Gender studies: women and girls Books

Unlock the secrets of the entrepreneurial triad - where creativity, logic and emotional intelligence converge into a powerhouse of brilliance for women entrepreneurs. "In Her Element" isn't just a read; it's your ticket to witnessing the extraordinary...

Thapathi's Tale is a first person account of a woman born within the first decade post-Independence. It chronicles her transformation from a shy little girl in an orthodox south Indian family in Chennai, raised to be a "good home maker", to confident...

Visionary Women Collective 2023 is a reference book. It is a collection of 100 most notable women professionals and women owned businesses from India. The Book is aimed to be beneficial to both Women featured in the book and to the investors who are...

Phyllis Coates was a Texas beauty with grace and a drive to succeed. Her introduction to show business was at seven years old when she impersonated Shirley Temple on stage. As an adult, she had to change her original name (Gypsie Ann Stell) to break into...

Where there is a strong will, there is a way. Lioba Moshi's story began in Tanzania as a young student hungry for knowledge.She worked towards her dream of achieving what her mother and aunts could not: a life of possibilities. After years of hard work,...

The World War That Changed the Story of Women explores the seismic shifts in women's roles brought on by the First World War. It delves into the pivotal moment in history when the seeds of modernity were planted and women stepped into the public sphere...

A harrowing first-person account of survival, Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson recounts Mary Rowlandson's 1676 abduction by Native Americans during King Philip's War. Her resilience and unwavering faith provide a...

Her Stories, Our History is an inspiring anthology that weaves together the heartwarming narratives, soul-stirring triumphs, and mind-empowering stories of more than 20 diverse women entrepreneurs and executives. A collection of profound stories offering...

"Jezebel to Jesus" is an inspiring and compelling memoir that chronicles my journey from brokenness to redemption. As a young woman, I yearned for love and stability, but I sought them in all the wrong places. Mesmerized by the allure of seemingly...

Music. We love it. Have favorite songs. Sing & dance along. Some of us even create & perform it ourselves. But does it "soothe the savage beast" (as an often misquoted 1697 play once claimed)? Or has much of the world of music been...

Embark on a transformative journey through time and empowerment with our captivating 2-in-1 book set, "Boundless Trailblazers: Inspiring Stories of Real Women Throughout History" and "Rise: Empowering Women Across Generations."Boundless Trailblazers:...

This is a retelling of Margaret Cavendish's THE UNNATURAL TRAGEDY. This play has three plots: One: Monsieur FRERE pursues an incestuous relationship with his sister, Madame SOEUR. Two: The sociable VIRGINS discuss intellectual and social topics. Three:...

When Martha's husband dies, she is left to raise her two daughters on her own. Fearlessly optimistic for her girls' future, Martha moves heaven and earth to give her daughters the best education possible. But despite her efforts, her oldest daughter,...

Hajra Masroor made Urdu fiction familiar with the true meaning of life. This great writer, who is the bearer of the knowledge of feminism, wrote on the problems of women with sincerity and pain. No one shares her in the high literary position that her...

The Ethics of George Eliot's Works, is many of the old books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten we republish these books in...

In 1927, when Irawati Karve, aged twenty-two, arrived in Berlin to do herdoctoral studies at the Friedrich Wilhelm University, she was faced with adilemma. As a woman of colour, the subject of her thesis was to prove hersupervisor Dr Eugen Fischer's...

Why is menstruation so often considered a dirty phenomenon, in both material and symbolic terms? How do ideas and realities of menstrual pollution affect the lived experience of menstruation and everyday hygiene practices? Josefin Persdotter's study...

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The Insanity Machine is an introspective look at life with paranoid schizophrenia. This book takes a clinical and observational look at the challenges presented by the condition.Kenna discusses the definition of paranoid schizophrenia, treatments, living...

Nothing Is Too Big is about the power of possibility. Detailing the beauty and severity of life in Africa, The Middle East, Asia and Australia, it culminates in the creation of gratitude and compassion, and taking each day as a gift.Susan lived through a...

Beneath a façade of palm trees and sunshine, homelessness and addiction are bubbling to the surface.It can be hard to shake the brands others place on you; Derek, currently homeless, knows this better than most. How can a person with nowhere to hide be...

Bei der Geschlechtszugehörigkeit handelt es sich um eines der grundlegenden menschlichen Unterscheidungsmerkmale. In ähnlicher Weise kommt der Geschlechterdebatte im Rahmen der Sozialisationsforschung ein besonderer Stellenwert zu. Thematisiert wird...

Detlef Ax geht in seinem Werk von der These aus, daß wir in einer "vaterlosen Kultur" leben, das heißt, daß eine tendenzielle Vaterlosigkeit bzw. ein Mangel an Vaterfiguren bei der Erziehung und in den Erziehungseinrichtungen besteht (neben einem ...

