Women's Studies

Discover the Womb Rites and initiatory magic of Mary Magdalene, who was revered as a Priestess and human embodiment of the Goddess * Reveals how Mary Magdalene was a sacred priestess of the ancient Womb Mysteries and how she was connected to sacred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807001547Author Gail DinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other social roles of the elderly, the over-medicalization of many older people, and...

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked...

Boudica, or Boadicea, queen of the Iceni, led a famous revolt against Roman rule in Britain in AD 60, sacking London, Colchester and St Albans and throwing the province into chaos. Although then defeated by the governor, Suetonius Paulinus, her rebellion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743236263Author Andrea DworkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of old-fashioned sexism in our culture to wither away. I am ready to admit that I was wrong.'Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541587Author Leanna Renee HieberFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.

For readers who enjoyed Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, this empowering collection of stories, poems and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover. Gone are the gender stereotypes of obliging lovers,...

The Untold History of Immersive Art At the intersection of art, architecture and design, environments create and transform space into an immersive experience, inviting the audience to engage and interact. So far, art history has been focused on the...

What 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...

Winner, 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 2010 Indie Lit Award for NonFiction 2010 and Ambassador Book Award in American Studies 2011 and American Association for the Advancement of Science's Young Adult...

Libertine London investigates the sex lives of women from 1680 to 1830, the period known as the long eighteenth century. It uncovers the various experiences of women, whether mistresses, adulteresses or those involved in the sex trade. From renowned...

Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive,...

The only biography of Britain's celebrated female spy - now fully updated with previously classified materials. From being raised in a Tanzanian shack, to attaining MI6's most senior operational rank, Daphne Park led a highly unusual life. Drawing on...

The Life and Times of All the Women of the Bible Dr. Herbert Lockyer provides a convenient commentary on all the named--and unnamed--women of the Bible, from Abi to Zipporah. You'll discover how the lives and character of different biblical women mirror...

'Such a raw, honest and important book' Giovanna FletcherLike any new mum, Laura Dockrill felt rather overwhelmed after the birth of her son. But a slow recovery, sleep deprivation and anxiety quickly escalated into postpartum psychosis, and she had to...

A 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911710103Author Marjane SatrapiFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Seven Stories Press UKPublisher Seven Stories Press UKWeight(grams) 702g

Whether 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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400075324Author Carol BerkinFormat PaperbackImprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 231g

The touching, honest and laugh-out-loud account of what it's like to become a first-time mum after 40 Whatever your age, becoming a mum for the first time brings excitement, anxiety and numerous challenges. But how do you cope when, to top it all off,...

We are women, we are men. We are refugees, single mothers, people with disabilities, and queers. We belong to social categories and they frame our actions, self-understanding, and opportunities. But what are social categories? How are they created and...

Mary Pix: The Innocent Mistress (1697) Susanna Centlivre: The Busy-Body (1709) Elizabeth Griffith: The Times (1779) Hannah Cowley: The Belle's Stratagem (1780) Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984818324Author Emily NagoskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

Who were the pioneering female painters? Who are the best contemporary women painters around today? Offers a perceptive journey through Western art history, highlighting artists from Gentileschi to Kahlo, from Amrita Sher-gil to Jenny Saville,...

This book is about lives lived out on the borderlands, lives for which the central interpretative devices of the culture don't quite work. It has a childhood at its centre - my childhood, a personal past - and it is about the disruption of that fifties...

Correcting the omissions of traditional history, this is "a reliable survey of the real and varied roles played by women in the medieval period. . . . Highly recommended."--ChoiceAbout the AuthorFrances (1915-2013) and Joseph (1916-2006) Gies were the...

One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg offers a sweeping portrait of the revered performer's life and career. Deemed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1994, Diana Rigg (1938-2020) initially found fame as super sleuth Mrs...

A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic. 'To read Rose is to understand that there is no border between us and the world; it is an invitation to a radical kind of responsibility.'NEW YORK...

Oliver Cromwell, a pivotal and often contentious character, has long been the focus of many historical works that chart his meteoric rise from middle-aged East Anglian farmer with no previous military experience, to command the army and become one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225691Author Shere HiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 693g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807002582Author Mona EltahawyFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm * 15mm

A Telegraph Book of 2018 An Observer Pick of 2018 A New Statesman Book of 2018 A definitive history and anarchic celebration of the fight for women's right to vote; 'A huge achievement' Rachel Cooke, Observer 'Glorious' Sunday Times 'A...

Hired Guns is a look across several decades of the music industry through the experiences and careers of a selection of professional female musicians. Those women profiled are members of influential, acclaimed bands and touring musicians with major acts;...

For many young women, the 1920s felt like a promise of liberty. It was a period when they dared to shorten their skirts and shingle their hair, to smoke, drink, take drugs and to claim sexual freedoms. In an era of soaring stock markets, consumer...

'Misogyny Re-loaded' is an explosive manifesto against the resurgent sexual fascism of the new world order. By exposing the casual acceptance of snuff pornography in 'gore' culture through to the framing of rape as slapstick, Abigail Bray links the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Locus Awards (Nonfiction) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9781590300060Author Ursula K. Le GuinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher...

This book presents thought-provoking research and data about pornography that will prompt readers to reconsider their positions on a highly controversial and current issue. Why do people use pornography? Is porn addiction a fact or myth? What is revenge...