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Women's Sexuality -

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 24 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution by Nona Willis Aronowitz
    Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution - by Nona Willis Aronowitz

    £19.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780593182765 | ISBN 10: 0593182766

    Named a Most Anticipated Book by Bustle, Esquire, Nylon, and The Millions   “Intimate, thoughtful, and accessible to anyone struggling with the persistent, maddening inequities of contemporary sex.” –Rebecca Traister, New York Times best ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
    The Sex Lives of African Women - by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349701639 | ISBN 10: 0349701636

    The Sex Lives of African Women uniquely amplifies individual women from across the African continent and its global diaspora, as they speak of their diverse experiences of sex, sexualities and relationships.   Many of the women who tell their sto ... more

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  • Cover image of book Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent by Katherine Angel
    Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent - by Katherine Angel

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788739207 | ISBN 10: 1788739205

    A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of MeToo.  Women are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Yet sex researchers su ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers by Selma Dabbagh (Editor)
    We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers - by Selma Dabbagh (Editor)

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780863563973 | ISBN 10: 086356397x

    It is a little-known secret that Arabic literature has a long tradition of erotic writing. Behind that secret lies another - that many of the writers are women.  We Wrote in Symbols celebrates the works of 75 of these female writers of Arab heri ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Match Made in Heaven: British Muslim Women Write About Love and Desire by Claire Chambers, Nafhesa Ali & Richard Phillips (Editors)
    A Match Made in Heaven: British Muslim Women Write About Love and Desire - by Claire Chambers, Nafhesa Ali & Richard Phillips (Editors)

    £10.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781916467194 | ISBN 10: 1916467199

    Star-studded and beautifully written, this collection of diverse stories about love and desire by South Asian-heritage British Muslim women authors, including Ayisha Malik and Shelina Janmohamed.   Although outsiders often expect Muslim women ... more

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  • Cover image of book More Orgasms Please: Why Female Pleasure Matters by The Hotbed Collective
    More Orgasms Please: Why Female Pleasure Matters - by The Hotbed Collective

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529110852 | ISBN 10: 1529110858

    A frank, funny and empowering celebration of female pleasure.  An orgasm will help you sleep and keep you looking younger, it doesn’t cost money and isn’t a scarce resource. So why is it that, like the pay gap, there is an ‘orgasm gap ... more

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    Don't Hold My Head Down - by Lucy-Anne Holmes

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783528776 | ISBN 10: 178352877x

    Don't Hold My Head Down is a memoir about sex. It starts with the author having a disappointing, drunken wank to internet porn, and ends with her having day-long orgasms and taking on the most powerful newspaper in the country.  In her mid-thirt ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Clitoral Truth by Rebecca Chalker
    The Clitoral Truth - by Rebecca Chalker

    £14.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781609807719 | ISBN 10: 1609807715

    The Clitoral Truth goes beyond all other sexuality self-help guides by providing a surprising “inside” look at women’s genital anatomy, and revealing that what is almost universally thought of as a sensitive pea-sized nubbin is, in reality, a p ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
    The Vagina Monologues - by Eve Ensler

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780349011288 | ISBN 10: 0349011281

    2018 marks the twentieth anniversary of V-Day, the radical grassroots movement to end violence against women and girls, inspired by Eve Ensler's international sensation The Vagina Monologues.   This special edition features six never-before-p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love by Emily Witt
    Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love - by Emily Witt

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571331994 | ISBN 10: 0571331998

    Emily Witt is single and in her thirties. Until recently she had always imagined she would meet the right person and fall in love. But, as we all know, things are more complicated than that. Love is rare and frequently unreciprocated; sexual acquisit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Sensation by Isabel Losada
    Sensation - by Isabel Losada

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786780935 | ISBN 10: 1786780933

    Isabel Losada brings her unique blend of humour, curiosity and honesty to the still-taboo subject of sexuality and pleasure. This is a brave, funny and often vulnerable quest to find out how we can make our sex lives better.   On behalf of all ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Womb of Her Own: Women
    A Womb of Her Own: Women's Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy - by Ellen L.K. Toronto, Joann Ponder, Kristin Davisson and Maurine Kelber Kelly

    £31.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781138194977 | ISBN 10: 1138194972

    Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women’s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Although females have made progress in many areas, their status within the human community has remained unst ... more

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  • Cover image of book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy
    Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution - by Mona Eltahawy

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780228877 | ISBN 10: 1780228872

