Gender studies: women and girls Books

Die Studie beleuchtet Arthur Koestlers Entwicklung zum erfolgreichen Exilschriftsteller. Dabei wird erstens sein Romanwerk auf der Basis der deutschen Originaltexte untersucht. Zweitens stehen Sprachwechsel und Sprachentwicklung im Fokus sowie drittens...

This volume contains a selection of articles focussed on analysis and interpretation of Ali Smith's literary output. It aims to explore key areas of her work including language, identity, narrative structure and time.

This study updates reader-response criticism as the foundation of aesthetic reading in the classroom by bringing it in line with cognitive theories in literary studies and linguistics. Such a framework facilitates a consistent theoretical approach to...

Ziel der Studie ist die Konstellation konstruierte Weiblichkeit-narzisstischer Betrachter als Chiffre einer selbstreflexiven Kunst aufzuspüren, die dem frühromantischen Schöpfungsdiktum unterworfen ist und das Fortbestehen der Figur als Ausdruck...

Книга призвана дать толчок обновлению теории и методологии изучения субъектности в поэзии. Взаимодействие литературоведческой практики с лингвистическими, когнитивными теориями, с новейшей западной теорией лирики, а также с философскими концепциями...

The Spectators shaped European identity by developing the strategies of critical journalism and by popularizing the ideas and values of the Age of Enlightenment. In this collection, we present a series of contributions which study storytelling in...

Das Leben des Poeten Theodor Storm speziell unter dem Blickwinkel des engagierten Musikliebhabers. Storm gründete und leitete Chöre, trug mit seiner Tenorstimme anspruchsvolle Solopartien selbst vor. Ausleuchtung seiner Persönlichkeit als Dirigent und...

Der Band behandelt die Vergegenwärtigung des Holocaust/der Shoah und das Konzept der Postkatastrophe in medialen und ästhetischen Diskursen in Polen und Deutschland.

Examining closely the intersection of Continental theories of difference and a predominantly American ethic of diversity, the book uses phenomenology and interdisciplinary study to investigate female embodiment in Mina Loy's poetic and visual work. It...

El volumen representa el trabajo del grupo de investigación GILAVE-UCM y se dedica al estudio de la ciudad, en la literatura de viajes y en la ficción; trata los elementos de convivencia y hostilidad en la ciudad europea, hispanoamericana y africana. Se...

Untersucht werden die Quintilian-Anregungen und -Zitate - ihrerseits auf das sprachliche Vorbild Ciceros zurückgehend - im frühen Mittelalter und dem italienischen Trecento. Die Auseinandersetzung mit der Institutio oratoria des spätantiken Redners wird...

La investigación con un espíritu interdisciplinar, propone un recorrido por la historia política del Perú de las últimas décadas desde productos culturales como el cine, la literatura o la televisión, cumpliendo el objetivo de visibilizar la construcción...

This sixth volume of the CODESRIA Gender Series is a collection of discourses, perspectives, practices and policies on the role of the female gender in science and technology, particularly in the African context. Although widely advocated as the...

Fighting for my life and losing my limbs wasn’t really in my plans for the future, strangely enough! So, when it happened, I had to find the will to live, the motivation to learn everything again and the strength to carve out a life for myself,...

Life is a good teacher. Scorned by life's challenges, death and the educational system, After You Have Suffered A While delves into the life of a mother whose goals are to love, educate and be the best mother she could be. The riveting, bittersweet...

A compilation of unforgettable life moments and stories of Mel Miller from friends, family, and members of the Business Sorority #LoveArmy. These secrets and stories have been shared so that you too may be able to "be like Mel." Lisa Anne "Mel" Miller...

In many ways, people want to be healed from emotional scars and past or present hurts. To heal, we always find ourselves looking and searching. However, we find ourselves looking and searching for love, healing, and peace in the wrong places and in many...

Fran Stewart, award-winning & national best-selling author of three ScotShop mysteries and eleven Biscuit McKee mysteries, delights us with this second volume of her unique take on life through these "mini-memoirs," a collection of her daily musings...

A refreshingly unique presentation of one woman's journey into intimacy with God. Do you believe God is delighted to freely give good gifts to his children? Skye Wright realized she was afraid to ask God to supply her needs. She didn't feel...

In this second book of her Southern Lady's Tea series, Andrea "Andy" McDougal takes us with her as she recounts the highlights of her many intriguing tea adventures around the world. These include places like Paris, London, Glascow, Oban, Edinburgh, St...

Cele Keeper's memoir, It's Never Too Late to Grow Up, an unflinchingly honest and irreverent history of a life well lived, is an enthralling read. Ms. Keeper never extinguishes the bright light of her candor. From the death of a beloved child to...

Told with love and a profound appreciation for a time, place and people, this series of engaging vignettes explores six years in the life of a young girl in 1930s Florida. Nameless and faceless, the little girl wanders through these stories filled with...

Identical twins Miki and Julie Collins trap, hunt, fish, and garden in Alaska's wilderness just north of Denali National Park in Alaska's vast interior. Their closest companions are loyal sled dogs and Icelandic horses, which eat fish and can...

Touching on the whole story of China-from Neolithic villages to a globalized Shanghai-this book ties mythology, archaeology, history, religion, folklore, literature, and journalism into a millennia-spanning story about how Chinese women-and their goddess...

The forty stories in this collection will yank the reader from rage to triumph, sorrow to joy, cruelty to compassion. The mundane becomes shocking, the ordinary becomes strange. The characters are your grandmother, your child, your sister, your friend,...

This unforgettable story has become an Australian classic describing how an Australian bush girl saved the lives of 1,000 Polish and Jewish children in a daring escape from the Nazis. This updated edition contains an important eye-witness account of the...

In ihrem Buch beschreibt Marlene ihre unbeschwerte Kindheit als ostpreußische Bauerntochter, bis zu ihrer Flucht 1944 vor der roten Armee im Alter von 13 Jahren. Ihre Cousine Jutta blieb hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang zurück, was die familiären Bande...

Let's face it - the moment you realize you need a doctor is a feeling like no other. Our trust, complicity and will to get better takes over. We need them, and we need them now.But what about the highly trained woman behind your appointment; your female...

My Sisters' House - From Kitchen table to Women's Centre is a story of women supporting women, of the impact of pain, loss, abuse, and poverty suffered by women but also of inspiration, strength, resilience, drive, passion and determination shown by the...

The author has analysed the political philosophy, development strategies, and life perception of Sheikh Hasina, which she has expressed powerfully through her writings. 'The Essence of Her World' is the culmination of his research.

Have you ever wanted something so badly with all your heart and mind, but couldn't figure out how to achieve it? The next promotion, the dream career, that raise you'vealways wanted? Well now is the time to take it. No more sitting on the sidelines...

Volume Two of The Roxberg Trilogy After the birth of her second daughter, Inez Roxberg a wealthy spirited artist from Madrid, distanced herself from her unfaithful husband, his mistress, and their love child to pursue an uninhibited bohemian life in...

You must take ownership of every part of you because in doing so you will keep it secure. You no longer have to be insecure about your weight if you know that that is where you are at right now. That doesn't mean you don't work for change though. It...

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A true story of survival against impossible odds.1905. My grandfather Karl Jauram, the son of an Estonian peasant farmer, leaves home and travels south to Ukraine in search of work.  1914. It begins. World War One. The Russian...

WINNER of the 2020 Whistler Independent Book Awards in Non-Fiction"Shattered hope spreads like sunshine through these pages." - Canadian Authors AssociationA child born too early, clinging to life. Her heart is incorrectly formed. Her airway is...