Gender studies: women and girls Books

Dirty Secrets of the World's Worst Employee is the story of the author's journey back to herself. Jenn Sadai tells us that she already knew she wanted to be a writer when she was a young girl but, as so often happens, distractions and self-doubt kept her...

Mosaic Heart is not a book solely about cancer, but cancer is an integral part of this story. As her teacher and guide, cancer helped Donna Mazzitelli see that the world and her family would go on, with or without her. Yet, if she wanted to continue to...

Critical Acclaim for Sherry Quan Lee's Chinese Blackbird"Quan Lee eloquently expresses how painful and confusing it can be toembrace the many complex identities that one body can contain. Withevocative imagery and words that cut straight to the heart,...

Have you ever wondered whether you could start your own successful business, from the bush? But figured you were: Too small - to be taken seriously Too remote - without any business connections. Too busy - that you couldn't fit the...

This book offers a radical rethinking of Jane Eyre from feminist and post-colonial positions.

Altars of Ordinary Light, in part, revives powerful memories of a coastal childhood with imagery as sharp as the scent of low tide in a salt marsh. June Sylvester Saraceno focuses a subject, adjusts the light and angle until it reveals what we have been...

Women in Swedish Society is a groundbreaking study by two general practitioners, Annika Forss�n and Gunilla Carlstedt, who believed that the medical profession and accepted medical science was inadequately responding to the health problems presented by...

This is the story of a beautiful young girl from Melbourne with an outstanding voice who is invited to tour Australia as a support act for Frank Sinatra in 1959. At the age of eighteen she flew alone to the USA, where her childhood dreams of stardom came...

The story of the life of Elizabeth Fenton, in India and in Van Dieman's Land.

Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget, a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction. This scholarly edition of her letters makes a selection from over 30 archives worldwide. In this third volume, covering the years 1890-1896, the 429...

From 1853 to 1870 Eugénie de Montijo was Empress of the French, sharing the Second Empire with her husband Napoleon III.The last woman to reign over France, she personifies the allure glimpsed in Winterhalter's portraits and the music of Jacques...

Soaring Above The Clouds is a unique autobiography, carefully and prayerfully written over the course of 15 years, and will appeal to many readers. The content of this book is real and relevant to young and old, both locally and internationally who have...

What if you have the chance to live three lives? Which one would you choose?An answer to these thought-provoking questions is at the heart of the intriguing memoir, Essentially: Being Me in a Becoming World. It emerged as a rebirth from the ashes of a...

The SWGU believes that comprehensive development and planning processes can only be realised through the promotion of women's empowerment. To achieve this goal, the SWGU established a coordination mechanism with one of the biggest Sudanese federal...

Este libro recorre la peculiar vida de La Celestina en la escena española, desde sus inicios al comienzo del siglo xx hasta nuestros días, pasando por su difícil situación durante el franquismo.

In the years after the fall of communist governments in Central, Eastern, and South- eastern Europe (CESEE), a flood of memoir literature began to fill bookstores around the region. The turn to autobiography and personal narrative inspired the theme...

A collection of first-hand stories, based on interviews with former female prisoners, conducted by Zimbabwe Women's Writers. Each story is highly personal and particular. As a body, they document that women who find themselves in prison are often driven...

As I (very reluctantly) approach my late mid-twenties, I can't help but think back on the many conversations I have had over the years. However, more than this, I can't help but regret the ones I didn't have. That's what this book is about. It is a...

Living in the Arctic in the early 1960s took courage, strength, ingenuity-and a whole lot of grit.With candour and insight, BONNIE McGHIE revisits the years she spent in the Canadian Arctic as she transports us back to the newly built town of...

Ever wondered what would happen if the people afraid to go out at night were young men, not young women?Kate, Carly, and Seyram, friends since childhood, are outraged by the acquittal of a local rapist and frustrated at the lack of progress...

Thoughts on People, Planet, & Profit is a collection of essays about responsible investing from the field's pioneer. It's also a book about hope. Through short, thoughtful ruminations on everything from making slavery history to slowing down fast...

