Gender studies: women and girls Books

Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms brings together international debates on the discourses and practices of contemporary feminisms. Discussions range across conflicting analyses of gender and politics at the UN conference at Beijing; nationalism...

Erotics and Politics provides an interface between the study of sexuality (particularly gay male studies) and gender (primarily feminism). In doing so it covers a wide range of issues of concern to gay and feminist movements over the past twenty five...

This book examines NATO's engagement with gender issues through its military structures.Drawing on newly declassified NATO documents, this volume provides the first comprehensive account of NATO's long-established engagement with gender issues. These...

The Routledge Companion to Black Women's Cultural Histories is an impressive and comprehensive reference work for contemporary scholarship on the cultural histories of Black women across the diaspora spanning different eras from ancient times into the...

Mallory Brooke was supposed to get married on the largest cruise ship in the world . . . that is, until her future husband was kicked off the boat, leaving Mallory stranded seven nights at sea with both families. Hilarity ensues along with plenty of...

Filled with examples of ritual, symbolism and an extensive collection of Artemis myths and folklore, this work is a comprehensive compilation of all things Artemis, and her fundamental role in the communal, political and ritual development of the...

A daughter of a hard rock miner. Married at the age of sixteen. At nineteen, Cathy Mulroy was hired at mining giant Inco and became one of the first women to work there since the war years in a non-traditional job.  In 1930, legislation stated it...

The Life of Christina of Markyate, a twelfth-century English recluse and later abbess of Markyate, near St A1bans, is a remarkable example of late medieval hagiography. Originally written at the time of or soon after Christina's death in the twelfth...

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural...

La tierra natal is a journey into the past, and also a farewell.Since 1831, when forced to follow her father into exile in Bolivia, Juana Manuela Gorriti had not returned to Salta; though there are some opinions about the stealth trip disguised in man's...

"Discover the Unbreakable Spirit of Women Who Shaped the World! 'Boundless Trailblazers: Inspiring Stories of Real Women Throughout History and the Present Time' is an empowering journey through the remarkable lives and achievements of women who defied...

LISTEN TO HER: How Women Fuel Men's Achievements is a captivating exploration of the profound impact women have on men's accomplishments. Within its pages, readers embark on a transformative journey that uncovers the hidden forces of gender...

Please be aware that I wrote this story in first person to allow my readers to read it as if experiencing it from their own perspective. This is not a pleasant story to read and though it may be fictional human trafficking is a real life horror that is...

For an unique art adventure into hundreds of renderings with over 75 Texas artists, explore this beautiful 200-page, premium color, hardcover edition of Texas Art Connection. This amazing collection puts a gallery in your hands or offers a stunning...

It's Time To Surrender" Whenever we feel life may be too much to bare, we simply remind ourselves that our spiritual following may have saved us from what could have been far worse." -Wednesday BrownEvery day is a journey, and the journey never ends"It's...

Fresh from an 'eat-pray-love' adventure in Costa Rica and trying desperately to mend her broken heart, Michelle was in Paris in March 2020 with a decision to make. Stay indefinitely or return to one of two homelands: a polarized and chaotic U.S...

Growing up in a toxic environment, I began to write at the young age of 8. I was lost and scared.I spent most of my childhood alone with my vivid imagination. As an introvert and neurodivergent, I didn't relate to my peers. Throughout my teen years, I...

'Can you sue President Barack Obama for me?' is the bold introductory line to Ewurabena's debut memoir.A visionary, conceiver, creator, convener and an advocate, Ewurabena is the Founder and Director of an influential human rights and international...

The Undying Self presents Vedantic knowledge in a fresh and direct manner which also reflects authors own experience as a seasoned sadhak. Through his insight the author has drawn readers into the experience of the true Self, in a simple and immediate...

A comprehensive and nuanced analysis of the Bible and other historical documents from early Christianity reveals a significant and often overlooked aspect: the pivotal role played by women in establishing and advancing the Christian movement during the...

In Deutschland findet seit 2008 jährlich der Equal Pay Day statt. Dieser symbolisiert den geschlechterspezifischen Entgeltunterschied zwischen Männern und Frauen, der auch als Gender Pay Gap (GPG) bezeichnet wird. Doch existiert dieser tatsächlich?...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Systeme allgemein und im Vergleich, Note: 1,7, Universität Münster (Institut für Politikwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Standardkurs Ungleichheitsforschung mit Schwerpunkt...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Sonstiges, Note: 2,5, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit orientiert sich zunächst an der Entstehung des Nationalismus und dem in der Türkei...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Note: 1,7, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Frage nach der Legitimation und Rechtfertigung einer Frauenquote in Führungspositionen...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Note: 1,3, Technische Hochschule Köln, ehem. Fachhochschule Köln (Translation und Mehrsprachige Kommunikation), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit...

New Stories We Tell is the third in a series of women-centric journalism text/anthologies created to celebrate the great women of American longform writing. New Stories features sixteen of the most talked-about contemporary magazine writers.Each...

Cindy Cunningham's memoir, Wild Woman: Memoir in Pieces is the story of how a precocious child, raised by the Bible and emotionally absent parents, survives a violation that steals her youth and sends her on a journey of bad boys and dangerous girls,...

Nancy Parsons shares exciting insights based on her firm’s research that reveal the true reasons why the glass ceiling exists and it is not what most people think. That’s why, despite the best intentions and investments in women in leadership...

Toward a Theology of Santa is part of the a Sermon in My Pocket series by Matrika Press.Rev. Dorothy May Emerson’s sermon addresses the holiday season from practical and spiritual perspectives. She offers unique historical insights into this...

These forty-eight powerful stories and poems etch in vivid detail the breakthrough moments experienced by women during the life-changing era that was the '60s and '70s. And finally, here, they tell it like it was. Their stories range from Vietnam to...

In recent years an exciting new branch of scholarship has contributed to revising our understanding of politics and history. Expanding our definition of southern politics, a new generation of historians is challenging us to reconsider the most hallowed...

TEACHING AND LEARNING CREATIVELY: INSPIRATIONS AND REFLECTIONS offers a glimpse into a Clemson University project that fostered poetry writing in courses across the curriculum and grew to include visual and other kinds of creative responses. TEACHING AND...

From freedom fighters and spies to volunteer nurses and patriots on the homefront, women of the North and South served critical and largely unexamined roles in the Civil War. Through a collection of original source documents and the words of the women...

Abortion in the Weimar Republic is a compelling subject since it provoked public debates and campaigns of an intensity rarely matched elsewhere. It proved so explosive because populationist, ecclesiastical and political concerns were heightened by...

The Nazi regime opened its first concentration camps within weeks of coming to power, but with the exception of Dachau the history of these early, improvised camps and their inmates is not yet widely known. Gabriele Herz's memoir, published for the first...

Recent years have seen many changes in human reproduction resulting from state and medical interventions in childbearing processes. Based on empirical work in a variety of societies and countries, this volume considers the relationship between...

In search of the American dream, young Severine and her French-Haitian family move from France to the United States. They quickly discover success comes at a high cost and life as an immigrant is far from what they thought it would be. What was once an...