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Peanut Butter and Dragon Wings - A Mother's Search for Grace (Hardcover): Shari Zook Peanut Butter and Dragon Wings - A Mother's Search for Grace (Hardcover)
Shari Zook
R769 R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Save R136 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Water from the Well - Women of the Bible: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah (Paperback): Anne Roiphe Water from the Well - Women of the Bible: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah (Paperback)
Anne Roiphe
R370 R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Save R62 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Water from the Well is a journey four thousand years back to the time of Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah. The graceful prose of renowned author Anne Roiphe brilliantly captures these biblical women and makes their fascinating stories come alive. As each story unfolds, we find that the matriarchs had to overcome the same devastating obstacles women face today--infertility, lust, abandonment, and uncertainty--yet they managed to cope with betrayal, death, sacrifice, and jealousy while dealing with the emerging reality of a new faith. This remarkable volume demonstrates how their lives helped to lay the foundation of womanhood in the Western world. Combining the deep insight of Bruce Feiler with the narrative skill of Antonia Fraser, Anne Roiphe delivers a fascinating work that deftly brings these four biblical matriarchs into our own age.

Building a Resilient Life - How Adversity Awakens Strength, Hope, and Meaning (Paperback, ITPE Edition): Rebekah Lyons Building a Resilient Life - How Adversity Awakens Strength, Hope, and Meaning (Paperback, ITPE Edition)
Rebekah Lyons
R298 Discovery Miles 2 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Stormproof - Weathering Life's Tough Times (Paperback): Carol Burton McLeod Stormproof - Weathering Life's Tough Times (Paperback)
Carol Burton McLeod; Foreword by Becky Harling
R457 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Shifting - The Double Lives of Black Women in America (Paperback): Charisse Jones, Kumea Shorter-Gooden Shifting - The Double Lives of Black Women in America (Paperback)
Charisse Jones, Kumea Shorter-Gooden
R428 R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Save R71 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to com-promise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves or their outer appearance. They modify their speech. They shift "White" as they head to work in the morning and "Black" as they come back home each night. They shift inward, internalizing the searing pain of the negative stereotypes that they encounter daily. And sometimes they shift by fighting back.

With deeply moving interviews, poignantly revealed on each page, Shifting is a much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality of African American women's lives today.

Daughters of Anoma - African Women and Patriarchy (Paperback): Mercy Amba Oduyoye Daughters of Anoma - African Women and Patriarchy (Paperback)
Mercy Amba Oduyoye
R634 R520 Discovery Miles 5 200 Save R114 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Daughters of Anowa provides an analysis of the lives of African women today from an African woman's own perspective. It is a study of the influence of culture and religion - particularly of traditional African cultures and Christianity - on African women's lives. Mercy Amba Oduyoye illustrates how myths, proverbs, and folk tales (called "folktalk") operate in the socialization of young women, working to preserve the norms of the community. Daughters of Anowa reveals how global patriarchy manifests itself in these social structures, in both patrilineal and matrilineal communities. Organized as a narrative in three cycles, Daughters of Anowa demonstrates how folktalk alienates women from power, discourages individuality and encourages conformity. It also considers the possibilities for the future. Oduyoye posits that change will come about only when the daughters of Anowa (the mythic representative of Africa itself) confront the realities of culture and religion in perpetuating patriarchal oppression and work to realize the goal of a new woman in a new Africa.

The Women Who Lived for Danger - Behind Enemy Lines During Wwii (Paperback): Marcus Binney The Women Who Lived for Danger - Behind Enemy Lines During Wwii (Paperback)
Marcus Binney
R642 R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Save R113 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"They flirted with men, and with death." In The Women Who Lived for Danger, acclaimed historian Marcus Binney recounts the story of ten remarkable women -- some famous, some virtually unknown -- recruited to work behind enemy lines as secret agents during WWII. Part of Winston Churchill's Special Operations Executive, formed in 1940 to "set Europe ablaze," the women of the SOE were trained to handle guns and explosives, work undercover, endure interrogation by the Gestapo, and use complex codes. Once in enemy territory, theirs was the most dangerous war of all, leading an apparently normal civilian life but in constant danger of arrest and execution. Passing themselves off as country wenches by afternoon and chic Parisiennes by night, these women put service to Britain and the Allied forces above all concerns for personal safety -- they organized dropping grounds for arms and explosives destined for the Resistance, helped operate escape lines for airmen who had been shot down over Europe, and provided Allied Command with vital intelligence.

