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Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany: A Dialogue in Documents, 1885-1933 by Kathryn Kish Sklar
RRP: £38.00£33.53Women reformers in the United States and Germany maintained a brisk dialogue between 1885 and 1933. Drawing on one another's expertise, they sought to alleviate a wide array of social injustices generated by industrial capitalism, such as child labor and... -
Ladies, Wives and Women: British Army Wives in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815 by David Clammer
RRP: £25.00£17.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113900Author David ClammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance by Klara Naszkowska 9781032595351
RRP: £31.99£28.94Each life story is unique, yet each also entwines with other stories, sharing recurring themes linked to issues of gender, Jewishness, women's education, politics, and migration.The book's first section discusses relatively known analysts such as Sabina... -
Connected Women: Inspiring women who have shaped the world and each other by Kate Hodges
RRP: £12.99£8.83Behind every great woman... is another great woman. Here, the extraordinary achievements, relationships and secret histories of 84 pioneering women are revealed in inspirational stories which together show the indomitable strength of womankind. From... -
The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel: The Lost Heroine of Astronomy by Emily Winterburn 9780750980678
RRP: £20.00£15.27Caroline Herschel was a prolific writer and recorder of her private and academic life, through diaries, autobiographies for family members, notebooks and observation notes. Yet for reasons unknown she destroyed all of her notebooks and diaries from 1788... -
First Ladies: The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump by Betty Boyd Caroli 9780190669133
RRP: £14.99£13.29Betty Boyd Caroli's engrossing and informative First Ladies is both a captivating read and an essential resource for anyone interested in the role of America's First Ladies. Caroli observes the role as it has shifted and evolved from ceremonial backdrop... -
The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of Menopause by Susan Mattern
RRP: £25.00£20.30The first comprehensive look at menopause from prehistory to todayAre the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Historian Susan Mattern says yes, and The Slow Moon Climbs reveals just how wrong we have been. Taking readers from the rainforests of Paraguay... -
The Clintons' War on Women by Robert Morrow 9781510713925
RRP: £12.99£8.41"This book on Hillary - really tough." - President Donald TrumpHillary Clinton is running for president as an "advocate of women and girls," but there is another shocking side to her story that has been carefully covered up until now. This stunning... -
No Place for a Woman: The Spiritual and Political Power Abuse of Women within Catholicism by Debra Maria Flint 9781590567227
RRP: £18.99£14.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590567227Author Debra Maria FlintFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9780099595823
RRP: £9.99£7.32A key work of proto-feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft's readable and impassioned argument is as relevant today as it was two hundred years ago. ... -
Medieval Royal Mistresses: Mischievous Women who Slept with Kings and Princes Julia A Hickey 9781399081948
RRP: £25.00£17.90Marriage 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... -
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
RRP: £12.99£11.52In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience-as a woman, a poet, a feminist and a mother-she... -
Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder: The True Story by Steve Hodel
RRP: £12.99£12.98A New York Times Bestseller! For viewers of the hit Series I Am the Night and fans of the Root of Evil Podcast, the book that finally revealed the shocking identity of the Black Dahlia Killer-and the Police Corruption That Concealed It for So LongIn... -
The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnes Sorel to Madame Du Barry by Tracy Adams
RRP: £24.95£21.99Kings throughout medieval and early modern Europe had extraconjugal sexual partners. Only in France, however, did the royal mistress become a quasi-institutionalized political position. This study explores the emergence and development of the position of... -
Objects of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story by Richard Rabinowitz
RRP: £24.95£20.20An award-winning historian and museum curator tells the story of his Jewish immigrant family by lovingly reconstructing its dramatic encounters with the memory-filled objects of ordinary life.At a pushcart stall in East New York, Brooklyn, in the spring... -
She Said: Witty Words from Wise Women by Dominique Enright 9781789295405
RRP: £7.99£5.50In it you’ll find writers, artists, politicians, actors, musicians, fashionistas, from Sappho to Beyoncé and Dorothy Parker to Carrie Fisher, all of whom have two things in common: brilliant minds and barbed wits that sting with their precision... -
Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India by Ipshita Nath
RRP: £30.00£27.15For young Englishwomen stepping off the steamer, the sights and sounds of humid colonial India were like nothing they'd ever experienced. For many, this was the ultimate destination to find a perfect civil servant husband. For still more, however, India... -
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts by Blake Scott Ball
RRP: £27.99£23.61Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the voices of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the Peanuts... -
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... -
Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas by Laura Sook Duncombe 9781641602228
RRP: £16.95£13.14In the first-ever comprehensive survey of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women tells of the women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside-and sometimes in command of-their male counterparts. These women came from all walks... -
Our stories, our lives: Inspiring Muslim women's voices Wahida Shaffi (Wahida Shaffi) 9781847424105
RRP: £12.99£10.41In the early years of the 21st century, a number of Muslim women have achieved positions of influence. Women who care about the society in which they live and bring up their children are increasingly finding a voice and working together to make things... -
The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism by Kyla Schuller
RRP: £25.00£18.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036890Author Kyla SchullerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 500gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 156mm... -
Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution by Nona Willis Aronowitz
RRP: £20.99£14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593182765Author Nona Willis AronowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O'Brien 9781328592798
RRP: £15.99£14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328592798Author Keith O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *... -
Murderous Women by Paul Heslop 9780750950817 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£3.28Serial poisoners, crimes of passion, brutal slayings and infanticide; this new book examines the stories and subsequent trials behind the most infamous cases of British female killers between the early part of the nineteenth century and the 1950s. Among... -
Murderous Women by Paul Heslop
RRP: £14.99£11.72Serial poisoners, crimes of passion, brutal slayings and infanticide; this new book examines the stories and subsequent trials behind the most infamous cases of British female killers between the early part of the nineteenth century and the 1950s. Among... -
Sister Sleuths: Female Detectives in Britain Nell Darby 9781526780256
RRP: £14.99£11.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League by Anika Orrock 9781452173641
RRP: £19.95£14.90This book chronicles the history of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and the stories of the first women to play professional baseball in a league of their own. In 1941, the world was at war, and with able-bodied American men... -
Women All on Fire: The Women of the English Civil War by Alison Plowden
RRP: £10.99£8.47Using personal accounts from both Royalist and Parliamentarian supporters to reveal the untold story of the women of the English Civil War, Alison Plowden illustrates how the conflict affected the lives of women and how they coped with unfamiliar... -
Joan of Navarre: Infanta, Duchess, Queen, Witch? by Elena Woodacre 9780367203474
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book is the first full-length biography of Joan of Navarre, a fascinating royal woman who became duchess of Brittany and queen consort of England through her two marriages in 1386 and 1403 respectively.Joan was enmeshed in the turbulent politics of... -
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S Jones 9781541600256
RRP: £18.99£14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600256Author Martha S JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 28mm -
A Woman's Right to Know: Pregnancy Testing in Twentieth-Century Britain by Jesse Olszynko-Gryn 9780262544399
RRP: £57.00£39.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544399Author Jesse Olszynko-GrynFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed
RRP: £15.99£14.03A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the... -
How The Post Office Created America: A History by Winifred Gallagher
RRP: £16.99£11.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130062Author Winifred GallagherFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts by Leanna Renee Hieber
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541587Author Leanna Renee HieberFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. -
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt
RRP: £14.99£12.03From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt Disney Studios have moved and entertained millions. But few fans know that behind these groundbreaking features was an incredibly influential group of women who fought for... -
When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe by Maureen Quilligan 9781324092377
RRP: £14.99£11.78Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilisation of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars-yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific culture cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers who sat on Europe's thrones,... -
Witch Hunt: A Traveler's Guide to the Power & Persecution of the Witch by Kristen J. Sollée
RRP: £19.99£15.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578636990Author Kristen J. SolleeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1g -
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity by Alberto Angela
RRP: £12.99£8.71"The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series interested in a real-world game of thrones." -- Booklist One of Italy's most revered cultural figures... -
The Season: A Social History of the Debutante by Kristen Richardson
RRP: £13.99£12.25From Georgian England and Edith Wharton's New York to the contemporary International Debutante Ball, the presentation of young women into society has persisted. In this "sharply observed" (The New Yorker) exploration of the debutante ritual, Kristen...