Gender studies, gender groups Books

In this book, Cecilia Tossounian reconstructs different representations of modern femininity from 1920s and 1930s Argentina, a time in which the country saw new economic prosperity, a growing cosmopolitan population, and the emergence of consumer culture...

A great drama involving incredible courage took place during World War II in Morocco, but within all the momentous events happening during wartime, this story has been largely overlooked. The bravery shown by one Sephardic woman in wartime Casablanca has...

Mary Ann Parker was the first European woman to publish a travel memoir of New South Wales. After travelling with her husband, Captain John Parker of HMS Gorgon. Mary Ann Parker's family origins are revealed here for the first time.

There At The Dawning, the memories of Barbara J. Love, (other works include Sappho Was a Right-on Woman and Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975), gives one a front-row seat to the LGBTQ+ and Women's Liberation fights for civil rights, as well as an...

In the autumn of 2014, Marabai Rose is a healthy thirty-eight-year-old mother of two. Then an unknown illness ravages her body, sending her into respiratory failure and full paralysis. As Rose desperately searches for the cause of her disability, she is...

Have you ever had the worst day of your life and thought, well, at least, there’s tomorrow, and when I wake up, everything will be all right? What if you were stuck in that day for six years? When my husband was diagnosed with a disease that...

"An engaging and illuminative remembrance." - Kirkus ReviewsEchoes from Wuhan tells the dramatic, fast-paced story of a naïve and adventuresome young American woman and how she navigated-well and not so well--the complexities of cross-cultural confusions...

It's been four hundred years in the making, but the story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo and her daughters, the Religious of the Virgin Mary, is finally about to be told. These wonderful sisters' contributions have long been over- looked. Not only...

Abandoned by her mother, Angel was sent to a village in a developing country in West Africa with very unfavorable conditions to live. She had a difficult time growing up. While trying to process her mother's attitude, her country was plunged into a...

The College Diaries: How a Budding Black Feminist Found Her Voice explores the intersection of race, gender and culture. In her first novel, author DeAsia Paige highlights the college experience of a young Black woman trying to understand the world...

In Caitlin Jackson's second book of poetry, River, Run! she introduces readers to a world of feminity embedded in myth. As one becomes acquainted with her village and river of the title, they are drawn deep into a domain of women and rushing water. The...

A historical novel based on a true story about an amazing early twentieth-century woman. She stood out in a crowd of friends and relatives from Casteltermini, a small town in central Sicily. Her story sheds light on a little-known segment of a...

Feminist Alternatives: Irony and Fantasy in the Contemporary Novel by Womenby Nancy A. WalkerThis analytical survey of contemporary fiction is a study of more than twenty-five novels written by women during a twenty-year period of rapid socio-cultural...

Claiming the Heritage: African-American Women Novelists and Historyby Missy Dehn KubitschekNearly all black female novelists of twentieth-century America have found the essential substance of their art in one source-the history of black women in America...

The Mulatta and the Politics of Raceby Teresa C. ZackodnikFrom abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the...

A mother, father, and daughter got into their plane, heading for New York. Shortly after take-off, the father stroked. The mother came forward to help but then she stroked as well. The daughter, alone, had to land the plane so her parents could get help...

A personal and political manifesto vying for an antiracist socialist feminist movement of movementsThe world is burning, flooding, and politically exploding, to the point where it’s become clear that neoliberal feminism—the kind that aims to...

Socialist feminist theorizing is flourishing today. This collection is intended to shows its strengths and resources and convey a sense of it as an ongoing project. Not every contribution to that project bears the same theoretical label, but the writings...

The murder of a third of Europe's Jews by the Nazis is unquestionably the worst catastrophe in the history of contemporary Judaism and a formative event in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. Understandably, therefore, the Shoah, written...

The Gender Revolution and New Sexual Health: Celebrating Unlimited Diversity of the Human Sexuality Hypercube deconstructs the gender binary and introduces students to the mathematics of unlimited human sexual diversity. The book bridges academic...

Que día tan maravilloso para poder contar de lo que pasó en esos instántes o momentos que pasé todos los días por más de 2 años que viví allí, afuera, muy hermoso lleno de plantas, flores, pasto verdes, más un lindo sol aun cuando llovía era maravilloso...

