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Women Photograph: What We See: Women and nonbinary perspectives through the lens by Daniella Zalcman
RRP: £22.00£14.37Open your eyes to a new world view with 100 women and nonbinary photojournalists' stories from behind the lens. 85% of photojournalists are men. That means almost everything that is reported in the world is seen through men's eyes. Similarly, spaces and... -
Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World by Kathryn Aalto
RRP: £18.99£15.75"Re-centers and gives voice to a diversity of women naturalists and writers across time." -Cultivating Place In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural... -
Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World by Kumari Jayawardena
RRP: £12.99£11.17For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women's movements in Asia and the Middle East. In this engaging and well-researched survey,... -
Where There’s Muck, There’s Bras: True Stories of the Amazing Women of the North by Kate Fox
RRP: £9.99£6.84From 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. ... -
Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9781914535369
RRP: £25.00£24.15The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women's history has been little studied. In this collection of new studies by an international team, ancient visual... -
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir by Madeleine Albright
RRP: £25.00£17.51"Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New YorkerFrom the seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-among history's most admired and tireless public servants-a revealing, funny, and... -
Gender in Scotland, 1200-1800: Place, Politics and Faith Janay Nugent 9781399512985
RRP: £90.00£81.97Gender influenced every aspect of life in medieval and early modern Scotland. This collection illuminates how gendered expectations and experiences shaped people's relationships with where they lived, what they believed and how they exercised power... -
Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp by Ann Kirschner 9780061864513
RRP: £22.99£11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061864513Author Ann KirschnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)... -
Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement by Zoe Thomas
RRP: £19.99£18.10This book constitutes the first comprehensive history of the network of women who worked at the heart of the English Arts and Crafts movement from the 1870s to the 1930s. Challenging the long-standing assumption that the Arts and Crafts simply revolved... -
Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman
RRP: £11.99£7.94A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022'Well-researched and readable' - Financial Times'An absorbing, pacy read' - New Statesman'The story of lycra-clad feminism' Stylist'Canny and informative' - The New YorkerThe untold history of women's exercise culture, from... -
Women on Wheels: The Scandalous Untold History of Women in Bicycling from the 1880s to the 1980s by April Streeter
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621062073Author April StreeterFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour who Changed the World by Maliha Abidi 9780863561375
RRP: £20.00£13.75Rise celebrates the inspirational stories of 100 remarkable women of colour. From the entrepreneur with a homemade marmalade business who went on to found Women's World Banking, to the educator who built the first university in the world; and from the... -
When My Ship Comes In: An emotional family saga for fans of Call the Midwife Sue Wilsher 9780751564600
RRP: £9.99£7.00The BRAND NEW wartime saga from the much-loved author of THE TILBURY POPPIES. Perfect for fans of Annie Murray and Donna DouglasWill she sacrifice her dreams to care for her family?Essex, 1959.Keep the family together, that's what her old mum always said... -
Muslim Woman's Participation in Social Life by Abd al-Halim Abu Shuqqah
RRP: £7.99£5.69The emancipation of women cannot be complete unless it is coupled with the emancipation of men. This can only be accomplished by drawing our social values from the Qur'an and the sunnah. In this volume, the author shows that mixed social life was the... -
The Sweetness of Venus: A History of the Clitoris by Sarah Chadwick 9781736298831
RRP: £21.95£17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736298831Author Sarah ChadwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Armin Lear Press LLCPublisher Armin Lear Press LLCWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)... -
The Tudor Housewife by Alison Sim
RRP: £12.99£9.87The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have, for the most part, eluded the historian's pen? The Tudor Housewife aims to answer this question, providing a... -
Women in the Second World War by Neil R. Storey 9780747808121
RRP: £8.99£7.17As the world became embroiled in the second global conflagration in just over two decades, the women of Britain once more answered the call of duty. Many of the first volunteers had served in the Great War and now they offered their services again - this... -
Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power by Eleanor Herman 9780063095687
RRP: £21.99£13.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063095687Author Eleanor HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 254g -
Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women by Kate Cooper
RRP: £12.99£9.34In Band of Angels, Kate Cooper tells the surprising story of early Christianity from the woman's point of view. Though they are often forgotten, women from all walks of life played an invaluable role in Christianity's growth to become a world religion... -
Wild Hope by Marisa Bate
RRP: £16.99£11.47Retracing my mother's footsteps in search of women's freedom 1974. A 22-year-old Jacqui French stands for a photograph in Omaha, Nebraska, thousands of miles from home. Behind a carefree smile lies a... -
Princess Victoria Melita by John van der Kiste
RRP: £9.99£7.77Princess Victoria Melita played a colourful role from her birth in 1876. The second daughter of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, she made a brief and unhappy marriage at the age of 17 to her cousin, Ernest, Grand Duke of Hesse. In the face of strong opposition... -
