Gender studies: women and girls Books

Resurrecting a lost hero of the Civil War, The Mysterious Private Thompson tells the remarkable story of Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841-98), who disguised herself as a man and defended her country at a time of war. Drawing on Edmonds's journals and those of...

Raised in a sheltered, puritanical household in New England, Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863-1953) followed her conscience and calling in 1885 when she traveled west and opened a school on the Great Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Over the next six years...

In many parts of South-East Asia, women's lifestyles are going through enormous changes as women move from traditional rural, agricultural lifestyles to modern, urban lifestyles, which often involve migration to cities, taking on paid work, and having a...

INTO THE HEART OF THE FEMININE: FACING THE DEATH MOTHER ARCHETYPE TO RECLAIM LOVE, STRENGTH, AND VITALITY by Massimilla Harris, Ph.D. and Bud Harris, Ph.D. Daphne Publications 978-0-692-31144-8 $ 16.99In this exceptionally...

When the Personal was Political is the first social history of the post-feminist generation of women doctors, told through the story of five women who met in the freshman class of UCSF medical school in 1973, formed a study group for mutual support, and...

In March 1975, Brook Carey was selected from among three hundred applicants to serve as warden of the California Institution for Women even though she had no background in Corrections. She was handed a ring of keys and a paperback copy of Helter Skelter,...

Struggling through four years o infertility I slowly lost faith in ever conceiving a child naturally. My husband and myself decided as a last resort to do a one-month cycle of Inter Uterine Insemination. Never in my wildest dreams were there expectations...

Sometimes tear inducing, sometimes humorous, each story sums up the way the author looks at life. Love gets you started, hope brings stability, but faith gets you through. She states, in one essay, "When I look back, I see God's hand leading me though...

A Walk in my Wooden Shoes is a look into the life of Nelly Meyntz from age of three until her life drastically changed in her late forties. This story takes you through the time of World War II during the occupation of Holland. The Nazi's razzia into the...

"She moved through the Baghdad streets purposefully but fearfully thisearly evening. Her only thought now was of taking things minute byminute, since there was no telling where all this would lead."Forced to flee the homeland she loves, an Iraqi woman...

This book is for people who don't know the meaning or the price of freedom. A young girl and her family struggles to get out of Latvia during WWII and lives as refugees in war torn Germany. Not knowing when or if the next bit of food is coming or where...

Suki Falconberg was raped and then became a prostitute. This book, which combines the personal with a great deal of research on prostitution and sex trafficking, is her story. ****************************************************"Suki has been assigned a...

Speaking about the death of a child is taboo, especially a newborn. After all, babies are not supposed to die. But the reality is that they sometimes do. In Balloons on the Mailbox, Chantal D. Hørup recounts the death of her beloved newborn baby girl...

October 17, 2000, forty-year-old Regina "Gina" Bos disappeared after a performance at an open mike night. Gina's sister, Jannel Rap, poured her energy into the search, but as of this writing, Gina has not been found. The pain of losing Gina, followed by...

A very funny as well as a sad book that reads like adetective and is intended for anyone having a hardtime, man or woman, with their life, career orrelationships. This compelling and inspiring story fromthe Himalayas will mesmerize the reader from the...

Cry With Me is a moving and heartrending, personal account by the author about how she grew up and suffered untold hardships and injustices in a war-torn and corrupt African country-Zimbabwe-and how she finally took the courageous step to seek asylum in...

Fleeing from the ethnic conflict and impending war of their native Smyrna in Asia Minor, Stefan and Evangelia Glitsos Constantinides settle in the industrial metropolis of St. Louis, Missouri. Here they struggle to establish themselves as entrepreneurs,...

Fifty-five years ago, a sitcom called I Love Lucy transformed the television landscape and made its leading lady, Lucille Ball, a superstar. No one could have known that Ball, formerly a showgirl, B-movie queen, and radio actress, would become one of the...

