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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

Don't Know Much about the Bible

By Kenneth C. Davis

Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform

By Midge Gillies

Empress Josephine

By Ernest John D. Knapton

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

By Xinran, Nicky Harman

The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980

By Showalter, Elaine, Elaine Showalter

Feminist Foremothers in Women's Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health

By Ellen Cole (Alaska-Pacific University, Anchorage, Ak, USA), Esther D Rothblum (San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, Phyllis Chesler

Why She Wrote: A Graphic History of the Lives, Inspiration, and Influence Behind the Pens of Classic Women Writers

By Hannah K. Chapman, Lauren Burke, Kaley Bales

Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By Cat Bohannon

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s

By Virginia Nicholson

Women and Politics in Uganda: The Challenge of Associational Autonomy

By Aili Mari Tripp (Royalty Account)

Ladies of Influence: Women of the Elite in Interwar Britain

By A. Susan Williams

The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

By Paula Byrne

Brilliant Women: 18th-century Bluestockings

By Elizabeth Eger, Lucy Peltz

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

By Jennifer Higgie

The Woman's Hour

By Elaine Weiss

Young Elizabeth: The Making of our Queen

By Kate Williams

A House Full of Daughters

By Juliet Nicolson

Windswept: why women walk

By Annabel Abbs

Rise Up Women!: The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Dr Diane Atkinson

If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women

By Sarah Helm