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Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce by Sylvia Morris 9780812992496
RRP: £16.99£14.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812992496Author Sylvia MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Eleven Stories High: Growing Up in Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968 by Corinne Demas 9780791446300
RRP: £14.56£11.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791446300Author Corinne DemasFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia: Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer by Irene Howard 9780774804257
RRP: £35.00£31.14Helena Gutteridge was a socialist and feminist whose vision helpedto shape social reform legislation in British Columbia in the firstdecades of the twentieth century, and also one of the first women thereto hold high political office. She was born in... -
Georgia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History by Sara Hines Martin 9780762778799
RRP: £12.99£9.86Georgia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History recognizes the women who helped to shape the Peach State. Female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short... -
May: The Hard-Rock Life of Pioneer May Arkwright Hutton by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien 9780762773459
RRP: £12.99£9.86An adventurous single woman who knew how to cook, twenty-three-year-old May Arkwright moved - alone - to the remote valleys of northern Idaho in 1883. She opened a one-table restaurant for the silver prospectors near Wallace, serving her homemade berry... -
More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Oklahoma Women by Deborah Bouziden 9780762760282
RRP: £11.99£9.73More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Oklahoma Women celebrates the women who shaped the Sooner State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers,... -
Wise Women: From Pocahontas To Sarah Winnemucca, Remarkable Stories Of Native American Trailblazers by Erin H. Turner 9780762755387
RRP: £12.99£9.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762755387Author Erin H. TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint TwoDot BooksPublisher TwoDot BooksWeight(grams) 20g -
Midnight: Three Women at the Hour of Reckoning by Victoria Shorr 9780393652789
RRP: £18.99£12.21When Jane Austen's father deeded the family home to her brother, Jane was tossed to the winds, no money to her name, probably too old to be wed. At this bleak moment, she receives a proposal of marriage from a rich but boring man. Midnight takes us to... -
Talk of Darkness by Fatna El Bouih 9780292719156
RRP: £12.99£11.77Fatna El Bouih was first arrested in Casablanca as an 18-year-old student leader with connections to the Marxist movement. Over the next decade she was rearrested, forcibly disappeared, tortured, and transferred between multiple prisons. While... -
The Deepest Roots: Finding Food and Community on a Pacific Northwest Island by Kathleen Alcala 9780295999708
RRP: £19.99£15.44As friends began "going back to the land" at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcala set out to reexamine her relationship with food at the most local level. Remembering her parents, Mexican immigrants who grew up during the... -
The Deepest Roots: Finding Food and Community on a Pacific Northwest Island by Kathleen Alcala 9780295999388
RRP: £27.99£22.62As friends began "going back to the land" at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcala set out to reexamine her relationship with food at the most local level. Remembering her parents, Mexican immigrants who grew up during the... -
The Sarashina Diary: A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume 9780231167185
RRP: £42.00£33.04A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would continue to write for the next forty years and compile later in life, bringing lasting prestige to her family... -
The Liberation of Winifred Bryan Horner: Writer, Teacher, and Women's Rights Advocate by Elaine J. Lawless 9780253032355
RRP: £16.99£15.07This inspiring tale of grit and determination sprinkled with humor, wit, and a taste of irony is the story of Winifred Bryan Horner's journey from a life of domesticity on the family farm after World War II to becoming an Endowed Professor. Her... -
The Liberation of Winifred Bryan Horner: Writer, Teacher, and Women's Rights Advocate by Elaine J. Lawless 9780253032348
RRP: £70.00£60.31This inspiring tale of grit and determination sprinkled with humor, wit, and a taste of irony is the story of Winifred Bryan Horner's journey from a life of domesticity on the family farm after World War II to becoming an Endowed Professor. Her... -
In Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Elisabeth Griffith 9780195037296
£13.32The first comprehensive, fully documented biography of the most important woman suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenth-century America, In Her Own Right restores Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her true place in history. Griffith emphasizes the... -
Beyond the Home Front: Women's Autobiographical Writing of the Two World Wars by Yvonne M. Klein 9780814746998
£89.88Few would argue that war has been a defining experience for people born in Europe and North America in the twentieth century. The degree to which war has been instrumental in improving women's social situation remains a vexed question, however. ... -
The Long Journey of Gracia Mendes by Marianne Birnbaum 9789639241787
RRP: £17.95£16.74The historical biography of a true Jewish heroine in her day, Gracia Mendes. Born in 1510 in Portugal, the book details this woman's extraordinary personality until her death in 1569 in Constantinople (today's Istanbul). Her life exemplified a... -
A Civilized Woman: M. L. Boonlua Debhayasuwan and the Thai Twentieth Century by Susan Fulop Kepner 9786162150616
RRP: £25.99£21.67Boonlua Debhayasuwan was born into a noble Siamese family in 1911 and not only witnessed but participated in the great events of her century. Boonlua became one of the first Thai women to earn a university degree. As an official in the Ministry of... -
Mendings by Megan Sweeney 9781478016465
RRP: £83.00£72.11Mendings tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and the love and loss lodged in garments. In this narrative about making meaning of brokenness and grief, Megan Sweeney reflects on her childhood entanglement with her mother, her loss-filled... -
The Unconventional Career of Muriel Bell by Diana Brown 9781988531304
RRP: £18.99£15.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988531304Author Diana BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press -
