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Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975 by Kylie Andrews 9781839982576
RRP: £80.00£76.48Apologies 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 -
The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World by Jayne Zanglein 9781728215242
RRP: £19.99£18.52Never 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... -
The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women's Quest for the American Presidency by Ellen Fitzpatrick 9780674088931
RRP: £21.95£17.62In 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... -
Jeannie’s Demise: Abortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto by Ian Radforth 9781771135139
RRP: £16.95£14.10Illegal. 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... -
American Women on the Move: The Inside Story of the National Women's Conference, 1977 by Shelah Gilbert Leader 9781498535991
RRP: £79.00£69.34This 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... -
Institutionalizing Gender Equality: Historical and Global Perspectives by Yulia Gradskova 9781498516754
RRP: £45.00£39.49Forty 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... -
Dr. Mary Walker's Civil War: One Woman's Journey to the Medal of Honor and the Fight for Women's Rights by Theresa Kaminski 9781493066421
RRP: £14.99£11.53"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... -
Grit, Not Glamour: Female Farmers, Ranchers, Ropers, and Herders of the American West by Cheryl Mullenbach 9781493060498
RRP: £16.99£12.94This 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... -
Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement by Katherine M. Marino 9781469661520
£32.12This 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... -
Officer, Nurse, Woman: The Army Nurse Corps in the Vietnam War by Kara Dixon Vuic 9780801893919
£50.77"'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... -
Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77 by Louise Toupin 9780745338682
RRP: £85.00£65.76Revolutionary 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... -
Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought by M. Cristina Alcalde 9780520264229
RRP: £50.00£40.12The 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... -
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall 9780393047998
£28.97Descendants 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 and the Medical Men: Working Together for Health Care Reform by Lynn McDonald 9780228012030
RRP: £29.99£25.45Florence 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... -
Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad: A Transnational History of Stage and Screen Actresses by Cecilia Morgan 9780228011385
RRP: £35.00£30.74By 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... -
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory 9780063304321
RRP: £39.99£22.79Apologies 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 -
Bury the Corpse of Colonialism: The Revolutionary Feminist Conference of 1949 by Elisabeth B. Armstrong 9780520390904
RRP: £71.00£55.05An 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... -
How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty & Female Creativity by Jill Burke 9781639365906
RRP: £28.95£18.11Apologies 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 -
Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought by M. Cristina Alcalde 9780520264205
RRP: £84.00£66.69The 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... -
The Creation of the French Royal Mistress: From Agnes Sorel to Madame Du Barry by Tracy Adams 9780271085975
RRP: £80.95£71.53Kings 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: Early History to the 21st Century by Kathleen Sheldon 9780253027160
RRP: £70.00£60.71African 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... -
Women Mean Business: Colonial businesswomen in New Zealand by Catherine Bishop 9781988531762
RRP: £23.00£19.74Apologies 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 -
Mothers as Keepers and Tellers of Origin Stories by Kerri Kearney 9781772582123
RRP: £20.95£20.09This 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... -
Institutionalizing Gender Equality: Historical and Global Perspectives by Yulia Gradskova 9781498516730
RRP: £102.00£89.14Forty 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... -
Remarkable Women of New England: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers: The War Years 1754 to 1787 by Carole Owens 9781493016686
RRP: £14.99£11.53In 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... -
Selling Women's History: Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture by Emily Westkaemper 9780813576329
RRP: £31.00£29.08Only 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... -
The Making of Bridgerton: The Official Ride from Script to Screen by Shonda Rhimes 9781668001073
RRP: £45.00£25.56Apologies 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 -
Cash Flow: The Businesses of Menstruation by Camilla Mork Rostvik 9781787355569
RRP: £40.00£35.22Apologies 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 -
There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America by Amy Argetsinger 9781982123406
RRP: £18.99£12.05Apologies 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)... -
Women, Work, and Activism: Chapters of an Inclusive History of Labor in the Long Twentieth Century by Eloisa Betti 9789633864418
RRP: £77.00£71.28The 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... -
Gender and the Representation of Evil by Lynne Fallwell 9780367263997
RRP: £41.99£36.75This 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... -
Save the Womanhood!: Vice, urban immorality and social control in Liverpool, c. 1900-1976 Samantha Caslin (Department of History, University of Liverpool (United Kingdom)) 9781786941251
RRP: £109.50£34.47An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.Save the Womanhood is a fascinating new history about promiscuity, prostitution and the efforts of local social purists to 'save'... -
Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord by Candace Bailey 9781611179569
£76.04An examination of the influential role music played in the lives of elite southern women during the antebellum period In Charleston Belles Abroad, Candace Bailey examines the vital role music collections played in the lives of elite women of Charleston,... -
The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History by Deborah G. Felder 9781578596362
RRP: £35.99£24.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578596362Author Deborah G. FelderFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press -
Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967 by Joan Marie Johnson 9781469659077
£40.54Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy... -
Women, Entertainment, and Precursors of the French Salon, 1532-1615 by Julie Campbell 9789463728652
RRP: £117.00£111.30This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they took root there. It asserts that entertainment activities of women-led circles illustrate the richly complex... -
Women's Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique: Bodily Memory and the Gendered Aesthetics of Belonging by Jonna Katto 9781032086316
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book tells the history of the changing gendered landscapes of northern Mozambique from the perspective of women who fought in the armed struggle for national independence, diverting from the often-told narrative of women in nationalist wars that... -
Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private in Women's History by Dorothy O. Helly 9780801497025
RRP: £38.00£33.27For over two centuries the notion that societies have been sharply divided into women's (private) and men's (public) spheres has been used both to describe and to prescribe social life. More recently, it has been applied and critiqued by feminist... -
Cleopatra by Patricia Southern 9780752443362
RRP: £9.99£7.77Shakepeare's "lass unparallel", the mistress of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, Cleopatra was born in 69 BC and died before she reached the age of forty, when Alexandria fell to Octavian-Augustus in 30 BC. She is portrayed as the supreme seductress,... -
Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania by Jill Massino 9781785335983
RRP: £132.00£106.40Drawing on evidence that ranges from government records to historical media and oral history interviews, Ambiguous Transitions provides an accessible, intimate exploration of gender and citizenship in socialist Romania. By connecting women's everyday...