Gender studies: women and girls Books

The official trail diary of pioneer woman, Sarah Jane Rousseau.For Sarah Jane Rousseau, an accomplished pianist from New Castle Upon Tyne, this seven-month journey means leaving all her gentrified comforts behind. It's a sacrifice she is willing to make,...

Courageous and intrepid women made their way to Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Some traveled with their husband while several brave souls went alone. Either way, they encountered a culture and peoples that were foreign to...

It’s said that amazing things happen when you’re in the right place at the right time. Right place, right time was a reality one early morning as I walked down the shed row of the barn at the racetrack toward my boss, Jim. I will never forget...

A preteenage Jewish girl from Poland, living a difficult early life in lower Manhattan, who, years later is blessed with a happy, contented, wonderful life with a loving husband and two young children, unexpectedly comes face to face with the nightmare...

Salió de su adolescencia y entró a la juventud de una forma inesperada, viéndose rodeada de soledad, esperando que su embarazo llegase de una forma sin complicaciones.El primer año sobrevivió con alimentos abandonados, mucha agua y enlatados, carente de...

Sefi Atta is one of the latest in a great line of female Nigerian writers. her works have garnered several literary awards; these include the Red Hen Press Short Story Award, the PEN International David TK Wong Prize, the Wole Soyinka Prize for...

What started as a meeting of minds quickly became a melting of hearts.What did I expect at our first gathering, a continuing education class in memoir writing?I knew, of course, that these students would be seekers, thoughnot of my own 60s generation...

Through much laughter and confusion, and some tears, these are stories of pipeline construction, geological tent camps, fishing, flying, the Alaska-Canada Highway, bears, moose, the end of the road, and other adventures of an Alaskan Woman. Janet's best...

"The Mount Rushmore of Adult Entertainment has four heads: John Holmes, Marilyn Chambers, Jenna Jameson, and Seka. That's it; there ain't no more."- Bill Margold, famed adult film actor,agent, producer, director, and activist Seka-The Platinum Princess,...

"Having read many books on eating disorders, I am always inspired by ones that are written from a personal perspective. Learning To Be Me is so honest and bravely written. It offers readers immense hope, and I am already recommending it to some of my...

My first brush with death was at birth, having entered the world as a "Code Blue Baby." In all my thrilling adventures over the years, I have been confronted by grizzly bears, pushed off a cliff, and fallen into deadly bogs, but my brush with death in an...

Ann Birstein’s account of her adventures in the New York male literary scene as a woman and as a female writer.

This is the true story of a self-confessed sexual zealotwho, while satisfying his lust with bar girls in HongKong, Philippines, Vietnam, and Thailand, is compelled bythe intensity of his libido to find its deeper meaning throughTantra. Tantra teaches...

We are all still here, so our garden of memories will continue to grow. While we have lived very different lives for the past six or seven decades and seldom have the occasion to visit, we need only be together for a minute to know we are sisters who...

DON'T ACCEPT BEING AN AVERAGE GAME PLAYER WHEN YOU CAN BE A GAME CHANGER. The Laws of the New Game Changers: How to Make Breakthrough Impacts That Take You Forward gives you the inside tips and tools to create innovation. It breaks down the secrets of...

On March 14, 2012, Kim Rideout heard the words that one in every nine women will hear in her lifetime: she had breast cancer. Taken To My Knees is a candid memoir written from the daily journals she kept as she underwent surgery, chemotherapy, and...

The author of The Group, the groundbreaking bestseller and 1964 National Book Award finalist that shaped a generation of women, brings reminiscences of her girlhood to this intimate and illuminating memoirHow I Grew is Mary McCarthy’s...

An engaging true story of a three-year-old girl growing up after her mother's death and her father had to separate and send all three siblings to live with different aunts during the depression. The difficult times she faced and the funny things that...

Throughout the new millennium, the number of women interested in amateur wrestling has skyrocketed. From grade school to college, girls and women have been strapping on their head guards and singlets to grapple with their dreams of success on the mat...

Historically, American women have dressed as men for a number of reasons: to enter the military, to travel freely, to commit a criminal act, to marry other women--most often however to secure employment. During the 1800s and early 1900s, most jobs...

