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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General

How Women Decide (Paperback): Therese Huston How Women Decide (Paperback)
Therese Huston
R429 R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Save R70 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch - The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse (Paperback): Jayme Lynn Blaschke Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch - The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse (Paperback)
Jayme Lynn Blaschke
R721 R616 Discovery Miles 6 160 Save R105 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Imperfect Woman - Letting Go of the Need to Have It All Together (Paperback): Kim Hyland An Imperfect Woman - Letting Go of the Need to Have It All Together (Paperback)
Kim Hyland
R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Women are bombarded with ideas of perfection--and tips for how to achieve it--every day. From her work to her looks to her parenting, today's modern woman is expected to strive to be picture perfect in every way. As a result, calls for authenticity and imperfection are on the rise. Yet, deep down, most of us still want to achieve perfection. Why? The desire to be perfect, says Kim Hyland, is actually a God-given urge. After all, we were made for Eden. But there is a difference between perfection and perfectionism, which is our attempt to achieve perfection on our own, by our own strength, and for our own purposes--the original temptation in the Garden. In this freeing book, Hyland offers women a stirring manifesto for acknowledging their limitations and embracing the perfection of God through his grace. This is a book for every woman who gives 110% and yet feels shame when one little thing goes wrong.

Silly Novels by Lady Novelists and Other Essays (Paperback): George Eliot Silly Novels by Lady Novelists and Other Essays (Paperback)
George Eliot
R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

One of the most famous novelists in the English literary canon, the likes of Middlemarch and Silas Marner are household names, but Eliot's essays are often overlooked. This collection brings together some of her most important essays and seeks to celebrate her non-fiction writing. In 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists' Eliot states a desire - some few years before her best-known works - to turn her hand to novel-writing, and decries the trivial nature of contemporary writers, setting out a manifesto for good writing. In 'Woman in France' she considers the history of women's writing, and the complications women face in order to write - something Eliot knew much about herself, adopting a male name to publish the work she did not publish anonymously. Taken together, this collection gives a rare and valuable insight into the author's writing, and shines a light on her pioneering subtle form of feminism.

How Women Can Save The Planet (Hardcover): Anne Karpf How Women Can Save The Planet (Hardcover)
Anne Karpf
R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Here's a perverse truth: from New Orleans to Bangladesh, women--especially poor women of colour--are suffering most from a crisis they have done nothing to cause. Yet where, in environmental policy, are the voices of elderly European women dying in heatwaves? Of African girls dropping out of school due to drought? Our highest-profile climate activists are women and girls; but, at the top table, it's men deciding the earth's future. We're not all in it together--but we could be. Instead of expecting individual women to save the planet, what we need are visionary, global climate policies that are gender-inclusive and promote gender equality. Anne Karpf shines a light on the radical ideas, compelling research and tireless campaigns, led by and for women around the world, that have inspired her to hope. Her conversations with female activists show how we can fight back, with strength in diversity. And, faced with the most urgent catastrophe of our times, she offers a powerful vision: a Green New Deal for Women.

A Christian Marriage Book - 52-Week Devotional for Wives - Prayers and Reflections for a God-Centered Marriage (Paperback):... A Christian Marriage Book - 52-Week Devotional for Wives - Prayers and Reflections for a God-Centered Marriage (Paperback)
Tamara Chamberlain
R341 R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Save R58 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Loose Diamonds - ...and Other Things I've Lost (and Found) Along the Way (Paperback): Amy Ephron Loose Diamonds - ...and Other Things I've Lost (and Found) Along the Way (Paperback)
Amy Ephron
R424 R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Save R78 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With her wonderful sense of humor, marvelously candid voice, and astonishing perception, Amy Ephron weaves together the most insightful, profound, and just plain funny stories of her life to form a tapestry of a woman's experiences from childhood through young adulthood, marriage, divorce (and remarriage), and everything in between. Writing with great honesty and exacting prose, Ephron gives us an evocative, engaging, and often piercing look at modern life.

Throughout Loose Diamonds, Amy Ephron celebrates unforgettable memories and friendships, and the things that make life livable (such as her Filofax, which she would be lost without), all with a quick wit and a delicate eye.

