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Rediscovering Scripture's Vision for Women: Fresh Perspectives on Disputed Texts by Lucy Peppiatt 9780830852710
RRP: £11.99£8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852710Author Lucy PeppiattFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 15mm -
Black Feminist Archaeology by Whitney Battle-Baptiste
RRP: £39.99£35.06Black feminist thought has developed in various parts of the academy for over three decades, but has made only minor inroads into archaeological theory and practice. Whitney Battle-Baptiste outlines the basic tenets of Black feminist thought and research... -
The Fix by Michelle P. King
RRP: £8.99£6.22'A passionate, practical roadmap for addressing inequality and finally making our workplaces work for women' - Arianna Huffington Foreword by Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel For years, we've been telling women that in order to succeed at work, they... -
Rituals and Practices with the Motherpeace Tarot by Vicki Noble 9781591430087
£11.81A spiritual guidance system with rituals to tap into and manifest feminine divine energy through the Motherpeace deck * Contains over 20 rituals, exercises, and readings that integrate tarot with spiritual practice, rites, and celebrations * Demonstrates... -
Hidden Patrons: Women and Architectural Patronage in Georgian Britain by Amy Boyington 9781350358607
RRP: £19.99£16.54An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. History states that it was men who owned grand estates and houses, who commissioned famous architects, and who embarked upon... -
The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation by Marion Woodman 9780919123205
RRP: £19.00£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919123205Author Marion WoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Inner City BooksPublisher Inner City BooksWeight(grams) 272g -
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
RRP: £12.99£11.46In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience-as a woman, a poet, a feminist and a mother-she... -
The Motherhood Complex: The story of our changing selves by Melissa Hogenboom
RRP: £14.99£9.80'THE MOTHERHOOD COMPLEX does for mothers in particular what INVISIBLE WOMEN did for women as a whole: exposes the myriad ways in which the system is stacked against us, while celebrating the strengths and successes we achieve in spite of it all' Leah... -
Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing by Lynne Segal
£28.26In Out of Time, leading thinker Lynne Segal examines her life and surveys the work and lives of other writers and artists to explore the pleasures and perils of growing old. Following in the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir-who in her mid-fifties mourned... -
Life As We Have Known It: The Voices of Working-Class Women by Margaret Llewelyn Davies
RRP: £10.99£7.40'I was born in Bethnal Green ...a tiny scrap of humanity. I was my mother's seventh, and seven more were born after me ...When I was ten years old I began to earn my own living.' Told in the distinctive and memorable voices of working class women, Life... -
We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement by Andi Zeisler
RRP: £13.99£9.20Feminism has hit the big time. Once a dirty word brushed away with a grimace, "feminist" has been rebranded as a shiny label sported by movie and pop stars, fashion designers, and multi-hyphenate powerhouses like Beyonce. It drives advertising and... -
Great Second Acts: In Praise of Older Women by Marlene Wagman-Geller
RRP: £13.99£13.01#1 New Release in Biographies & Memoirs and Educators Empowering biographies of older women in historyA feminist and motivational collection of stories: Antony said of Cleopatra, "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale/Her infinite variety... -
Sky Burial by Xinran
RRP: £9.99£7.11As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her. Several decades later Xinran met Shu Wan, a Chinese woman who had... -
The View From the Corner Shop: The Diary of a Yorkshire Shop Assistant in Wartime by Kathleen Hey
RRP: £10.99£7.00A lively diary chronicling the ups and downs of running a grocery shop in a Yorkshire town during the rationing years of the Second World War Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister and brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town... -
Where There’s Muck, There’s Bras: True Stories of the Amazing Women of the North by Kate Fox
RRP: £9.99£6.64From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of these extraordinary women whose lives and achievements have too long been hidden. ... -
One Dimensional Woman by Nina Power 9781846942419
RRP: £7.99£7.02Where have all the interesting women gone? If the contemporary portrayal of womankind were to be believed, contemporary female achievement would culminate in the ownership of expensive handbags, a vibrator, a job, a flat and a man. Of course, no one has... -
Mary Neal and the Suffragettes Who Saved Morris Dancing by Kathryn Atherton 9781399061506
RRP: £20.00£17.62At the beginning of the 20th century Morris dancing had all but died out in much of England. It was militant suffragettes and slum girls who kick-started the revival that returned the forgotten dances of the countryside to towns and villages across the... -
The Forgotten Girls: An American Story by Monica Potts
RRP: £20.00£14.29RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'I couldn't put it down. . . an important book, raw and simple enough that you can't help but feel it deeply' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's LifeTalented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her... -
Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life by Evan D. Stark 9780195384048
£32.74One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control breaks through entrenched views of physical abuse that have ultimately failed to protect women. Evan Stark, founder of one of America's first battered women's shelters,... -
A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection by Jenni Murray
RRP: £10.99£7.00From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 21 Women They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians. They all pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. Jenni Murray presents the... -
Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality by Josie Cox 9781419762987
RRP: £21.99£14.83In Women Money Power, financial journalist Josie Cox tells the compelling story of women's fight for financial freedom, the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality and the work that remains to be done."A bold, fascinating, and... -
Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America by Sara M. Evans 9780684834986
RRP: £22.00£14.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684834986Author Sara M. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams)... -
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages by Carmela Ciuraru 9780062356925
RRP: £14.99£9.70A Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year"Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable."-Sadie Stein, The New York Times"A tour de force. . . . The stories are gripping, horrific and sometimes funny, but most important of all they are... -
Renegade Women: 50 Trailblazers in Film and TV by Elizabeth Weitzman
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525574545Author Elizabeth WeitzmanFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale -
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
RRP: £12.99£9.09The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity .Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness,... -
Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation by Julie Bindel
RRP: £16.99£9.58'Timely, necessary and important' J.K. Rowling'[This book is] guaranteed to remind us what we have still to fight for. I can't think of a single person who wouldn't benefit from reading it' Observer'Bindel is a rock star of second-wave feminism . . . an... -
Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic by Elisabeth Bronfen
RRP: £25.00£18.32In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating... -
The Creation of Patriarchy: The Origins of Women's Subordination. Women and History, Volume 1 by Gerda Lerner
£17.61When precisely did the ideas, symbols and metaphors of patriarchy take hold of Western civilization? When were women, so central to the creation of society, moved on to the sidelines? Where is the evidence to support the notion that male dominance over... -
Blueberries: essays concerning understanding by Ellena Savage 9781912854677
RRP: £10.99£7.32'I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only of love and breath.' Brilliant young writer Ellena Savage explores Portuguese police stations and Portland college campuses, suburban Melbourne libraries... -
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross 9781324050537
RRP: £13.99£11.72A camera obscura reflects the world back but dimmer and inverted. Similarly, science has long viewed woman through a warped lens, one focused narrowly on her capacity for reproduction. As a result, there exists a vast knowledge gap when it comes to what... -
The Guy's Guide to Feminism by Michael Kaufman
RRP: £15.00£9.80In just one generation, age-old ideas about women have been swept aside ...but what does that have to do with men? Authors Michael Kaufman and Michael Kimmel, two of the world's leading male advocates of gender equality, believe it has everything to do... -
Strangers In Paradise Volume One by Terry Moore
RRP: £23.99£15.97"accessible, if not downright addicting." - Shelf-Awareness The multi-award-winning series, Strangers In Paradise, gets a brand new update in four exciting volumes! Strangers in Paradise is the compelling love story of three unlikely friends who... -
Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Jessica Cox
RRP: £25.00£18.15'An important, fascinating and frequently shocking read.' - BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, OtherCovering a fascinating period of population growth, high infant mortality and deep social inequality, rapid medical advances and pseudoscientific... -
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf 9780099861904
RRP: £11.99£8.43In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The myth of female beauty challenges every woman, every day of her life. Naomi Wolf exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth... -
Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to her Son by Homeira Qaderi
RRP: £9.99£6.64An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. How far would you go to protect yourself? Your dignity?... -
Childcare Struggles, Maternal Workers and Social Reproduction by Maud Perrier
RRP: £80.00£60.87Spanning the United Kingdom, United States and Australia, this comparative study brings maternal workers' politicized voices to the centre of contemporary debates on childcare, work and gender. The book illustrates how maternal workers continue to... -
Informed, Aware, Empowered: A Self-Guided Journey to Clear Paps by Denell Nawrocki 9780960049165
RRP: £22.00£15.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780960049165Author Denell NawrockiFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Smokeblood LLCPublisher Smokeblood LLCWeight(grams) 286g -
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity by Clementine Ford
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The most important thing you'll read this year' Elle The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the bestselling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl. Boys Will Be Boys answers the question... -
Your Lion Inside: Discover the Power Within and Live Your Fullest Life by Kimberly Faith 9781642251159
RRP: £16.99£12.78Is the Glass Ceiling Also a Mirror? Women are the backbones of their workplaces, their homes, and their communities, but we women often feel drained, ignored, and ineffective, despite our critical roles and hard work. Society-incessant media messaging... -
19th Century Female Explorers by Caroline Roope 9781399006866
RRP: £25.00£17.62As any historian will testify, a nineteenth-century woman's place was very much at home. Or was it? For a lucky (and plucky) few, who had a little determination, and the ability to withstand lice infestations, climbing mountains in corsets, rascally...