Gender

'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...

'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...

Your Silence Will Not Protect You collects the essential essays and poems of Audre Lorde for the first time, including the classic 'The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's...

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...

'Not only a dazzling analysis of the workings of sexism, but a balm for the soul. It will teach you how to survive and how to transform the world' Hannah...

'Two Women Living Together is a wonderfully calming and cosy read. I always adore stories of women who choose to live beyond the confines of cultural expectation-and this book might...

'Totally addictive.'- Alice Loxton, The Daily Telegraph 'An intriguing, highly snackable guide to women's experiences.'- Independent 'A modern classic.'- Alison Weir, author and historian 'The sort of book you return...

In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC. In a series of six lectures, she takes areas of contemporary concern and relates them to stories...

THE DEFINITIVE MEMOIR FROM THE ICONIC FEMINIST LEGEND'Gloria Steinem has long been, and will forever be, the light guiding the way for so many of us. Her energy, passion, clarity,...

"Inventing Herself" is an account of women, from the 18th century to the present, who lived life on a grand scale. Elaine Showalter uncovers the lives of feminist intellectuals, focusing...

'Answers every question you could have about LGBTQ+ families. A must read' - Will YoungThis informative, funny and empowering book from the hosts of the award-winning podcast Some Families is...

In the past decades, the pressure to perfect and design our bodies has been unprecedented. Breast enhancement is a sweet sixteen birthday present in the suburbs of America, while eating...

In this dynamic new collection of essays, critically acclaimed author Roisin Kiberd dissects the business of attaining perfection - or even normality - through consumption and body modification.Linking her personal...

An exploration of relationships between men and women in the Western world which examines the "battle of the sexes" from ancient times to the present. The author looks at relationships...

A decade ago, Caitlin Moran thought she had it all figured out. Her instant bestseller How to Be a Woman was a game-changing take on feminism, the patriarchy, and the...

'Gemma's mind is a thing of wonder. Reading her love for these crucial legacies is like falling under a spell'AFUA HIRSCH'Will warm your heart and activate your moral compass. An...

Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy AstorThey terrorised the establishment.They fought for the vote.They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world.For the hundredth anniversary...

'Eleanor is annoyingly clever & maddeningly funny as this book proves. She may have to be destroyed' - Dawn French Take a tour of the past and uncover stories of...

'Has the power to knock the breath out of you' THE TIMES 'A must-read' JESSIE BURTON'One of the most brilliant writers of her generation, as witty, wry and unsentimental as...

A highly readable cultural history of queer women's lives in the second half of the twentieth century'An inspiring celebration of lesbian camaraderie, activism and fun' SARAH WATERS'A cracking read, and...

*A Book of the Year in the Telegraph and Dazed*'I love Philippa Snow's writing, truly and deeply' Lena Dunham'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity ... a joy to...

'Excellent' - EconomistMost women in the developed world are dissatisfied with their breasts. They dismiss them as silly boobs, lament their less-than-ideal forms, or renounce thinking about them altogether. Why...

An analysis of Victorian women writers, this pathbreaking book of feminist literary criticism is now reissued with a substantial new introduction by Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar that reveals the...

'Lindy West is an essential (and hilarious) voice for women. Her talent and bravery have made the Internet a place I actually want to be.' Lena Dunham'A thrilling, kick-ass, joyous...

'Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.' So begins Feminism is for Everybody, a short, accessible introduction to feminist theory by one of its...

*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 must-read' - Kate Raworth, author of DOUGHNUT...

"[W]e can't come off as a bunch of angry white men." Robert Bennett, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party One of the enduring legacies of the 2012 Presidential campaign was...

Look past what you're being TOLDAnd see what you're being SOLD'Anyone who cares about the girls and young women in their lives should read GIRLS (R)' JONATHAN HAIDT'Freya India is...

Eat Pray Love meets Want.Wayward Women is a unique, searingly honest, devastatingly raw two-person memoir about the friendship, travels and sex lives of two fiftysomething women finding their way again...

A powerful exploration of self-blame, where it comes from, why women are prone to it, and what we can do about it.Many of us regularly hear a sarcastic, malevolent voice...

*A Waterstones Best Book of 2023**A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week**A New York Times Editor's Pick*'Terrific' SARAH DUNANT'Lively and intriguing ... You'll never look at Renaissance portraits in...

From the bestselling author of A History of Britain in 21 WomenThe history of the world is the history of great women.Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science. Empress...

TELEGRAPH: TOP 50 BOOKS OF 2020It is a myth that the First World War liberated women.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of...

Porn is everywhere. What's it doing to us?'This book couldn't be more important... Urgent, bold and unflinching.' Laura Bates, author of Everyday SexismNever more than a click away, porn is...

From Eleanor of Aquitaine to Edith Piaf, Colette to Coco Chanel, discover the lives of 21 women who made French history'Fascinating, gripping, vividly detailed, this is a wonderful book full...

The globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth.For millennia the 'wild' was a place heroic men went on epic...

'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risque book that became a runaway success....

Queen Victoria is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad wicked folly of women's rights, with all its attendant horrors, on...

Life's way to short to fret about waistlines, ex lovers or whether you've got the latest 'it' handbag. It's time for a return to old-fashioned glamour, to start enjoying life...