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England from a Side-Saddle: The Great Journeys of Celia Fiennes by Derek J. Taylor 9781803993591
RRP: $25.71$19.35In 1697, a 34-year-old woman mounted her horse and set off on a 3,000-mile journey which over two summers would take her to every county in England. Her name was Celia Fiennes. It was a time when women didn't do such things. It could be gruelling,... -
Swimming in the Sacred: Wisdom from the Psychedelic Underground by Rachel Harris
RRP: $29.14$19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608687305Author Rachel HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library -
Denying the Comfort Women: The Japanese State's Assault on Historical Truth by Rumiko Nishino
RRP: $75.46$65.94Planned, instituted and run by the Japanese Imperial Military during the Asia-Pacific War, the 'comfort women' system remains hugely controversial. Although political leaders often contest the role of coercion, many argue that the 'comfort women' were... -
Soft Electronica: Retro Product Design from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. by Gestalten
RRP: $60.04$41.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040401Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere
RRP: $22.28$19.66A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero-these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of... -
Wasted by Marya Hornbacher
RRP: $17.14$12.20A 'retired career anorexic' examines herself and her, and our, culture in a masterpiece of confessional literature. At the age of four Marya Hornbacher looked in a mirror and decided she was fat. At nine, she was bulimic. At twelve, she was... -
From Ladies to Lionesses: The Rise of Women's Football in England by Carrie Dunn
RRP: $25.71$16.81Shortlisted for the 2023 Sports Book Awards for Best Football Writing of the Year Discover the origins of the Lionesses that brought football home. England's Lionesses are on the front and back pages; their stars feature on prime-time television;... -
The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust by Marianne Hirsch
RRP: $48.03$36.64Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit... -
Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology by Autumn Stanley 9780813521978
$83.62Written in an engaging and accessible style, this first broadly focused compensatory history of technology not only includes women's contributions but begins the long-overdue task of redefining technology and significant technology and to value these... -
Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
RRP: $18.85$13.33*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French... -
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward 9781479804467
RRP: $27.43$23.88Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual... -
The Kingmaker's Women: Anne Beauchamp and Her Daughters, Isabel and Anne Neville by Julia A Hickey 9781399064859
RRP: $42.88$30.22They were supposed to be pious, fruitful and submissive. The wealthiest women in the kingdom, Anne Beauchamp and her daughters were at the heart of bitter inheritance disputes. Well educated and extravagant, they lived in style and splendour but were... -
Autobiography Of A Geisha by Sayo Masuda 9780099462040
RRP: $27.43$19.91Sayo Masuda's story is an extraordinary portrait of rural life in japan and an illuminating contrast to the fictionalised lives of glamorous geishas.At the age of sis Masuda's poverty-stricken family sent her to work as a nursemaid. At the age of twelve,... -
Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and Their Place in History by Louise Raw
$48.92This is the story of one of the most important strikes in labour history revealing the significance and truth of what actually happened. In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East... -
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 by Kate Summerscale
RRP: $17.14$13.21SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY 'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERS London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young... -
The Only Woman by Immy Humes
RRP: $34.22$25.85As seen in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Telegraph A compelling gallery of women who made their way into a man's world, shown through group portraits each featuring a lone woman An original approach to gender equality, this striking pictorial... -
Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness by Marion Woodman 9781570623134
RRP: $30.86$24.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570623134Author Marion WoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain by Gina Rippon
RRP: $17.14$12.20Barbie or Lego? Reading maps or reading emotions? Do you have a female brain or a male brain? Or is that the wrong question? On a daily basis we face deeply ingrained beliefs that our sex determines our skills and preferences, from toys and colours to... -
Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: the Untold Story by Benjamin Oren Black
RRP: $25.71$18.47Courage meets crisis in a doctor's extraordinary true account on the frontlines of maternal healthcare during a deadly epidemic in Sierra Leone. In May 2014, as the country grapples with the highest maternal mortality rate globally, a new, invisible... -
The Edinburgh Seven: The Story of the First Women to Study Medicine by Janey Jones 9781399099233
RRP: $34.31$24.51Women have healed since the beginning of time, but accessing a formal degree in medicine was impossible for them in Britain until the late 19th century. In 1869, a group of women began arriving in Edinburgh to study at the medical faculty, led by the... -
Women in the First World War by Neil R. Storey 9780747807520
$10.39As millions of young men marched off to war, they left behind mothers, wives, sisters, and sweethearts who were determined to contribute to the British cause. Women enrolled as nurses to treat wounded soldiers, and over 700,000 became workers in... -
