Gender studies: women and girls Books
Griffin Publishing Mountain to Mountain A Journey of Adventure and Activism for the Women of Afghanistan
Book SynopsisIn her lyric and honest memoir, Shannon Galpin describes her first forays into fundraising, her deep desire to help women and girls halfway across the world, her love for adventure and sports, and her own inspiration to be so much more than just another rape victim.Trade Review"An inspiring and illuminating window into the lives of Afghan women and their own path to freedom, recognition, and equality." - Khaled Hosseini, New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner
£20.64
Flatiron Books Heartwood
Book SynopsisWinner of a Gold Nautilus AwardFeatured on Katie Couric Media's 37 Life-Changing Books You Won't Be Able to Put Down We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love, Barbara Becker reminds us in her debut memoir Heartwood.When her earliest childhood friend is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Becker sets off on a quest to immerse herself in what it means to be mortal. Can we live our lives more fully knowing some day we will die?With a keen eye towards that which makes life worth living, Barbara Becker-a perpetual seeker, a mom, and an interfaith leader-recounts stories where life and death intersect in unexpected ways. She volunteers on a hospice floor, becomes an eager student of the many ways people find meaning at the end of life, and accompanies her parents in their final days. Becker inspires readers to live with the end in mind and proves that turning toward loss rather than away from it is the
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St Martin's Press Eating My Way Through Italy
Book SynopsisRome's resident gastronomic expert offers a cultural and culinary celebration of everything that makes Italian cuisine great.
£19.99
Holt McDougal Tonight Im Someone Else
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£15.19
St Martin's Press Here We Are
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Picador USA Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Book SynopsisAn updated, third edition of the renowned feminist's most diverse and timeless collection of essays, with a new foreword by Emma Watson. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions has sold over half a million copies since its original publication in 1983, acclaimed for its witty, warm, and life-changing view of the world, as if women mattered. Steinem''s truly personal writing is here, from the now-famous exposé, I Was a Playboy Bunny, to the moving tribute to her mother Ruth''s Song (Because She Could Not Sing It). Her prescient essays on female genital mutilation and the difference between erotica and pornography that are still referenced and relevant today, and the hilarious satire, If Men Could Menstruate resonates as much as ever.As Watson writes of Steinem in her foreword, She makes what otherwise can be arduous and depressing reading into something not only relatable, but also enjoyable... Her plain common sense, calling things out as they are, wil
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Flatiron Books Being Lolita
Book SynopsisAS FEATURED IN THE HULU DOCUMENTARY KEEP THIS BETWEEN USA dark relationship evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn to rewrite her own story.Have you ever read Lolita?So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson finds solace only in her writingand in a young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. North. Mr. North gives Alisson a copy of Lolita to read, telling her it is a beautiful story about love. The book soon becomes the backdrop to a connection that blooms from a simple crush into a devastating and dangerous bond. But as Mr. North's hold on her tightens, Alisson is forced to evaluate how much of their narrative is actually a disturbing fiction.In the wake of what becomes a deeply abusive relationship, Alisson is faced again and ag
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St. Martin's Essentials How to Be Authentic
Book SynopsisAn illuminating introduction to the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir and its relevance to modern lifeIn an age of self-exposure, what does it mean to be authentic?Authenticity has become attenuated to the point of meaninglessness; everyone says to be yourself, but what that means is anyone's guess. For existential philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, authenticity is not the revelation of a true self, but an exhilarating quest towards fulfillment. Her view, central to existentialism, is that we exist first and then spend the rest of our lives creatingnot discoveringwho we are. To be authentic is to live in pursuit of self-creation and self-renewal, with many different paths towards diverse goals.How to Be Authentic is a lively introduction to Simone de Beauvoir''s philosophy of existentialism, as well as an exploration of the successes and failures that Beauvoir and other women have experienced in striving towards authenticity. Skye C. Cleary takes us
£999.99
St. Martin's Publishing Group The Womens Orchestra of Auschwitz
£25.50
Picador USA Happiness A Memoir
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£16.20
Flatiron Books The Moment of Lift
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£21.59
PICADOR Art Monsters
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£13.75
Picador USA The Undying
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTIONThe Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms ''the ideological regime of cancer,'' Anne Boyer has produced a profound and unforgettable document on the experience of life itself. Sally Rooney, author of Normal PeopleAnne Boyer's radically unsentimental account of cancer and the ''carcinogenosphere'' obliterates cliche. By demonstrating how her utterly specific experience is also irreducibly social, she opens up new spaces for thinking and feeling together. The Undying is an outraged, beautiful, and brilliant work of embodied critique. Ben Lerner, author of The Topeka SchoolA week after her forty-first birthday, the acclaimed poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a si