The exploits of those chronicled in The Women Who Lived for Danger form a new chapter of heroism in the history of warfare matched only by their legacy of daring, determination, resourcefulness, and ability to stay cool in the face of extreme danger.

Why I'm Like This - True Stories (Paperback): Cynthia Kaplan Why I'm Like This - True Stories (Paperback)
Cynthia Kaplan
R365 R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Save R63 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Cynthia Kaplan takes us on a hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking journey through her unique, uncensored world--her bungled romantic encounters and unsung theatrical experiences; her gadget-obsessed father, her pill-popping therapist, and her eccentric grandmothers; her fearless husband, whom she engages in an ongoing battle over which of them is the most popular person in their apartment; and, of course, her vengeful, power-hungry one-year-old son.

Kaplan's voice is a lot like the one in our heads--the one that most of us are only willing to listen to late at night . . . maybe while locked in a closet. What a relief it is that someone finally admits that she is afraid of nearly everything; that she is jealous even of people whose lives are on the verge of collapse; and that she has, at times, tried to pass for a gentile.

Educated - A Memoir (Paperback): Tara Westover Educated - A Memoir (Paperback)
Tara Westover
R453 R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Save R188 (42%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
I'm Every Woman - Remixed Stories of Marriage, Motherhood, and Work (Paperback): Lonnae O'Neal Parker I'm Every Woman - Remixed Stories of Marriage, Motherhood, and Work (Paperback)
Lonnae O'Neal Parker
R387 R320 Discovery Miles 3 200 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Black women have been balancing the competing demands of work and home since before women even won the right to vote. But black voices are barely acknowledged in the mainstream "mommy wars" dialogue. Lonnae O'Neal Parker is determined to change that, in this uncommonly smart, highly acclaimed, and often witty examination--part memoir, part reportage--of how today's black women meet the challenges of marriage, motherhood, and work.

Raising Trump - Family Values from America's First Mother (Paperback): Ivana Trump Raising Trump - Family Values from America's First Mother (Paperback)
Ivana Trump
R480 R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Right to Sex - Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback): Amia Srinivasan The Right to Sex - Feminism in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
Amia Srinivasan
R468 R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Save R113 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mud, Maul, Mascara - When fighting for a dream can make you and break you (Paperback): Catherine Spencer Mud, Maul, Mascara - When fighting for a dream can make you and break you (Paperback)
Catherine Spencer
R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Longlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2020 'This pioneering memoir . . . engagingly balances the highs of captaincy and grand slams with striking emotional honesty as to herregrets' Guardian Books of the Year 'Her struggle is that of women's rugby and it is told here with great honesty' Sunday Times Books of the Year Catherine Spencer was the captain of the England women's rugby team for three years. She scored eighteen tries for England, won six of the eight Six Nations competitions she took part in, and captained her team to three championship titles, a European cup, two Nations Cup tournament victories and the World Cup final held on home soil in 2010, which thrust women's rugby into the limelight. All of this while holding down a full time job, because the women's team, unlike the men's, did not get paid for their sport. Mud, Maul, Mascara is an effort to reconcile alleged opposites, to show the woman behind the international sporting success. Painfully honest about the mental struggles Catherine faced during, and after, her career as an elite athlete, it is also warm, funny and inspirational - a book for anyone who has ever had a dream, or self-doubt, or a yearning for a really good, mud-proof mascara.

Femina - The instant Sunday Times bestseller - A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It... Femina - The instant Sunday Times bestseller - A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It (Paperback)
Janina Ramirez
R295 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R64 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Janina Ramirez is a born storyteller, and in Femina she is at the peak of her powers. This is bravura narrative history underpinned by passionate advocacy for the women whom medieval history has too often ignored or overlooked. Femina is essential reading' - Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantagenets and Powers and Thrones 'I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in sun, moon and stars' - Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179) The middle ages are seen as a bloodthirsty time of Vikings, saints and kings: a patriarchal society which oppressed and excluded women. But when we dig a little deeper into the truth, we can see that the 'dark' ages were anything but. Oxford and BBC historian Janina Ramirez has uncovered countless influential women's names struck out of historical records, with the word FEMINA annotated beside them. As gatekeepers of the past ordered books to be burnt, artworks to be destroyed, and new versions of myths, legends and historical documents to be produced, our view of history has been manipulated. Only now, through a careful examination of the artefacts, writings and possessions they left behind, are the influential and multifaceted lives of women emerging. Femina goes beyond the official records to uncover the true impact of women like Jadwiga, the only female King in Europe, Margery Kempe, who exploited her image and story to ensure her notoriety, and the Loftus Princess, whose existence gives us clues about the beginnings of Christianity in England. See the medieval world with fresh eyes and discover why these remarkable women were removed from our collective memories.

