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"Keep the Damned Women Out": The Struggle for Coeducation by Nancy Weiss Malkiel 9780691172996
RRP: $38.70$31.33As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span... -
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa by Nwando Achebe 9780821424070
RRP: $16.76$15.18An unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe's unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual... -
Unequal under Socialism: Race, Women, and Transnationalism in Bulgaria by Miglena S. Todorova 9781487528416
RRP: $28.37$24.76Unequal under Socialism examines the formation of racial, gender, and national identities and relations in the socialist state. With a specific focus on Bulgaria, a former socialist country in the Balkans, Miglena S. Todorova traces the intertwined local... -
Essex Girls: The Scandalous History of the Women of Essex by Karen Bowman
RRP: $12.89$8.57Queen, temptress, martyr, witch: the Essex Girl has left her mark on history. For centuries, society allocated women a role of service and obedience; an invisible woman, circumscribed by home and family, was a righteous woman. The Essex Girl, however,... -
She Said: Witty Words from Wise Women by Dominique Enright 9781789295405
RRP: $10.31$6.85In 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... -
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft 9780099595823
RRP: $12.89$9.17A key work of proto-feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft's readable and impassioned argument is as relevant today as it was two hundred years ago. ... -
Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children by Therese Oneill
$30.86The wickedly funny feminist historian who brought you Unmentionable: A Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners is back, to educate you on what to expect when you're expecting . . . a Victorian baby.Twenty-first century parents are drowning... -
The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign: National and International Perspectives by June Purvis 9780367902414
RRP: $49.01$43.06This book brings together twelve chapters from feminist historians from around the world to offer new perspectives on aspects of the campaign for women's suffrage in Britain.Although the focus is on Britain, this volume signals how the women's suffrage... -
Spartan Women by Sarah B. Pomeroy 9780195130676
RRP: $45.78$33.93Sparta, which existed from 800 B.C. until A.D. 200, was renowned in the ancient world as a stoic and martial city-state, and most of what we know about Sparta concerns its military history and male-dominated social structure. Yet Spartan women were in... -
Anonymous Is a Woman: A Global Chronicle of Gender Inequality by Nina Ansary 9780986406454
RRP: $27.08$17.88Next Generation Indie Book Award "Grand Prize/First Place Winner Nonfiction" Next Generation Indie Book Award "First Place Winner Women's Issues Nonfiction" Next Generation Indie Book Award "First Place Winner Education/Academic" IndieReader Discovery... -
Woman: The American History of an Idea by Lillian Faderman 9780300271140
RRP: $21.92$18.85A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century"Exhaustively researched and finely written."-Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times"An intelligently provocative, vital reading experience... -
The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision by Erika Bachiochi
RRP: $36.11$31.14Erika Bachiochi offers an original look at the development of feminism in the United States, advancing a vision of rights that rests upon our responsibilities to others. In The Rights of Women, Erika Bachiochi explores the development of feminist... -
The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnes Sorel to Madame Du Barry by Tracy Adams
RRP: $32.19$28.37Kings 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... -
We Are Feminist: An Infographic History of the Women's Rights Movement by Helen Pankhurst 9781912827107 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$2.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912827107Author Helen PankhurstFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Modern BooksPublisher Modern BooksWeight(grams) 360g -
Chronos Crime Chronicles - The Death of Amy Robsart: An Elizabethan Mystery by Sarah-Beth Watkins
RRP: $9.02$8.06Amy Robsart was the wife of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, later Earl of Leicester. In September 1560, she was found dead, her neck broken, at the bottom of a flight of stairs at Cumnor Place. Amy was twenty-eight when she died and her... -
A History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800 by Mary O'Dowd 9780582404298
RRP: $61.91$59.83The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women's lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800. This was a time of... -
The Merits of Women: Wherein Is Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men by Moderata Fonte
RRP: $19.35$16.83You would as well look for blood in a corpse as for the least shred of decency in a man . . . Without help from their wives, men are just like unlit lamps . . . Just think of them as an unreliable clock that tells you it's ten o'clock when it's... -
Let Me Be Frank: A Book About Women Who Dressed Like Men to Do Shit They Weren't Supposed to Do by Tracy Dawson
RRP: $25.80$17.72In this entertaining and eye-opening collection, writer, actor, and feminist Tracy Dawson showcases trailblazers throughout history who disguised themselves as men and continuously broke the rules to gain access and opportunities denied them because they... -
Women in Mayo 1821-1851: A Historical Perspective by Maureen Langan-Egan 9781910388181
