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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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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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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£40.00
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Women in Intelligence
The Hidden History of Two World Wars
ISBN: HB: 9780300260779,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus.
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 24 black&white illus.
A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century.
From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the co...
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£25.00
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Women Who Saved the English Countryside
ISBN: PB: 9780300270396,
Yale University Press,
April 2023
400 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 15 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.
400 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 15 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.
A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women.
In Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. Bu...
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£10.99
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Woman
The American History of an Idea
ISBN: PB: 9780300271140,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
600 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
600 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century.
What does it mean to be a "woman" in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution...
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£16.99
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