Gender studies, gender groups Books

Studies in Rhetorics and FeminismsEditors: Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson Logan A Rhetoric of Becoming: USAmerican Women in Qatar takes Western feminism abroad into the complexity of transnational spaces. Working at interdisciplinary intersections...

"Take Maddie home and make her comfortable for whatever time she has left." Maddie's parents were hearing these words from the doctor after their four-year-old daughter was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension, an incurable...

This autobiography depicts the author’s haunting memories, frustrations of ignorance (darkness) as a child, and the confusion that escorted introverted Rose Rutland into a season of promiscuity as a young woman and an unplanned pregnancy, then...

Women in early 18th century Spanish Colonial New Mexico had rights and privileges under Spanish law that were not enjoyed by other women in North America until the late 19th and early 20th century. Women were considered separate entities under the law...

         Derek is a girl. He wasn’t one of the boys as a kid. He admired, befriended, and socialized with the girls and always knew he was one of them, despite being male. That wasn’t always accepted or...

A book of happy times, disappointments, mental illness, addictions, sexual abuse, neglect and abuse-and even death! A mom sharing her youngest daughter's life of struggles in abusive situations and addictions. As a grandma witnessing her four little...

My Life Story by Becky Lynn Black isn't a celebrity autobiography. It's better.Becky's story is a testimony. We are promised we can overcome through the word of our testimonies (Rev. 12:11). A testimony doesn't just tell a story to...

Evil Paradise is based on the author's unique and moving life story. Jane Schwalger-Wyatt was born the illegitimate child of a wealthy plantation owner's nephew and a traditional village girl on the exotic Polynesian island of Samoa. Born between two...

Raised in the idyllic and close-knit northern California town of Moraga, Kristen Lewis Cunnane had it all at 12: a treasured family, close friends, a valued position on a variety of sports teams, and excellent grades. By any pre-teen’s standards,...

"A splendid sampler of the very latest and best of scholarship in the field of southern women's history."--Thomas Appleton, Eastern Kentucky UniversitySpanning the sweep of southern women's history from colonial times to the late 20th century, this...

Tracing Arachne's Web examines the use of myth in works by American women novelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, showing how both classical allusions and ethnic folk myth liberated these writers and enabled them to understand and experience

An innocent young girl, neglected and living in poverty in Guatemala, dreamed of one day living in America.Years passed and Esperanza's dream materialized when she married an American man and, though unable to speak English, moved to America as a new...

Women have had their place in history, but none have created as much of an impact as the classical Amazon warriors of Ancient Greece. An entire culture whose foundation was based on an all-female society, the Amazons were both industrious and intelligent...

Educated during the American Army occupation in Japan, the author begins with her childhood memories describing the postwar era of Japan -- how General Douglas MacArthur saved a doomed nation and reformed it to a democratic state. Being raised in a...

Amusing, inspiring and touching. 50 YEARS OF RESUMES AND PASSPORT STAMPS shares Elizabeth Lydia Palmer’s journey through life. Go to work with her as her career in data processing follows the development of computers–from mechanical...

In the unique work Six Eves Prevail through the Garden of Nutrition, six African-American nutrition professionals share their individual stories about becoming nutritionists and dietitians during the ‘60s and ‘70s. These professions have...

The Lady with the Lamp is a fantastic collection of insightful essays and extracts about pioneering nurse Florence Nightingale - the founder of modern nursing. In this volume, various authors detail her life and incredible nursing work, as well as her...

<p> <b> <i> “I am what I am today , not because of, but in spite of, the past.” </i> </b> </p><p> For author Stephanie Harrington, that statement encapsulates a life story that she shares with you in...

Women Unsilenced explores the impact of unthinkable violence committed against women and girls through multiple perspectives-women's recall of life-threatening ordeals of torture, human trafficking, and organized crime, society's failure to recognize and...

