Women

First published in 1957, The English Woman in History displays the place women have held and the influence they have exerted within the changing pattern of English society. Ever since the days of Queen Elizabeth I the position of women in English society...

This stirring and vibrant account of women’s athleticism throughout history “will leave readers feeling inspired and powerful” (Ms. magazine).Part group biography, part cultural history, Strong Like Her delves into the fascinating stories of our muscular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525658030Author Ramie TargoffFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 584g

Only in recent decades has the American academic profession taken women's history seriously. But the very concept of women's history has a much longer past, one that's intimately entwined with the development of American advertising and consumer culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781728297224Author Shannon McKenna SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint SourcebooksPublisher Sourcebooks

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593728758Author Annabelle HirschFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839982576Author Kylie AndrewsFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

Coco Chanel lived her life as a romantic heroine. Fuelled by nineteenth century literature, she built a life that was part myth, part fact. She was the fashion designer everyone admired. The business woman whose fortunes were impossible to track. She...

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...

In The Highest Glass Ceiling, best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick tells the story of three remarkable women who set their sights on the American presidency. Victoria Woodhull (1872), Margaret Chase Smith (1964), and Shirley Chisholm (1972) each...

Illegal. Underground. Deadly. August 1, 1875, Toronto: The naked body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie's Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that played out in the bustling...

This is the inside story of the National Women's Conference held in Houston in 1977. Although the federally funded meeting was featured on the cover of Time magazine twice, participant Gloria Steinem now describes it as "the most important event...

Forty years have passed since the first UN-organized World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975. In that time, women's rights, and later gender equality, have become firmly established as an important area of global politics and human rights. What...

"I will always be somebody."This assertion, a startling one from a nineteenth-century woman, drove the life of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only American woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor. President Andrew Johnson issued the award in 1865 in...

This collection celebrates the contributions of our foremothers-mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and neighbors-who devoted their lives to farming pursuits. Some embraced their roles, others detested the life of a farm woman; but most would agree their...

This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this movement were not based primarily in the United States, however, or in Europe. Instead, Katherine M...

"'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...

Revolutionary feminism is resurging across the world. But what were its origins? In the early 1970s, the International Feminist Collective began to organise around the call for recognition of the different forms of labour performed by women. They paved...

The first collection of its kind, Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought is historically organized and transnational in scope, highlighting key ideas, transformative moments, and feminist conversations across national and...

Descendants of a prominent slaveholding family, Elizabeth, Grace, and Katharine Lumpkin grew up in a culture of white supremacy. But while Elizabeth remained a lifelong believer, her younger sisters chose vastly different lives. Seeking their fortunes in...

Florence Nightingale is known as a hospital reformer, a social reformer, and the founder of professional nursing; few realize that she worked closely with doctors on these issues. As Nightingale's first supporters and colleagues, doctors contributed to...

By the late nineteenth century, Canadian women had begun forging careers as professional actresses, appearing not just in Canada, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They played an integral role in theatrical networks and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063304321Author Philippa GregoryFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

An intimate look at the 1949 Asian Women’s Conference, the movements it drew from, and its influence on feminist anticolonialism around the world.   In 1949, revolutionary activists from Asia hosted a conference in Beijing that gathered together their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639365906Author Jill BurkeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 531g

The first collection of its kind, Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought is historically organized and transnational in scope, highlighting key ideas, transformative moments, and feminist conversations across national and...

Kings throughout medieval and early modern Europe had extraconjugal sexual partners. Only in France, however, did the royal mistress become a quasi-institutionalized political position. This study explores the emergence and development of the position of...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988531762Author Catherine BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University Press

This collection presents diverse critical perspectives and discussion about the keeping or telling of children's originstories as a part of contemporary mothering labor. The first two sections outline perspectives from mother authors about how they...

Forty years have passed since the first UN-organized World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975. In that time, women's rights, and later gender equality, have become firmly established as an important area of global politics and human rights. What...

In eighteenth-century America, information about a woman's life and accomplishments was very difficult to discover, but some woman were avid letter writers or devoted journal keepers, and thankfully some of those letters and journals were saved. These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492687740Author Anne Gardiner PerkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Sourcebooks, IncPublisher Sourcebooks, IncDimensions(mm) 235mm * 159mm * 31mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063141988Author Meredith BagbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 397g

Only in recent decades has the American academic profession taken women's history seriously. But the very concept of women's history has a much longer past, one that's intimately entwined with the development of American advertising and consumer culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668001073Author Shonda RhimesFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner / Marysue Rucci BooksPublisher Scribner / Marysue Rucci BooksWeight(grams) 813g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787355569Author Camilla Mork RostvikFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 610g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982123406Author Amy ArgetsingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Atria/One Signal PublishersPublisher Atria/One Signal PublishersWeight(grams)...

The thirteen critical and well-documented chapters of Women, Work and Activism document women's labor struggle from late nineteenth-century Portuguese mutual societies to Yugoslav peasant women's work in the 1930s, and from the Catalan labor movement...

This edited collection examines gendered representations of "evil" in history, the arts, and literature. Scholars often explore the relationships between gender, sex, and violence through theories of inequality, violence against women, and...