Gender studies: women and girls Books

The book considers the ways in which people construe events as bounded and unbounded in oral communication, using aspectual forms and co-speech gestures. The results reveal differences in event construal in multimodal terms by speakers of Russian and...

In this book a renewed hermeneutics emerges from the transatlantic relationships between Spain and Latin America. For this book reconnects indigenous knowledge to Western thought; Amazonian, Andean, and African traditional wisdom to European contemporary...

Der Sammelband präsentiert die Beiträge des 15. Treffens des Jungen Forums Slavistische Literaturwissenschaft (JFSL), das 2017 an der Universität Hamburg stattfand. Er versteht sich als eine Momentaufnahme der aktuellesten Forschung von...

The book discusses Russia's contacts with the West from the eighteenth century to modernist literature to early Soviet poetry and post-revolutionary emigration. The articles offer new perspectives on the study of Russian literature in a comparative...

Johann Friedrich Schink (1755-1835) gehört zu den aktivsten Theatermachern der Goethezeit. Er wirkte als Dramaturg, Bühnendichter und Kritiker in Hamburg, Hannover, Graz und Wien. Der Band untersucht acht Dramen Schinks, sein Verhältnis zu Schiller und...

En este Cervantes y los Mares, se encuentra el lector con la magistral narrativa de viajes y marítima que Cervantes desarrolló en su Persiles, terminado poco antes de morir. Aquí, podrá ahondar en la obra de Cervantes, acercarse a las relaciones entre la...

The collection of essays explores the transnational and intermedial (music, visual arts, digital media) legacy of Walt Whitman. It provides examples of his influence as well as suggestive parallels in contemporary poetry and thought. One common concern...

In der Untersuchung wird verdeutlicht, wie die aus dem südosteuropäischen Raum stammenden Autoren Florescu, Trojanow, Bodrožić und Stanišić Verflechtungen unterschiedlicher Kulturen in ihren Werken artikulieren und die Vorstellung einer transkulturell...

El volumen ofrece análisis e indagaciones de un continuo de la escritura del yo en la obra narrativa, ensayística, lírica y dramática de Unamuno y sondea representaciones del sujeto que se extienden hacia direcciones y formas diversas, tocando tanto su...

Desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria y con el enfoque en los procesos históricos del siglo XX, las contribuciones de este libro analizan las relaciones entre la infancia y la violencia en el cine latinoamericano, comprendiendo temas como los crímenes...

Die Autorin stellt ein Korpus neuartiger Figurentypen zusammen und befragt diese auf ihr subversives oder perpetuierendes Potential bezüglich Heteronormativität. Allen Romanen, die die Bacha Posh, das Trans*-Kind oder die legitimiert kämpfende Soldatin...

Die Studie untersucht die Konstellationen in der Literatur- und Theaterszene der Nachkriegsära, die den Aufstieg von Max Frisch und Friedrich Dürrenmatt als international berühmte Autoren ermöglichten. Sie verfolgt deren Weg vom Drama und Theater der...

Der Autor analysiert die sprachlich-ästhetischen und inhaltlich-politischen Elemente der literarischen Darstellung von Machthabern und Machtstrukturen in Romanen afrikanischer und deutscher Autoren. Diese schildern verschiedene historische Mächte...

The volume elucidates new aspects of Polish-Russian, German-Russian, Russian-Baltic, and Russian-French literary contacts.The essays deal with Blok, Bely, Akhmatova, Babel, Jabotinsky, Remizov, and Nabokov and cover post-Stalinist Soviet "samizdat" and...

Das Buch ist ein Wegweiser durch die österreichische Literatur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung stehen zwei aufeinander eingestimmte Bewegungen, die Moderne und die Postmoderne, welche das Bewusstsein der österreichischen...

Essays explore how historically specific literary texts engage with epistemological questions in relation to material and social forms as well as representation. Literature is discussed as a culturally embedded form of knowledge production in its own...

Die Interpretation der Musik in Herta Müllers Werk setzt sich auf der Grundlage des Romans Atemschaukel sowie weiterer Texte der Autorin u.a. mit den Liedern, den Strukturen und der musikalischen Idiomatik auseinander. Sie begreift Musik als neue -...

Cassirers Arbeiten über Literatur werden vor dem Hintergrund seiner in den 20er Jahren geschriebenen Philosophie der symbolischen Formen gelesen. Es zeigt sich, dass diese Texte ein wichtiger Baustein für die spätere neue Kulturwissenschaft darstellen,...

Giovanni Arpino bezeichnete sein Schreiben als ricerca dell'umano, als Erforschung des Menschlichen. Im Vordergrund steht dabei, was eine Figur fühlt und denkt. Auf dieser Grundlage nimmt die Studie eine textnahe Funktions- und Darstellungsanalyse der in...

This study addresses the issue of household food consumption, its relation to gender and to food policy in Indonesia. Using econometric analyses of the Indonesian Family Life Survey, the study reveals that food expenditure patterns, particularly those of...

This book examines 19th- and 20th-century German literature and film, works by Wedekind, Musil, Ataman, and Sanoussi-Bliss, following themes of gender, sexuality, belonging, abjection, race, and disease. Encountering mutual dependence and abhorrence, the...

