Gender studies: women and girls Books

This is the journey of Ruth Mwikali Malinda, my grandmother, whom I fondly call Wainyaake. She is a rare gem to her generation; a life that has impacted her family and community by vast measures. During her life, Grandma Ruth has worked hard through...

Mainstreaming Equality in the European Union provides a critical overview and evaluation of the potential role of the EU in perpetuating or breaking down gender segregation in the EU labour force. Teresa Rees draws upon feminist theoretical frameworks in...

In this interdisciplinary work that ranges from the ancients through the Renaissance to the present, Jonathan Hart examines systems, law, theatre, nature, stereotype, otherness, authority, new historicism, deconstruction, feminism, reading,...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the emergence, consolidation, and development of the Irish women's movement in the course of the 20th century. It illuminates the processes through which the movement and its networks of organizations came...

Kate Chopin, known in her lifetime as a writer of stories set in the French-settled regions of Louisiana and today as the author of THE AWAKENING, has been viewed as a woman who, until she wrote her final novel, catered to the taste for regional fiction...

Eudine Barriteau exposes the precarious position of women in 20th century Caribbean societies by analyzing the operations of gender systems. She reveals the absence of gender justice and equity, and demonstrates that after 25 years of policies on women...

This volume examines a wide variety of the ways in which the fantastic has impacted upon contemporary women's fiction. The study is based upon the work of fifteen different writers and includes novels by Allende, Atwood, Carter, Head, Morrison, Weldon,...

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction: Women and Progress Times and Seasons The Romance of Sexual Science and the Making of Modern Feminism Capturing the Ideal: New Men and Women in From Man to Man Love, Death and Money in Mashonaland War Stories...

Many women writers in twentieth-century Britain were fascinated by the individual thought processes of their characters. Women Writing Modern Fiction draws connections between the works of authors such as Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy L. Sayers, Olivia...

In 7 Deadly Sins of Women in Leadership, Kate Coleman considers what lies at the root of the many challenges facing today's leaders--women and men--and discusses ways of dealing with them.

In this book, Taffy Martin combines traditional scholarship and contemporary critical theory to create a feminist reading of one of the twentieth century's most difficult poets.

Interviews with Simone de Beauvoir open the book; essays by French feminists Sarah Kofman and Luce Irigaray follow; the North American contributors are Judith Butler, Nancy Fraser, Diana J. Fuss, Nancy J. Holland, Eleanor H. Kuykendall, Dorothy Leland,...

This inspired collection profiles eighteen women who share passionate concerns and visions for a new world and explores the effect of aging on the most important elements of their lives: love, work, family, sexuality, creativity, and spirituality.

Presents clear and honest survival strategies for dealing with the blues while teaching women to cope with circumstances around and within themselves.

"A wonderful gift to Black women. . . . Richardson and Wade, with pens dipped in abundant love, gracefully advise us as to the lessons of the past we must embrace and those we must discard, if we are to achieve true self-empowerment and emotional...

A love story, a mystery, and a memory guide, Past Forgetting shows a writer's determination to re-create her life.Jill Robinson, novelist and author of Bed/Time/Story, wakes from a coma to discover she's lost her memory and just about any sense of who...

When the boys in her class asked her to sit on the ground in the classroom because they felt girls were dull and so only fit for the dusty floor while they sat on chairs, Grace refused to do so, and vowed to struggle for gender equality. As she excelled...

Key terms related to gender, gender identity, femininity, masculinity, gender roles, and gender normsGenderGender is a biological characteristic that determines whether a person is male or female. Gender is based on the body's genitals, hormones, and...

Embark on a poignant journey through the pages of In Search of Sondra: I, The Journey Within as W. Shaine Nixon skillfully unveils the captivating life of a woman named Sondra. From the echoes of childhood to the complex tapestry of adulthood,...

Africana Tea is an illustrated tea table book that catalogs 320 narratives about Black women's diverse experiences with tea as a tool for health, healing, and wellness. Based on research by Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans and her work on historical wellness,...

"Becoming Medusa" is a contemporary reimagining of the myth of Medusa, exploring her character in a way that has not yet been done before. The story delves into the complexities of her life, beyond the well-known curse, but changing the tragic ending to...

