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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 20 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788400305 | ISBN 10: 1788400305
Explore the theories and concepts of the greatest feminists of all time, and get an answer to all of your everyday problems. Ever thought about what Tinder advice Naomi Wolf would give you? Ever wondered what Andrea Dworkin would th ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781558614291 | ISBN 10: 155861429x
Foreword by Cornel West. "Let me suggest, then, that the opening Chapter go farther back than 1848... From the time of the first Convention on Women — in New York 1837 — the battle began"(Lucretia Mott, to Elizabeth Cady Stanton) A decade p ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909829077 | ISBN 10: 1909829072
Founded in 1974, See Red Women’s Workshop grew out of a shared desire to combat sexist images of women and to create positive and challenging alternatives. Women from different backgrounds came together to make posters and calendars that tackled is ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781447275220 | ISBN 10: 1447275225
With an introduction by Xiaolu Guo A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America. When we Chinese girls listened to the ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780224102346 | ISBN 10: 0224102346
Set against the background of violence and state repression in a turbulent period of French history, The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia chronicles the incredible and outrageous life of Louise Michel, the revolutionary feminist dubbed ‘The Red Vi ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099592396 | ISBN 10: 0099592398
***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4*** "A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Gordon has reunited mother and daughter through biography, beautifully ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780252081347 | ISBN 10: 025208134x
The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word's power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846883781 | ISBN 10: 1846883784
Toddler in tow, Bee Rowlatt embarks on an extraordinary journey in search of the life and legacy of the first celebrity feminist: Mary Wollstonecraft. From the wild coasts of Norway to a naked re-birthing in California, via the blood-soaked stre ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784871253 | ISBN 10: 1784871257
Emmeline Pankhurst grew up all too aware of the prevailing attitude of her day: that men were considered superior to women. When she was just fourteen she attended her first suffrage meeting, and returned home a confirmed suffragist. Throughout the c ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781608463909 | ISBN 10: 1608463907
"Clara Zetkin's arguments in support of women workers contain a logic which can be effectively employed today in defense of strong affirmative action programs, not only for women but for the racially and nationally oppressed as well... Her analysis o ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781925228113 | ISBN 10: 1925228118
A riveting work of historical detection, revealing that the origins of one of the world’s most iconic Superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story — and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism. Wonder Woman, created in 1941, is ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781688212 | ISBN 10: 1781688214
Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784780128 | ISBN 10: 178478012x
Pioneering study of how ideas about white women have shaped the history of racism. How have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has, in many ways, develope ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784780524 | ISBN 10: 1784780529
An international bestseller, originally published in 1970, when Shulamith Firestone was just twenty-five years old, The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women’s liberation movement to put forth a feminist theory of politics. "A landmark ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781137363572 | ISBN 10: 1137363576
Feminist activism is enjoying a global resurgence. A new wave of feminists is taking to the streets in protest against rape, abuse, prostitution and inequality, and asserting a powerful new vision for women's liberation. The future of feminism has be ... more
View book details£75.00 hardback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848134072 | ISBN 10: 184813407x
How do we understand "Glamour"? Has it empowered women or turned them into objects? Once associated with modernity and the cutting edge, is it entirely bound up with nostalgia and tradition? This unique and fascinating book tells the story o ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781844085583 | ISBN 10: 1844085589
'It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches ...The colour is repellent ...In the places where it isn't faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about...' Based on the ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781400041596 | ISBN 10: 1400041597
“They didn’t ask to be remembered,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Laurel Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: “Well-behaved women seldom make histor ... more
View book details£37.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415953474 | ISBN 10: 0415953472
When Sex Became Gender is a study of post-World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history. The key theme is that ideas about the social construction of gender have its origins in the feminist theorists of the postwar period, a ... more
View book details£49.99 paperback (1997) - ISBN 13: 9780198204343 | ISBN 10: 0198204345
The first complete overview of the history of 'modern' English feminism, from the French Revolution to the election of Margaret Thatcher. Barbara Caine's fascinating analysis examines the relationship between feminist thought and actions, and wider s ... more
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