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On the Basis of Art 150 Years of Women at Yale
ISBN: HB: 9780300254242, Yale University Press, November 2021
304 pp., 27.3x25.4 cm, 185 colour illus.
Marking the 150th anniversary of the first women students at Yale, who came to study at the Yale School of the Fine Arts (now Yale School of Art) when it opened in 1869, and the 50th anniversary of undergraduate coeducation at the University, this vo...
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Off Limits New Writings on Fear and Sin
ISBN: PB: 9781909942479, ISBN: HB: 9781909942431, University of Chicago Press, Gingko Library, October 2020
171 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Nawal El Saadawi is a significant and broadly influential feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist. Born in 1931 in Egypt, her writings focus on women in Islam. Well beyond the Arab world, from "Woman at Point Zero" to "The Fall of the...
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£9,99
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£14,99
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Of Mothers and Others Stories, Essays, Poems
ISBN: HB: 9789381017869, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
284 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Taking care of our women and children builds not just a generation but the nation itself, writes the Indian film star Shabana Azmi in her introduction to this unique volume. We neglect mothers at our own peril, at the peril of society. If we are to l...
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£16,00
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Only Woman in the Room A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780226132518, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones
In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese Constitution".The Only Woman in the Room" chronicles how a daughter of Russian Jews became the youngest woman to aid in the rushed, secret drafting of a constitu...
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Our Pictures, Our Words A Visual Journey Through the Women's Movement
ISBN: PB: 9789381017258, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
228 pp., 23x15 cm, 300 colour illus.
Vibrant, dynamic, spirited, and forceful. The contemporary women's movement in India, which began in the late 1970s, fought valiantly against dark times marked by violence and misogyny. But it also celebrated – liberation, solidarity among women, and...
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£14,50
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