This is a story about a woman’s exceptional courage, a mother’s unconditional love, and a matriarch’s uncompromising will to see her family survive against insurmountable odds. Widowed at a young age with seven children to rear, her...

Drive for Equal Access is the proceedings report of 2014 International Women’s Week National Symposium, held in Avinashilingam Deemed University for Women, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. The national symposium questioned and explored five critical...

The fighting female archetype--a self-reliant woman of great physical prowess--has become increasingly common in action films and on television. However, the progressive female identities of these narratives cannot always resist the persistent and...

Formed in 1951, the Federal Civil Defense Administration said that "the importance of women in civil defense can scarcely be overstated." Comprising 70 percent or more of civil defense workers at the height of the Cold War, American women served as...

"No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body." Almost a century after Margaret Sanger wrote these words, women's reproductive rights are still hotly debated in the press and among policymakers, while film, television and other...

In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro. The award focused international attention on a genre that had long been thriving in Canada, particularly since the 1960s...

So, the film or television lesbian character dies. It seems to happen frequently. But does it really? If so, is it something new? Surveying the fates of numerous characters over decades, this study shows that killing off the lesbian is not a new trend...

For much of the past century, public discourse about gender and politics has been driven largely by progressive women--those voices on the left that support policies widely considered to be pro-women. Little scholarly attention has been paid to the...

New York City native Mary Esther Lee (1837-1914) first married in 1864 the Prince von Noer, brother of the Queen of Denmark, and was created a princess in her own right after his death. An active philanthropist to Protestant causes, she then married...

Decades before the Salem Witch trials, 11 people were hanged as witches in the Connecticut River Valley. The advent of witch hunting in New England was directly influenced by the English Civil War and the witch trials in England led by Matthew...

Star of stage and screen, cultural ambassador, civil rights and political activist--Josephine Baker was defined by the various public roles that made her 50-year career an exemplar of postmodern identity. Her legacy continues to influence modern...

Since her first appearance in 1992, Harley Quinn--eccentric sidekick to the Joker--has captured the attention of readers like few new characters have in eight decades of Batman comics. Her bubbly yet malicious persona has earned her a loyal and...

From Vampira to Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, female horror movie hosts have long been a staple of late-night television. Broadcast on local stations and cable access channels, characters such as Moona Lisa, Stella, Crematia Mortem and Tarantula Ghoul...

From novels to films, our everyday lives are filled with stories that comfort and connect us and enable new ways of thinking. One of the most innovative writers in modern history, Virginia Woolf, changed the landscape of fiction and challenged our...

For three years during the 1920s, in an attic in Potsdam, a young woman crafted what is today the oldest surviving animated feature film. Equipped with scissors, cardboard, sheets of lead, glass panes and a camera, animation pioneer Lotte Reiniger...

Pioneer aviatrix Jessie "Chubbie" Miller made a significant contribution to aviation history. The first woman to fly from England to her native Australia (as co-pilot with her close friend Captain Bill Lancaster), she was also the first woman to fly...

Best known for her Newbery Medal-winning novel A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) had a long and successful writing career. Her books enjoyed popular acclaim and she was in constant demand to give speeches, write forewords and advise and...

"Donna Siegel has written an engaging account of remarkable people-our grandparents, parents, and their siblings. Our family's immigrant experience mirrors those of an entire generation. Recalled with poignancy and humor in these stories, they all seem...

Lure of the Trade Winds: Two Women Sailing the Pacific Ocean transports readers to a place where few have gone before: aboard a thirty-four-foot boat, cruising the Pacific Ocean. Join author Jeannine Talley, as she and her sailing partner, Joy Smith,...

She peered into the steaming crater of Mt. Aetna, slid "up" an icy mountain in Bavaria, and was marched to a shabby police station in Tunisia. She also had some important decisions to make while she spent her junior year abroad as an exchange student at...

Lupita Tovar is Hollywood royalty, a woman of beauty and charm, wit and intelligence, warmth and enthusiasm. In Lupita Tovar "The Sweetheart of Mexico" , author Pancho Kohner shares the fascinating accounts of her life, deftly capturing his mother's...