Women

The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women's lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800. This was a time of...

Based on the scholarship of a global team of diverse authors, this wide-ranging handbook surveys the history and current status of pro-women thought and activism over millennia. The book traces the complex history of feminism across the globe, presenting...

"'I never got a chance to be a girl,' Kate O'Hare Palmer lamented, thirty-four years after her tour as an army nurse in Vietnam. Although proud of having served, she felt that the war she never understood had robbed her of her innocence and forced her to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984004331Author Hilary KaiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Paris Writers PressPublisher Paris Writers PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358305613Author Linda HirshmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807033555Author Daina Ramey BerryFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

This collection raises incisive questions about the links between the postcolonial carceral system, which thrived in Ireland after 1922, and larger questions of gender, sexuality, identity, class, race and religion. This kind of intersectional history is...

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...

If Cleopatra's nose had been half an inch longer, neither Caesar nor Mark Anthony would have fallen in love with her. It: The History of Human Beauty treats outstanding physical attractiveness as a quality or possession, comparable to power,...

If sex has generally been a private matter, seduction has always been of intense public interest. Whether the stuff of front-page tabloid news, the scandal of nineteenth-century American courts, or the stuff of literature across the eras, we are...

Why does white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance examines the grassroots...

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...

Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a ""quadroon,"" she and the city she represents rest irretrievably condemned in the popular historical...

When Catharine Parr Traill came to Upper Canada in 1832 as a settler from England, she brought along with her ties to British botanical culture. Nonetheless, when she arrived she encountered a new natural landscape and, like other women chronicled in...

Tracing the development of the field of southern women's history over the past half century, Sisterly Networks shows how pioneering feminists laid the foundation for a strong community of sister scholars and delves into the work of an organization...

Based on personal accounts by birthing women and their medical attendants, Brought to Bed reveals how childbirth has changed from colonial times to the present. Judith Walzer Leavitt's study focuses on the traditional woman-centered home-birthing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594164392Author Lisa Macchia OhligerFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme Publishing

River-cane baskets woven by the Chitimachas of south Louisiana are universally admired for their beauty and workmanship. Recounting friendships that Chitimacha weaver Christine Paul (1874-1946) sustained with two non-Native women at different parts of...

Many Americans are familiar with the real, but repeatedly stereotyped problem of alcohol abuse in Indian country. Most know about the Prohibition Era and reformers who promoted passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, among them the members of the Woman's...

Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how single, free women navigated life in a busy slave-encrusted river-port town before, during, and after the Civil...

From their everyday work in kitchens and gardens to the solemn work of laying out the dead, the Anglican women of mid-twentieth-century Conception Bay, Newfoundland, understood and expressed Christianity through their experience as labourers within the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998235158Author Pocket Book ConstitutionsFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Presidential BooksPublisher Presidential BooksWeight(grams) 41g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996159524Author Sue Ann BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Wwp PublishingPublisher Wwp PublishingWeight(grams) 435g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425186107Author Amy ZollFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994609106Author Winfried SedhoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Dr Winfried Sedhoff MedicalPublisher Dr Winfried Sedhoff MedicalWeight(grams) 422g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996159500Author Sue Ann BakerFormat PaperbackImprint Wwp PublishingPublisher Wwp PublishingWeight(grams) 304g

Many Americans are familiar with the real, but repeatedly stereotyped problem of alcohol abuse in Indian country. Most know about the Prohibition Era and reformers who promoted passage of the Eighteenth Amendment, among them the members of the Woman's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937666579Author Don RittnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint New Netherland PressPublisher New Netherland PressWeight(grams) 522g

In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed ""Sisterhood is powerful"", and women's historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807047880Author Erika JanikFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Toward the end of the nineteenth century, as young women began entering college in greater numbers than ever before, physicians and social critics charged that campus life posed grave hazards to the female constitution and women's reproductive health...

In the dying years of the 18th century, the corridors of Windsor echoed to the footsteps of six princesses. They were Charlotte, Augusta, Elizabeth, Mary, Sophia, and Amelia, the daughters of King George III and Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz...

Queens and princesses have always shown care and compassion, but many went much further. They were not afraid to roll up their sleeves, work in wards or help in field hospitals and operating theatres, despite their sheltered upbringings. Through wars and...

An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the War Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried...

'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin Moran 'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but didn't. For hundreds of years we have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943737352Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716025907Author I Can Do All Things PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781886541382Author Cheryl PryorFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Arlington & Amelia PublishersPublisher Arlington & Amelia...

This book is a collection of Sylvia Pankhurst's writing on her visits to North America in 1911-12. Unlike the standard suffragette tours which focused on courting progressive members of America's social elite for money, Pankhurst got her hands dirty,...