Gender studies: women and girls Books

Sophie von La Roche ist bekannt als die Freundin Christoph Martin Wielands, die Großmutter der Brentanos und die erste deutsche Frauenschriftstellerin. Ihre Enkelin Bettine von Arnim gilt als Vorzeigeromantikerin und Goethe-Verehrerin. Doch sie sind mehr...

Muses No More: Portraits of Occult Women is a meandering ghost train through the lives,work, politics and beliefs of both familiar and lesser known female occultists from thedistant past to the 20th century. From the freedom fighting New Orleans Voudon...

Both Career and Love is a piece of American women's history. It is also a love story. Anne graduated from Kent State University in 1959, before the Women's Movement emerged. Women married around age 20, on average, and started families soon after. Anne...

Who was the enigmatic Dora Doxey? And what was her strange and lifelong connection with the doctor? Was she, as the authorities sought to prove, simply calculating and cold-blooded, or was she herself more of a victim than a criminal?She was born Dora...

A raw and poignant memoir of a daughter's journey from a difficult upbringing in rural Alabama to a fulfilling life as a wife and mother with a successful career far beyond the limitations of her upbringing, Mildred J Mills describes unimaginable highs...

Powerful. Inspirational. Courageous.Voices of the 21st Century: Empowered Women Through Passion and Purpose is a book that celebrates the quiet strength that arises from within. These are the stories of women from all walks of life, sharing their...

Crack up or cry, Kansas GenExistential will take you on a ride! Have some snacks handy-and your hand fan if you're in menopause-because you'll be reading this book all at once.Insightful and hilarious, Amber Fraley will keep you on the edge of your chair...

By the time Barbara was four years old, she already knew what she would have to do: Get tough or die.Before DVDs existed, Barbara's childhood trauma was permanently recorded and embedded in her head. Long before surround sound technologies were...

In Soar Into Joy, Loree "Rowdy" Draude offers an introspective look into her life, highlighting both her triumphs and setbacks as a Silicon Valley executive, a startup founder, a parent and as one of the first women to fly combat jets in the U.S. Navy...

In 1969, Israeli soldiers burst into Terry Ahwal's home while she and her family were eating breakfast. More than fifty years later, she still vividly sees her father's arms up in the air while young soldiers kicked him, hit him, and beat him with their...

Change is a process that begins with an event. So often we're so focused on the event that we miss the process and end up frustrated, lost, and disillusioned. If you want to create success, you need a blueprint and approach to guide you. Equipped for...

On a snowy winter day in 1945 at age 12, Marika Roth barely escaped her own death only to witness the execution of hundreds of Jews by the side of the Danube. Running, starved and shoeless, through the streets of Budapest, ALL THE PRETTY SHOES is the...

The true story about seven ordinary women and one extraordinary event... Summer is coming, and the residents in Joplin, Missouri anticipate the rush of freedom and activities that will follow: graduation, summer classes, vacations, overflowing gardens,...

And I Did... is a powerful, thought provoking, 'Praise the Lord!' story about overcoming life's adversities with grace, gratitude, and grit. Despite the agonizing challenges of a debilitating stroke, the loss of loved ones, and in improbable health...

Among the many things that Onedia Gage does, speaking is one such gift. Not just her auditorium audiences and church congregations, but also her intimate audience and her social media audiences. When she speaks, she causes others to think, take action,...

"I am the daughter of the town drunks in a small town in upstate New York and this is my story. Life started off well enough. In the beginning there wasn't even a hint of the chaos that would eventually swallow us all..."So begins the life story of Susan...

In A Life Marketed as Fiction, Karen Morton argues for a reevaluation of the prolific late eighteenth century author Eliza Parsons, who at age fifty was forced to begin writing novels to provide for her family after her husband's death. In her career,...

Part memoir, part commentary, Life on the Fringes charts a startling Jewish feminist journey both solitary and engaging. Haviva Ner-David draws us into the many facets of her life's story: a complex modern Orthodox childhood (including a battle with...

WHY half-arse your way through life?Rock Your Stripes is a frank, fierce, full-arse femoir; part insightful memoir, infused with feminism, lively spirited, deliberately confronting, and purposefully instructional. Packed full of real and raw stories,...

This is the inspirational true story of a woman’s journey towards self-discovery and realisation! Joanne dreamt of a Yoga Retreat in sunny Italy, but found herself with a half-built house in the hills and struggling to bring up four children. Yet...

As a twelve-year-old girl, Claudia witnesses the detrimental effects of her father's alcoholism. Redemptive Love traces Claudia's life as she deals with the shame, confusion and pain of growing up surrounded by secrets. She manages day to day by quietly...

An American poet, repatriated in the land of her ancestors, Adrianne Kalfopoulou is a consummate storyteller. Lucid, precise, and unflinching, Broken Greek stands up to comparison with previous accounts of the Greek experience, with great style. It's a...

I'm struck by this new collection of Joanne Seltzer's poems . . . their toughness, the clarity of language, the sparse precision of imagery, the lack of sentimentality despite the authors' ability to empathize so widely and so well. It's a book that...