Antigone Rising - The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths (Paperback): Helen Morales Antigone Rising - The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths (Paperback)
Helen Morales
R406 R333 Discovery Miles 3 330 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries - How Women (Also) Built the World (Paperback): Kate Mosse Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries - How Women (Also) Built the World (Paperback)
Kate Mosse
R360 R281 Discovery Miles 2 810 Save R79 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand 'Brilliant' - Daisy Buchanan "My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been inspired. It's a love letter to the importance of history and about how, without knowing where we come from - truthfully and entirely - we cannot know who we are." Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard women's history. Within these pages you'll meet nearly 1000 women whose names deserve to be better known: from the Mothers of Invention and the trailblazing women at the Bar; warrior queens and pirate commanders; the women who dedicated their lives to the natural world or to medicine; those women of courage who resisted and fought for what they believed; to the unsung heroes of stage, screen and stadium. It is global, travelling the world and spanning all periods of time. It is also an intensely moving detective story of the author's own family history as Kate Mosse pieces together the forgotten life of her great-grandmother, Lily Watson, a famous and highly-successful novelist in her day who has all but disappeared from the record . . . Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is accessible, ambitious in its scope and fascinating in its detail. A beautifully illustrated dictionary of women, it is a love letter to family history and a personal memoir about the nature of women's struggles to be heard and their achievements acknowledged. Joyous, celebratory and engaging, it is a book for everyone who has ever wondered how history is made.

Think Like a Breadwinner - A  Manifesto to Help Women Make the Most of their Money (Paperback): Jennifer Barrett Think Like a Breadwinner - A Manifesto to Help Women Make the Most of their Money (Paperback)
Jennifer Barrett
R280 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R61 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A new manifesto for the working woman, full of practical tips for making the most of your earnings as well as inspiration for harnessing the freedom and power that come with financial independence. In Think Like a Breadwinner, financial expert Jennifer Barrett dismantles the narrative that women don't - and shouldn't - take full control of their finances to create the lives they want for themselves. Featuring a wide variety of case studies from women at all stages of their careers and financial lives, Barrett shares the secrets of women who already think like breadwinners. Practical and empowering, this book includes advice on: - Changing how you think about money - Asking for promotions and raises at work - Saving and investing your money - How to combine breadwinning and parenting - Prioritising your future Perfect for anyone who thinks they're 'no good with money', Think Like a Breadwinner will show you that no matter your circumstances, you can set yourself up for financial security.

Research Handbook on Gender and Negotiation (Paperback): Mara Olekalns, Jessica A. Kennedy Research Handbook on Gender and Negotiation (Paperback)
Mara Olekalns, Jessica A. Kennedy
R1,395 Discovery Miles 13 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this ground-breaking Research Handbook, leading international researchers analyse how negotiators' gender shapes their behaviour and outcomes at the bargaining table, in both work and non-work contexts. World-class experts from the field of negotiation present cutting-edge research on gender and negotiation, highlighting controversies and generating new questions for consideration. The Research Handbook offers helpful insights to negotiators and forges a path for future research. The first section highlights how gender shapes negotiation within close relationships and identifies informal social rules for how women and men are expected to negotiate, exploring the socialization patterns and historical contexts that produced these norms and the implications for women at the bargaining table. Chapters discuss how underlying negotiation processes such as trust, emotion, communication and non-verbal behaviour are shaped by gender, as well as considering a number of pragmatic solutions to the obstacles women face as self-advocates. Offering insights for both practitioners and researchers, this Research Handbook will be invaluable to teachers and, also, female professionals who want to understand how to get better outcomes from negotiation. It will also be required reading for HR professionals who wish to understand how and why organizational policies regarding negotiation can level the playing field. Contributors include: E.T. Amanatullah, J.B. Bear, L. Berg, J.E. Bochantin, H.R. Bowles, T.H. Burns, A. Dickson, A.L. Elias, K.R. Gallagher, B.A. Gazdag, M.P. Haselhuhn, H. Jazaieri, J.A. Kennedy, S. Kesebir, D. Kolb, L.J. Kray, C.T. Kulik, S.Y. Lee, M. Liu, B.A. Livingston, S. Mor, M. Olekalns, J. Overbeck, M. Pillutla, T.L. Pittinsky, J. Qiu, L. Ramic-Mesihovic, I.Y. Ren, S.W. Ryu, A. Sabanovic, Z. Semnani-Azad, W. Shan, R. Sinha, A.F. Stuhlmacher, N.R. Toosi, C. Trombini, J. Wareham, L. Zervos

