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Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to. From this unexpected inheritance came stories spun like those of Scheherazade, who used her gifts as a storyteller to change her fate and her listener's heart.

When the goddess culture was stolen and buried, so too were women's rites of passage into our wild, intuitive femininity and maturity. With Maiden to Mother, Sarah Durham Wilson excavates these ancient rites, guiding us through a sacred and crucial initiation from the immature Maiden into the archetypal Mother—the powerful, safe, compassionate, full-bloom feminine life force that exists within all of us.

The 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract. ‘The Female Eunuch retains that power of transformation; it asserts the possibility of creativity within female experience’ Guardian A worldwide bestseller, translated into over twelve languages, The...

Did you know that up to 90% of women experience menstrual abnormalities or pelvic problems in their lifetime? Yet these issues are overwhelmingly misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or dismissed. At a turbulent time when global health, reproductive, and human rights are under siege, Dr Tang is determined to revolutionise how gynaecologic health and pelvic pain are treated by the medical community. This book will be part of the fight for the healthcare all people with uteruses deserve - healthcare that is intersectional, gender-affirming, validating and hopeful.

在由男神与盲目命运主宰的古希腊神话中，那些被边缘化的女性如何用欲望、机智和倔强在绝境中撕开生存的裂口？当众神的惩罚毫不留情地降临，她们不再是沉默的配角或千篇一律的麻烦制造者。这是一场属于凡人与女神的...

跨越国界与世纪的性别平权运动，不仅是一场反抗系统性压迫的宏大社会变革，更深深镌刻在每一次争取教育、薪酬与身体自主的日常抗争中。无论你正处于寻找自我价值的迷茫期，还是渴望在纷繁复杂的社会思潮中获得理性...

De historische vervolging van de heks is geen sprookje, maar een keiharde strijd om vrouwelijke autonomie en macht. Terwijl je luistert, reis je van middeleeuwse dorpspleinen vol sociale spanningen naar hedendaagse feministische gemeenschappen die deze spirituele oerkracht opnieuw opeisen. Of je...

当卓越的专业能力遭遇关键时刻的自我怀疑，职场进阶究竟该如何打破完美主义的无形枷锁并夺回主动权？你或许早已做足准备，却总在需要表达与争取的瞬间陷入踌躇，这种下意识的退缩并非性格缺陷，而是系统性评价压力...

Ervaar het onzichtbare vrouwelijke verzet in de Griekse mythologie, waar sluwe keuzes de macht van goden trotseren. Ver weg van kletterende zwaarden en bloederige veldslagen creëren deze stille rebellen hun eigen speelruimte binnen een wereld die wordt gedomineerd door onwrikbare lotsbesluiten...

Deze meeslepende geschiedenis van vrouwenrechten onthult de eeuwenoude, harde strijd voor vrijheid en ware gelijkheid. Of je nu in de trein zit tijdens je woon-werkverkeer of ontspanning zoekt voor het slapengaan, dit inspirerende relaas trekt je direct de barricades op. Luister hoe moedige...

Schön, stolz, nervig – diese Attribute brachten Frauen wie Sidonia von Borcke einst auf den Scheiterhaufen. Juliane Schiemenz, eine Verwandte von Sidonia, folgt den Spuren ihrer legendär gewordenen Ahnin, die 1620 als Hexe verurteilt wurde. Weder heiratete sie, noch bekam sie Kinder, stattdessen stritt sie vor Gericht um ihr Erbe.

Millionen Frauen fühlen sich ausgebrannt. Zwischen Job, Kindern, Ansprüchen und Selbstzweifeln bricht etwas weg: die Verbindung zu sich und die Achtung vor sich selbst. Die Gründe dafür sind dauerhafte mentale und emotionale Mehrarbeit, hochfunktionaler Druck, internalisierte Rollenbilder sowie fehlende Anerkennung. Die ärztliche Psychotherapeutin Dr. Simone Frohwein und die Klinikleiterin Elke Hüttenrauch engagieren sich seit Jahrzehnten dafür, die Ursachen dieser stillen Epidemie sichtbar zu machen.

Der weibliche Körper wurde in Medizin, Gesellschaft und Forschung über Jahrzehnte zu wenig beachtet. Viele Symptome bei Frauen wurden verharmlost, medizinische Mythen weitergegeben und Studien am männlichen Standard ausgerichtet. Genau daraus entstand der sogenannte Gender Health Gap – eine...

A fearlessly feminist philosophical approach to defying diet culture, cultivating radical self-care, and rediscovering empowered embodiment Informed by personal narrative, cultural studies, and the work of luminaries from Simone de Beauvoir and Mary Wollstonecraft to Audre Lorde and Roxane Gay...

A passionate love affair. A shocking betrayal. A woman's journey through art, identity, and resilience. Los Angeles, 1982. Cordi Lenoir, a struggling artist, longs for a fresh start. At the annual Buffalo Feast she meets Merlin Black, a charismatic Lakota man whose magnetic presence pulls her...

'Brilliant and powerful' ELIZABETH GILBERT 'So full of wisdom and pleasure that you don’t want it to end' MAGGIE NELSON 'Only Melissa Febos could convince us of the ecstasy of abstinence' KATHERINE MAY A TIME 'must-read' book of 2025 A Vogue, TIME and Vulture 'most anticipated’ book of 2025...

In The Wicked Witch of the West: The Enduring Legacy of a Feminist Icon, Lona Bailey explores the radical feministic undertones of one of the most enduring characters in popular culture. This book traces her transformation over the past century, highlighting how she has evolved through countless adaptations from The Wizard of Oz to the film adaptation of Wicked while maintaining her core identity as a powerful, defiant figure.

People Best New Book The inside story of the making of Mean Girls – and our enduring 20-year obsession with it Released in 2004, iconic teen comedy Mean Girls remains as relevant now as ever. But what made an adaptation of a parenting guide by SNL writer Tina Fey so successful? And why, two...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women have long been pathologized, locked up and medicated for not conforming to whichever norms or stereotypes are expected of them in that time...

Women in the War beautifully weaves together the oral histories of 10 remarkable women who dedicated their young adulthood to the war effort. From aiding codebreaking at Bletchley Park to plotting the Battle of the Atlantic and working alongside Churchill in the War Rooms below Whitehall, these are the women who helped to defend the Home Front and kept Britain going. Now with the wisdom of age, they look back at how they coped with danger, trauma and stress, and tell how their spirits were fortified by friendship, fellowship and romance.