins and contexts of the debate; relationships between essentialism,... -
Women in Religion by John Bowker 9780826453044 [USED COPY]
RRP: £32.99£2.54The place of women in the religions, both as expressed in the classical writings and as experienced in life, is carefully considered in this book. It deals with what part women can and/or do play in religious institutions; how relevant religion is to... -
Women in Religion by John Bowker 9780826453044
£33.26The place of women in the religions, both as expressed in the classical writings and as experienced in life, is carefully considered in this book. It deals with what part women can and/or do play in religious institutions; how relevant religion is to...