Gender studies: women and girls Books

Examines the relationship between time and sexual difference in the work of French feminists Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.

Grounded in the revolutionary Marxist view that "theory . . . becomes a material force when it has seized by the masses," Teaching Spivak - Otherwise: A Contribution to the Critique of the Post-Theory Farrago activates the practice of critique as a mode...

Pursuing the Sublime in the Digital Age presents an historical and cultural overview of the sublime as personal experience and as described in fiction and culture.

This book is collection of essays that provide a writer's perspective on issues of South Asian Literature, linguistics, poetry and views of political events and globalization.

Muslim Women and White Femininity: Reenactment and Resistance explores how Whiteness travels through Muslim women's bodies, who in turn reenact or resist White womanhood by examining three relevant archetypes: the Oppressed, the Advocate, and the...

This book explores the consistent and prevalent themes in the fiction of Alice McDermott.

Dans ce travail, j'aborde cette controverse au sujet de l'œuvre d'Etzer Vilaire et démontre, via l'analyse de ses poèmes, qu'il reflète les idées de son temps et la préoccupation de ses prédécesseurs.

Literature and Error comprises a series of essays from French scholars who seek to lay down the foundations of a literary theory that would argue for the productivity of errors (and mistakes) in literary works.

The contributors to Written in Her Own Voice illuminate how gender and gender roles affect women's advancement, educational success, and life aspirations. Chapters provide thick, rich descriptions of the authors' lives, using heuristic and...

The chapters reprinted in this volume have been selected to showcase the variety and diversity of topics published in the Mediated Youth series. Grounded in cultural studies, they approach mediated youth through the lenses of race, ethnicity, gender,...

Dangerous Discourses brings together new work by feminist scholars who provide a multifaceted view of the ways contemporary media discourses inscribe particular understandings of gendered social identities, gun violence, and public policy. The chapters...

A Literary History of the Fourteenth Century: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio. A Study of Their Times and Works (Storia Letteraria del Trecento) focuses equally on Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio while minor writers are introduced in proportion to their...

By personalizing accounts of immigration, education, and family transformations, this book discusses the author's firsthand experiences in Soviet Russia, Israel, and the United States. The book speaks to scholars of education by providing examples and...

Focusing on the representation and reception of the princess, this collection sheds new light on the position of princess cultures mediating the lives, imaginations, and identities of girls from toddlers to teenagers - and beyond.

Dolls are the focus of this pioneering anthology establishing Dolls Studies as an interdisciplinary field of scholarly inquiry. This work revises conventional understandings of what constitutes a doll; broadens the age range to include female...

The Right Sisters reveals the creative mind at work in a context never before examined so intimately-the journeys taken by ten modern women inventors. Their stories are compelling and they are instructive.When Julia Rhodes created the prototype for her...

Intermediate Yoruba offers an effective guide to mastering Yoruba quickly and easily, written in the proper Yoruba-Oyo, by author Abraham Ajibade Adeleke, who was born and raised in Oyo Alaafin. Yoruba grammar is best taught in the context of the Yoruba...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts -...

Life is unpredictable at times, the thoughts of going to school, having a successful career and enjoying the reward of accomplishing your goals can be challenging if wrong choices are made. Enjoying living, she had no clue that her direction of life was...

A vista into 1960s Afghanistan, through the eyes of a Peace Corps wife and mother. A western sensibility bursts wide open and is forever changed by the encounter.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The sovereignty and goodness of GOD, together with the faithfulness of his promises...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Theoretically, I have always agreed with the Quaker wife who reformed her husband -...

In the year 2002 after a brief tragedy, the Lord inspired me to write this book about my life as a pastor's wife. In no way has this book been written to bash or to discredit anyone, mainly my husband. After getting his consent, we both felt that this...

Journal-keeping is an adventure of discovering the road the soul is following. Spirit Quest has a brief introduction about keeping a journal. There is ample empty space to map your path which can aid in finding your direction when you come to the...

From being abandoned by her father to being rejected by people, Lynnette Tiller Appling writes about the hurt , shame and stigma of being fatherless that followed her during her life. This special testimony reveals the power of re-establishment through a...

At the age of 26, a debilitating mental illness ruptured through the mind of Rebecca leading her on a delusional quest to become one of Hollywood's hottest star's wife, "Mrs. Tom Cruise." Even after she got married, reoccurring and periodic manic...

Susie Jackson Batty found herself keeping a daily diary when she had to deal with breast cancer and reconstruction. Once she had started she found it very therapeutic to offload her thoughts and feelings, and hopes and fears into The Diary. As time went...

What is this book about? A collection of creative and entertaining excerpts from the life of a server; stories that range from one paragraph to a page and content that scopes every aspect of restaurant serving that you can imagine. You'll be exposed to...

My daily observations of how people really communicate, interact, and react with one another everyday at the airport is, for me, considered a typical day.Each situation is derived from my journal in which I eye-witnessed a variety of people's reactions...

Picture for a moment life as a baseball game. So often we are only looking for, or remembering only the home runs in the game. In reality it is the singles and the doubles that make up the score at the end of the game. Being a mother and father, trying...

Uncommonly honest, The Cancer Embrace is the true story of one woman's inspirational journey through breast cancer. Thought provoking, sometimes raw and often humorous, the reader is offered a glimpse into the world of cancer and its treatment, with the...

Advance Magazine text:It is very difficult to find a spiritual disciple who will share the intimate details of her relationship with a Spiritual Master, but in this book, the author does. The writer also reveals the little known way in which she received...

This is a story of a Navy Dependant who lived over seas in "GITMO" and would like to share how military life can be, To The general Public. I know other Military Personal can Relate to my story, For I am sure it will bring back memories for them. In my...

Rose Hawthorne was the yougest of three children of the famous American novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne. She had a fascinating childhood followed by the most desirable social life among the elite of the late 1800s.Due to an unaccepatable circumstance, Rose...

In Marxism and the Open Mind, John Lewis seeks to explain Marxism as a system of thought. In doing so, he addresses the studied neglect or grotesque misrepresentation that he feels characterizes Western attitudes toward Marxism. Lewis also aims to...

The adventures of a convent-bred, fascist-fighting, highhanded and passionate woman who married a Sicilian political exile. She added zest to two continents, several colleges, and every conversation.