A hilarious, heartfelt memoir about one woman's midlife obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch, and the liberating power of reclaiming our passions as we age, whatever they may be.
Prostitution was a serious problem for nineteenth-century Europe: a threat to public health and public order and, at the same time, a prop to morality, allowing society to protect the purity of most women by sacrificing that of only a few.
Women in contemporary Greek society have been conventionally depicted as oppressed and socially inferior, circumscribed in behavior and segregated from the world of men.
A collective biography of France's first generation of female secondary schoolteachers, this book examines the conflict between their public and private lives and places their new professional standing wtihin the political culture of the Third Republic.
The Tigerbelles tells the epic story of the 1960 Tennessee State University all-Black womens track team, which found Olympic glory at the 1960 games in Rome.
Este libro nace de la necesidad de hacernos a otra historia del nacimiento del movimiento feminista en Colombia, a partir de la vida compleja y contradictoria de Juana Julia Guzman, lideresa afroindigena colombiana por el derecho a la tierra en los anos veinte del siglo pasado.
'Forest of Eden' is a thoughtful exploration of divine balance, tracing the long-neglected harmony between the masculine and feminine forces that shape creation, power, and wisdom.
The Tigerbelles tells the epic story of the 1960 Tennessee State University all-Black womens track team, which found Olympic glory at the 1960 games in Rome.
How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased them The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men.
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our presentBeginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonizing world offered new visions of liberation that centered the ideas and lives of women.
A groundbreaking and provocative look at how violent women have been represented in literature, plays, film, and performanceFatal Women builds a complex and original theory of how the shadow of the lesbian animates representations of violent women, from the Victorian novel to films depicting women who kill.
A groundbreaking and provocative look at how violent women have been represented in literature, plays, film, and performanceFatal Women builds a complex and original theory of how the shadow of the lesbian animates representations of violent women, from the Victorian novel to films depicting women who kill.
How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased them The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men.
El collage de ser mujer es una antología visual y poética que reúne el trabajo de doce artistas colombianas convocadas por La Tijera Colectiva y compiladas por Marcela Buenaños Mena.
When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Empire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties.
When the Spanish arrived in Peru in 1532, men of the Inca Empire worshipped the Sun as Father and their dead kings as ancestor heroes, while women venerated the Moon and her daughters, the Inca queens, as founders of female dynasties.
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our presentBeginning in the 1970s, women of the decolonizing world offered new visions of liberation that centered the ideas and lives of women.
Fresh out of college, hating her job, and searching for meaning, Meghan Tschanz left everything to join a mission trip around the globe, and quickly witnessed oppression experienced by women that she never thought possible.
'A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer' Jackie Kay, New StatesmanThe Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by the great feminist and activist Audre Lorde.
La lucha de las mujeres en Mexico ha sido intensa y compleja: aqui se narra este proceso, desde la conformacion fabril del pais durante el Porfiriato y la Revolucion mexicana; pasando por los anos veinte y treinta del siglo XX, con sus multiples movimientos sociales; las decadas de 1940 a 1960, cuando Mexico se conformo como un pais moderno y se consiguio el sufragio femenino; los anos setenta, con el surgimiento de la segunda ola del feminismo alternativo y contracultural, hasta llegar a los anos ochenta y noventa, que corresponden a los primeros dos sexenios del modelo neoliberal.
From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writerIn The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her including a letter to her dying mother and to an absent friend.
THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe empowering, must-read memoir of the end of a marriage and the start of a personal revolution, perfect for readers of Glennon Doyle and Miranda July.
A FRANK, FUNNY AND EMPOWERING CELEBRATION OF FEMALE PLEASUREAn orgasm will help you sleep and keep you looking younger, it doesn t cost money and isn t a scarce resource.
An exhilarating biography of the iconic poet, essayist and activist Audre Lorde Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions.
*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*WINNER OF THE POLITIKEN LITERATURE PRIZE 2024'Brilliantly rewrites the history of economic thought to place 'her story' at its heart.
A groundbreaking exploration of how fatherhood transforms men s brains, bodies, health, skills and relationships - showing that men are wired to participate in care, just as women are.
