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  • THE TRAITOR BESIDE HER
    MARY ANNA EVANS
    "Evans's characters are vividly drawn, elevating this story and its revelations about women's little-celebrated contributions to the war effort."— Washington Post "An exciting read with historical tidbits, a hint of danger, and a touch of romance."— Kirkus Reviews The Traitor Beside Her is an intricately plotted WWII espionage novel weaving together mystery, action, friendship,...

    $344.00

  • THE PHYSICISTS' DAUGHTER
    MARY ANNA EVANS
    Perfect for fans of The Alice Network and Kate Quinn, The Physicists' Daughter is "a fascinating and intelligent WWII home front story." —Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook. No one can be trusted. The fate of a country is at stake. And everything depends on the physicists' daughter. New Orleans, 1944. Sabotage. That's the word on factory work...

    $344.00

  • TRANSATLANTIC CONVERSATIONS
    MARY EVANS
    The second wave of feminism which challenged and changed many assumptions about the world in which we live was a product of various western cultures, with no single country possessing a monopoly on the writing of the texts that became the canonical statements of the 'new' feminism. Though many of the contributions to feminist scholarship that went on to become internationally s...

    $1,460.00

  • REFLECTING ON ANNA KARENINA
    MARY EVANS
    Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is considered by many to be one of the greatest novels ever written. This study of its morally ambiguous protagonist, Anna, discusses Tolstoy’s troubled relation to the feminine in terms of the fantasies, hopes, and fears that she represents. In Reflecting on Anna Karenina, first published in 1989, Mary Evans presents an original, feminist reading of Ann...

    $1,160.00

  • GENDER: THE KEY CONCEPTS
    MARY EVANS
    This invaluable volume provides an overview of 37 terms, theories and concepts frequently used in gender studies which those studying the subject can find difficult to grasp. Each entry provides a critical definition of the concept, examining the background to the idea, its usage and the major figures associated with the term. Taking a truly interdisciplinary and global view of...

    $700.00

  • ENGELS REVISITED (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    SAYERS, JANET / EVANS, MARY / REDCLIFT, NANNEKE
    This reissued work, first published in 1987, examines the problematic and divisive attitudes which bourgeois and socialist feminists take to the question of the links between patriarchy and capitalism and the importance of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination. Engels still occcupies a central role in this debate and feminists writing in the hundred years sin...

    $1,320.00

  • JANE AUSTEN AND THE STATE (RLE JANE AUSTEN)
    MARY EVANS
    Jane Austen is often associated with conservatism and her novels are often seen as light entertainment depicting a vanished world and its manners. Mary Evan's study, first published in 1987, seeks to contradict the conventional wisdom regarding Austen's social and political leanings and argues that far from endorsing established and conservative views Jane Austen advances a rad...

    $640.00

  • MISSING PERSONS
    MARY EVANS
    Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her personal circumstances. Missing Persons suggests that auto/biography is, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and about what it is possible to know about any one individual.Organised into chapters which consider particular ki...

    $1,380.00

  • THE BATTLE FOR BRITAIN
    MARY EVANS / DAVID MORGAN
    It is generally accepted that Britain was held together during the second world war by a spirit of national democratic `consensus'. But whose interests did the consensus serve? And how did it unravel in the years immediately after victory?This well observed and powerfully argued book overturns many of our assumptions about the national spirit of 1939-45. It shows that the curre...

    $1,320.00

  • PROPHETS OF THE LORD
    MARY J. EVANS
    The Old Testament prophets were people who looked at the world and heard God speaking. They looked at the creation and felt God's power. They looked at pain and poverty and felt God's compassion. They looked at oppression, corruption and idolatry and felt God's anger. They looked at faithful believers and felt God's encouragement. They looked to the future and envisaged God's a...

    $497.00

  • THE DARK LIBRARY
    MARY ANNA EVANS
    "Evans delivers an elaborate historical mystery...fans of gothic suspense will be delighted."—Publishers Weekly "A fascinating and intelligent WWII home front story." —Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling author for The Physicists' Daughter Can a family's dark history repeat itself? Estella Ecker has returned to Rockfall House, the last place on earth she wants to be. Years a...

    $202.00