Gender studies: women and girls Books

Women physicians along with their male counterparts came to Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs, Colorado, to practice their profession and aid the health seekers who were flocking to the area. This short reference book tells the story of the women...

The extraordinary story of an Englishwoman who became Indian; a person born and raised at the heart of Empire who went to jail because she believed in a free India; a Christian girl who became a world renowned Bhiksuni, a Buddhist nun.From the moment she...

Shafiq Fatima Shera has a prominent place in Urdu poetry. She is recognized as a unique poetess due to the depth of the themes. Shafiq Fatima Shera is fluent in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Marathi and English languages. Through her poetry collections,...

The study examined women's roles and gender gaps in land operation and farming, labor arrangements in agriculture and water management, and feminization of agriculture in the Lower Vaksh River Basin in Tajikistan.The study was part of the Strengthening...

The central thesis of this book is to utilize the notion of the heroic ideal and the immortality projects that humans pursue to fulfill that ideal. This analytical framework will shed light on how characters in select novels impose their will on and...

En el tomo se presentan la historia editorial, sus temas, motivos y loci critici; su contexto socio-literario, su recepción internacional y los proyectos digitales relacionados con Celestina.

Estudio sobre la obra de Francisco Zamora, autor de Guinea Ecuatorial que vivió su vida en el exilio. Zamora es un ejemplo perfecto de exilio, poscolonialidad, hibridez y denuncia de la explotación del continente africano y las consecuencias de la...

Durante la censura del régimen franquista en España (1939-1975), muchas autoras lograron transmitir sus reivindicaciones y sus frustraciones.

Composé selon trois axes fédérateurs : Littérature ; Arts scéniques et audiovisuels ; Éducation, et s'encadrant dans les memory studies, ce volume collectif donne à lire des analyses qui se penchent sur les enjeux actuels des oeuvres mémorielles dans...

En esta monografía nos proponemos revisitar la vida, la obra y el legado de Cervantes ahondando en cuestiones esenciales para abordar la rica producción de uno de los autores capitales de la literatura española y universal.

Basado en un corpus de más de seiscientos cincuenta poemas, este libro aborda el análisis del imaginario de la poesía erótica de los Siglos de Oro en función de los órganos y prácticas sexuales y del campo semántico al que pertenece cada palabra. El...

The analysis offered in this book is based on the unprecedented representation and dissemination of disaster in the relaciones de sucesos; it also attempts to demonstrate how this specific type of popular print provides relevant elements for probing the...

Der Band enthält Beiträge aus Deutschland, Belarus und Serbien zu politischen Protesten, insbesondere in Belarus 2020.

Das Buch ist das erste universitäre Werkstattseminar zu Theorie und Praxis des Dramenübersetzens. Das heutige deutsche Theaterwesen wird ebenso dargestellt wie die Besonderheiten der Theaterübersetzung. Die zahlreichen Beispiele von Corneille, Molière,...

The book focuses on the minority literature of the Chicanas. Topics such as the deconstruction of pre-established roles and patriarchal beliefs, female identity construction and the new mestiza consciousness which are intertwined with the transgression...

The book traces the reverberations of Ronald Reagan's ideology in selected Hollywood blockbuster movies. The analysis includes filmic content as well as production and distribution. It is concluded that political metaphors and an economic setting...

Die vorliegende Publikation untersucht die Darstellung von Homo- und Bisexualität in der Holocaustliteratur. Abhängig von der Rolle, die die Autorin gegenüber dem Holocaust einnimmt, fragt sie nach den literarischen Darstellungsstrategien, die dabei zur...

Multidisciplinary readings of social and political phenomena, novels, memoirs, letters and articles in the press, musical, theatrical adaptation and food, carried out within cultural and literary studies, including memory studies, discourse analysis...

Notre livre remet en question ce point de vue et explore Mai 68 comme un événement mondial. Alors que les étudiants de Paris se battaient pour plus de démocratie et plus de droits, le mouvement indépendantiste au Québec gagnait en importance et les...

Die ambivalente Spiegelsymbolik, ein integraler Bestandteil der feministischen Reflexion, taucht auch konstant in Prosatexten zeitgenössischer österreichischer Autorinnen auf. Einerseits versinnbildlicht der Spiegel ein mehrdimensionales Gefängnis für...

E. Marlitt was a bestselling author of the late nineteenth century whose romance novels dominated the German literary market between 1865 and 1888. Her novels appeared in thirty languages, with as many as five different English translations circulating...

This book examines the themes and narrative features in Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love. It deals with unresolved questions regarding asymmetrical intercultural relationships and the historical reasons for the present cultural conflicts. It also looks at...

In the early modern period, there have been a vigorous debate in the public arena on the nature of women and their place in society. For instance, most women had been excluded from inheritance. The author of this work is shedding light on how the notion...

Ramón del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) was undoubtedly the most controversial literary figure of his generation. Whilst his genius was recognised by fellow writers, the reading public was slow to accept his work, and his theatre taxed directors and audiences...

