Gender studies: women and girls Books

Il libro ""Dei Feziali E Del Diritto Feziale"" (1884) di Guido Fusinato ����� un'opera che tratta del diritto romano antico, in particolare del diritto feziale. L'autore esamina la figura dei feziali, sacerdoti incaricati di gestire le relazioni tra gli...

Das Buch ""Das Wesen und die Rechtsverh�����ltnisse der neueren religi������sen Frauengenossenschaften"" von Ferdinand Schuppe wurde im Jahr 1868 ver������ffentlicht. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit dem Thema der religi������sen Frauengenossenschaften und...

Das Buch ""Das Leben Der Dichterin Amalie Von Helvig Geb. Freiin Von Imhoff (1889)"" von Henriette Krohn Von Bissing ist eine Biografie �����ber die deutsche Dichterin Amalie von Helvig. Das Buch beschreibt ihr Leben von ihrer Kindheit bis zu ihrem Tod...

Introduction to Feminist Thought and Action is an accessible foundation that whets appetite for further study. It provides a non-US-centric introduction to gender studies, covering topics like 19th-century African, Chinese, and Arab movements, and...

This book addresses hegemonic ruling class masculinity and emphasized femininity within renewables organisational governance, and critiques Anglo-Celtic male privilege, as a barrier to women's leadership participation.Primarily using the Australian...

In the three decades before the First World War, the relationship between socialism and feminism was both curious and convoluted. Despite strong theoretical links between these ideologies, class and sex seem to have inspired conflicting loyalties and...

In the late 1980s, despite the fact that the vast majority of women now had a dual role - in paid work and in the domestic realm - the world of work, the welfare state, and the domestic sphere were all still organized as though women's place were...

In the wake of communism's decline, women's concerns had become increasingly important in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Yet most discussions of post-communism changes had neglected women's experiences.Originally published in 1993, this...

Sarah Waters and Contemporary Feminisms presents ten readings of Sarah Waters's fictions published to date in relation to feminism and contemporary feminist theory. The analysis offered in the collection investigates how Waters engages with recent...

Food binds us to each other and to the environment. The ways, however, that food brings together various forms of life transforms in different times and places. Here, Yuki explores the logics and systems of value that surround food consumption,...

This collection analyzes shifting relationships between gender and labour in post-Fordist times. Contingency creates a sexual contract in which attachments to work, mothering, entrepreneurship and investor subjectivity are the new regulatory ideals for...

Bringing together a range of authors from the multidisciplinary field of disability studies, this book uses disability and the experiences of disabled people living in the United States and Canada to explore and analyze dynamic sites of human interaction...

In a context of economic and budgetary crisis, this book presents a long-term analysis of the transformations of EU gender equality. It analyses the mechanisms of construction, consolidation and deconstruction of this policy and questions the effects of...

Covering a wide range of magazine work, including editing, illustration, poetry, needlework instruction and typesetting, this book provides fresh insights into the participation of women in the nineteenth-century magazine industry.

The History Of Woman Suffrage V2, Part 1: 1861-1876 is a book written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and first published in 1881. This book is a detailed account of the women's suffrage movement in the United States during the period of 1861-1876. The book is...

Conduct Is Fate V1, Part 1 is a novel written by Charlotte Bury and first published in 1822. The story revolves around a young woman named Agatha, who is raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle after her parents die. Agatha is beautiful, intelligent, and...

Ce recueil réunit des portraits de femmes célèbres de l'époque, écrits par des écrivains et écrivaines renommé·e·s comme Restif de la Bretonne. Ces textes offrent un aperçu passionnant des mentalités et des représentations de la féminité au XVIIIe siècle...

Ce livre rend hommage aux femmes qui ont brisé les barrières et ont réussi à devenir médecins. Il explore leurs défis, leurs victoires, et leur impact sur les personnes autour d'elles.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important,...

Dieses Buch erzählt die Geschichte der Frauen in der Naturwissenschaft, Gesundheits- und Heilkunde sowie in der Länder- Völker- und Menschenkunde. Der Autor, Johann Christian Friedrich Harless, zeigt, wie Frauen schon seit frühester Zeit einen wichtigen...

