Gender studies: women and girls Books

A tribute to the campaigner and political reformer Richard Pankhurst, husband to Emmeline Pankhurst and father to suffragists Adela, Sylvia and Christine Pankhurst. He helped found the Manchester Liberal Association and established a National Society for...

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Lady Henry Somerset, an English philanthropist and temperance leader of the nineteenth century who was president of British Woman's Temperance Association.

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Madame du Barry, Louis XV of France's final Maîtresse-en-titre, who was executed during the French Revolution.

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features the mistress of Lord Nelson, Emma Hamilton, born Amy Lyon to a blacksmith in Cheshire, England. She lived a colourful life, being mistress to a number of men. She married the uncle...

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Julia Ward Howe, an American feminist, abolitionist, social reformer and writer (1819 - 1910).

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features the French mystic Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (1648-1717). Guyon was an advocate of Quietism and her beliefs earned her imprisonment at the hands of the Roman Catholic...

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Lucy Stone (1818 - 1893), the American abolitionist and suffragist campaigner who was the first woman in America not to adopt her husband's name upon marriage. An inspirational...

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Baroness Dudevant who was best known by her pseudonym George Sand. She was the first female writer to become famous in France and was as well known for her novels, plays and essays...

This book is the Helen of Troy addition of the "Influential Women in History" series. An important figure in Greek mythology, Helen of Troy was the daughter of Zeus and Leda. She was the most beautiful woman in the entire world, and her abduction by...

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Dolly Madison, wife of James Madison, and First Lady of the United States between 1809 and 1817. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before,...

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features the ancient Greek queen Cleopatra who was also the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a Greek royal family which ruled in Egypt following the death of...

This book contains a collection of opinion by opponents of the feminist movement at the beginning of the 20th century. It is an intriguing read, containing detailed and vehement arguments against the movement. Thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the...

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features the founder of the Women's Suffrage Journal that was published between 1870 and 1890. She was a prominent figure in the early British suffrage movement.

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Lola Montez, a dancer and actress born Eliza Gilbert in Ireland who made a career as a Spanish dancer and courtesan. Her elopement and subsequent marriage to a Lieutenant at the...

This book contains a wealth of opinion from the beginning of the 20th century in opposition to female suffrage. Dozens of writers, both men and women, argue their cases forcefully. The collection is a fascinating read for any modern feminist or social...

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features the French author and courtesan, Ninon de l'Enclos who lived between 1620 and 1705. She was a figure of wit and beauty in the literary salons of the epoch.

This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Madame Jumel, born Eliza Bowen in 1775, the daughter of a Rhode Island prostitute. Upon her marriage to a rich French wine merchant she acquired a life of luxury that was beset by...

First published in 1884, this book contains a biography of Princess Louise Maximilienne Caroline Emmanuele of Stolberg-Gedern (1752–1824) written by Vernon Lee. Often referred to as the Countess of Albany, she was the wife of the Jacobite claimant to the...

This inspiring story will teach you to appreciate life and live each day as if it is your last. Brenda E. Rocker has spent the last decade of her life surviving breast cancer. Hopefully through her testimonial she can save someone from what she...

The Wounded Chalice is about honoring the Divinity of the Womb, the instrument fashioned by God to procreate human beings on this planet. It is the story of every woman, the holder of the most precious temple and the Ark of the Covenant between God and...

Author Susan Rae Baker has taken over 30 years of life experience and packed it into a very engaging, thought provoking book that is sure to not only entertain, but to bring an awareness to women in the working world or about to enter it, of the...

Story of a battle with cancer and the added fight with our HMOs and medical bureaucracy told through the medium of emails. This is a history of the my wife's struggle with our failed medical system, the battles with bureaucracy and her brave fight to get...

The present work is devoted to the history of Beatrice, the younger sister of Isabella d'Este and who, as the wife of Lodovico Sforza, reigned during six years over the most splendid court of Italy. The charm of her personality, the important part which...

Isabella D'Este, the Marchioness of Mantua (1474-1539) was one of the dazzling figures of the Italian Renaissance, playing the Renaissance game with an expertise that outflanked Popes and Emperors, using her brains, her charm, and her unswerving purpose...

Accepting the Love That Can't Be Taken Away will refresh and inspire Christians, reminding them of God's inseparable love. Tabitha shares the Gospel with compassion and by using her own testimony to encourage others to live for Jesus.

A mini-autobiography filled with emotional Twists and turns. From one experience to the Next. I pull no punches. I allow you to come Into my world raw and uninhibited. Take The tour. It's worth the time, effort and the Trip. Reading this story will...

The revealed woman balances at the edge of the precipice. Will she plummet to her demise or soar with the eagles? Is it wings that flow behind her or the tattered remnants of her spirit? Other Books: Somewhere Beyond Tomorrow.