In 1961, Wally Funk was among the Mercury 13, the first group of American pilots to pass the ‘Woman in Space’ programme. Wally sailed through a series of rigorous physical and mental tests, with one of her scores […]
The Westbourne Press
Launched in 2012, The Westbourne Press publishes challenging and thought-provoking non-fiction in a wide spectrum of genres: history, current affairs, sexual politics, memoir, popular science, art, photography and humour. Forthcoming titles include Eric Berkowitz’s Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire, Joumana Haddad’s Superman is an Arab: On God, Marriage, Macho Men and Other Disastrous Inventions and Joan Smith’s The Public Woman.
Zealot
Reza Aslan
Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history’s most influential and enigmatic figures by examining Jesus within the context of the times in which he lived: the age of zealotry, an era […]
Asian Britain
Susheila Nasta
with Florian Stadtler
South Asians have lived in Britain for centuries. From the first trade conducted between the two nations along the Silk Route to the adoption of Chicken Tikka Masala as a national dish, the ongoing mutual exchange of cultures […]
Meet Me in Gaza
Louisa B. Waugh
Do Gazans ever have fun? Is the Strip beautiful? And do TV reports actually reflect ordinary life inside the world’s largest ‘open-air prison’? From beautiful beaches to sealed borders, from a secret New Year’s Eve party to a […]
The Public Woman
Joan Smith
Women have never had more freedom yet questions of inequality persist from the bedroom to the workplace. A quarter of a century after the publication of her seminal text Misogynies, Joan Smith looks at what women have achieved […]
Misogynies
Joan Smith
Misogynies is one of the most celebrated feminist texts by a British author. First published in 1989, it created shock waves with its analyses of history, literature and popular culture. Joan Smith drew on her own experience as […]