Gender studies: women and girls Books
Crown The Discovery of Jeanne Baret A Story of Science the High Seas and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe
Book SynopsisThe year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As the ships’ official naturalist, Commerson would seek out resources—medicines, spices, timber, food—that could give the French an edge in the ever-accelerating race for empire. Jeanne Baret, Commerson’s young mistress and collaborator, was desperate not to be left behind. She disguised herself as a teenage boy and signed on as his assistant. The journey made the twenty-six-year-old, known to her shipmates as “Jean” rather than “Jeanne,” the first woman to ever sail around the globe. Yet so little is known about this extraordinary woman, whose accomplishments were considered to be subversive, even impossible for someone of her sex and class. When the ships made landfall and the secret lovers disembar
£15.92
Random House USA Inc Sleeping with the Enemy
Book SynopsisThis explosive narrative reveals for the first time the shocking hidden years of Coco Chanel’s life: her collaboration with the Nazis in Paris, her affair with a master spy, and her work for the German military intelligence service and Himmler’s SS.Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was the high priestess of couture who created the look of the modern woman. By the 1920s she had amassed a fortune and went on to create an empire. But her life from 1941 to 1954 has long been shrouded in rumor and mystery, never clarified by Chanel or her many biographers. Hal Vaughan exposes the truth of her wartime collaboration and her long affair with the playboy Baron Hans Günther von Dincklage—who ran a spy ring and reported directly to Goebbels. Vaughan pieces together how Chanel became a Nazi agent, how she escaped arrest after the war and joined her lover in exile in Switzerland, and how—despite suspicions about her past—she was able to return to Paris a
£16.20
Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World Study Guide
Book SynopsisA companion study guide that helps participants answer the question: How do we blend intimacy with Jesus and service for him in the midst of our busy, hectic lives? Joanna Weaver’s signature book, Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World, explores how each one of us has some Mary and some Martha within. The Mary in us wants to leave the dishes and sit at Jesus’ feet, while the Martha in us wants to attend to the multiple tasks around us. In this ten-session study guide, designed as a companion resource to the bestselling book and companion video content, available separately, Joanna reminds us that Jesus extends to us the same invitation he gave these sisters of Bethany: Come to Me. Featuring an expanded and revised version of the book’s original study, this beautiful guide provides space to capture what’s been learned from reading the assigned book chapters and the study of God''s Word. Practical sidebars, memory verses, video pages, and “Make a Plan” prompts make this a resource women will turn to long after the study is done. As we discover the best of both the Mary and the Martha parts of our lives, we will deepen our devotion to God and learn to delight in sitting at his feet. Created for both individuals and groups, this study guide enhances opportunities for personal reflection and/or group discussion around the bestselling book. To get the most out of the study, each participant will need a copy of the book and the study guide. Ten sessions of video content, approximately twenty minutes each, are also available on DVD or by online streaming.
£11.69
Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) Bad Girls of the Bible
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£15.19
PRH Grupo Editorial ÂMuerta... ÂPero de la risa Dying But of Laughter
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£12.75
Random House USA Inc Book of Ages
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£17.10
Random House USA Inc My Life in Middlemarch A Memoir
Book SynopsisA New Yorker writer revisits the seminal book of her youth--Middlemarch--and fashions a singular, involving story of how a passionate attachment to a great work of literature can shape our lives and help us to read our own histories. Rebecca Mead was a young woman in an English coastal town when she first read George Eliot's Middlemarch, regarded by many as the greatest English novel. After gaining admission to Oxford, and moving to the United States to become a journalist, through several love affairs, then marriage and family, Mead read and reread Middlemarch. The novel, which Virginia Woolf famously described as one of the few English novels written for grown-up people, offered Mead something that modern life and literature did not.In this wise and revealing work of biography, reporting, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads us into the life that the book made for her, as well as the many lives the novel has led since it was written. Emplo
£18.40
Harperchristian Resources Jesus Over Everything Bible Study Guide Uncomplicating the Daily Struggle to Put Jesus First
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£13.29
HarperChristian Resources Twelve Women of the Bible Study Guide plus Streaming Video Updated Edition
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£18.00
Zondervan All the Women of the Bible
Book SynopsisThis volume, part of Lockyer's All Series, contains detailed indexing of the life and times of all the women of the Bible.
£12.59
Zondervan What Women Tell Me
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£999.99
Zondervan Work Love Pray
Book SynopsisWork, Love, Pray is a hands-on guide for young professional Christian women seeking balance and fulfillment in all aspects of their lives. Full of practical advice and inspiring stories, this book helps sidestep the pitfalls of the 'Superwoman,' while encouraging women to reach for the best of all three worlds: faith, family, and career.
£9.99
Zondervan You Are Free Be Who You Already Are
Book SynopsisWe all want to know exactly what we were made for. Yet a calling feels like something for an exclusive few. You Are Free by Rebekah Lyons reminds us that God has plans for each and every one of us and that abiding in God's presence is how we run free.
