Gender studies: women and girls Books

This is a collection of personal letters written by Anna Maria Wood to her friend, Mrs. Pascoe, who was the wife of a vicar in Cornwall. The letters are filled with news of family and friends, discussions of current events, and reflections on life, love,...

This memoir, published in 1864, tells the story of Mary Reynolds Page, a devout Christian woman from New York who devoted her life to charitable works and improving the lives of women and children. Through letters and personal anecdotes, the author...

A collection of biographical sketches of celebrated female monarchs and other illustrious women by Anna Jameson, an acclaimed English writer and art historian. The book provides insights into the lives and accomplishments of women who defied gender...

Ce livre raconte la correspondance passionnée entre Madame de Staël, écrivaine française et Grande-Duchesse Louise de Saxe-Weimar. Un voyage émouvant dans les pensées et les actions de deux femmes influentes de leur temps.This work has been selected by...

This detailed record of Delta Delta Delta sorority covers the period from 1888 to 1907 and provides an intimate and engaging portrait of this special sisterhood. With photographs, personal anecdotes, and historical information, this book is a must-read...

This book is likely a collection of biographical vignettes about important women who have been overlooked by history. The women in question may be from a variety of cultures and countries, and the book may provide insight into the social and political...

This book provides a report of an enquiry into the challenges faced by women in the engineering trades and offers potential solutions to address these issues. The report is based on a joint committee of the Fabian Research Department and the Fabian...

Charlotte Hanbury was an extraordinary woman who achieved great success in the face of adversity. Her autobiography is a moving account of her life, from her childhood in poverty to her rise to prominence as a successful businesswoman. This book is not...

Dieses Buch bietet eine Sammlung von Gutachten namhafter Gelehrter und Schriftsteller über die Befähigung der Frau zum wissenschaftlichen Studium und Berufe. Eine wichtige Quelle für die Geschichte des Frauenstudiums.This work has been selected by...

Explore the lives of these remarkable women who fought tirelessly to serve others and make a lasting impact on society.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it...

Margaret Douglass was a Southern woman who was imprisoned for teaching free colored children to read, which was illegal under the laws of Virginia. Her Personal Narrative is a powerful and moving account of her experience in jail and her struggle for...

Johnny's Girl the nationally acclaimed memoir of growing up in Alaska’s underworld as the only child of gambler John F. "Johnny" Rich and exotic dancer, Frances “Ginger” Rich. It chronicles Alaska’s mean streets and her...

Gazing across Cook Inlet from Anchorage, Alaska, people have imagined that the sprawling peak across the inlet is a slumbering woman. Out of this idyllic landscape, has come a tale about a time of peace and the consequences of war. Evocative paintings...

New Mexico's Historical Marker Project has served an important part in the way New Mexico tells its story to visitors, residents, and future generations. Lining the miles of highways and roads across its beautiful countryside, each marker has a unique...

In September, 1922, the internationally known British writer D. H. Lawrence arrived with his wife, Frieda, at the railroad station in Lamy, New Mexico. They had traveled from Australia to San Francisco, then to Lamy, to come to Taos at the invitation of...

Women of the Middle East in the 19th century are generally absent from the pages of history. Even their names are not recorded. They have no voice. They are invisible.The women closest to the twin Manifestations, the Báb and...

Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous late colonial and early republican periods in Quito (1765-1830), this study examines women's legal, economic, and social status in order to gauge the relationship between the increasingly centralized power of...

"The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke," a compelling primary document previously unpublished, offers insights into the life and mind of a seventeen-year-old young woman, while also providing a fascinating window into the cultural and social landscape of the...

""A careful, level-headed sifting of the costs and benefits that attend sex work.""--Publishers WeeklyThe Fantasy Factory explores the world of women on the other end of the phone sex lines advertised in magazines like Playboy and Hustle

Contemporary cultural theory, feminist criticism, and ethnography converge in this provocative study of the construction of meaning in mass culture. Television Culture and Women's Lives explores the complex relationship between the gender conflicts

A favorite of President Andrew Jackson and the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, Jessie Benton was acquainted with the famous from childhood. When the vivacious belle met John C. Frémont, "the handsomest young man who ever walked the...

