Back to home page - News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

not-for-profit - a workers'co-op - committed to social justice | 96 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4HY - 0151 708 7270

Worldwide Women -

Related category: Feminism & Women
Related booklists: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM),

This website can't tell you if a book is in our shop right now or not. Most books can be ordered within 7-10 days, subject to availability. You can always call us or use the enquiry links to ask if a book is in stock or how long it would take to order. (Note: we do our best to keep information up to date, but occasionally prices may have changed.)

Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 33 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival by Alice Vincent
    Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival - by Alice Vincent

    £16.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781838855437 | ISBN 10: 1838855432

    A stunning meditation on why women are drawn to the soil, featuring contributions from Ali Smith, Hazel Gardiner and Cosey Fanni Tutti.   THE TIMES / WATERSTONES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AN INDEPENDENT BEST BOOK TO READ IN 2023 A STYLIST NONFICTION ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini
    The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule - by Angela Saini

    £20.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008418113 | ISBN 10: 000841811x

    ‘I learned something new on every page of this totally essential book’ Sathnam Sanghera  ‘By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that ha ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse
    Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World - by Kate Mosse

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529092196 | ISBN 10: 1529092191

    'One brilliant woman writing about so many other brilliant women, this is a wonderful treasure chest of women’s lives, full of wit, verve and emotion... Epic, unputdownable, gripping. I loved it’ - Professor Kate Williams  “My hope is t ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels by Hannah Ross
    Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels - by Hannah Ross

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781474611381 | ISBN 10: 1474611389

    Simone de Beauvoir borrowed her lover’s bike to cycle around Paris in the 1940s, instantly falling in love with the freedom it gave her (even when an accident caused her to lose a tooth). Alice Hawkins, a factory worker from Leicester, pedal-powere ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book From Women to the World: Letters for a New Century by Elizabeth Filippouli
    From Women to the World: Letters for a New Century - by Elizabeth Filippouli

    £18.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780755626854 | ISBN 10: 0755626850

    An Independent Book of the Month Featured in Vogue Arabia Featured by Vanity Fair   Acclaimed writer Elif Shafak writes a letter to Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand after the Christchurch attack. Actress Yasmine AlMassri pens a po ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time by Jo Bell, Tania Hershman and Ailsa Holland
    On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time - by Jo Bell, Tania Hershman and Ailsa Holland

    £20.00   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781789462715 | ISBN 10: 1789462711

    The tried and tested 'On This Day in History' format has elevated the stories of many people and their impact on the wider world. However, of those considered noteworthy by the Establishment, just a fraction are women. But this is not the whole story ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Give Us Freedom: The Women who Revolutionised the Modern World by Rosalind Miles
    Give Us Freedom: The Women who Revolutionised the Modern World - by Rosalind Miles

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349006086 | ISBN 10: 0349006083

    'They will have to choose between giving us freedom or giving us death'  So said,in 1913, the brilliant orator and suffragette,Emmeline Pankhurst, just one of the inspiring women who won the vote for women. She remains a heroine for those det ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Toksvig
    Toksvig's Almanac 2021: An Eclectic Meander Through the Historical Year - by Sandi Toksvig

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781398701632 | ISBN 10: 1398701637

    'Toksvig's Almanac is intended merely as a starting point for your own discoveries. Find a fabulous (or infamous) woman mentioned and, please, go looking for more of her story. The names mentioned are merely temptations. Amuse-bouches for the mind, i ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Gender Rebels: 50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers by Anneka Harry
    Gender Rebels: 50 Influential Cross-Dressers, Impersonators, Name-Changers, and Game-Changers - by Anneka Harry

    £14.95   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781542044691 | ISBN 10: 1542044693

    Meet the unsung sheroes of history: the diverse, defiant and daring (wo)men who changed the rules, and their identities, to get sh*t done.  You’ll encounter Kit Cavanagh, the swaggering Irish dragoon who was the first woman to be buried in ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Ladies Who Punch: Fifty Trailblazing Women Whose Stories You Should Know by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
    Ladies Who Punch: Fifty Trailblazing Women Whose Stories You Should Know - by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

    £16.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781785904769 | ISBN 10: 1785904760

