Gender studies: women and girls Books

From the beginning of their first season in 1995, this group of eight- and nine-year-olds take their coaches and families on a magical journey of inspiration, excitement, hardship, and incredible accomplishments. The parents, grandparents, sisters,...

Not all adoption stories have a happy ending. Christine Bonneur and her husband start their journey full of naive expectation. After years of being in the adoption process and waiting for a match, they finally receive the long-awaited phone call to...

Hazel-Ann McLean’s pioneering and monumental experience started on her very first day at Queen’s Royal College, when she learned that one of the most senior teachers at the school had challenged her enrollment and insisted that QRC was only...

There is no such thing as endings-only new beginnings. Life is all about perspective: the positive, the negative and how we respond to the challenges that life throws at us. Being diagnosed with cancer can really change your perspective on things! Cancer...

In this heartbreaking, extremely personal memoir of a life touched by profound tragedy, author Ashta-deb invites readers into her world in the hopes that they might benefit from the discovered remedies that at last elevated her above it. Here is a soul...

Hull House is a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located in the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House opened its doors to the recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911,...

The rare woman director working in second-wave exploitation, Stephanie Rothman (b. 1936) directed seven successful feature films, served as the vice president of an independent film company, and was the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America's...

Beyond Bombshells analyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and literature than they have ever been. Their spectacular presence...

To be AWARE of the unconscious motivations impinging on our senses is the heart of this book. While the near universal belief that women are the inferior gender is refuted by contemporary empirical scientific evidence, this prejudice, while not...

Linda Simanella Keener loved puppies, maybe even just a little more than people, but she did love them both. She had a Sicilian father John and a German mother Martha, and she favored her father's Italian side of the family. Her father taught her how to...

I give all the glory to God, who helped me overcome abuse, divorce, depression, and loneliness. My story, similar to many other moms' stories, tells of how I struggled through rage, anxiety attacks, rejection, and isolation. God led me through it all to...

Seguramente, una nueva mamá se siente preparada con guías, manuales, conferencias y cursos. Pero quizá aún así, los cambios que llegarán a su vida la tomarán por sorpresa. Ha cambiado su papel en el mundo, y también lo que el mundo espera de ella y eso...

Después de la biografía si te preguntas quienes somos, de dónde venimos a donde vamos. Hay vida después de la muerte, somos ángeles solares, extraterrestres, acaso una copia en miniatura, de La deidad, tu relación con la luna los planetas el sol las...

In early 2006 after a visit to Canada to visit my sisters, I came back to England alert, confident, and able to once again reclaim my independence. ... I didn't know, but apparently it was common knowledge that a key to my house had been found. Or at...

This story of deep wounding and subsequent healing bridges lifetimes. Evelyn is born into a long line of Dutch Barons, who through their greed to keep their land, marry their cousins, rarifying the genetics to produce genius and madness. Evelyn is gifted...

Caught In A Nightmarish HellLaurie is a woman who falls prisoner to a Middle Eastern man named Sahir. Not only does he subject Laurie to extreme physical and mental abuse, but he also manipulates the loopholes in the justice system to get away with his...

Truly a girl with freckles, being of Scottish and Irish descent, Sidney Mack has been writing her thoughts down in pencil for years. She touched, and was touched by, many lives and places as the daughter of a USMC aviator and continued her growth and...

Meet Annie, mid-twenties, moving into an apartment on Urban Street. What starts out calm soon becomes chaotic. Will Annie become what she despises the most? Will she turn into a dysfunctional neighbor? Meet the neighbors. The neighbors from Hell. The...

An unappreciated housewife boldly responds to her self-absorbed husband, and ends up running for U.S. President, she admits, "Because it's the only high paying job opening I know of." Following non-traditional campaign thoughts, Sheila For President?...

This book is dedicated to women all over the world. This book is dedicated to all the women who were taught to be meek, lowly, and humble. This book is dedicated to all the women who were taught to be good girls, nice young ladies, strong women,...

Robin Sabo is one of seven children who began her life in a small rural town in Ohio. Since then she has ventured through life assembling a story she never imagined would be written on the pages of a book. Her story unfolds with the uncertainty of a...

Written in diary format, Marked for Destruction invites the reader to be a part of the storytelling process. The main character, Malina Wylie, is talking directly to the reader. She has to understand herself as an individual, as well as, understand the...

Feminism and Beyond: a Theological Reflection for the Next Aeon addresses global dimensions with stress on the experience and perspective of the poor. In the context of Third World and contextual theologies, interreligious dialogue, spirituality, and...

A journal of letters from mother to son forms the basis for Judy Alt to let you into the painful world and torment of a grieving parent. She finds herself in the depths of depression - even attempting to take her own life.In Roses For Brian, Judy allows...

Growing up in a small Midwestern town in Indiana during the aftermath of the 1929 Wallstreet market crash, pre-World War II, and facing teenage in a fatherless home during the war years, the author has described her childhood in an era of the past. As a...

Esther Megill had an extraordinary life experience in Sierra Leone as a medical technologist-extraordinary in the work she did, in the work she helped others to do, and in the legacy of good will she left behind at the time of her "retirement."Her book,...

She was born Charletta Raye Miller in a small oil drilling community in southern Illinois. At the age of five she was moved to central Illinois without the presence of her living mother.She became a member of a large affluent family, but despite the many...

The seeds for this book were germinated in the beautiful region of Tuscany. Here in Italy I lived my own three-dimensional life of discovery, dedication and discipline as a sculptor. I write about this community that spiritually embraced me with my own...