Gender studies: women
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A place of our own
£22.00A place of our own
For as long as queer women have existed, they’ve created gathering grounds where they can be themselves. From the intimate darkness of the lesbian bar to the sweaty camaraderie of the softball field, these spaces aren’t a luxury – they’re a necessity for queer women defining their identities. Blending memoir, archival research and interviews, journalist June Thomas invites readers into six iconic lesbian spaces over the course of the last sixty years, including the rural commune, the sex toy boutique, the holiday destination and the feminist bookstore. She also illuminates what is gained and lost in the shift from the exclusive, tight-knit women’s spaces of the ’70s toward today’s more inclusive yet more diffuse LGBTQ+ communities.
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Amazing women
£12.99Amazing women
A beautifully illustrated, empowering and inspiring collection of the extraordinary achievements of 100 amazing women of our time.
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Fearless
£10.99Fearless
Louise Minchin went from presenting BBC Breakfast to competing for the GB Team in triathlon in World and European championships, a journey she charted in her first book ‘Dare to Tri’. In ‘Fearless’ she sets out to push herself even further, alongside trailblazing women who are breaking down barriers, smashing records and challenging stereotypes. In every chapter Louise goes on an adventure with a different woman to tell their story and to test herself. She free dives under the ice in the dark in Finland with the first female to swim a mile in the Antarctic Circle; she cycles across Argentina with one of the world’s most famous female endurance runners; she swims from Alcatraz with two teenage sisters who have braved the shark infested waters over 70 times. With her natural empathy and sense of humour, Louise forms close bonds with these incredible women exploring what drives them.
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Love and marriage in the age of Jane Austen
£25.00Love and marriage in the age of Jane Austen
What happened when Jane Austen’s heroines and heroes were finally wed?
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Nostalgia
£22.00Nostalgia
A dazzling history of that most slippery of emotions: nostalgia, by an acclaimed young historian.
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On our best behaviour
£16.99On our best behaviour
Elise Loehnen looks at the ways in which women have been penned by the fake morality of the sins, and how we find ourselves complicit in denying ourselves a full existence for fear of crossing some sort of line – of wanting too much, being too much, falsely equating ‘self-control’ with goodness. In this process of self-betrayal, she finds, we have also betrayed each other. A bold and daring denouncement of that which has been used to condemn ‘badly behaving’ women, ‘On Our Best Behaviour’ asks: what does it mean to be ‘good’, particularly as a woman, in today’s world? And if a sin is something that holds us separate from wholeness or experiencing our own full humanity, what should these sins look like today?
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On women
£10.99On women
Written during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag’s essays remain strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerfully at odds with them, they are always characteristically original in their examinations of the ‘biological division of labour’, the double-standard for ageing and the dynamics of women’s power and powerlessness. As Merve Emre writes in her introduction, ‘On Women’ offers us ‘the spectacle of a ferocious intellect setting itself to the task at hand: to articulate the politics and aesthetics of being a woman in the United States, the Americas and the world.’
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Others like me
£22.00Others like me
A deeply personal exploration of childless and childfree women – in their own words. ‘Others Like Me’ is the story of fourteen women around the world, from different walks of life, who don’t have children. It’s also the story of why Nicole Louie had to find these women and what they taught her. Part memoir, part exploration of childlessness through candid conversations, this book showcases the many ways in which people find fulfilment outside of parenthood. And because the social expectation to procreate weighs the most on women, Louie focuses solely on them, their experiences, and how they flourish outside of motherhood.
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Secrets of the Sprakkar
£12.99Secrets of the Sprakkar
Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman – but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women’s experience there so positive? Eliza Reid, the First Lady of Iceland, examines her adopted homeland’s attitude toward women – the deep-seated cultural sense of fairness, the influence of current and historical role models, and, crucially, the areas where Iceland still has room for improvement.
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Small acts of kindness
£9.99Small acts of kindness
Kiki, Ned and Mrs Malley are three strangers, each in need of a little kindness in their lives. This beautifully poignant and uplifting novel shows us the world through their eyes whilst highlighting the power of human connection.
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The missing thread
£25.00The missing thread
Spanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, a magisterial new history of the ancient world told, for the very first time, through women. For centuries, men have been writing histories of antiquity filled with warlords, emperors and kings. But when it comes to incorporating women aside from Cleopatra and Boudica, writers have been more comfortable describing mythical heroines than real ones. While Penelope and Helen of Troy live on in the imagination, their real-life counterparts have been relegated to the margins. In ‘The Missing Thread’, Daisy Dunn inverts this tradition and puts the women of history at the centre of the narrative.
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Women in Victorian society
£22.99Women in Victorian society
In this highly readable and illuminating book, Anne Louise Booth looks at the status of society women during the Victorian period, the expectations and limitations they faced, and the ways in which these norms were challenged and boundaries were pushed.
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Women of power
£22.99Women of power
Exploring a selection of lives that disproves the stereotype of medieval women as subordinate to men.
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