Roe
The History of a National Obsession
ISBN: PB: 9780300276862,
ISBN: HB: 9780300266108,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history.
What explains the insistent pull of Roe v. Wade? Abortion law expert Mary Ziegler argues that the U.S. Supreme Court decision...
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£14.99
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£20.00
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Muslim Women and Misogyny
Myths and Misunderstandings
ISBN: PB: 9781911723011,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2024
216 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
216 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
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Debunking lazy stereotypes, a courageous exploration of Islamophobia, patriarchy and identity. What is it really like to be a Muslim woman in today's Britain?
Muslim women are among the most fetishised and objectified groups...
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£15.99
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Brilliant Exiles
American Women in Paris, 1900-1939
ISBN: HB: 9780300273588,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
288 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 200 colour illus.
288 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 200 colour illus.
A scintillating account of the cultural freedom and empowerment that American women experienced as leaders in the avant-garde scene in early twentieth-century Paris.
For the American women who made Paris their home during the early decades of the t...
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£45.00
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Novels, Needleworks, and Empire
Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
ISBN: HB: 9780300270785,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
312 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 38 black&white illus.
312 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 38 black&white illus.
The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism.
In the eighteenth century, women's contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives. Their traces were recorded i...
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£50.00
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Women and the Piano
A History in 50 Lives
ISBN: HB: 9780300266573,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Women are an essential part of the history of the piano – but how many women pianists can you name?
Throughout most of the piano's history, women pianists lacked access to formal training and were excluded from male-dominated performance spaces. Ev...
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£25.00
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Category Is: Cocktails!
Mixed Drinks Inspired By Legendary Drag Performers
ISBN: HB: 9783791389806,
Prestel Publishing,
March 2024
144 pp., 18,7x15,0 cm, 120 colour illus.
144 pp., 18,7x15,0 cm, 120 colour illus.
Slip on your best heels, beat your face for the gods, and get ready to toast sixty iconic drag queens, kings, and nonbinary performers with cocktails and zero-proof drinks made in their honor.
Category Is: Cocktails! features original recipes for 60...
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£12.99
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Tread Loudly
Call Out the Bullsh*t and Fight for Equality in the Workplace
Shatter the glass ceiling in stilettos.
In "Tread Loudly", Kristine Cherek shares her experiences as a female professional in a male-dominated culture. Through her two-decade journey as a female attorney, corporate executive, and college professor,...
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£22.00
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Dollars for Life
The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment
ISBN: PB: 9780300274189,
ISBN: HB: 9780300260144,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
344 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party.
The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and big business – two things so clos...
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£16.99
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£25.00
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Merze Tate
The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar
ISBN: HB: 9780300270273,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
A powerful and inspiring biography of Merze Tate, a trailblazing Black woman scholar and intrepid world traveler.
Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905-1996) refused to limit her intellectual am...
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£27.50
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Rosalind
One Woman Did the Work, Three Men Took the Glory
"Societies are oiled with the unpaid, unaccounted for, work of women. It is the very glue that binds us together, and yet we are blind to it; a woman's work remains invisible".
Rosalind Franklin knows that to be a woman in a man's world is to be inv...
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£9.99
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