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Beyond Women s Empowerment in Africa: Exploring Dislocation and Agency (Paperback)

This book breaks new ground in understanding how modern society has shaped women s knowledge system in Africa and deconstructs long-held myths about the position of ordinary women in the construction of knowledge. more

Cries for Help: Women Without a Voice Women s Prisons in the 1970s Myra Hindley and Her Contemporaries (Paperback)

Cries for Help opens a window on the closed world of Holloway other prisons and the lives of those held there in the 1970s. This was an era when personal style and charismatic leadership were all the rage before the days of new management when... more

Women Welfare and Local Politics 1880-1920 : We Might Be Trusted (Paperback)

Held back by the property qualifications needed to vote and stand as candidates in a range of local elections female activists and feminists nonetheless formed local pressure groups to make their voices heard. When the property qualification was... more

Pre-Owned Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart the Wild West s Most Notorious Woman Bandit (Paperback) 133544940X 9781335449405

[A] true-life adventure saga about the female outlaw who robbed a stagecoach at gunpoint in Arizona in 1899. --New York Times Book Review History was made when Pearl Hart disguised as a man held up a stagecoach and robbed the passengers at gunpoint. A... more

Picture Book Biography A Picture Book of Sacagawea (Paperback)

A concise look at the legendary Shoshone woman who led explorers Lewis and Clark on their route from the Dakotas to the Pacific Ocean. Born in the Rocky Mountains Sacagawea was taken captive and held hundreds of miles away from home for years. When... more

Dragonkeep (Hardcover)

When describing the events that occurred between King David and the Princess Dianna it seems incredible that a woman could have such power without sorcery. Yet some believed that Dianna knew nothing of the magic arts. The power that she held over the... more

Shuyani: Hope (Paperback)

After traveling in the remote Amazonian jungles of Peru from 1924-1928 Leslie Davis returned to the United States to tell the tale of Shuyani. A young woman held captive on an isolated plateau Shuyani seeks help in her escape when a white-skinned... more

Pre-Owned One True Thing : A Novel 9780812976182

First time in trade paperback--the acclaimed bestselling novel by the author of Living Out Loud. When she comes home to care for her dying mother Ellen Gulden learns secrets which the older woman has held in her heart for so long. CONDITION – USED:... more

Worth 10 Buffalo Skins (Paperback)

What a day for Mark Danielson: besides trying to reach his ranch home with his draft horses before a storm he narrowly misses death when a shotgun sound almost sends him and his horses into a deep valley. The shotgun was held by an affluent woman named... more

Pre-Owned Riding Pretty: Rodeo Royalty in the American West (Hardcover) 0803229550 9780803229556

When the town of Pendleton Oregon held its first large-scale rodeo it introduced a new kind of rodeo queen--not a traveling cowgirl performer but a young middle-class woman from its own town. Riding Pretty examines the history evolution and... more