Gender studies: women and girls Books

This report details the proceedings of the Fifth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference held in London in 1922. Featuring speeches from leading advocates of family planning, this conference was instrumental in shaping global attitudes...

A poignant examination of the lives and struggles of working-class women in early 20th century America. Drawing on firsthand accounts and detailed research, Laughlin sheds light on the challenges faced by women in a range of occupations, from factory...

In this provocative and controversial work, Heber L. Hart argues that the women's suffrage movement poses a grave threat to the stability and security of the nation. Drawing on a wide range of historical, sociological, and biological evidence, he makes...

Platt's book covers the history of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church Canada from 1881 to 1906. It is a fascinating look at the organization's efforts to spread Christianity throughout Canada during that period.This work has been...

This book captures the intimate and intriguing life and experiences of a young British woman who lived in Kenya during the 1920s. The author shares her unfiltered experiences as she grows and adapts to the changing social and cultural norms of the...

Otis Tufton Mason's "Woman's Share in Primitive Culture" provides a pioneering exploration of the role of women in cultures from around the world. Drawing on first-hand observations, Mason reveals the ways in which gender roles and social dynamics vary...

Discover the remarkable women who fought for suffrage in Indiana with this collection of essays from the National American Woman Suffrage Association. From Susan B. Anthony to Ida Husted Harper, this book showcases some of the movement's greatest leaders...

Ann Pamela Cunningham's idolized memory will be preserved for generations to come as the organization she founded continues to maintain, preserve, and promote the Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens in Virginia and her legacy is remembered through her own...

Celebrating the accomplishments of outstanding women in Texas history, this book is a tribute to their groundbreaking contributions in fields such as healthcare, social justice, and politics. The women featured in this book serve as a source of...

A moving and intimate account of the remarkable friendship between two women during one of the darkest periods in history. Based on letters and diaries, this book provides a unique perspective on the impact of war and political upheaval on individual...

A captivating collection of letters written by Lady Duff Gordon during her stay at the Cape of Good Hope in the mid-19th century. Her witty and insightful observations about the local customs and people make this an entertaining and informative read.This...

First published in 1918, The Unmarried Mother is a pioneering work in the field of social welfare. Based on a study of 500 mothers who had given birth out of wedlock, Percy Gamble Kammerer provides invaluable insight into the social stigma associated...

The Adventures of a Woman Hobo is an extraordinary memoir of a young woman's journey through America during the Great Depression. It is a vivid and compelling account of hardship, adventure, and human resilience, as Lynn describes her experiences riding...

This touching memoir tells the story of Mary Giffen, a remarkable woman who devoted her life to serving others. Through a collection of letters, personal anecdotes, and historical documents, the author, J.C. Galloway, paints a vivid portrait of Mary's...

Este libro constituye un importante estudio sobre la participación de las mujeres en la política de España. A través de una investigación rigurosa, José Franco Rodríguez analiza el papel de la mujer en la formación del Estado español y en los procesos...

Sonya Kovalevsky was a remarkable woman who overcame tremendous obstacles to become an accomplished mathematician and writer. Born in Russia in 1850, Sonya faced discrimination and prejudice throughout her life, but she never gave up on her dreams. This...

Loss. Hope. Love.The day Valerie discovered she was pregnant was the day her husband died. She didn't know how to be a widow. Widows were old. Not twenty-six and pregnant. Valerie moved cross-country, gave birth, and found solace and healing in...

Love Letters to Sami Haddad bears testimony to the life of the preeminent Palestinian poetess - Fadwa Tuqan - and to the sincere love that enfolds her beauty, her translucent fragility, and her sensitive vision, and to her surroundings in a turbulent age...

There is a saying out there that says, there is always three sides to the story. Those three sides are my truth, your truth and the truth. This book is my side of the story, the truth of what I experienced, when growing up as a child. This truth is...

If you're an ambitious woman in Africa, Asia, Latin America, or the Middle East, there has never been a better time to be you. Markets are opening up. Businesses everywhere are expanding. Your career or business has unlimited potential. In UNDETERRED,...

