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Groundbreakers, Rule-breakers & Rebels 50 Unstoppable St. Louis Women
ISBN: PB: 9781883982980, University of Chicago Press, Omnidawn, November 2020
104 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates
The history of women's activism in St. Louis began long before 1920, when Missouri ratified the Nineteenth Amendment and gave women the right to vote. Women have always been a fundamental – but too often unfairly forgotten – part of what made St. Lou...
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£12,00
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Eliza Lucas Pinckney An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300236118, Yale University Press, October 2020
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) reshaped the colonial South Carolina economy with her innovations in indigo production and became one of the wealthiest and most respected women in a world dominated by men. Born on the Caribbean island of Antigua, sh...
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£25,00
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Off Limits New Writings on Fear and Sin
ISBN: PB: 9781909942479, ISBN: HB: 9781909942431, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, October 2020
171 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Nawal El Saadawi is a significant and broadly influential feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. Born in 1931 in Egypt, her writings focus on women in Islam. Well beyond the Arab world, from "Woman at Point Zero" to "The Fall of the...
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£9,99
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£14,99
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Citizen Woman An Illustrated History of the Women's Movement
ISBN: HB: 9783791385303, Prestel Publishing, May 2020
256 pp., 26x21.5 cm, 180 colour illus.
One hundred years ago American women fought for and won an equal voice at the ballot box with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. This happened thanks to the unrelenting activism of women in the US and around the rest of the world, who shif...
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£29,99
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Madwoman in the Attic The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780300246728, Yale University Press, May 2020
784 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwor...
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£14,99
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Naked Truth Viennese Modernism and the Body
ISBN: HB: 9780226669984, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-sieclefascination with the psyche. But this stereotype of the movement as essentially cerebral overlooks a rich cultural history of the body. "The Naked Truth", an interdisciplinary tour de f...
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£36,00
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Picturing Political Power Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement
ISBN: HB: 9780226703244, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 105 halftones
For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images – whether illustrations, engravings, photographs, or colorful chromolithograph posters. Some of these pictures have been fl...
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£36,00
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Bread Winner An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy
ISBN: HB: 9780300230062, Yale University Press, April 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 32 black&white illus.
The Victorian era saw remarkable economic growth and a rise in real wages. But not everyone shared in the nation's prosperity. Many families continued to live in grinding poverty with women and children usually faring worst. In this incisive account...
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£20,00
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Catlady A Love Letter to Women and Their Cats
ISBN: HB: 9783791385990, Prestel Publishing, April 2020
224 pp., 22.2x16.5 cm, 80 colour images 
There's no question that cats rule the world – ask any cat owner and they'll tell you how these balls of fur insert themselves into our lives and establish dominion over the household. In this book, Leah Goren brings together smart, funny essays by b...
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£14,99
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Pocket A Hidden History of Women's Lives, 1660-1900
ISBN: PB: 9780300253740, Yale University Press, April 2020
264 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women's everyday lives – from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen – and to explore...
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£19,99
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