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
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 in society today. Muc...
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15.99 GBP
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Heart Tantrums and Brain Tumours
A Tale of Misogyny, Marriage and Muslim Feminism
ISBN: PB: 9781787388932,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2023
456 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
456 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Tackling abuse, identity and inequality, a courageous tale of a feminist supporting her husband through his personality-altering brain tumour.
When Aisha Sarwari moved to America as a young woman, she set out to create her own identity and story....
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15.99 GBP
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See What You Made Me Do
Power, Control and Domestic Abuse
ISBN: PB: 9781787388260,
ISBN: HB: 9781787383685,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2023
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Winner of the 2020 Stella Prize
Every year in England and Wales alone, one in twenty adults suffer domestic abuse, two thirds of them women. Every week, two men kill a woman they were intimate with. And still we ask the wrong question: Why didn't...
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12.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Wander Women
Tales of Transgression in a Bordered World
ISBN: HB: 9781787387973,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2022
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A deeply thoughtful, intimate yet political exploration of women's free and unfree movement, sharing stories from refugees, disability activists and more.
Governments' decisions usually impact most on the lives of women and people of marginalised...
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20.00 GBP
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Proving Ground
The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World's First Modern Computer
ISBN: HB: 9781787388628,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2022
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A fascinating, forgotten story of the six brilliant women who launched modern computing.
As the Cold War began, America's race for tech supremacy was taking off. Experts rushed to complete the top-secret computing research started during World War...
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20.00 GBP
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Girly Drinks
A World History of Women and Alcohol
ISBN: PB: 9781787387737,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2022
384 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
384 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Winner of the 2022 James Beard Book Award
Nominated for the 2022 Spirited Awards
Selected as one of the 25 Best Cookbooks of 2022 in Delicious Magazine
From the ancient Sumerian beer goddess to Black South African micro-brewers today, a page-turn...
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14.99 GBP
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Woman's Place
U.S. Counterterrorism Since 9/11
ISBN: PB: 9781787386075,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2021
564 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
564 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A much-needed book on the role of women in U.S. counterterrorism in the wider Middle East and at home
The 9/11 attacks fundamentally transformed how the U.S. approached terrorism, and led to the unprecedented expansion of counterterrorism strategi...
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22.50 GBP
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Women of the Somali Diaspora
Refugees, Resilience and Rebuilding After Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9781787384811,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2021
376 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
376 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A study of resilience after conflict through the experiences of Somali women refugees and their community in the London diaspora.
This book is about Somali mothers and daughters who came to Britain in the 1990s to escape civil war. Many had never...
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30.00 GBP
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How Women Can Save The Planet
ISBN: HB: 9781787384613,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2021
376 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
376 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
As featured in Emma Watson's COP-26 reading list
Here's a perverse truth: from New Orleans to Bangladesh, women – especially poor women of colour – are suffering most from a crisis they have done nothing to cause. Yet where, in environmental poli...
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14.99 GBP
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Women vs Capitalism
Why We Can't Have It All in a Free Market Economy
ISBN: HB: 9781787381742,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2019
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Although the #MeToo movement has been hugely important, empowerment of the mind will not achieve full power for women while there remains economic inequality. Leading economist Vicky Pryce urgently calls for feminists to focus attention on this pre...
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17.99 GBP
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