Gender studies, gender groups Books

There has been renewed interest in the history of second wave feminism, as it is forty years since the political upheavals of 1968 which prompted this new movement for women's liberation. A key feature of that move­ment was its challenge to liberal...

Gender Equality, the fifth UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 5), aims for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls. It thereby addresses all forms of violence, unpaid and unacknowledged care and domestic work, as well as...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

A small-town country girl, that's who I am. My husband and I achieved the American Dream...a family, multi-million dollar business, and a forty-eight hundred square foot home with pool on eight acres. It all came to an end after seventeen years, when I...

Renee Halsie is a born and bred New-Yorker. A child of divorce, she finds herself a young, biracial lesbian coming of age in the contemporary south; the daughter of a movie producer working 24/7 to launch her own studio. It's enough to give anyone...

This book tells the story of a little girl's journey from silence to empowerment. Feeling seen and (un) heard for most of her life, Patricia courageously shares how she was able to navigate a life of mental abandonment, abuse and trauma, and ultimately,...

HOW MANY OF US don't see the warning signs of narcissistic personality disorder before finding ourselves in the grip of a battle to save ourselves and those we love from disaster? Singer, actress, and voiceover talent Regina Rossi Valentine lived a...

How can men and women collaborate to bridge and heal the gender divide?As a female engineer with executive and global experience, Biswas’ insights are unique, practical and powerful. She asks: how gender biased are we and where did these values and...

Are you ready to become a woman who is self-assured and confident in your money decisions? Regardless of age, wealth level, or current financial knowledge, you will benefit from the process this book will provide.    It's time to...

THE POWER OF SEX is an entertaining and often startling book that clearly explains why sex, genders, and sexualities—once so relatively simple—are now more complicated and problematic than ever. We may still be male or female but we are also...

Tracing women's experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester, before legal viability, shows how such events are positioned as less 'real' or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive...

All the friends who know Jennifer are fond of her. They all have such a nice, sweet camaraderie amongst them. Jennifer is a well-loved and pampered Granddaughter.On Jennifer's birthday she receives a gift, a ring from her beloved Grandmother. This ring...

How did nineteenth-century French women imagine and represent their relationships in fiction? Situated at the intersection of feminist cultural history and Belle Epoque literary studies, this book explores fictional representations of female...

Michelle is a renowned business and performance mentor, specialising in guiding women from conception to realisation of their business ideas through her pioneering business incubation process. She exudes a vibrant energy dedicated to empowering women...

They say love conquers all, but can it conquer time?Emmeline, a driven young woman, has withdrawn from friends and family since her adored father died suddenly. Traveling by train to visit her sister in a small Colorado town, she steps from 2022 into...

"Mom, I'm trans." When Karen Lander's thirteen-year-old daughter announced she was transgender and explained that she was really a boy and then firmly insisted that she now be referred to as he, Karen felt like she'd fallen down into a bottomless hole...

You can't change the past, but you can learn from it if you are willing to open your eyes to the deeper meaning of each story you're holding onto. Andi Franklin was eight years into her happily ever after when her husband literally shook her world...

Forced to stay home during the world pandemic in 2020, Delores Wardell turned from writing novels to using the time to reflect on the people she'd met and incidents stemming from her work as a clinical psychologist as well as her world travels. She...

Can There Be Freedom After Trauma?In Finding Feminism, Rachel Overvoll tells a story about what it’s like growing up in fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity. She shows how her well-meaning parents and her indoctrination within a rigidly...

Golden-haired Irma grew up in Imperial Austria believing that wars and prejudice were fading-only to have her life upended and her identity challenged to the core by two world wars.History confronts Irma time and again. Arch-Nazi Adolf Eichmann plays a...

ଜାତୀୟତାବାଦ ଏକ ସର୍ବକାଳୀନ ସର୍ବାଧୁନିକ ଚେତନା । ଏହ ଏକ ସମ୍ମିଳିତ ଶକ୍ତିର ଅଭିବ୍ୟକ୍ତି ମଧ୍ୟ । ଭାରତବର୍ଷ ଗୋଟିଏ ଦେଶ ନୁହେଁ, ଏକ ଉପମହାଦେଶ । ବିବିଧ ପ୍ରକାର ଜନଗୋଷ୍ଠୀ, ଚଳଣି, ନୃତ୍ୟ ସଂଗୀତ, ବେଶପୋଷାକ, କୃଷି ଓ ଭାଷା ଆମ ଦେଶକୁ ଆବାହମାନ କାଳରୁ ବୈଚିତ୍ର‌୍ୟମୟ କରି ରଖିଛି । ଏ ଦେଶର ଭୂମିରେ ସୁନା...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, the book that arguably stands as the stepping stone for allother feminists' work. As a work of post-WWII, The Second Sex stirred up...

