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Women and Politics -

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 15 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women by Kristen Ghodsee
    Red Valkyries: Feminist Lessons From Five Revolutionary Women - by Kristen Ghodsee

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839766602 | ISBN 10: 1839766603

    The lives of five socialist women and their legacy for modern-day feminists.  Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe. Through the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the ninete ... more

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  • Cover image of book Equal Power: Gender Equality and How to Achieve It by Jo Swinson
    Equal Power: Gender Equality and How to Achieve It - by Jo Swinson

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786491893 | ISBN 10: 1786491893

    Shortlisted for the 2018 Parliamentary Book Awards (Best Memoir by a Parliamentarian)  Why is gender inequality so stubbornly persistent? Power. Even today, power remains concentrated in the hands of men right across the worlds of business, p ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg by Klaus Gietinger
    The Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg - by Klaus Gietinger

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788734462 | ISBN 10: 1788734467

    On the tracks of the killers of Rosa Luxemburg.   The cold-blooded murder of revolutionary icons Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in the pitched political battles of post-WWI Germany marks one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth centu ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Power of Politicians by Frances D’ Souza and Tessa Jowell
    The Power of Politicians - by Frances D’ Souza and Tessa Jowell

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781912208074 | ISBN 10: 1912208075

    Edited and with an introduction by Claire Foster-Gilbert.   The Power of Politicians is an account of Tessa Jowell’s experience of entering politics and making effective sense of her role. Here, with Frances D’Souza, she gives fascinating insi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon by Rachel Reeves
    Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon - by Rachel Reeves

    £11.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788313070 | ISBN 10: 1788313070

    Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians.  Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for Leeds North East in the 1945 General Election. Famed in her h ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Extreme Centre: A Second Warning by Tariq Ali
    The Extreme Centre: A Second Warning - by Tariq Ali

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786637062 | ISBN 10: 1786637065

    Since 1989, politics has been a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the market. In this urgent and wideranging case for the prosecution, Tariq Ali looks at the people and events that have informed this development across the world. It is a ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Woman
    A Woman's Work - by Harriet Harman

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141983868 | ISBN 10: 0141983868

    When Harriet Harman started her career, men-only job adverts and a 'women's rate' of pay were the norm, female MPs were a tiny minority - a woman couldn't even sign for a mortgage. But, she argues, we should never just be grateful that things are bet ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma
    The Lady and the Generals: Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's Struggle for Freedom - by Peter Popham

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846043734 | ISBN 10: 1846043735

    Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, is a symbol of supreme courage in the face of tyranny. Released from house arrest in 2010, she led her party to a dramatic victory in Burma’s first free general election in a generation.   Acclaime ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everywoman: One Woman
    Everywoman: One Woman's Truth About Speaking the Truth - by Jess Phillips

    £14.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786330772 | ISBN 10: 1786330776

    If you’re thinking, ‘Jess, who?’ then I’m glad that there was something about ‘Everywoman’ and ‘truth’ that caught your eye.   Or you might already know me as that gobby MP who has a tendency to shout about the stuff I care abo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Honourable Friends? Parliament and the Fight for Change by Caroline Lucas
    Honourable Friends? Parliament and the Fight for Change - by Caroline Lucas

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781846275951 | ISBN 10: 1846275954

    Caroline Lucas is an outsider, inside, fighting for parliamentary reform and for the interests of her constituents. She is a politician with a radical mission and a clear vision of how change can be achieved.  From the NHS to corporate tax evasion, f ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat by Helen McCarthy
    Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat - by Helen McCarthy

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781408837801 | ISBN 10: 1408837803

    Throughout the twentieth century and long before, hundreds of determined British women defied the social conventions of their day in order to seek adventure and influence on the world stage. Some became travellers and explorers; others business-owner ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freedom From Fear by Aung San Suu Kyi
    Freedom From Fear - by Aung San Suu Kyi

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141039497 | ISBN 10: 0141039493

    Aung San Suu Kyi, human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was detained in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta. In 1995 she was freed from six years' house arrest in Ragoon, where she was held as a prisoner of c ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements by Aung San Suu Kyi
    The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements - by Aung San Suu Kyi

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846041433 | ISBN 10: 1846041430

    "Aung San Suu Kyi is a remarkable and courageous human being. Listen to her voice and be inspired... Burma is the next South Africa."(Archbishop Desmond Tutu) Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi stands alongside Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lam ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unbowed: My Autobiography by Wangari Maathai
    Unbowed: My Autobiography - by Wangari Maathai

    £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099493099 | ISBN 10: 0099493098

    'When I was a child, my surroundings were alive, dynamic, and inspiring. Even though I was entering a world where there were books to read and facts to learn - the cultivation of the mind - I was still able to enjoy a world where there were no books ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Very Salt of Life: Welsh Women
    The Very Salt of Life: Welsh Women's Political Writings from Chartism to Suffrage - by Edited by Jane Aaron and Ursula Masson

    £8.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781870206907 | ISBN 10: 1870206908

    This innovative and ground-breaking anthology covers a century of Welsh women's political writings, from the 1830s to the 1930s; its diverse contributors include female Chartists, patriotic defenders of Wales and its language, feminists working for w ... more

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