    Courageous women change history and remould our culture. For centuries, rebel ladies have been punching up, fighting for freedoms and equality, challenging the world order. Today, the next generation continue the fight, boldly marching, banners flyin ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book She Speaks: Women
    She Speaks: Women's Speeches That Changed the World, from Pankhurst to Greta - by Yvette Cooper

    £7.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786499943 | ISBN 10: 1786499940

    Looking at lists of the greatest speeches of all time, you might think that powerful oratory is the preserve of men. But the truth is very different – countless brave and bold women have used their voices to inspire change, transform lives and radi ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book What We
    What We're Told Not to Talk About (But We're Going to Anyway) - by Nimko Ali

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241987605 | ISBN 10: 0241987601

    14 COUNTRIES, 42 WOMEN - FROM PERIODS TO ORGASMS TO FGM. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS OVERSHARING. "Nimko's book is going to shift the conversation around women's bodies. Our bodies, and everything they do, make us who we are"(Amika George, founder of ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Rebel Women: The renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world... by Rosalind Miles
    Rebel Women: The renegades, viragos and heroines who changed the world... - by Rosalind Miles

    £25.00   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780349006055 | ISBN 10: 0349006059

    Rosalind Miles' The Women's History of the World was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and translated into almost forty languages.  Now it is time for a new women's history - for more famous, infamous and little-known rebels.  ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book A History of the World in 21 Women by Jenni Murray
    A History of the World in 21 Women - by Jenni Murray

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786076281 | ISBN 10: 1786076284

    The inimitable Jenni Murray celebrates great women from around the world - rescuing some from obscurity and shining a new light on familiar names.   From the bestselling author of A History of Britain in 21 Women. The history of the world is th ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book What We
    What We're Told Not to Talk About (But We're Going to Anyway) - by Nimko Ali

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241292624 | ISBN 10: 024129262x

    14 countries, 42 women, each with a story no one has heard before.   What do you do when you're living on the streets and on your period? What does it feel like to have a poo after you've given birth? How do we learn to love our bodies again a ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book So Here I Am: Speeches by Great Women to Empower and Inspire by Anna Russell, illustrated by Camila Pinheiro
    So Here I Am: Speeches by Great Women to Empower and Inspire - by Anna Russell, illustrated by Camila Pinheiro

    £18.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781781318270 | ISBN 10: 1781318271

    Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation.   The first dedicated collection of seminal speeches by women from around the world, So Here I Am is about women at the forefront of change – withi ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Voices of Powerful Women: Words of Wisdom from 40 of the World
    Voices of Powerful Women: Words of Wisdom from 40 of the World's Most Inspiring Women - by Zoe Sallis (Editor)

    £9.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786782199 | ISBN 10: 1786782197

    A fantastically inspiring collection of interviews with 40 successful and empowering women, including Maya Angelou, Isabel Allende, Mary Robinson and Shami Chakrabati, exploring their challenges and achievements.  In this empowering book, 40 ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Women: Our History by Dorling Kindersley Ltd
    Women: Our History - by Dorling Kindersley Ltd

    £20.00   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241353929 | ISBN 10: 0241353920

    Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told.  Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals th ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Women
    The Women's Atlas - by Joni Seager

    £14.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912408092 | ISBN 10: 1912408090

    An invaluable feminist resource, hip cultural conversation about feminism, and example of cutting-edge data visualization, this beautifully designed new edition of Seager’s award-winning atlas matches the mood of the moment­ with bold, vivid infog ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Women in Battle by Marta Breen & Jenny Jordahl
    Women in Battle - by Marta Breen & Jenny Jordahl

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781471408120 | ISBN 10: 1471408124

    Freedom. Equality. Sisterhood. Women in Battle is the book for anyone who wants to learn as much as possible about the history of feminism in as short a time as possible.  Presented as a graphic novel and spanning 150 years of recent history, Women ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Historical Heroines: 100 Women You Should Know About by Michelle Rosenberg and Sonia Picker
    Historical Heroines: 100 Women You Should Know About - by Michelle Rosenberg and Sonia Picker

    £14.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781526715333 | ISBN 10: 1526715333

    Keeping it to just 100 was a struggle. But we figured that any more miscast, missing and misunderstood women in one sitting would push you over the edge in your righteous, indignant fury. So actually, we’re thinking of you. (You're welcome).   ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back by Stacey Dooley
    On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back - by Stacey Dooley

    £14.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785942983 | ISBN 10: 1785942980