In Wo/men, Scripture, and Politics, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, brings to bear years of trailblazing scholarship of feminist thought and hermeneutics onto the current political and cultural landscape. In this book, she seeks to articulate and use...

Danièle Pitavy-Souques (1937-2019) was a European powerhouse of Welty studies. In this collection of essays, Pitavy-Souques pours new light on Welty's view of the world and her international literary import, challenging previous readings of Welty's...

Appearing first as a weekly serial in The Christian Herald, Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna was first published in book form in 1913. This popular story of an impoverished orphan girl who travels from America's western frontier to live with her...

Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. The intimacy of these collaborations or conversations between Bambara (1939-1995) and her interviewers...

<p>Natasha, an idealist from humble beginnings, has reached the third decade of her life: the twenties. Traveling through this time capsule revealed her idealistic perspective as well as the layers of her strengths and weaknesses. More than...

The Rotary Club of Duarte, California, was chartered in District 530 in 1952. But just before its twenty-fifth birthday in 1976, the Duarte club violated Rotary's bylaws by inviting women to join, ultimately causing its charter to be unceremoniously...

In the late 1700s in a village east of Trois-Rivieres, Lower Canada, young and high spirited Marie Anne Gaboury, born 1782, with no dowry, no marriage prospects, is despatched by her widowed mother to serve as assistant housekeeper in the priest's home. ...

In October 2017, actress Alyssa Milano sparked the #MeToo movement. The ensuing protests quickly encompassed far more than Harvey Weinstein and the entertainment industry. They expressed women's outrage at male workplace behavior in every sector and...

Rethinking Eros uses modern popular culture to examine sex, bodies, and gender in the ancient world in all their complexities.

As a mother, do you understand that every decision you make, your child may have to live with the rest of their lives? This book takes you on a journey into the life of a young girl dealing with domestic violence and child abuse. It gives you an...

The night of April 6, 1994, in Rwanda was like many others for Hadidja Nyiransekuye and her family. Yet the next morning when they awakened, turned on Radio Rwanda, and heard nothing but dead air, Hadidja’s husband had a premonition—something was wrong...

Women have made an enormous impact on life on the planet. They are deified and remembered in song, story, legend, and statues since at least 30,000 BC. We are, and have always been, brilliant inventors, innovators, and leaders for hundred and thousands...

Cherries Over Quicksand By Rhonda Ricardo Men and women share over seventy relatable action-packed stories about their roads-to-love with welcome humor and insight to help couples or searching singles further distinguish; what men and women want in a...

MASTECTOMY was written to husbands, family members, friends, associates, and medical professionals who care deeply about women living through and after the devastation of mastectomy. Seven young mothers openly disclose personal information about their...

The brilliantly funny bestselling guide to surviving motherhood

A Personal Awakening In the Last Century...Veteran art critic and performance artist Lisa Paul Streitfeld underwent a transformative awakening at her father's funeral in 1983.For the next twenty-five years, she traversed the globe--and her very soul--on...

Why is the memoir genre so important? What is it that drives us to tell our own stories? The ancient Greek myth of Goddess Memory, and her daughters, the Muses, offers new ways to re-enter the stories of our lives and shape them in surprising ways...

A self-professed and eager integrationist, author Kush Miri converted to Judaism and entered the synagogue's employ with high hopes and an open heart. Her experiences there left her without faith in God, physically and mentally scarred, and abandoned by...

This book is written as a reminder of days gone by and the hard times faced by not only the author but many others as well. Times were tough for whole neighborhoods. Lack of proper housing, food and clothing was the most prominent of the times. Referring...

When gathering the stories for EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEYS OF ORDINARY WOMEN, one thing was very clear, most of us are not celebrities that have a great number of people who know us, BUT each woman is unique and is of great value in God's eyes and each has...

The Colors of a Woman is a book of poetry that spans the course of a woman's lifetime. The book starts in middle childhood and ends at motherhood. The goal of the book is to uncover the emotions of a girl's transition into adulthood and to showcase the...