Fight! Fight! - Discovering Your Inner Strength When Blindsided by Life (Paperback): Sylvia Hatchell Fight! Fight! - Discovering Your Inner Strength When Blindsided by Life (Paperback)
Sylvia Hatchell; As told to Stephen Copeland
R391 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
It's Not Okay - Turning Heartbreak Into Happily Never After (Paperback): Andi Dorfman It's Not Okay - Turning Heartbreak Into Happily Never After (Paperback)
Andi Dorfman
R426 R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Save R71 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women in Misssion - From the New Testament to Today (Paperback): Susan E. Smith Women in Misssion - From the New Testament to Today (Paperback)
Susan E. Smith
R765 R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Save R137 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Smith tries to redress the balance with a comprehensive history of mission that highlights the critical contributions of women, as well as the theological developments that influenced their role. Beginning with an examination of the New Testament record, Smith goes on to review the long period between the apostolic church and the Second Vatican Council. Following a survey of critical developments since 1965 in both Catholic and other churches, she concludes with a magisterial chapter entitled "A Feminist Missiology for Contemporary Missionary Women. "Women in Mission" is a landmark in women's history and essential reading for anyone engaged in historical, theological, mission, and women's studies.

Also a Poet - Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me (Hardcover): Ada Calhoun Also a Poet - Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me (Hardcover)
Ada Calhoun
R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A staggering memoir from New York Times-bestselling author Ada Calhoun tracing her fraught relationship with her father and their shared obsession with a great poetWhen Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father, celebrated art critic Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for his never-completed biography of poet Frank O'Hara, she set out to finish the book her father had started forty years earlier. As a lifelong O'Hara fan who grew up amid his bohemian cohort in the East Village, Calhoun thought the project would be easy, even fun, but the deeper she dove, the more she had to face not just O'Hara's past, but also her father's, and her own. The result is a groundbreaking and kaleidoscopic memoir that weaves compelling literary history with a moving, honest, and tender story of a complicated father-daughter bond. Also a Poet explores what happens when we want to do better than our parents, yet fear what that might cost us; when we seek their approval, yet mistrust it. In reckoning with her unique heritage, as well as providing new insights into the life of one of our most important poets, Calhoun offers a brave and hopeful meditation on parents and children, artistic ambition, and the complexities of what we leave behind.

Stick Figure - A Diary of My Former Self (Paperback): Lori Gottlieb Stick Figure - A Diary of My Former Self (Paperback)
Lori Gottlieb
R454 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R82 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

""I wish to be the thinnest girl at school, or maybe even the thinnest eleven-year-old on the entire planet,"" confides Lori Gottlieb to her diary. "I mean, what are girls supposed to wish for, other than being thin?"
For a girl growing up in Beverly Hills in 1978, the motto "You can never be too rich or too thin" is writ large. Precocious Lori learns her lessons well, so when she's told that "real women don't eat dessert" and "no one could ever like a girl who has thunder thighs," she decides to become a paragon of dieting. Soon Lori has become the "stick figure" she's longed to resemble. But then what? "Stick Figure" takes the reader on a gripping journey, as Lori struggles to reclaim both her body and her spirit.
By turns painful and wry, Lori's efforts to reconcile the conflicting messages society sends women ring as true today as when she first recorded these impressions. "One diet book says that if you drink three full glasses of water one hour before every meal to fill yourself up, you'll lose a pound a day. Another book says that once you start losing weight, everyone will ask, 'How did you do it?' but you shouldn't tell them because it's 'your little secret.' Then right above that part it says, "'New York Times" bestseller.' Some secret."
With an edgy wit and keenly observant eye, "Stick Figure" delivers an engrossing glimpse into the mind of a girl in transition to adulthood. This raw, no-holds-barred account is a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of living up to society's expectations.

Dancing Girls of Lahore (Paperback, 1st Harper Perennial ed): Louise T. Brown Dancing Girls of Lahore (Paperback, 1st Harper Perennial ed)
Louise T. Brown
R450 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R75 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The dancing girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond Market in the shadow of a great mosque. The twenty-first century goes on outside the walls of this ancient quarter but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: Beloved by emperors and nawabs, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern-day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their distant legacy. But the life of the pampered courtesan is not the one now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is forbidden by Islam, though tolerated; but they are gandi, "unclean," and Maha's daughters, like her, are born into the business and will not leave it.

