Gender studies: women and girls Books

Published in 1874, this book recounts the fascinating and controversial story of a woman named Mrs. Simeon Hays, who claimed not to have eaten any food for over a decade. Drawing on interviews with Hays and her family, as well as newspaper articles and...

This autobiographical work tells the story of Harriet Carson, a young woman who went from working as a weaver to becoming a lawyer. With vivid descriptions of the challenges she faced along the way, Carson offers readers a glimpse into a bygone era. With...

This collection of works by Camilla Collett includes her famous feminist novel "The Daughters of the Prefect" and autobiographical writings. Collett was a pioneering women's rights activist in Norway and her works are celebrated for their social...

This autobiography tells the story of Marion Blythe, a young woman from New York who married a Puerto Rican man and moved to his homeland. It provides an insightful look into Puerto Rican society at the turn of the 20th century.This work has been...

Violence. Drugs. Murder. Poverty. These words flash across headlines to describe the U.S. Mexico border city of Juarez. Left out of the evening news is the lives of the ordinary people who live in the city-those who live amidst the violence, the drugs,...

"This is my favorite kind of history," writes Dick Haeberlin in "Southwestern American Literature," "the story of a person I did not know about before, one not famous but important anyway." And important she was, as this new Sunstone Press edition of...

Can you imagine wanting your true self? More than anything else? Do you think you have the "right" and the capacity to grow and change? And how would you go about making your life authentic, anyway? Do you have enough time alone to give yourself the...

What would inspire a proper young British woman, well-educated and devoted to the Church of England, to venture forth from a sheltered academic life of the early 20th century to cross an ocean in order to conduct investigations on a people that she...

Strejilevich's elegant fictional memoir combines autobiography, documentary journalism, fiction, and poetry to express the "choir of voices" of the more than 30,000 souls who were imprisoned, abused, and assassinated at the hands of the military junta...

Joan Marie Johnson investigates how the desire to create a distinctive southern identity influenced black and white clubwomen at the turn of the 20th century and motivated their participation in efforts at social reform. Often doing similar work for...

Selected by <i>Choice</i> magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title<i>The Education of Jane Addams</i> traces, with unprecedented care, Addams's three-decade journey from a privileged prairie girlhood through her years as the...

"An important book. . . . A model of concise and elegant research and writing."--Journal of the Early Republic"Branson argues convincingly that, contrary to the claims of recent historians, women in the revolutionary era had an identity as women, that...

The American Southwest was arguably as formative a landscape for Willa Cather's aesthetic vision as was her beloved Nebraska. Both landscapes elicited in her a sense of raw incompleteness. They seemed not so much finished places as things unassembled,...

Rumor, gossip, and innuendo are the weapons of the home front, and no one wielded them with quite the aplomb of Maria Lydig Daly. Her richly detailed comments on everything from inept Union generals to Dorothea Dix's appearance provide the liveliest...

This volume is composed chiefly of papers first presented and discussed at the Research Symposium on Feminist Phenomenology held November 18-19, 1994 in Delray Beach, Florida. Those papers have been revised and expanded for...

Feminism is evolutionary. It changed our lives and the world we live in. To a point, that is. Most people know nothing about it. According to author Marilyn Casselman, the culture must absorb the narrative of feminism itself and reflect the changes in...

More than a memoir, this story centers around the life of struggle and survival of a young, single mother with three children whose journey through life takes them on a wild, wide ranging ride of never ending adventures and challenges.The underlying...

The leader of the free world needs a woman head of state-but a particularwoman-with the intellect and presence of mind to ponder action with an eyeon the future; a human-centeredness capable of respecting difference andenvisioning peaceful cooperation...

Little did five-year-old Maria Luisa Morales know that her life in the town of Santa Teresa, Boyaca Estate of Colombia, would soon be torn apart by war raging between guerilla forces and the Colombian government. Forced to flee barefoot from her town,...

Paulette Castel, an international recording artist with a story to tell. You will be blessed and inspired by her ministry! Paulette Castel is Legendary!*Being among the first to integrate Woodrow Wilson High School*The First Black to become a regular...

The author introduces you to her deceased sister in this biography, written frankly and intensely personally. A Long Island bred girl, with only a high school education, meets, in a most unorthodox manner, a French Professor of Romance Languages from...

Following a childhood of parental abuse, and subsequent homelessness, Nancy Davenport went on to graduate from UCLA Phi Beta Kappa, later receiving her Master's Degree in Social Work. An accomplished poet and artist, she dedicated her life to counseling...

Growing up in Ireland with no utilities. Not enough dishes to go around, so we all shared one another dishes. Started out as a maid and to day I am a Doctor.

Imagine that murdered primatologist Dr. Dian Fossey of Gorillas in the Mist fame were alive today and able to reflect upon her death as well as her legacy. This is the impetus behind author Georgianne Nienaber's compelling work, Gorilla Dreams: The...

A war in being waged in American Society in an effort to strip males of their Manhood! It is being waged by a number of repressive forces, but it is most notably resulting from excessive force being used by Radical Feminists to serve the cause of women's...

After completing his biography of Rebecca West in 1995, Carl Rollyson felt bereft. As his wife said, 'Rebecca was such good company." He had already embarked on another biography, but Rebecca kept beckoning him. He felt there was more to say about her...

The day Richard and Linda saw Low Arvie, a run down and neglected farm in Galloway in rural southwest Scotland, they hoped they had found their future home. But they could not foresee quite how their life would change in so many ways.Beginning with their...

Pat and Bob were completely prepared for their vacation. They had lived in Indonesia long enough to be ready for anything. Nothing could possibly go wrong.But what happens when the system breaks down?What if, to reach the destination of your dreams, you...

Wild Life On The Wing is a book written by Maud Doria Haviland and published in 1913. It is a collection of essays that explore the fascinating world of birds and their behavior. The author takes the reader on a journey through the woods and fields,...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The State And Charity is a historical book written by Thomas Mackay in 1898. The book explores the relationship between the state and charity, and how they have evolved over time. Mackay examines the role of the state in providing social welfare programs...

""More Than Coronets"" is a book written by Mrs. G. Linnaeus Banks, a Victorian-era author known for her popular novels and short stories. The book is a collection of biographical sketches of notable women throughout history, ranging from queens and...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Women and the Irish Diaspora looks at the changing nature of national and cultural belonging both among women who have left Ireland and those who remain. It identifies new ways of thinking about Irish modernity by looking specifically at women's lives...

This book is dedicated to improving the practice of the policing of domestic abuse. Its objective is to help inform those working in policing about the dynamics of how domestic abuse occurs, how best to respond to and investigate it, and in the longer...

This thirteenth volume in the series addresses an increasingly salient worldwide research, design, and policy issue-women and physical environments. We live in an era of worldwide social change. Some nation-states are ...