The Beauty Myth (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Naomi Wolf
20.00 NZD
Category: Feminism | Series: Vintage Feminism Short Editions
This is Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form with a new introduction by the author. Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and ...Show more
The Serpent Rising by Mary Garden
25.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
In 1973, Mary Garden abandoned a promising academic career to spend seven years in India at the feet of such gurus as Rajneesh, Sathya Sai Baba, and an enigmatic yogi in the Himalayan jungle - Swami Balyogi Premvarni. The Serpent Rising is her own story of the heaven and hell she experienced as she fell ...Show more
Strength of Spirit by Susanna De Vries
15.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
Pioneering women of Achievement from first fleet to federation.
Petticoat Pioneers: North Island Women of the Colonial Era - Book One by Miriam Macgregor
30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Book one of Miriam Macgregor's 'Petticoat Pioneer" series of three volumes It deals with early women pioneers in alphabetical order, beginning with the Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, a French nun who came to NZ in 1860 and devoted her life to the care and education of the Maori people, the aged and other we ...Show more
Women of the North by Jane Wordsworth
55.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
In Women of the North Jane Wordsworth recounts the lives of fourty-four of these remarkable women, all from different backgrounds, but with common qualities of adaptability, endurance, kindness, patience and loyalty.
Women in Print - Writing Women and Women's Magazines from the Restoration to the Accession of Victoria by Alison Adburgham
20.00 NZD
Category: Literature
'This book should be regarded as rescue work. It salvages from pre-Victorian periodicals from the limbo of forgotten publications, and exhumes from long undisturbed sources a curious collection of women who, at a time when it was considered humiliating for a gentlewoman to earn money, contrived to suppo ...Show more
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