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1.		Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo from Juno Publishing Price: £11.87 Customer Review: I bought this book having read the other good reviews on Amazon and I have found it very useful. I am currently writing a creative piece concerning women and tattoos and this book is intelligent, thought-provoking and surprising. It is full of personal stories from women that I have found invaluable... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England (Yale Nota Bene) from Yale University Press Price: £6.39 Customer Review: Many books can be found outlining Georgian political history and more than one biography has been written on Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, but the everyday lives of genteel women have had less attention. In this book, Vickery uses surviving letters, diaries, accounts and pocketbooks of a... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Burlesque and the New Bump-n-grind from Intrigue Press Price: £11.19 Customer Review: this book is like a box of expensive chocolates, each page is a delight. i was totally over the moon with this book, as an owner of many many books on the suject i wondered if i needed another one but this is a really beautiful, delightful read, a great exploration of nouveaux burlesque. Its also... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-45 from John Wiley & Sons Price: £8.39 Customer Review: 'Sisters in the Resistance...' is by all accounts a wonderful historical documentation. Although, as the previous reviewer commented, the author's conclusions are lacking, the depth and number of different historical accounts makes up for this. Unlike many dry historical tomes, Weitz's work offers a... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World from Three Rivers Press (CA) Price: £14.95 Customer Review: ...or at least they didn't teach me this when I was at school way back. I suspect that they still don't. A fascinating account of how women were written out of history, politics, religion - just about everything... Funny, too.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Celia, a Slave: A True Story from Avon Books Customer Review: I Bought this book after seeking to know more about African history, enslavement and the effects it had on society, and it is a very sad but also inspiring story about a women who didn't have rights, was expected to please her master at any time he comanded, and inspiring because... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: £6.99	Click here for more information

8.		A Midwife's Tale: the Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 from Vintage Books Price: £15.95 Customer Review: This is one of the best history books ever written: I first read it about ten years ago when I lived in the States and I've lost count of the times I've dipped back into it since. It's both a wonderful work of scholarship (Ulrich can tell us exactly who's who in Martha's world) and an engaging,... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		The British Women's Suffrage Campaign: 1866-1928 (Seminar Studies In History) from Longman Price: £13.29 Customer Review: The book provides an study of the Women's Suffrage Campaign, which is useful for studying the above topic. However, even though the information provide is useful it is sometimes hard to follow as the order of the book is not chronological but instead by topic. As an historical reference it is good... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		When God Was a Woman (Harvest/HBJ Book) from Harcourt Publishers Ltd Price: £6.75 Customer Review: I bought one for my self, and promptly ordered one for my daughter. All women should read it as a boost against the Male God presiding over us all in both Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the exclusion of any Goddess Female influence what so ever. This is not a work of great... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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