£14.11
Zondervan One Beautiful Dream
Book SynopsisIs it possible to pursue your passions, love your family, and not feel guilty about wanting to do both? One Beautiful Dream is your invitation to the unexpected joy of saying yes to the life you long to live.Work and family, individuality and motherhood, the creative life and family life—women are told constantly that they can’t have it all. One Beautiful Dream is the deeply personal, often humorous tale of what happened when one woman dared to believe that you can have it all—if you’re willing to reimagine what having it all looks like. Jennifer Fulwiler is the last person you might expect to be the mother of six young children. First of all, she’s an introvert only child, self-described workaholic, and former atheist who never intended to have a family. Oh, and Jennifer has a blood-clotting disorder exacerbated by pregnancy that has threatened her life on more tha
£999.99
Zondervan NIV Artisan Collection Bible Womens Bible with
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£39.89
Zondervan I Stand at the Door and Knock
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£12.74
St Martin's Press Audrey Her Real Story
£16.14
Griffin Publishing Complicated Women Sex and Power in PreCode Hollywood
Book SynopsisBetween 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock and got rid of cheating husbands. This is an exploration of the careers and lives of female stars such as Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Harlow and Mae West.
£15.71
Palgrave MacMillan Us A Womans Way The Forgotten History of Women Spiritual Directors
Book SynopsisGiven the significance of spiritual direction in modern Christianity, surprisingly little attention has been given to the tradition upon which today s spiritual direction is built.Trade Review'A Woman's Way promises to make a valuable contribution to these continuing debates, contesting accepted understandings of gender hierarchies in the past and providing detailed evidence of the contribution women have made to the universal search for meaning.' - Shurlee Swain, Journal of Religious HistoryTable of ContentsDirection in the Desert Direction Comes West The Age of Spiritual Advice The Visionary and the Confessor-Interrogator The Dawn of the Golden Age The Golden Age Continued Direction and Revolution Contemporary Spiritual Direction
£44.99
St. Martins Press-3PL Meena Heroine of Afghanistan
£13.29
Picador USA Too Late to Die Young
£16.14
Picador USA James Tiptree Jr The Double Life of Alice B Sheldon
Book SynopsisTiptree burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with hard-edged, provocative short stories. Then the cover was blown: the author was actually a 61-year-old woman named Alice Sheldon--world traveler, debutante, chicken farmer, CIA agent, and experimental psychologist.
£26.50
St. Martins Press-3PL Reborn
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£20.00
Picador USA Price of Motherhood Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued Anniversary
£16.14
Picador USA Louisa May Alcott
£24.87
ABC-CLIO Womens Gothic and Romantic Fiction
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£58.12
Little, Brown & Company The Targeter
Book Synopsis A CIA analyst''s revealing and utterly engrossing account of the world of high-stakes foreign intelligence and her role within the campaign to stop top-tier targets inside Al-Qaida (Joby Warrick). In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, D.C., to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity for intelligence work, Nada was determined to rise through the ranks of the agency first as an analyst and then as a Targeting Officer, eventually finding herself on the frontline of America''s war against Islamic extremists. In this role, Nada was charged with determining if Iraq had a relationship with 9/11 and Al-Qaida, and finding the mastermind behind this terrorist activity: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Her team''s analysis stood the test of time, but it was not satisfactory for some members of the Administration. In a tight, tension-packed narrative that takes the reader from Langley deep into Iraq, Bakos reveals the inner workings of the Agency and the largely hidden world of intelligence gathering post 9/11. Entrenched in the world of the CIA, Bakos, along with her colleagues, focused on leading U.S. Special Operations Forces to the doorstep of one of the world''s most wanted terrorists. Filled with on-the-ground insights and poignant personal anecdotes, The Targeter shows us the great personal sacrifice that comes with intelligence work. This is Nada''s story, but it is also an intimate chronicle of how a group of determined, ambitious men and women worked tirelessly in the heart of the CIA to ensure our nation''s safety at home and abroad.
