Gender studies: women and girls Books

A young girl growing up in a turbulent family setting creates a secret inner world to escape her toxic environment. Emotionally neglected, confused and dislocated, she begins to exhibit erratic behaviour, and while the adults around her are unable to...

It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will make you look at your hairdresser like you never have before.There's more to cutting hair than scissors. For Tracy Bitternose, hairdressing was a way to deliver beauty, inspiration, kindness,...

Two young immigrant women. One historic strike. And the fire that changed America.In 1909, shy sixteen-year-old Rosie Lehrer is sent to New York City to earn money for her family's emigration from Russia. She will, but she also longs to make her mark on...

When I met Millie years ago, she shared her story with me. Her narrative gave me the idea and inspiration for the fictional mother and daughter in my own novel. ~ Jennifer Rosner, author of The Yellow Bird SingsOf the 3,500,000 Jews living in Poland...

Is guilt a common thief that continually sucks the very essence of life from your soul? That’s not how we were meant to live! Discover how you, like these six women, may exchange your burdens for the grace Jesus so willingly offers...

ORKNEY ISLANDS, 1797 - Agnes Tulloch feels a little cheated. This windswept place is not the island paradise her husband promised it to be when they wed. Now with four young children, she struggles to provide for her family while her husband grows...

This collection of essays brings together leading experts on the history of Black women in Brazil and newly expands what we know about the subject. The essays take us through cities, plantations, and mining areas from the north to the south and across...

Are you ready to learn the secrets to a thriving career business?If you are facing challenges in business or even in your personal life, Pink MasterMind: Your PinkPrint For Success is the book for you. It is an essential resource that will help you...

Unfairly forgotten Peruvian feminist writer Aurora Cáceres(1877-1958) has gained a new wave of readers in the 21stcentury –ironically, through her engagement of a literary movement, Spanish American modernismo, that denied women...

Ich Dien means "I serve." It was the motto of the school of nursing attended by Clara Louise Kieninger. Wherever she served, Clara Louise left the mark of disciplined love even as she set the standard of perfection. Whether on the battlefield in World...

Have you ever dreamed about being your own boss and being rewarded for your hard work rather than see the profits going to someone else? Are you interested in a positive, rewarding career where you get to help people look and feel good? Or perhaps...

With almost seven hundred articles included in this series, it is not surprising to learn that political thinking, anecdote, frustration and reflection appear across the spectrum and therefore are not exclusive to this volume.Those brought together here...

A collection of twenty nine of Virginia Woolf's essays including: "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights", The Patron and The Crocus, The Modern Essay, The Death Of The MothEvening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car, Three Pictures, Old Mrs. Grey,...

Beat Burnout and Discover the Divine Purpose That Begins and Ends Inside YouYou completed the degrees and climbed the career ladder. You take care of your family, and serve your community. You give everything to serve others-and you're left with nothing...

"Argue Abortion and Other Reproductive Issues Like a Doc" is here to dispel all the nonsense that's thrown out in arguments about reproductive health. It's not designed for academics; it's designed for the politician who claimed a woman could swallow a...

"Style is not about size; it's about attitude."You may have no control over the garbage life throws at you, but you can certainly control how you deal with the trash. And you can look your best no matter what.QVC Fashion designer Renée Greenstein wants...

Since 2006, the MeToo Movement has been rocking society, shedding light on the pervasive and growing darkness of hidden sexual abuse and assault. Olivia, like many when they discovered it, found herself an avid supporter of both the movement and the...

     Born in rural Missouri on the 4th of July, Ava Frick knew at age three that she wanted to be an "animal doctor" when she grew up.  That precocious little girl's early years are traced in this inspiring biography that includes not...

Loving Tiara is a compelling memoir that will encompass your every thought, break your heart, fill you with hope, and leave you with a sense of awe.“I have found the quiet. At forty-five years old, my life’s mission was complete. If I...

Missing piano keys, a "cold" fire, and chickens in the outhouse... Journey to Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts in 1904 to meet Roxane Eldredge in this short-story biography. Spirited and inquisitive as a child, Roxane tries to be good, but gets into...

"A beautiful, simply remarkable read on every dimension."—Mike Lewis, author of When to Jump: If the Job You Have Isn't the Life You WantHow do you want to “do life”?We are bombarded with messages to do more, be...

Ser madre, ¿es lo que quiero? Quizás te estás preguntando si deseas tener un bebé o si te vendría mejor una vida sin hijos. Si este es tu caso, Ser madre, ¿es para mí? es la herramienta perfecta para enfrentar esta decisión crucial en tu vida. Este libro...