Dreams Bigger Than Texas: A Story of Faith, Purpose, Perseverance, and Growth into Womanhood, will leave you daring to DREAM, reimagining your own story, and passionately pursuing purpose. Born to a 19-year-old heroin and cocaine addict on the rough...

"There's a guy. He was hit by a truck." On a rainy November day, Mia Hayes' husband left for work on his Vespa. Normally, she would have driven him, but Mia was waiting on a phone call with an editor and didn't have time. She never saw that caring,...

This book aims to help you create the life that is best for You by no longer following someone else’s agenda and creating your life of peace and happiness. You will learn about the steps I took to become a millionaire, but this is not simply a book...

This book and its stories bring forth the life and conditions experienced by these local people who seldom, if ever, move outside their land, within which multinationals travel and disrupt their fragile life systems. This only changes when the infringers...

A slim, fast-paced, savvy volume that takes readers through the emotional roller coaster of dealing with being fired, seamlessly integrating practical advice and women's experiences into a narrative of resilience Involuntary Exit is a must-read for all...

On an idealistic seven-day trip dubbed The Wise Woman Summit, three sisters trek across Nebraska with hopes of rekindling their childhood friendship. Independent, tenacious, and often outspoken, they differ at every turn. When their plans go haywire,...

From homeless encampments under the viaducts of San Francisco to emergency rooms and nursing homes in the Midwest, Cynthia Trenshaw finds the courage to see, touch, and be radically present for the people our society says should remain "invisible."

Cecil B. DeMille boosted the career of Elissa Landi in The Sign of the Cross (1932). Her leading men included Laurence Olivier, Fredric March, Cary Grant, and Robert Donat in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934). After 33 films, Landi gave up on Hollywood,...

Discover the story of an actress, who earned fame and fortune with a seductive smile, an eye-popping hourglass figure, and a “dumb blonde” persona that belied the fact that she spoke five languages and was a concert violist and pianist.Jayne...

Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey is a compassionate andwry self-help memoir written by an award-winning prolific author, nurse andpoet, who at the age of forty-seven found her life shattered first by a DCIS(early breast cancer) diagnosis and...

A reassessment of the African American novelist and her position in the canonCONTRIBUTORSJohn Charles, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Bill V. Mullen, Rachel Peterson, Paula Rabinowitz, Rachel Rubin, James Smethurst, Melina Vizcaíno-AlemánThe essayists in...

Imagine a more controversial Rosie the Riveter-a generation older and more outlandish for her time. She was the "farmerette" of the Woman's Land Army of America (WLA), doing a man's job on the home front during World War I.From 1917 to 1920 the WLA sent...

Much has been written about gender and the monstrous, but sustained engagement with textual manifestations of cultural and unconscious fears and anxieties about "unnatural" reproduction has been limited. This book expands the current discourse on the...

At first glance, several literary portrayals of Viking Age women represent them as kings, as warriors, and as inciters of violence, which seems to contradict the image of the passive, housebound female figure. However, those images need to be read and...

The Correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and the Brainard CheneysEdited by C. Ralph StephensIn 1953 Flannery O'Connor was so pleased by Brainard Cheney's review of her much misunderstood first novel "Wise Blood" that she wrote the reviewer to thank him...

Collected here in this omnibus edition are three influential autobiographies of prominent women whose rose up from slavery to greatness. Essential reading for anyone interested in African American Heritage. Included are Incidents in the Life of a Slave...

In this diary recording two voyages to Constantinople, Lady Annie Brassey demonstrates her keen eye for human interest and narrative detail. The modern reader will glimpse natural wonders and cultural distinctions of Portuagal, Spain, Moroco, Italy,...

A prominent novelist, social activist, journalist, and nationalist, Halide Adivar Edib (1882-1964) was one of Turkey's leading feminists in the Young Turk and early Republican period. Memoirs is the first book in her two volume English-language...