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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 20 books in this booklist
£6.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788160612 | ISBN 10: 1788160614
Why the popular resonance of 'mansplaining' (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)? It hits home for us because it points straight to what it feels like not to be taken seriously: a bit like when I get lectured on Roman history on ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780552173285 | ISBN 10: 0552173282
Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they cut off their right breasts to improve their archer ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781472136770 | ISBN 10: 1472136772
The true story of the famous female warriors, long thought to be mythical 'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fasc ... more
View book details£20.00 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780752488783 | ISBN 10: 0752488783
Traditionally, a woman’s place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waveson everything from floating palaces to battered windjammers. Their darin ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781847923837 | ISBN 10: 1847923836
"The classic, groundbreaking account of women's lives in Greece and Rome... The first treatment of women in the ancient world reflect the critical insights of modern feminism."(Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement) What did women do in ancient Gr ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571237067 | ISBN 10: 0571237061
When Edward VI - Henry VIII’s longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left to claim the title King of England. For the first time, all the contenders for the crown were female. In 1553, England was about to exper ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781441114266 | ISBN 10: 1441114262
In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East End factory and into the history books. Louise Raw gives us a challenging new interpretation of events proving that the women ... more
View book details£25.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780292723535 | ISBN 10: 0292723539
Living in 2300 BCE, Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna became the first author of historical record by signing her name to a collection of hymns written for forty-two temples throughout the southern half of ancient Mesopotamia, the civilization now k ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780007178384 | ISBN 10: 0007178387
In the year of the 150th anniversary of Origin of Species, set in a town where Jane Austen was a frequent visitor, Tracy Chevalier once again shows her uncanny sense for the topical. In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the En ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141029719 | ISBN 10: 0141029714
In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither and die. When the ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780747593003 | ISBN 10: 0747593000
Little is known about the wife of the world's most famous playwright, but much is said about her. Ann Hathaway has been mocked and vilified by scholars for centuries. The glaring omission of her name from Shakespeare's will has been gleefully used b ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781400041596 | ISBN 10: 1400041597
“They didn’t ask to be remembered,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: “Well-behaved women seldom make histor ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781934389201 | ISBN 10: 193438920x
There's a Black Woman on each of the seven continents, in almost every country. So no matter where you go, she's already been there. Her presence is everywhere. Black Women for Beginners chronicles the trials and triumphs of Black Women from an ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781845113315 | ISBN 10: 1845113314
Lucie Duff Gordon was a world apart from her Victorian counterparts. An intellectual, traveller, writer and progressive social commentator, she and her husband led a bohemian, eccentric and highly unconventional life in London, socialising with such ... more
View book details£21.00 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780226035826 | ISBN 10: 0226035824
One of the first female artists to achieve recognition in her own time, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) became instantly popular in the 1970s when feminist art historians "discovered" her and argued vehemently for a place for her in the canon of It ... more
View book details£18.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141017242 | ISBN 10: 0141017244
For over a decade Nefertiti, wife of the heretic king Akhenaten, was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world; a beautiful queen blessed by the sun-god, adored by her family and worshipped by her people. Her image and her name were celebrat ... more
View book details£18.95 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780500282496 | ISBN 10: 0500282498
In this pioneering and provocative volume, Marija Gimbutas resurrects the world of Goddess-worshipping, earth-centred cultures, bringing ancient matriarchal society vividly to life. She interveaves comparative mythlogy, early historical sour ... more
View book details£27.00 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780520229150 | ISBN 10: 0520229150
This text crowns a lifetime of influential work by one of the 20th-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original - and originally shocking - interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780253207050 | ISBN 10: 0253207053
"“[Western Women and Imperialism] provides fascinating insights into interactions and attitudes between western and non-western women, mainly in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is an important contribution to the field of women’s studies and (p ... more
View book details£25.00 paperback (1989) - ISBN 13: 9780226642055 | ISBN 10: 0226642054
A highly original study that examines the central role played by women as mediums, healers, and believers during the golden age of spiritualism in the late Victorian era, The Darkened Room is more than a meditation on women mediums—it's an exploratio ... more
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