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Marie Antoinette

By John Edward Nicholl Hearsey

The Unwomanly Face of War

By Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot

By Mikki Kendall

Toxic

By Sarah Ditum

The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty

By Natalie Livingstone

The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

By Kim Barker

This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President

By Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson

Philomena (Movie Tie-In): A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

By MARTIN SIXSMITH, Dame Judi Dench

Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838

By Barbara Bush

Aishah, the Beloved of Mohammed

By Nabia Abbott

The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture

By Ophelia Field

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Jenni Murray

Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924

By Huda Shaarawi, Margot Badran

Cleopatra

By Hughes Hallett

Wait for Me!: Memoirs

By Mitford, Deborah

Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: An Englishwoman's Life During the Civil War

By Lucy Moore

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

By Melinda Gates

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World

By Kate Mosse

Women for Hire: Prostitution and Sexuality in France after 1850

By Alain Corbin, Alan Sheridan

Women Under Apartheid

Women Under Apartheid

Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives

By Hickman, Katie

Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape

By Susan Brownmiller

Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Forced Labour Migration

By Ian Duffield, James E. Bradley, James Bradley (Research Fellow, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow)

Somerville for Women: An Oxford College, 1879-1993

By Pauline Adams

Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day

By ANNE SOMERSET

News, Gender and Power

By Stuart Allan, Gill Branston (Cardiff University, UK), Cynthia Carter

The Tudor Housewife

By Alison Sim

Medieval Women: Social History of Women in England, 450-1500

By Henrietta Leyser

The Grand Quarrel: Women's Memoirs of the English Civil War

By Hudso Roger, Roger Hudson