In this book, Rosemary Auchmuty looks at school novels with popular female heroines, such as the Abbey Girl books and the Chalet School series. She questions their ability to portray strong, independent women, and asks why the female authors often resort to the conventions of society, marrying the characters off into a life of domesticity.

A World of Women: Growing Up in the Girls' School Story

Literature & Fiction

Auchmuty, Rosemary

History & Criticism

Women's Press, Ltd. (UK)

Since antiquity, the wisdom of an ancient feminine culture—rich in folklore and healing skills—was passed on from mother to daughter. Driven underground by the rampant fear of "witchcraft," the culture survived through recipes, household diaries, and "old wives' tales." In this delightful compendium, Beverly Pagram uncovers a rich and fascinating heritage of food gathering and preparation; herbal wisdom; remedies and recipes; spells, potions, and charms; and house and garden lore. Her month-by-month almanac highlights the links between domestic work and the seasons, and between women's cycles and the natural world, painting an engaging portrait that is surprisingly relevant to women's lives today.

Heaven and Hearth

Pagram, Beverly

Contemporary

This guide takes the reader on a whistlestop tour of modern-day food and the diet and health industries, and then offers a simple, step-by-step approach on how to awaken intuition, detailing which foods to choose and why. The book recommends an unprocessed raw food diet to tap natural inner wisdom.

Feel-Good Food Guide to Intuitive Eating

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Miller, Susie

Knowler, Karen

Diets & Weight Loss

Sleep is an essential human need yet at least one third of the population are trying to make do with around six hours sleep a night instead of 8-9 hours. This text provides a guide to the problems and solutions looking at the effects of what we eat, when we exercise and the environment we live in.

Sleep: A Natural Guide

Viagas, Belinda Grant

Diseases & Physical Ailments

This text attempts to lift the lid on the food industry. It is a topical and politically charged examination of an adulterated food supply chain and the governmental and European Community policies that maintain the status quo.

Perfectly Safe to Eat?: The Facts on Food

Engineering & Transportation

Hird, Vicki

Engineering

This is the story of Julie—the dutiful daughter, the romantic heroine, the perfect wife and mother. The woman who seeks nothing but acceptance. But Julie knows she is also the witch, the whore, the madwoman, the insatiable, the lesbian. As her two worlds threaten to collide and fall apart, Julie realizes she must come to terms with the different aspects of her psyche, and that she must fight to find an identity uniquely her own.

A Piece of the Night

Roberts, Michèle

Britain has the highest levels of mixed race relationships in the developed world. Nearly half of all Carribean children in this country have one white parent. In many areas there are more mixed race children in care than any other group. Issues of race lie at the heart of "New Britain" and in this title the author gives an analysis of mixed race issues, supplying a history before going on to analyze dilemmas such as guilt, and the absence of social policy. Her book aims to reflect the complex lives of this growing and increasingly visable population.

Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons

Politics & Social Sciences

Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin

Social Sciences

A fascinating and innovative look at the traditional interpretations of the components of the horoscope—the signs of the zodiac, the planets, and the elements—that reclaims a lost heritage of history and mythology.

The Knot of Time: Astrology and Female Experience

Religion & Spirituality

River, Lindsay

Gillespie, Sally

New Age & Spirituality

Edna Pontellier is a young woman living comfortably in the beautiful city of New Orleans. She is fond of her husband and proud of her sons but finds it impossible to accept that "for women it is a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals." She fights back in the only way she knows, and her solution is extreme. Infamous in its time, The Awakening is now recognized as a radical work of fiction -- sensuous, arresting, and clear-eyed in its commitment to freedom and independence.

The Awakening

CHOPIN, KATE

Classics

The Unbelonging is the story of Hyacinth, an eleven-year-old Jamaican girl who must leave the warmth and exuberance of the backstreets of Kingston for the gloom of British inner city life with a father she has never met. Through academic achievements and dreams of her homeland, Hyacinth triumphs against the hostility of her classmates and the threats of violence she endures at home, sustained by the sure knowledge that her dreams hold the truth. The Unbelonging tells the story of the struggles of the Windrush generation in the UK, of the pressures they faced, the homesickeness they endured, and of the cultural misunderstandings, malicious or well meaning that continue to underlie race relations today.

Unbelonging

Riley, Joan.

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