Sociologist Louise Brown spent four years in the most intimate study of the family life of a Lahori dancing girl. With beautiful understatement, she turns a novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination. Maha, a classically trained dancer of exquisite grace, had her virginity sold to a powerful Arab sheikh at the age of twelve; when her own daughter Nena comes of age and Maha cannot bring in the money she once did, she faces a terrible decision as the agents of the sheikh come calling once more.

On Her Trail - My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News' First Woman Star (Paperback): John Dickerson On Her Trail - My Mother, Nancy Dickerson, TV News' First Woman Star (Paperback)
John Dickerson
R462 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Service Included - Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter (Paperback): Phoebe Damrosch Service Included - Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter (Paperback)
Phoebe Damrosch
R429 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R78 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Warning: May contain material offensive to vegans, pharmaceutical lobbyists, and those on a low-sodium diet. Animals were harmed during the writing of this book.

While Phoebe Damrosch was waiting for life to happen, she supported herself by working as a waitress. Before long she was the only female captain at the four-star New York City restaurant Per Se during its first year. Service Included is the story of her obsession with food, her love affair with a sommelier, and her amusing, eye-opening, and sometimes shocking experiences in the fascinating, frenetic, highly competitive world of fine dining.

Sitting down at a restaurant table will never be the same.

Leave the Building Quickly - True Stories (Paperback): Cynthia Kaplan Leave the Building Quickly - True Stories (Paperback)
Cynthia Kaplan
R475 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R88 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cynthia Kaplan, acclaimed author of "Why I'm Like This," once again casts her gimlet eye upon the current state of her affairs. Also of your affairs, and some other people's affairs as well. Journey with her as she humiliates herself in a variety of locales and fearlessly takes on all the important issues of the day--including her family, intelligent design, Narnia, and New England's deer population.

"Leave the Building Quickly" is a hilarious, moving, bitingly honest, take-no-prisoners incursion into the kind of real-life daily circumstances that inspire us to crouch in the linen closet at three in the morning. But that's okay because Kaplan's there, too. And she's brought snacks.

Borders Witch Hunt - The Story of the 17th Century Witchcraft Trials in the Scottish Borders (Paperback, 2nd edition): Mary W.... Borders Witch Hunt - The Story of the 17th Century Witchcraft Trials in the Scottish Borders (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Mary W. Craig
R225 Discovery Miles 2 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book provides an overview and analysis of the witch trials in the Scottish Borders in the 17th century. The 17th century was a time of upheaval in Scottish and British history, with a civil war, the abolition of the monarchy, the plague and the reformation all influencing the social context at the time. This book explores the social, political, geographical, religious and legal structures that led to the increased amount of witch trials and executions in the Scottish Borders. As well as looking at specific trials the book also explores the role of women, both as accuser and as accused.

Women Political Prisoners after the Spanish Civil War - Narratives of Resistance and Survival (Hardcover): Women Political Prisoners after the Spanish Civil War - Narratives of Resistance and Survival (Hardcover)
R3,451 Discovery Miles 34 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

At the end of the Spanish Civil War the Nationalist government instigated mass repression against anyone suspected of loyalty to the defeated Republican side. Around 200,000 people were imprisoned for political crimes in the weeks and months following 1st April 1939, including thousands of women who were charged with offences ranging from directing the home front to supporting their loved ones engaged in combat. Many women wrote and published texts about their experiences, seeking to make their voices heard and to counteract the dehumanising master narrative of the right-wing victors that had criminalised their existence. The memoirs of Communist women, such as Tomasa Cuevas and Juana Dona, have heavily influenced our understanding of life in prison for women under franquismo, while texts by non-Communist women have largely been ignored. This monograph offers a comparative study of the life writing of female political prisoners in Spain, focusing on six texts in particular: the two volumes of Carcel de mujeres by Tomasa Cuevas; Desde la noche y la niebla by Juana Dona; Requiem por la libertad by Angeles Garcia Madrid; Abajo las dictaduras by Josefa Garcia Segret; and Aquello sucedio asi by Angeles Malonda. All the texts share common themes, such as describing the hunger and repression that all political prisoners suffered. However, the ideologically-driven narratives of Communist women often foreground representations of resistance at the expense of exploring the emotional and intellectual struggle for survival that many women political prisoners faced in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. This study nuances our understanding of imprisoned women as individuals and as a collective, analysing how women political prisoners sought recognition and justice in the face of a vindictive dictatorship. It also explores the womens response to the spirit of convivencia during the transition to democracy, which once again threatened to silence them.

