Gender studies: women and girls Books

"Life is formed by bits and pieces of living:those bits and pieces form our lives."Jeannette Jones Davis Having The Time Of My Life chronicles the author's life from St. George, South Carolina to Washington, D.C. The story not only portrays her life but...

The loss of a spouse is one of the most difficult experiences of our lives. I'll Be All Right is a very personal, autobiographical account of a widow's grief. Using nightly journal entries as a foundation, the author describes the stages she...

In this powerful and poignant story of survival, the woman whom Sir Martin Gilbert called "the American Jewish historian" in The Righteous chronicles her turbulent life during the Nazi onslaught. Lorraine Justman-Wisnicki brings us through her years in...

The fascinating story of one of our nation's "Fly Girls". The Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII flew every P-47 off the factory line in 1944. They flew 60,000,000 miles of operational flights and 77 different types of military aircraft including the...

Into the world, the tiny human, the young stem under the storm battles to survive, to stand up, to fall down, and to stand up and...

What others are saying..." 'Do You Have to Cross the Street to Get to Heaven?' is Shayla Rice Dugan's personal journey through the pregnancy and death of her dear daughter, Caitlyn. As a healthcare professional, I appreciated her honest and heartfelt...

"This is chaplain Moroco, your husband is in the trauma center here at University Hospital" In the book, "The Patients of a Saint", Ellen becomes transformed from a nurse to a caregiver in an instant when she took the phone call that day.

Can a woman make it to the Major Leagues?Twenty-five year old Casey Collins is somewhat of an anomaly. She is the only woman playing men's minor league baseball. When a series of events causes Casey to jump two divisions from Class A to Class AAA, it...

"Letters from Israel" consists of the letters she wrote from Israel to her family in the states. When Nadene returned to the states, she found that her mother had saved all the letters and presented them to her in a bag saying, "Your letters were always...

Title: Noble deeds of American women : with biographical sketches of some of the more prominent.<br /><br />Author: Jesse Clement<br /><br />Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana <br /><br />Description: <br /><br...

Biography and complete anthology of harrowing and insightful poems written in 1932 by Martha Hedwig Nasch, patient-inmate #20864 at the St. Peter State Hospital for the Insane.After noticing something strange from a secret medical procedure in 1927, St...

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriage law still echoes religious marriage law, which for centuries determined which persons could enter into...

This book studies digital feminist activism in contemporary India. It provides a close and comprehensive analysis of the postmillennial digital moment in India which has given rise to new modes of women's digital dissent. The volume examines how...

In Tackling Rape Culture: Ending Patriarchy, Jan Jordan asks why, despite decades of feminist activism, does rape culture remain so endemic within contemporary society. She argues that, in order to understand the global pandemic of sexual violence, we...

This essential collection examines South and Southeast Asian Muslim women's writing and the ways they navigate cultural, political, and controversial boundaries. Providing a global, contemporary collection of essays, this volume uses varied methods of...

Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses.

Published works on Saudi women in organizational contexts are overwhelmingly reductionist, producing a singular story and a monolithic "Saudi woman." This book aims to counter the master narrative on Saudi women in leadership by offering an intimate...

From Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr, All the Queen's Jewels examines the jewellery collections of the ten queen consorts of England between 1445-1548, and investigates the collections of jewels a queen had access to, as well as the varying contexts...

What explains the popularity and widespread appeal of numerous post-Yugoslav feminist and LGBTQ+ festivals in the last decade? This book argues that the millennial generation expresses "reparative politics", as a distinct type of activism, through...