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Women and Media in the Middle East: Power Through Self-expression

By Naomi Sakr

The Five Lives of Hilma af Klint

By Hilma af Klint, Phillipp Deines, Julia Voss

The Courage to Heal Workbook

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: The internationally bestselling classic

By Dr Maya Angelou

Women and the Law

By Sandra Fredman, FBA (Reader in Law, Reader in Law, Exeter College, Oxford)

Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists

By Deborah Cherry

Charge of the Parasols: Women's Entry into the Medical Profession

By Catriona Blake

Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide

By Andrea Smith

Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One

By Kate Adie

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

By Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn

Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

By Karen Petersen, J. J. Wilson

Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Hirsi Ali, Ayaan

Roughing it in the Suburbs: Reading Chatelaine Magazine in the Fifties and Sixties

By Valerie J. Korinek

Women Viewing Violence

By Philip Schlesinger, etc., Rebecca Dobash, Russell Dobash, Kay Weaver

Desperately Seeking Women Readers: U.S. Newspapers and the Construction of a Female Readership

By Dustin Harp

Funny Girls: Cartooning for Equality

By Diane Atkinson

Women, Politics, and Change

By Karen Ross (, Coventry University)

Women and Property/Women as Property

By Renee Hirschon

The Hey Nonny Handbook

By Julia Jeffries, Janice Warman

The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks

By Deborah Bryceson, Ulla Vuorela

Gendered Encounters: Challenging Cultural Boundaries and Social Hierarchies in Africa

By Maria Grosz-Ngate, Omari Kokole

Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific

By Kalpana Ram (Macquarie University, Sydney), Margaret Jolly (Australian National University, Canberra)

Iron, Gender, and Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies

By Eugenia W. Herbert

The New I Do: Reshaping Marriage for Skeptics, Realists and Rebels

By Susan Gadoua, Vicki Larson

Male Domination, Female Revolt: Race, Class, and Gender in Kuwaiti Women's Fiction

By Ishaq Tijani

Can't Buy ME Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel

By Jean Kikbourne

Philosophy Without Women: The Birth of Sexism in Western Thought

By Vigdis Songe-Moller (University of Bergen, Norway)

Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women

By Andrea L. Press (University of Virginia, USA), Elizabeth R. Cole

Sexy Thrills: Undressing the Erotic Thriller

By Nina Martin

Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait

By Attiya Ahmad