Gender studies: women and girls Books

The essence of what it means to leave a lasting legacyThe Ultimate Guide to Leaving Your Legacy is the final book of the Ultimate Guide Series and delves into the essence of what it means to lead with authenticity and leave a lasting legacy. Through...

Embark on a journey to true success with Adriana Ocampo Senior's "Conquering the Peak of Success, A Journey of Reaching Life's Highest Altitudes".This empowering guide is crafted to inspire and equip leaders with the tools needed to achieve both personal...

Kathryn Lackey found-and married-her "officer and a gentleman." They built a beautiful life and family until, slowly, this man began to change. After twenty years of marriage, she knew something was wrong. She remained blind to the depths of his darkness...

Born during WWII in the Netherlands, Andrea van de Loo experienced a traumatic childhood, with her father's past as a member of the Nazi SS casting a long shadow over her life. Despite these challenges, she embarked on an inspirational journey toward...

As long as sexual abuse takes place in our community spaces, nothing in our culture can be trusted. And no place is truly safe. This should alarm anyone who cares about Jewish life, not just those who have been abused. Against the backdrop of the...

Are you looking for the best gift for grandpa? STOP looking! This is it because, something magical happens when parents turn into grandparents!This is the perfect gift idea for grandfather! It's a guided journal that help your kids navigate the ups and...

When Lara was four years old, her father moved from Rochester, New York, to Anchorage, Alaska, a distance of over 4,000 miles.  She spent her childhood chasing after him, flying a quarter of the way around the world to tug at the hem of his jacket...

Surviving Judgement Day is an inspiring memoir about Qaali Schmidt-Sørensen and her upbringing in Somalia. It is a story of growing up in the turmoil of civil war.Qaali and her family flee in all directions as the war breaks out, and she quickly learns...

What masterpieces dwell within you? Despite what your 3rd-grade teacher may have said, YOU are a "creative type," and your unique creations are desperately needed in the world. But what should be the easiest thing in the world -- being our authentic...

Trientrepreneur Magazine is a magazine for the modern entrepreneur. It features articles on growing your business, as well as editorials and other things tossed in. Our first edition includes classic recipes and those from our travels that are sure to...

Loss is always difficult to bear, but compound loss has a crippling effect that is hard to explain. Following the passing of her maternal grandmother, Cashe experiences a series of events that test her faith, patience and wellbeing. In a posthumous...

Asperger's on the Inside is an acutely honest and often highly entertaining memoir by Michelle Vines about life with Asperger's Syndrome. The book follows Michelle in exploring her past and takes the reader with her on her journey to receiving and...

Beyond Breathing is a story of a mother's loss of her 13 year old daughter, Jena, to Cystic Fibrosis, a fatal genetic disease. Her journey takes you from unfathomable heartache to love and understanding of life's realities. Through her journey she learns...

1860 - In a small town on Lake Ontario, at a time when an affluent young girl is forbidden to have any ambition of her own, Sarah defies her social-climbing mother to marry Joe, the Scottish farmer she loves, convinced he is the only man willing to help...

Francisco, No El Santo es una historia verdadera del triunfo de una familia sobre la adversidad durante la Gran Depresión y la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Es una parte importante de la Historia. También es una historia hipnotizante de una madre maravillosa...

The title says it all. A collection of close to two hundred exposes and analyses of everyday sexist shit (and gender shit, since gender is aligned with sex) that pisses me off. Includes pieces previously published in The Philosophers' Magazine,...

He hands me a note across the table.Please don't be disappointed. This doesn't change who I am.I look at him confused and he says, "I'm transgender.'This is a story about survival that is raw and uninhibited. It is a true story of heartbreak and grief,...

'Shattered ...'  'Broken beyond repair ...' Choosing not to believe this and facing the very things that tear you apart ... Georgette Noëllat is a fighter. Her weapons of choice? Love, Hope, and Humour. During the highs and...

How is the Philadelphia Punk Rock scene defying gender stereotypes and empowering women to push boundaries and transform their lives?Drawing on personal experience and interviews, this book explores the important part women play in the Philadelphia Punk...

In the Sitapurdistrict of Uttar Pradesh, an agricultural region with high rates of infant mortality, maternal health services are poor while family planning efforts are intensive. By following the daily lives of women in this setting, the author...

���� **The Lady: Apparitions, Miracles & Messages** *Medjugorje, Lourdes, Fatima, and Guadalupe* ✨ **Experience the Divine Encounters that Changed History** ✨Journey through the most powerful Marian apparitions in modern history with *The Lady:...

This book contains a memoir written by Miriam Lawrence describing the extraordinary voyage she made in 1848-50 aged 20. She had accompanied her husband, Captain Alexander Lawrence, on the maiden voyage of the Charlotte Jane, a wooden 3 mast merchant...

Jane Austen is known as the beloved author of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and other witty and romantic novels. What is less known is that Jane was a deeply religious person, and was devoted to God. She wrote beautiful, heartfelt prayers to read with her...

