By collecting individual stories instead of giving only figures and facts about self-defence the editors have achieved their aims: women are given the experience of survival.
Category: GWL Recommends
Captured hearts: New Brunswick’s war brides
This book is about those young women who married Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen and went to live with them in New Brunswick.
Under an Emerald Sky
Tells the story of two girls of Nigerian heritage born in the 1980s in England and their struggle towards self love and womanhood.
Poems by Wislawa Szymborska
Her poetry is about humankind and its sufferings, about how wonderful the universe is.
A Voice of Dissent: A Woman’s Journey Through the Long Eighteenth Century
Uses literature by and for women in the 18th and 19th centuries as evidence of how their lives really were.
Betrayed
A very bold account of a marriage from a 19th century woman writer.
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
If you thought Sylvia Plath was just poetry and The Bell Jar, think again and investigate this collection.
The Women’s Room
Essential reading for any woman, or man, with an interest in ridding the world of patriarchy
Whom Dykes Divide
A novel telling the history of women and children coal bearers and miners in Craigmillar and Newcraighall.
Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors
It seems strange to recommend a book about the history of madness as a ‘page-turner’ but Lisa Appignanesi’s exploration of this subject covering the last two centuries and relating it to women in particular was a very absorbing and accessible read.