Gender studies: women and girls Books

This book is all about helping you to create a path to sustainable wellbeing in mind and body. I will walk with you and be your ally the whole way, but I can't do the work for you. That's as it should be, because while the results you'll...

Every woman has a story of strength worth revealing. They are women inspired.This book is a compilation of stories, sharing inspired women in business. Collected, collated, and brought to life with stunning imagery.

Life is hard when you don't fit in. Everywhere you seem to go, everyguy you seem to meet, and even, every job you seem to land, turnsout for the worst. It seems that way for Lory (pronounced like Lori).For no matter what she does, she seems to meet the...

To know where one is going, one needs to know where they have been. This is a historical account of some women who took the reins in their hands simply because they wanted to share the trail.

In those five words she summarized the story of her life: 'God was always with me."Born in nineteenth-century Russia, Rachel-Leah 'Lena" Chipkin later went on to become a pioneer, a businesswoman, and a true 'Yiddesheh Mama." God Was Always With Me takes...

I don't remember being in the house when mother arrived to pick up my sister. I went next door to my cousin's house and was sitting on their front porch steps. I was all by myself waiting for them to get into the car. I don't know if they knew I was...

Originally intended as a journal to chronicle the lengthy journey to international adoption, Finding Myself, Finding My Daughter is the sincere and heartwarming memoir of a woman who soon discovers she must find herself before she can adopt a child.In...

"The object of writing this book," the author writes, "is to try to relate as honestly and as sincerely as possible, the emotions, fears, difficulties, disappointments and hopes, and, above all, the tremendous satisfaction I experienced in bringing up a...

An unusual life story of an immigrant, who lived through World War II, went to school under Stalin in Budapest. She studied chemical engineering and married a fellow engineer. After a short, happy marriage came the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and she...

When a loved one dies, how do we respond? And if we have encountered death up close, can we in turn assist others who are facing end of life issues? When Autumn Comes explores death from the perspective of a hospice volunteer, recounting stories based on...

"I belly-crawled across the floor after a bomb exploded outside our garden in Yemen...I had tea with Barbara Bush in the Yellow Room of the White House...I drove blindly into the midst of an anti-American riot in Venezuela...I joined in a folk dance led...

I Prayed You Into Life is an insight into a young woman's quest to find true love; first with Christ and then with a future spouse. Follow her journey which began from spiritual growth and dedication to only be wed to the man God has created for her to...

Is it possible to overcome a painful childhood? Author Molly O'Connor revisits some of the most painful and traumatic events from her past in this intensely personal memoir. Molly realizes that she must conquer her lifelong fear and depression if she is...

Cartoon Cathy meets Erma Bombeck in this hilarious collection of short stories that will keep you laughing and crying from cover to cover. Christine Hohlbaum reels you into the world of child mayhem as she recounts tales of life with small children. From...

Joselyn was building her career in Los Angeles recording commercials, producing nationally syndicated radio shows and meeting music producers when the 2008 economic downturn hit. After transitioning from Hollywood to homelessness for too long, she...

Traditionally child sexual abuse has been perceived as a male crime, however, recent research suggests that a significant minority of offenders are female. While recognizing the importance of male perpetrators, this groundbreaking book places the...

Women and British Party Politics examines the characteristics of women's participation at the mass and elite level in contemporary British politics; as voters, party members and elected representatives respectively. It explores what this means for ideas...

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of...

The American scholar and activist Nancy Fraser has written about a wide range of issues in social and political theory, and is well-known for her philosophical perspectives on democratic theory and on feminist theory. Her work on justice and identity...

In this book, Nancy C. M. Hartsock offers her current thinking about the development of feminist political economy, focusing on the relationships between feminist theory and activism, feminism and Marxism, and postmodernism and feminist politics.

This book explores the gendered contexts of the Indian nation through a rigorous analysis of selected women's fiction ranging from diverse linguistic, geographical, caste, class, and regional contexts.Indian women's writing across languages, texts, and...

Evolving from a rigorous study of post-9/11 women's writing, Dr. Heather Hillsburg's new monograph identifies an emerging genre, which she names Urban Captivity Narratives. Using examples ranging from memoir to young adult fiction, each of the texts...

Illustrated by in-depth empirical research from six country studies, Gendered Electoral Financing: Money, Power and Representation in Comparative Perspective is the first cross-regional examination of the nexus between money, gender and political...

Transatlantic Footholds: Turn-of-the-Century American Women Writers and British Reviewers analyses British reviews of American women fiction writers, essayists and poets between the periods of literary domesticity and modernism. The book demonstrates...

Interdisciplinary and multi-traditional, these essays highlight the contributions that various disciplinary approaches make to feminist/gender studies and religion. With contributors as diverse and distinguished as Donna J. Haraway, Aihwa Ong, Mieke Bal,...

After surviving a severe case of influenza in 1918, Katherine Anne Porter observed, 'It simply divided my life, cut across it.' The 1918 influenza pandemic spanned the volatile early twentieth century, a time period that included the end of World War I...

This book seeks to redress the misperception that women often seem invisible in the widely perceived male-oriented society of Islam with a series of original essays on women in the pre-modern phase of Islamic history.

In the first major study of women in an Arab country’s Jewish community, Rachel Simon examines the changing status of Jewish women in Libya from the second half of the nineteenth century until 1967, when most Jews left the country. Simon shows how...

Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (1699–1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a...

Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives. In this edgy, evocative journey through myriad interleaved engagements—including the political...

Seen as too smart, too sassy, too sexy, and too strident, female humorists have been resisted and overlooked. New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century corrects this tendency, focusing on the foremothers of women's humor in modern America, who used...

Catherine McAuley was born into a wealthy Dublin family in 1778. By the time she reached adulthood, she had witnessed the death of both parents and experienced considerable personal poverty. She then worked for twenty years as a companion for an elderly...

In 1919, Virginia Woolf wrote, "The most inconclusive remarks upon modern English fiction can hardly avoid some mention of the Russian influence, and if the Russians are mentioned one runs the risk of feeling that to write of any fiction save theirs is a...

How were English ruling queens able to assert and maintain their authority over male dominant, patriarchal political cultures? This study combines the methodologies of gender studies and political and constitutional history to provide a sweeping...

More than 800,000 Soviet women fought against Hitler's onslaught during the 'Great Patriotic War,' 1941-45. Female participation in military conflict on such a scale is historically unique. This is the first comprehensive study of the hitherto largely...

Did women have an Enlightenment? Historians have long excluded women from the Enlightenment orbit. However, competing images of 'Woman' loomed large in Enlightenment thought, and women themselves - as scientists and salonnières, bluestockings and...