A dynamic history of life in turn-of-the-century Warsaw through the eyes of a young woman and her Jewish family who converted to Catholicism. When Alicja Lewental's parents came of age in the middle of the nineteenth century, they believed they did...

A personal history of conflict, imprisonment and unrepentance, from the only woman convicted of crimes against humanity for her role in the Bosnian War. In 2001, Biljana Plavsic made history. Indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the F...

A renowned social scientist reflects on democratisation theory as applied in the Middle East. Azmi Bishara's "Arduous Paths" builds on his sizeable body of work on democracy through the lenses of civil society, religion and secularism, populism and...

This survey of the life and work of American painter Susan Watkins explores how she and other women artists carved paths to success at the turn of the twentieth century. In a career that spanned only a little more than fifteen years, American artis...

A continent-crossing panorama of women's rights, women's oppression and women's politics in the twenty-first century. In 1995, the UN vowed to advance "equality, development and peace for all women, everywhere". Instead, in the Beijing Declaration's...

A 100-year history of enraging injustices and inspiring campaigns: the fight for British disability rights isn't over. From the "crippled suffragette", to '80s punks chaining themselves to buses, to campaigners taking a stand online, this book celeb...

A compelling history of the women who started their own police force in 1914 - as war, social upheaval and gender injustice gripped the UK. Violence against women is out of control. Conviction rates for rape are so low that most survivors think it p...

An illuminating examination of the interconnectivity of women artists and activists in Great Britain from the Victorian era through the Second World War. Women artists working in Britain between 1875 and 1945 learned to deftly negotiate private and...

The rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity. Two material artifacts defined the middle-class American lifestyle in the mid-twentieth century: the automobile, which brought gas stations, highways, com...

The next phase of the war over reproduction in America. What's next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler argues that simply undoing Roe v. Wade has never been the endpoint for the antiabortion movement. Since the 1960s, the larger goal has be...