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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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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Backbone of the Nation
Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85
ISBN: PB: 9780300277906,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
496 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 8 colour illus.
496 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 8 colour illus.
A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families.
Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in Br...
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£11.99
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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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Lesbian Materialism: The Life and Work of Monique Wittig
Yale French Studies, Number 142
ISBN: PB: 9780300267358,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Yale French Studies 142 explores the contemporary relevance of an alternative strand of feminism as theorized by Monique Wittig.
This volume of Yale French Studies foregrounds Monique Wittig (1935-2003), a writer who left France to live and teach i...
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£55.00
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Death Glitch
How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
ISBN: HB: 9780300248272,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
272 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
272 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 16 black&white illus.
An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death.
Since the internet's earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at pres...
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£27.50
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Being and Belonging
Contemporary Women Artists from the Islamic World and Beyond
ISBN: HB: 9780300275094,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
168 pp., 27,3x19,6 cm, 100 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
168 pp., 27,3x19,6 cm, 100 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
Interviews with women artists connected with the Islamic world and their compelling works that are shaping contemporary art today.
Showcasing artworks that offer political and poetic commentary on many of today's major global issues, "Being and Belo...
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