In 1924 eight young women drove across the American West in two Model T Fords. In nine weeks they traveled more than nine thousand unpaved miles on an extended car-camping trip through six national parks, "without a man or a gun along." It was the era of...

Examining the thought of prominent feminist theologians and the view of practicing clergywomen, Lynn Rhodes articulates a vision of ministry that can enrich the whole church. She focuses on feminist approaches to the vital questions of authority,...

The women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America has primarily been interpreted as a secular movement. However, in From Preachers to Suffragists, Beverly Zink-Sawyer examines the lives of three nineteenth-century clergywomen--Antoinette Brown...

Time and time again, executive women wake up and realise they've spent their entire careers making everyone else look good and have forgotten about themselves. Are you one of these women? Have you ever experienced the...

Cómo mejorar tu ciclo menstrual es tu guía para tener periodos más sanos utilizando tratamiento naturales tales como dieta, suplementos nutricionales, hierbas medicinales y hormonas bioidénticas. Contiene recomendaciones y...

I'm always glad to testify for my Lord, I love the Lord with all of my heart, I want to bow at His blessed feet and thank Him for what He has done for me. I want to honor Him and praise Him. He's so wonderful and I'm nothing without Him. He's Lord of my...

A few of us remember past lifetimes. We may even reincarnate in groups in order to finish old business. In my case this awareness came gradually as life unfolded. Now I can see an amazing pattern for all the major choices made in a long life. Troublesome...

YOU KIN DO IT, CHILE, (You Can Do It, Child) tells of an unusual and poignant relationship between a black, horse trainer in his eighties and a young blond girl growing up on a farm in Tennessee.At a period in history, still affected by resentments and...

Virginia Fisher Yaffe is an ex-English teacher, ex-book reviewer and mother of three who has written a book about her lifelong battle against anxiety and depression. In a manner that is both hilarious and horrifying, she explains all that she has gone...

Alcoholism, drugs, and biker gangs are not what one would expectto find in the background of a person destined to become aninternationally known motivational speaker.Yet in her starkly honestautobiography, Susan Armstrong reveals many long-hidden...

This journal is one mother's two-year journey after her son died in the hot dessert of Iraq, were the sand drank his blood and cost an entire family their loved one's legacy.This book will take the reader to cities all across the country for recognitions...

Here is the first book-length biography of Gloria Jean, one of Hollywood's finest performers, who starred in film, radio, stage, nightclub, and television productions. And what a story it is! This is the first in-depth profile of her public and private...

THE LAWS OF ELEANOR unfolds one summer as three women sit at the kitchen table talking and drinking gin, riding in a tow truck all over the mountain, sitting at the table talking and drinking gin, going out to eat greasy restaurant food, sitting at the...

Strong Women Four Generations 1858-1982 is a nostalgic family saga of one family's strong women and how they liberate themselves.Cornelia Fitch Prentiss is the energetic and fun-loving daughter of a demanding father and loving mother. Determined to...

Share the compelling true-life story of young girl's determination to survive after the fatal accidental shooting of her 28-year-old mother. Witness the author's inner strength to survive despite the challenges of sibling separation, relocation, sexual...

This challenging, probing work about a woman's recovery from tubercular meningitis is both an intellectual and intensely personal exploration of the unconscious, the mental state of nothingness, identity, existentialism, medicine, religion, and most...

Jackie Pung: Women's Golf Legend tells the story of an inspiring woman revered as one of Hawaii's greatest golfers. Pung was a teenage golf protégé who became one of the top women competitors on the LPGA tour for twelve consecutive years--but...

I No Longer Dance reveals an athlete's devastating physical and emotional struggle of enduring a painful and crippling disease.The author, Alice Randall Cocca, suffered from degenerative disc disease, D. D. D., for almost 10 years before her untimely...