Suffragists in Washington, DC - The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote (Paperback): Rebecca Boggs Roberts Suffragists in Washington, DC - The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote (Paperback)
Rebecca Boggs Roberts
R586 R489 Discovery Miles 4 890 Save R97 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Surviving Betrayal - Hope and Help for Women Whose Partners Have Been Unfaithful * 365 Daily Meditations (Paperback, 1st ed):... Surviving Betrayal - Hope and Help for Women Whose Partners Have Been Unfaithful * 365 Daily Meditations (Paperback, 1st ed)
Alice May
R487 R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Save R72 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When Your Life Has Been Turned Upside Down

Filled with profound wisdom and clear, healing guidance, Surviving Betrayal is the essential companion for any woman whose life has been shattered by infidelity.

Author Alice May, who knows firsthand the devastating blow of spousal betrayal, gently leads women through the painful feelings of denial, desperation, and spiritual depletion that accompany infidelity. She shares her experience and strength and that of other women on how to find healthy outlets for rage, survive the inevitable rough spots, regain trust in others, and allow truth to heal the pain. She helps women empower themselves to live their lives with grace, dignity, and calm.

Big Friendship - How We Keep Each Other Close (Paperback): Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman Big Friendship - How We Keep Each Other Close (Paperback)
Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman
R437 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Save R107 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Daughters of Britannia - The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives (Paperback): Katie Hickman Daughters of Britannia - The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives (Paperback)
Katie Hickman
R427 R363 Discovery Miles 3 630 Save R64 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In an absorbing mixture of poignant biography and wonderfully entertaining social history, Daughters of Britannia offers the story of diplomatic life as it has never been told before.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vita Sackville-West, and Lady Diana Cooper are among the well-known wives of diplomats who represented Britain in the far-flung corners of the globe. Yet, despite serving such crucial roles, the vast majority of these women are entirely unknown to history.

Drawing on letters, private journals, and memoirs, as well as contemporary oral history, Katie Hickman explores not only the public pomp and glamour of diplomatic life but also the most intimate, private face of this most fascinating and mysterious world.

Touching on the lives of nearly 100 diplomatic wives (as well as sisters and daughters), Daughters of Britannia is a brilliant and compelling account of more than three centuries of British diplomacy as seen through the eyes of some of its most intrepid but least heralded participants.

Quit Like a Woman - The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol (Paperback): Holly Whitaker Quit Like a Woman - The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol (Paperback)
Holly Whitaker
R470 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Save R114 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Charlotte Bronte - Gloomy Years of Her Life (Paperback): Hanaf Nisar Charlotte Bronte - Gloomy Years of Her Life (Paperback)
Hanaf Nisar
R181 Discovery Miles 1 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new study of Charlotte Bronte's life proves Hanaf Nisar to be a sincere devotee of the celebrated author. Her very personal portrayal will take you to the heart of Charlotte's sad and afflicted life, as well as to the greatness and inspiration of her work. Read the captivating history of the Brontes, then enter into the poetic realm with Hanaf Nisar's inspired verse as it captures the turmoil and emotion of Charlotte's world.

Attack of the 50 Ft. Women - How Gender Equality Can Save the World! (Paperback, Epub Edition): Catherine Mayer Attack of the 50 Ft. Women - How Gender Equality Can Save the World! (Paperback, Epub Edition)
Catherine Mayer 1
R308 R292 Discovery Miles 2 920 Save R16 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most importantly, buy it for your children' Sunday Express Essential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy on Gender Equality. Cometh the hour, Cometh the women. In this inspirational book, the co-founder of the Women's Equality Party sets out compelling evidence for the social and economic benefits of gender equality and lays bare the mechanisms holding women back. Everywhere women are, at best, second-class citizens. Progress towards equality hasn't only stalled; in many places, it is reversing. Things needn't be this way. Join the author on a journey to Equalia, the gender-equal future that could be ours. In this new and fully updated edition Catherine Mayer reports from the frontline of 2017, a tumultuous year that saw women's rights and protections rolled back and the global tally of female leaders fall, but galvanised feminism. It was also a tumultuous year for the author herself, who for the first time writes in detail about her sex and age discrimination suit against her former employer, TIME, and how her battle for justice, like #MeToo, demonstrated the extraordinary power of women sharing stories. JOIN THE REVOLUTION.

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