Anthology British Women Writers : from the Middle Ages to the present Day

Janet Todd

Literature & Fiction

Pandora

The author traces the careers of women who have lived and worked as men, from the 1700s to their re-emergence in the First World War. She assesses the way in which womens' experience changes to accommodate masculine and feminine concepts and the tensions experienced by women as they struggle with the contradictions of harbouring male and female identities within themselves. In so doing, she tries to gain an insight into the changing sexual roles, patriotism and the ideology of war and peace. The writer draws on memoirs, letters, diaries, historical archives and rare sketches to illustrate her case.

Amazons and Military Maids

Wheelwright, Julie

Biographies & Memoirs

Naomi Mitchison: A century of experiment in life and letters

Benton, Jill Kathryn

Community & Culture

Erotica: An Anthology of Women's Writing

Erotica: An anthology of women's writing

Margaret Reynolds

Angel at My Table, The Screenply

Janet-Frame

Laura Jones

Arts & Literature

Memory Board

LGBTQ+ Books

Jane. Rule

Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the " Frenzy of the Visible "

Humor & Entertainment

Williams, Linda

Movies

The Trouble with Boys

Politics & Social Sciences

Angela Phillips

Social Sciences

As far back as 480 BC, when Artemisia commanded her Greek trireme, women have taken to the high seas in pursuit of life and liberty. Simultaneously revered and reviled by superstitious male mariners, the realities of these women pirates' lives have been lost in a murky fog of sexual and racial preconceptions. Bold in her Breeches takes a wholly fresh look at these mythical figures and places them in their true historical and cultural contexts. From Artemisia to the contemporary women pirates of today, via eighteenth-century Grace O'Malley and nineteenth-century Cheng I Sao, we learn why women took to piracy, what it was actually like, how they were regarded by people of their own time and what history has done to their stories. What emerges, by virtue of insight, intuition and some wonderful research, is a retrieval of an entire women's seafaring history, culled from trial reports, from journalists' stories, and from the margins of history books. With contributions from Anne Chambers, Dian H. Murray and Julie Wheelwright as well as editor Jo Stanley, Bold in her Breeches is a riveting insight into a wild and salty world hitherto all but obscured from view.

Bold in Her Breeches: Woman Pirates Across the Ages

History

World

The Audre Lorde compendium: Essays, speeches, and journals

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