    `A ground-breaking call to arms against misogyny in the Arab world by award-winning journalist Mona Eltahawy, author of Why Do They Hate Us?, the article which went viral and was debated around the globe. In November 2011, Mona Eltahawy came to wor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure by Susie Jolly, Andrea Cornwall and Kate Hawkins
    Women, Sexuality and the Political Power of Pleasure - by Susie Jolly, Andrea Cornwall and Kate Hawkins

    £19.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780325712 | ISBN 10: 1780325711

    This pioneering collection explores the ways in which positive, pleasure-focused approaches to sexuality can empower women.   Gender and development has tended to engage with sexuality only in relation to violence and ill-health. Although this ... more

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  • Cover image of book Vagina: A Cultural History by Naomi Wolf
    Vagina: A Cultural History - by Naomi Wolf

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844086894 | ISBN 10: 1844086895

    An astonishing new work that radically changes how we think about, talk about and understand the vagina - and consequently how we think about women and sexuality - from Naomi Wolf, one of our most respected cultural critics and author of the modern c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi
    Embroideries - by Marjane Satrapi

    £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780224087407 | ISBN 10: 0224087401

    From the author of the highly acclaimed two-volume comic strip autobiography Persepolis, here is a gloriously entertaining and revealing comic-book look into the sex lives of women. When Marjane Satrapi's tough-talking grandmother, mother, eccentric ... more

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  • Cover image of book Intercourse (Twentieth Anniversary Edition) by Andrea Dworkin
    Intercourse (Twentieth Anniversary Edition) - by Andrea Dworkin

    £13.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780465017522 | ISBN 10: 0465017525

    Andrea Dworkin, once called "Feminism's Malcolm X," has been worshipped, reviled, criticized, and analyzed - but never ignored. The power of her writing, the passion of her ideals, and the ferocity of her intellect have spurred the arguments and acti ... more

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  • Cover image of book Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture by Ariel Levy
    Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture - by Ariel Levy

    £9.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781416526384 | ISBN 10: 1416526382

    If the male chauvinist pigs of past years thought of women as vacuous sex objects, then the female chauvinist pigs of today are going one step better - embracing raunch culture all by themselves. This is a world in which young women attend lap-dancin ... more

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  • Cover image of book In The Company of Women by Alwin Peter
    In The Company of Women - by Alwin Peter

    £7.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780953247714 | ISBN 10: 0953247716

    If you only ever buy one book this has to be it. This book is just extraordinary in the true meaning of the word. It is rare to find a book, which voices the experience of black women on such a wide range of issues. This book is straight talking and ... more

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  • Cover image of book By the Light of My Father
    By the Light of My Father's Smile - by Alice Walker

    £8.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780753819517 | ISBN 10: 0753819511

    A family goes to the remote sierras of Mexico - the writer-to-be Susannah; her sister Magdalena; their father and mother. There, amid a people called the Mundo, they begin an encounter that will change them for ever.  This is also the story of a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Politics of Love by Alina Reyes
    The Politics of Love - by Alina Reyes

    £8.95   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780714531069 | ISBN 10: 0714531065

    Objects of desire discussed candidly by a French writer - a collection of meditations on love, sex, and desire.   Love, sex and desire how do we experience them? How do we relate them to the opposite sex? How does society want us to confront ... more

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  • Cover image of book Cunt: A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio
    Cunt: A Declaration of Independence - by Inga Muscio

    £12.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781580050753 | ISBN 10: 1580050751

    An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim "cunt" as a positive and powerful force in their lives. In ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women and Bisexuality by Sue George
    Women and Bisexuality - by Sue George

    £9.99   paperback   (1993) - ISBN 13: 9781857270716 | ISBN 10: 1857270711

    How do bisexual women lead their lives? Are they monogamous, celibate, involved in multiple relationships? Are they young, old, black, white, married, single, living as lesbians? How do their partners feel about their sexuality? How open can they be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pressured Pleasure: Young Women and the Negotiation of Sexual Boundaries by Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglou et al
    Pressured Pleasure: Young Women and the Negotiation of Sexual Boundaries - by Janet Holland, Caroline Ramazanoglou et al

    £3.50   paperback   (1991) - ISBN 13: 9781872767802 | ISBN 10: 187276780x

    Women develop and live their sexuality through an interrelated range of pressures; personal, social, physical. Prevailing models of female sexuality leave them little opportunity for constructing a positive, active sexual identity or for exploring th ... more

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