Gender studies, gender groups Books

Presenting the voices of a unique group within contemporary Japanese society-Zainichi women-this book provides a fresh insight into their experiences of oppression and marginalization that over time have led to liberation and empowerment. Often viewed as...

First published in 1994, Locating Gender combines a case-study approach with significant theoretical development to challenge explanations of occupational segregation. It examines the diversity of women's employment experience, gender segregation within...

Introduction: Transformational Multiculturalism - Definitions, Alterations, Interventions 'We are related to all that lives': Forging 'New' Stories for Social Change Making Commonalities: Relational Patterns of Reading and Teaching Giving Voice to...

Forget the data, forget the hustle, forget the astrological charts and "woo-woo" rituals. Creating your best life takes work and it takes belief. Filled with actionable steps to make change today, these ten simplified lessons will unleash your happiness...

When I was thirteen years old, I found out that I was slowly going blind.In 1999, I was diagnosed with a degenerative, genetic eye condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa. This condition will leave me mostly, if not completely, blind. As a teenager who...

In April 2014, after a 911 call by Jessie, the 29 year-old married mother of an 18-month-old daughter is sent to an isolation room of the Psychiatric Unit of Richmond Hospital. She is engaging in the paranoia delusion that her husband is a murderer, and...

Kim Thúy is a literary phenomenon, rising in her first decade of writing to a level of international recognition that few Québécois writers ever attain. The Vietnamese-born author's novels have garnered literary prize recognition and have been translated...

To this day, women globally are subjected to forms of control over their bodies, and their ability to exercise their reproductive rights in particular is still constrained. Amid a rise of challenges to the advancement of women's rights, including the...

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, gender scholars and activists have asked whether a reconcilliation between Zionism and feminism is possible in the current political landscape. Fictions of Gender explores the contemporary controversies surrounding...

In the decades following the Second World War, women from all walks of life became increasingly frustrated by the world around them. Drawing on long-standing political traditions, these women bound together to revolutionize social norms and contest...

Florence Nightingale is known as a hospital reformer, a social reformer, and the founder of professional nursing; few realize that she worked closely with doctors on these issues. As Nightingale's first supporters and colleagues, doctors contributed to...

By the late nineteenth century, Canadian women had begun forging careers as professional actresses, appearing not just in Canada, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. They played an integral role in theatrical networks and...

If feminism has always been characterized by its divisions, it is metafeminism, a term coined by Lori Saint-Martin, that defines and embraces that disorder. As a carefully devised reading practice, metafeminism understands contemporary feminist...

We live in a moment of renewed and highly visible action on the issue of sexual violence. Rape culture is a real and salient force that dominates campus climates and student experiences. Canada has drafted a national framework, provincial legislation,...

In The Politics of the Pill, Rachel VanSickle-Ward and Kevin Wallsten tell the story of contemporary birth control policy and the role that women played in it. First, they chart the twists and turns of a fascinating, controversial and consequential...

Organizations today are facing unprecedented challenges, including an ageing workforce, potential talent shortages, an increasingly competitive international environment and the need to utilise the talents of the best qualified people, regardless of...

Have you ever travelled down a road that has been little explored? Have you been driven to tears by feelings of isolation, by the feeling that you are somehow different? Do you hunger for truth? You are not alone.It is no coincidence that you've found...

Sofia Kovalevskaya was a brilliant and determined young Russian woman of the 19th century who wanted to become a mathematician and who succeeded, in often difficult circumstances, in becoming arguably the first woman to have a professional university...

""An Examination Of The Witnesses, And Their Evidence, Given Before A Royal Commission Upon The Administration And Operation Of The Contagious Acts, 1871"" is a book written by Francis Close and published in 1872. The book is a detailed analysis of the...

An English Girl In Paris is a novel written by Constance Elizabeth Maud in 1902. The story revolves around the life of a young English girl named Cicely who travels to Paris to live with her aunt and uncle. Cicely is a naive and innocent girl who is...

""An Englishwoman In The Philippines"" is a travelogue written by Mrs. Campbell Dauncey, who visited the Philippines in the early 1900s. The book provides a detailed account of her experiences and observations during her stay in the country, including...

""An Entire And Complete History, Political And Personal, Of The Boroughs Of Great Britain V2: Together With The Cinque Ports"" is a historical book written by Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield in 1792. The book provides a detailed account of the political...

""An English Girl in Japan"" is a memoir written by Ella M. Hart Bennett about her travels and experiences in Japan during the early 20th century. Bennett was a young English woman who traveled to Japan in the early 1900s to teach English to Japanese...

A Self-Made Man is a novel written by Margaret Greenway McClelland and published in 1887. The story follows the life of a young man named John Graham, who is determined to make his own way in the world despite coming from humble beginnings. Graham faces...

A Russian Journey is a travelogue written by Edna Dean Proctor in 1899. The book describes her experiences during a trip to Russia, where she visited major cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as smaller towns and villages. Proctor provides...

The Guide for Women in Religion is an indispensable resource for everyone from undergraduate students to emeritae professors involved in the field of religion. In the tradition of a Guide to the Perplexing: A Survival Manual for Women in Religious...

Although married four times, Julia Ruuttila claimed that the love of her life was not a man but a union. From her Industrial Workers of the World origins to the CIO, the International Woodworkers of America, and the International Longshore and Warehouse...

