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Ecofeminist Subjectivities: Chaucer's Talking Birds

By L. Kordecki

Bluestockings: The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education

By Jane Robinson

Childhood, Culture, and Class in Britain: Margaret McMillan, 1860-1931

By Carolyn Steedman

A Woman's Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot

By mary walton

Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century China

By Paul J. Bailey (Durham University, Durham)

Gender and Conflict since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

By Ana Carden-Coyne (University of Manchester, Manchester)

Feminism in the News: Representations of the Women's Movement Since the 1960s

By K. Mendes

Women In Politics

Destined for a Life of Service: Defining African-Jamaican Womanhood, 1865-1938

By Henrice Altink

A Curious History of Sex

By Kate Lister

A Brief History of the Wars of the Roses

By Mr Desmond Seward

Women and Slavery, Volume One: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic

By Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, Joseph C. Miller

Virago Book of Women and the Great War

By JOYCE MARLOW

African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-1950

By Tabitha Kanogo

Women, Work & Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003

By Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh

Reminiscences of a Student's Life

By Jane Ellen Harrison

An Almost Impossible Thing: The radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners

By Fiona Davison

Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today

By Rachel Vorona Cote

The Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot

By Fraser, Lady Antonia, Lady Antonia Fraser

The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits

By Jennifer Higgie

The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

By Jennifer Higgie

Voices from the Blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen

By Jennifer Rees, Robert J. Strange

A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture - 'An inspiring celebration of lesbian camaraderie, activism and fun' (Sarah Waters)

By June Thomas

Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II

By Tessa Dunlop

Women Who Ruled: History's 50 Most Remarkable Women

By Claudia Gold, MD

Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution

By John Eidinow

Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century

By Katie Hickman

Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution

By John Eidinow

A History of Their Own, Volume 1: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present: v. 1 (Pelican)

By Anderson, Bonnie S., Zinsser, Judith

Regulating Womanhood

By Carol Smart