Gender studies: women and girls Books

A Different Energy stands as a testament to the enduring wisdom and strength of Caribbean women. It sounds a call for a more diverse, inclusive and equitable development of one of the world's most male-dominated domains: the oil and gas industry.Over the...

Janice Campbell Paul was just an ordinary American woman, not particularly religious or spiritual, when she was stricken with fibromyalgia, an illness so inexplicable that even the doctors were left puzzled. Slowly, as the sickness took over, she lost...

A fanatical collector of beetles finds out too late where his passion has led him. A woman out on a shopping spree in a glitzy mall finds she can't go home again. A servant girl experiences a cruel loss of innocence when she eats something that wasn't...

Three friends from college-Rahul, Ritesh and Rehan-are living their respective mundane lives. Until one day when an incident makes them come back together after six years. They relive their old memories of when they had joined the college. Their strong...

Life is full of choices-some easy, some difficult, some impossible. How much can reason and logic assist in making the impossible possible?The Ordinary, the Enchanted and the Quaintly Happy, composed as a string of parables, traces the journey of four...

[The author] has excelled in recreating in the reader's mind the enormity of the tragedy a man suffered, and how he chose to sculptor his choked passion into a concrete beauty...'-Dr Meerza Kaukab, great-grandson of Nawab Wajid Ali ShahThe last king of...

Mansa has the perfect family life-a husband, two daughters and a big house. But she feels that something is missing. Her frustration with being just a homemaker intensifies. After shifting to a major city, she decides to take the reins of her life in her...

Anurag Tripathi is an alumnus of the Indian School of Business with a course in Advanced Creative Writing from The University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education. An erstwhile investment banker, his deal-making pursuits and entrepreneurial...

Bengal Write Ahead' was a contest organized by Facebook, in partnership with Rupa Publications, Red FM and Kolkata Bloggers. It invited people from all over the world to write about Bengal and submit their articles online. It was an attempt to see how...

Once upon a time, there was a Raja who owned a parrot and its name was Hiramantota.Delving into stories from folklore, epics and legends, Ruskin Bond brings to life a cast of fantastic and extraordinary characters. From the wise parrot Hiramantota who...

There was a clumsy flapping of wings, a tremendous swelling of the bird's wattle and an undignified getting up, as if it were a floored boxer doing his best to beat the count of ten.Two mismatched animals meet and the result is a hilarious tale of how...

Set in the once-fabled land of Kashmir, Behold, I Shine moves beyond male voices and focuses, instead, on what the struggle means for the Valley's women and children-those whose husbands remain untraceable; whose mothers are half-widows; those who have...

Umm, in case you're wondering if I slept with your husband, no I didn't,' Zina offered. 'He's not my type.'Now I Love You, Now I Don't is the story of two very different women. Anjali is a traditional wife and mother. No one can guess that she and her...

It is very kind of people to invite me to their parties, especially as I do not throw parties myself or invite anyone anywhere. At more than one party I have been known to throw things at people. In spite of this-or maybe because of it-I get invited to...

'He was described as being the size of a bull-buffalo, with a belly that reached the ground and a white moon between his ears, true tokens of the man-eater, as every native of India knows. He was said to have the power of assuming different shapes and to...

Have you ever fallen victim to the system? Felt humiliated and helpless? Have you fought back?Meet four such patriots: Varun, an NRI software engineer; Salman, CEO of Coffee Moments; Raghav, a virtuous politician; and Aditya, an altruistic businessman...

Meena, a young, attractive, fun-loving girl from Bareilly, finds her life in a state of disarray. On the one hand, she is compelled to play the role of a dutiful daughter, living out the ambitions that her father had dreamt for her being an IAS officer...

Alms in the Name of a Blind Horse (Anhe Ghore Da Daan) is a modern classic that derives its title from an ancient myth associated with the Churning of the Ocean, in which Lord Vishnu had been less than fair in his dispensation to the Asuras, supposedly...

The Junior Classics series, comprising twenty titles, introduces young readers to literary masterpieces by celebrated authors, ranging from Charles Dickens and R.L. Stevenson to Louisa M. Alcott and H.G. Wells. The all-time popular novels packed with...

Motherhood is supposedly akin to sainthood-a blissful, happy mother looking adoringly at her smiley, chirpy baby. And not a cocktail in sight. But the Flaky Mummy pulls the truth out from under the carpet-in a world full of dirty diapers, the only...

''Remember the old road, The steep stony path That took us up from Rajpur, Toiling and sweating And grumbling at the climb, But enjoying it all the same...' From 'Remember the Old Road' by Ruskin Bond Sometimes, a journey can be of discovery. And, in...

When the light came on again, she had vanished.Who had kissed me in the dark?As no one came forward to admit to the deed, I could only make wild guesses.A mysterious kiss from a stranger, a sudden infiltration of frogs in a fountain till they are sent...

Rising above it, a flattened obelisk of polished black granite, stands the Rustomji Group's imposing headquarters the One World Tower. And at its very tip, is Babylon, Vishnu Rustomji Mistry's famous garden on top of the tallest building in Mumbai the...