 Born in Leicester in 1947, Anna has led a busy life raising her three children and enjoying her nine precious grandchildren.For the past 22 years, she has made Bedfordshire her home, where she enjoys her retirement from nursing and teaching. Her...

This book highlights the role of Jewish women in saving Jewish children's lives during the Holocaust. How many people rescued Jews during the Holocaust? There is no certain answer to this question other than "far too few." Fewer than 0.5% of the 700...

HAVE YOU FALLEN OUT OF LOVE WITH THE WAY YOU WORK, WANT TO WORK IN A DIFFERENT WAY OR DO SOMETHING NEW BUT ARE UNSURE WHERE TO START?This book will help you get clarity on what is important to you and how you want your future to look so you can identify...

Joyce Jenje Makwenda started researching on the History of Women Politicians of Zimbabwe in the early 1990's and has been writing articles in the newspapers, magazines and journals. Joyce has interviewed around 65 women and her research...

Introducing Honor Killings: Stories of Tragedy and the Battle for Womens Rights by Victoria Caldwell, a compelling exploration of the dark reality of honor killings across cultures, highlighting the cultural, legal, and sociological factors, while...

Beyond Inequalities 2008: Women in Southern Africa provides an analysis on the status of women and the various challenges, limitations and opportunities encountered in accelerating the pace to achieve gender equality in SADC, through identifying the...

In the heart-wrenching yet ultimately uplifting dual-narrative, TENNILLE CORBETT, a middle-class professional, confronts the harsh reality of a stage four endometrial cancer diagnosis. As she battles the physical and emotional toll of the disease, her...

As They Are is a magnificent and meticulously-researched story of three generations of women and how the sufferings of one give shape to the challenges the next will endure." -Joan Schwighardt, author of RIVERS trilogy: Before We Died, Gifts for the...

Did you know that women have had special roles in American history? Yes, there are strong, powerful women that have served as pillars of the country's strong past. This educational book includes only a few of these women. There are names and achievements...

A volume in Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and PracticeGender, Media, and Organization: Challenging Mis(s)Representations of Women Leaders and Managers is the fourth volume in the Women and Leadership: Research,Theory, and Practice series. This...

As I walk into the arena of life for the first time, I notice the bloodshed of those who came before me. My opponents stand tall with heavy armor, and weaponry. The crowd erupts with undistinguishable chaos; there is absolutely no way of distinguishing...

This book tells my life's experiences and even though I had both parent's in the home it doesn't mean that you won't go through anything. Opening up about being raped, emotionally abused, broken in heart wasn't the hardest part; forgiving was. The...

How do scholars research and interpret marginalized populations, especially those that are seldom recognized as marginalized or whose sources are believed to be rare? Combining intersectional feminism and public history methodologies, 'A Girl Can...

For fans of stranger than truth stories, Sandy Schnakenburg is uncovering rattling and unprecedented revelations in this powerful memoir of love, secrets, and survival. When Lee Metoyer is hired to be the new housekeeper, she has no idea that she's about...

Theresa Shanahan was raised in upstate New York in a loving, two-parent Irish-Catholic family. To others, it all seemed normal, nearly idyllic. Theresa failed to thrive, however, and fell prey to a man who nearly took her life.What went wrong? Why did...

"InnovateHERs inspires and guides by telling the stories of a diverse set of women who have developed the mindset, and have used it to succeed in brilliant ways." - Coco Brown, CEO, The Athena Alliance "One inspiring story after another, this...

Judith had been neglected, misunderstood, and abused until she met and married the man of her dreams, Gary Ridgway, who would become known as The Green River Serial Killer by the rest of the world.For fourteen happy years, Judith shared her life with an...

Lauer Series in Rhetoric and CompositionSeries Editors: Thomas Rickert and Jennifer BayThe scholars in FEMINIST CIRCULATIONS: RHETORICAL EXPLORATIONS ACROSS SPACE AND TIME work at the nexus of gender, power, and movement to explore the rhetorical nature...

Kind, gutsy, smart, uplifting, groundbreaking, creative, funny, indestructible - women in a nutshell! The 50 stories told in this full-color illustrated book celebrate everyday Black women from the 20th and 21st centuries who went on to lead...

From the 1960s to the 1980s, a range of academic possibilities for women developed, as their career histories and intellectual biographies reveal. Some women sought to generate a new knowledge specialty in their disciplines, often explicitly defying...

"Finding Far Away" is a fascinating memoir that reads like an incredible fiction novel. Writer Lisa Wade takes you on an exciting one-year journey in Peru. Imagine a young, single American woman working as an Environmental Engineer in the gold mining...

The fact that domestic violence is a serious and ongoing social problem has been well recognized since the women's movement made the hitherto private experience of violence against women in the home into a political issue in the 1960s and 1970s. In...

Tillie Olsen and a Feminist Spiritual Visionby Elaine Neil OrrThis intense examination of the writings of Tillie Olsen shows Elaine Neil Orr's deeply sympathetic passion for Olsen's literary world. Orr's objective is not simply to offer literary...

Gender and the Poetics of Excess: Moments of Brocadeby Karen Jackson FordThe argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for...