Women

This compelling book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family's arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the "waiting room for the...

Clara Zetkin (1857-1933) was a German Marxist theorist who tirelessly advocated for women's rights. In her writings, Clara Zetkin describes the political process that ultimately allowed for socialised reproduction' - namely the establishment by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861516947Author Jim LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk is hailed as one of the most charismatic political leaders of the twentieth century, but little is known today about his one and only wife, Latife Hanim. A multilingual intellectual educated at the Sorbonne, Latife's marriage to...

Apologies 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 *...

Womens Worlds in England presents a unique collection of source materials on womens lives in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. The book introduces a wonderfully diverse group of women and a series of voices that have rarely been heard in...

In 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...

The astonishing career of Galla Placidia (c. 390-450) provides valuable reflections on the state of the Roman empire in the fifth century CE. In an age when emperors, like Galla's two brothers, Arcadius (395-408) and Honorius (395-423), and nephew,...

How does normal social, cultural, religious life survive in constant turmoil? How can the people flourish? These basic questions are examined and answered by Razia Sultanova's academic analysis and deep fieldwork, with extensive eye-witness and personal...

Apologies 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

Massive 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640092303Author Emily MidorikawaFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250853561Author Gwen StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

WINNER 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639732159Author Shelley PuhakFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420528633Author Laurie Gwen ShapiroFormat HardbackImprint Thorndike Press Large PrintPublisher Thorndike Press Large PrintWeight(grams)...

Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vaenus Noire, Robin Mitchell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668065518Author Ana GarrigaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Avid Reader PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 145mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593727027Author Norah O'DonnellFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

A Most Quiet Murder examines the death of a five-year-old girl in late nineteenth-century France, unfolding the mystery through judicial investigations, psychiatric medical evaluations, and ultimately, a trial for murder. The investigators quickly...

Gender influenced every aspect of life in medieval and early modern Scotland. This collection illuminates how gendered expectations and experiences shaped people's relationships with where they lived, what they believed and how they exercised power. ...

*The new book for women who want to live differently - featuring interviews with fascinating, inspirational women from all walks of life*When Poorna Bell found herself at the height of grief in her mid-thirties, she spent each day just trying to survive...

How reforms to girlhood education in the Progressive Era cemented inequalities of gender, race, and class in urban school systems. In Home Work, historian Ruby Oram tells the story of how middle-class, white women reformers lobbied the state to...

The first published defense of women by a Netherlandish author. Jehan Baptista Houwaert's Excellence and Nobility of Women constitutes the eighth book of his Plain of the Nine Muses, or The Pleasure Garden of Virtuous Women (1582-1583), an immense...

Saddle up for a captivating journey through American history, fashion, and frontier spirit in The Cowgirl—a beautifully visual tribute to one of America’s most enduring cultural icons.From the rugged trails of the Old West to the wide-open ranchlands of...

A 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609389710Author Coreen DerifieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams)...

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.About the AuthorBlanche Wiesen Cook is Distinguished Professor of...

Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing official sources with oral histories and socialist policies with everyday practices, Jill...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733823999Author April Young BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Brown Blackwell BooksPublisher Brown Blackwell BooksWeight(grams)...

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...

'A welcome addition to medieval history, giving us a window into the lives of women that many people only know by name, if at all.' PHILIPPA GREGORY, author of The Other Boleyn Girl and Normal WomenA spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history...

Combining history and biography, The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre focuses on the intimate relationship and professional collaboration between two creative women in Russia's Silver Age (1880s-1920). The actress Lidia Yavorskaya and the writer Tatiana...

From 1950 to 1980, activists in the black freedom and women's liberation movements mounted significant campaigns in response to the injustices of rape. These activists challenged the dominant legal and social discourses of the day and redefined the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250284457Author Lydia ReederFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm) 243mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733823906Author April Young BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Brown Blackwell BooksPublisher Brown Blackwell BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781432839031Author Kate MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 631Imprint Thorndike Press Large PrintPublisher Thorndike Press Large PrintWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733823920Author April Young BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 570Imprint Brown Blackwell BooksPublisher Brown Blackwell BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962561327Author Sharon SuskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Little Creek BooksPublisher Little Creek BooksWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In 1844, seven widows dared to cast ballots in an election in Canada West, a display of feminist effrontery that was quickly punished: the government struck a law excluding women from the vote. It would be seven decades before women regained voting...