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Picador USA The Copenhagen Trilogy
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Metropolitan Books My Body
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMy Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty as defined by powerful men. In its more transcendent passages . . . the author steps beyond the reach of any ''Pygmalion'' and becomes a more dangerous kind of beautiful. She becomes a kind of god in her own right: an artist.Melissa Febos, The New York Times Book ReviewA deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our timeEmily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologeti
£15.29
Henry Holt & Company Tell Me Everything
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Washington Post best celebrity memoir of 2023An Audible best celebrity memoir of 2023A timely, urgent portrait of working-class American women.Gabrielle UnionIn her highly anticipated memoir Tell Me Everything, Minka Kelly shares a story as powerful as it is page-turning.Fans know her as the spoiled, rich cheerleader Lyla Garrity on Friday Night Lights or as the affluent, mysterious Samantha on the HBO megahit Euphoria. But as revealed for the first time in these pages, Minka Kelly's life has been anything but easy.Raised by a single mother who worked as a stripper and struggled with addiction, Minka spent years waking up in strange apartments as she and her mom bounced around the country, relying on friends and relatives to take them in. At times they even lived in storage units. She reconnected with her father, Aerosmith's Rick
£23.19
Flatiron Books Its Not Hysteria
£16.99
St Martin's Press In Defense of Witches
Book SynopsisMona Chollet''s In Defense of Witches is a brilliant, well-documented celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution.Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches are both the ultimate victim and the stubborn, elusive rebel. But who were the women who were accused and often killed for witchcraft? What types of women have centuries of terror censored, eliminated, and repressed?Celebrated feminist writer Mona Chollet explores three types of women who were accused of witchcraft and persecuted: the independent woman, since widows and celibates were particularly targeted; the childless woman, since the time of the hunts marked the end of tolerance for those who cla
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Lulu.com Momentum
£19.98
Lulu.com Women In Full Bloom Coloring Book
£13.70
WW Norton & Co The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Book SynopsisA definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers.
£12.99
Bloomsbury Visual Arts Female Art and Agency in Yugoslavia 19712001
Book SynopsisDespite having become marginalized on the map of contemporary art since the wars of the 1990s, the regions of former Yugoslavia continue to be a hub of creative activity. Especially noteworthy is the strong presence of women artists, scholars, and activists whose deeply personal, yet highly political artwork is rooted in a long legacy of female artistic agency. Building on existing scholarship as well as original research, this book highlights how female figures ? through art and exhibition making, writing, mentorship, and activism ? have shaped the alternative art scene in former Yugoslavia and placed the region firmly on the map of the international post-avantgarde.Using the founding of the Student Cultural Center Belgrade in 1971 as a starting point, the book details the pioneering work of women in the realm of curation, where they developed radical exhibition concepts and programs that furthered the development of the New Art Practice and embedded Yugoslavia firmly on the map of the international postwar-avantgardes. It highlights the agency of female artists in the then-novel realms of performance art, video art, and new media art and shows how their work has helped these disciplines to gain the impact they retain until the present day. What is more, it shows how female cultural workers have courageously used their work to further the discourse on gender, sexuality, and the female body and, at a time when they saw themselves stripped of basic rights by the chauvinist-nationalist regimes emerging after Yugoslavia''s breakup, formed a strong artistic and activist opposition. Highlighting the role of women in the diversification of the ex-Yugoslavia states and its highly unique cultural and political landscape, this book addresses the noticeable gap in art historical scholarship that exists not only around Yugoslavia and its successor states, but especially on its female representatives.
£28.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Learning to Succeed in Science
Book SynopsisThis book offers a positive and compelling exploration of how young south Asian women can be encouraged to study science further and to consider STEM as a career. Drawing together both intersectional and personal perspectives, the book celebrates south Asian culture, sharing the stories of these individuals, their multifaceted identities, aspirations and successes. At the micro-level, an intersectional analysis reveals complicated identity negotiations of being young, female, a science-orientated student, imigré, Muslim, a daughter and a sister, as well as how these identities might interact, nest, and shift. The chapters build on the authors'' previous work in science education, developing models of science identity (Sci-ID) and women's engagement with the study of science and their aspirations for a science-based career.
