Gender studies, gender groups Books

Anecdotes and Incidents of the Deaf and Dumb is a book written by W. R. Roe and originally published in 1886. The book is a collection of stories and personal experiences of individuals who are deaf and/or mute. Roe shares these anecdotes to provide...

""An Autobiography and Letters of the Author of The Listener, Christ Our Law, Etc."" is a book written by Caroline Fry and published in 1849. The book is a collection of personal letters and an autobiography of the author's life. Caroline Fry was a...

Almeria's Castle: Or My Early Life In India And In England is a memoir written by Henrietta Lushington and published in 1866. The book chronicles Lushington's experiences growing up in India during the early 19th century, as well as her later life in...

""Agrippina Die Mutter Nero's"" ist ein historisches Buch von Adolf Stahr, das 1867 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit dem Leben von Agrippina, der Mutter des r������mischen Kaisers Nero. Das Buch beschreibt ihre Herkunft, ihre Ehe...

Actions Speak Louder Than Words is a book written by Kate J. Neely in the year 1870. The book is a collection of short stories that illustrate the importance of actions over words. The stories are written in a simple and easy-to-understand language,...

""Adresse Aux Religieuses Ou Dialogue Entre Une Religieuse (1791)"" est un livre anonyme qui pr�����sente un dialogue entre une religieuse et une autre religieuse. Le livre aborde des th�����mes tels que la vie religieuse, la foi, la spiritualit����� et...

Yes, you can! Start yoga with this inspirational journey of a master. Includes Prana and Poses Program Guide!"If you are exhausted from all the chaos-some you may even be fueling unknowingly-Reach and Receive is a striking reminder that...

Amidst the pages of self-discovery, find the brushstrokes of your resilience, the colors of vulnerability, and the canvas of mindfulness. Uncover the artistry of your being in 'The BeUty Bible.Are you ready to actively engage in the art of...

CINDY AND ANGIE KNOW IT'S BETTER TO BE NOT TAKEN Continuing where the book AURORA ended, Cindy and her 16-year-old daughter Angie had been trafficked, taken to Russia an sold to an oil-rich sheik. Then kill him.They vow to stop traffickers... dead. ...

I did not go into business to be a business person.I first opened my coffee shop to be a community gathering place, somewhere my locals could call their own. For over a decade, my "one-horse-pony-show" entrepreneurial adventure has been full of highs and...

Do you love an addict or know someone who does? Has addiction drained your life or the life of someone you love? This book is for you. Sister Siren takes us on the journey of loving someone in active addiction with riveting stories of critical...

How does an impoverished and illiterate Irish Catholic immigrant rise from abject poverty and discrimination in mid-19th Century America to become America's boxing champion, a millionaire gambling entrepreneur, a twice-elected member of the United States...

Three months after his stroke and heart attack, Daddy was discharged from the hospital to come home with me. My house became a revolving door for nurses, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and caregiver candidates. I took a vacation from work...

Dancing with Crows is a tale of love, loss and redemption. As Laila navigates her way through college and a rollercoaster relationship with Adam, she finds there are some demons she must face. Following her heart, she travels to Cape Cod, where she finds...

The book talks about life experiences in the field of Information Technology.

The Blonde in the Back with the Pearls is the fascinating story of JoAnne Kennedy's career as an investment banker on Wall Street from the mid-1980s into the twenty-first century and how, while dealing with the boys' club cultures at all her firms, she...

"Maybe blessings are like a coin flip, and someone has to land face down."With the end of a life of parties and drinking came the end of all of Ashley's friendships and the life she had always known. All Ashley has is her little sister, who seems to have...

My continuing experiences of being a young girl in a male dominated environment, facing homelessness and finding solutions in funny circumstances.The friends gathered along the way, many becoming lifelong mates which is quite usual in the biking...

Women physicians along with their male counterparts came to Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs, Colorado, to practice their profession and aid the health seekers who were flocking to the area. This short reference book tells the story of the women...

The extraordinary story of an Englishwoman who became Indian; a person born and raised at the heart of Empire who went to jail because she believed in a free India; a Christian girl who became a world renowned Bhiksuni, a Buddhist nun.From the moment she...

Shafiq Fatima Shera has a prominent place in Urdu poetry. She is recognized as a unique poetess due to the depth of the themes. Shafiq Fatima Shera is fluent in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Marathi and English languages. Through her poetry collections,...

The study examined women's roles and gender gaps in land operation and farming, labor arrangements in agriculture and water management, and feminization of agriculture in the Lower Vaksh River Basin in Tajikistan.The study was part of the Strengthening...

Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob und inwiefern trans* Menschen in der Gesellschaft pathologisiert und fremdbestimmt werden. Davon ausgehend untersucht sie, welche Rückschlüsse sich daraus über deren Selbstbestimmung und Anerkennung im...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Note: 1,0, Fachhochschule Potsdam, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Als Begrifflichkeit wurde "gender" erstmals in der Medizin in der Forschung mit Intersexuellen in den...

