Women

In the decades following the Second World War, women from all walks of life became increasingly frustrated by the world around them. Drawing on long-standing political traditions, these women bound together to revolutionize social norms and contest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861513946Author Rachel VogeleisenFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 250g

You wont be familiar with every one of the huge array of women featured in these pages, but all, familiar or not, leave unanswered questions behind them. The range is extensive, as was the research, with its insight into the lives and minds of women in...

During the Second World War thousands of women served with the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) or the Timber Corps. In this book 19 Scotswomen who served in the war tell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781887745Author Joanna M BarkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063141971Author Meredith BagbyFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 454g

Serial 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...

Serial 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...

Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists.Distinguished historian Ellen...

A 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...

Black Icons in Herstory features colorfully illustrated portraits and inspiring biographies of 50 of the most admired women in the fields of music, film, literature, politics, human rights, and more. This second book in our Icons series focuses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800084179Author Hannah WillsFormat HardbackPage Count 474Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1080g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262546102Author Sarah E. StollerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women's Year. The capstone event, a two-week conference in Mexico City, was dubbed by organizers and journalists as "the greatest...

From ancient Greece to medieval Baghdad, from Revolutionary France to China's Qing Dynasty, women mathematicians have worked alongside men to a degree that was denied them in most other fields of scientific inquiry. Locked out of biological studies first...

In honor of the centenary of the 19th amendment, a delectable new book that reveals a new side to the history of the suffrage movement.We all likely conjure up a similar image of the women's suffrage movement: picket signs, red carnations, militant...

Featuring 25 remarkable and inspiring female friendships throughout history, Bosom Buddies is an illustrated celebration of these empowering relationships between women. From the formidable Trung Sisters and friendly rivals Katherine Mansfield and...

Using detailed case studies, Beyond Deviant Damsels undermines many of the conventional assumptions about how women committed crime in the nineteenth century. Previous historical accounts generally constructed gendered stereotypes of women acting in...

From the creation of the Manned Spacecraft Center to the launching of the International Space Station and beyond, Making Space for Women explores how careers for women at Johnson Space Center have changed over the past fifty years as the workforce became...

African women's history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. In African Women: Early History to the 21st...

Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic success of the British Empire during the age of abolition. Abolitionist reformers hoped that a homegrown...

In America, lipstick is the foundation of empires; it's a signature of identity; it's propaganda, self-expression, oppression, freedom, and rebellion. It's a multi-billion-dollar industry and one of our most iconic accessories of gender. This engaging...

Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic success of the British Empire during the age of abolition. Abolitionist reformers hoped that a homegrown...

The ingenious wartime tactics of some of history's most powerful female leaders, from the stifling battlefields of ancient Egypt to the frigid waters off the Falkland Islands. History's killer queens come in all colors, ages, and leadership styles...

"A must read."—CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022 "Holds up a mirror to the unifying, braided futures underlying so-called 'Western' and 'Muslim' feminism that are both undermined by the power of capital, the world trade order, and cynical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972023Author Christine StansellFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 462g

After filing a story for a journalism assignment only two days after giving birth, Amy Westervelt had a revelation: we treat mothers like crap in this country. From inadequate maternity leave to gender-based double standards, emotional labor to the wage...

Never tell a woman where she doesn't belong.In 1932, Roy Chapman Andrews, president of the men-only Explorers Club, boldly stated to hundreds of female students at Barnard College that "women are not adapted to exploration," and that women and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996961721Author Marion DumontFormat PaperbackImprint Goddess InkPublisher Goddess InkWeight(grams) 449g

For as long as there have been armed forces there have been camp followers - the families who move with the military to stay with their men. This book looks at the experiences of just a few of these families, through the eyes of the military wives and...

Founded in 1919 along with the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) establishes labor standards and produces knowledge about the world of work, serving as a forum for nations, unions, and employer associations. Before WWII, it...

"Not Just Jane restores seven of England's most fascinating and subversive literary voices to their rightful places in history. Shelley DeWees tells each woman writer's story with wit, passion, and an astute understanding of the society in which she...

Here are Essex Girls in a different light to the stereotype of modern public expectation. Murderers, mayhem-makers, swindlers, witches, smugglers and lustful adulteresses have played a part in the darker side of the county's history. From the thirteenth...

Tracing two thousand years of female leadership, influence, and participation, Elizabeth Gillan Muir examines the various positions women have filled in the church. From the earliest female apostle, and the little known stories of the two Marys - the...

Apologies 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 9780593082294Author Nell McShane WulfhartFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint...

In the watershed year of 1919, world leaders met in Paris, promising to build a new international order rooted in democracy and social justice. Female activists demanded that statesmen live up to their word. Excluded from the negotiating table, women met...

From Homer to Jane Austen, storytellers have entertained their audiences with tales of women in disputes, as parties and peacemakers. This is our attempt to write their history, relying as far as possible on primary sources, documents which have survived...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080206725Author Dominique GaulmeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1000g

If you loved Kate Moore's The Radium Girls or Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance, you'll be enthralled with this untold story of how Katharine Clark, a trailblazing journalist, exposed the truth about Communism to the world.Meticulously researched...