Arranged marriages are complicated things. So are mothers. And so are relationships. Kasturi Shukla is a fresh MBA graduate with a great job in hand. She is also geeky and single at twenty four. The biggest sore spot in Kasturi's life is her dominating,...

Ce Traité réunit plus d'idées justes et utiles, plus de vérités pratiques et de saine morale que beaucoup d'ouvrages volumineux écrits depuis sur le même sujet. Dans la première partie, il s'adresse aux parents et aux instituteurs et fait leur éducation...

Over the past 20 years, the Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWBS; Paloutzian & Ellison, 1991), a 20-item self-report inventory designed to assess spiritual, existential, and religious health, has been widely used across a variety of clinical settings to...

An understanding of the meaning of resilience assists us in making inferencesas to why one individual reacts with psychological and physiologicalsymptoms to an objectively minor incident when another individual may holdup under conditions that seem...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1,3, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Wie kommt die ‚Welt' in das Individuum?" (Niederbacher/Zimmermann, 2011) ist wohl die...

The book deals with the reception of Georgian national literature in the context of the world literary process. It depicts the place of Georgian literature on the world literary map, starting from Middle Ages and going through the different periods...

This book applies the analytical methods of third-wave ecocriticism to selected twenty-first century Italian literary works. The author demonstrates that these works offer an invaluable opportunity to communicate meaningfully and accessibly the...

The case studies of Joe Namath, Dennis Rodman and Barry Bonds show how this phenomenon has become visible from the 1960s onwards because of profound changes within the media and sports. These athletes undermined the original sports-hero ideology and...

The book examines the literary representation of smell throughout American literature. In her innovative close readings, the author combines insights from cultural studies, critical race, gender, intersectionality, trauma, and affect theories to show how...

Serialität ist ein grundlegendes Strukturprinzip kultureller Produktivität: Indem Folge an Folge gereiht wird, bilden sich feste und beschreibbare Repertoires heraus, die sich potentiell ins Unendliche perpetuieren. Der vorliegende Band, der Beiträge der...

Auf Basis des Ecocriticism analysiert der Band literarische Repräsentationen ökologischen Wandels im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert. Im Zentrum stehen die engen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Mensch und Umwelt sowie die Frage nach den ästhetischen Möglichkeiten...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the entirety of Wisława Szymborska's poetic oeuvre. The author reveals that - without reflecting on her early entanglement in socialist realism - Szymborska's mature anti-dogmatic attitude will remain...

Der Band etabliert einen Dialog zwischen Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik für das Französische in einem innovativen Format: Interdisziplinäre Teams erarbeiten zentrale Aspekte der in Frankreich populären und angesehenen Krimikultur. Die Ergebnisse...

Der Band beschäftigt sich mit der außerhalb des Kanons stehenden Literatur der Zwischenkriegszeit in Österreich und widmet sich der Frage, wie die Kanonisierungen zustande kamen. Die Fallbeispiele bieten ein breites Panorama der Zwischenkriegszeit, von...

Dieser Band versammelt die Beiträge einer interdisziplinären Tagung, die im Juni 2015 in Hamburg stattfand. Die Autoren und Autorinnen erproben das Konzept der Anerkennung als Analyseinstrument sozialer Interaktionen und untersuchen das Verhältnis von...

Current Approaches in Social Sciences is a collection of research papers on a wide range of social issues written by educators and researchers from several different institutions.

Das Buch betrachtet das Lebenswerk des Reiseagenten und Schriftstellers Carl Stangen und seinen Beitrag zur Geschichte des Fremdenverkehrs und der Reiseliteratur. Die Autorin untersucht die Anfänge der Tourismusgeschichte und analysiert die Ursachen des...

Contextual Approaches in Sociology is a collection of research papers on a wide range of sociological issues written by educators and researchers from several different institutions.

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes fokussieren metonymische und metaphorische Figurationen von Integrität und Partialität, in denen das geteilte und staatenlos gewordene Polen im langen 19. Jahrhundert imaginiert wird.

Dieses Buch stellt das Leben und Werk der österreichischen Dichterinnen jüdischer Herkunft Mimi Grossberg, Margarete Kollisch, Gertrude Urzidil und Maria Berl-Lee im New Yorker Exil zwischen 1938 und dem Anfang der 1980er Jahre vor. Dank ihrer Werke,...

The author compares explicit statements on language by Polish Modernist writers such as Wacław Berent, Bolesław Leśmian, Stanisław Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers'...

Die Autoren erweitern mit diesem Buch die seit vielen Jahren geführte Debatte um die deutsch-jüdische Identität. In den letzten Jahren sind neue Forschungsansätze mit Nuancen und neuen Hypothesen entstanden. Die Publikation soll den seit vielen Jahren...

Speziell für Frauen haben sich die Bedingungen im Literaturbetrieb in den letzten 60 Jahren stark verändert und der Buchmarkt ist mehr denn je von rasanten Entwicklungen bestimmt. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen u.a. den Einfluss dieser...