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Sacred Cows: Is Feminism Relevant to the New Millennium?

Sacred Cows: Is Feminism Relevant to the New Millennium?

Rosalind Coward

The women’s movement has transformed British society since the 1960s. In this contentious and controversial book leading feminist writer Ros Coward asks, is it now holding us back?
Female Desire

Female Desire

Rosalind Coward

Allerlei aspecten van vrouwenverlangens komen aan de orde.
Diana: The Portrait

Diana: The Portrait

Rosalind Coward

Supplemented by many never before published photographs, offers a personal look at the woman known for her humanitarian inspiration to the world.
Diana: The Portrait: Anniversary Edition

Diana: The Portrait: Anniversary Edition

Rosalind Coward

Supplemented by photographs, offers a personal look at the woman known for her humanitarian inspiration to the world.
Private Lives

Private Lives

Noël Coward

One of Coward's best-loved classics in a single-play edition Coward's wit and precision as a modern dramatist is nowhere better exemplified than in this classic modern plays from 1930.
The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson ...

The dramatic works of Shakspeare, from the text of Johnson ...

William Shakespeare

JSnier Rosalind, reading a paper* Ros. From the east to western Ind, No jewel is like Rosalind. Her worth, being mounted on the wind, Through all the world bears Rosalind* All the pictures, fairest lined *, Are but black to Rosalind. Let no face ...
Present Indicative: The First Autobiography of Noël Coward

Present Indicative: The First Autobiography of Noël Coward

Noël Coward

If these photographs can be found they will adorn this book." Thus begins the life story of one of the most celebrated characters in British theatrical history, in the first of Coward's autobiographies, first published in 1937.
Speaking Personally: The Rise of Subjective and Confessional ...

Speaking Personally: The Rise of Subjective and Confessional ...

Rosalind Coward

This book argues that the personal voice, which is often disparaged in journalism teaching, is and always has been a prevalent form of journalism.
Our Treacherous Hearts: Why Women Let Men Get Their Way

Our Treacherous Hearts: Why Women Let Men Get Their Way

Rosalind Coward

Our Treacherous Hearts formed the basis for a Channel Four documentary in the 'Female Parts' series.
Language and Materialism: Developments in Semiology and the ...

Language and Materialism: Developments in Semiology and the ...

Rosalind Coward

First published in 1977, this book presents a comprehensive and lucid guide through the labyrinths of semiology and structuralism — perhaps the most significant systems of study to have been developed in the twentieth century.
Female Desires: How They are Sought, Bought, and Packaged

Female Desires: How They are Sought, Bought, and Packaged

Rosalind Coward

Looks at how advertising takes advantage of female psychology and discusses the fitness boom, fashion, current beauty standards, family photographs, and the relationship between men and women.
The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His ...

The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His ...

Noel Coward

For fans and newcomers to Noel Coward's work, this compendium presents the very best in one entertaining volume.
Noel Coward: A Biography of Noel Coward

Noel Coward: A Biography of Noel Coward

Philip Hoare

7 Bright Young Thing Mr Noel Coward calls his brilliant little farce a 'comedy of youth' and so it is. The Times, 2 February 1923 THE opening night of The Young Idea at the Savoy Theatre on 1 February 1923 gave one of the first intimations that ...
The Complete Verse of Noel Coward

The Complete Verse of Noel Coward

Noël Coward

Three volumes of his verse were published in Coward's lifetime, but while The Complete Verse features all of the work from these three volumes it also presents previously unpublished material for the very first time.
Dramatic works from the text of Johnson and Stevens

Dramatic works from the text of Johnson and Stevens

William Shakespeare

Enter Rosalind, reading a paper. Rot . From the east to western 2nd, No jewel It like Rosalind. Her worth, being mounted en the wind, Through all the world bears Rosal'md, All the pictures, fairest lined ; Are but black to Rosalind. L,et no face ...
I Will Repay

I Will Repay

Emmuska Orczy

Coward! Coward!
Collected Short Stories

Collected Short Stories

Noel Coward

This one-volume edition contains the complete collection of Coward's twenty short stories, spanning fifty years of his working life.
Future Indefinite

Future Indefinite

Noël Coward

Future Indefinite sees Coward transformed from a 'brazen odious little prodigy' into one of the most exuberant characters in British theatrical history. "His writing is superb, his precise languid drawl put down on the page" Daily Express
Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Rosalind Rosenberg

In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements.
"A Voyage on the North Sea": Art in the Age of the ...

"A Voyage on the North Sea": Art in the Age of the ...

Rosalind E. Krauss

Here, Rosalind Krauss position s the work of Marcel Broodthaers within this alternative narrative.
Scandal, Salvation and Suffrage: The Amazing Women of the ...

Scandal, Salvation and Suffrage: The Amazing Women of the ...

Ros Black

Mrs Stevens saidshe wouldonly agree to be VicePresident to Rosalind's Presidency. She admittedto having written to Rosalind about the matter, with assurances that theWWCTU didn't wishher to work so hard. She had received noreply.
Some Southern Roper "Trees": A Book of Clues

Some Southern Roper "Trees": A Book of Clues

June Roper Walton

6-5 John Herbert Roper b. 6 Aug. 1878 Charleston, SC; d. 29 Aug. 1960 Spartanburg, SC; mar. 26 July 1905 Elinor Frances Coward b. 14 Oct. 1883 Aiken, SC; d. 9 Mar. 1965; dau. of James Lawford Coward and Sarah Margaret Rogers.
Postmodern Legal Feminism

Postmodern Legal Feminism

Mary Joe Frug

Dr. Rosalind Rosenberg is an historian from Barnard College and author of Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism (1982). 13. Offer of Proof Concerning the Testimony of Dr. Rosalind Rosenberg, EEOC v. Sears ...
The Optical Unconscious

The Optical Unconscious

Rosalind E. Krauss

Rosalind Krauss tells the story of the optical unconscious, an unruly, disruptive force that haunted modernism from the 1920s to the 1950s, and which continues to disrupt it today.
Cindy Sherman, 1975-1993

Cindy Sherman, 1975-1993

Rosalind E. Krauss

In this first presentation of the artist's complete work, leading contemporary art historian Rosalind Krauss reviews Cindy Sherman's remarkable series of photographic works - in which the artist has notoriously assumed various roles, from B ...
Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century

Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century

Rosalind Rosenberg

In this lively and informed exploration of women's lives in the larger context of U.S. social and political history, Rosalind Rosenberg shows how American traditions of federalism, racial and ethnic diversity, geographic mobility, and ...
Willem de Kooning Nonstop: Cherchez la femme

Willem de Kooning Nonstop: Cherchez la femme

Rosalind E. Krauss

In the image-rich Willem de Kooning Nonstop, Rosalind E. Krauss counters this view with a radical rethinking of de Kooning’s bold canvases and reveals his true artistic practices.
Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading ...

Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading ...

Rosalind Brown-Grant

Rosalind Brown-Grant locates the Cit in the context of Christine's defence of women as it developed over a number of years and through a range of different texts.

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