Women'S History: Britain, 1850-1945 - Prijzen

Transformations of Circe

Beginning with a detailed study of Homer's balance of negative and positive elements in the Circe-Odysseus myth, Judith Yarnall employs text and illustrations to demonstrate how Homer's Circe is conne...

Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace

Women's letters and memoirs were until recently considered to have little historical significance. Many of these materials have disappeared or remain unarchived, often dismissed as ephemera and relega...

In Pieces

In this intimate, haunting literary memoir and New York Times Notable Book of the year, an American icon tells her own story for the first time -- about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft t...

The Woman Who Thought Too Much

Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn't want to think, and does things she doesn't want to do. As a young woman, obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours had come to completely dominate her life....

Cowbird

What the Suffragists Did Next

In 1918, David Lloyd George's post-war government passed the Representation of the People Act, and for the first time women were included in the political process. Women now accounted for nearly 50 pe...

Licht en schaduw

15 levensverhalen van Nederlandse vrouwen van wie het merendeel van elders komt: Iran, Irak, Turkije, Marokko, Suriname. De vrouwen treffen elkaar in een masterclass levensverhalen o.l.v. Halleh Ghora...

How to Be Happy Where You Are

Bestselling author Michelle McKinney Hammond encourages women to look beyond their daily activities and accomplishments to find true and lasting happiness by focusing on God's priorities. Delving into...

Butterfly Garden

It's always warm and sunny in this butterfly garden, where kids can find a flower-filled place to play. Twenty-nine reusable stickers depict not only common and exotic butterflies but also a dragonfly...

Islam, the Turks and the Making of the English Reformation

John Foxe wrote the first English history of the Ottoman Empire in his magnum opus, The Acts and Monuments. He exceeds contemporary representations in his extremely negative image of Islam and the Tur...

Lords of the Isles

In contrast to most of Scotland, the north-western coast and the islands beyond were a region of mixed political control as well as culture into the sixteenth century. The divergent influences of Celt...

'The Better Class' Of Indians

This is the first book-length study to focus primarily on the role of class in the encounter between South Asians and British institutions in the United Kingdom at the height of British imperialism. I...