Gender

As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find ourselves...

'The Glass Cliff is a conversation about what happens when women break the rules, and break through The Glass Ceiling.'Have you ever wondered why there are so few success stories...

THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES, MRS. AMERICAGloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across...

'Full of wisdom and insight ... I cannot recommend it enough' Julia Samuel'Brilliant' Katy Hessel'Fascinating ... a valuable contribution to a wider debate about how women are permitted to own...

2017 begins the centennial celebrations of women first winning the right to vote in some states, culminating in national suffrage three years later. This book documents the milestones in that...

'Powerful, deftly researched. A necessary and urgent deep-dive' ELINOR CLEGHORN'Brilliantly researched and enlightening' STYLIST, Books You Need to Know This Autumn'Absolutely captivating' LESLIE JAMISON----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------On Friday 24 June 2022, women's rights...

'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard 'A call for cool heads at a time of...

Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman.MORANTHOLOGY is proof...

"We came to Britain in search of better opportunities or to get some of the wealth which had been misappropriated from the Caribbean, but what in reality did we find?"Speak...

'Poignant and compelling... will resonate with anyone who cares about justice and the abuse of power' - Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor and author of Sandstorm'Essential and urgent'...

What is the secret to a woman's strength and power? Mothers, daughters, sisters, friends, colleagues: women connect through shared experience, mutual support, and the wisdom handed down from generation to...

Designed to be a comprehensive history of women in Europe, synthesizing the research of the last 20 years. The authors have organized European history from women's perspective, covering both the...

Do you want to know more about the fight for women's rights, what we've achieved and how we got there? This helpful little guide will teach you the history, theory,...

In today's 'post-feminist' society, feminism is often portrayed as unfashionable and irrelevant. But since the turn of the millennium, a revitalised feminist movement has emerged to challenge these assumptions and...

This is a carefully researched A-Z of women's employment, covering over 200 years of change. The entries themselves themselves are based on an encyclopaedic approach, each full of interest and...

This title tells of the extraordinary lives and times of a small group of women who, during the course of the 19th century, rose from impoverished obscurity to become some...

This book brings together a mass of detailed and dispersed material on women in early modern Europe, as well as giving readers a new interpretation of the considerable study of...

London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are...

'A moving collection' GRAZIA 'Danielle is a sharp new talent.' SIRIN KALE 'Vibrant, intense and darkly comic' ABIGAIL BERGSTROM 'Danielle Pender explores that impact on women's exterior and interior lives...

An astonishing new work that radically changes how we think about, talk about and understand the vagina - and consequently how we think about women and sexuality - from Naomi...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Breathes life into conversations about feminism' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE'Very funny, very clever, very thoughtful and very relevant' DOLLY ALDERTONWhy do we find it so hard to say 'No'?How...

'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin Moran 'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should...

An unmissable guide for teenage girls and women everywhere who are ready to take over the world.This book is a call to arms. Because though you may be going through...

This concise guide to feminism explains all the key concepts, people and terms in the movement, each explained in no more than 300 words and one picture. Feminism is a...

The inspiration for the hit Netflix series Sex/LifeOne woman's secret journal completely changes her marriage in this hilarious and biting memoir. School psychologists aren't supposed to write books about sex....

'An urgent and vital call to arms that compassionately and forensically exposes the many ways criminal justice fails women, and offers practical and clear-sighted solutions' THE SECRET BARRISTER This is...

***NEW EDITION WITH BONUS CHAPTER***Bringing you the record-breaking, bestselling Women Don't Owe You Pretty as a black and white modern classic.Women Don't Owe You Pretty is for anyone who wants...

'Shocking, heartfelt and well-researched' New Statesman'A ground-shaping book that defines the edge of so many vital contemporary debates. Hers is a voice simultaneously behind and beyond the veil' Colum McCann'A...

'YOU'LL BE MOVED BY THE BRAVE WOMEN IN AWAKENING' MALALA YOUSAFZAI'AWAKENING GOES WHERE NO BOOK HAS GONE BEFORE. INSPRIRING, INSIGHTFUL, PROFOUNDLY MOVING' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON#MeToo #EnaZeda #MieuPrimeiroAssedio #tystnadtagning #ArewaMeTooAll over...

Olympe de Gouges was the most important fighter for women's rights you've never heard of. An activist and writer in revolutionary Paris, she published 'The Declaration of the Rights of...

'These women are each a light and an inspiration, demonstrating how the best instincts of humanity - to love, to share, to protect others - can triumph in the worst...

In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism.As a politics and as a practice, abolitionism has increasingly...

How is gender signified, produced and reproduced through paid and unpaid labour? In what ways does gender intersect with other kinds of disadvantage? How does power work through interactions, emotions...

The feminists across Latin America, Africa, and Europe making self-managed abortion available to all - and the transnational movement they have built along the wayDrawing on years of research with...