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Madwoman in the Attic The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780300246728, Yale University Press, May 2020
784 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwor...
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£14,99
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Midlife Crisis The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliche
ISBN: PB: 9780226637143, ISBN: HB: 9780226686851, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
The phrase "midlife crisis" today conjures up images of male indulgence and irresponsibility – an affluent, middle-aged man speeding off in a red sports car with a woman half his age – but before it became a gendered cliche, it gained traction as a f...
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£18,00
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£66,00
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Matilda Empress, Queen, Warrior
ISBN: PB: 9780300251470, Yale University Press, February 2020
296 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 21 black&white illus.
Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown – the first woman ever to hold the position – and an able military general. This new biography explores Matilda's achievements as military and political le...
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£10,99
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Mystic and the Lyric Four Women Poets from Kashmir
ISBN: HB: 9789385932717, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
250 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For the first time, "The Mystic and the Lyric" brings together the classic work of four women poets from Kashmir who have shaped its literary imagination: Lalded, Habba Khatun, Arnimal, and Rupa Bhavani. These women inhabit not just the collective me...
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£15,00
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MIRIAM CAHN I AS HUMAN
ISBN: PB: 9788364177552, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, February 2019
250 pp., 19x13.9 cm, 40 colour plates
Not for sale in Poland! A rebel and feminist, the Switzerland-born Miriam Cahn is one of the major artists of her generation. Widely known for her drawings and paintings, she also experiments with photography, moving images, sculptures, and perform...
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£27,00
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Mirrored Loss A Yemeni Woman's Life Story
ISBN: HB: 9781849049030, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Mirrored Loss" tells the story of Amat al-Latif al-Wazir, only daughter of 'Abdullah al-Wazir, the leader of Yemen's constitutional movement of the mid-twentieth century for democratisation of the autocratic imamate. Her relat...
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£35,00
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Mannequin Working Women in India's Glamour Industry
ISBN: HB: 9789385932229, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
250 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
The fashion industry in India is huge, employing more than sixty million people and, at $70 billion, accounting for a sizable chunk of the nation's economic activity. Despite that, it remains a startlingly unprofessional industry – particularly when...
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£26,50
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Merits of Women Wherein Is Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
ISBN: PB: 9780226550633, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
128 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 1 halftone
You would as well look for blood in a corpse as for the least shred of decency in a man... Without help from their wives, men are just like unlit lamps... Just think of them as an unreliable clock that tells you it's ten o'clock when it's in fact b...
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£11,50
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Motherhood and Choice Feminist Debates on Non-Normative Motherhood
ISBN: HB: 9789385932045, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm
As both the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged part of the "normal" female life, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers – both symbolic and corporeal. Motherhood – and non-motherhood – is not just physiological. As the piv...
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£30,00
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Maternity Mothers and Children in the Arts of Africa
ISBN: HB: 9780300229158, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2017
400 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 500 colour illus.
On the African continent, images of mothers and children are found wherever the visual arts are, from early rock-art sites in Egypt and the Sahara to the contemporary arts of South Africa. Found in a variety of materials, from stone, ivory, and metal...
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£70,00
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