Gender studies: women and girls Books

A car crash on a dark rainy morning plunges a woman into a nightmare of CT scans, bone marrow biopsies, intrathecal injections and aggressive chemotherapy treatments. With each new test, different aspects of the cancer are revealed and the prognosis...

Good role models are hardly perfect individuals with perfect thoughts and behavior; they are human beings who dare to let their lives speak for them. Their lives are worthy of emulation. They "demonstrate" a sermon rather than give one, which is more...

Reverend Margaret Anne Freeman was born in 1927 with a serious and complicated heart defect, Fallot's Tetralogy. She was not expected to live very long at all, let alone walk or have children. She defied expectations, and today works as a 76 year old...

Let me begin my story...At twelve years old, Marie Winters experiences life as any typical pre-teen girl. Talkative and full of energy, she transcribes her world of friends, crushes and school life into a diary of bittersweet innocence. At times poignant...

"Beauty With A Purpose tells the compelling saga of one individual's courage to use the power of beauty to heal the world from fear to love, proving that beauty is more than skin-deep!"--Rafael Robert Delfin, Chairman of www.missuniversecritic.comA...

What's so bad about being married to a coach? Mary Lou Podlasiak boldly, but playfully, reveals how the "women behind the men" really feel. Whether you are dating a coaching fanatic, or have spent half of your existence married to one, the stories and...

Confessions of a Battered Woman is a true story of how the author, Emily Johnson, grew up in an abusive home; And following the cycle of abuse, she married a man who beat and battered her. After he unsuccessfully tried to murder her, Emily devised a plan...

Heart By Heart is a non-fiction anthology of poems and stories by and about mothers and daughters, written during many different stages of their lives, from birth to death. The author/editor, Marianne Preger-Simon, chooses heart-warming and affirming...

Raising children can be more enjoyable when you look at the world through their eyes. In Momma Mona's Memories, author Mona Goldstein recalls anecdotes from the early years of her children and grandchildren that provide insights into their delightfully...

This study of the world of scholarship and scholarly texts in the Renaissance, the so-called respublica literaria, affords insights into the intellectual infrastructure and modes of thought of the period by its examination of contemporary attitudes...

 A nurse aide position in the local maternity annexe at the age of sixteen gave Julie a love for being with women during labour and birth and caring for mothers and their babies.Life could not have been happier until the tragic death of her own baby...

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The essays in this volume discuss narrative strategies employed by international writers when dealing with rape and sexual violence, whether in fiction, poetry, memoir, or drama. In developing these new feminist readings of rape narratives, the...

In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via a methodology of close reading that foregrounds moments of sexual decentering and disequilibrium within the text and in the interstices of...

Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa, bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations and cultural authenticity into the focus of the nation state's politics. This book is a...

This edited collection examines the campaign for women's suffrage from an international perspective. Leading international scholars explore the relationship between suffragism and other areas of social and political struggle, and examine the ideological...

'Other Kinds of Dreams' provides an invaluable insight into the political activity of black and Asian women in the UK both inside and outside the black and Asian communities. The book breaks new ground by: * destroying the misconception that black and...

What does the politics of the self mean for a politics of liberation? Morwenna Griffiths argues that mainstream philosophy, particularly the anglo-analytic tradition, needs to tackle the issues of the self, identity, autonomy and self creation. Although...

This anthology is the first such collection to focus on the exclusively philosophical aspects of ecological feminism. It addresses basic questions about the conceptual underpinnings of `women-nature' connections, and emphasises the importance of seeing...

Images, representations and constructions of mothers have historically shaped and continue to shape the way we imagine the institution of motherhood and the experience of mothering. The various contributions included in this volume consider the diversity...

This essay collection rediscovers and reassesses a host of still little-known, pre-1914, Welsh women writers.In the last few decades considerable advances have been made towards rediscovering, contextualising, and analysing women's writing from Wales...

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction SECTION 1: THEORY - PUTTING WOMEN'S LIVES INTO PRINT: FEMINIST ETHICS, METHODOLOGIES & EPISTEMOLOGIES How Do We Know Past Lives? Methodological and Epistemological Matters Involving Prince Philip, the...

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; P.Abbott & C.Wallace - Women's Oppression in the World and in Ourselves: a Fresh Look at Feminism and Psychoanalysis; C.New - Women and Citizenship: the Insane, the Insolvent and the Inanimate?; Y.Summers - Money...

Ruth Tucker digs deeply into the life of Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther, the First Lady of the Reformation, to unearth insights for today's women, wives and mothers who, like Katie, have carved out a career of their own.

The essays in Teaching African American Women's Writing not only provide reflections on issues, problems and pleasures raised by reading and studying the texts, but crucially they explore and demonstrate strategies for teaching African American women's...

The Sixth Hero is a soul food to awaken the hero inside the reader. The book is a fiction and based on true stories of our Famous 5 of Alberta.The Sixth Hero is a book of splendid braveries. It was written to tell about five remarkable women. They have...

I was sexually molested at the age of fourteen--now what?So many people go through life wearing their molestation or life's deception as a badge of dishonor in their life, even though they were the victim. They think their life stopped the day they lost...

Everything I Never Told You Is All I Have Left to Say is an epistolary flash fiction written from the perspective of Bitter Crone on her deathbed. She traverses family, lovers, friends, objects and ideas in her final breaths."This lexicon of grief, this...

"My life was broken and put back together in unexpected ways that made it multidimensional and extraordinary. Learning to live in the moment has not been easy. Rewriting the story continuously and consciously would not have happened without the...

The Drainpipe Diary, first published in 1957, is the moving account by an American nurse of her internment at Santo Tomas in Manila during World War II. She began her detailed diary on January 5, 1942, the date she was to have married her fiancé, but...

This inquiry explored the issue of the under-representation of women in local politics in Alberta.Drawing on action-oriented research, feminist work, and intersectionality, this project addressedthe research question: "How might the Alberta Ministry of...

Although women represent half of the world's population, their role in society has beenlargely marginalized in various fields and professions, from academia to medicine. The lack ofwomen in business and economics, especially at the decision-making level,...

I attempt to deconstruct an image into textures, colors, and forms. By breaking down a recognized form, the image focuses on simplicity and fundamentals. By examining the relationships between parts of the whole, each image can be an individual work, and...

Based on research with hundreds of women, this book proves the need to bolster confidence and shares practical techniques to engage, sustain and accelerate women to thrive at work.Outsmart Doubt is an empowering must-read for women looking to navigate...

"Delicious Details" takes readers on an intimate heartfelt journey, portrayed as asymbolic canvas of existence where family, food, and recovery converge to paintthe intricate picture of a life. This book is the portrait of one woman's remarkablejourney,...

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Geschichte von Grace O'Malley - der Piratin, Ehefrau, Mutter und Kriegerin, die in einer Zeit, in der Frauen unterdrückt wurden, ihren eigenen Weg ging. In diesem Buch finden Sie eine spannende Zusammenfassung von Graces...

This volume discusses some of the fundamental traits of the GEMMA feminist alliances, affective convergences and transformative research constructed throughout 15 years of working together.

Through candid personal interviews with Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, and other visionary performers, Queens of Comedy explores how comediennes have redefined the roles of women in not only the entertainment business, but society as a whole. Detailing...

The classic story of Waiheke's settler families Now with a section on the island's indigenous history by historian, Paul Monin  Beautifully writt...