Gender studies: women and girls Books

The current monograph highlights the significance of narrative tools for the analysis of language behaviour in various social situations. Its main thrusts are various linguistic and literary endeavours.

This book is a cognitive-poetic study of the seven novels of Charles Williams (1886-1945). The author approaches the multidimensional narratives with reference to cognitive phenomena and mechanisms such as the figure-ground organization, conceptual...

The discourse on Physiognomy had an important influence and impact on European theatrical culture at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The book discusses the debate about the scientific nature of Physiognomy and its...

Das Buch untersucht Helder Macedos Prosawerk und dessen Beitrag zur Aufarbeitung von Diktatur und Kolonialgeschichte sowie der Positionierung Portugals innerhalb Europas. Die Autorin zeigt, wie die Romane Inhalte des kulturellen Gedächtnisses...

This book analyzes the literature and lifestyles of the Beat Generation based on Victor Turner's anthropological studies. Signs of liminality and communitas appear in works by Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. The Beats formed...

Women's emancipation in Uganda remains a challenge in a society with a long-held structure of patriarchy and institutional, cultural beliefs.The study critically analyses the institutional mechanisms and concludes suggesting concrete measures and...

Dans les études culturelles sur les Amériques, le passage des paradigmes binaires à l'exploration des espaces imaginaires fluides est au cœur de ce volume. D'où l'importance des discours sur l'État-nation et les dynamiques interculturelles, ainsi que les...

Medienbildung wird im Deutschunterricht immer wichtiger. Durch veränderte Gegenstände und Formate ergeben sich neue Potenziale. Ein Fokus wird auf den Übergang zwischen stehenden und laufenden Bildern gelegt. Es werden außerdem Möglichkeiten der...

Die Studie thematisiert den NS-Vernichtungsapparat und Frauen, die darin als Protagonistinnen wirkten anhand der Werke von Stephan Hermlin, Hans Lebert,　Bernhard Schlink, Lukas Hartmann und Helga Schneider.

Das Arbeitsbuch über John von Düffel beleuchtet in Essays und wissenschaftlichen Aufsätzen sein literarisches Werk und seine Arbeiten als Dramaturg und geht dabei bewusst und entschieden über bisher etablierte Forschungen zu ihm hinaus.

Die Beiträge des interdisziplinären Sammelbandes untersuchen die Bedeutung von Reformation und Protestantismus in der hispanophonen Welt und erforschen, welche Spuren sich trotz Inquisition und Gegenreformation in Kunst, Literatur und (Alltags-)Kultur...

Die Autorin befasst sich mit dem literaturkritischen Werk von Matthias Claudius im Rahmen des Rezensionswesens im 18. Jahrhundert. Sie untersucht die besondere Form der Poetisierung, die die Rezensionen erfahren und erörtert Claudius' Position innerhalb...

The book brings to light Neal Stephenson's answer to the technologically induced crisis in identity. Using affect theory and its applications to literature, it explores how operations of subjectivation emerge in Neal Stephenson's technological novel The...

Este libro contiene una serie de trabajos investigativos cuyo eje temático versa sobre los conceptos de glocalización, hibridez e identidad, los cuales influyen sobre las producciones culturales y literarias en este nuevo milenio y, grosso modo,...

Die Autorin untersucht Paul Zechs Exilwerk aus einem neuen Blickwinkel: Unter Heranziehung postkolonialer und ökokritischer Theorien sowie Konzepten der Hybridität und Alterität analysiert sie veröffentlichte und unveröffentlichte Prosawerke. Dabei...

This volume contains eleven papers presented at the 2016 conference of the German Inklings Society in Aachen which focused on how the experiences of WWI influenced the works of the inklings. In addition, there are four general articles on speculative...

Im Fokus der Beiträge steht der Lyriker Christian Wagner, Vertreter der literarischen Moderne. Er engagiert sich für Pazifismus, ökologische Landwirtschaft, Minderheiten, Tierschutz sowie Vegetarismus, prägte den Begriff Freitod und verteidigt das Recht...

Dieses Buch analysiert die Modelle der biblischen Gestalten in der Prosa von Georg Trakl. Der Autor untersucht auch die Prosadichtungen, die in formaler Hinsicht den Charakter der Prosa aufweisen. Mit der Aufnahme der Gedichte erfasst der Autor Trakls...

Obgleich Thomas Bernhard und Peter Handke gemeinhin als politische Autoren gelten, hat die Forschung bisher die politische Dimension ihrer Dramatik nicht umfassend untersucht. Diese Forschungslücke schließt die vorliegende Arbeit unter Einbeziehung der...

Das Buch untersucht die Völlerei in der englischen Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit. Darin zeigt der Autor, wie die Maßlosigkeit zur Beschreibung des Eigenen und Fremden genutzt wird, um durch Selbstüberhöhung und Fremdabwertung die nationale Identität zu...

This book discusses literary texts from English and French Canada, the US, Spanish America, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Bibliographic entries refer the reader to native American literature and culture. The periods focused on include the Colonial Period,...

