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		Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England
				Social Studies
		James Daybell
		Oxford University Press 2006 340 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0199259917
		Published Price £64.00		Our Price £12.99
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		Jewish Women Philosophers of First-Century Alexandria
		Philo's 'Therapeutae' Reconsidered		Social Studies
		Joan E Taylor
		Oxford University Press 2006 417 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0199291411
		Published Price £27.00		Our Price £7.99
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		The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English
				Social Studies
		Lorna Sage
		Cambridge University Press 1999 696 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0521668131 246x174mm
		Published Price £16.95		Our Price £7.99
	An A-Z of over 2,500 signed entries, this celebration of the achievements of women writers across the world spans the history of literature in English from the medieval writings of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe to the poet Kathleen Raine and the novels of Toni Morrison and AS Byatt. The majority of entries are on authors, but the Guide also covers important individual works and offers concise, lucid explanations of genres, literary terms and wider concepts such as realism and postmodernism. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge.
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		Good Girl Messages
		How Young Women were Misled by Their Favorite Books		Social Studies
		Deborah O'Keefe
		Continuum 2000 212 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0826413692
		Published Price £19.99		Our Price £8.99
	Throughout much of the 20th century, books for children encouraged girls to be weak, submissive and fearful. In this study Deborah O'Keefe surveys popular children's literature, from classics such as Lorna Doone, What Katy Did and National Velvet to girls' fiction series of the 1990s, and discusses the messages conveyed, blatantly or subtly, by their characters, plots and themes.
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		Lily Braun, 1865-1916
		German Writer, Feminist, Socialist		Social Studies
		Ute Lischke
		Camden House 2000 144 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1571131698
		Published Price £35.00		Our Price £9.99
	A leading German feminist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Lily Braun turned away from politics to write fiction and later still turned to National Socialist views. Lischke looks at both the political and the literary life of this enigmatic figure. No jacket.
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		Words of Love
		Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath		Social Studies
		Pamela Norris
		HarperCollins 2006 501 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0002571781
		Published Price £25.00		Our Price £7.99
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		Women and the Noose
		A History of Female Execution		Social Studies
		Richard Clark
		Tempus 2007 252 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0752444891
		Published Price £18.99		Our Price £5.99
	In 1733 Sarah Malcolm murdered three women during the course of a robbery. Over 200 years later, Ruth Ellis was arrested, holding a smoking gun over the body of her dead lover. They were just two of over 600 women who were executed, between the Georgian period and the mid 20th century. In examining the lives, crimes and motives of 70 women who died on the gallows, this book provides a sympathetic, often moving history of female capital punishment.
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		'The Truest Form of Patriotism'
		Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870-1902		Social Studies
		Heloise Brown
		Manchester University Press 2003 199 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0719065313
		Published Price £14.99		Our Price £5.99
	Exploring the pervasive influence of pacifism on Victorian feminism, this study draws on previously unused source material to provide an account of Victorian women who campaigned for peace and the many feminists who incorporated pacifist ideas into their writing on women and gender. Heloise Brown reveals pacifist, internationalist and anti-imperialist strands in Victorian feminist thought and focuses on how these developed within the political and organizationl context of the time.
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		Spinsters Abroad
		Victorian Lady Explorers		Social Studies
		Dea Birkett
		Sutton 2004 300 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0750937211
		Published Price £8.99		Our Price £4.99
	What spurred so many Victorian women to leave behind the security and comfort of their middle-class homes to travel thousands of miles, tramp through rain forests, caravan across deserts and scale mountain ranges? How were they able to move so freely in exotic lands, when such independence was denied them at home? Drawing on the diaries, letters and writings of more than 50 Victorian lady explorers, Birkett describes their experiences and aspirations.
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		Fashion and Fetishism
		Corsets, Tight-Lacing and Other Forms of Body-sculpture		Social Studies
		David Kunzle
		Sutton 2006 384 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0750938099
		Published Price £12.99		Our Price £5.99
	In 1888, The Family Doctor reported that 'the compression of the female waist in Britain totals 134 miles'. With the corset's recent return to fashion, David Kunzle reflects on its subversive power, from ancient Crete to its 19th-century heyday and Jean-Paul Gaultier's creations. He challenges the image of the corset as a symbol of Victorian repression, drawing on medical literature, novels and magazines to reveal how it is bound up with sexual and social self-expression.
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		Missionary Women
		Gender, Professionalism and the Victorian Idea of Christian Mission		Social Studies
		Rhonda Anne Semple
		Boydell 2003 285 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1843830132
		Published Price £60.00		Our Price £19.99
	Drawing on published and archival sources, this is a richly detailed study of the role of gender in British Protestant missionary expansion into China and India during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Focusing on the experience of wives and daughters, female missionaries, educators and medical staff associated with the London Missionary Society, the China Inland Mission and the Scottish Presbyterian Mission Societies, the work compares and contrasts gender relations within missions and in cross-cultural settings. No jacket.
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		Pandora's Breeches
		Women, Science and Power in the Enlightenment		Social Studies
		Patricia Fara
		Pimlico 2004 274 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1844130827
		Published Price £12.99		Our Price £6.99
	Although women were excluded from universities until the late 19th century, they contributed to the cause of science in a range of ways, whether as assistants in the work done by their male friends and family members or as translators and popularizers of important texts. Fara's case studies include Jane, wife of John Dee; Descartes' admirer Elisabeth of Bohemia; William Herschel's sister and helper Caroline; and Mary Shelley, creator of cutting-edge scientist Victor Frankenstein.
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		Women, the State and Political Liberalization
		Middle Eastern and North African Experiences		Social Studies
		Laurie A Brand
		Columbia University Press 1998 320 pages		Qty
		Paperback 023111267X
		Published Price £16.95		Our Price £6.99
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		When Women Become Priests
		The Catholic Women's Ordination Debate		Social Studies
		Kelley A Raab
		Columbia University Press 2000 313 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0231113358
		Published Price £16.95		Our Price £9.99
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		Our Lives Before the Law
		Constructing a Feminist Jurisprudence		Social Studies
		Judith A Baer
		Princeton University Press 1999 276 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0691019452
		Published Price £15.95	Slightly off-mint	Our Price £9.99
	Off-mint.
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