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Women and Power
Mary Beard

Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template.

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The Trouble with Women
Jacky Fleming

The Trouble With Women does for girls what 1066 and All That did for boys: it reminds us of what we were taught about women in history lessons at school, which is to say, not a lot. A brilliantly witty book of cartoons, it reveals some of our greatest thinkers' baffling theories about women. We learn that even Charles Darwin, long celebrated for his open, objective scientific mind, believed that women would never achieve anything important, because of their smaller brains.

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Codi Llais

A contemporary volume about women by women comprising diverse and honest contributions by 14 persons about what it means to them to be a modern woman in the 21st century. The volume also comprises Welsh and English quotations on feminism by famous personalities.

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Gall Merched wneud Popeth

There are all kinds of girls, and they are a source of wonder and surprise. Girls can do anything, and if you are a girl... have a go on all kinds of activities! A Welsh adaptation of Girls Can Do Anything! by Mari George.

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Hanes Menywod Cymru
Catrin Stevens

Women's history in their own words, this wonderful book explores rich and diverse experiences of the women of Wales and touches on events not usually shared in public. Based of real voices and full of photographs portraying the period from 1920 to 1960.

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Y Mae y Lle yn Iach
Elin Tomos

A volume that focuses on the health and care requirements of the inhabitants of the slate communities of Dyffryn Peris and surrounding areas in Snowdonia. When the industry was at its height, there were 14,000 miners in Gwynedd. The dangers at work, together with the infections and illnesses that arose from poverty and lack of health provision contributed to industrial unrest.

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A History of Britain in 21 Women
Jenni Murray

Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science. Empress Cixi transformed China. Frida Kahlo turned an unflinching eye on life and death. Anna Politkovskaya dared to speak truth to power, no matter the cost. Their names should be shouted from the rooftops.

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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls

Illustrated by sixty female artists from every corner of the globe, Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls introduces us to one hundred remarkable women and their extraordinary lives, from Ada Lovelace to Malala, Amelia Earhart to Michelle Obama. Empowering, moving and inspirational, these are true fairy tales for heroines who definitely don't need rescuing.

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Invisible Women
Caroline Criado Perez

Imagine a world where… * Your phone is too big for your hand * Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body * In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you're a woman. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media. Invisible Women reveals how in a world built for and by men we are systematically ignoring half of the population, often with disastrous consequences.

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Voices from the Factory Floor

Catrin Stevens explores the experiences of women in Wales' post-war manufacturing industry.

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Henriet y Suffrajet
Angharad Tomos

An exciting story that takes us to prison, where a girl on hunger strike is force-fed; into the midst of suffragette activities in London; and to a slate-qarrying village in north Wales where two young girls are touched by changes and new ideas...

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Welsh Women's Poetry 1460-2001

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Frida
Hayden Herrera

Frida is the story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary women, the painter Frida Kahlo. Born near Mexico City, she grew up during the turbulent days of the Mexican Revolution and, at eighteen, was the victim of an accident that left her crippled and unable to bear children. To salvage what she could from her unhappy situation, Kahlo had to learn to keep still - so she began to paint.

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Becoming
Michelle Obama

Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States

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Skin
It Takes Blood and Guts

Frida is the story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary women, the painter Frida Kahlo. Born near Mexico City, she grew up during the turbulent days of the Mexican Revolution and, at eighteen, was the victim of an accident that left her crippled and unable to bear children. To salvage what she could from her unhappy situation, Kahlo had to learn to keep still - so she began to paint.

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou

Now the basis of a major Radio 4 drama, Maya Angelou's debut memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (Barack Obama) Maya Angelou's debut memoir has become an classic beloved worldwide. Her six volumes of autobiography are a testament to the her talents and resilience.. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s.

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