Peace, justice and activism

For a network held together by shared passion and aims, with no membership or organisational structure, Women in Black has reached surprisingly far and wide in just over thirty years.

From Homer to Jane Austen, storytellers have entertained their audiences with tales of women in disputes, as parties and peacemakers.

Between 1880 and 1920 many women researched the conditions of social and economic life in Western countries, driven by a vision of a society based on welfare and altruism. Ann Oakley, a leading sociologist, undertook extensive research to uncover

A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders.

During the last twenty years, Palestinian women have practiced creative and often informal everyday forms of political activism. Sophie Richter-Devroe reflects on their struggles to bring about social and political change.

An anthology of poetry on the dilemmas of war, by pupils from Macclesfield, Cheshire.

This book equips readers with an understanding of the history, culture and politics of warfare in order to interrogate and resist an increasingly violent world.

This book is not a history of York between 1914 and 1945 but an examination of the civilian population of the city at the beginning and end of the two word wars.

They are part of rebel factions, national armies, paramilitaries, and other armed groups and entrenched in some of the most violent conflicts around the globe.

Audre Lorde (1934-92) described herself as ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. This edition brings Lorde’s essential poetry, speeches and essays, including ‘The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House’, together in one volume.