Good Enough - 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection (Hardcover): Kate Bowler, Jessica Richie Good Enough - 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection (Hardcover)
Kate Bowler, Jessica Richie
R563 R471 Discovery Miles 4 710 Save R92 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl (Paperback): Shauna Reid The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl (Paperback)
Shauna Reid
R412 R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Save R65 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

At just twenty-three years old, Shauna Reid weighed 351 pounds. Spurred into action by the sight of her enormous white knickers billowing on the clothesline, she created the hugely successful blog "The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl." Hiding behind her Lycra-clad, roly-poly alter-ego, her transformation from couch potato to svelte goddess began.

Today, eight thousand miles, seven years, and 175 pounds later, the gloriously gorgeous Shauna is literally half the woman she used to be. Hysterically funny and heart-wrenchingly honest, "The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl" includes travel tales from Australia to Paris to Red Square, plus romance when she meets the man of her dreams in a Scottish pub. This is the uplifting true story of a young woman who defeated her demons and conquered her cravings to become a real-life superhero to inspire us all.

A Woman Among Warlords - The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice (Paperback): Malalai Joya A Woman Among Warlords - The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice (Paperback)
Malalai Joya
R437 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R77 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Malalai Joya was named one of "Time "magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2010. An extraordinary young woman raised in the refugee camps of Iran and Pakistan, Joya became a teacher in secret girls' schools, hiding her books under her burqa so the Taliban couldn't find them; she helped establish a free medical clinic and orphanage in her impoverished home province of Farah; and at a constitutional assembly in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2003, she stood up and denounced her country's powerful NATO-backed warlords. She was twenty-five years old. Two years later, she became the youngest person elected to Afghanistan's new Parliament. In 2007, she was suspended from Parliament for her persistent criticism of the warlords and drug barons and their cronies. She has survived four assassination attempts to date, is accompanied at all times by armed guards, and sleeps only in safe houses.
Joya takes us inside this massively important and insufficiently understood country, shows us the desperate day-to-day situations its remarkable people face at every turn, and recounts some of the many acts of rebellion that are helping to change it. A controversial political figure in one of the most dangerous places on earth, Malalai Joya is a hero for our times.

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe - A Biography (Paperback): Elaine Showalter The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe - A Biography (Paperback)
Elaine Showalter
R466 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Paperback): Belle De Jour, Anonymous Secret Diary of a Call Girl (Paperback)
Belle De Jour, Anonymous
R422 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R71 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This internationally celebrated memoir is now a new Showtime original series.

Belle couldn't find a job after University. Her impressive degree was not paying her rent or buying her food. But after a fantastic threesome with a very rich couple who gave her a ton of money, Belle realized that she could earn more than anyone she knew--by becoming a call girl. The rest is history. Belle became a 20-something London working girl--and had the audacity to write about it--anonymously. The shockingly candid and explicit diary she put on the Internet became a London sensation. She shares her entire journey inside the world of high-priced escorts, including fascinating and explicit insights about her job and her clients, her various boyfriends, and a taboo lifestyle that has to be read to be believed. The witty observations, shocking revelations, and hilarious scenarios deliver like the very best fiction and make for a titillating reading experience unlike any other.

House Rules - A Memoir (Paperback): Rachel Sontag House Rules - A Memoir (Paperback)
Rachel Sontag
R410 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R72 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A memoir of a father obsessed with control and the daughter who fights his suffocating grasp, "House Rules" explores the complexities of their compelling and destructive relationship as Rachel fights to escape, and, later, to make sense of what remains of her family.

Confrontation (Paperback): Kirsty Steinberg Confrontation (Paperback)
Kirsty Steinberg
R220 R172 Discovery Miles 1 720 Save R48 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Confrontation is a memoir based on real events. Set in the early nineties, it follows the journey of a child growing up in South Africa’s season of change.

But all is not as it seems – biologically, domestically, emotionally – three words that immediately takes shape like the head, neck and tail of a monster brooding beneath the bed. Domestic unrest casts a thick veil over a much greater problem.

“One of your greatest challenges in this world, my darling, would be men... It’s a shame because you think you’re the relationship type?” So-called advice from a friend who suggested being gay might be a better option than what she was contemplating. Not that she had a choice. She wasn’t entirely herself yet, and that was the problem.

Kirsty Steinberg is the pen name for the author. Confrontation is her debut work.

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