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Defiant Dreams: The Journey of an Afghan Girl Who Risked Everything for Education by Sola Mahfouz 9780857528803
RRP: $33.13$23.95'I began to grow up the day my mother warned me to stop laughing''Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about the world reinforces my optimism about the future.' BILL GATESAt age eleven, Sola Mahfouz was told she... -
Women Performers in Bengal and Bangladesh: Caught up in the Culture of South Asia (1795-2010s) by Manujendra Kundu 9780192871510
$205.73Covering nearly 225 years, this volume tries to capture a broad spectrum of the situation of women performers from Gerasim Lebedeff's time (1795), who are considered to be the first performers in modern Bengali theatre, to today's time. The moot question... -
The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England by Alex Owen
RRP: $54.60$53.41A highly original study that examines the central role played by women as mediums, healers, and believers during the golden age of spiritualism in the late Victorian era, The Darkened Room is more than a meditation on women mediums-it's an exploration of... -
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love by Xinran
RRP: $31.18$22.64Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters. Whether as a consequence of the single-child policy, destructive age-old traditions or... -
Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl by Jeannie Vanasco
RRP: $19.48$13.16Why would a good person commit a terrible act? Fifteen years ago, Jeannie's relationship with a close friend ended in rape. With the rise of the #MeToo movement, recurring nightmares of the event that plagued her as a girl have returned. To process... -
The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daughter Relationship by Linda Schierse Leonard 9780804011587
RRP: $31.18$25.53This book is an invaluable key to self-understanding. Using examples from her own life and the lives of her clients, as well as from dreams, fairy tales, myths, films, and literature, Linda Schierse Leonard, a Jungian analyst, exposes the wound of the... -
Kurdish Women's Stories Houzan Mahmoud 9780745341149
RRP: $33.13$22.50'A fascinating, inspiring journey' - Meredith Tax, author of A Road Unforeseen Kurdistan has had a tumultuous history, and the women who lived there have experienced a life like no other. From Saddam Hussein's reign of terror beginning in the 1960s,... -
Untitled By Daily Wire by Daily Wire
RRP: $40.93$27.67A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Publishers Weekly Bestseller USA Today Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller Seattle Times Bestseller Amazon Bestseller Is this even a question? What is a woman? But all of a sudden, way too many people... -
Lighting the Fuse by Lucy Lewis 9781841883946
RRP: $19.48$13.26Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it.In this extraordinary memoir, Lucy Lewis reveals the hidden world of bomb disposal training and how she came to be the UK's first female bomb disposal expert... -
Nine Paths: A Year in the Life of an Indian Village by Lexi Stadlen
RRP: $29.23$21.35Revelatory, lyrical and immersive, this is an extraordinary book that takes you deep into these ordinary women's worlds... Their stories are urgent and forcefully articulated - and this book gives us the chance to hear them.On an island at the eastern... -
The Ladybird Book of The Quiet Night In by Jason Hazeley
RRP: $15.58$11.29Got some time on your hands? Then why not make yourself a cup of tea, grab a biscuit and settle down in your favourite armchair to read this unputdownable guide to The Quiet Night In . . .Marianne has been staying in a watching old episodes of Sex And... -
Yes She Can: Why Women Own The Future by Ruth Davidson 9781473659254 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43$5.17'Modern, punchy and fresh' Sunday Times'A positive and fascinating read' Stylist 'A collection of unexpectedly revealing interviews with "mould-breaking women"... This optimistic volume also includes an intimate memoir from Davidson herself' Guardian... -
Yes She Can: Why Women Own The Future by Ruth Davidson
RRP: $21.43$14.43'Modern, punchy and fresh' Sunday Times'A positive and fascinating read' Stylist 'A collection of unexpectedly revealing interviews with "mould-breaking women"... This optimistic volume also includes an intimate memoir from Davidson herself' Guardian... -
Field Stories: Experiences, Affect, and the Lessons of Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century by William H. Leggett 9781793643988
RRP: $68.25$60.35In Field Stories, William H. Leggett and Ida Fadzillah Leggett have pulled together a collection of ethnographic research and classroom experiences from around the world. Drawing on moments both unfamiliar and all too familiar to those accustomed to... -
Raising Feminist Boys: How to Talk to Your Child About Gender, Consent, and Empathy by Bobbi Wegner
RRP: $31.18$24.12It's never too early to start talking to boys about gender, consent, and empathy. In a world still steeped in gender inequality and sexual violence, it's become more and more clear that we can't just teach girls to protect themselves. We must also teach... -
Carrington's Letters: Her Art, Her Loves, Her Friendships by Dora Carrington
RRP: $58.50$42.80'Your letters are a great pleasure. I lap them down with breakfast and they do me more good than tonics, blood capsules or iron jelloids' Lytton StracheyDora Carrington was considered an outsider to Bloomsbury, but she lived right at its heart. Known... -
Beyond the Veil: Male-female Dynamics in a Muslim Society by Fatema Mernissi
RRP: $29.23$19.11Does Islam as a religion oppress women? Is Islam against democracy? In this classic study, internationally renowned sociologist Fatema Mernissi argues that women's oppression is not due to Islam because this religion celebrates women's power. Women's... -
The Kingmaker's Women: Anne Beauchamp and Her Daughters, Isabel and Anne Neville by Julia A Hickey 9781399064859
RRP: $48.75$34.36They 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... -
Mary Neal and the Suffragettes Who Saved Morris Dancing by Kathryn Atherton 9781399061506
RRP: $39.00$34.36At 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... -
York Princesses, The: The daughters of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville Sarah J. Hodder 9781789045574
