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Daughters
of Britannia by Katie Hickman | |
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| Amazon.co.uk As the daughter of a diplomat, Katie Hickman is well-situated to write about the lives of the women who, from the 17th century onward, have traversed the globe as partners of Britain's ambassadors. These women are more than simply bored socialites, they are indispensable companions, intrepid... Read more | |||
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Women
on Top by Nancy Friday | |
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| Synopsis This is a compilation of the many letters sent to the author by women sharing their most intimate sexual fantasies about topics such as masturbation, oral sex, sex with more than one man, lesbian sex and anal sex. In her extended introduction to these erotic fantasies the author compares the... Read more | |||
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Secrets
of Sensual Lovemaking : The Ultimate in Female
Ecstasy by Tom Leonardi | |
| Usually dispatched in 24
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Forbidden
Flowers by Nancy Friday | |
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| Synopsis Following "My Secret Garden", this book is Nancy Friday's second collection of women's explicit sexual fantasies. It aims to celebrate a new freedom, under which today's women accept and rejoice in the awareness of their inner sexual lives. Read more | |||
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Desert
Flower by Waris Dirie | |
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| Amazon.co.uk Waris Dirie's story puts "rags to riches" to shame. The "Desert Flower" started life as one of 12 children of a Somali nomad family, a people with no written culture, where the basic unit of currency is the camel. Faced at 12 with the prospect of marriage to a 60-year-old man she didn't know, she... Read more | |||
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| 6. | Women
Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood | ||
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| Synopsis This text is suitable for the reader for whom being in love means being in pain. Therapist Robin Norwood describes loving too much as a pattern of thoughts and behaviour which certain women develop as a response to problems from childhood. Read more | |||
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| 7. | Women by Annie Leibovitz(Photographer), Susan Sontag | ||
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| Amazon.co.uk Each of the extraordinary portraits made by photographer Annie Leibovitz for her book Women stands on its own. Looked at together, these "photographs of people with nothing more in common than that they are women (and living in America at the end of the 20th century), all--well almost all--fully... Read more | |||
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| 8. | Forbidden
Flowers : More Women's Sexual Fantasies by Nancy Friday | ||
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| 9. | Woman's
Orgasm : A Guide to Sexual Satisfaction by Georgia Kline-Graber | ||
| Usually dispatched in 1-2
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| 10. | Women
Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes | ||
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| Synopsis Combining themes from multicultural stories with her own clinical work, the author of this book shows women how to tap into the healing and creative energies of the "wild" woman - the wise and ageless presence in the feminine psyche. Read more | |||
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| 11. | The
Dance of Anger by Harriet G. Lerner | ||
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| Synopsis For many women anger is a destructive force which perpetuates all the harmful dynamics of intimate relationships. In this text feminist psychotherapist, Harriet G. Lerner shows how all women regardless of age, background or experience, can turn anger into a constructive force. Focusing largely on... Read more | |||
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| 12. | The
Gentleman's Daughter by Amanda Vickery | ||
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
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| Amazon.co.uk Winner of the Longman History Today Prize in 1998, Amanda Vickery's The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England is an outstanding study of a crucial period in modern women's history. Roy Porter has described this book as "the most important thing in English feminist history in the... Read more | |||
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| 13. | A
Woman in Your Own Right by Anne Dickson, Kate Charlesworth(Illustrator) | ||
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
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| 14. | The
Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer | ||
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| Synopsis This work portrays marriage as a legalised form of slavery for women, and attacks the systematic denial and misrepresentation of female sexuality by male-dominated society. Read more | |||
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| 15. | Princess by Jean P. Sasson | ||
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| Synopsis This is the true story of what life is like for a Saudi Arabian Princess. Told to the author by a member of the Saudi Arabian Royal Family who wishes to remain anonymous, it describes a life of oppression and human rights violations. Read more | |||
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| 16. | Daughters
of Arabia by Jean Sasson | ||
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| Synopsis Following "Princess", dealing with women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia, this book now turns the spotlight on Princess Sultana's teenage daughters, Maha and Amani. Surrounded by great opulence and luxury from they day they were born, but stifled by the restrictive... Read more | |||
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| 17. | Mrs
Beeton's Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton, Nicola Humble(Editor) | ||
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| Amazon.co.uk Mrs Beeton was the Delia Smith of her day. Vastly popular in its time, her great Book of Household Management is scarcely read nowadays in its original form (no offence, Delia). This is a pity, since as a result a distorted picture of the author and her work persists, as an oppressive Victorian... Read more | |||
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| 18. | Agent
Provocateur: A Celebration of Femininity by Joseph Corre, Serena Rees | ||
| Usually dispatched in 24
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| 19. | A
Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf | ||
| Usually dispatched in 24
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| 20. | Five
Minutes to Orgasm Every Time by Claire Hutchins | ||
| Usually dispatched in 1-2
weeks JPS Publishing Company Hardcover - 111 pages ( 5 December, 1998) JPS Publishing Company |
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| Back Jacket For women only--Is Sex More Trouble Than It's Worth? Are you too slow, excessively reliant on prolonged (even painful) intercourse, oral sex or vibrators? Is your orgasm hit or miss? Now with this bold but simple 3-step programme, any woman can achieve orgasm without difficulty during sex.... Read more | |||
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| 21. | EVEolution
: The Eight Truths of Marketing to Women by Faith Popcorn, Lys Marigold | ||
| Usually dispatched in 24
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| 22. | The
Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf | ||
| Usually dispatched in 2-3
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| Synopsis In the struggle for women's equality, there is one subject still shrouded in uneasy silence - women's compulsive pursuit of beauty. The myth of female beauty challenges every woman, every day of her life. The author exposes the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function... Read more | |||
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| 23. | The
Spiral Dance by Starhawk | ||
| HarperSanFrancisco Paperback - 304 pages Special 20th Anniversary Ed edition (15 November, 1999) HarperSanFrancisco |
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| Synopsis This brilliant overview of the growth, supression, and modern-day reemergence of Wicca as a Goddess-worshipping religion has left an indelible mark on the feminist spiritual consciousness. In this beautiful 20th-anniversary edition, Starhawk now reveals the ways in which the practice of ritual and... Read more | |||
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| 24. | Bitch by Elizabeth Wurtzel | ||
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| Synopsis The history of sexually manipulative women from biblical times to today. Read more | |||
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| 25. | Cave
in the Snow by Vicki MacKenzie | ||
| Usually dispatched in 24
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| Synopsis The story of Tenzin Palmo, an Englishwoman, the daughter of a fishmonger from London's East End, who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas and became a world-renowned spiritual leader and champion of the right of women to achieve spiritual enlightenment. Diane Perry grew up... Read more | |||
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