The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography contains essential details of the lives of over 2100 women from all periods, cultures and walks of life-from queens to cooks, engineers to entertainers, pilots to poisoners. In addition to new...

Based on large research material collected in Hungary, Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria Social change, Gender and Violence is the book which explores the impact of transition from communism and war on everyday life of women and...

Le livre ""Jean-Jacques Rousseau Et Les Femmes, XVIII-XIX Siecles (1891)"" �����crit par Buffenoir, Hippolyte, est une �����tude approfondie de la relation entre Jean-Jacques Rousseau et les femmes de son �����poque. L'auteur examine les id�����es de...

Le livre ""Jean De Kerdren (1890)"" de Jeanne Schultz est une histoire captivante qui suit la vie de Jean De Kerdren, un jeune homme qui a grandi dans la Bretagne rurale du 19�����me si�����cle. Le livre explore les d�����fis et les triomphes de Jean...

""Im Strom der Zeit oder Kapital und Arbeit"" ist ein Buch von John J. Messmer, das im Jahr 1883 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es ist ein Werk �����ber die wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Ver�����nderungen, die im 19. Jahrhundert stattgefunden haben. Messmer...

Il libro ""Il Tipo Estetico Della Donna Nel Medioevo"" scritto da Renier, Rodolfo, ����� un'opera storica che esplora il concetto di bellezza femminile nel periodo medievale. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1885, il testo analizza le diverse...

""Homenaje a la Marina de Chile (1818)"" es un libro escrito por Marco Antonio P�����rez en honor a la Armada de Chile. La obra se enfoca en la historia de la Armada desde su creaci������n en 1818 hasta el presente, destacando sus logros y desaf������os...

""Escritores y Eruditas Espa�����olas V1: O Apuntes y Noticias"" es un libro escrito por Diego Ignacio Parada en 1881. Esta obra es una colecci������n de apuntes y noticias sobre escritoras y eruditas espa�����olas, desde la Edad Media hasta el siglo XIX...

Ein Reiseversuch Im Norden ist ein Reisebericht von Ida Hahn-Hahn, der im Jahr 1843 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Die Autorin beschreibt darin ihre Reise durch Skandinavien, insbesondere durch Schweden und Norwegen. Sie schildert ihre Eindr�����cke von den...

""Die Waffen Nieder! Eine Lebensgeschichte V2"" ist eine Autobiografie der ������sterreichischen Friedensaktivistin Bertha von Suttner. Das Buch wurde erstmals 1899 ver������ffentlicht und ist eine Fortsetzung von Suttners erstem Buch ""Die Waffen...

Dieses Buch mit dem Titel ""Die Vorbeugung Der Empfangniss Aus Ehenoth"" wurde im Jahr 1892 von Heinrich Schroeder verfasst. Es handelt sich um ein Werk, das sich mit der Verh�����tung von Schwangerschaften durch Ehenoth besch�����ftigt. Ehenoth ist eine...

Das Buch ""Die Graue Fuhrerin Junger Pilger Und Pilgerinnen: Durch Die Thaler Und Uber Die Berge Des Rheingau's: Der Jugend Gewidmet"" wurde im Jahr 1835 von Lina Reinhard ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine Erz�����hlung, die sich an junge...

""Die Geschichte des Ursprungs der belgischen Beghinen und Weister Edart"" ist ein Buch von E. Hallmann, das im Jahr 1843 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch beschreibt die Entstehung und Entwicklung der belgischen Beghinen und Weister Edart, die im...

""Die Frau nach ihrem Wesen und ihrer Bestimmung"" ist ein Buch aus dem Jahr 1892 von August Weiss. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit der Rolle und dem Wesen der Frau in der Gesellschaft. Weiss untersucht die Natur der Frau und ihre Bestimmung in Bezug...

Die Futurbildung Im Altfranz������sischen (1880) ist ein Buch von Johannes Brohan, das sich mit der Zukunftsbildung in der altfranz������sischen Sprache besch�����ftigt. Das Buch ist eine detaillierte Studie �����ber die verschiedenen Formen der...

Die Frauen Und Ihr Beruf ist ein Buch von Luise Buchner aus dem Jahr 1872. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit der Rolle der Frauen in der Arbeitswelt und setzt sich f�����r die Gleichstellung von Frauen und M�����nnern ein. Buchner argumentiert, dass...

Das Buch ""Die Frauen in der Sozialen Bewegung"" von Laura Marholm wurde im Jahr 1900 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt von der Rolle der Frauen in der sozialen Bewegung des sp�����ten 19. Jahrhunderts und fr�����hen 20. Jahrhunderts. Marholm untersucht...

Das Buch ""Die Frauen des 19. Jahrhunderts: Biographische und kulturhistorische Zeit- und Charaktergem�����lde"" wurde 1891 von Lina Morgenstern ver������ffentlicht. Es ist eine Sammlung von Biografien von bemerkenswerten Frauen des 19. Jahrhunderts, die...

""Die Frauen der Franz������sischen Revolution"" ist ein historisches Buch von Jules Michelet, das 1854 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit der Rolle der Frauen w�����hrend der Franz������sischen Revolution, einem bedeutenden Ereignis...

""Die Frau auf dem sozialen Gebiete"" ist ein Buch von Lorenz von Stein, das 1880 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk besch�����ftigt sich mit der Rolle der Frau in der Gesellschaft und ihrem Beitrag zur sozialen Entwicklung. Von Stein argumentiert, dass...