£28.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jeanette Winterson and Religion
Book SynopsisSince the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful and insightful writer on sexuality and gender. However, the profound and persistent religious themes of her work have received much less critical attention. Jeanette Winterson and Religion is the first in-depth study of the ways in which Winterson navigates the sacred and the profane in the full range of her writing, from her first novel to later works such as The PowerBook and The Stone Gods. This book reads the author''s work alongside the theological turn in the thought of such theorists as Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo and Julia Kristeva as well as feminist and queer theologians such as Catherine Keller and Marcella Althaus-Reid. In this way, Jeanette Winterson and Religion reveals how Jeanette Winterson stakes out a unique and intriguing post-secular literary form of the sacred.Trade ReviewMcAvan’s text does not disappoint in the insights it offers. As well as creating a thorough and informative study of Winterson’s major works, McAvan also succeeds in her overall aim – to establish that, with a reappearance of the divine in the secular cultural space of postmodernism, Winterson creates an art of major import through a “return of the sacred in the post-secular world” (170). * Contemporary Women's Writing *Emily McAvan incisively interrogates a theme conspicuous by its absence in most extant criticism of Winterson’s writing: the fierce interplay of religion with sexuality, gender and power. Here queerness and holiness are interwoven as visionary, and Winterson herself is claimed as prophetic. In this expansive book, McAvan highlights Winterson’s generative deconstruction of binaries such as secular and sacred, sameness and otherness, belief and unbelief, and identifies her as a perceptive religious thinker. * Susannah Cornwall, Senior Lecturer in Constructive Theologies, University of Exeter *At long last a powerful study of a queer and feminist writer that brings the body and the spirit together. In this finely written book Em McAvan turns to the postmodern sacred to provide a rigorous theoretical framework for a reading of Jeanette Winterson's novels of lesbian and bisexual love. * Vijay Mishra, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Murdoch University, Australia *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. ‘I Love Both of Them’: Queer Love and the Religious in Oranges are not the Only Fruit 3. ‘Colours and Folly’: Retelling the Noah Story in Boating For Beginners 4. The Love Event in The Passion 5. Sexing the Cherry and the Monstrous Maternal 6. Written on the Body and the Negative Theology Tradition 7. Art & Lies: Literature in a Neoliberal Age 8. Gut Symmetries, New Physics and Kabbalah 9. The PowerBook and Virtual Culture 10.Lighthousekeeping and the Religious Vocation 11.The Stone Gods’ Climate Change Apocalypse 12. Conclusion
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Wearing the Cheongsam Dress and Culture in a Chinese Diaspora Dress Cultures
Book SynopsisCheryl Sim is Managing Director and Curator at Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada.Trade ReviewProvides a thorough and nuanced analysis, of both the cheongsam's place in a globalized world, and what the garment represents to and on the bodies of women of Chinese descent all over the world. * The Journal of Dress History *By skillfully stitching race, gender and identity onto the cheongsam, Sim reveals the craft of the diasporic community and the multiplicity of this ethnic garment. * Wessie Ling, Northumbria University, UK *In the first study of its kind, Cheryl Sim adds original and valuable insights to existing knowledge of the cheongsam. Weaving a path between personal and national histories, she establishes the garment as a signifier of identity, belonging and agency. * Hazel Clark, Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA *Wearing the Cheongsam pulls a wily thread on this traditional Chinese dress, unravelling its complexity as exquisite adornment and cross-cultural signifier. Its power to encode women’s bodies is seamlessly explored by Cheryl Sim. * Monika Kin Gagnon, Concordia University, Canada *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: One size does not fit all 2 Determining the 'fabric' 3 The Cheongsam: A complex garment 4 Wearing practices in Canada: Ambivalence, Authenticity, and Agency 5 Getting inside The Fitting Room 6 Conclusion: Cheongsam 2.0 / Making alterations Index
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Bloomsbury Academic Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora
Book SynopsisPresenting the life stories of ten Uyghur women, this book applies the techniques of narrative analysis to explore their changing worldviews and conversions to political engagement. Born and raised in East Turkestan/Xinjiang in the 1970s-90s, each woman, after personally experiencing incidents of ethnic discrimination, chose to leave China before 2005. Settling in a western country, they strive to become the voice of the Turkic people who are silenced or detained in the ?re-education? camps.The narratives are based on interviews conducted online between 2020 and 2021, collected as a form of oral history. The book focuses on the escalating tensions, turning points experienced in their youth, and the religious, political and psychological factors that prompted their transformations in self-identity, ideology and the emergence of a new Uyghur?Muslim feminism.Through the women''s stories, the book describes how women activists are navigating the competing reality constructions of the dire situation in the Uyghur Homeland and actively restorying a genocide to bring about social and political change.
