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Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall
RRP: £16.99£11.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399581793Author Mikki KendallFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed Press -
Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly 9780062363596
RRP: £18.99£17.42Soon 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... -
A Soldier and a Woman by Gerard J.De Groot 9780582414389
RRP: £71.99£69.50The question of women's role in the military is extremely topical. A Woman and a Soldier covers the experiences of women in the military from the late mediaeval period to the present day. Written in two volumes this comprehensive guide covers a wide... -
The Women's History of the Modern World: How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years by Rosalind Miles 9780062444035
RRP: £16.99£9.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062444035Author Rosalind MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 272g -
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 *... -
Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers by Hannah K. Chapman
£15.08In Why She Wrote, dive into the fascinating, unexpected, and inspiring stories behind the greatest women writers in the English language. This compelling graphic collection features 18 women-including Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Alice Dunbar... -
Dressing Up: The Women Who Influenced French Fashion by Elizabeth L Block
RRP: £32.00£22.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045841Author Elizabeth L. BlockFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
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... -
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity by Alberto Angela
RRP: £12.99£8.48"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... -
Widows: Poverty, Power and Politics by Professor Maggie Andrews 9780750990103 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£17.10Historically seen as figures of pity and foreboding - poverty stricken receivers of charity, tragic figures dressed in black and even sometimes sexually voracious predators or witches - widows have been subject to powerful stereotypes that have endured... -
Widows: Poverty, Power and Politics by Professor Maggie Andrews
RRP: £20.00£15.04Historically seen as figures of pity and foreboding - poverty stricken receivers of charity, tragic figures dressed in black and even sometimes sexually voracious predators or witches - widows have been subject to powerful stereotypes that have endured... -
Mothers in Israel: Methodist Beginnings Through the Eyes of Women by Donna L Fowler-Marchant 9781945935824
RRP: £22.99£17.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945935824Author Donna L Fowler-MarchantFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Wesley's Foundery BooksPublisher Wesley's Foundery BooksWeight(grams)... -
Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America by Leslie Zemeckis
RRP: £12.99£11.43By the director of the hit documentary Behind the Burly Q comes the first ever oral history of American Burlesque--as told by the performers who lived it, often speaking out here for the first time. By telling the intimate and surprising stories from its... -
Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires by Julie Peakman 9781789141405
RRP: £30.00£21.95Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through 500 years of empire-building around the world. In a graphic and sometimes unsettling account, Julie Peakman examines colonization and the imperial experience from women's points of... -
Wild Women by Autumn Stephens
RRP: £12.99£8.63Badass Victorian Women"Wild Women is a delightful collection of riveting stories about our independent, iconoclastic, and utterly outrageous foremothers." - Vicki Leon, author of Uppity Women of Ancient Times.#1 New Release in Politics & Social Sciences,... -
The Season: A Social History of the Debutante by Kristen Richardson 9780393608731
RRP: £20.99£17.75Kristen Richardson, from a family of debutantes, chose not to debut but her curiosity drove her to research this enduring custom. The story begins in England six hundred years ago when wealthy fathers needed an efficient way to find appropriate husbands... -
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£12.00From 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... -
Infamous Yorkshire Women by Issy Shannon
RRP: £12.99£9.62Many remarkable women have been born in, or have strong connections with Yorkshire. In Issy Shannon's new book we hear about the most infamous - including witches, thieves, fraudsters and murders. Among many other are the calculating Queen Cartimandua,... -
Pioneers in Bloomers: The True Story of the Pedestriennes - British Sport's First Female Celebrities by Rob Hadgraft
RRP: £9.99£7.11Women's sport is finally flourishing in Britain. But still largely unrecognised are the pioneering efforts of the Victorian era 'pedestriennes' who laid the foundations for modern woman to participate in professional sport. Dozens of these... -
The Women of Now: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America by Katherine Turk 9780374601539
RRP: £26.99£17.59In the summer of 1966, crammed into a DC hotel suite and passing paper cups of liquor, twenty-eight women hatched a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the... -
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles 9781324020875
RRP: £17.99£13.92Harriet Tubman, forced to labour outdoors on a Maryland plantation, learned a terrain for escape. Louisa May Alcott ran wild, eluding gendered expectations in New England. The Indigenous women's basketball team from Fort Shaw, Montana, recaptured a sense... -
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet by Nell McShane Wulfhart
