Gender studies: women and girls Books

Teresa Benitez-an engineer, doctor, and professor-had three abortions between 2004 and 2022. Although she was against abortion until 2004, her first pregnancy awakened her deepest fears: was she good enough to raise a family? Or would her unresolved...

Madam Warden is the insightful memoir of an idealistic innovator who became a prison warden. It carries the reader through Pam Withrow's first-woman roles at Camp Brighton and Jackson Prison and toward her appointment as the first woman to head a...

Dear Goddess: It's time to live bigger, better and bolder, to manifest your heart's wildest desires! Join me, Biss, to activate your GoddessPleasure and create your unique personal and professional empire that you rule with a crown of confidence...

This is a book about Torah, Chesed, Mitzvos and Emuna. In Anchoring Thru Life's Challenges, Joy Furer presents a heartwarming message about how to anchor your life in the ways of Hashem and to accept and overcome the challenges presented to you through...

Esta es una historia cercana de supervivencia que te sorprenderá. Al crecer en las junglas de Panamá, Miroslava nos introduce en su mundo de animales salvajes, dificultades para obtener una educación, cubrir sus gastos...

Essays by Dora Marsden (1882 - 1960) from her journal "The Egoist." Introduction, annotations, glossary and index by Trevor Blake, author of "Dora Marsden Bibliography." Read the Gospel of Power... "What a blight it is on life, to be sure, that honest...

In August 2012, sixteen members of an Amish community in Bergholz, Ohio, stood trial in a federal courtroom for crimes committed against members of other Amish communities. The world watched in stunned silence as witnesses revealed details about what...

Eighteen-year-old Carrie Welton is restless, unhappy, and ill-suited to the conventions of nineteenth-century New England. When she is presented with an opportunity to escape is a socially approved manner, she leaps at the chance. Leaving behind personal...

This book is a celebration of women. It is an invitation to journey from #MeToo to thriving women via appreciative inquiry, dialogue, and story telling. It addresses topics, through an appreciative lens, that may be difficult to talk about, yet must be...

America in the 1950s was a place of Eisenhower, the Korean Conflict, McCarthy, and Sputnik. Women were trapped in the mold of Donna Reed and June Cleaver, marginalized by the hyper-masculinity of the age. Mystery fiction had become a male bastion,...

60 + Heart moving stories of women from all walks of life who navigated with Grit to transform their lives and those of the people around them. Edie Hand's Women of True Grit tells the stories from her journey in life with all the women she has crossed...

Part-memoir, part-fiction, James & Elle is a delicate mosaic of vignettes reflecting a deeply personal perspective and the complications of having-and supporting-a loved one with PTSD.Two siblings are unravelling their past and uncovering hidden...

In "Dancing My Journey," Nikki Stein, a 40-plus-year-old mother of four, unravels the poignant tapestry of her life, exposing the traumasthat have tested her mental resilience. This intimate narrative invites readers into Nikki's world as she faces...

THOMAS HARDY'S JUDE THE OBSCURE A study of Jude the Obscure using contemporary feminist and literary theory. Illustrated, with notes and a bibiography. Jude the Obscure (1895), Thomas Hardy's last novel, is a sister (or brother) book to Tess of the...

WILD ZONES: PORNOGRAPHY, ART AND FEMINISMREVISED AND UPDATED, WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS <P> Kelly Ives explores the worlds sexual representation in art and pornography, from a feminist viewpoint. </P>  <P> The book includes...

Navigating the online and offline worlds of pairing up, this spiky collection of short stories delves deep, with dark humour, into what it takes to strap on a smile through thirty-something failure and make human connections in the modern age.Gordon...

A critical resource that carefully examines the context, themes and techniques of contemporary British poetry published between 2000 and 2011 in the Poems of the Decade anthology. In addition, the author shares analytical insights, and interesting...

The 1960s was a decade of massive political and cultural change in Western Europe, as seismic shifts took place in in attitudes towards sexuality, gender, and motherhood in everyday life. Through case studies of British and French films, Pepsi and the...