$17.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910388181Author Maureen Langan-EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint GalviaPublisher Carrigboy -
Hitler's Spy Princess: The Extraordinary Life of Stephanie von Hohenlohe by Martha Schad
RRP: $16.76$12.41A portrait of Stephanie von Hohenlohe (1891-1972), notorious as a secret go-between and even a professional blackmailer. Despite her Jewish roots, Stephanie always claimed to be of pure Aryan descent. Soon enough, Hitler would begin to employ her on... -
Cash Flow: The Businesses of Menstruation by Camilla Mork Rostvik 9781787355446
RRP: $25.80$22.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787355446Author Camilla Mork RostvikFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 440g -
Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution by Nona Willis Aronowitz
RRP: $27.08$18.52Apologies 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 -
Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
$14.42Soon to be a major motion picture starring Golden Globe-winner Taraji P. Henson and Academy Award-winners Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of... -
A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs by Tara Nurin 9781641603423
RRP: $23.16$17.23Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer. It's women, not men, who've brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and village brewer lasted for hundreds of thousands of years-through the earliest days of Mesopotamian... -
Women Of Walt Disney Imagineering: 12 Women Reflect on their Trailblazing Theme Park Careers by Maggie Elliott
RRP: $37.40$24.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368021951Author Maggie ElliottFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Disney EditionsPublisher Disney Book Publishing Inc. -
An American Quilt: Unfolding a Story of Family and Slavery by Rachel May
RRP: $24.45$15.57Rachel May's rich new book explores the far reach of slavery, from New England to the Caribbean, the role it played in the growth of mercantile America, and the bonds between the agrarian south and the industrial north in the antebellum era-all through... -
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II by Mari K. Eder 9781728242729
$18.82For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen... -
On This Day She: Putting Women Back into History One Day at a Time by Jo Bell
RRP: $38.70$36.78A fascinating page-a-day collection profiling extraordinary women of all races, eras, and nationalities.Our past is full of influential women. Whether politicians, troublemakers, explorers, artists, and even the odd murderer, women have shaped society... -
The Quiet Revolution of Caroline Herschel: The Lost Heroine of Astronomy by Emily Winterburn 9780750980678
RRP: $25.80$19.40Caroline 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... -
Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949 by Elisabeth B. Armstrong
RRP: $27.09$21.45An intimate look at the 1949 Asian Women's Conference, the movements it drew from, and its influence on feminist anticolonialism around the world. In 1949, revolutionary activists from Asia hosted a conference in Beijing that gathered together their... -
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts by Leanna Renee Hieber
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies 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. -
Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India by Ipshita Nath
RRP: $38.70$34.77For 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... -
Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder: The True Story by Steve Hodel
RRP: $16.76$16.74A 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... -
Sister Sleuths: Female Detectives in Britain by Nell Darby
RRP: $19.34$14.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts by Blake Scott Ball
RRP: $36.11$30.46Despite--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... -
She the People: A Graphic History of Uprisings, Breakdowns, Setbacks, Revolts, and Enduring Hope on the Unfinished Road to Women's Equality by Jen Deaderick
RRP: $18.05$14.68In March 2017, Nevada surprised the rest of the country by suddenly ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment, thirty-five years after the deadline had passed. The ERA is now just two states short of total ratification. Two states and a legacy of shame are... -
Reflections on the Way to the Gallows: Rebel Women in Prewar Japan by Mikiso Hane
RRP: $32.25$28.93In this book, for the first time, we can hear the startling, moving voices of adventurous and rebellious Japanese women as they eloquently challenged the social repression of prewar Japan. The extraordinary women whose memoirs, recollections, and essays... -
Lady Charlotte Guest: The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist by Victoria Owens
RRP: $32.25$22.73When impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Yet despite their vast difference of background and age, over their nineteen-year long marriage,... -
Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood: White Women, Class, and Segregationist Resistance by Rebecca Brückmann 9780820358628
$43.47Massive Resistance and Southern Womanhood offers a comparative sociocultural and spatial history of white supremacist women who were active in segregationist grassroots activism in Little Rock, New Orleans, and Charleston from the late 1940s to the late... -
Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History by Keith O'Brien 9781328592798
RRP: $20.63$19.12Apologies 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 *...