This book examines whether we are witnessing the resilience, persistence and adaptation of masculinist discourses and practices at both domestic and international levels in the contemporary global context. Beginning with an innovative conceptualisation...

We want it all as modern women today, don’t we? And more than ever we can have it all: success, a rewarding career, family, relationships, a social life.Perhaps you already do have it all… But at what expense?For most women, stress is at an...

Come on a journey of self-discovery with the author who chronicles her time in the US Army as an Intelligence Officer during the Persian Gulf War. Filled with the original, poignant, moving, and sometimes raw entries from a journal she wrote in 1990 and...

Three million husbands, fathers, sons, uncles and brothers marched to war between 1861 and 1865. Of that number, nearly 750,000 never returned home. For Mary Ann Hamilton of New Jersey the conflict separated her from her husband and three sons. Her...

Yielded and Submitted: A Woman's Journey for a Life Dedicated to God is a story of a woman you know, and know well. Yielded and submitted is about you; about us! This Intimate Study will bring you back to her, and ultimately, to God. Engage in these...

Cette fatwa , édit religieux, a été émise par deux éminents érudits en Islam et est basée sur des textes de l'Islam traditionnel qui énoncent clairement que les violences conjugales sont interdites. Elle présente des exemples admirables de vie sociale,...

Port of Call describes a metaphysical journey at the dawn of the 3rd millennium. Time blurs, and unsettled relationships mirror a world of heightened disconnection and hope. In a spare and lyrical form, poet/performance artist Davida...

Holly Elliott was familiar with forging new paths. As she describes in her memoir, Teach Me to Love Myself, she was probably the first professionally trained deaf counselor-therapist in the United States. In her initial position as intern and then staff...

This is a profound study of how contemporary Arab American women writers who have been marginalized and silenced, especially after 9/11, are pointing out the racism, oppression, and marginalization they experience in the United States and are beginning...

Irene Watson's pretentious life could go no further untilshe faced her past. Her moving and inspiring memoirbegins at the end, in a recovery center, where she hasgone to understand a childhood fraught with abuse, guilt, and uncertainty.Two distinct parts...

This is a story of Ilona - a young girl, from an immigrant Hungarian family - and her trials and tribulations as she grows from a child to a young woman.But, unusually, this is a true story, one told in Ilona's own words, culled from her memories, and...

This is the real-life testimony of a born-again Christian, the inspiring story of the way Jesus can turn someone's life around completely. When we first meet the author, her life is plagued by unhappiness, lack of fulfillment, and the most profound...

My Discovery of Brazil: 500 Years After Cabral is a first-hand account of a farmland owner-settler in the state of Pernambuco in northeast Brazil. With her background in anthropology, Anna Russell has explored the national character of Brazil, borne out...

"A Good Home will delight your soul and touch your heart. There is magic in these words!"--DEBRA USHER, President and Editor-in-Chief, Arabella Magazine“Cynthia Reyes’ glass is almost always half full, but ours, as we read her uplifting story, brims over...

Discover the secrets to a successful and fulfilling career.PACKED WITH PROVEN STRATEGIES, COACHING EXERCISES AND INSPIRATIONAL STORIES, THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESSFUL WOMEN IS THE ULTIMATE STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE TO ACCELERATE YOUR CAREER, BOOST YOUR...

Milena Cifali, award winning songwriter, and second time published author, (Mallacoota Time, Echo Books), shares her most personal experiences of recent traumas, including losing her home in the 2019 bushfires, and a car accident that has challenged her...

All I did was go away for the weekend; by the time I'd returned, my husband had killed himself.It was thirteen years into my marriage before I realised Simon had bipolar. Despite our difficulties, I was living the life I'd always dreamt of. We were...

Anthony and Marie's story began in the land of Ceylon and traveled all the way back to England where they spend their Happily Ever After days together. Completely in love and ready to take on the world together, the two held onto the comfort the other...

Esther Warden was the 'terror' of West End Fremantle and the most dangerous woman in Western Australia. Lilly Doyle kept company with thieves and rogues and was listed as an 'undesirable'. May Ahern was a 'fallen' woman who lured men into dark street...

The Third Republic, known as the 'belle époque', was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction between the Republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and the reality of...

In more than thirty published books, some of them continuously in print for thirty years, the novelist Moyra Caldecott has transported her readers through ancient history and into other worlds. Her writing is a manifestation of her lifelong quest for...

When you start your own business, or think about starting your own business, you will hear a lot of stories that either drive you, give you motivation and inspiration, or you hear the nay-sayers.This book is for the women entrepreneurs that want to hear...

Olivia Ansell has been a successful entrepreneur since she was 10 years old, an age where unexpected tragedy sparked her unparalleled story of survival and success. As a young girl forced out onto the streets of Uganda, a side effect of an unforgiving...

Divorce! Abuse! Trauma...we may not have shared experiences in common but the one thing we all have in common is that we have endured some serious trials and have triumphed over them all. In our triumph there's been some lessons learned that each of...