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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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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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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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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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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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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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And The Bridge Is Love - by Faye Moskowitz

£11.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781558617704 | ISBN 10: 1558617701

FP brings back into print a literary gem. Personal essays by a great Jewish American writer. "Bridges the gap between humor and despair, past and present, Jew and gentile, to reveal its author�s simple humanity, deeply rooted in her u ... more
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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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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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In Search of Our Mother's Gardens - by Alice Walker

£9.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780753819609 | ISBN 10: 0753819600

The first collection of Alice Walker's non-fiction spanning fifteen years in the career of this remarkable writer. This collection of essays is a celebration of the legacy of creativity - especially the rich vein of women's stories and spiritu ... more
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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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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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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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