£28.99
Bloomsbury Academic Daughters of the Goddess Daughters of Imperialism
Book SynopsisIfi Amadiume is an award-winning poet and a political activist as well as an academic. She has lived in Nigeria and the UK and is currently associate professor at Dartmouth College, USA. There, she teaches in both the Department of Religion and the African-American Studies Programme.
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Gale Ncco, Print Editions The Phantom Ship by Captain Marryat RN
£25.60
Gale Ncco, Print Editions The Gentle Shepherd a Scots Pastoral Comedy
£14.96
Gale Ncco, Print Editions Tales of Superstition and Chivalry
£14.96
Gale Ncco, Print Editions The Vampyre a Tale
£22.75
Gale Ncco, Print Editions uvres compltes de Mme Riccoboni
£19.95
Gale Ncco, Print Editions Poemes antiques et modernes par le Comte Alfred de Vigny
£14.09
Gale Ncco, Print Editions Die tochter der luft eine mythische tragodie in fnf akten nach der idee des P Calderon von Dr Ernst Raupach
£23.70
Gale Ncco, Print Editions Der Brutigam aus Mexiko Schauspiel in fnf Abtheilungen von H Clauren
£15.95
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Lulu Press Olive A. Oatman
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£9.40
Shrimala Publishing Keeping the Dalai Lama Waiting Other Stories
£14.24
Random House USA Inc WellBehaved Women Seldom Make History Vintage
Book Synopsis From admired historian—and coiner of one of feminism's most popular slogans—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich comes an exploration of what it means for women to make history. In 1976, in an obscure scholarly article, Ulrich wrote, Well behaved women seldom make history. Today these words appear on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, greeting cards, and all sorts of Web sites and blogs. Ulrich explains how that happened and what it means by looking back at women of the past who challenged the way history was written. She ranges from the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan, who wrote The Book of the City of Ladies, to the twentieth century’s Virginia Woolf, author of A Room of One's Own. Ulrich updates their attempts to reimagine female possibilities and looks at the women who didn't try to make history but did. And she concludes by showing how the 1970s activists who created second-wave
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Random House USA Inc Ayn Rand and the World She Made
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearAyn Rand’s books have attracted three generations of readers, shaped the Libertarian movement, influenced White House economic policies throughout the Reagan years and beyond, and inspired the Tea Party movement. Yet twenty-eight years after her death, readers know very little about her life. In this seminal biography, Anne C. Heller traces the controversial author’s life from her childhood in Bolshevik Russia to her years as a Hollywood screenwriter, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that worshipped her in the 1950s and 1960s. Based on original research in Russia and scores of interviews with Rand’s acquaintances and former acolytes, Ayn Rand and the World She Made is a comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and impr
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Random House USA Inc Operating Instructions
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The acclaimed author of Bird by Bird brings her brilliant combination of humor and warmth to a smart, funny, and comforting chronicle of single motherhood (Los Angeles Times Book Review).It’s not like she’s the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that make up a woman’s life.Lamott is a wonderfully lithe writer .... Anyone who has ever had a hard time facing a perfectly ordinary day will identify. —Chicago Tribune
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Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc) Bold Spirit
Book SynopsisIn 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara’s curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington. Their route would pass through 14 states, but they were not allowed to carry more than five dollars each. As they visited Indian reservations, Western boomtowns, remote ranches and local civic leaders, they confronted snowstorms, hunger, thieves and mountain lions with equal aplomb. Their treacherous and inspirational journey to New York challenged contemporary notions of femininity and captured the public imagination. But their trip had such devastating consequences that the Estby women''s achievement was blanketed in silence
£18.90
Thomas Nelson Publishers El Diario Más Cool del Mundo
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Amacom Who Says Its a Mans World
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HarperCollins Focus Building a House for Diversity
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Xlibris Corporation A Promise Fulfilled
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Xlibris Corporation A Promise Fulfilled
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AuthorHouse Girl in a Pink Skirt
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