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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 12 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists by Celia Brayfield
    Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists - by Celia Brayfield

    £19.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781448217496 | ISBN 10: 1448217490

    Shelagh Delaney • Edna O’Brien • Lynne Reid-Banks • Charlotte Bingham • Nell Dunn • Virginia Ironside • Margaret Forster   In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement ... more

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  • 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 In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein by Fiona Sampson
    In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein - by Fiona Sampson

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781255292 | ISBN 10: 1781255296

    Mary Shelley was brought up by her father in a house filled with radical thinkers, poets, philosophers and writers of the day. Aged sixteen, she eloped with Percy Bysshe Shelley, embarking on a relationship that was lived on the move across Britain a ... 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 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 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 Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill
    Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend - by Diana Athill

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781847084149 | ISBN 10: 1847084141

    Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity even more revealing than the candour of her celebrate ... more

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  • Cover image of book Constructing Incest Stories: Black Women
    Constructing Incest Stories: Black Women's Voices in Fact and Fiction - by Dorothy L. Hurley and E. Anthony Hurley

    £21.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781592217113 | ISBN 10: 1592217117

    Constructing Incest Stories: Black Women’s Voices in Fact and Fiction provides a highly original perspective on incest by an illuminating fusion of social science research and literary analysis.   The analysis of the process of the constructi ... 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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