DescriptionThe miracles and tragedies of life, the compassion and cruelties of humanityare nowhere more visible than in the field of medicine. It is these that KaveryNambisan-doctor and writer of immense sensitivity-explores in this memoir,drawing upon...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

En Yo maté a Sherezade la autora muestra como, desde el nacimiento, el cuerpo de la mujer se ve atrapado en un contexto social que lleva a la mujer incluso a la esclavitud. Su voz canta en una reafirmación de la vida, un viaje perpetuo, un acto...

UN TEXTO FUNDAMENTAL PARA ENTENDER LA LITERATURA CHILENA, SUS MOVIMIENTOS ARTÍSTICOS Y CULTURALES Y SU REACCIÓN ANTE LA IRRUPCIÓN DE PABLO NERUDA    A través de las páginas de la obra Impresiones de...

Cultural messages heralding slenderness are often blamed for contributing to both body dissatisfaction among women and the rise of eating disorders in the U.S. But how do families and individuals navigate these messages, and how do they replicate or...

Erste Monographie zu dem deutschen Schriftsteller Christopher Ecker (Jg. 1967). Enthält Laudationes, Essays, Interviews und eine Bibliografie.

Vanishing Selves deals with autobiographical works by Goethe, Sand, and Nietzsche. A key strategy in these works is to downplay the significance of the self. They avoid an interiorizing strategy in favour of an affirmation the world. The objective of...

En torno al año 2007 nació en España un poderoso movimiento de reactivación de la memoria histórica que dio lugar a un verdadero giro cultural. Este libro analiza el papel desempeñado por la literatura en relación con este proceso de resemantización de...

Osbornes Look Back in Anger markiert einen Generationenkonflikt im britischen Theaterwesen. Dieser ging mit einer intensivierten Thematisierung reziproker Selbst- und Weltverhältnisse in realistisch-alltäglichen dramatischen Räumen einher. Die...

The author describes and discusses 20th century literary theory and its appeal to scientific methodology. The book focuses on the appeal to scientific methods and epistemology, the status and nature of literary meaning and the role of authorial intention...

This volume consists of articles on imagery in the poetry of various literary canons. The articles present new research based on individual approaches for each particular canon within a wide span from socio-cultural environment to semantic and cognitive...

Walter Benjamin is one of the most important figures of modern culture. The authors focus within this book on Benjamin as a philosopher, but also as a writer. Philosophical and philological readings are accompanied by essays presenting his biography.

Die Beiträge des Sammelbands analysieren erstmals aus literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive das Werk von Sibylle Berg (Theaterstücke, Romane, Reportagen, Kolumnen, Kinderbücher) in seinen verschiedensten Facetten. Damit wird eine Grundlage...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of representations of female murderers in modern American drama. Paying close attention to each play's plot, form, and style, the study seeks to come to terms with the dramatic and cultural function of this...

Die Autorin untersucht die Bedeutung des Ersten Spanisch-Marokkanischen Kriegs (1859-1860) im katalanischen Identitätsdiskurs des 19. Jahrhunderts. Sie analysiert, wie der Krieg die Herausbildung einer eigenständigen, katalanischen kulturnationalen...

Frank O'Hara's poetry, initially inspired by the Modernist avant-garde, underwent a radical change around 1960. This change parallels the decline of Abstract Expressionism and the rise of Pop Art, the former movement directly relevant to understanding...

The close readings of selected literary texts by Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking authors from Africa and Latin America reveal that water spirituality is connected to working conditions and migration overseas. This results in a critical debate which...

Das Buch erschließt mit dem conduct book für junge Damen (1688-1797) einen in der anglistischen Forschung vernachlässigten Schrifttypus. Die Autorin unterzieht die Texte einem Verfahren des close reading bezüglich Darstellung und Stellenwert der...

Borges wurde in Europa zum Schriftsteller. Aber erst in Argentinien fand er Formen für sein Schreiben. Der Band untersucht das Entstehen seiner Gedichte und Essays der zwanziger Jahre zwischen Europa und Argentinien, Avantgarde und Tradition.

Dentro de la lingüística forense, este trabajo parte del análisis de las actividades de imagen (valorización de la imagen y descortesía) en juicios orales de españoles. Asimismo, explora la manera en que se manifiesta la atenuación y, en especial, el uso...

This volume offers new perspectives on dementia from the fields of philosophy, medical humanities, literary studies and cultural studies. It discusses the identity of dementia patients, advance directives and the patients' autonomy, the cultural...