"The shadow of a man is better than a roof over the head." This Arabic proverb has long described the plight of women in Egypt. Like the classic Pyramids of Giza, the culture of Egypt for the most part stands unchanged. Egyptian men continue to use the...

You will find information to help you take your small business public. You will find examples of business plans and proposals that will help you in your endeavor to economically empower yourselves and your communities. You will gain economic...

Helen Reed... ...was born with lots of energy, courage and perseverance growing up with her Hungarian family in Ohio. Being a single mother of three back in the 40s proved her tenacity and bravery. She made an impact on the world through the Peace Corps...

We have often studied the adventures and exploits of the men who participated in our country's War for Independence. However, as Abigail Adams reminded us in a letter she wrote to her husband John, we should "...remember the ladies". Their contributions...

This book brings together almost all of the known interviews Elizabeth Bishop gave over a period of thirty years. Included also are a few selected pieces based on conversations with her. All together they allow her ardent and admiring readers a...

Traveling in covered wagons and by train, young Martha Jane Smith (affectionately called Mattie) and her family left Texas in the early 1900s to homestead on the wind-swept High Plains of Eastern New Mexico. Determination was ignited early in Mattie's...

Women’s archives hold a significant place in the historical record, illuminating stories of individuals who had an impact on our past in both powerful and quiet ways. The history of the archives themselves and the struggle to achieve equal...

In I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film, Ellen Tremper shows how, at its roots, the image of the blonde was remodeled by women writers in the nineteenth century and actors in the twentieth to keep pace with the changes in real women's lives. As...

As in the United States, fairy-tale characters, motifs, and patterns (many from the Western canon) have pervaded recent Japanese culture. Like their Western counterparts, these contemporary adaptations tend to have a more female-oriented perspective than...

Feminism in the Heartland tells the story of second-wave feminism. Set in a “typical” American city, Dayton, Ohio, it traces the history of a dynamic, utopian movement that transformed the lives of thousands of women who fought to make their...

In the mid-twentieth century, a grassroots movement of women--mostly white, middle-class, and conservative--sought to shape the political, cultural, and social ideologies of the baby boomers in what they perceived was a quickly changing world poisoned by...

The publication of Manch in 1880 marked the beginning of Mary Edwards Bryan's rise to prominence as one of nineteenth-century America's best-known writers of mass-market fiction. At a time when women were discouraged from having jobs of their own, she...

In this book, Ashley Lear examines the relationship between two pioneers of American literature who broke the mold for women writers of their time. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelists Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Ellen Glasgow had divergent careers in...

In her third and final volume on Virginia Woolf's diaries, Barbara Lounsberry reveals new insights about the courageous last years of the modernist writer's life, from 1929 until Woolf's suicide in 1941. Woolf turned more to her diary--and to the diaries...

"Offers fresh insights into nineteenth-century black women's cultural production. Compelling and elegantly crafted."--Kathy L. Glass, author of Courting Communities: Black Female Nationalism and "Syncre-Nationalism" in the Nineteenth-Century...

"Weir-Soley speaks with an authority that comes from real knowledge of, investment in, and attention to the details of the African cosmologies and textual complexities she unearths."--Carine Mardorossian, SUNY-Buffalo"The most original and significant...

"Demonstrating how literary aspects of H.D.'s late prose contribute to politically-attuned cultural work, Vetter astutely counters longstanding claims about H.D.'s 'escapism.'"-Miranda Hickman, coeditor of Rereading the New Criticism "An important,...

"An exciting study that reveals the complexity of women's multiple political projects, as well as the importance of feminism--widely defined--as a powerful political force."--Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, author of The Politics of Motherhood"An engaging...

"Provides scholars with a historical lens from which to view the higher education of black women . . . [and] how one generation of black women benefited from the work and sacrifices of the prior generation."--Adah L. Ward Randolph, Ohio...

Wedged between the idealism and activism of the 1960s and the avarice of the 1980s, the 1970s tend to be allocated a slender role in American cultural and social history. Only now have scholars begun to examine the suspect decade--perhaps in part because...

This book addresses the difficult task of finding women in traditional genealogical record sources. The first part of the book deals with the special ways women are dealt with in federal records such as immigration records, passports, naturalization...