Titres dans Femmes

A dazzlingly original and ambitious audiobook on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today's most well-respected art critics. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West...

How Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhoodand the brilliant doctor who defied them. After Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to graduate from medical school, more women demanded a chance to study medicine. Barred entrance to...

A New York Times Bestseller A Cosmopolitan Best Nonfiction Book of 2024'Compulsively readable: I found myself dashing through it like a novel' The Wall Street Journal 'Riveting' Financial Times The New York Times bestselling story of the golden age of luxury department stores, and the...

The definitive story of the seven Cleopatras, the powerful goddess-queens of ancient Egypt One of history’s most iconic figures, Cleopatra is rightly remembered as a clever and charismatic ruler. But few today realize that she was the last in a long line of Egyptian queens who bore that name...

Celebrated novelist Mary Gordon brings Joan of Arc alive as a complex figure full of contradictions and desires, as well as spiritual devotion. A humble peasant girl, Joan transformed herself into the legendary Maid of Orléans, knight, martyr, and saint. Following the voice of God, she led an...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a "wild, only-in-America story" of political manipulation and murder (Attica Locke, Edgar Award-winning author). On the South Side of...

'Compelling' TELEGRAPH 'Such a compelling account of a small but significant dark corner of history... Profound, angry, and tender all at once' VIRGINIA FEITO, author of MRS MARCH 'An insightful, empathetic and well-researched account of a deeply fascinating and macabre true story' KATE MOORE...

“Shines a light on one of the twentieth century’s most amazing untold life stories. ... An essential read—and an unforgettable trip.” —Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road “Cahalan details a piece of lost but fascinating history, the story of a woman who embodied an era of...

This is a history of the Second World War - as you have never heard it before. Dancer, singer and intelligence agent Josephine Baker German Nazi pianist Elly Ney British pianist Myra Hess Composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor Ballerina Tatiana Vecheslova Violinist Alma Rosé, conductor of the...

What makes a truly great eulogy? We need an exceptional life, made remarkable in some way - be it colourful, fruitful or meaningful. And then we need someone uniquely and perfectly placed to speak well of the dead. Having scoured the recent past for the funeral address's most powerful iterations...

What happens when a missing child leads one woman into a hidden world of corruption, murder, and child trafficking? RUN RUBY RUN: Inspired by True Crimes by Jean Thompson Kinsey, grippingly narrated by Catherine Divaris, and produced and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, is a powerful historical fiction and crime suspense audiobook inspired by the real-life crimes surrounding the notorious Tennessee Children’s Home Society and Georgia Tann.

Women Who Carried Ghosts follows fifteen women across twenty-five centuries—from a Roman atrium where a queen's body became the foundation of a republic, to a Nazi concentration camp where a young spy took her secrets to the grave. Between them: a pirate queen who refused to curtsy before Elizabeth I, an opera singer who burned down a convent for the woman she loved, Soviet pilots the Germans called "Night Witches," and the survivors of the siege of Leningrad who kept diaries in the dark while the city starved.

An award-winning young scholar explores how Black women have remade—and continue to remake—our understanding of the past. Across centuries, Black women have invented means to preserve what official history could not: friendship albums, kitchen-table philosophy, blogs, playlists, oral...

A new, riveting and definitive biography of Maria Rasputin--the daughter of the infamous Russian mystic who was accused of bringing down an empire. In THE MAD MONK’S DAUGHTER, Vanity Fair contributor and royals expert Hadley Meares unspools the largely overlooked, almost unbelievable story of...

We are all survivors. To listen to this book you had to survive pregnancy, infancy, and at least some childhood. But also so did your mother, her mother, on and on, all the way back to the first mother, the first star seed of humanity. As we are the products of those who survived, we are all also great because we all go back to people who survived incredible times. This book is based on the author’s genealogy specifically, but there is definitely something special in everyone’s bloodline. I hope this book encourages you to dig into yours.

This gripping military history reveals how trailblazing women fought for their right to serve on America’s frontlines. Perfect for an inspiring daily commute or focused learning, this empowering narrative exposes the relentless tension between wartime necessity and systemic exclusion. Follow...

A bold investigation into how the beauty myth became the West's most seductive form of control hiding in plain sight In this explosive investigation, researcher and writer Saskia Alaïs exposes the hidden machinery of the beauty economy, detonating the old beauty myth and revealing what replaced...

From séances to stage magic, Spooky Ladies reveals the rebellious women who used wit, spectacle and the supernatural to survive, scandalise and captivate the world. Spooky Ladies is a wildly entertaining and sharply insightful celebration of the clairvoyants, mediums, mind-readers and...

Bloomsbury presents If Walls Could Talk by Lucy Worsley, read by Kerry Gilbert From the Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and BBC Television series including Lucy Worsley: Mozart’s London Odyssey and Six Wives with Lucy Worsley, available on Netflix. “Worsley is a thoughtful...

An Instant Sunday Times Bestseller! "Livingstone’s deeply researched, unfailingly fascinating book gives the many extraordinary women at or near the centre of the Nuremberg trials their proper, important, and often ignored place in history" —Salman Rushdie Bestselling author and historian...