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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 16 books in this booklist
£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398505636 | ISBN 10: 1398505633
In this groundbreaking book, beauty influencer and podcaster Anchal Seda openly and honestly explores the shared experiences of "the brown girls" from Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi women living in the Western world. What Would the Aunties Sa ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800181021 | ISBN 10: 1800181027
100 Voices is an anthology of writing by women across the country on what achievement means for them, and how they have come to find their own voice. Â Featuring poetry, fiction and memoir, the pieces range from notes on making lemon curd, to tale ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781911590309 | ISBN 10: 1911590308
What does it mean to lose your roots within your culture, within your family? And what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a shel ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781784884390 | ISBN 10: 1784884391
Part memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential reading for a new generation of South Asian women. With chapters covering sexual and cultural identity, body hair, colourism and mental health, and a particular focus on the suffocating b ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838853211 | ISBN 10: 1838853219
In a world where women have more choices than ever, society nevertheless continues to exert the stigma and pressures of less enlightened times when it comes to having children. We define women by whether they embrace or reject motherhood; whether the ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781611808247 | ISBN 10: 1611808243
Weaving together interviews, first-person essays, and artist profiles, This Long Thread explores the work and contributions of women of color across the fiber arts and crafts community. These conversations explore materials, belonging, identity, cult ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912565146 | ISBN 10: 1912565145
A FLY Girl’s Guide to University is a collection of memoirs, essays, poetry and prose from four women of colour who studied at the University of Cambridge. It is a multifaceted calling out of the wrongness underpinning their shared experience at Ca ... more
View book details£13.95 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781988832012 | ISBN 10: 1988832012
First published in 1978, and winning the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for that year, Finding a Voice established a new discourse on South Asian women’s lives and struggles in Britain. Through discussions, interviews and intimate one-to-one con ... more
View book details£12.00 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910448946 | ISBN 10: 191044894x
Grunwick was the strike that changed the rules of the game. It changed the way the unions thought about race, about their own core values, and about the best way to organise among the new immigrant communities coming to Britain in the 1970s. ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099522270 | ISBN 10: 0099522276
For Zaiba Malik, growing up in Bradford in the '70s and '80s certainly has its moments - staying up all night during Ramadan with her father; watching mad Mr Aziz searching for his goat during Eid; dancing along to Top of the Pops (so long as no-one' ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781846270840 | ISBN 10: 1846270847
This is a warm, personal memoir from one of Britain's most high-profile and vocal immigrants - a mouth-watering exploration of the author's East African Indian roots through the shared experience of cooking. Through the personal story of Yasmin's ... more
View book details£22.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780745318479 | ISBN 10: 0745318479
This book testifies to a multiplicity of struggles, individual and collective, through which South Asian women, across divisions of class, community, age and religion, are seeking to take control of their lives. It looks at the role of the British s ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099501527 | ISBN 10: 009950152x
In June 2003 Xinran began writing about China for her weekly column in the Guardian. She has covered a vast range of topics from food to sex education, and from the experiences of British mothers who have adopted Chinese daughters, to whether Chinese ... more
View book details£20.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781858563534 | ISBN 10: 1858563534
This is a scholarly and fascinating ethnographic study by a Sikh woman who came to England after growing up and going to university in Delhi. It illustrates the changes in the values of Sikh women in England over the years and between the migrants an ... more
View book details£5.00 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780853748090 | ISBN 10: 0853748098
Why is there such diversity in the employment profiles of British South Asian women? Numerous studies, including the Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, have shown considerable diversity in the employment profiles of British South Asian wome ... more
View book details£10.95 paperback (1997) - ISBN 13: 9781870518567 | ISBN 10: 187051856x
Many Asian women are now making their mark in such diverse fields as Politics, Business, Media and the Arts and Academia. This book profiles these very special women, ranging from shop floor trade union activists to successful business women, co ... more
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