There is a new category of authors blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction: women who work or have worked in criminal justice--lawyers, police officers and forensic investigators--who publish crime fiction with characters that resemble...

Without the support of American women, victory in the Revolutionary War would not have been possible. They followed the Continental Army, handling a range of jobs that were usually performed by men. On the orders of General Washington, some were hired...

Women's bodies and their portrayals in the media remain at the center of every debate on women's rights worldwide. This study examines the domains of public and private space--and the interstices between them--with a focus on how women advance in the...

Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to death in England--for murdering her husband, a crime she almost certainly did not commit. Her 1889 trial was presided over by an openly misogynist judge who was later declared...

New Zealand author Janet Frame (1924-2004) during her lifetime published 11 novels, three collections of short stories, a volume of poetry and a children's book. The details of her life--her tragic early years, her confinement in a psychiatric...

In the midst of acne, social anxiety and training bras are the teen idols that make adolescent life a little more bearable. Whether their cutouts are plastered on bedroom walls or hidden behind locker doors, there is no denying the impact of these...

Early detection of breast cancer is critical. Yet efforts to cut back on mammography or even stop screening altogether have been gaining ground in the medical community's decades-long debate over testing and treatment. It is not a purely scientific...

The following stories are true events that take you into the intriguing lives and experiences of prostitutes and their clients in the Caribbean, most of which occurred in Curacao. Many names have been changed to protect the identities of the persons...

A charming, evocative memoir of her years as an East End landlady, by Nanny Pat from The Only Way is Essex

Offers an interdisciplinary feminist framework for conceptualizing time and temporal justice as a form of reparation.

Originally published in Hebrew in 1944, this fascinating and moving account may well be the first memoir of the Holocaust.

Explores how Victorian women writers used the popular science of phrenology to challenge socially constructed forms of power.

The authors in this volume explore how images of mothers have expanded beyond the good/bad dichotomy, simultaneously and sometimes paradoxically serving to reinforce, fracture, and/or transcend the ideology of good motherhood.

Mutating Idylls examines the surprising presence of the antique literary topos of the idyllic landscape, the locus amoenus, in European literature from the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Kreyon Bondye pa gen gom. ("God's pencil has no eraser.")-Haitian proverb When Maryse Noel Roumain decided to write about her childhood and adolescence in Haiti during the 1950s and 1960s, the term evocation guided her. She uses sensory details to create...

This book, Ms. Good-Enough, is a book written to enlighten every female fortunate enough to be a member of this gender class. The author, Valerie Marie Gregory, looks to jar every female into the reality that she is not a diamond in the rough. But...

Ethan's Milagro is the true story of an amazing relationship between a psychic flight attendant, Keli Adams, and two-year-old Ethan, born with a limiting genetic condition. Ethan is unable to communicate well, but he laughs a lot. Keli communicates...

Who's Poisoning Our Children is the true account of Julia Govis, a Midwestern preschool teacher who felt forced to do her own research as three of her four children had health issues which all seemed to share one common thread-the endocrine system...

Amazon Paradise is a real experience by a Japanese woman flying to Amazon alone and traveled upstream with Indios. It is a mixture of an adventure and her experiences of spiritual awakening. Being exhausted after working for environmental issues in...

Laura Lacey Satterly, born and raised in Hialeah, Florida. Laura is Mother to Jennifer and Bobby, and Nana to Nicholas and Sydney. Laura is a retired Chef of thirty five years. She is attending College for a new direction in healing. Surrounded by Spirit...

This book is a story in the life of an individual who was suppose to grow up to be nothing, a nobody. Through reading this book, one will see first hand how individuals believe that they can determine ones future not realizing that once an individual...

To make a long story short. Allow me to introduce myself, or at least attempt to. My life began on August 17, 1977, but I was born on February 24, two and a half years earlier. Strange, but true. Here's the next strange thing about me, my name. Can...

SNIPPETS (bits and pieces of love and life) by CAROLE, written in short chapters for picking up, reading a bit, and setting down, is one you will enjoy so much that you will be reluctant to set it down. The inspirational story of the love and life of...