Gender studies, gender groups Books

This book examines the themes and narrative features in Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love. It deals with unresolved questions regarding asymmetrical intercultural relationships and the historical reasons for the present cultural conflicts. It also looks at...

In the early modern period, there have been a vigorous debate in the public arena on the nature of women and their place in society. For instance, most women had been excluded from inheritance. The author of this work is shedding light on how the notion...

Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) was undoubtedly the most controversial literary figure of his generation. Whilst his genius was recognised by fellow writers, the reading public was slow to accept his work, and his theatre taxed directors and audiences...

Der von Edward Said angeregte Orientalismus-Diskurs über den westlichen Blick auf den Orient weist auf die überwiegend durch Stereotype und Vorurteile geprägte Betrachtungsweise des Okzidents hin. Dabei geht Said stillschweigend von einem männlichen...

Im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch sind Stereotype vereinfachte, schablonenhafte Vorstellungen von Menschen, die weniger auf der eigenen Erfahrung gründen. Sie transportieren eher ein mit Wertungen durchsetztes, geronnenes Erfahrungswissen innerhalb der...

Este ensayo reflexiona sobre si las adaptaciones de obras literarias contemporáneas del mundo hispánico a formatos audiovisuales en el presente siglo reactualizan algunos roles de la mujer en la sociedad actual e integran puntos de vista que refuerzan la...

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...

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...

Readers fall in love with 15 year old Gladys in 1950 when she falls for a young man from the wrong side of the tracks, they follow her as she escapes one violent alcoholic marriage only to be murdered by her second husband.Then in 1971 they meet her 17...

Maternal Thinking: Gifts, Mothers' Bodies, and Earth, the fourth book of proceedings of conferences held by the Association of the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM), is an instructional guide to saving ourselves and our planet. Many pre-historic, and...

On a frigid November night at high tide, a young woman unties the dock lines and watches the land recede as the sailboat she's standing on floats out to sea. She has a jacket, a scarf, and a deep need to reinvent herself. Living Tidal is part adventure,...

ROOM 1010 is an uplifting, true story of how one little girl's faith inspired people from across the world to come together to pray for her and for a miracle.Elynn had just turned ten and received a brand-new bike for her birthday when tragedy...

This book consists of two stories mainly of two young women who were made victims of circumstances. We will be able to realize that with stronger faith we will be able to make it through.Any similar storylines are by total coincidence and are written by...

Women Empowered, Enlightened and TransformedStep back in time to the revolutionary 1970s with Desert Haven, a compelling exploration of a hidden facet of history. Born at the crossroads of feminism, sexual liberation, lesbian separatism, and a...

A Narcissist Lies to Control Us; We Lie to Ourselves to Be Controlled  The love lies began at the age of six. When her mother died, Carin told herself she was the reason she lost her mother's love. As an adult, she based relationships with...

If marriage is a pot of soup, it seemed we were stirring a lot into it ... or ladling out the bitter herbs. So when we traveled, it was like turning off the burner, putting a lid on it, and leaving the flavors to blend.Actress and artist Leigh Davis...

CREATE A HAPPIER, HEALTHIER, MORE BEAUTIFUL LIFE. Do you ever feel like life is happening around you? Like you're going through the motions, but don't really feel alive? Maybe you're looking around at the material things you've accumulated, the worldly...

From space opera to weird fiction to indie games and NaNoWriMo, this collection represents the best in nonfiction dedicated to geekery. Founded by Holly Lyn Walrath, Interstellar Flight Magazine is an online SFF and pop culture mag devoted to essays...

Susie Edwards – a prolific writer of personal notes – demonstrated to literally hundreds of people how to live and die at the hands of ovarian, colon, and liver cancer. Her profound gratitude and abiding sense of peace were evident in the...

YOUR LIFE AS A WONDER WOMAN STARTS HEREIn this incredibly illuminating how-to book, Alison Wheeler, the award-winning performance athlete and distinguished entrepreneur, reveals how you can become a modern-day wonder woman. Your wonder woman is bold,...

Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media explores familiar constructions of femininity to assess ways in which it circulates in discourse, both stereotypically and otherwise. It assesses the meanings of such discourses and their...

Portrait of a Young Girl Falling is unapologetic in its feminist exploration of desire, consent, identity, and gendered experience. Katrina Moinet's poems tug at violences and tensions present in language, the way it constructs, shapes, limits, or opens...

Believing whole-heartedly that ordinary women of the past were far more than just wives and mothers, author Lucy Whitfield has set out to discover and profile a collection of interesting women from across North Wiltshire. Digging much deeper than the...

When there is no freedom and happiness, there is no life.There are people who suffered abuse, insult, isolation and humiliation, and they never experienced happiness and freedom from their childhood, into adulthood, and in some cases until they become...

When a troubled teenage sex worker replies to a casual job ad, little does she know she will soon find herself pulled further into the world of the adult sex industry. With no experience or understanding of adult sex chat, will the vulnerable teen prove...

Alma Moodie's letters trace her experiences as a violinist on tour against the backdrop of the instability of the Weimar Republic, the Great Depression, the Third Reich, and the perils of war. Available for the first time in English translation, the...

Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of maternal health inequalities and interventions in the southeast state of Chiapas. Using a transitional...

Status and gender are two closely associated concepts within medieval society, which tended to view both notions as binary: elite or low status, married or single, holy or cursed, male or female, or as complementary and cohesive as multiple parts of a...

Elsie Angelos was the Chief Editor of Malibu Publishing, but she did not belong just to this world. She is the first agent to encompass all three kinds in the supernatural and mortal realms. She is the Moon Angel and the only one who can create peace...

Irish Lesbian Writing Across Time is an attestation of a historical presence of lesbians in Irish literature, as it analyses the progression of Irish lesbian narrative over the past two centuries, whilst verifying key characteristics of time periods that...

Immigrants, migrants, displaced and diasporic persons: all have been constrained or enabled by borders of some sort.This bookexplores international cases of how and why such boundaries come to be, how they affect individuals and nation-states, and what...

The last two decades have been transformational, often discordant ones for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement's strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. Mad Mädchen offers an incisive...

There can be no doubt that discrimination based on sex, race, ethnicity, religion or beliefs should not be tolerated in academia. Surprisingly, however, in recent years, policies of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE), officially introduced to...

"A touching and thoughtful meditation on war and personal tragedy." -Kirkus ReviewsZ.O.S. is a memoir about sex, blood, money, and the CIA in Southeast Asia. Kay Merkel Boruff tells the story from her perspective of wife and widow of an Air America pilot...

Teresa Bravo-Cortines looks back at her harrowing life in her inspiring true story Bravo: A Memoir. She stands as a testament that when things look their bleakest, it is possible to overcome the odds.In her own words:My book talks about my father being...

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Gold in the Furnace is an ardent National Socialist's vivid account of life in occupied Germany in the aftermath of World War II, based on extensive travels and interviews conducted in 1948 and 1949. Savitri Devi is scathing in her description of Allied...

Life is one small unexpected journey at a time moving us towards a destiny we could never imagine. The Evolution of Intimacy : A Personal Story is one such journey, The book is an account of taking a leap of faith, with a chance online meeting on a...

The field of interdisciplinary study which is focused on gender identity and gendered representation is known as gender studies. There are several fields which are a part of gender studies such as women's studies, men's studies and queer studies. These...

Continuing to challenge American colleges and universities is the underrepresentation of women faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, particularly Latinas and other underrepresented women of color. Advancing Women in...

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Continuing to challenge American colleges and universities is the underrepresentation of women faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, particularly Latinas and other underrepresented women of color. Advancing Women in...