Women Fight, Women Write: Texts on the Algerian War, Paperback - Mildred Mortimer

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A graphic novel depicting the stories of women who fought with the National Liberation Front in the Algerian War of Independence.Illustrations: 128...

Stacey Dooley looks back on her encounters with women fighting for rights and freedoms across the globe, exploring a range of issues that includes ...

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In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separat...

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A gripping and visceral narrative that interweaves the real-life stories of women who are fighting gross inequality all over the world.

The first full treatment of women and warfare in Classical Greece and Rome. Addresses the neglected subject of the role of women in war in the Clas...

When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and...

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The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughou...

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It may be fiction but those things could, and did, happen.' Vera Morgan, wartime WAAF 'An impeccably researched and uplifting story of love, loss a...

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An uplifting and inspiring World War II saga for readers of Nancy Revell and Annie Groves. 1942, Manchester World War Two is in full swing and Lily...

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Looking back at the last 35 years of Vanity Fair features on women, by women, with an introduction by editor in chief, Radhika Jones.

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Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 165 x 241 x 24Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Gay WachmanRedesc...

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DescriptionAs many as 20, 000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various soc...

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This follow-up to Women Who Read Are Dangerous extends the idea of female empowerment through literature to look at the writers, with photographic ...

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A lively history of the Second World War on the Home Front told through the stories of the women serving in the Women's Voluntary ServicesPublisher...

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