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End of Equality
ISBN: PB: 9780857421135, Seagull Books, December 2013
96 pp., 25x15 cm
Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality – in the workplace, on the street, and in the home. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress has stopp...
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£7,00
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Half-Marathon: A Complete Guide for Women
ISBN: PB: 9781841263663, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, October 2013
200 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 59 black&white illus., 10 tables
Author of the best-seller "Marathon: You can do it!", Galloway now offers together with his wife a state-of-the-art book on the highly popular half-marathon distance especially for women. Jeff's trademarked run-walk-run method has helped hundreds of...
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£14,95
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Emma Goldman Revolution as a Way of Life
ISBN: PB: 9780300198232, Yale University Press, October 2013
160 pp., 21x14.6 cm
"Emma Goldman" is the story of a modern radical who took seriously the idea that inner liberation is the first business of social revolution. Her politics, from beginning to end, was based on resistance to that which thwarted the free development of...
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£10,99
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Nine Degrees of Justice New Perspectives on Violence Against Women in India
ISBN: HB: 9788189884505, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
364 pp., 22.8x14 cm
From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati – self-immolation – feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved to a wider terrain that includes issues rarely considered in the early days of the Indian feminist movement in the 1...
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£22,50
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Woman Reader
ISBN: PB: 9780300197204, ISBN: HB: 9780300120455, Yale University Press, August 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 50 black&white illus.
This lively book tells a story never told before: the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to...
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£9,99
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£20,00
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Soviet Airwomen of the Great Patriotic War
ISBN: PB: 9788875651466, Bookport, IBN Editore, June 2013
280 pp., 24x17 cm, 505 black&white illus.
A pictorial history on the contribution that Soviet airwomen brought to the II World War. The Author retraces meticulously the role that these young women played during what they called themselves the "Great patriotic War". He went several times to R...
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£21,95
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Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, 1885-1917
ISBN: PB: 9780226021539, ISBN: HB: 9780226021362, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 halftones, 1 line illus.
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the penny presses of the industrial East treated brothels as a mundane, if annoying, aspect of city life. But later in the century, reformers and mainstream papers began to push back against this repre...
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£24,00
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£73,00
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Women in the Club Gender and Policy Making in the Senate
ISBN: PB: 9780226022826, ISBN: HB: 9780226022796, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 tables, 10 line illus.
In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, Democrats and Republicans were locked in a fierce battle for the female vote. Democrats charged Republicans with waging a "war on women",‌ while Republicans countered that Democratic policies actually...
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£25,50
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£78,00
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Our Pictures, Our Words A Visual Journey Through the Women's Movement
ISBN: PB: 9789381017258, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
228 pp., 23x15 cm, 300 colour illus.
Vibrant, dynamic, spirited, and forceful. The contemporary women's movement in India, which began in the late 1970s, fought valiantly against dark times marked by violence and misogyny. But it also celebrated – liberation, solidarity among women, and...
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£14,50
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Women Changing India
ISBN: HB: 9788189884970, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
200 pp., 30x25.4 cm, 150 colour illus.
India is changing. And at the heart of this change are its women. The change is widespread and varied, individual and collective, reflecting the full spectrum of women's lives, whether in politics or in economics, in business, or within their daily d...
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£34,00
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