£999.99
Little, Brown & Company I Am Malala The Girl Who Stood Up for Education
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£24.00
Hachette Books Code Girls The Untold Story of the American Women
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£18.69
Little, Brown & Company How Women Rise
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£23.20
Back Bay Books Sisters in Hate
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£16.19
Legacy Lit Maid
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£17.09
Little, Brown & Company Life of the Party the Biography of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman
£24.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Writing Gender History
Book SynopsisLaura Lee Downs is Director of Studies at the Centre de Recherches Historiques, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is the author of France at War (Berg, 2000), Childhood in the Promised Land (Duke University Press, 2003) and Why France? (Cornell University Press, 2007).Trade ReviewDowns puts the entire range of women's and gender history into context, showing how it challenges the conventional pieties, opens up new veins of research, and transforms our understanding of every aspect of history. Her command of the literature is simply astounding and her work is sure to be seen as a landmark in the development of the field of history in the broadest sense. -- Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA (about the first edition) Ingenuity and perspicuity shine through Laura Lee Downs' superb distillation and analysis of women's and gender history. To understand accomplishments and changes in the field, put this book at the top of your list. -- Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University (about the first edition) This fills an important gap in the range of books available on historiography. I envisage that the 'case-study' approach in chapters will be useful to students (i.e hopefully will encourage them to read the texts featured). -- Dr Anne Logan, University of Kent (about the first edition) 20051014Table of ContentsIntroduction; Before the second wave: scholarship on women from the early twentieth century into the 1960s; Second-wave feminism and the rediscovery of women's history, 1968-1975; Feminist historians and the 'new' social history: the case of England, 1968-1995; Is female to male as nature is to culture? Feminist anthropology and the search for a key to all misogynist mythologies; Beyond separate spheres: from women's history to gender history; Gender history, cultural history and the history of masculinity; Gender, poststructuralism and the 'cultural/linguistic turn' in history; Gender and history in a postcolonial world; From separate spheres to the public sphere: gender and the sexual politics of citizenship; Gender and history in a post-poststructuralist world; Conclusion: women's and gender history as a work in progress
£35.38
Penguin Random House LLC Messengers of the Wind
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£16.15
Random House USA Inc Catherine the Great Portrait of a Woman
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£19.80
Random House Publishing Group Running with the Bulls
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£16.14
Penguin Random House LLC HAPPILY EVER AFTER The Drew Barrymore Story
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Random House USA Inc The Lost Tudor Princess The Life of Lady Margaret
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE INDEPENDENT • From bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England who used her sharp intelligence and covert power to influence the succession after the death of Elizabeth I. Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, and she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin, and grandmother of monarchs. Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was an important figure in Tudor England, yet today, while her contemporaries—Anne Boleyn, Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I—have achieved celebrity status, she is largely forgotten. Margaret’s life was steeped in intrigue, drama, and tragedy—from her auspicious birth in 1530 to her parents’ bitter divorce, from her ill
£17.10
Random House USA Inc Ordinary Light
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • This dazzling memoir from the former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars is the story of a young artist struggling to fashion her own understanding of belief, loss, history, and what it means to be black in America.Engrossing in its spare, simple understatement.... Evocative ... luminous. —The Washington PostIn Ordinary Light, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tracy K. Smith tells her remarkable story, giving us a quietly potent memoir that explores her coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter.
£16.15
Random House USA Inc Wave
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£15.30
Mariner Books The Five
Book SynopsisWinner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction and of the Goodreads Choice Award for History & BiographyThe award-winning, best-selling book that changes the narrative of the Ripper murders foreverPolly, Annie, Elisabeth, Catherine, and Mary Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from some of London's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods, from the factory towns of middle England, and from Wales and Sweden. They wrote ballads, ran coffeehouses, lived on country estates; they breathed ink dust from printing presses and escaped human traffickers.What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women. Now, in this gripping narrative of five lives, Hallie Rubenhold finally sets the record straight and gives these women back their stories.
£15.29
Mariner Books The Daughters of Yalta
Book Synopsis A stirring account of one momentous week that would unleash fifty years of tyranny for half of Europe and plunge the world into the Cold War, as seen through the eyes of three young women. Catherine Grace Katz’s debut book, The Daughters of Yalta, is a marvelous and extraordinary work that reveals the human experience of the conference, with all its tragedy, love, betrayal, and even humor. She defines the relationships that shaped our world, and continue to shape our future.” —Julian Fellowes, Oscar-winning writer and creator of Downton Abbey The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference’s fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War IITensions at Yalta threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine Grace Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three young women who were chosen by their fathers to travel with them to Yalta, each bound by fierce family loyalty, political savvy, and intertwined romances that powerfully colored these crucial days. Kathleen Harriman, daughter of U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman, was a war correspondent and champion skier. Sarah Churchill, an actress-turned-RAF officer, was devoted to her brilliant father, who depended on her astute political mind. Roosevelt’s only daughter, Anna, chosen instead of her mother, Eleanor, to accompany the president to Yalta, arrived there as keeper of her father’s most damaging secrets. Situated in the political maelstrom that marked the transition to the postwar world, The Daughters of Yalta is a remarkable story of fathers and daughters whose relationships were tested and strengthened by the history they witnessed and the future they crafted together.
£19.99
Lulu.com WAIT You Cant See It Yet How To Wait On God
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£15.85
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc The Solitude of Self Thinking about Elizabeth Cady Stanton
£9.37
North Point Press O My America Six Women and Their Second Acts in a New World
£12.34
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Labor of Love
£19.93
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Future Sex
Book SynopsisA funny, fresh, and moving antidote to conventional attitudes about sex and the single woman
£10.99