RRP: $21.43$18.27As a collective, the lives of the Princesses of York span across seven decades and the rule of five different Kings. The daughters of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, they were born into an England that had been ruled over by the great Plantagenet... -
Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Determination, grit and humour shine through' Lindsey Hilsum, ObserverNineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection.A growing number of intrepid Arab and... -
Belly Woman: Birth, Blood & Ebola: the Untold Story by Benjamin Oren Black
RRP: $29.23$21.00Courage 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 Women Who Built Bristol: Volume One Jane Duffus 9781910089712
RRP: $29.25$22.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089712Author Jane DuffusFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Tangent BooksPublisher Tangent BooksWeight(grams) 750gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 30mm -
The Trouble With Women by Jacky Fleming 9781910931097
RRP: $25.33$17.73Can women be geniuses? Or are their arms too short? Why did we only learn about three women at school? What were all the others doing?'Brilliantly, mordantly funny and extremely clever... There isn't a man, woman or child who wouldn't benefit from... -
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan
RRP: $48.75$35.14Apologies 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 *... -
Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History Dr Louise Raw 9781441114266
$57.72This 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... -
A Paper Life by Tatum O'Neal 9780060751029
RRP: $19.48$17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060751029Author Tatum O'NealFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Lace Makers of Narsapur, The Mies Maria 9781742198149
RRP: $38.90$25.04The Lace Makers of Narsapur is a sensitive and groundbreaking study of women at the beginning of the process of globalisation. Maria Mies examines the way in which women are used to produce luxury goods for the Western market and simultaneously not... -
Born Lippy: How to Do Female Jo Brand 9781473687738
RRP: $21.43$14.43A RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'Sometimes it's hard to be a woman and sometimes it's time to be a hard woman . . . This is a book for all those times.Once upon a (very very) long time ago Jo Brand was what you might describe as 'a nice little girl'. Of... -
Girls With Balls: The Secret History of Women's Football by Tim Tate 9781782197720
RRP: $21.43$14.57Boxing Day 1920, and 53,000 men, women and children pack inside Goodison Park. The extraordinary crowds have come to watch two local rivals play a match for charity. But this is no ordinary charity fixture. Eleven of the players are international... -
Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy by Carl Sferrazza Anthony
RRP: $39.00$25.08An illuminating new biography of the young Jackie Bouvier Kennedy that covers her formative adventures abroad in Paris; her life as a writer and photographer at a Washington, DC, newspaper; and her romance with a dashing, charismatic Massachusetts... -
Glikl - Memoirs 1691-1719 Glikl Glikl 9781684580040
RRP: $29.25$29.00"My dear children, I write this for you in case your dear children or grandchildren come to you one of these days, knowing nothing of their family. For this reason I have set this down for you here in brief, so that you might know what kind of people you... -
The Whole Woman by Dr. Germaine Greer 9780552774345 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$4.47THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE FEMALE EUNUCH, GERMAINE GREER RETURNS TO THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM, WITH THE BOOK SHE VOWED SHE WOULD NEVER WRITE.Germaine Greer proclaims that the time has come to get angry again! Modern feminism has become the victim of... -
The Whole Woman by Dr. Germaine Greer
RRP: $25.33$17.73THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE FEMALE EUNUCH, GERMAINE GREER RETURNS TO THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM, WITH THE BOOK SHE VOWED SHE WOULD NEVER WRITE.Germaine Greer proclaims that the time has come to get angry again! Modern feminism has become the victim of... -
You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation Deborah Tannen 9781853814716
RRP: $21.43$14.43Why do so many women feel that men don't tell them anything, but just lecture and criticise? Why do so many men feel that women nag them and never get to the point? In this pioneering book Deborah Tannen shows us how women and men talk in different ways,... -
Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: $31.18$27.77"The location of the author's investigations, the body itself rather than the sphere of subjective representations of self and of function in cultures, is wholly new. . . . I believe this work will be a landmark in future feminist thinking." -Alphonso... -
BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship by Anahit Behrooz
RRP: $14.63$9.63Friendships can be the foundation of our earliest memories and most formative moments. But why are they often seen as secondary to romantic, or familial connection, something to age out of and take a back seat to other relationships? BFFs is an... -
The Glass Wall: Success strategies for women at work - and businesses that mean business by Sue Unerman
RRP: $19.48$13.86Never mind the glass ceiling. In the workplace today there's a glass wall. Men and women can see each other clearly through the divide, but they don't speak the same language or have the same expectations. And as a result, women and their careers are... -
Women in England 1760-1914: A Social History Professor Susie Steinbach 9780753819890
RRP: $19.48$13.86A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World WarUsing diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research, this book looks at life-expectancy, sex, marriage and childbirth, and work inside and outside... -
Princess More Tears to Cry Jean Sasson 9780857502865
RRP: $17.53$12.58When Jean Sasson's book Princess: Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia was published, it became an immediate international bestseller. It sold to 43 countries and spent 13 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Now, in this long-awaited, compelling...