Gender studies: women and girls Books

A compelling memoir of a woman's life in the mid-19th century, including her experience as a journalist, abolitionist, and suffragist. Swisshelm's dedication to social reform and equal rights is inspirational and informative about a pivotal time in...

Published in the early 20th century, The Women's Industrial News was an important resource for women seeking information and resources related to the workforce. This collection of issues 29-40 provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of working...

In this controversial essay, William Parker argues against the extension of suffrage to women, drawing on perceived gender differences and invoking traditional gender roles. While the views expressed may be objectionable to many modern readers, this work...

In this thought-provoking address, delivered during the height of the women's rights movement, Alexander Taggart McGill argues that the present era is an 'age of woman' in which the contributions of women to society are increasingly recognized and valued...

A remarkable artifact of Victorian-era women's history, The Record is a collection of writings and artwork submitted by young women involved in the Girls Friendly Society. Spanning a wide range of topics from spiritual reflection to societal critiques,...

In diesem Buch bietet Richard Hoche eine umfassende Biographie von Hypatia, der berühmten griechischen Mathematikerin und Philosophin. Es ist ein wichtiges Werk für Feministinnen, Altertumswissenschaftler und alle, die sich für griechische Philosophie...

Broughton's frank and unflinching autobiography tells the story of a woman's journey from a strict Victorian upbringing to a life of literary success and personal fulfillment. With humor and insight, she recalls her struggles as a female writer and her...

Ce livre explore la vie quotidienne des femmes dans la société brésilienne en examinant leur rôle dans la culture, la religion et les relations familiales. Les thèmes abordés incluent le mariage, la maternité, l'éducation et le travail. Une analyse...

Watson examines the arguments for and against woman suffrage, with a particular focus on a recent legislative report on the subject. She provides a careful analysis of the evidence and the rhetoric used by both sides of the debate, and considers the...

Step into the world of high fashion with this delightful guide to women's dressing-room rituals and secrets. Ayer and Staffe explore the history and etiquette of women's dressing rooms, offering an entertaining and informative glimpse into a bygone era...

This book is an account of the history of women's progress and empowerment, highlighting individual women and their achievements.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as...

This book is a touching tribute to the life and legacy of Susanna Anthony, a remarkable woman from colonial America. Written by Samuel Hopkins, a prominent philosopher and theologian, the book celebrates Anthony's virtues, achievements and religious...

Dieses Buch ist eine Sammlung von Essays und Geschichten über Malwida von Meysenbugs Leben und ihre Erfahrungen als Frau und Feministin im 19. Jahrhundert. Es bietet einen faszinierenden Einblick in die damalige Zeit und inspiriert die Leser, ihre...

Follow the inspiring life of Deiadamia Chase, a pioneering woman in medicine and the study of phrenology. Overcoming the challenges of poverty and discrimination, she rose to become one of the most respected physicians of her time. Filled with personal...

This book offers a detailed and enlightening account of the challenges women faced in terms of pregnancy, childbirth, and nursing in the 19th century. It examines the cultural, social and historical factors that influence women's experience in the...

Though you wouldn’t know it from her diary, Emily Millikan Blair was a descendant of North Carolina’s Millikan and Blair families who saved patriots during the Revolutionary War, and supported the abolitionist movement of the Civil War. While...

At the turn of the century, millions of European women set sail with their families for the United States. Behind them stood a world of peasant agriculture and small town life. Ahead lay the concrete metropolis, swept by the winds of industrial...

For The Woman behind the Lens, Berch has had to ferret out the nature of Johnston's relationship with Mattie Edwards Hewitt.... Interpreting their letters' sentiments, the biographer writes, 'is hardly straightforward. Some scholars advise us to...

"Explores the history of Woolf's diaries, not only to reveal heretofore unremarked sources but also to trace her evolving sense of possibilities in diary-writing, possibilities which helped shape Woolf as a fiction writer. A must-read for devotees of...