The study was carried out to understand the clients' attitude and behaviour towards sex workers and the possible risk of HIV/AIDS/STIs. The study was conducted among the sex workers. The sex workers were interviewed in this study ranged age was between...

African-American women bear the brunt of HIV's assault on the United States. They are the fastest growing group of HIV-infected individuals in the US. While African-American women make up 13% of the female population of the United States, they comprise...

FGM continues to be a vexing problem. Attention is drawn to a Kenyan community, Abagusii, in examining why painful, terrifying practices per­sists. The book reveals peoples’core values, philosophy of life, and FGM links to everyday struggles. It provides...

The evolving messages about the masculine role are worth studying and examining in dramatic literature to see through popular documents just how the male role is portrayed. How has the male image changed in dramatic literature in the last half of the...

In this work, I promote a dialogue between Drama and Performance Studies concerning the performance of gender in everyday life and on the stage. While Judith Butler and others have argued that the performativity of gender must be examined outside of...

Selina Boyce and Holden Caulfield are the hero and the heroine of this thesis. The two adolescents come from different backgrounds, different families and even from different ethnicities. The things they have in common, though, are not less significant:...

The central thesis of this book is to utilize the notion of the heroic ideal and the immortality projects that humans pursue to fulfill that ideal. This analytical framework will shed light on how characters in select novels impose their will on and...

En el tomo se presentan la historia editorial, sus temas, motivos y loci critici; su contexto socio-literario, su recepción internacional y los proyectos digitales relacionados con Celestina.

Estudio sobre la obra de Francisco Zamora, autor de Guinea Ecuatorial que vivió su vida en el exilio. Zamora es un ejemplo perfecto de exilio, poscolonialidad, hibridez y denuncia de la explotación del continente africano y las consecuencias de la...

Durante la censura del régimen franquista en España (1939-1975), muchas autoras lograron transmitir sus reivindicaciones y sus frustraciones.

Composé selon trois axes fédérateurs : Littérature ; Arts scéniques et audiovisuels ; Éducation, et s'encadrant dans les memory studies, ce volume collectif donne à lire des analyses qui se penchent sur les enjeux actuels des oeuvres mémorielles dans...

En esta monografía nos proponemos revisitar la vida, la obra y el legado de Cervantes ahondando en cuestiones esenciales para abordar la rica producción de uno de los autores capitales de la literatura española y universal.

Basado en un corpus de más de seiscientos cincuenta poemas, este libro aborda el análisis del imaginario de la poesía erótica de los Siglos de Oro en función de los órganos y prácticas sexuales y del campo semántico al que pertenece cada palabra. El...

The analysis offered in this book is based on the unprecedented representation and dissemination of disaster in the relaciones de sucesos; it also attempts to demonstrate how this specific type of popular print provides relevant elements for probing the...

Der Band enthält Beiträge aus Deutschland, Belarus und Serbien zu politischen Protesten, insbesondere in Belarus 2020.

Das Buch ist das erste universitäre Werkstattseminar zu Theorie und Praxis des Dramenübersetzens. Das heutige deutsche Theaterwesen wird ebenso dargestellt wie die Besonderheiten der Theaterübersetzung. Die zahlreichen Beispiele von Corneille, Molière,...

The book focuses on the minority literature of the Chicanas. Topics such as the deconstruction of pre-established roles and patriarchal beliefs, female identity construction and the new mestiza consciousness which are intertwined with the transgression...

The book traces the reverberations of Ronald Reagan's ideology in selected Hollywood blockbuster movies. The analysis includes filmic content as well as production and distribution. It is concluded that political metaphors and an economic setting...

Die vorliegende Publikation untersucht die Darstellung von Homo- und Bisexualität in der Holocaustliteratur. Abhängig von der Rolle, die die Autorin gegenüber dem Holocaust einnimmt, fragt sie nach den literarischen Darstellungsstrategien, die dabei zur...

Multidisciplinary readings of social and political phenomena, novels, memoirs, letters and articles in the press, musical, theatrical adaptation and food, carried out within cultural and literary studies, including memory studies, discourse analysis...

Notre livre remet en question ce point de vue et explore Mai 68 comme un événement mondial. Alors que les étudiants de Paris se battaient pour plus de démocratie et plus de droits, le mouvement indépendantiste au Québec gagnait en importance et les...

Die ambivalente Spiegelsymbolik, ein integraler Bestandteil der feministischen Reflexion, taucht auch konstant in Prosatexten zeitgenössischer österreichischer Autorinnen auf. Einerseits versinnbildlicht der Spiegel ein mehrdimensionales Gefängnis für...

This Special Issue of Philosophies is devoted to dialogue between feminist care ethics and mainstream philosophical figures and concepts. As care ethics has evolved from its origins in the 1980s, it is clear that it does not always fit neatly within...

E. Marlitt was a bestselling author of the late nineteenth century whose romance novels dominated the German literary market between 1865 and 1888. Her novels appeared in thirty languages, with as many as five different English translations circulating...