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre, a story of a young woman who challenged social norms. As a classic novel written in the Victorian era, Jane Eyre is thought to be one of the...

How many times have you heard the advice, "Don't cry. You don't want to seem weak."? Have you ever considered that rather than being a sign of weakness, crying may actually be considered a sign of strength? This is one of the key messages that Heidi...

In the 116 year history of the Nobel Prize in Physics, only two women have won the award; Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Mayer (1963). During the 60 years between those awards, several women did work of similar calibre. This book focuses on those women,...

Sticks and bones, and dislocated homes.And parasites, and insights,And just let me make it to the mic.And you will see,There is a real mystery,To life, to love, to longevity.The poem above was written during recess, at a chartered school where I was...

Known as the Queen of the Rumrunners on the East Coast, Nellie Green led a captivating life full of bootlegging adventures. Nellie fearlessly stood up to all those who tried to stand in her way, receiving respect and financial support from many...

Gender, Violence, and Justice is a volume of collected essays by an expert in the field of violence against women and pastoral theology. It represents over three decades of research, advocacy, and pastoral theological reflection on the subject of sexual...

Most children growing up cannot say their fathers were jockeys who rode race horses for a living. With that profession comes excitement, privilege, community status, and a vast array of Hall of Fame athletes and a host of trainers, agents, stable workers...

When Suzi at the age of 53 quit her job, rented out her house and set out in a campervan to find true happiness, love and life fulfilment she knew she was in for the journey of her life.After separating from her husband, Suzi's self-worth and love of...

ACQUIESCE to LOVE PEACE GRATITUDE, introduces Susana, who lost everything within a short period of time. Her life turned upside down by what appeared to be the circumstances she lived at that moment. The story demonstrates the immense role of the...

Martha Gellhorn died in February 1998, just shy of her 90th birthday. Well before her death, she had become a legend. She reported on wars from Spain in the 1930s to Panama in the 1980s, and her travel books are considered classics. Her marriage to...

In The Made-Up State, Benjamin Hegarty contends that warias, who compose one of Indonesia's trans feminine populations, have cultivated a distinctive way of captivating the affective, material, and spatial experiences of belonging to a modern public...

It's a Love Story! A Day with My Father is a true story about a little girl who grew up estranged from her father. Later at the age of fifty, her father elected to come back into her life which caused her to make a huge decision whether to accept or...

RecomendaciónEl poder del amor de Dios es un libro muy cautivante que está lleno del poder de Dios. Si disfrutas leer libros de no ficción, con testimonios y experiencias de la vida real, este libro es definitivamente para ti. En todos los años que he...

In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of South Carolina to aid him in his efforts to organize humanitarian aid for thousands of newly...

The icon of the female protester and her alter-ego, the female superhero, fills screens in the news, in theaters, and in digital spaces. The female protester who is Muslim, though, has been subject to a legacy of discrimination. Superheroes in the...

Over twenty years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children's Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyze how literature for the young still provides one outlet in which feminists...

Abortion in Mexico: A History concisely examines the long history of abortion from the early postcontact period through the present day in Mexico by studying the law, criminal and ecclesiastical trials, medical texts, newspapers, and other popular...

Within the pages of traditional history books that stand proudly on library shelves lies the accomplishments of many men who have helped to change the world with their talents. Unfortunately what is missing from the pages of those same books is the...

This book is dedicated to people who have been called different and believe they are different from everyone else. You will be able to understand some of the ways the spirit of God can operate in our lives. God's presence is with his children all the...

This is an autobiographical and a historical nonfiction piece of literature written by a twenty-eight year retired reading teacher who endured many trials and tribulations known today as "bullying" only because she wanted to attend the high school that...

Praise for Sheila Brown"We're fortunate to have a great community partner in Sheila Brown, who continues to turn ideas into action to create positive change in Buffalo."The Honorale MayorByron W. BrownCity of Buffalo, NY"Sheila Brown is a trailblazer in...