Gender studies: women and girls Books

After praying to God one night, Jesus told Diane to tell her story. Sheknew that this would be both challenging and difficult to do on somany levels. By telling her story, her audience would be brought toplaces unknown to most people. During her life she...

When Susan J. Humphreys moved to the Oakland area in 2000, several people invited her to attend their churches. One gentleman, however, was more persistent than others. Humphreys bluntly ended the conversation by stating that she had simply chosen a...

Knowledgeable experts have ranked Elizabeth Van Lew as one of the best female spies of all time. Until Dr. Wyman's comprehensive The Chosen Path, little was known about the full perilous life and valuable contributions of this Richmond, Virginia born...

Sara would choose to be remembered for the person she was-a whole person having lived a full, productive life. She was far more than one who succumbed to Alzheimer's disease. Her story is of one who overcame obstacles by virtue of her inherent gifts. She...

Three years after helping her husband win his battle with cancer, Louise Lampard was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She was thirty-five years old and devastated. At the time of her husband's illness, they had decided to improve their health, give up...

Beginning in the 1940's, three women take you through their journeys, from childhoods in a San Francisco townhouse, a Pennsylvania farmhouse and a New York City apartment, to the present-at a kitchen take in Connecticut. They share memories of family,...

The Naked Life is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of World War II. It is a captivating, visual and sincere memoir that traces Antonie's life from the age of eleven in Austria, to the work camps in Siberia, and on to Israel. The harsh...

As a therapist, Eileen Bartow-Rives has enjoyed the vagaries and whims of children's thinking and actions for thirty years.Her observations provide an insider's view of these children as they navigate this unfamiliar situation with a person they do not...

Growing up in the 1950's and 1960's, Skissley is the oldest child in a Nebraska farm family of modest means. Her possessions are few, but she does possess two rare and priceless gifts: talent to write and remarkable insight. Combined with her keen...

'The big day had arrived and after only three weeks' intensive training Susan passed out and mustered on the parade ground--a fully fledged Wren in the much sought after Communications branch of the service, proudly boasting the Naval flags on the badge...

For Lee, it all began in the great Chicago ballrooms of the 1940's. It was in this big band era where Lee first found her footing. Here she discovered her passion for dancing...and for Johnny. With Johnny, she embarks on the ever evolving dance of family...

This is a story I've been working on for more years than I care to admit. Working full time and taking care of your family leaves little time for creative writing. Since it's my life story and I am an unknown, publishers did not stand in line to make...

Dana Dale is an attractive 35-year-old blonde, five feet six tall, with blue eyes, good legs and figure, and with, as she says in her foreword, 'a big pair of knockers!' For all intents and purposes, she is an everyday British housewife who lives in a...

"A beautiful story. Life as it should be and truer than truth, as is any real life story. If we accept our own mortality, wisdom and beauty appear."--Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine, and MiraclesThe Library Journal says, "A paean to nature...

What's a nice Jewish girl like Hannah doing with Habib, a young Diaspora Palestinian who clearly has an "ax to grind" with the world? And what does Habib, a twenty-seven-year old man want from a fifty-year-old Jewish woman?While Hannah worries that her...

Don't Give Up Before the Miracle tells in harrowing detail Joni Nebel Rhodes' life of alcoholism and undiagnosed manic depression.Joni took to drinking while living in Manhattan as a flight attendant. Alcohol offered her solace from her insecurities,...

When Winfred King was struck with polio in the fall of 1941, his wife, Marie, and their family would face challenge in a way they'd never known. The denizens of their hometown--friends, neighbors, and family--took care of the Kings, and Marie began to...

Giving Birth to God tells of one woman's journey through yoga ashrams and Sufi training to finding a mystical Christian school with Master Teachers. After 12 years of transformational training, Mother Clare was ordained a Priest, and four years later a...

"This stubborn, intractable, uncompromising woman, Doris Aiken, began her unrelenting assault on NYS legislative leaders in 1980—stunningly, against all odds, her voice was heard, resulting in immediate bi-partisan legislative cooperation...

The Flight of Marie Antoinette is a historical non-fiction book written by G. Lenotre and published in 1913. The book recounts the dramatic escape of the last queen of France, Marie Antoinette, from the Tuileries Palace in Paris during the French...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Holidays At Sunnycroft And A Year At Coverly is a book written by Annie S. Swan and published in 1915. The book is a collection of two stories that follow the lives of two families, the Sunnycrofts and the Coverlys, over the course of a year. The first...

Storm and Sunshine in South Africa is a book written by Rosamond Southey and published in 1910. The book is a memoir of the author's experiences living in South Africa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Southey provides a vivid description of...

Marion Graham: Or Higher Than Happiness is a novel written by Meta Lander in the year 1890. The book tells the story of a young woman named Marion Graham who is struggling to find her place in the world. Marion is a talented artist who dreams of making a...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Memoir of Amelia Opie is a non-fiction book written by the renowned English author and poet, Amelia Alderson Opie. The book was first published in 1855 and is a personal account of her life, including her childhood, marriage, and career as a writer. The...

Legal Recognition Of Industrial Women is a book written by Eleanor Larrabee Lattimore in 1919. The book is a detailed analysis of the legal status of women in the industrial sector during the early 20th century. It examines the various laws and...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The Torch of Life is a novel written by Rachel Swete Macnamara and published in 1914. The story revolves around a young woman named Mary, who is forced to make a difficult decision when her father dies and leaves her with a large inheritance. She must...

With endless twists, turns and setbacks, this is one woman's extraordinary story of resilience and determinationElena's story began in communist Romania where tumultuous changes in her country and her own life forced her to flee, seeking greater freedom...

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Praxis and Politics explores the knowledge arising from activist praxis and its significance for reimagining radical and democratic politics. It is based on five years of direct involvement in the Toronto-based Metro Network for Social Justice and their...

Why has the integration of women into Congress been so slow? Is there a "political glass ceiling" for women? Although women use the same strategic calculations as men to decide when to run, the decision regarding where to run is something else. While...

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By approaching Chicana/o issues from the frames of feminism, social activism, and cultural studies, and by considering both lived experience and the latest research, Torres offers a more comprehensive understanding of current Chicana life. Through...

Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student...

This collection demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against problems such as racism, violence, homophobia, focusing on the complex ways that gender, culture, race-ethnicity and class shape women's political consciousness in the US.

Blood Stories focuses on menarche as a central aspect of body politics in contemporary US society, emphasizing that women are integrated into the social and sexual order through the body. Using oral and written narratives of 104 diverse women, the...

Who are the grassroots warriors on the front lines of the war on poverty? Through in-depth interviews, Nancy Naples presents the voices of over sixty women--African American, Puerto Rican and white European American--who have fought for social and...

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers - Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Mahasweta Devi, Buchi Emecheta, Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison - are discussed as...

Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life examines the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture. It takes a critical political view of the concept of life as information, tracing this through the new biology...