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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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£40,00
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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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Disputed Legacies The Pakistan Papers
ISBN: HB: 9789385932090, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2019
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Offering vital new perspectives on the role of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Pakistan, "Disputed Legacies" examines the situations that arise when secular law comes into conflict with traditional practice and belief and how this directly affe...
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£37,50
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From Victims to Suspects Muslim Women Since 9/11
ISBN: HB: 9780300230420, Yale University Press, January 2019
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Once regarded as passive victims waiting to be rescued, Muslim women are now widely regarded as arbiters of "terror" and a potential threat to be kept under control. Drawing on interviews and examples from around the world including Afghanistan, Paki...
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Prisoner No. 100 An Account of My Days and Nights in an Indian Prison
ISBN: HB: 9789385932182, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
248 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
On February 6, 2003, Anjum Zamarud Habib, a young political activist from Kashmir, was arrested in Delhi, convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and sentenced to five years in Delhi's notorious Tihar jail. Her crime? Being in the wrong plac...
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From Reverence to Rape The Treatment of Women in the Movies (Third Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226412894, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
496 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 57 halftones
A revolutionary classic of feminist cinema criticism, Molly Haskell's "From Reverence to Rape" remains as insightful, searing, and relevant as it was the day it was first published. Ranging across time and genres from the golden age of Hollywood to f...
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£20,50
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Parenting to a Degree How Family Matters for College Women's Success
ISBN: HB: 9780226183367, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 10 tables
Helicopter parents – the kind that continue to hover even in college – are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really dama...
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£19,00
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Daughter of Venice Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus and Woman of the Renaissance
ISBN: HB: 9780300209723, Yale University Press, September 2015
360 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 34 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Caterina Corner, a Venetian noblewoman and the last Queen of Cyprus, led a complex and remarkable life. In 1468, Corner married King Jacques II Lusignan of Cyprus at the behest of her family, whose ambitions matched those of the Venetian republic anx...
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Women's Divination in Biblical Literature Prophecy, Necromancy, and Other Arts of Knowledge
ISBN: HB: 9780300178913, Yale University Press, July 2015
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Divination, the use of special talents and techniques to gain divine knowledge, was practiced in many different forms in ancient Israel and throughout the ancient world. The Hebrew Bible reveals a variety of traditions of women associated with divina...
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£65,00
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Female Alliances Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain
ISBN: HB: 9780300177404, Yale University Press, February 2014
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially c...
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