The Rebel Suffragette: The Life of Edith Rigby Beverley Adams 9781526773906
RRP: £19.99£14.50The suffragette movement swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Led by the Pankhurst's, the focus of the movement was in London with demonstrations and rallies taking place across the capital. But this was a nationwide movement with... -
Frieda: the original Lady Chatterley by Annabel Abbs
RRP: £9.99£7.00A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AND PICK OF THE YEARThe extraordinary story of Frieda von Richthofen, wife of D. H. Lawrence and the inspiration for Lady Chatterley's Lover.'Effervescent' The Times'A convincing evocation of a remarkable... -
The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop by Clover Hope
RRP: £17.99£13.23An illustrated highlight reel of more than 100 women in rap who have helped shape the genre and eschewed gender norms in the process The Motherlode highlights more than 100 women who have shaped the power, scope, and reach of rap music, including... -
Rebel Women: The renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world, from the French Revolution to today by Rosalind Miles
RRP: £5.99£4.27Rosalind Miles' The Women's History of the World was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and translated into almost forty languages.Now it is time for a new women's history - for more famous, infamous and little-known rebels.We begin with the... -
Hidden Depths: Women of the RNLI by Sue Hennessy 9780752454436
RRP: £20.00£15.27For over 180 years images of strong, selfless males have populated the reports and literature of the lifeboat service. What has not been so well documented or recognised are the roles that, right from the very beginning, women have played in working to... -
A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors Anthony Blond 9781845297190
RRP: £10.99£7.61The history of ancient Rome omitting all the boring bits. Following the success of BBC2 hit Rome on BBC2, no one has looked at the private lives of the Roman Emperors again in the same light. Anthony Blond's scandalous expose of the life of the Roman... -
The Sixteenth Century in 100 Women by Amy Licence
RRP: £25.00£17.90This retelling of the sixteenth century introduces the reader to a gallery of amazing women, from queens to commoners, who navigated the patriarchal world in memorable and life-changing ways. Amy Licence has scoured the records from Europe and beyond to... -
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £15.99£15.31This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the world wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; beautiful Diana... -
Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of the First World War by Elisabeth Shipton 9780750979504
RRP: £12.99£9.87The First World War saw one of the biggest ever changes in the demographics of warfare, as thousands of women donned uniforms and took an active part in conflict for the first time in history. Female Tommies looks at the military role of women worldwide... -
Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings by Clara Zetkin 9781608463909
RRP: £16.99£13.10Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) was a German Marxist theorist who tirelessly advocated for women's rights. In her writings, Clara Zetkin describes the political process that ultimately allowed for socialised reproduction' - namely the establishment by the... -
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse 9781529092202
RRP: £16.99£13.47Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard women's history.'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand'Brilliant' - Daisy Buchanan"My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been... -
A History of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts: Brownies, Rainbows and WAGGGS by Cook, Julie 9781399003414
RRP: £20.00£14.29A History of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts: Brownies, Rainbows and WAGGGS charts the evolution of the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from its early days as a movement started before WW1 right through to the modern day. With real life interviews with Girl... -
The Mistress of Mayfair: Men, Money and the Marriage of Doris Delevingne by Lyndsy Spence 9780750984249
RRP: £9.99£7.77The plot could have been inspired by Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies, but unlike Waugh's novel - which parodies the era of the 'Bright Young Things' - The Mistress of Mayfair is a real-life story of scandal, greed, corruption and promiscuity at the heart of... -
Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara by Vona Groarke 9781479817511
RRP: £18.99£16.72A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America Ellen O'Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself... -
Women and the American Experience: A Concise History by Nancy Woloch 9781032284897
RRP: £35.99£31.69The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women’s history from the seventeenth century to the present that illuminates the diversity of women’s experience and underscores the roles that... -
Great Second Acts: In Praise of Older Women by Marlene Wagman-Geller
RRP: £13.99£12.98#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... -
The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont 9780349011271 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.26'A beautifully illustrated tome honouring 100 exceptional women dating back to 630BC' RedA Stylist Must-read Book of 2018'This finely illustrated book is brimful of startling anecdotes about females who flouted traditional gender roles' Observer'Short,... -
Rebel Girls: How votes for women changed Edwardian lives Jill Liddington 9781844081684
RRP: £16.99£11.71Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage message out to the remotest Yorkshire dales and fishing harbours, to win Edwardian hearts and minds. 16-year-old... -
Ladies in Waiting by Anne Somerset
RRP: £12.99£8.83'Provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material about five centuries of court life' New York Times'Naughty Knickers version of our island story' Daily Mail---------------------------------------------Ladies in Waiting chronicles the lives of famous and...