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One of the greatest fashion designers of all time, Halston defined and dominated the 1970s. He was America's first fashion superstar, a groundbreaking craftsman and a pioneering businessman who also exuded glamour, wit and charm. More important than the million-dollar success and the movie-star status though was the powerhouse of incredible women that he surrounded himself with. This is the untold story of those women.

Frauen im Internet stehen unter ständiger Beobachtung. Sophie Passmann ist selbst Teil der widersprüchlichen Welt weiblicher Selbstdarstellung in den sozialen Medien. Radikal selbstkritisch seziert sie die Phänomene, die eine ganze Generation prägen: von der asketischen Disziplin einer Hailey Bieber über die kalkulierte Görenhaftigkeit von Charli XCX bis zur neurotischen Perfektion von Taylor Swift. Warum sind wir alle so fasziniert von Frauen, die uns etwas vormachen – und gleichzeitig hassen wir sie genau dafür?

In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands to critical acclaim. Here Amadiume boldly argues that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference.

Caitlin Moran takes us on a personal journey from despair to hopefulness by refusing to succumb to the paralyzing news cycle and by taking action in small ways that make a difference; the award-winning columnist and bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and What About Men? helps us find hope...

This acclaimed, accessible, and thoroughly researched biography documents the life of Ann Lee, a controversial, religious leader and early feminist figure. Lee established the Shaker movement in 1770 in Manchester, England. The core principles of the Shakers were radical: in an era when wives were the possession of their husband, Lee proclaimed the equality of men and women. The Shakers were dedicated to beliefs in absolute pacifism, equality of the sexes, absolute celibacy, and the cleansing of sin through dancing and chanting to shake away the past.

The United Kingdom has been labelled Terf Island - sometimes affectionately and sometimes contemptuously - for its successful resistance to transgender ideology. This is the story of the brave and determined women who led the charge against trans activist demands which undermined their rights and jeopardised the physical and mental health of children.

Ihre Welt in 99 Worten – Alice Schwarzer zieht Bilanz. Anhand von 99 Begriffen – von A wie Arbeit und Alter, I wie Influencer, K wie Krieg und Frieden, M wie MeToo, O wie Ostdeutschland, R wie Rassismus oder S wie Sexualität – greift sie Themen der Zeit auf, die uns alle angehen. Die Basis sind Klassiker des Feminismus ebenso wie Persönliches aus Alice Schwarzers bewegtem Leben. Sie zeigt, auf welchen Errungenschaften der heutige Feminismus aufbaut und welche Herausforderungen uns ganz aktuell beschäftigen.

Brought to you by Penguin. The Number 1 Bestseller Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived...

كتاب للعقاد يتناول فيه بالتحليل المرأة، صفاتها وطبائعها التي فرضتها عليها طبيعة التكوين وغير ذلك مما يراه البعض خلافيًا.

The new face of risky drinking is female. The problem: a global epidemic of bingeing. The solution: a brave new approach to female recovery. Eight years ago, Ann Dowsett Johnston was an award-winning journalist and vice-principal of McGill University. In private, she was wrestling the demon that...

Covens. Girl bands. Ballet troupes. Convents. In all times and places, girls and women have come together in communities of vocation, of necessity, of support. And wherever women gather, magic happens. Female farmers change the way we grow our food. Online beauty communities democratise the intricacies of skincare. Teen girls invent phrases that enter the urban lexicon and choose our next pop superstars. Patriarchal societies have long been content to uphold men's and boys' clubs while viewing groups that exclude men as sites of rivalry and suspicion. 

'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE 'Radical, funny and fearless’ VANITY FAIR THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre Kathleen Hanna’s rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the...

Journalist Kylie Cheung delivers an urgent, incisive look at how abusers—from empires to intimate partners—use the same gaslighting playbook to oppress victims, silence their voice, and stay in power Who has the right to their own body? Who has the right to self-defense? Who gets to walk...

A sweeping, definitive work of history exploring the road to the September 1968 protests of the Miss American Pageant—one led by women’s liberationists and the other organized by the emergent Miss Black America Pageant—and the birth of a new politics of beauty. A revolution was brewing. In...

30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION NATIONAL BESTSELLER In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and...

Una mujer lucha por seguir viva cada noche y, para alejar la muerte unas horas más, se inventa un cuento. Todos conocemos la historia de Sherezade, pero nadie ha leído Las mil y una noches como lo haría Jeanette Winterson, que se sumerge en este libro legendario para plantear preguntas y respuestas aún hoy vigentes: ¿cómo influyen nuestros relatos en las creencias sobre el mundo?, ¿cuál es el impacto de la imaginación sobre la realidad?, ¿dónde está el límite entre la honestidad y la mentira?, ¿es el amor, acaso, lo más importante?

Descubre las vidas fascinantes e inspiradoras de las mujeres que cambiaron la historia de la fe.

Unsere Welt ist von Männern für Männer gemacht und tendiert dazu, die Hälfte der Bevölkerung zu ignorieren. Caroline Criado-Perez erklärt, wie dieses System funktioniert. Sie legt die geschlechtsspezifischen Unterschiede bei der Erhebung wissenschaftlicher Daten offen. Die so entstandene Wissenslücke liegt der kontinuierlichen und systematischen Diskriminierung von Frauen zugrunde und erzeugt eine unsichtbare Verzerrung, die sich stark auf das Leben von Frauen auswirkt.

Neste estudo de dez anos, Diana Greene Foster e uma equipe de pesquisadores acompanharam cerca de mil mulheres americanas que procuraram clínicas de aborto decididas a interromper a gravidez. Muitas, por razões diversas, não conseguiram. Este audiolivro investiga o que aconteceu com todas elas – a partir de entrevistas periódicas que avaliaram diferentes esferas da vida das mulheres: saúde física e mental, carreira, relacionamentos românticos e cuidados com outros filhos, quando já eram mães.

"Um dia raiará mais propício para nós, em que os escolhidos da nação Brasileira se dignem de achar a educação da mulher um objeto importante para delo ocuparem-se." Nestes trechos selecionados do seu livro Opúsculo humanitário , Nísia Floresta critica a falta de ação do governo com relação à educação feminina, comentando o quanto de especulação havia, seja nas escolas públicas quanto nas particulares – o que soa surpreendentemente atual.