Gender studies: women and girls Books

This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the...

This book investigates male writers' use of female voices and female writers' use of male voices in literature and theatre from the 1850s to the present, examining where, how and why such gendered crossings occur and what connections may be found between...

What do fictional representations of older women add to our understanding of a group of individuals often marginalized in our youth-oriented society? How far can they challenge the more dominant representations to be found in popular culture, and even in...

Novels by significant Modernist authors can be described as romans à clef, providing insight into restrictions governing the representation of female homosexuality in the early twentieth century. Nair argues that key novels of the period represented...

Changing Female Identities explores the influence of parental figures, the roles that women use as their models, and the diverse feelings that arise as a result of family mandates and emotions in relation to cooperation or competition among siblings.The...

This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights into employment relations in multinational retail firms and changing labourmanagement systems in China, as...

If the urban imagination has been traditionally masculine, this book shifts attention to the role of the city and its processes of mutual transformation in poetry by women writers. By turns challenging, rebellious, utopian and sceptical, some of the most...

At a time of significant change in the precarious world of female individualization, this collection explores such phenomena by critically incorporating the parameters of popular media culture into the overarching paradigm of gender relations, economics...

The favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro are renowned for their high levels of urban violence at the hands of gangs and the police. This book problematises the exclusive focus on men as the victims of these wars played out on city streets, an approach which...

Women and Exile in Contemporary Irish Fiction examines the representation of the Irish woman migrant and ideas of exile in the contemporary Irish novel. Women have frequently been overlooked or made to serve an emblematic or symbolic function in the...

Clean up and Cash out: A complete guide to starting your own house-cleaning businessThis full course can be used to get people into self-employment, and can give people who look for employment in the cleaning business an advantage! See it from the...

On the heels of her poignant and critically acclaimed memoirs, Waiting and Raising Blaze, Debra Ginsberg explores the unique connection she shares with her three sisters.In About My Sisters, Ginsberg examines the special bond she shares with her three...

GIRLS' LUNCH - A New Orleans MemoirGirl's Lunch is a scrumptious tale of six dynamic New Orleans womenwho have met for lunch over the years to share their lives while enjoyingfabulous cuisine in the best restaurants of New Orleans. After...

More than a memoir, not quite an autobiography, "My Life With Words" is a love letter to reading, writing, journalism and learning. At the same time, the author tells a complex story as she explores her decades of struggling with self-image and personal...

So You Wanna Be A Pro Domme? Well, I've curated this book to help you in becoming the ProDomme of your dreams! This starter kit will teach you how to create your persona, build your business, find and vet clients, as well as all the other basic...

تقول نوارة نجم في مقدمة سيرتها مع والدها الشاعر الكبير أحمد فؤاد نجم: لم يغب أبي وذكرياته عن خاطري، لم يكن ذكرى في يوم، كان دومًا حاضرًا. لن أروي إلا قصتي (قصته) عبر كاميرا مثبتة في حدقة عين طفلة ثم مراهقة ثم شابة عاشت في ظل شخص استثنائي على المستويين...

Once upon a time, there were five little girls who believed in themselves and in the women they wanted to be. One fine day they stood gazing at the fragmented remains of their wings smashed by the patriarchal society. Calmly they observed the broken,...

Tapestry Of My Mother's Life is a biographical account of a woman coming of age in Germany during the 1930s. Malve von Hassell explores her mother's life through the fragmented lens of transmitted memory, and its impact on the second generation.Born at...

Frauen und Männer unterscheiden sich hinsichtlich ihrer Studiendauer und Leistung kaum noch voneinander. Ganz anders sieht es allerdings bei der anschließenden Berufstätigkeit aus. Hier gibt es große Ungleichheiten zwischen den Geschlechtern. Betrachtet...

Die Etablierung, Inszenierung und Auflösung der nationalsozialistischen ‹Volksgemeinschaft› im burgenländischen Schattendorf geraten in den Mittelpunkt dieser Studie. Das Leben der Ortsbevölkerung in der ‹Volksgemeinschaft› und während der sowjetischen...

Dieser erste von zwei Sammelbänden zur Bestandsaufnahme von betriebswirtschaftlicher Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung bietet einen Einblick in die Prozesse der Geschlechter(re)produktion der Betriebswirtschaftslehre auf theoretischkonzeptioneller Ebene...

Emilie Mayer, heute weitgehend unbekannt, war eine der bedeutendsten Komponistinnen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Ihr umfangreiches Œuvre umfasst alle musikalischen Gattungen, u.a. auch acht Sinfonien und zahlreiche Kammermusikwerke. Wer war Emilie Mayer? Wann...

Die mündliche Textüberlieferung des slawischen Heidentums war schon fast verschollen geglaubt. Erst in neuerer Zeit ist es gelungen, in der slawischen Folklore-Dichtung Fragmente sakraler Texte, die auf diese Zeit zurückgehen, zu erkennen. Dadurch ist es...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Sozialpsychologie, Note: 1,0, SRH Fernhochschule (SRH Fernhochschule), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel dieser Hausarbeit ist es, mögliche Ursachen für die Unterrepräsentanz von weiblichen...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Beziehungen und Familie, Note: 1,3, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Lehrstuhl für Soziologie und Gender Studies, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie...

From Al-Mi’raj to Zlatarog, The Bestiary Alphabet features a different mythical creature for every letter of the alphabet, lovingly drawn and illustrated by the talented Felix Eddy.Like the medieval bestiaries of old, the Bestiary Alphabet collects...

The legend of a demigod who fathered a nation begins this origin story. As the community he created faces multiple threats, the foundational role of women in leadership that he carves out proves invaluable. Colonial rule, enforcing "scientific racism",...

Screaming orgasms are one of the greatest highs we can experience in our personal lives-so why should we demand anything less in our professional lives?After more than a decade as a high-achieving media CEO, Tracy Call noticed a pattern: women's success...

Buried in My Heart is the story of a young Libyan woman (the author Sara Leptis is a pseudonym) who went to England for her formal education. When she graduated from university, she returned to her home city of Tripoli full of dreams and ambitions to...

A Zimbabwean woman takes readers on a journey through relationships with men from childhood to her adulthood. She interrogates the meaning of freedom and her place in the world through her experience of patriarchy in family, love and inescapable burdens...

"I was genuinely sorry to finish this book. It had me completely engaged... and I loved the clever surprise in the middle of it." Louis de Bernieres, author of Captain Corelli's MandolinIn 1820 London, landscape artist William Daniell hires Jesse Cloud,...

Russian women of the nineteenth century are often thought of in their literary incarnations as the heroines of novels such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace. But their real-life counterparts are now becoming better understood as active contributors to...

"With an ear for dialogue and an eye for detail, Patti See brews her poetry with honesty. But it's her clever wit and I-wish-I'd-thought-of-that lines that make Love's Bluff a lot like Leinenkugel's-an intoxicating Chippewa Falls export." - Ken...

The story of ambush had shaken them. 'They are going to force you out. But you won't make it to Xichang.' 'They will shoot you... on the mountain pass.' She had been in the mountains of South-West China just a few months when Communist advances meant she...

An early example of satirical political writing by a woman. The book, with its blend of politics and sexuality, is based on the public and private lives of prominent politicians and society figures of the time.

Ellen Terry's Memoirs Originally published in 1933, this is the autobiography of the famous English actress, with additional biographical chapters added. Dame Ellen Alice Terry GBE (February 27, 1847 - July 21, 1928) was an English stage actress. She was...