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Countercurrents: Women's Movements in Postwar Montreal by Amanda Ricci 9780228017288
RRP: £29.99£26.50In 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... -
In Their Own Words: Women Who Served in WW II by Rachel Vogeleisen
RRP: £18.00£13.16Apologies 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 -
Bad Girls from History: Wicked or Misunderstood? by Dee Gordon 9781473862821
£13.85You 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... -
Voices of Scotswomen in Peace and War: Spoken Recollections of Home Life, Employment and 1939-45 War Service by Ian MacDougall 9781910900321
RRP: £40.95£34.66During 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... -
In Defence of Women by Joanna M Barker 9781781887745
£17.07Apologies 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... -
The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League by Anika Orrock 9781452173641
RRP: £19.95£14.72This 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... -
The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel by Meredith Bagby
RRP: £40.00£25.68Apologies 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 -
Murderous Women by Paul Heslop 9780750950817 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£3.28Serial 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... -
Murderous Women by Paul Heslop
RRP: £14.99£11.55Serial 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... -
Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote by Ellen Carol DuBois 9781501165160
RRP: £28.00£16.93Honoring 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... -
Woman: The American History of an Idea by Lillian Faderman
£25.46A 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 by Monica Ahanonuby
RRP: £21.99£15.20Black 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... -
Women in the History of Science: A Sourcebook by Hannah Wills 9781800084179
RRP: £50.00£43.76Apologies 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 -
Inventing the Working Parent: Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain by Sarah E. Stoller 9780262546102
RRP: £52.00£35.95Apologies 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 -
International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History by Associate Professor of History Jocelyn Olcott
RRP: £26.49£23.82Amid 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 History of Women in Mathematics: Exploring the Trailblazers of STEM by Dale DeBakcsy 9781399056519
£22.80From 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... -
All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, and the Battle for Women's Right to Vote by Laura Kumin
RRP: £22.00£14.05In 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... -
Bosom Buddies: A Celebration of Female Friendships throughout History by Violet Zhang 9781452168395
RRP: £16.95£11.64Featuring 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... -
Beyond Deviant Damsels: Re-evaluating Female Criminality in the Nineteenth Century by Anne-Marie Kilday
RRP: £98.00£88.71Using 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... -
Making Space for Women: Stories from Trailblazing Women of NASA's Johnson Space Center by Jennifer M. Ross-Nazzal
RRP: £29.95£24.07From 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: Early History to the 21st Century by Kathleen Sheldon
RRP: £32.00£28.21African 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... -
The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition by Katherine Paugh 9780198789789
£110.45Many 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 Red Menace: How Lipstick Changed the Face of American History by Ilise S. Carter
RRP: £19.99£15.02In 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... -
The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition by Katherine Paugh
RRP: £28.99£26.71Many 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 War Queens: Extraordinary Women Who Ruled the Battlefield by Jonathan W. Jordan 9781635767193
RRP: £25.99£16.94The 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... -
Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism by Elora Shehabuddin 9780520402300
RRP: £24.00£20.38"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... -
The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present by Christine Stansell 9780812972023
RRP: £18.99£13.75Apologies 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 -
Forget 'Having It All': How America Messed Up Motherhood--and How to Fix It by Amy Westervelt
RRP: £22.00£16.77After 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... -
The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World by Jayne Zanglein
£13.02Never 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... -
Myths Shattered and Restored: Proceedings of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology by Marion Dumont 9780996961721
£16.98Apologies 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 -
Military Wives: From the First World War to Afghanistan by Penny Legg 9780752491073
RRP: £20.00£11.67For 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... -
Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019 by Eileen Boris 9780190874629
RRP: £34.99£30.49Founded 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: Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature by Shelley DeWees 9780062394620
RRP: £9.99£9.64"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... -
Infamous Essex Women by Dee Gordon
RRP: £14.99£11.55Here 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... -
A Women's History of the Christian Church: Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership by Elizabeth Gillan Muir 9781487593841
RRP: £29.99£26.90Tracing 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... -
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet by Nell McShane Wulfhart 9780593082294
RRP: £13.99£9.62Apologies 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... -
Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women's Rights After the First World War by Mona L. Siegel
RRP: £22.00£17.36In 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... -
Women in Disputes: A History of European Women in Mediation and Arbitration by Susanna Hoe 9780957215320
RRP: £20.00£16.44From 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... -
The Trouble with Women in Power: Leaders Who Dared to Change the World by Dominique Gaulme
RRP: £24.95£17.35Apologies 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 -
The Double Life of Katharine Clark: The Untold Story of the American Journalist Who Brought the Truth About Communism to the West by Katharine Gregorio
£13.05If 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...