The purpose of our story is to understand the roots of our subconscious programming regarding gender, race, class, religion, and nationality. These are the qualities by which we identify ourselves and construct our lives. And yet, our sentimental...

CIXOUS, IRIGARAY, KRISTEVATHE JOUISSANCE OF FRENCH FEMINISM This book is a poetic study of three French feminists, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous, the 'holy trinity' of French feminism. EXTRACT FROM THE INTRODUCTION Hélène Cixous,...

Throughout her life, Virginia Woolf worked and reworked short story ideas, trying to encapsulate her thoughts perfectly in a concise form, but rarely did she publish them. This volume brings together the stories from her own collection 'Monday or...

About the AuthorShay is one of the top escorts in London. Born in a well off family, Shay went to Church affiliated school and then obtained her higher studies in the USA. She has a Masters degree in Management and worked in an Investment Bank for few...

A deeply moving, rawly honest, and true account of one girl's internal battle to overcome her eating disorders. Darah Echevarría was a mere child of nine when her whole life became a blinkered obsession about one thing: food - eating too much, not eating...

An embodied approach to developing women leaders which invites us to re-write our interpretation of power, from the prevailing 'power over' to 'power with' developing a felt sense that the whole is greater than any one individual. This is the pathway to...

"Elizabeth and her German Garden" is the first book by Marie Annette Beauchamp-known all her life as "Elizabeth". The semi-autobiographical book, anonymously published, under the name Elizabeth, was an incredible success, going through printing after...

After 40 years of trying to find happiness at the bottom of a bag of potato chips, author Dana Goldstein finally snapped. A lifetime of diets, denial, and bad relationship choices caused her weight to rise and fall, and challenged her confidence...

Including a Foreword by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG,From Moree to Mabo is the remarkable story of Mary Gaudron QC, the first female justice of the High Court of Australia and paints a compelling portrait of a dynamic woman and her extensive...

No, this book is not about Delilah. Nor is it a rant against men. It is written to bring attention to the shrinking Y chromosome and hopefully to save it.We have lived for thousands of years with men and it is usually a good parasitic relationship,...

This collection of poetry is for all the hearts that have done everything "right" but still end up in a gutter- all the people who are pissed off and unfulfilled, and who are able to laugh at themselves. No more lies. No more pretending. Whether we have...

Tutti conosciamo la storia di Roma ma non tutti il suo lato femminile. Se è vero che "dietro ad un grande uomo c'è una grande donna", quelle romane hanno avuto un grande impatto sulla vita quotidiana della Capitale. Donne, madri, mogli, figlie, sorelle.....

In the 1930s, Freud observed that "when you meet a human being, the first distinction you make is 'male or female?' and you are accustomed to make the distinction with unhesitating certainty." As Freud suggests, society is divisible by gender. We are...

This book is a hard-earned life memento of an uncommon Muslim Woman who challenged the cruelest of social atrocities in her pursuit for a better tomorrow. From her early childhood hardships as a victim of child marriage, teen pregnancy, physical and...

Entrepreneurship is becoming a sought after profession these days. More and more people get attracted to this due to varied reasons. The activities one needs to take up to form the enterprise, the factors to consider and the other related aspects remain...

Drawing Your Line: Setting Boundaries Step-by-Step is a manual for developing the self-respect and empowerment that ultimately allows for the setting of healthy boundaries in various arenas of life. This process involves learning to find, respect, and...

Have you ever been just casually strolling along in life and then something yanks the world out from under your feet? Well, that is what happened when Vicki Baylis turned fifty. Oh sure, she no longer had childrens diapers to change, arguments over...

What will it take to achieve gender equality in our lifetime?This is the question that kicks off a curious and winding learning journey in How to Make the Matriarchy: The Power and Promise of Prioritizing Women. Maureen Devine-Ahl explores inspiring...

We are more alike than we are different.Kimberly had always yearned for a child, but after multiple miscarriages, coupled with an unhealthy marriage, she accepted that her plan to become a mother was inconceivable. A painful divorce and a job opportunity...

For the estimated 14 million stepmothers living in the United States, this memoir provides an honest reflection of the stepmom experience, highlighting both the love and the loneliness that encircles it.

Empower your Voice: For Women in Business, Politics and Life is written for the woman who wants to change the way she communicates with her voice and body. It is inspiring, inviting and informing as it lays out a process for real and lasting change...

Joyce A. Johannesen was born and raised in a Norwegian neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. She was unwanted. Not unplanned, but unwanted. That trauma plagued her for many years. Turning to her faith and belief in the power of the gospel to change lives, she...

<p>A single-mother of two finds herself naked and covered in mud, in a stranger's driveway, several states away from home. Frustrated with life not being anything like she had hoped for by a certain age, Laura went "off the grid" on a spontaneous...

Compelling accounts from early champions of Louisiana's struggle to save natural resourcesWomen Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement provides a window into the passion and significance of thirty-eight committed individuals who led a...

Love Imagined is an American woman's unique struggle for identity. Finalist - 27th annual Minnesota Book Awards (Memoir & Creative Nonfiction) "Joining the long history of women of color fighting to claim literary space to tell our stories, Sherry Quan...