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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 15 books in this booklist
£19.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781448217496 | ISBN 10: 1448217490
Shelagh Delaney • Edna O’Brien • Lynne Reid-Banks • Charlotte Bingham • Nell Dunn • Virginia Ironside • Margaret Forster In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement ... more
View book details£21.00 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780393652369 | ISBN 10: 039365236x
A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich. The Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of Adrienne Rich’s most renowned essays, demonstrating the lasting brilli ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781255292 | ISBN 10: 1781255296
Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain a ... more
View book details£7.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781787131866 | ISBN 10: 1787131866
For nasty women everywhere, The Pen is Mightier than the Penis is a feminist quote book celebrating female writers throughout the centuries, from Sappho to Margaret Atwood. Â Find the perfect comeback for those infuriating 'you're not a feminist, ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786993069 | ISBN 10: 1786993066
Nawal El Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class. For her, writing and action have been inseperable and this is reflected in some of the most evocative ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099575726 | ISBN 10: 0099575728
WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, Spectator and Observer Angela Carter’s life was as unconventional as anything in her fiction ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780143105992 | ISBN 10: 014310599x
A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive ant ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781629631059 | ISBN 10: 1629631051
In a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, rants, and railleries, Piercy discusses her own development as a working-class feminist, the highs and lows of TV culture, the ego-dances of a writer's life, the homeless and ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781847084149 | ISBN 10: 1847084141
Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity even more revealing than the candour of her celebrate ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781558617704 | ISBN 10: 1558617701
FP brings back into print a literary gem. Personal essays by a great Jewish American writer. "Bridges the gap between humor and despair, past and present, Jew and gentile, to reveal its author’s simple humanity, deeply rooted in her u ... more
View book details£21.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781592217113 | ISBN 10: 1592217117
Constructing Incest Stories: Black Women’s Voices in Fact and Fiction provides a highly original perspective on incest by an illuminating fusion of social science research and literary analysis. The analysis of the process of the constructi ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847080691 | ISBN 10: 1847080693
Diana Athill will be ninety in December, 2007. Somewhere Towards the End tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forget, to regret, to forgive - and h ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780753819609 | ISBN 10: 0753819600
The first collection of Alice Walker's non-fiction spanning fifteen years in the career of this remarkable writer. This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially the rich vein of women's stories and spiritu ... more
View book details£23.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780253217035 | ISBN 10: 0253217032
Themes that figure in the new edition include sexuality and the body, war and violence, relationships, breaking through glass ceilings, cyber networking, migration, and the expanded use of Islamic discourse by Arab women. "An impressive coll ... more
View book details£20.00 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780853236245 | ISBN 10: 0853236240
In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ’s work and assesses its development. The book will be especially valuable for students of SF and feminist SF, espe ... more
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