Gender studies: women and girls Books

In this 1875 travel memoir, Isabella Bird recounts her captivating journey through the enchanting Hawaiian Islands in 1873 at the age of 41. The narrative focuses on her daring exploration, particularly her challenging treks up two of the world's tallest...

In trying to detect and analyze this female gaze on the male empire, this volume delves into memsahibs' literature. After all, besides their service to the empire, women's literature in/about the Empire, though often neglected, is considerably large. In...

Usually recognised as the first professional woman writer, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) has become a popular subject for academic study. Most scholars have concentrated on her poetry, her short stories, and her one full-length novel, finding fuel for arguments...

Fiction of the Home Place: Jewett, Cather, Glasgow, Porter, Welty, and Naylorby Helen Fiddyment LevyThis panorama of a distinctly American literary world details a persistent pattern of plot and characterization in the work of a significant group of...

Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurstonby Will BrantleyThis study is an intertextual examination of selected self-writings by Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne...

A study of a performing troupe in which women narrate the trauma of domestic violenceTroubling Violence: A Performance Project follows the collaboration between performance studies professor M. Heather Carver and ethnographic folklorist Elaine J. Lawless...

Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politicsby Sharon Rose WilsonSharon Rose Wilson's analysis of Margaret Atwood's sexual politics through a study of fairy-tale patterns offers a new reading of Atwood and a fresh appreciation of the traditional fairy...

Domesticity with a Difference: The Nonfiction of Catharine Beecher, Sarah J. Hale, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fullerby Nicole TonkovichThis study of nonfiction written by four of nineteenth-century America's first professional women writers investigates...

In Scrappy Campaigning, Lucius captures the joys and struggles of running a political campaign, whether it is for a small local election or a large national one. This book is both personal and practical, and will help anyone interested in running for...

Boccaccio's "On Famous Women" ("De claris mulieribus") is a remarkable work that contains the lives of one hundred and six women in myth and history, ranging from Eve to Boccaccio's contemporary, Queen Giovanna I of Naples. It is the first collection of...

This is the HARDBACK version. Before Oprah...before Ellen...there was Dinah Shore. She was the queen of the afternoon talk show.For over five decades, Dinah induced a state of joy into people wherever she appeared, a love affair between her and her...

Through the Moongate is the true story of a young woman's life in China. A life of privilege and poverty, of romance and adventure, of humor and sorrow, but most of all a life filled with unforgettable characters tempered by the forces of revolution.Born...

Taken captive at the early age of thirteen by Seneca Indians, Mary Jemison was trained in the wilderness to the ordinary duties of the Indian female. Embedded with the sentiments and lifestyle of the Seneca's she essentially transformed into a member of...

Midlife Mavericks chronicles a new trend--unmarried American and Canadian women building better lives for themselves in Mexico's beautiful colonial villages.Cozy up on a comfortable couch and share a margarita with successful women who have found an...

Michelle Maverick, a legal prostitute in Neveda, takes you inside the brothel where she works and gives a first-person account of her experiences there. Written in diary format, the book is an excellent source of information for people who frequent or...

Barriers which hinder career advancement of women are complex and varied. They have become top agenda items for most corporations and the gov-ernment. The "glass ceiling" is a term that symbolizes a variety of barriers that prevent qualified...

During the 19th century the Balkan countries became the subject of a rather romantic fascination for the public at large. This vision of the area has been created in large measure by the writing of women travelers such as those represented in this volume...

The first volume of this Biography has received flattering reviews from critics on the staff of the Nation, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Boston Transcript and the London Times. Both Gamaliel Bradford and William E. Dodd have been warm in their...

Margaret Haughery, Irish immigrant to New Orleans, lost everyone she ever loved, but she dedicated her whole life to the service of others. A woman who could not read or write, she possessed extraordinary business acumen, and by the time of her death,...

Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora compares colonial and national constructions of gender identity in Western-educated African and South Asian women's texts. Jaspal Kaur Singh argues that, w

The traditional mythology of the West is dominated by male images: the fur trader, the Mountie, the missionary, the miner, the cowboy, the politician, the Chief. This collection aims to re-examine the West through women's eyes. It draws together contribut

The Eloquence of Mary Astell makes an important contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the important role that women, and one woman in particular, played in the history of rhetoric. Mary Astell (1666-1731) was an unusually perceptive thinker a

Surviving in the Hour of Darkness addresses the health issues - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual - of black women, First Nations women, and other women of colour. The book is a collection of scholarly essays, case studies, personal essays, poetr

The plea was advertised in the British Medical Journal in February 1929: seeking "strong energetic Medical Women with post-graduate experience in Midwifery" for "country work" in western Canada. A young Dr. Mary Percy was intrigued. After graduating with

With Home/Bodies, Wendy Schissel brings together a diverse range of voices which explore the concepts of home, gender, and identity. The metaphorical geographies of bodies, places, and spaces are the backdrop for such topics as: transgendered identities;

This is an autobiography detailing my roots and schooling toward university. It covers my struggles in wishing to become a surgeon; very few women did that then. I made medical history in the Edinburgh College of Surgeons and in the General Medical...

I had to write this book. We are being so misled. Adults are being clobbered, and children are being clobbered. I have two children, grown up now, and I'm still dealing with the past.Divorce ruined a terrific family. I have seen so much sadness since my...

In Judith Herman’s book Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, she emphasized how “the conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central...

Marjorie se encontraba pasando el día de compras con su hermana, de pronto sintió una fuerte y lujuriosa mirada que provenía de una cajera que se encontraba detrás del mostrador. La mirada de esta mujer activó en...

This is my personal testimony of how holding on to unforgiveness bound me to the powers of darkness and how God's amazing power set me completely free from the snare of the enemy. I unveil the strategies that the enemy used against me during this dark...

“Her Name Was Charlotte Brontë” is a collection of essays, excerpts and other assorted writings on the subject of Charlotte Brontë, her works and family. With writings from G. K . Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Gaskell, Mrs Oliphant and others, this...

"The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck" is a 1909 work by Thomas Longueville. Within it, Longueville examines a famous legal scandal from the sixteenth century involving one Lady Purbeck. Dealing in detail with a fascinating and mysterious case, this volume...