Women

From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an extraordinary activist and the turbulent age in which she livedGoddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant writer, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in...

Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiance, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Haydee Santamaria was the only woman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692845950Author Linda CampanellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Campanella BooksPublisher Campanella BooksWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639364053Author Antonia FraserFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm *...

Caterina Corner, a Venetian noblewoman and the last Queen of Cyprus, led a complex and remarkable life. In 1468, Corner married King Jacques II Lusignan of Cyprus at the behest of her family, whose ambitions matched those of the Venetian republic anxious...

A collection of photographs and essays that explores our understanding of motherhood and female identity Bestselling novelist Edan Lepucki created the Mothers Before Instagram project to correspond with the release of this book, which explored themes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942762935Author Jenn BuddFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Heliotrope Books LLCPublisher Heliotrope Books LLCWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368042000Author Ginger ZeeFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint HyperionPublisher Hyperion

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375758454Author Alice SteinbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743249782Author Dr Naomi WolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781775269816Author Glenna MageauFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Glenna MageauPublisher Glenna MageauWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688172374Author Waris DirieFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins Childrens Book GroupPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

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A group biography of four beloved women who fought sexism, covered decades of American news, and whose voices defined NPR In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645508024Author Linda BootherstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Linda BootherstonePublisher Linda BootherstoneWeight(grams) 336g

Margery Kempe, a middle-class English housewife at the turn of the fifteenth century, was called to weep and to pray for her fellow Christians and to adopt an unconventional way of life. Separating herself from her husband and many children, she became a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451657821Author Tim CrothersFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm)...

Frank and often outrageous, this is an account of a 40-something Englishwoman's epic 4,000 mile cycle ride from Seattle to Mexico, via the snow-covered Rockies, mostly alone and camping in the wild. She runs appalling risks and copes in a gutsy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933455136Author Elaine Rippey ImadyFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Msi PressPublisher Msi PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772584257Author Emily Adler MosquedFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Demeter PressPublisher Demeter PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879960923Author Piyali BhattacharyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Aunt Lute BooksPublisher Aunt Lute BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812994261Author Diane KeatonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 388gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A revealing, no-holds-barred portrait of the legendary Eileen Ford-the entrepreneur who transformed the business of modeling and helped invent the celebrity supermodel. Working with her husband, Jerry, Eileen Ford created the twentieth century's largest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228812098Author Madzy Brender a BrandisFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595135547Author Sandy WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645666601Author Gillian StapletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Putting WordsPublisher Putting WordsWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

History has a way of bestowing a more lasting immortality on important people who die at the height of their earthly achievements. Famous personalities who are cut down at the height of their fame leave people clamoring to know more about them. Books and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684425884Author Juliana HatfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company

When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily: she spent long years struggling to reconcile...

A group biography of four beloved women who fought sexism, covered decades of American news, and whose voices defined NPR In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951491000Author Aisha ReduxFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Street Noise BooksPublisher Street Noise Books

Generous Women' is about the women who have given so much much of themselves to the man I am today,"" writes Earl Hamner. This fond appreciation is a warm thank-you for gifts freely given and a reminder that, truly, no man is an island unto himself...

This engaging biography tells the dramatic story of a Russian noblewoman turned revolutionary terrorist. Born in 1852 in the last years of serfdom, Vera Figner came of age as Imperial Russian society was being rocked by the massive upheaval that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Christianity Today Book Award 2015 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781400206254Author Karen Swallow PriorFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Thomas Nelson...

Born to merchant-class parents who served in the court of Henry VIII and his queens, Anne Vaughan Lock lived in London and Exeter, spent time in Geneva as a religious exile, belonged to the Cooke sisters' political-religious circle, maintained...

Daughter of the River is a memoir of China unlike any other. Born during the Great Famine of the early 1960s and raised in the slums of Chongqing, Hong Ying was constantly aware of hunger and the sacrifices required to survive. As she neared her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156031165Author Arlene BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams)...

Una Marson's work embodied anti-colonialism, anti-racism, feminism, class politics and pan-Africanism in the first half of the twentieth century. Her poetry and dramatic work symbolically ushered in a new era in Jamaica's literary landscape and her...

The Life of a Russian Woman Doctor by Anna Bek (1869-1954) yields rich insights into the lives of a generation of Russian women who lived at a time of revolutionary change, extraordinary challenges, and unprecedented opportunities. Written in a lively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734053852Author Ana Maria MichelenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Monarch Crown PublishingPublisher Monarch Crown PublishingWeight(grams)...