Edition: New title
Publication date: 2007-03-22
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £8.00
Price: £5.40
Review The Sacred Bath: An American Teen's Story of Modern Day Slavery. / iUniverse.com:
Authors
- Melissa Houtte
- Alison Houtte
Publication date: 2006-09
Dewey code: 920
Price: £9.74
Review Alligators, Old Mink & New Money: One Woman's Adventures in Vintage Clothing / Avon Books:
Publication date: 2009-04-30
Dewey code: 942.031092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £17.50
Review Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France, Queen of England / Yale University Press:
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1989-10
Dewey code: 967.6203
Price: £9.74
Review Out of Africa: And Shadows on the Grass (Vintage International) / Vintage Books USA:
Publication date: 2003-06
Dewey code: 809
Price: £10.05
Review Strangers - a Family Romance (New Directions Paperbook) / W W Norton & Co Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-02
Dewey code: 277.3082092
Price: £6.72
Review Startling Beauty: My Journey from Rape to Restoration / Life Journey:
Creator: Chris Charlesworth
Publication date: 1999-07-05
Dewey code: 782.42166092
RRP: £8.95
Price: £6.95
Review Madonna: In Her Own Words (In Their Own Words) / Omnibus Press:
Publication date: 2007-04-19
Dewey code: 940.1840922449
RRP: £16.78
Price: £13.62
Review Four Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe / Viking Books:
Edition: Reissue
Publication date: 1994
Dewey code: 306.0922
RRP: £10.72
Price: £6.41
Review With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead / HarperPerennial:
Publication date: 1996-11-04
Dewey code: 910.4
RRP: £18.99
Price: £62.95
Review Whole Story: Walk Around the World: A Walk Around the World / Orion:
Publication date: 2008-01-29
Dewey code: 658.409082
RRP: £16.81
Price: £9.04
Review Seducing the Boys Club: Uncensored Tactics from a Woman at the Top / Ballantine Books:
Publication date: 2007-07-02
Price: £4.98
Review The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History / HarperPress:
Publication date: 2003-08
Dewey code: 362.196852620092
RRP: £13.99
Price: £6.99
Review Appetites: What Women Want / Counterpoint,U.S.:The remarkable final book from bestselling author Caroline Knapp underlines her gift of leveraging her life experiences into provocative lessons. On the surface, Appetites may appear to be about eating-complete with Knapp's unflinching account of her anorexia. In fact, Knapp is writing about how every woman can decipher her hunger and loneliness by connecting with her desire to experience pleasure. She illuminates the ways in which cultural taboos about women who desire create vulnerability to disorders of appetite including food and alcohol addictions, compulsive shopping and promiscuous sex. In this expansive view, "one woman's tub of cottage cheese is another woman's maxed-out Master Card". Readers will nod in recognition as the author seamlessly weaves autobiography and anthropology, describing her family of origin, profiling women of appetite and countering what she calls "the culture of No!" that curbs and disguises women's desires. Knapp gets to yes by urging readers to ask: "what gives me delight and fully engages me?". Knowing that 42-year-old Knapp died of lung cancer makes this question all the more poignant. Such questions suggest Knapp's brave and generous legacy. -Barbara Mackoff, Amazon. [+]com.
Authors
- Valentine Ackland
- Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publication date: 1998-06-04
Dewey code: 828.91209
Price: £15.00
Review I'll Stand by You : The Letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland / Pimlico:
Publication date: 1999-08-26
RRP: £20.00
Price: £8.99
Review George Sand: A Woman's Life Writ Large / Chatto and Windus:Belinda Jack's detailed and passionate new biography of George Sand captures all the "subversive exuberance" of the life of the "female Don Juan" whose sexual exploits scandalised France. Described as "a great man" by Gustave Flaubert, and "the finest female genius of any country or age," by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Sand was one of the best-known French writers of her generation. A prodigious and popular novelist whose youthful ambition had been to earn a living by her pen, Sand became famous for bestselling works such as Indiana, Consuelo, Mauprat, Elle et Lui and her infamous autobiography, The Story of My Life. She was equally well-known as a journalist, playwright, actress-and a lifelong correspondent with the leading thinkers and political shapers of her epoch. She numbered among her friends-and lovers-Honore de Balzac, Franz Liszt, Saint-Beuve, Chopin, Marie Duval, Alexandre Dumas, Flaubert, Sarah Bernhardt and Ivan Turgenev. Sand's critics were as august as her admirers-the poet Baudelaire described her as a "latrine", and Nietzsche famously took issue with her commitment to articulating the need for equality between the sexes, and her literary Romanticism. Born Aurore Dupin in 1804, her father was an aristocrat, her mother a proletarian prostitute. Unconventional, uncompromising and always critical of social hypocrisy, Sand "believed her mixed ancestry clung to her", like "a kind of original sin which smelt of the people. " A radical republican, she was identified with the 1848 revolution. Belinda Jack's life of Sand ably keeps pace with the dynamic existence of her revolutionary subject, and informatively documents Sand's role in the contemporary political scene, presenting a persuasive portrait of an idealist and iconoclast who ultimately could not accept the compromises of practical politics. [+]Frankly unapologetic about her serial non-monogamy and flouting of all sexual conventions, Sand was pragmatic about the practicality of her notorious cross-dressing. Declaring that she cross-dressed in order to achieve "not being noticed as a woman", she desired to "circulate and see without being seen"-a compulsion to observe central to the novelist's role. The separation of the gusto-and apparently tireless-intrigue of Sand's personal sexual life from the practical and professional motivations for her cross-dressing in public is the particular achievement of Jack's biography. A renegade publicly, personally and intellectually, Sand's commercially successful writing reflected the events of her life, "Sex, sexuality, incest and cross-class relationships are some of the recurrent themes of her fiction, sometimes clearly visible, sometimes tantalisingly half submerged. " Jacks deflects the stock characterisations of Sand as a pipe-touting, trouser- wearing proto-lesbian to explore these more "tantalising" and "half-submerged themes". In particular, she carefully evokes the motif of incest in Sand's personal relationships, and the ways in which her fiction and correspondence uncannily anticipate psychoanalytic explanations of human behaviour and desire. "How good it is to turn life into a novel," declared Sand. Jacks has succeeded in turning the novel that is Sand's life into a fast-paced, informative and striking biography with a romantic realism that Sand herself would have heartily approved. -Rachel Holmes.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-03-04
Dewey code: 616.89820092
RRP: £13.95
Price: £13.94
Review Congratulations! it's Asperger Syndrome / Jessica Kingsley Publishers:
Edition: First Trade Pap
Publication date: 2003-02-01
Dewey code: 305.489691809411
RRP: £9.99
Price: £32.95
Review Jessie's Journey: Autobiography of a Traveller Girl (Mercat Press): Autobiography of a Traveller Girl (Mercat Press) / Mercat Press:
Publication date: 2007-06-22
Dewey code: 974.7043092
RRP: £15.99
Price: £15.99
Review The Last Mrs Astor: A New York Story / W. W. Norton & Co.:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 1983-10
RRP: £10.00
Price: £6.44
Review St.Rose of Lima: Patroness of the Americas (Cross and Crown Series of Spirituality) / T A N Books & Publishers:
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed
Publication date: 2001-04-01
Dewey code: 811.54
Price: £14.99
Review Anne Sexton: a Biography / Random House USA Inc:
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