In 1954, Ruth Vincent was a young teacher and Alaska was not yet a state when her biologist husband, Bob, decided to conduct research on rugged, isolated Afognak Island. As they left Oregon for the unknown, both Ruth and Bob eagerly anticipated their...

Gaby D. is a journal chronicling a mother's journey through grief in the years following the sudden death of her young daughter Gabrielle. It is a heartbreaking and arduous trek but it is ultimately a passage of love and hope; and of a connection that...

Revised for the 1993 centennial celebration of the birth of Dorothy L. Sayers, this biography describes a life profuse with literary products as rich and varied as her past.

Born in Paris during its occupation by the Germans. Became a horse crazy girl in Costa Rica. Taking volcano trips on horseback, once sliding off a road on horseback 50 feet to a river. Passenger as freight on cargo planes over dense Central American...

Guillain Barre Syndrome is strange combination of symptoms that includes paralysis in varying degrees. It strikes men and women, young and old. Often the primary care physician has difficulty diagnosing a GBS patient. After the symptoms have peaked and...

The period up to the Cold War of the late twentieth century was a time of great social, economic, political, and religious changes. New discoveries in medicine eliminated epidemics and increased life expectancy. Inventions such as the automobile,...

Domesticity and Design in American Women's Lives and Literature explores the ways in which four American women writers from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century inhabited domestic space and portrayed it in their work. Hellman explores...

This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her...

Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical orientation or response in their readers, explaining how the intersections...

First published in 1991, The Achilles Heel Reader brings together key articles from Achilles Heel, the path-breaking and influential magazine of men's sexual politics. It also includes an important introduction by the editor, setting the magazine in its...

This book is an attempt to penetrate the silence that surrounds the lives of nurses as migrant women. It offers a perceptive understanding of the trials faced specifically by women from the state of Kerala, in their personal and professional spheres, in...

The popular perception of globalisation is rooted in its image of dissolving senses of distance and boundaries. It is so preoccupied with the technology that enables globalisation that little attention is paid to questions of 'how' and 'where' the...

This book provides cutting edge information on safe motherhood in a global context. The chapters focus on research, program development and implementation, and policy dealing with various aspects of pregnancy, labor and delivery. Safe motherhood is a...

Gender and Education in China analyzes the significance, impact and nature of women's public education in China from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century. Educational change was an integral aspect of the early twentieth century...

This new study reveals how institutional practices and discourses shape the way men and women are conceived of, and how through this process, gender stereotypes and expectations are created. Informed by the latest research and trends, these...

This book presents significant new findings on new domains of employment for women in China's burgeoning market economy of the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Experts in gender, politics, media studies, and anthropology discuss the impact of economic...

Placing women's experiences in the context of the major social, economic and cultural shifts that accompanied the industrial and commercial transformations of this period, Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus paint a fascinating picture of the change,...

Second-wave feminism fought to end the blanket silence shrouding rape and bring it to public attention. Now feminist critics must confront a different issue. In Public Rape Tanya Horeck considers the public investment in images of rape and the figure of...

This reader contains a range of highly influential articles that confront and illuminate issues of gender and sport whilst reflecting on the contribution of international feminist scholarship to the study of sport. It addresses the key issues,...

As increasing numbers of women return to work or education after starting or raising a family, it can no longer be assumed that education, employment, family is a defining progression for women in the Western world. Women's Contemporary Lives questions...

This unique and groundbreaking book seeks to re-focus gender debate onto the issue of daughter discrimination - a phenomenon still hidden and unacknowledged across the world.It asks the controversial question of why millions of girls do not appear to be...

While men's violence to women is an everyday culturally supported activity, this reader demonstrates: that men's violence can be curtailed and that women and children can be assisted effectively; that state policies and provision can be improved; and...

Damned upon publication for engaging with the taboo issues of female sexuality and infidelity, Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) is now hailed as a key early feminist text and an important work of American literature.This sourcebook combines accessible...