Women

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692966006Author Moses SeenarineFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Xpyr PressPublisher Xpyr PressWeight(grams) 476g

A collection of essay, addresses, and magazine articles by the early-twentieth-century attorney and activist illuminate her militant views on feminism, suffrage, pacifism, and socialism.Book InformationISBN 9780190881252Author Blanche Wiesen CookFormat...

Trailblazing women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945 – 1975 offers a compelling new perspective of Australian radio and television history. It chronicles how a group of female producers defied the odds and forged remarkable careers in the...

Before and after the Battle of Manila, a Japanese spy and an American soldier have one thing in common: they both fall in love with Alice Feria, a pianist who would later become one of the first women journalists in the Philippines. Both would prove to...

An important contribution to early public debates on the nature of women written by a cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church. Pompeo Colonna’s In Defense of Women (1530), presented in this volume in Latin and English translation, is one of several...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666910544Author Cindy MediavillaFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

Grounded in a close reading of the records of Joan's trial and rehabilitation, on the early letters announcing her arrival at Chinon, and on three literary works; Christine de Pizan's Ditie, Martin le Franc's Le Champion des dames, and Alain Chartier's,...

Honorable 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...

In 1917, women won the vote in New York State. Suffrage and the City explores how activists in New York City were instrumental in achieving this milestone. Santangelo uncovers the ways in which the demand for women's rights intersected with the history,...

The history of women's involvement in politics has focused most heavily on electoral politics, but throughout the twentieth century a far wider range of women has engaged in political activity when they found it increasingly challenging to feed their...

A New History of Iberian Feminisms is both a chronological history and an analytical discussion of feminist thought in the Iberian Peninsula, including Portugal, and the territories of Spain - the Basque Provinces, Catalonia, and Galicia - from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681340111Author Elizabeth Ann BartlettFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Any visitor to Belgium or the Netherlands is immediately struck by the number of convents and beguinages (begijnhoven) in both major cities and small towns. Their number and location in urban centres suggests that the women who inhabited them once held a...

Drawing on autobiographical writings, oral histories, interrogation protocols, and cell spy reports, If the Walls Could Speak focuses on the lives of women in prison in postwar communist Poland. Some were jailed for their alleged collaboration with the...

By the mid-twentieth century, two things appeared destined for extinction in the United States: the practice of home birth and the profession of midwifery. In 1940, close to half of all U.S. births took place in the hospital, and the trend was increasing...

This volume examines the life of Anne of Bohemia, first queen of Richard II (1377-1399), and situates her within the context of medieval queenship by arguing that Anne ably fulfilled the political role of the queen consort through her intercession,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399512053Author Megan Elena BowenFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 658g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335282408Author Mallory O'MearaFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 503g

Continually Working tells the stories of Black working women who resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the 1940s to the 1970s. The book explores the job-related activism of Black Midwestern working women and uncovers the political...

Four Faces of Femininity tells the story of remarkable women who, through their creativity, passion, intelligence, and sheer determination, have left an indelible mark on the history of humankind. The book is divided into four sections, with figures...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637587379Author Taylor Baldwin KilandFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Knox PressPublisher Knox PressWeight(grams) 498g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBeverly Weintraub is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose coverage of aviation, education and social services has appeared in the New York Daily News and the...

Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588346650Author Smithsonian InstitutionFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Smithsonian Institution Scholarly PressPublisher Smithsonian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358699187Author Julia CookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552669990Author Margo GoodhandFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 204g

By the mid-twentieth century, two things appeared destined for extinction in the United States: the practice of home birth and the profession of midwifery. In 1940, close to half of all U.S. births took place in the hospital, and the trend was increasing...

'What guts. What attitude! These are the immortals I wish I'd learned about at school.'OLIVIA COLMAN Channel the feminist power of mythical goddesses in this witty, inspirational gift book. 'Wonderful.' CERYS MATTHEWSWhether it's the Norse warrior...

For much of the nineteenth century, the women of Northumberland had occupied crucial, though largely underappreciated and acknowledged, roles within society. Aside from the hard life of raising families in an area where money was often hard to come by,...

For much of the nineteenth century, the women of Northumberland had occupied crucial, though largely underappreciated and acknowledged, roles within society. Aside from the hard life of raising families in an area where money was often hard to come by,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062265500Author Marilyn YalomFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This uplifting collection celebrates inspiring bookish women the world over and their thoughts on life, love, politics, education and beyond. This uplifting collection celebrates inspiring bookish women the world over and their thoughts on life, love,...

An innovative recasting of US legal and economic history through the power of clothing for those who lacked power and status in American society. What can dresses, bedlinens, waistcoats, pantaloons, shoes, and kerchiefs tell us about the legal status...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948226745Author Ruby HamadFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm * 20mm

A historian of gender explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood In an era of falling births, it's often said that millennials invented the idea of not having kids. But history is full of women without children: some who chose...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993446801Author A. J. MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 414Imprint McAlpine MediaPublisher McAlpine Media

Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God's Police was first published in 1975. That was before the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 and before large numbers of women...

For fans of Margot Lee Shetterley and Liza Mundy comes an inspiring feminist tale of a woman who dedicated her entire life to the New York Police Department, upending the patriarchy and the status quo for women working in public service.Corsets, Crime,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800084162Author Hannah WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 474Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 890g