A Washington Post style editor's fascinating and irresistible look back on the Miss America pageantunveiling the hidden world of this iconic institution.
In 1844, a young merchant from Shiraz called Sayyid ';Ali-Muhammad declared himself the ';gate' (the Bab) to the Truth and, shortly afterwards, the initiator of a new prophetic cycle.
'The most important thing you'll read this year' Elle The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the bestselling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl.
The true story of the police investigation into the 'honour' killing of Banaz MahmodWhen Rahmat Sulemani reported his girlfriend Banaz missing, it quickly became clear to DCI Caroline Goode that something was very wrong.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment.
New York Times Notable Books of 2018 Financial Times Book of the Year Award-winning journalist Rania Abouzeid presents reportage of unprecedented scope in this engaging, character-driven investigation that exposes the secret dealings that armed and betrayed an uprising.
A new, transformative history in Tudor times there were Black people living and working in Britain, and they were free ';This is history on the cutting edge of archival research, but accessibly written and alive with human details and warmth.
'This rallying cry will persuade you to battle for true equality' Stylist An incendiary debut taking the world by storm, Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be.
From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 21 Women They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians.
The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ';Israel's bravest historian' (John Pilger)Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.
The debate over sexual violence on campus is reaching fever pitch, from headlines about outof-control fraternities, to the mattress protests by female students at Columbia University and other colleges.
Fourteen women testify to the shocking human rights abuses in Iranian prisonsWINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023 'A must-read for anyone concerned with human rights in Iran.
In Clandestinas, Carollee Bengelsdorf challenges the silences surrounding women's participation in the insurrection in Havana during the Cuban Revolution.
Por su calidad intelectual y academica este libro fue galardonado con el Premio Iberoamericano de la Latin American Studies Association (LASA), que se entrega anualmente a la mejor publicacion sobre Latinoamerica en el area de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades.
Soy una mujer de casi cuarenta anos que querria existir en el mundo sin preocuparse constantemente por las violencias de genero y sexuales de las que mis amigas, mis hijas o yo misma podriamos ser victimas.
50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - now a Virago Modern Classic with a new introduction by Alexandra Harris'Full of dignity, courage and humour, and as fresh and insightful as the day it was written, FENWOMEN is a vital portrait of rural women's lives - not only as they were lived in the 1970s in one Cambridgeshire village, but in the generations before it, all over the country, and reaching forward into today's world, too' MELISSA HARRISONMary Coe recalls summers spent gleaning in the fields, laudanum-soothed babies strapped to their mothers' backs.
Auf einer Entdeckungsreise durch Geschichte, Mythologien und Weltliteratur stößt Dino Heicker immer wieder auf queere Lebensweisen und Haltungen, die nicht den Normen ihrer Zeit entsprachen.
In a current era marked by carceral logics, authoritarianism, and white supremacy, there has never been a greater need for the tools and inspiration that radical feminism provides.
Holding the Heavy Stuff is a unique, illustrated self-help guide for anyone who has struggled with low mood, worries, self-doubts or mean thoughts about themselves and then found it difficult to move their life forward.
Para sobrevivir, los otomies precisan capturar y devorar a sus enemigos, quienes a su vez pretenden capturarlos y devorarlos: Cristo, la virgen y los santos, los curas catolicos y pastores evangelicos, las politicas del Estado y los funcionarios que ejecutan las imposiciones del progreso capitalista expresado en el extractivismo territorial de una de las zonas metropolitanas mas densamente pobladas de America Latina.
Mujeres congoleñas, sudanesas, kenianas, etíopes y ugandesas comparten con dolor y valentía uno de los hechos más cruciales de sus vidas: el ser viudas.
A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to describe poetic style originated in the early modern period: original ideas, feminine rhyme, irregular rhythm, smooth verse.
Esta publicación contiene investigaciones de campo que se desarrolló principalmente en Madrid – España, donde durante dos años – 2004 y 2005 – se siguió el rastro y se estableció contacto con varias personas de la comunidad kichwa-otavaleña de Madrid.
En el marco del "Año internacional de los Afrodescendientes", el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio e Integración (MRECI), la Organización de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI) y la Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (UPS), organizaron el Encuentro Internacional de Reflexión y Participación AL OTRO LA'O DE LA RAYA (Quito, 12 – 13 de diciembre de 2011) cuyo objetivo fue la recuperación de la memoria y fortalecimiento de la identidad de los pueblos afrodescendientes en zonas de frontera.
Desde distintas miradas, este libro escudriña las muchas facetas que tiene la diversidad y los retos que enfrentamos al tratar de entenderlas y aceptarlas.
Desde 1984 a 1998 Mujeres por la democracia puso en práctica, de manera creativa, una aspiración común: involucrarse en las luchas de los sectores populares, identificarse con ellos y colaborar en las soluciones de los graves problemas sociales del país.