The March of the Women: A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1866-1914 by Martin Pugh 9780199250226
$103.52This book is the first comprehensive study of the campaign for women's suffrage to appear for over thirty years. It challenges the widely-held assumption that the Victorian suffragists underwent a decline during the 1890s, and sets out to prove that, on... -
A Brief History of the Female Body: An Evolutionary Look at How and Why the Female Form Came to Be by Dr. Deena Emera
RRP: $25.71$16.81From breasts and orgasms to periods, pregnancies, and menopause-A Brief History of the Female Body is a fascinating science book explaining the mysteries of the female body through an evolutionary lens.Let's face it: The female body is an enigma. For... -
Bitches in Bonnets: Life Lessons from Jane Austen's Mean Girls by Sarah J. Makowski
RRP: $29.14$21.06Have you ever recognized Mrs. Elton in an office colleague? Or caught a glimpse of Lady Catherine de Bourgh in the neighborhood crank? Have you spotted a young Emma Woodhouse in your teenage daughter's clique? Over two hundred years after their creation,... -
The Carry On Girls by Gemma Ross 9781803993409
RRP: $42.88$31.13Whether it is the seaside postcard bubbly blondes of Barbara Windsor, the hysterically historical leading ladies of Joan Sims, the coquettish authoritarians of Hattie Jacques, or the statuesque confidence of Valerie Leon, the Carry On girls are stoic,... -
Shamed: The Honour Killing That Shocked Britain - by the Sister Who Fought for Justice by Sarbjit Kaur Athwal
RRP: $22.28$15.59In 1998, Sarbjit Athwal was called by her husband to attend a family meeting. It looked like just another family gathering. An attractive house in west London, a large dining room, two brothers, their mother, one wife. But the subject they were... -
Displacement, Human Rights and Sexual and Reproductive Health: Conceptualizing Gender Protection Gaps in Latin America by Natalia Cintra
RRP: $82.32$63.55Focusing on the flight of women and girls from Venezuela, this book examines the gendered nature of forced displacement and the ways in which the failures of protection regimes to be sensitive to displacement's gendered character affect women and girls,... -
Women Who Read Are Dangerous by Stefan Bollman
RRP: $27.43$19.43What is it about a woman reading that has captivated hundreds of artists over the centuries? Stefan Bollmann's Women Who Read Are Dangerous explores this popular subject in more than 70 artworks--drawings, paintings, photographs, and prints--by iconic... -
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus
RRP: $37.74$29.14Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each... -
The War on Women by Sue Lloyd-Roberts
RRP: $15.42$9.98'She showed great courage and commitment in reporting from Burma and exemplified my belief that the best journalists are also the nicest' - Aung San Suu Kyi 'One of the most distinguished television journalists of her generation' - Huw Edwards 'Brilliant... -
A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir and Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel E. Cargle 9781847926739
RRP: $32.57$23.35What would life be like if we had the courage to say, 'I want something different'? 'Elegant, thoughtful, vulnerable, and inspiring' Elizabeth GilbertFrom a highly lauded modern voice in feminism and racial justice comes a deeply personal and insightful... -
Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective by Amina Wadud
RRP: $25.71$18.78Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the... -
Feminism for the 99% by Nancy Fraser
RRP: $13.71$9.28Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, healthcare, climate change, border policing; not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But don't these issues impact the vast majority of women globally? Taking as its inspiration the new wave of... -
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980 by Elaine Showalter
RRP: $25.71$16.81In this informative, timely and often harrowing study, Elaine Showalter demonstrates how cultural ideas about 'proper' feminine behaviour have shaped the definition and treatment of female insanity for 150 years, and given mental disorder in women... -
Period by Emma Barnett
RRP: $17.14$9.98'Terrific and timely' Elizabeth Day 'Stories that will make you cringe, weep and laugh out loud' Scarlett Curtis 'Brilliant, informative... -
The Woman Who Saved the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne Jebb: Founder of Save the Children by Clare Mulley
RRP: $22.28$15.59An unconventional biography of an unconventional woman. Eglantyne Jebb, not particularly fond of children herself, nevertheless dedicated her life to establishing Save the Children and promoting her revolutionary concept of human rights. In this... -
The World We Have Won: The Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life by Jeffrey Weeks
RRP: $78.89$68.83The World We Have Won is a major study of transformations in erotic and intimate life since 1945. We are living in a world of transition, in the midst of a long, unfinished but profound revolution that has transformed the possibilities of living out our... -
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega 9781324074465
RRP: $22.28$19.66What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about... -
Great Women's Speeches: Speeches by great women to empower and inspire by Anna Russell
RRP: $22.28$13.95This is an edited and resized version of So Here I Am: Speeches by great women to empower and inspire.Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation.Great Women's Speeches is essential reading for pioneering... -
Lean Out by Dawn Foster
RRP: $15.42$10.63In her powerful debut work Lean Out, acclaimed journalist Dawn Foster unpicks how the purportedly feminist message of Sandberg's book neatly exempts patriarchy, capitalism and business from any responsibility for changing the position of women in...