A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love

First published in 1792, this book was written in a spirit of outrage and enthusiasm. In an age of ferment, following the American and French revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles and dared to apply them to women. The introduction discusses her ideas.

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.

The astonishing and bestselling life story of the renowned campaigner for religious tolerance and women's rights, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

A dazzling, hard-hitting and provocative collection of essays by the internationally renowned and charismatic activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who has been targeted for murder for her efforts to reform Islam and protect Muslim women from violence and repression.

Parvana's father is arrested and taken away by the Taliban soldiers. Parvana, her mother, and sisters must stay inside. Four days later, the food runs out. So Parvana must pretend to be a boy to save her family. In fear she goes out - and witnesses the horror of land mines, and the brutality of the Taliban. But even in despair lies hope.

Presents an analysis of the position of women in Western society.

The inspirational tale of eight women who defied the confines of life in revolutionary Iran through the joy and power of literature.

Based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge.

A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom. This is the story of both the terrifying and electrifying journey of Dr Qanta Ahmed, a Pakistani Muslim woman, trained in four medical specialties in the United States, and her personal two-year quest and journey deep into the Islamic world of Saudi Arabia. She evokes lands more exotic than she could ever have imagined, and the moments where she ...

Dr Susan Wicklund growing up in working class, rural Wisconsin, had her own painful abortion at a young age. This work chronicles her emotional twenty-year career on the front lines of the abortion war. It also reveals the truth about the women's clinics that anti-abortion activists portray as little more than slaughterhouses for the unborn.

In this book Mary Wollstonecraft pursues in fiction the themes set forth by her in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). It exposes the legal and social injustices faced by all women, dramatizing the extent to which a married woman under English law was her husband's property.

In the tradition of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a look at the lives of women in Afghanistan through the lens of The Kabul Beauty School

This is the story of Edna Pontellier, a beautiful young wife and mother who discovers her true feelings and identity through her love for Robert Lebrun, and in so doing challenges the bourgeois assumptions of her day. This title features music by Chopin, Grieg and Widor.

Written by a mountaineer who in 1993, after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb K2, drifted cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram Mountains. It tells how moved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school. It tells the story of that promise and its outcome.

The biographer of T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf and Henry James turns now to one of the greatest women of history.

Second in Laurie King's acclaimed Mary Russell mystery series: 'Beguiling variation on Sherlock Holmes sequels!civilized, ingenious and engrossing' -- Literary Review

A sumptuous new look for the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring.

This volume offers an intimate portrait of Afghani people.