Rosalind Miles

Presents the history of the world from a feminine point of view, discussing women's roles in the history and development of the world.

The Women's History of the World

Who Cooked the Last Supper?

The internationally bestselling author of Who Cooked the Last Supper? presents a wickedly witty and very current history of the extraordinary female rebels, reactionaries, and trailblazers who left their mark on history from the French Revolution up to the present day. Now is the time for a new women's history--for the famous, infamous, and unsung women to get their due--from the Enlightenmen to the #MeToo movement. Recording the important milestones in the birth of the modern feminist movement and the rise of women into greater social, economic, and political power, Miles takes us through through a colorful pageant of astonishing women, from heads of state like Empress Cixi, Eugenia Charles, Indira Gandhi, Jacinda Ardern, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to political rainmakers Kate Sheppard, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Stout, Dorothy Height, Shirley Chisholm, Winnie Mandela, STEM powerhouses Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Rosalind Franklin, Sophia Kovalevskaya, Marie Curie, and Ada Lovelace, revolutionaries Olympe de Gouges, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Patyegarang, and writer/intellectuals Mary Wollstonecraft, Simon de Beauvoir, Elaine Morgan, and Germaine Greer. Women in the arts, women in sports, women in business, women in religion, women in politics--this is a one-stop roundup of the tremendous progress women have made in the modern era. A testimony to how women have persisted--and excelled--this is a smart and stylish popular history for all readers.

How Radicals, Rebels, and Everywomen Revolutionized the Last 200 Years

The Women's History of the Modern World

a novel

I, Elizabeth

In the first volume of a trilogy chronicling the lives of star-crossed Celtic lovers Tristan and Isolde, Isolde, a gifted healer and princess destined to inherit the Irish throne from her mother, falls in love with Tristan, nephew of the King of Cornwall, who is embroiled in a war with the Irish queen. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

The First of the Tristan and Isolde Novels

Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle

A feminist retelling of the Arthurian legend is seen through the eyes of its heroine, Queen Guenevere, who is courageous and beautiful even when she is forced to choose between her king and the noble knight Sir Lancelot.

Queen of the Summer Country : a Novel

Guenevere

من طبخت العشاء الأخير؟ تاريخ العالم كما ترويه النساء

The kingdom of Camelot is threatened by the dark machinations of King Arthur's devious half-sister, Morgan, and by the love affair between Guenevere and the young knight Lancelot, as Guenevere is forced to choose between her heart and her duty to her husb

Knight of the Sacred Lake

The critically acclaimed, best-selling author serves up her second novel in the popular Isolde trilogy, which began with Isolde, Queen of the Western Isle, that continues the story of Isolde, queen of Ireland, and her unhappy marriage to Cornwall's King Mark, uncle of her beloved Tristan. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

The Second of the Tristan and Isolde Novels

The Maid of the White Hands

In the third and final volume of the historical trilogy, Queen Isolde faces devastating new challenges--invading Picts from the north, a disintegrating marriage to King Mark of Cornwall, and scheming forces at court--all without her beloved champion, Tristan of Lyonesse, and turns to the mystical Lady of the Sea for guidance. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

The Third of the Tristan and Isolde Novels

The Lady of the Sea

Robin Cross

True Stories of Women at War from Antiquity to Iraq

Hell Hath No Fury

Constantly in print in 17 countries since 1988, except for the United States, this brilliant and absorbing pop-feminist classic celebrates the unsung work and lives of the historically forgotten gender. With a new introduction, vividly accessible writing, and piquantly funny prose, Who Cooked the Last Supper? informs without being didactic and conveys the weight of injustice without a hint of hostility or political agenda. Rosalind Miles has overturned centuries of preconceptions to restore women to their rightful place at the center of the worldwide story of revolution, civilization, war, and peace.

La storia dell’umanità è dominata dagli uomini perché sono loro ad averla scritta. Abbiamo letto le gesta di generali che hanno vinto battaglie, di re che hanno conquistato altre nazioni, vivendo con il mito dell’uomo cacciatore. Abbiamo avuto molti eroi, ma nessuna eroina. Chi ha cucinato l’ultima cena? capovolge secoli di preconcetti ristabilendo un ordine nella nostra cultura e raccontandoci una seconda volta la vera storia del mondo, dove riscopriamo il ruolo centrale della donna come artefice imprescindibile nell’evoluzione della civiltà, della tecnologia, della religione, della guerra e della pace. Scevro da ideologie e polemiche, con un linguaggio serrato e pieno di umorismo, l’autrice Rosalind Miles coinvolge il lettore in un viaggio nel tempo alla scoperta di fatti mai narrati, di episodi volutamente esagerati, di verità drammatiche o di miti fasulli che cambierà la nostra percezione del passato e la consapevolezza del nostro presente.

Storia femminile del mondo

Chi ha cucinato l'ultima cena?

The conclusion of the Guenevere trilogy begins with the epic quest in search of the Holy Grail and ends with the fall of Camelot and the death of Arthur.

The Child of the Holy Grail

A novel on Guenevere, wife of King Arthur, portraying her as the power behind the throne. The book chronicles their fiery relationship, their efforts at keeping Britain united and their respective extra-marital affairs, he with his half-sister, Morgan, she with Lancelot. By the author of I, Elizabeth.

Only daughter of Ireland's ruling queen, Isolde has always known that she will take over the rule of the sacred Island of the West when her time comes. Until then she practises her skills as a healer and struggles to hold back her mother, a passionate, headstrong woman under the sway of her champion, Sir Marhaus, who is determined to make war. Attacking Cornwall, Sir Marhaus wounds the king's nephew, Sir Tristan of Lyonesse, so badly that he can only be saved by Isolde, the most noted healer of the isles. And when the King of Cornwall decides to marry Isolde, unaware of the young couple's growing love, the stage is set for the mythic tale of star-crossed lovers that the world knows so well. Like Arthur's queen Guenevere, her friend from their girlhood days on Avalon, Isolde is fated to a lifelong struggle between duty and desire before finding peace. Tristan too relies on his dearest friend at the Round Table, Sir Lancelot of the Lake, as he strives to balance his loyalty to his king against the dictates of his heart. Set in Ireland, Cornwall and Camelot, ISOLDE offers a compelling new version of the familiar legend rich in Celtic magic and mythology, yet firmly grounded in the well-loved Arthurian world. Merlin, Arthur, Guenevere, and all their knights appear once again to delight those who enjoyed Rosalind Miles's previous forays into this enchanted terrain.

The Queen of the Western Isle : a Novel

Isolde

Return to Eden

Questioning the constituents of manhood, the book traces the stages of man's life in an analysis of the ordeals and rituals of the male. The author draws on history, literature, psychology and science as well as interviews with men to understand the roots of male aggression.

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