RRP: £25.00£15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780385546454Author Nell McShane WulfhartFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint... -
Rebel Women: The renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world, from the French Revolution to today by Rosalind Miles 9780349006086
RRP: £10.99£6.47'They will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death'So said,in 1913 ,the brilliant orator and suffragette ,Emmeline Pankhurst, just one of the inspiring women who won the vote for women. She remains a heroine for those determined to... -
Victory for the Vote: The Fight for Women's Suffrage and the Century that Followed by Doris Weatherford
RRP: £18.95£13.31Women's Suffrage and the Continuing Fight for Women's Rights"Weatherford's book traces the philosophical roots of the Seneca Falls convention to the 17th century and women who defied the dominant religious leadership in the nascent American colonies." ... -
Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77 by Louise Toupin
RRP: £22.99£17.94Revolutionary feminism is resurging across the world. But what were its origins? In the early 1970s, the International Feminist Collective began to organise around the call for recognition of the different forms of labour performed by women. They paved... -
Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes by Haley Shapley 9781982120856
RRP: £29.99£17.26Beautiful and powerful, Strong Like Her presents the awe-inspiring account of women's athleticism throughout history.Journalist Haley Shapley takes us through the delightful untold history of female strength to understand how we can better encourage-and... -
New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story by Winifred Gallagher 9780735223257
RRP: £24.99£16.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735223257Author Winifred GallagherFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice by Emily Midorikawa
RRP: £22.99£16.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640092303Author Emily MidorikawaFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Guiding Lights: The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women by Shona Riddell
RRP: £19.99£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925820621Author Shona RiddellFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Exisle PublishingPublisher Exisle Publishing -
The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots: Elizabeth I and Her Greatest Rival by Kate Williams 9781643130002
RRP: £28.95£18.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643130002Author Kate WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 150mm *... -
Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir by Marie Yovanovitch
RRP: £30.00£19.44An inspiring and urgent memoir by the ambassador who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power. By the time she became US Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch had seen her share of corruption, instability, and tragedy in developing countries... -
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... -
Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant by Anne Gardiner Perkins
RRP: £12.99£11.81WINNER OF THE 2020 CONNECTICUT BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION AND NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS FOR BOOK CLUBS IN 2021 BY BOOKBROWSE"Perkins' richly detailed narrative is a reminder that gender equity has never come easily, but instead if borne from the... -
Chrystal Macmillan, 1872-1937: Campaigner for Equality, Justice and Peace Helen Kay 9781399514521
RRP: £85.00£77.50This historical biography of Chrystal Macmillan, one of Scotland's most prominent campaigners for women's equality, justice and peace in the early twentieth century, is the first account of her life and work.?It describes her early life in a comfortable... -
Women's Suffrage: The Complete Guide to the Nineteenth Amendment Tiffany K. Wayne 9798765126899
RRP: £21.99£21.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765126899Author Tiffany K. WayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
The Feminist Pacific: International Women's Networks in Hawai'i, 1820–1940 Rumi Yasutake 9780231208536
RRP: £30.00£27.39As competing American, European, and later Japanese imperial and colonial ambitions spread across the ocean in the nineteenth century, Honolulu emerged as a transnational hub for the exchange of ideas. Rumi Yasutake reveals the pivotal role of women’s... -
The Woman War Correspondent, the U.S. Military, and the Press: 1846-1947 by Carolyn M. Edy 9781498539296
RRP: £36.00£31.81Honorable Mention recipient for the American Journalism Historians Association Book of the Year Award, this book outlines the rich history of more than 250 women who worked as war correspondents up through World War II, while demonstrating the ways in... -
Women in American Cartography: An Invisible Social History by Judith Tyner 9781498548298
RRP: £81.00£71.06Although women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. Standard histories of cartography have focused on men and maps and only rarely is a woman's name found. Judith Tyner argues that the women were not... -
Women in American Cartography: An Invisible Social History by Judith Tyner 9781498548311
RRP: £35.00£30.95Although women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. The standard histories of cartography have focused on men. A woman's name is rarely found. In Women in American Cartography, Judith Tyner argues that... -
Pixel Flesh: How Toxic Beauty Culture Harms Women by Ellen Atlanta 9781035411634
RRP: £16.99£12.83A generation defining exposé of toxic beauty culture in our digital age and how it is harming women We are living in a new age of beauty. With advancements in cosmetic surgery, augmented reality face filters, photo editing apps, and exposure to more...