    Put yourself in their shoes.   In 2007, Stacey Dooley was a twenty-something working in fashion retail. She was selected to take part in the BBC series Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts which saw her live and work alongside Indian factory workers making c ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont, illustrated by Manjit Thapp
    The Little Book of Feminist Saints - by Julia Pierpont, illustrated by Manjit Thapp

    £12.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780349011271 | ISBN 10: 0349011273

    This inspiring, beautifully illustrated collection honours one hundred exceptional women throughout history and around the world.   In this luminous volume, New York Times bestselling writer Julia Pierpont and artist Manjit Thapp match short, vi ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The Periodic Table of Feminism by Marisa Bate
    The Periodic Table of Feminism - by Marisa Bate

    £9.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785037788 | ISBN 10: 1785037781

    The history of feminism told through its most prominent advocates, including a diverse range of international names and faces. The Periodic Table of Feminism is an empowering, engaging and informed look at the feminist movement through the internati ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Of Women: In the 21st Century by Shami Chakrabarti
    Of Women: In the 21st Century - by Shami Chakrabarti

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141985350 | ISBN 10: 0141985356

    A powerful, urgent and timely polemic on why women still need equality, and how we get there.  It is the greatest human rights abuse on the planet. It blights first and developing worlds, rich and poor women's health, wealth, education, repre ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book 100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know by Hannah Jewell
    100 Nasty Women of History: Brilliant, badass and completely fearless women everyone should know - by Hannah Jewell

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781473671263 | ISBN 10: 1473671264

    100 fascinating and brilliantly written stories about history's bravest, baddest but little known 'nasty' women from across the world.   These are the women who were deemed too nasty for their times, too nasty to be recognised, too nasty to be pai ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book The War on Women by Sue Lloyd Roberts
    The War on Women - by Sue Lloyd Roberts

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781471153921 | ISBN 10: 1471153924

    In 1973, Sue Lloyd Roberts joined ITN as a news trainee and went on to be the UK's first female video-journalist to report alone from the bleak outposts of the Soviet Union, China and Iran. During her 30-year-long career she travelled the world and w ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Rad Women Worldwide by Kate Schatz, illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl
    Rad Women Worldwide - by Kate Schatz, illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl

    £13.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780399578861 | ISBN 10: 0399578862

    Educational and inspirational, this gift-worthy New York Times bestseller from the authors of Rad American Women A-Z, is a bold, illustrated collection of 40 biographical profiles showcasing extraordinary women from across the globe.   Rad Wo ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Wonder Women by Sam Maggs
    Wonder Women - by Sam Maggs

    £12.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781594749254 | ISBN 10: 1594749256

    Ever heard of Allied spy Noor Inayat Khan, a Muslim woman whom the Nazis considered “highly dangerous”? Or German painter and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian, who planned and embarked on the world’s first scientific expedition? How about Huan ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Women in Dark Times by Jacqueline Rose
    Women in Dark Times - by Jacqueline Rose

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408845165 | ISBN 10: 1408845164

    Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; GermanJewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe. Together t ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Women Against Fundamentalism: Stories of Dissent and Solidarity by Sukhwant Dhaliwal and Nira Yuval-Davis (Editors)
    Women Against Fundamentalism: Stories of Dissent and Solidarity - by Sukhwant Dhaliwal and Nira Yuval-Davis (Editors)

    £18.00   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781909831025 | ISBN 10: 1909831026

    Women Against Fundamentalism (WAF) was formed in 1989, partly in response to the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdies The Satanic Verses, but also with the aim of challenging fundamentalism in all religions. It sees fundamentalism as a modern pol ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Wild Women and Books: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings, and Prolific Pens by Brenda Knight
    Wild Women and Books: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings, and Prolific Pens - by Brenda Knight

    £14.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781573242714 | ISBN 10: 1573242713

    Wild Women and Books is a celebration of perhaps the most revered and radical women writers of history. Beginning with the first recorded writer of either gender to date, Enheduanna of Sumeria, and ending with acclaimed authors of today, including To ... more

    View book details    
  • Cover image of book Opening the Gates; An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing by Margot Badran & Miriam Cooke
    Opening the Gates; An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing - by Margot Badran & Miriam Cooke

    £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    

© News From Nowhere Co-operative Ltd IP24524R 2004-2024 | Privacy policy | Contact | return to top of page