Old New Worlds: A Tale of Two Immigrants by Judith Krummeck 9781950584093
RRP: £21.95£17.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950584093Author Judith KrummeckFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Green Place BooksPublisher Green Writers PressWeight(grams) 0g -
Silent Screams from the Hamptons by Christa Jan Ryan 9781934759059
RRP: £13.95£11.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934759059Author Christa Jan RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint Robert D. Reed PublishersPublisher Robert D. Reed PublishersWeight(grams) 326g -
Not My Fate: Story of a Nisga'a Survivor by Janet Romain 9781927575543
RRP: £15.99£9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927575543Author Janet RomainFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 306g -
Jean Galbraith: Writer in a Valley by Meredith Fletcher 9781922235589
RRP: £28.99£23.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235589Author Meredith FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing -
A White Lie by Madeeha Hafez Albatta 9781772124927
RRP: £19.99£16.44Palestinian refugees in Gaza have lived in camps for five generations, experiencing hardship and uncertainty. In the absence of voice or official histories, oral narratives handed down from generation to generation bear witness to life in Gaza since... -
Weaving a Malawi Sunrise: A Woman, A School, A People by Roberta Laurie 9781772120868
RRP: £33.99£28.34"When you educate a girl, you educate a nation." -Malawian saying The women of Malawi, like many other women in developing countries, struggle to find their way out of poverty and build a better life for themselves and their families. Weaving a... -
Tough Girl: Lessons in Courage and Heart from Olympic Gold to the Camino de Santiago by Carolyn Wood 9781632171849
RRP: £17.99£12.20A coming-of-age memoir of a young swimmer's triumphs and heartbreaks on the path to winning Olympic gold at age 14. Some 50 years later, author Carolyn Wood embarks on a solo pilgrimage to walk the 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago in an attempt to... -
A Texas Suffragist: Diaries and Writings of Jane Y. McCallum by Janet G. Humphrey 9781623493660
RRP: £22.95£20.97A leader in the successful fight for woman suffrage in Texas, Jane Yelvington McCallum (1878-1957) left an absorbing written record of an exceptionally productive life. McCallum was a wife, mother, and clubwoman; unlike most, she was also a suffrage... -
More than Petticoats: Remarkable California Women by Erin H. Turner 9781560448594
RRP: £9.99£7.76With in-depth and accurate coverage, this book pays tribute to the often unheralded efforts and acheivements of the historical women of California.Book InformationISBN 9781560448594Author Erin H. TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint TwoDot... -
Punching and Kicking: Leaving Canada's Toughest Neighbourhood by Kathy Dobson 9781550655001
RRP: £17.95£12.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550655001Author Kathy DobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vehicule PressPublisher Vehicule PressWeight(grams) 178g -
Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life by Jenna Bush Hager 9781538711415
£16.79Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood by their father's side when he took the same oath. They spent their... -
The Fifty Greatest Women in American History by Michael F. Shaughnessy 9781536161304
RRP: £141.99£115.06Over the past several hundred years, many women have made major, significant contributions to society, to their countries and to their field of endeavorabe it literature, music, art, politics or the enhancement of women in general. Many of these women... -
New York's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History by Antonia Petrash 9781493015818
RRP: £12.99£9.86How did New York become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? New York's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History recognizes the women who shaped the Empire State. The lives of female teachers, writers,... -
Dr. Martha: The Life of a Pioneer Physician, Politician, and Polygamist by Mari Grana 9781442247376
RRP: £13.99£10.84Dr. Martha tells the fascinating story of Martha Hughes Cannon, the first woman elected to the Utah state senate-in 1896. She was a polygamist wife, a practicing physician, and an astute and pioneering politician. In compelling prose, author Mari Grana... -
Mary Elizabeth Garrett: Society and Philanthropy in the Gilded Age by Kathleen Waters Sander 9781421438641
RRP: £22.50£19.92Mary Elizabeth Garrett was one of the most influential philanthropists and women activists of the Gilded Age. With Mary's legacy all but forgotten, Kathleen Waters Sander recounts in impressive detail the life and times of this remarkable woman, through... -
The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters by Myra Helmer Pritchard 9780809339242
£31.76Written in 1927 but barred from timely publication by the Lincoln family, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters is based on nearly two dozen intimate letters written between Mary Lincoln and her close friend Myra... -
Gumption & Grit: Extraordinary Women of the Cariboo Chilcotin by Sage Birchwater 9781894759373
RRP: £15.99£9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894759373Author Sage BirchwaterFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 444g -
Oregon's Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a Life in Activism by Kimberly Jensen 9780295992242
£27.68Esther Clayson Pohl Lovejoy, whose long life stretched from 1869 to 1967, challenged convention from the time she was a young girl. Her professional life began as one of Oregon's earliest women physicians, and her commitment to public health and medical... -
Running of the Bride: My Frenzied Quest To Tie The Knot, Tear Up The Dance Floor, And Figure Out Why My 15 Minutes Of Fame Included Commercial Breaks by Rachel Eddey 9780762780068
RRP: £12.99£11.28My frenzied quest to tie the knot, tear up the dance floor, and figure out why my 15 minutes of fame included commercial breaks.Book InformationISBN 9780762780068Author Rachel EddeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Globe Pequot PressPublisher Rowman... -
Mary Elizabeth Garrett: Society and Philanthropy in the Gilded Age by Kathleen Waters Sander 9780801888700
£47.99Mary Elizabeth Garrett was one of the most influential philanthropists and women activists of the Gilded Age. With Mary's legacy all but forgotten, Kathleen Waters Sander recounts in impressive detail the life and times of this remarkable woman, through...