Women

The content creator and world traveler known as @DearAlyne shares how she broke free of the restrictive expectations of her family and faith, and found the courage to forge her own path.Growing up, Alyne internalized that she should live her life for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668019863Author Jen PsakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 204g

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300 years ago, in April 1721, a smallpox epidemic was raging in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu knew that she could save her 3-year-old daughter using the process of inoculation. She had witnessed this at first hand in Turkey, while she was living...

This is a new publication of The Unbroken Tradition by activist and writer Nora Connolly, first published in 1918. Connolly shares her first-hand experience of the events leading up to the well-known Easter Week Irish revolution in 1916. Connolly shared...

Mamah Borthwick was an energetic, intelligent, and charismatic woman who earned a master’s degree at a time when few women even attended college, translated writings by a key figure of the early feminist movement, and traveled from the American prairie...

Around the world, women’s rights are under attack. In 2022, the US Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, restricting access to abortion across America. The decision mirrored a global trend towards a devastating unravelling of women’s freedoms; a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823671Author Kirsty DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990776786Author M. Wylie BlanchetFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593242643Author Sojourner TruthFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 226g

After her six-year-old daughter puts a hammer through a wall, Megan Williams decides to abandon a career as an academic and become a police officer. It’s not lost on her that she may have applied to the Police Academy to escape the realities of mothering...

This saga of a writer done dirty resurrects the silenced voice of Sanora Babb, peerless author of midcentury American literature.  In 1939, when John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published, it became an instant bestseller and a prevailing...

Lillian Beynon Thomas' suffragist campaign succeeded where all others had failed. This full-length biography fills an important gap in the history of the 'votes for women' movement, a campaign which saw Manitoba become the earliest federal or provincial...

'Puts Cavendish back into the literary history books where she belongs' Kate Mosse 'Scholarly, articulate, and never less than fascinating' Alice Loxton A biography of the remarkable, and in her time scandalous, seventeenth-century writer Margaret...

A journey through both family history and the fascinating and quintessentially American history of New England’s Merrimack Valley, its farmers, and the immigrant workers caught up in the industrial textile age. After years of living away, Jane Brox made...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682832400Author Carol A. LipscombFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Texas Tech Press,U.S.Publisher Texas Tech Press,U.S.

Foreword by Margaret AtwoodThe heartbreaking true story of an Argentinian woman imprisoned for having a miscarriage—an injustice that galvanized a feminist movement and became a global rallying cry in the fight for reproductive rights.In 2014, Belén, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780008567507Author Cathy NewmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint William CollinsPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 270g

In a quest to advocate for her daughter, Pepper Stetler uncovers the dark history of the IQ that leads her to question what exactly we are measuring when we measure intelligence. When Pepper Stetler was told that her daughter, Louisa, who has Down...

Last Word is the popular BBC Radio 4 series broadcast weekly, featuring the lives of several famous people who have recently died. More than standard obituaries, the lives are summarised with narration and include interviews with some of those who knew...

Embark on an extraordinary journey into the depths of the ocean.Oceanographer Dawn Wright made history in 2022 when she became the first Black person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest and most unexplored place on Earth—a trip that took her over...

Single mother and small-business owner Judy Henderson's world fell apart when she was sentenced to life in prison for a crime she did not commit, separating her from her three-year-old son and thirteen-year-old daughter. During three decades in the...

“Offering a deeply necessary, clear-eyed look at who we are as flesh-and-bone bodies during the climate crisis, this is a book that searches and finds meaning in both the hard truths and the value of wonder.”—Ada LimónIn this luminous collection of...

Explore Historic Homes of Famous WomenAdd to your travel bucket list with A Room of Their Own, the history guide to famous ladies and their estates. Experience the impact of these international residents on history through the artifacts that they left...

Unsexed examines the role that sex plays in the life of one woman with two mothers who introduce her to polarized frameworks of female sexuality.Born in Greece to a violent prostitute and then adopted by a cold and unloving virgin from New York, Marina...

The stories of 100 brave, creative, pioneering women who shaped North America's gardening heritage and horticultural landscape. These women employed courage and determination through tales of invention, creativity, dogged research, innovation,...

From an unparalleled life of extreme encounters with the natural world, Jean McNeil brings us keen insights on how to respond to a changing planet. As a young girl in Nova Scotia, her grandmother taught her to shoot animals for food and she rescued a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645472827Author Cristina MoonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772016369Author M.A.C. FarrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 319g

An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players'Fascinating and revelatory, written with great aplomb, insight and shrewd analysis. A triumph' WILLIAM BOYD'A vivid, glittering, sexy, scintillating,...

Sally Smith presents the extraordinary stories of the real women pioneers in global circumnavigation; travelling right around the world by various means and for various purposes. This captivating selection of stories includes the incredible tale of...

An electrifying re-examination of one of the twentieth century's greatest unsung power players'Fascinating and revelatory, written with great aplomb, insight and shrewd analysis. A triumph' WILLIAM BOYD'A vivid, glittering, sexy, scintillating,...

Evangelical pastor, talk-show host, politician. Pentecostal Preacher Woman explores the life of the Reverend Bernice Gerard (1923–2008), one of the most influential spiritual figures of twentieth-century British Columbia, whose complicated blend of...

For fans of Really Good Actually and I'm Glad My Mom Died'Moving, hilarious and generally astonishing' - Guardian'Brave, funny and moving' - Aisling Bea 'A deftness that catches your breath' - Fern Brady'An incredible piece of writing' - Brett...

In Glorying in Tribulation, Stetson presents a new dimension of Sojourner Truth's character. Much of the information regarding this oft-quoted African American woman is either the stuff of legend or is in dispute. This important new biography takes both...