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Rebel Women Between the Wars: Fearless Writers and Adventurers by Sarah Lonsdale
RRP: £20.00£14.93What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years? Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the struggles, passions and achievements of a set of 'fearlessly determined' women who stopped at nothing to make their mark in the... -
Backwards & in Heels: The Past, Present and Future of Women Working in Film by Alicia Malone 9781633536173
RRP: £12.99£9.32Women in Filmmaking and Their Struggle Against Bias"After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels" -Ann Richards#1 Bestseller in Acting & Auditioning, Performing Arts, and Guides & Reviews... -
Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire by Carol Dyhouse 9780198828129
RRP: £14.99£10.95From dreams of Prince Charming or dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates, dependable family types, or simply good companions, female fantasies about men tell us a great deal... -
Citizen Woman: An Illustrated History of the Women's Movement by Jane Gerhard
RRP: £29.99£21.94One hundred years ago American women fought for and won an equal voice at the ballot box with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. This happened thanks to the unrelenting activism of women in the US and around the rest of the world, who shifted... -
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard 9781631494758
£14.85At long last, Mary Beard addresses in one brave book the misogynists and trolls who mercilessly attack and demean women the world over, including, very often, Mary herself. In Women & Power, she traces the origins of this misogyny to its ancient roots,... -
Princess Victoria Melita by John van der Kiste
RRP: £9.99£7.55Princess 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 Honourable Ladies: Profiles of Women MPS 1918-1996: Volume I by Iain Dale 9781785902444
RRP: £30.00£21.58FOREWORD BY PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY When Constance Markievicz stood for election as MP for Dublin St Patrick's in 1918, few people believed she could win the seat - yet she did. A breakthrough in the bitter struggle for female enfranchisement had... -
Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America by Keisha N Blain
RRP: £23.00£15.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807061503Author Keisha N. BlainFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Elizabeth Woodville: Mother of the Princes in the Tower by David Baldwin
RRP: £9.99£6.52Elizabeth Woodville is a historical character whose life no novelist would ever have dared invent. She has been portrayed as an enchantress, as an unprincipled advancer of her family's fortunes and a plucky but pitiful queen in Shakespeare's histories... -
A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon 9781419760181
RRP: £27.00£18.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419760181Author Emma SouthonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 251mm * 155mm *... -
The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion by Petra Slinkard
RRP: £35.00£25.29Diane Von Furstenberg, Vivienne Westwood, Sarah Burton, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Donna Karan, and Iris van Herpen are among the great women designers to emerge in the last few decades. We now live in an age when no one would dare call them that little... -
Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper by Lucy Bland
RRP: £19.99£14.52Modern women on trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning... -
Toil and Trouble: A Women's History of the Occult by Lisa Kroeger
RRP: £17.99£12.95From the celebrity spirit mediums of the nineteenth century to the TikTok witches hexing the patriarchy, women have long used magic and mysticism to seize back the power they re so often denied. Organized around different approaches women have taken to... -
For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078004Author Barbara EhrenreichFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)... -
Britannia's Daughters: Women of the British Empire by Joanna Trollope 9781845950187
RRP: £12.99£9.09In Britannia's Daughters, bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining the British Empire. She draws on a vast range of sources, including diaries and letters home. She provides a panoramic picture of... -
Behind Every Great Man: The forgotten women behind the world's famous and infamous by Marlene Wagman-Geller 9781492603054
RRP: £11.99£11.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492603054Author Marlene Wagman-GellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, IncDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 38mm -
Stories of Independent Women from 17th-20th Century: Genteel Women Who Did Not Marry by Charlotte Furness 9781526704382
RRP: £19.99£14.28As the fight for women's rights continues, and whilst men and women alike push for gender equality around the globe, this book aims to introduce readers to four women who, in their own way, challenged and defied the societal expectations of the time in... -
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah J. Swiss
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425243077Author Deborah J. SwissFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 373g -
The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Is a Hit in Hollywood by Paula Byrne
RRP: £9.99£3.73A radical look at Jane Austen as you've never seen her - as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain's favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such... -
It Takes Two: The Rivals, Romantics and Risk Takers that History Forgot by Cathy Newman 9780008363376
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman's witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make you look at your relationship and wonder, "Could we be doing more this weekend than just going to IKEA?"' CAITLIN MORAN ... -
It Takes Two: The Rivals, Romantics and Risk Takers that History Forgot by Cathy Newman 9780008363376 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£3.48'Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman's witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make you look at your relationship and wonder, "Could we be doing more this weekend than just going to IKEA?"' CAITLIN MORAN ... -
Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History by Lauren Marino
RRP: £14.99£12.88A boldly illustrated celebration of literary history's most revolutionary, talented women writers Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. These women dared to... -
Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England by Theresa Earenfight
RRP: £29.95£26.91Catherine of Aragon is an elusive subject. Despite her status as a Spanish infanta, Princess of Wales, and Queen of England, few of her personal letters have survived, and she is obscured in the contemporary royal histories. In this evocative biography,... -
Strange Antics: A History of Seduction by Clement Knox 9780008285678
RRP: £25.00£7.20When is seduction about more than just sex? In this brilliantly original history, Clement Knox explores these questions as well as the philosophy, legality, politics, art and literature of a force that underwrites our world. ... -
In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris by Livia Manera Sambuy 9781784741204
RRP: £13.99£11.93'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this book' EDMUND DE WAAL'An exemplary sleuth, both astute and open-minded . . . Manera Sambuy writes with impassioned style and insight' TELEGRAPHA lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that... -
Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress by Hagith Sivan 9780195379136
RRP: £39.99£26.91The astonishing career of Galla Placidia (c. 390-450) provides valuable reflections on the state of the Roman empire in the fifth century CE. In an age when emperors, like Galla's two brothers, Arcadius (395-408) and Honorius (395-423), and nephew,... -
Women and the Noose: A History of Female Execution by Richard Clark
RRP: £12.99£9.62Tracing the history of female crime and execution from 1726 to 1955, Women and the Noose presents the cases of over fifty women who met their end on the hangman's gallows. From the criminal act to the execution day itself, the women's stories illustrate... -
Hidden Depths: Women of the RNLI by Sue Hennessy 9780752454436
RRP: £20.00£15.04For 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... -
War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa by Joshua S. Goldstein 9780521001809
RRP: £30.99£26.75Gender roles are nowhere more prominent than in war. Yet contentious debates, and the scattering of scholarship across academic disciplines, have obscured understanding of how gender affects war and vice versa. In this authoritative and lively review of... -
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany by Gwen Strauss 9781250853561
RRP: £17.99£13.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250853561Author Gwen StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
A Delusion Of Satan: The Full Story Of The Salem Witch Trials by Frances Hill
RRP: £13.99£11.95This acclaimed history illuminates the horrifying episode of Salem with visceral clarity, from those who fanned the crisis to satisfy personal vendettas to the four-year-old "witch" chained to a dank prison wall in darkness till she went mad. Antonia... -
Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945: An Introduction by June Purvis
RRP: £36.99£32.53Women's History: Britain 1850-1945 introduces the main themes and debates of feminist history during this period of change, and brings together the findings of new research. It examines the suffrage movement, race and empire, industrialisation, the... -
Gender Rebels: 50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers by Anneka Harry
RRP: £8.99£6.13Meet the unsung sheroes of history: the diverse, defiant and daring (wo)men who changed the rules, and their identities, to get sh*t done. You'll encounter Kit Cavanagh, the swaggering Irish dragoon who was the first woman to be buried in London with... -
Radicals and Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern by Lottie Whalen 9781789147865
RRP: £20.00£14.29This is the story of a group of women whose experiments in art and life set the tone for the rise of New York as the twentieth century's capital of modern culture. Across the 1910s and '20s, through provocative creative acts, shocking fashion, political... -
Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen by Kate Williams
RRP: £9.99£6.80The story of how Elizabeth II became queen.'Rich with princess anecdotes... Williams's book weaves the Second World War, vast social change and the royal upheaval of abdication and celebration of coronation into energised, nostalgic storytelling' SUNDAY... -
Medieval Royal Mistresses: Mischievous Women who Slept with Kings and Princes by Julia A Hickey
RRP: £25.00£17.62Marriage for Medieval kings was about politics, power and the provision of legitimate heirs. Mistresses were about love, lust and possession. It was a world that included kidnap, poison, murder, violation, public shaming and accusations of witchcraft... -
Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters Of Eleanor Roosevelt And Lorena Hickok by Rodger Streitmatter 9780306809989
RRP: £13.99£9.75In 1978, more than 3,500 letters written over a thirty-year friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. Although the most explicit letters had been burned (Lorena told Eleanor's daughter, "Your mother wasn't... -
Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story by Nicola Tyrer
RRP: £10.99£7.40The remarkable true story of the Queen Alexandra frontline nurses in the Second World War.The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remain... -
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency by Bea Koch
RRP: £14.99£11.66Regency England is a world immortalized by Jane Austen and Lord Byron in their beloved novels and poems. The popular image of the Regency continues to be mythologized by the hundreds of romance novels set in the period, which focus almost exclusively on... -
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir by Madeleine Albright 9780062802279
RRP: £10.99£7.25"Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New YorkerNow in paperback with a new epilogueIn this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright-among...