Gender

'Striking.' ELLE France 'Brave.' iNews 'Powerful.' TLS 'Urgent.' Evening Standard 'Original.' CosmopolitanIn these essays, Leila Slimani gives voice to young Moroccan women who are grappling with a conservative Arab culture...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women have long been pathologized, locked up and medicated for not...

Did you know: women are 59% more likely than men to receive an incorrect diagnosis when experiencing heart attack.Or: women are more susceptible to pain medications than men, leading to...

From a leading psychotherapist comes an electrifying examination into female desire told through the stories of seven very different women.After thirty years of research, Sigmund Freud still felt the great...

'Limburg describes movingly her own struggles as a new mother and the pressure of society's expectations...Through such delicately intertwined experiences, Limburg quietly shouts for change.' Times Literary SupplementIt seemed to...

For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing...

*A WATERSTONES 'BEST POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'**A TIMES 'BEST PHILOSOPHY AND IDEAS' BOOK OF 2021**A GUARDIAN 'BEST POLITICS BOOKS OF THE YEAR'*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BUSINESS BOOK AWARD'A brilliant...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is...

'Women so empowered are dangerous'Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played...

Winner of the Hearst Big Book Awards, 2019 - Women's Health's Book of the Year_____________Shocking, brilliant, important. A fine addition to the feminist canon. - Emma Jane UnsworthFor the first...

In 1947 Simone de Beauvoir took a road trip across America.She travelled from coast to coast, from New York to Hollywood, taking in New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and Washington DC....

In such works as Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter Judith Butler broke new ground in understanding the construction and performance of identities. While Butler's writings have been crucial and...

'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.'A potted history of the women who pioneered...

The author talks to 15 women throughout the world who are, or have been, leaders of their country. Each has a story of her own, revealing cultural diversities, successes and...

The Sunday Times BestsellerNational Book Awards Winner 2018!This is the must-read book that every woman needs. "Brilliant, hysterical, truthful and real. These essays illuminate the path for our future female...

An instant New York Times bestsellerFrom the globally-recognized personal finance educator and social media star behind Her First $100K, an inclusive guide to all things money-from managing debt to investing...

From the depression suffered by Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to the mental anguish and addictions of iconic beauties Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe. From Theroigne de Mericourt, Fury of...

Philosophy, Pussycats, & Porn is a series of essays, blog posts, and stories surveying more than a decade of poignant journalistic accounts from internationally recognized writer, actor, and pornographer Stoya.Stoya...

Nira Yuval-Davis provides an authoritative overview and critique of writings on gender and nationhood, presenting an original analysis of the ways gender relations affect and are affected by national projects...

Discover Wollstonecraft's classic feminist text in an abridged, digestible form.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZOE WILLIAMS The term feminism did not yet exist when Mary Wollstonecraft wrote this book, but it...

'A must-read for everyone' Stylist'Tender, emotive and quietly revelatory' Irish Times'A vital work' Stella DuffyIn a world that expects all women to become mothers, what happens to those who circumvent...

*A WATERSTONES 'BEST POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'**A TIMES 'BEST PHILOSOPHY AND IDEAS' BOOK OF 2021**A GUARDIAN 'BEST POLITICS BOOKS OF THE YEAR'*'A brilliant manifesto explaining why women are still...

Imelda Whelehan provides an overview of popular women's writing from the late 1960s to the present, looking at how key feminist texts such as The Women's Room, Kinflicks and Fear...

In this provocative and now-classic work, Friedrich Engels explores the interrelated development of the family and the state from ancient society to the Victorian era. Drawing on new anthropological theories...

'Fun, rooted in science... May this book give all women strength for the times we now live in.' Cat BohannonA myth-busting vindication of women's physical strengthsFor decades, Starre Vartan -...

'THIS BOOK CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR ME' LalalaletmeexplainTHE PILL: - Changes your brain- Alters your stress response- Can increase your risk of depression- Affects your choice of partnerHormonal birth control is...

Most women will go on the birth control pill at some point in their lives, and our generation owes a lot to it. But it's something most of us know...

In her apron and rubber gloves, a smile lipsticked permanently across her face, the woman of the Fifties has become a cultural symbol of all that we are most grateful...

'I love that I don't need to feel ashamed at my happiest, and that my joy no longer needs to go through a filter before it's ready to see the...

A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023This is a neglected history. Not a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular. A journey, picked out...

A Cosmopolitan best book about sex and intimacy that everyone should read!'Funny, wise, revelatory - a revolution wrapped in a love story' - Natasha Lunn, author of Conversations on Love'Hopeful,...

The Asian sex trade is often assumed to cater predominantly to foreigners. SEX SLAVES turns that belief on its head to show that while western sex tourists have played a...

Katie King examines the development of U.S. feminist theory, tracing its inception, rocky development, and internecine struggles. In the process of dissecting other feminist theories, she creates a new feminist...

'[A] detailed and compelling study ... The academic intelligence of Crossfires lies in its revelation that women can find a common voice in Europe, by sharing their experience as other'...

Gender politics exist inevitably in all Islamist movements that expect women to assume the burden of a largely male-defined tradition. Even in secular political movements in the Muslim world -...