Der von Edward Said angeregte Orientalismus-Diskurs über den westlichen Blick auf den Orient weist auf die überwiegend durch Stereotype und Vorurteile geprägte Betrachtungsweise des Okzidents hin. Dabei geht Said stillschweigend von einem männlichen...

Im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch sind Stereotype vereinfachte, schablonenhafte Vorstellungen von Menschen, die weniger auf der eigenen Erfahrung gründen. Sie transportieren eher ein mit Wertungen durchsetztes, geronnenes Erfahrungswissen innerhalb der...

Este ensayo reflexiona sobre si las adaptaciones de obras literarias contemporáneas del mundo hispánico a formatos audiovisuales en el presente siglo reactualizan algunos roles de la mujer en la sociedad actual e integran puntos de vista que refuerzan la...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

Readers fall in love with 15 year old Gladys in 1950 when she falls for a young man from the wrong side of the tracks, they follow her as she escapes one violent alcoholic marriage only to be murdered by her second husband.Then in 1971 they meet her 17...

Maternal Thinking: Gifts, Mothers' Bodies, and Earth, the fourth book of proceedings of conferences held by the Association of the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM), is an instructional guide to saving ourselves and our planet. Many pre-historic, and...

On a frigid November night at high tide, a young woman unties the dock lines and watches the land recede as the sailboat she's standing on floats out to sea. She has a jacket, a scarf, and a deep need to reinvent herself. Living Tidal is part adventure,...

ROOM 1010 is an uplifting, true story of how one little girl's faith inspired people from across the world to come together to pray for her and for a miracle.Elynn had just turned ten and received a brand-new bike for her birthday when tragedy...

This book consists of two stories mainly of two young women who were made victims of circumstances. We will be able to realize that with stronger faith we will be able to make it through.Any similar storylines are by total coincidence and are written by...

Women Empowered, Enlightened and TransformedStep back in time to the revolutionary 1970s with Desert Haven, a compelling exploration of a hidden facet of history. Born at the crossroads of feminism, sexual liberation, lesbian separatism, and a...

A Narcissist Lies to Control Us; We Lie to Ourselves to Be Controlled  The love lies began at the age of six. When her mother died, Carin told herself she was the reason she lost her mother's love. As an adult, she based relationships with...

If marriage is a pot of soup, it seemed we were stirring a lot into it ... or ladling out the bitter herbs. So when we traveled, it was like turning off the burner, putting a lid on it, and leaving the flavors to blend.Actress and artist Leigh Davis...

CREATE A HAPPIER, HEALTHIER, MORE BEAUTIFUL LIFE. Do you ever feel like life is happening around you? Like you're going through the motions, but don't really feel alive? Maybe you're looking around at the material things you've accumulated, the worldly...

From space opera to weird fiction to indie games and NaNoWriMo, this collection represents the best in nonfiction dedicated to geekery. Founded by Holly Lyn Walrath, Interstellar Flight Magazine is an online SFF and pop culture mag devoted to essays...

Susie Edwards – a prolific writer of personal notes – demonstrated to literally hundreds of people how to live and die at the hands of ovarian, colon, and liver cancer. Her profound gratitude and abiding sense of peace were evident in the...

YOUR LIFE AS A WONDER WOMAN STARTS HEREIn this incredibly illuminating how-to book, Alison Wheeler, the award-winning performance athlete and distinguished entrepreneur, reveals how you can become a modern-day wonder woman. Your wonder woman is bold,...

Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media explores familiar constructions of femininity to assess ways in which it circulates in discourse, both stereotypically and otherwise. It assesses the meanings of such discourses and their...

Portrait of a Young Girl Falling is unapologetic in its feminist exploration of desire, consent, identity, and gendered experience. Katrina Moinet's poems tug at violences and tensions present in language, the way it constructs, shapes, limits, or opens...

Believing whole-heartedly that ordinary women of the past were far more than just wives and mothers, author Lucy Whitfield has set out to discover and profile a collection of interesting women from across North Wiltshire. Digging much deeper than the...

When there is no freedom and happiness, there is no life.There are people who suffered abuse, insult, isolation and humiliation, and they never experienced happiness and freedom from their childhood, into adulthood, and in some cases until they become...

When a troubled teenage sex worker replies to a casual job ad, little does she know she will soon find herself pulled further into the world of the adult sex industry. With no experience or understanding of adult sex chat, will the vulnerable teen prove...

Alma Moodie's letters trace her experiences as a violinist on tour against the backdrop of the instability of the Weimar Republic, the Great Depression, the Third Reich, and the perils of war. Available for the first time in English translation, the...

Elsie Angelos was the Chief Editor of Malibu Publishing, but she did not belong just to this world. She is the first agent to encompass all three kinds in the supernatural and mortal realms. She is the Moon Angel and the only one who can create peace...