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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry by Adrienne Rich
    Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry - by Adrienne Rich

    £21.00   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780393652369 | ISBN 10: 039365236x

    A career-spanning selection of the lucid, courageous and boldly political prose of National Book Award winner Adrienne Rich.   The Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of Adrienne Rich’s most renowned essays, demonstrating the lasting brilli ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Pen is Mightier Than the Penis: Words for the Wise from the World by Various authors
    The Pen is Mightier Than the Penis: Words for the Wise from the World - by Various authors

    £7.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781787131866 | ISBN 10: 1787131866

    For nasty women everywhere, The Pen is Mightier than the Penis is a feminist quote book celebrating female writers throughout the centuries, from Sappho to Margaret Atwood.   Find the perfect comeback for those infuriating 'you're not a feminist, ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi by Nawal El Saadawi
    A Daughter of Isis: The Early Life of Nawal El Saadawi - by Nawal El Saadawi

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786993069 | ISBN 10: 1786993066

    Nawal El Saadawi has been pilloried, censored, imprisoned and exiled for her refusal to accept the oppressions imposed on women by gender and class. For her, writing and action have been inseperable and this is reflected in some of the most evocative ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography by Edmund Gordon
    The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography - by Edmund Gordon

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099575726 | ISBN 10: 0099575728

    WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD   Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 in The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Financial Times, Spectator and Observer   Angela Carter’s life was as unconventional as anything in her fiction ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers by Various writers, edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates
    The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers - by Various writers, edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates

    £16.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780143105992 | ISBN 10: 014310599x

    A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century.   The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive ant ... more

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  • Cover image of book Frantumaglia: An Author
    Frantumaglia: An Author's Journey Told Through Letters, Interviews, and Occasional Writings - by Elena Ferrante

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781609452926 | ISBN 10: 1609452925

    From the author of My Brilliant Friend.   This book invites readers into Elena Ferrante’s workshop. It offers a glimpse into the drawers of her writing desk, those drawers from which emerged her three early standalone novels and the four ins ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Life, My Body by Marge Piercy
    My Life, My Body - by Marge Piercy

    £11.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781629631059 | ISBN 10: 1629631051

    In a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, rants, and railleries, Piercy discusses her own development as a working-class feminist, the highs and lows of TV culture, the ego-dances of a writer's life, the homeless and ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
    How to Be a Woman - by Caitlin Moran

    £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780091940744 | ISBN 10: 0091940745

    1913 – Suffragette throws herself under the King’s horse.  1969 – Feminists storm Miss World.   NOW – Caitlin Moran rewrites The Female Eunuch from a bar stool and demands to know why pants are getting smaller.   There’s never be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008 by Nadine Gordimer
    Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008 - by Nadine Gordimer

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408800966 | ISBN 10: 1408800969

    Nadine Gordimer’s life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Political and Literary Writings by Rosa Luxemburg, edited by Mike Jones
    Rosa Luxemburg: Selected Political and Literary Writings - by Rosa Luxemburg, edited by Mike Jones

    £14.95   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780850366938 | ISBN 10: 0850366933

    Rosa Luxemburg, perhaps the most remarkable and original figure among German Marxist thinkers and activists, was one of the earliest victims of fascism, murdered in Berlin, in 1919. This volume presents selected political essays, writings previously ... more

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  • Cover image of book Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
    Somewhere Towards the End - by Diana Athill

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847080691 | ISBN 10: 1847080693

    Diana Athill will be ninety in December, 2007. Somewhere Towards the End tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forget, to regret, to forgive - and h ... more

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  • 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

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  • Cover image of book Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ, Feminism, Science Fiction by Jean Cortiel
    Demand My Writing: Joanna Russ, Feminism, Science Fiction - by Jean Cortiel

    £20.00   paperback   (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780853236245 | ISBN 10: 0853236240

    In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ’s work and assesses its development. The book will be especially valuable for students of SF and feminist SF, espe ... more

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  • Cover image of book From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers by Marina Warner
    From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers - by Marina Warner

    £25.00   paperback   (1995) - ISBN 13: 9780099479512 | ISBN 10: 0099479516

    This brilliant and timely study looks beyond the Freudian interpretation of fairy tales, to the tellers of the tales, and to the social and cutural contexts in which the tales are told and re-told through the centuries, from the ancient sibyls to the ... more

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