The classic, groundbreaking account of women’s lives in Greece and Rome… the first general treatment of women in the ancient world to reflect the critical insights of modern feminism

Deeply fascinating ... from Pandora to the Lemnian women who slaughtered their husbands for saying they stank, from Solon's state-controlled brothels to the scabrous writing of Juvenal and the transvestite peculariaties of Spartan marriages ... attitudes and anomalies are explored which remain valid paradigms to this day

Particularly fascinating... [Parker] proves expert at treading a delicate line between scholarship and his relish for the fantastical.

This book is a treasury with treats galore. Lucid, comprehensive, it is a work of reference which deserves to become a classic.

Perfectly timed for the forthcoming British Museum exhibition.

Philip Parker has encapsulated the Viking story in this book.

[An] energetic and intelligent guide to the Viking world.

A detailed study that succeeds in conveying the impact of the Viking age... A fascinating read.

Engrossing

Charming and perceptive romp through the ration books... It is apparent that Nicol, whose words exude practical optimism, would have made a good Land Girl.

Illustrated throughout with jaunty, witty, government posters... Nicol wants our latter-day green movement to look back and learn a thing or two from forgotten habits of the past

Rich

This is a scholarly, readable and wonderfully eccentric homage to India as seen through foreign eyes

Spellbinding

Hitler's Furies is the first book to follow the biographical trajectories of individual women whose youthful exuberance, loyalty to the Führer, ambition, and racism took them to the deadliest sites in German-occupied Europe. Drawing on immensely rich source material, Wendy Lower integrates women perpetrators and accomplices into the social history of the Third Reich, and illuminates them indelibly as a part of post-war East and West German memory that has been, until this book, unmined

Stomach-churning

Compelling... Lower's careful research proves that the capacity for indifferent cruelty is not reserved for men – it exists in all of us

Lower’s impressive analysis is a painful but transfixing read