Gender studies: women and girls Books

This book is different because it is a collection of stories from highly successful women being real about their struggles, families, dreams and hopes. It is written to inspire the ordinary woman to become extraordinary. As the orchestrator of the...

I recently found out something about my daughter that as a father I should have known. As the father I believed myself to be I should have found out. It's not important what I found out what is important is that I realized that as close as I felt I was...

Follow not that which is evil, but that which is good Stumbling blocksMocker Defile the fleshExecute JudgmentThe purpose of A Fight to Be Heard is to be effective in today's world as well as Life in general, while facing the fears and doubts that have...

"Eileen O'Toole has written a frank and brave memoir about her years as a nun and her fearless decision to leave the convent. Every pre-Vatican II Catholic woman will identify with her story. O'Toole opens the door so all can see behind the walls and...

Every little girl dreams of being kissed on their cheek by their father as a sign of Love, but when that kiss ignites into much more it becomes forbidden and sick. She hated him for what he had done to her, but did she hate the wrong person all those...

A republication of the 1897 edition. An illustrated study of various omens and oracles, natural and artificial. Onomantics or divination by names includes both male and female names.

In a world where every decision can change the course of history, Robert Lonig takes us on a captivating journey exploring an alternative 2016 U.S. Presidential outcome. "What If Hillary Had Won? An Alternate History" dives deep into the ripples a...

One mothers attempt to relate her world to others; a worldof fast paced jobs, of children and family, of trying to livelife while keeping pace with the fortunes and misfortunesof what that life brings. One woman's attempt to describe what it'slike to...

Explores the feminist spiritual and emotional politics of literary and cultural works by Black Caribbean women.

Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.

Reflects on the legacy and limits of suffrage in New York State as a way to understand present-day issues with women's social and political rights, as well proposes ideas for future progress.

Forges a fresh interpretation of Charlotte Brontë's oeuvre as a response to ecological instability.

The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant is a collection of personal writings by Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, a prolific Scottish novelist, biographer, and historical writer of the 19th century. This work provides an intimate glimpse...

Straight Talk for Teenage Girls gives sensible ideas and information on subjects that all girls must face as they mature. The book gives girls a variety of answers to help them face pressures from friends, boys, and life. Teen girls need help in dealing...

The Gay Agenda: Claiming Space, Identity, and Justice claims and reclaims the language of agenda and turns the rhetoric of the religious right on its ear. The contributors provide insightful and sharp commentary on gay agendas for human rights, marriage...

Oikos - Domus - Household: The Many Lives of a Common Word describes historic episodes in the lives of these words, from the Greek oikos and Roman domus to our current family and home. This book also describes how these words and their current...

Toward a Womanist Homiletic builds on the work of Katie G. Cannon and Alice Walker to offer a womanist paradigm for analyzing the sermons of Black women and proposes the content of a womanist homiletic.

Probing deeply into texts by and about prominent Christian mystics, religious authors, and saints, German Mysticism and the Politics of Culture challenges the reader to rethink the medieval past as a contemporary presence.

Through the lens of lifestyle drug advertisements, Lifestyle Drugs and the Neoliberal Family unpacks our contemporary obsession with obtaining easy solutions for difficult problems. The ads' discourse illuminates the experience of living within a society...

One woman's journey to find her family, and ultimately herself. A secret revealed in childhood and nearly forgotten, was awakened after more than fifty years, sending the author on a compelling and revealing journey that would forever change her life,...

When a bogus drug deal lands Ronnie Parelli, a.k.a. Soulja, in prison, the cops breathe a sigh of relief. But he is determined to take back what was rightfully his from the streets-his authority and his cold, hard cash. After hooking up with Lou and Big...

(Spring 2010) Local parents warned about priests and nuns who gang rape and prostitute kids, tweens & teens indirectory of clergy perps & pervs in your neighborhood. i missed me after the terror, during the years of unbearable sorrow: trafficking the...

Please Leave Me, Don't..., recounts the psychological and physical struggles a wife endured as caregiver to her husband's prolonged, and devastating illness, and how she overcame her fears. The book provides a new concept of hope for others involved in...

Living on the farm, our family knew the frailty of life. One poisoned pond could destroy innocent animals; one storm could destroy crops and one flame, a forest. The biggest battle was that of saving the farm from inheritance taxes. Armed, Momma put...

Ever since she was a child, there was something special about her. Something she just could not put her finger on. Having lived in the city of brotherly love Philadelphia, and then having to move to a small, rural town wasn't what MISS E was looking...

Angela's mother was a secret agent for the American military government.WWII was over, Angela was five, but vividly remembers her family's flight from the Russian army and wandering "like stray dogs" for nine months.Earlier, to reunite the family,...

I decided to write this book because my children were always asking me to tell them stories about "the olden days." I wrote all of these stories about how I grew up in Mississippi in the 1920 and 30s. I thought it was important for our children to know...

Joey, an only son, never dreamed that his actions would so affect the life of his mother. The story begins in the early hours of the morning as she witnesses Joey's arrest by federal agents. This heartrending incident is followed by days and weeks...

A poignant true story of a rural rebel mid-western girl whose dreams of a military or a musical career are lost in life. She finds herself deep into the social ills of physical and alcohol abuse, infidelity, cancer and subsequent infertility. It takes...

There are many twists and turns in Level Two as the children''s backgrounds begin to emerge. A new professor joins the staff. Everything you wanted to know about Catholicism as a child but were never allowed to ask, is told.

A chronicle of key Panama Canal Company employees and their families during the first two year contract. The last large group arrived before the over-hiring which occurred just prior to the Panama Canal''s financial predicament resulting in confrontation...

This book deals with ailments such as cancer and heart attacks that are widespread among women, especially in the form of breast cancer. It also ardently reminds us the importance of having mind, body and soul in harmony to avoid stress and be able to...

As darkness begin rolling in through the clouds where the sun will shine a beautiful skylight over the world by the break of dawn the darkness will glow as clear and bright so you see the light will open up all kinds of secrets from the past and present...

I had too many secrets. I wanted out of this closet. People all over the world were coming out. We could see them on national tv and books had been written. What was so difficult about it? I had to be free to talk with my grandchildren about it. I...