
A Room Of One's Own
'What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?' Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity - a room of one's own....
View full details'What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?' Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity - a room of one's own....
View full detailsRanging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constr...
View full details'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man tha...
View full detailsIn this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to un...
View full detailsDrawing from the fields of ethnographic and sociological studies, cultural activism, public health and film studies, this volume poses new and exci...
View full detailsOne thing we know for certain is that sex is personal: perhaps the most intimate thing of all. But sex is also shaped by a complicated web of cultu...
View full detailsIn spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not ...
View full detailsAfter all the books that have been written about sex, all the blogs and TV shows and radiO Q&As, how can it be that we all still have so many q...
View full detailsDense living conditions in Hong Kong do not provide much privacy for lesbians and other sexual minorities living with their families. As a result, ...
View full detailsCourage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a timely and inspiring call to arms by one of Britain's most acclaimed and important writers. Whilst recogni...
View full detailsGender balance is first and foremost a business issue. McKinsey estimates we could add 28 trillion to global GDP if we achieved gender equality eve...
View full detailsLife's a drag... Why not be a queen? 'Stories like the one where you shagged a 79-year-old builder and knocked over his sister's ashes while feedin...
View full detailsWell-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. Helen Lewis argues that feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperf...
View full detailsStraightened. Stigmatised. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never 'just hair'. This book is...
View full detailsMisogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast...
View full details'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the g...
View full detailsPlastered over t-shirts and tote bags, the word 'feminist' has entered the mainstream and is fast becoming a popular slogan for our generation. But...
View full detailsillustrated by Judy Groves What is feminism? Why are we still talking about it, and what can it tell us about ourselves, our societies and prejudic...
View full detailsThe women who shaped and were erased from our history. Forgotten Women is a series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women w...
View full detailsThe women who shaped and were erased from our history. Forgotten Women is a series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women w...
View full detailsForgotten Women is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept th...
View full detailsForgotten Women is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept th...
View full detailsAs digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics a...
View full detailsillustrated by Jules Scheele Is masculinity ‘toxic’? Why are public toilets such a political issue? How has feminism changed the available gender r...
View full detailsAn accessible introduction to important topics that are deeply contested within the Church of England - marriage, gender equality and sexuality. It...
View full detailsGrowing up as a woman is hard. Growing up as a woman in the Muslim community is harder. In a world still filled with superstitions, if you die duri...
View full detailsI'm a feminist. Mostly. I'm an asshole. Mostly. All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the many, but on increa...
View full detailsWhen it comes to our sex lives, few of us are free of niggling fears and body image insecurities. Rather than enjoying and exploring our bodies uni...
View full detailsMost books about public speaking don't tell you what to do when you open your mouth and nothing comes out. And they don't tell you how to get over ...
View full detailsHave you ever questioned your own gender identity? Do you know somebody who is transgender or who identifies as non-binary? Do you ever feel confus...
View full detailsThe sixties: a decade of space travel, utopian dreams and - above all - sexual revolution. It liberated a generation. But mostly men. Meet dollybir...
View full detailsIn this remarkable interview, feminist icon and social justice activist Gloria Steinem shares stories from her more than fifty years working as a t...
View full detailsWhat is it like to be gay and experience bullying in school or National Service? How do you deal with being rejected by your family and religious g...
View full detailsPlaywright, author, and activist Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female body―how to talk about it, how to protect and value it. Yet she spen...
View full detailsAre women more nurturing than men? Are men more promiscuous than women? Are males the naturally dominant sex? And can science give us an impartial ...
View full detailsWhen we are born, we are each assigned a gender based on our physical anatomy. But why is it that some people experience such dissonance between th...
View full detailsIn the early years of the People's Republic, the Communist Party sought to transform gender relations. Yet those gains have been steadily eroded in...
View full detailsAmrou knew they were gay when, aged ten, they first laid eyes on Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone. It was love at first sight. Amrou's parents weren't...
View full detailsMuch of society's thinking operates in a highly rigid and binary manner; something is good or bad, right or wrong, a success or a failure, and so o...
View full detailsWe all have difficult moments at work, times when we feel awkward, when our daily micro interactions make us uncomfortable, perhaps when we have to...
View full detailsToday, people of all genders strive to uphold the goals of feminism and proudly embrace the term, but the movement itself is often beset with confu...
View full detailsWhat is masculinity? Dominating the world around us, from Trump's twitter outbursts to deadly gun violence, from male suicide rates to incels on Re...
View full detailsRebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement, inspired the term 'mansplaining', and establish...
View full detailsMotherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence, wit and ori...
View full detailsSoldier, criminal, militant, hooligan, revolutionary: these labels Emmeline Pankhurst took up and wore proudly in her long struggle for women's suf...
View full detailsThe extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, Between the Wars - fostered the birth of the Modernis...
View full detailsThis is the story of one trans man's exploration of gender identity, set against changing cultural attitudes from the 90s to the present day. Caspa...
View full detailsIn this dazzling debut, Emilie Pine speaks to the business of living as a woman in the 21st century - its extraordinary pain and its extraordinary ...
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