This book may awaken some thoughts you've been having, or may even echo words that you have always wanted to say regarding the institutionalized religious system, but were afraid to do so. It encompasses years of a personal departure from religion and...

When it gets chilly outside, it's time to pour some hot chocolate into your favorite cozy mug, grab a fluffy throw, and cuddle up with Ellie's new coloring book, Winter Song.Inspired by the snowy and sparkly beauty of nature in winter and the...

An interactive blueprint of possibility and education combined in a collector style coloring book.

Every girl needs a planner. She needs one for her busy schedule at work or at school. She needs one for quick notes and brief reminders. She also needs one to scribble numbers on and other contact information. The versatility of a weekly planner...

Writing about your weekly goals and plans will help improve the likelihood of accomplishment. This is because writing provides a visual reminder of what you intend to do so you remain focused on the task. Writing also improves your spelling, vocabulary...

A woman needs all the help she needs as she puts on her many hats every day. The purpose, then, of this planner is to provide an opportunity for a woman to list down the many things she has to do. Writing helps condition your mind for the busy day ahead...

'Rewriting Resistance: Caste and Gender in Indian Literature' explores the claustrophobic shadow of discrimination hanging over Indian women and lower caste people from ancient times. It examines how different literary figures paint a vivid and...

Deeply in love, Cal and Mary brave divorce, marry, and help each other succeed in their work. Cal becomes a renowned inventor, Mary a best-selling author. Then Alzheimer's strikes. Cal faces his disease courageously, Mary finds ways to sustain their...

In 2012, Carolyn Birrell flew down to Georgia to kidnap her mother.Fay had been living by herself since her husband's death in 2000 and clung fiercely to her independence. She went to church on Sundays, paid her bills on time, and volunteered at Vacation...

My story will appeal to readers who feel trapped in an abusive relationship, the family, friends or therapists/coaches who want to help them. I will also appeal to people who are interested in taking charge of their lives and choosing the direction that...

• Dearest Ones at Home is unusual in its content: first-person (primary source) historical documents from a turbulent time in Russia's-and the world's-history.• The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi have brought Russia's past and present into the spotlight...

You survived Michael G. Ankerich’s Dangerous Curves ‘atop Hollywood Heels. Now take a hair-raising roller coaster ride through the intimate lives of 25 beautiful, ambitious serial queens, slapstick vamps, bathing beauties, and Western...

The thrill is far from gone. B. B. King, legendary Blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer, left a lasting legacy that reverberates through his influence on many later electric blues guitarists. Daughter Shirley, his only child...

Perhaps a word on the status of women in slavery among the Germanic nations will not be out of place. The new nations looked upon a slave as chattel, much as the Romans did. If a wrong was done a slave woman, her master received a recompense from the...

Now an ardent advocate of natural feet, she often tells of her trials as a pioneer of the movement in Fuhkien province. "That I have the distinction of being the first girl who did not have her feet bound, is due to no effort of mine," she says, "for the...

Are overburdened mothers justified in their appeals for contraceptives or abortions?... Will anyone... dare to say to these women that they should go on bringing helpless children in to the world to share their misery?... To say to these women that they...

REVISED EDITION: Many unseen photos of Joi and an additional Afterward chapter. Plus two never seen photos of Joi and Rachel."Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For colorfully chronicles personal and intimate details of the last four years of the talented...

The intimate, uncensored erotobiography that is pure-as-Ivory Snow. The sexy girl next door who turned on the world talks openly in detail about her fantasies and what turns her on.Twenty-six pages of personal photos of the star of Behind the Green Door...

REVISED EDITION: Many unseen photos of Joi and an additional Afterward chapter. Plus two never seen photos of Joi and Rachel."Joi Lansing: A Body to Die For colorfully chronicles personal and intimate details of the last four years of the talented...

This study of the origins and development of Marxist-Humanism probes the philosophic-organizational labors of Raya Dunayevskaya. Beginning with her work as secretary to Leon Trotsky in exile in Mexico in 1937-38, the book explores her development of...

In Conversations with Mary Gordon, Mary Gordon reveals her intellectual vigor, her freewheeling humor, and her strongly held opinions on issues ranging from sex to contemporary literature and gender theory. With candor, she details her departure from and...

Ellen S. Woodward (1887–1971) was touted as Roosevelt’s second most powerful woman appointee. Among American women only Eleanor Roosevelt and Labor Department Secretary Frances Perkins could claim more elevated roles in the circle of FDR’s administration...

This book is a true storya memoir of Gwen Lerouys life. She struggled with addiction to meth, bondages from Satan, her imprisonment. Its a struggle thats been for real. Addiction is like a scratch you cant itch. If you give in and itch, its got you. This...