As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse...

The book is a collection of articles written by the author on utopianism - especially on utopian literature, utopian practice, and utopian social theory

If the Anthropocene heralds both a new age of human supremacy and an out-of-control Nature ushering in a premature apocalypse, this living book insists such assumptions must be hacked. Re-performing selections from two live events staged in 2016, 2017...

Carmen Laforet (Barcelona 1921 – Madrid 2004) was one of Spain’s most significant writers of the post-civil war period. Her debut novel Nada (1945) won the first Premio Nadal and remains her best-known work of fiction, but a primarily...

<p><b>Starting out in your career can be a daunting time, but it's also one filled with excitement, opportunity and purpose.</b></p><p>Whether you're travelling the corporate route, embarking on an entrepreneurial journey or...

In Dandelion of That Winter, the author reflects on the most precious treasures that have shaped her existence. These gems, like sparkling facets in a jewel, illuminate her life's journey:Children: Over 50 years of standing by her side, her children have...

This book investigates the transposition of short stories to drama in the works of two leading Sicilian authors, Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) and Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), focussing specifically on their representation of women. De Francisci argues...

#1 Best-seller Not Simply Broken is a tale of immense gratitude of recognizing the miracle of existence and celebrating life despite the circumstances. A woman's soulful attempt to make sense of the changes and not simply broken after being hit by...

A wonderfully ridiculous book about the power of pleasure, fully illustrated and written in Dr. Seuss-style verse. Oh, the Places You’ll Go Oh Oh! is the perfect gift for people who love orgasms, and those who want more of them...

Despite growing up in Deep River, Ontario, the company town for Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories that only exists because of science, Marilyn Carr was firmly neither a science, technology, engineering, nor mathematics person. When How I...

Teenage dreams, ambitions and rebellion. Coming-of-age irony at its finest. Modernist Dreams Brutalist Nightmares is a searingly honest and brutally funny account of LG Thomson's experience of being part of the first generation to grow up in Scotland's...

In this fast-paced memoir, Elise Krentzel shares how she took charge of the tumultuous 1970s by making a name for herself as a rock journalist. As a kid, her parents encouraged her to sing, play music, and write, but she wasn't allowed to be "herself."...

Literary Works by 10 Dominican Women is an ode and an incentive to learn more about these amazing creative mujeres. This book brings together ten transcendental Dominican women writers who have lived or live outside of the Dominican Republic. They are:...

This is a daily planner, undated planner with 365 pages so you can log in your daily schedule plans, page a day with a guided checklist and sections for schedule, appointments, meal tracker, exercise tracker and so much more.This Undated Daily Planner is...

What's a girl to do if she's dumped by her husband in her 60's?How about writing a book documenting her journey and collecting role-models of inspirational women from their 60's through their 90's?The humorous yet educational memoir of a therapist's...

A volume in Work‐Life BalanceIdentity matters. Who we are in terms of our intersecting identities such as gender, race, social class, (dis)ability, geography, and religion areintegral to who we are and how we navigate work and life. Unfortunately, many...

Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap is the sixth volume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice series. This cross-disciplinary series, from the International Leadership Association, enhances leadership knowledge and...

Black women's marginalized experience has often superseded their impact at their respective workplaces. Usually, Black women's ways of knowing and leadership are composed of practices that do not fit perfectly in our heterogenous ideal of leadership. It...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, women played a great leading role in cementing communities, organizations, and family foundations. However, the pandemic also exposed various issues hindering women's roles such as equality in the workplace, pay gaps, and...

The impact of women's empowerment on the Sustainable Development Goals is exponential, as their contributions are essential in all domains relevant to our society and economy. As a society, we are facing a moral imperative to redesign, reshape, and...

In the past century, South Asia underwent fundamental cultural, social, and political changes as many countries progressed from colonial dominations through nationalist movements to independence. These transformations have been intricately bound up with...