This study explores Global Gothic and comparative literature by contextualizing Gothic tropes such as the sublime, the uncanny, the double and the setting in contemporary novels written by Adiga, Desai, Ishiguro, Müller, Pamuk, Roberts and Rushdie...

Anhand der bedeutendsten Texte Benjamins zeichnet das Buch nach, in welcher Weise dieser die Lineamente der Kulturphysiognomie in den aufeinander folgenden Epochen der deutschen Geschichte seit dem 18. Jahrhundert entwickelte.

Anne of Green Gables is a charming and timeless novel that follows the adventures of Anne Shirley, an imaginative and spirited orphan. The story begins when Anne is mistakenly sent to live with Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, a brother and sister who had...

This book critically examines the systemic disadvantages faced by women who have been victims of violence in the United States, revealing the inadequacies of laws rooted in a patriarchal, sexist, heteronormative, and racist ideology that has permeated...

Elsa Dorlin, 'What a body can do'Rei Terada, 'Hegel’s racism for radicals'Dimitris Vardoulakis, 'Spinoza's law'Maya Kronfeld, 'The philosophyer's bass drum'Dossier: Saba Mahmood in memoriamRatna Kapur: The...

Elvie, Girl Under Glass tells the poignant story of a child transplanted from a sunny mountain village in Italy to Montreal, Quebec, in 1952.Raised in a household ruled by a cruel, controlling father, her desire to free herself from his oppression...

"My Life, My Words: A Memoir in Progress" is a life story journal, designed to support you to take on one of the most meaningful, rewarding and challenging tasks of your life: recording your own life story.The first part of the journal offers tools to...

I wrote about my journey from my homeland, my escape from the communist regime to start a new life in the West; first Canada, then the United States. In the early 2000s, the late Princess Diana (who died in 1997) had started showing up in my dreams and...

Meet Tasha Wall. A proud, thirst-trapping, celebrity psychic, healer, and self-made supermodel. After struggling for years with binge eating, dead-end relationships with fuck boys, and far too many home bleach disasters, Tasha realized that she was able...

This workbook is a companion to the first Peaceful Prosperity book, Taking the Fear Out of Finance by Laura Redfern, CFP®, CeFT®. Taking the Fear Out of Finance is a journey up your financial mountain. Along the way, we consider you as a whole person and...

If you crave stories of resilient people who follow their heads, hearts, and dreams, and if you like light-hearted humor and fast-paced page-turners, then you'll love Apple An's inspirational account.Fleeing the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square...

This book critically explores global challenges from linguistic and literary standpoints aimed at contributing towards their mitigation. Composed of two parts, contributors to the first section examine issues such as language use in the Anglophone crisis...

The Wall of Hope is a captivating, cross-cultural journey to discovering family, love, and purpose in a world of chaos and war.  Hope Lê Ketchum-James has struggled to find her place in the world. The daughter of an American soldier and a...

Diamela Eltit's literary work emerged on the Chilean cultural scene in the 1980s when the Pinochet regime (1973-1990) had consolidated its project of extermination, censorship, and neoliberal shock therapy. Forced to write in a suffocating atmosphere of...

Can you really have it all? Build a successful business, follow your passion, stay fit, and still cultivate a great relationship with your partner or family?The truth is you can get anything you want, but first what you ultimately need is a new way of...

About Sara's Sacrifice, Book 1 of the Daughters of Evolution Series by Flo Parfitt“Parfitt made early twentieth century Milwaukee come to life in this story of the hard work and sacrifice of Wisconsin’s forward-looking suffragists...

Have you ever met a woman--Who was Annie Oakley, Scarlet O'Hara, and Eleanor Roosevelt all rolled into one?-Who, on a Sunday morning, faced down desperadoes on a saloon porch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming?-Who could out-barter, out-haggle, and out-dicker a...

In Fights Like a Girl, veteran Pete Mecca compiles the personal stories of female warriors of all branches, ranks, and wars through a series of compelling interviews and stories from across time. Beyond amassing the first-person recollections of modern...

Stages of Blue is a nonfiction collection that deals with the harrowing effects of mental illness. Jeswald digs deep. Through poetry, short stories, and flash fiction, Jeswald opens a window so readers can witness the struggle of living with anxiety,...

In late 1875 Louisa May Alcott spent a winter in New York City.  Her journals give a rough sketch of the people she met, the salons she attended and a few outings that she enjoyed. She intended to stay “until I am tired of it,” but left...

From Brick Buildings to Beaches follows the inspirational life of Sharika K. Forde. As a little black girl raised by a single dad, she struggled to find her identity when her family relocated from New Jersey to suburban life in Connecticut. From a...

A shocking glimpse into the crazy lives of drug addicted prostitutes. You'll never look at heroin addicts the same way again.In this darkly funny coming-of-age novel based on true events, Oliver, a teenage hacker living in Germany, meets Donna online...

Set in the Arctic wilderness of Alaska in the 1970s, here is an extraordinary journey of self-discovery and a lyrical odyssey. This remarkable tale of survival and courage measures the value of dreams against the unforgiving realities of the natural...

"We make choices each day," says Alys Capozzi, "that carve us into the individuals we become." For some, those choices are more onerous than they are for others. The author of this book was confronted with the need to make harsh decisions most young...