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Psychoanalysis and Feminism: A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis by Juliet Mitchell 9781836740049
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.24Psychoanalysis and Feminism presents a profound and groundbreaking case for Freud's writing as an indispensable part of feminist thought. As Juliet Mitchell argues, if we are truly interested in... -
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World in Change Rebecca Solnit 9781803513300
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'An old world is dying; a new world is being born; now is the time of monsters' Antonio Gramschi Solnit maps the extraordinary revolution of ideas and rights that we've experienced over the last... -
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism... -
Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy Talia Mae Bettcher 9781517902575
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47A bold intervention in the philosophical concepts of gender, sex, and selfBeyond Personhood provides an entirely new philosophical approach to trans experience, trans oppression, gender dysphoria,... -
The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained Sarah Tomley 9780241182291
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Learn about how we organise our society in The Sociology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about... -
The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave by Mary Prince
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.60The History of Mary Prince (1831) was the first narrative of a black woman to be published in Britain. It describes Prince's sufferings as a slave in Bermuda, Turks Island and Antigua, and her... -
The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - ObserverRoland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has... -
The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by Sarah Tomley 9781465478542
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.95Learn about how we organize our society in The Sociology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about... -
The Future of Sex(ism) by Laura Bates 9781471190483
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50'Laura Bates explains how they built the future - and forgot to put women in it' CAITLIN MORAN 'Fascinating and essential... I urge you to read every syllable' JO BRAND 'All men must read this book... -
The Future of Sex(ism) by Laura Bates 9781471190490
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.27'Laura Bates explains how they built the future - and forgot to put women in it' CAITLIN MORAN 'Fascinating and essential... I urge you to read every syllable' JO BRAND 'All men must read this book... -
The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny Laura Bates 9781471190513
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'Laura Bates explains how they built the future - and forgot to put women in it' CAITLIN MORAN 'Fascinating and essential... I urge you to read every syllable' JO BRAND 'All men must read this book... -
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Who since Weber, or perhaps even Hobbes, has done as much to show why power is such a profound, elusive and treacherous presence throughout our experience?' The Times Higher EducationThe third and... -
Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique by Maria Margaroni 9781498501330
Booksplease Price: £113.41Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital... -
Hermaphrodite Logic: Intersex Liberation & Escaping the Clinic Jules Joanne Gleeson 9781839760938
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32When a baby is born whose reproductive organs do not fit neatly into a binary idea of biological sex, they are deemed intersex. Often, doctors and parents decide to do surgery soon after birth, and... -
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein 9781802061956
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION**A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT*'If I had to name a... -
What Is Existentialism? by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great... -
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Foucault leaves no reader untouched or unchanged' Edward SaidAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the... -
A Short History of Trans Misogyny Jules Gill-Peterson 9781804291603
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88"A beautifully written and argued book." - Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyThere is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one... -
Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault by Susan J. Hekman 9780271032719
Booksplease Price: £32.96This volume presents an exploration of the intersection between the work of Michel Foucault and feminist theory, focusing on Foucault's theories of sex/body, identity/subject, and power/politics.Like... -
A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson 9781804291566
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.42"A beautifully written and argued book." - Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyThere is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one... -
An Angel At My Shoulder: True Stories of Angelic Experiences by Glennyce S. Eckersley 9781846040658
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Though angels have been part of our culture and our history for centuries, they have been forgotten in recent times, diminished to the level of christmas trinkets and the playthings of children... -
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2020 At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living... -
The Poverty of Ethics by 9781839765926
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32The Poverty of Ethics stands the usual moral-political dichotomy on its head. It argues that moral principles do not in fact underlie or inform political decisions. It is, rather, the conceptual... -
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as... -
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir 9781857151374
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05THE SECOND SEX is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement. It also has claims to be the most important s ingle book in the history of feminism. In the forty years since... -
Language, Truth and Logic A.J. Ayer 9780141186047
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct... -
Intimacy by Ita O'Brien 9781529954043
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.05"A vital contribution to our understanding of intimacy both on screen and in life." Gillian Anderson | An Evening Standard 'Book to Watch' for 2025From the initial spark of attraction when your eyes... -
Natural History by John Healey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.37Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a... -
Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Richard Rorty is one of the most provocative figures in recent philosophical, literary and cultural debate. This collection brings together those of his writings aimed at a wider audience, many... -
Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body by Clare Chambers 9780141992501
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A must-read for psychotherapists, doctors and everyone else who enjoys connecting ideas' Philippa Perry'Compassionate and challenging, warmly human and coolly rigorous. . . I am now thinking afresh... -
Queer Georgians: A hidden history of lovers, lawbreakers and homemakers by Anthony Delaney 9781529927702
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.44History Hit podcast presenter Dr Anthony Delaney reveals the real people that inspired Gentleman Jack and the gay romances in Bridgerton, long written out of the nation's story and now lovingly... -
Wild Analysis by Adam Phillips 9780141182421
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Psychoanalytic treatment utilised the patient's capacity to love and desire as a means to an end. The stuff of romance became the stuff of cure. When Freud is writing about technique in... -
Intimacy by Ita O'Brien 9781529954036
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16"A vital contribution to our understanding of intimacy both on screen and in life." Gillian Anderson | An Evening Standard 'Book to Watch' for 2025From the initial spark of attraction when your eyes... -
Transgender Marxism Jules Joanne Gleeson 9780745341668
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.57The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory. Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve... -
An Analysis of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet Christien Garcia 9781912453122
Booksplease Price: £6.68In this book, Sedgwick examines texts from Europe and America such as Wilde, Nietzsche and Proust and considers the historical moment when sexual orientation came to be as important a signifier of... -
The Position of Spoons: and other intimacies by Deborah Levy 9781405961165
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writerIn The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy traces... -
Society Must be Defended: Lectures at the College de France, 1975-76 by Michel Foucault
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Foucault must be reckoned with by humanists, social scientists, and political activists' The New York Times Book ReviewSociety Must Be Defended is Michel Foucault's devastating critique of the... -
Growing Out: Black Hair and Black Pride in the Swinging 60s by Barbara Blake Hannah
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'A gorgeously exuberant account. . . writing that is natural and vivacious . . . a fascinating and hugely enjoyable read.' Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionTravelling over from Jamaica as a... -
Transforming Saints: From Spain to New Spain by Charlene Villasenor Black 9780826504708
Booksplease Price: £46.29Transforming Saints explores the transformation and function of the images of holy females within wider religious, social, and political contexts of Old Spain and New Spain from the Spanish conquest... -
Britons Through Negro Spectacles by ABC Merriman-Labor
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'We shall therefore confine our walk to Central London where people meet on business during the day, and to West London where they meet for pleasure at night. If you will walk about the first City in...