Dans ce livre fascinant, Alexandre-Louis Foucher de Careil explore l'influence du cartésianisme sur les femmes au XVIIe siècle, en particulier sur la princesse Palatine. Ce livre est idéal pour les passionnés d'histoire, de philosophie et de féminisme...

A scandalous tale of an 18th-century woman who lived life on her terms, this Volume of Memoirs takes readers on a wild ride through Laetitia Pilkington's adventurous life, full of intrigue, romance, and royal connections.This work has been selected by...

Do you yearn to be free from emotional pain? Do you long for self-acceptance and a sense of peace?If so, this book is for you.Jody Kalpenos has taken an extraordinary journey of healing from painful tragedies, family betrayal and a sense of deep...

'It's always hot in Australia. And you can ride your horses to school and tie them up under a gumtree,' my mother told us with a knowing smile, as we stared at her in awe.Gathered on a cold, misty morning in their Georgian mansion on the shores of Lough...

All of political Islam is based upon the principles of submission and duality. Islamic dualism has one set of rules for men and another for women. Islam demands that a woman must submit to a man in all things-family, business, religion, work, war, sex,...

"Lounsberry is the only scholar to treat Woolf 's diaries for themselves--as works of art, as expressions of her private self, and as testing grounds for her experiments in novel writing."--Panthea Reid, author of Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia...

This ambitious volume surveys an expansive and diverse range of countries across the nineteenth-century Spanish-colonized Americas, showing how both men and women used the discourses of modernity to envision the place of women in the modern, utopian...

"These energizing, excellent essays address the international scope of Wharton's writing and contribute to the growing fields of transatlantic, hemispheric, and global studies."--Carol J. Singley, author of A Historical Guide to Edith Wharton "Readers...

"Readers of Sexton's poetry have been waiting more than twenty years for a collection of essays like this."--Dawn M. Skorczewski, author of An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton"An important collection of new critical views. Draws from a...

While playing the southern lady for the white political establishment, thousands of mostly middle-class, middle-aged, married white women become grassroots activists in America's civil rights movement, sometimes at the cost of friendships, status,...

Florence Nightingale is best known as a woman of action--a founder of modern nursing, a reformer in the field of public health, and a pioneer in the use of statistics. What is not generally appreciated is that Nightingale was deeply engaged in the...

Throughout her fiction, Willa Cather mentioned forty-three operas. References to opera appear in all but three of her twelve novels and in roughly half of her short stories. Despite a dearth of musical education, Cather produced astute writing about the...

From the late 1860s until her death in 1910, Rebecca Harding Davis was one of the best-known writers in America. She broke into print as a young woman in the 1860s with "Life in the Iron Mills," which established her as one of the pioneers of American...

In an effort to enshrine the heroic efforts of those women living outside the city of Philadelphia who helped sustain Washington's army at Valley Forge, Dr. Egle prepared genealogical and biographical sketches of the 69 Pennsylvania heroines of the...

Lot's Daughters explores the relationship of fathers and daughters and of older men and younger females in history, life, art, and culture. This ambitious, daringly original book shows how humanity has remembered and been formed by Lot's daughters-how...

Iowa six-player girls' basketball was the most successful sporting activity for girls in American history, at its zenith involving more than 70 percent of the girls in the state. The state tournament was so popular-regularly drawing fifteen thousand...

Called "Her Majesty" because of her resemblance to Queen Victoria and known as "the measuring woman" among the Indians whose land allotments she administered, Alice Fletcher (1838-1923) commanded respect from both friend and foe. She was the foremost...

Yaqui Women belongs to more traditional anthropology-an anthropology that accepted a more documentary style. However, when the interviews with the women were being done in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the main research goals shared some of the...

Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive detail: breakfasting in a snowstorm, walking behind the wagons to keep warm, tasting buffalo meat, trying...

The overland trails in the 1860s witnessed the creation of stage stations to facilitate overland travel. These stations, placed every twenty or thirty miles, ensured that travelers would be able to obtain grain for their livestock and food for themselves...