The Women's Awakening Project in late 1930s Iran under Reza Shah Pahlavi is the focus of this historical look at the emergence of the modern concept of womanhood in Iran. Amin's extensive research confirms that Reza Shah's controversial attempt to...

Claudine Herrmann became famous in France with he publication of Les Voleuses de langue in 1976. Her much-quoted book is now recognized as a modern classic of feminist literary criticism. Nancy Kline's welcome English translation captures the clarity and...

In this interdisciplinary study of gender, cross-cultural encounters, and federal Indian policy, Margaret D. Jacobs explores the changing relationship between Anglo-American women and Pueblo Indians before and after the turn of the century. During the...

"Here is a valuable and rare document providing a woman's perspective on a western passage that has received little attention from historians. Margaret Dwight's journal gives us a first-hand account that goes way beyond the usual reckoning of miles...

In 1999, a defiant 76-year old Mr Stanley Mhlanga confronted the Zimbabwean Forestry Commission. He claimed that Queen Lozikeyi had given his people the land from which they had been evicted. Who was this woman, an inspiration to an old man 80 years...

With a foreword by Terence Ranger this book offers a thought provoking analysis of women's experiences with ZANLA during the war of independence.It challenges official orthodoxy that a gende revolution occured in this period and that a generation of...

At the age of twenty-two, Noreen Reeves and her husband left the safety and security of in-country Victoria, Australia and embarked on an adventure to the isolation of a Papua New Guinea outstation. Twelve years  later and armed with an...

Fiona Porch is passionate about helping others to leap their hurdles and pursue their goals. By sharing her unique life story, she hopes her message will provide understanding and become a boon for all those who want to fly.Within the depths of these...

Diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, June commenced this final challenge - to write her memoirs. Robbed of the ability to speak she started typing a story or two a day. Eighty-six thousand words in all, the keyboard rattled away at the start but...

Margaret Staples was nine years old at the beginning of 1939 when her father was posted from England to the British colony of Malta with the Royal Engineers. Margaret and her four siblings thought they were in paradise, but everything changed when the...

From the author of the bestselling sobriety memoir, A Happier Hour, comes the long-awaited sequel, Up All Day...What does it take to live without alcohol long-term?Ask anyone who's long-term sober and they'll likely tell you that having some sort of...

Are you part of the baby boomer generation, nearing 50 or have passed the threshold? Five years either way will still pull you into this collection of short stories, which will make you, laugh, sigh and cry. This book reflects the feelings, experiences...

A Sunday school teacher who loves children, Ramona Langit offers thishonest and revealing memoir about her journey to bear a child of her own.Ramona's Quest is filled with Langit's own insights and quotes from othersources that helped her cope as she...

Revenge fantasies begin to fade when an American divorcee findssanctuary and adventure in Italy. While recovering from her losses sheenjoys the intimacy of small town life, ponders the future from her windowon a lake, and revels in a succession of both...

After high school, all eighteen-year-old Olivia wants is a new start. But when she quits her summer job in Yellowstone National Park (all she will say about the situation is that it involved a guy named Lindsey, too much medication, and a super-sized...

Losing a job always delivers a hard blow, but it was especially hard for forty-something author Louise Lewis, one of many victims of the technology industry's dotcom implosion. No Experts Needed: The Meaning of Life According to You! tells the story of...

Honest, humorous, and at times heart breaking, Run the Race: A Father's Legacy of Life Lessons is the moving true story of how one loving and devoted father inspired his daughter to run not only long distances, but also the real races of life. During the...

Things are as they are because in no other way can they be.Seeking Freedom and Joy in the Winding Path of Life: A Spiritual Journey of Learning and Self-discovery, the moving autobiography of author Antonietta Francini, MD, tells the doctor's story of...

An orphaned girl lives through 90 years of social and familial upheaval in this haunting fictionalized biography. When smallpox carries off her brother, father and beloved mother Jencey in 1874, seven-year old Lizzie Murphy is left with a void in her...

Enlightenment in its purest form. Raw and unadulterated, we enter the world and the life--a secret life--of a Black Lesbian.