Este libro es una apuesta académica que pretende ampliar la comprensión deluniverso narrativo del escritor colombiano Tomás Carrasquilla desde concepcionesteóricas amplias y vigentes en los estudios literarios contemporáneos.

Das Buch rekonstruiert die moralische Panik um Homosexuelle über die schrittweise soziale Isolierung bis hin zur physischen Vernichtung in Konzentrationslagern. Die biografische Methode gibt einen Einblick in die individuelle Opferperspektive, die in die...

Mediante narradores con frecuencia infidentes, la fórmula narrativa cervantina pone en pie un discurso que provoca continuamente al lector para que éste ponga en duda la información que se le transmite, fomentando un pensamiento crítico sobre temas hasta...

En este libro se aborda, mediante un recorrido sistemático y detallado, con ejemplos y ejercicios prácticos, diferentes metodologías digitales que nos llevan desde la búsqueda de textos en lengua española en repositorios, su almacenaje, su preparación...

Este volumen ofrece una serie de 23 trabajos que analizan, desde la Semiótica, el espacio como categoría de construcción de la obra artística, abordando distintas posibilidades y perspectivas a partir de un corpus heterogéneo de textos que van desde la...

The study focuses on spatio-temporal relations and their dependence on literary genres in Paul Auster's fiction. The author examines how selected novels reflect and redefine both the representation of space and formulaic patterns of genres they can be...

Hong Kunlyu ist Dozentin an der School of German Studies der Beijing Foreign Studies University. Ihre Promotion erfolgte 2022 an der Universität Bonn.

Ce livre explore la poétique de Lorand Gaspar, poète français d'origine hongroise, chirurgien de renommée et arpenteur passionné du désert. Fondé sur l'hypothèse d'une relation latente entre la composition du texte et le mouvement cosmique, il interroge...

Este libro describe y explica la evolución de la poesía de Javier Sologuren como la renovación de unos principios poéticos establecidos. Se reinterpreta la obra de este autor en función de su sensibilidad filológica, su intención comunicativa y su...

Este volumen quiere ser una piedra de toque hacia una mejor comprensión de lahistoricidad de lo obsceno en la literatura española de los Siglos de Oro.

Frauenhäuser entwickelten sich in urbanen Zentren im heutigen Österreich und Südtirol vorwiegend in Residenzstädten und/oder wichtigen Handelszentren, die vor allem auch eine hohe Zahl fremder Reisender aufwiesen. Die Frauenhausdirnen nahmen durch ihre...

Can female-authored French and German crime novels be read as part of an international phenomenon of feminist revisions of the crime genre? This book examines the status of female crime writers and their female investigators in France and Germany,...

Zwischen den österreichischen Literaten Elfriede Jelinek und Werner Schwab liegen auf den ersten Blick Welten. Trotz diverser Dichotomien weisen ihre Theatertexte spürbare Affinitäten zueinander auf, die sich zudem in die Tendenzen der seit einigen...

Der Siegeszug des Christentums in Europa und seine Etablierung als neue Lebensart für die Europäer brachte zahlreiche ideologische und sozial-moralische Veränderungen mit sich. Diese Arbeit untersucht die Stellung der Frau in der Gesellschaft, wie sie in...

Literaturhistorisch betrachtet erlebte die gothic novel im engeren Sinne ihre Blütezeit zwischen 1764, dem Publikationsdatum von Horace Walpoles The Castle of Otranto. A Gothick Story, und 1820, der Veröffentlichung von Charles Maturins Melmoth the...

Diese Arbeit widmet sich der Einordnung der Karoline von Günderrode in den Epochenkontext um 1800 unter Einbeziehung ihrer philosophischen Studien. Ihre Exzerpte, die sich mit den wichtigsten Vertretern der frühromantischen Philosophie und Literatur...

The study aims primarily at exploring the images of Swahili women as depicted in taarab songs in Zanzibar and factors that shape these images at different epochs or points in time. A secondary concern of the book is to highlight the history of taarab...

This work focuses on the issue of women's education in a series of novels written by women in the second half of the eighteenth century. On the one hand, the surface plots are conservative, thus reaffirming the social order; on the other hand, numerous...

One of the untold stories of 19th century emigration from Cornwall is that of the thousands of wives ‘left behind’ by men leaving to work overseas. Known as ‘married widows’, these women singlehandedly managed family and homes,...

Dreamtime is not only available in sleep. It includes daydreams, visions, spontaneous insights, communication with Nature, sudden inspiration, synchronicities and ah-ha moments.Waking up the West is the 3rd book in the Awakening series of self-help...