Gender studies: women and girls Books

In a painfully true, brutally honest, tell-all, author Christina Vitagliano recounts her frightening nights as a child when her father loomed in the doorway of her bedroom. This honest coming-of-age memoir begins in the late '60s and spans 30 years,...

Pain is something that is common to all of us. We don't choose it, and often seek to avoid it, but if we allow it, we can find our purpose in the midst of our pain.This is the truth Lashonda Wofford discovered, and now shares in her new book, Pain Equals...

Part Book. Part Journal. An Interactive Journey.Do you ever feel like you're being all the things you're supposed to, yet something seems to be missing? You meet everyone else's needs and expectations but your own-heck, do you even know what those are...

Extraordinary lives are born from journeys filled with significant challenges. Imagine:- ending up in the back seat of the police car bare feet;- living in your car with your partner and pets after becoming homeless;- struggling with your weight for your...

This extraordinary real-life memoir is about overcoming obstacles, victory, and defeat, an inspirational family narrative, and a historical trajectory of facts and culture in the US from the 1950s to the present time. There are undertones of a yearning...

A volume in Urban Education Studies SeriesAnalyzing experiences of White mothers of daughters and sons of coloracross the U. S., Chandler provides an insider’s view of the complex ways inwhich Whiteness norms appear and operate. Through uncovering...

A volume in Urban Education Studies SeriesAnalyzing experiences of White mothers of daughters and sons of coloracross the U. S., Chandler provides an insider’s view of the complex ways inwhich Whiteness norms appear and operate. Through uncovering...

Betty Hilton' memoir recounts her romance, marriage, and family life during the conservative 1950's and turbulent 1960's and 70's. Her husband Charlie, a successful and beloved Texas doctor, died suddenly in an accident at age 46. Betty shares the pain...

Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world As it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right If I surrender to His Will; So that I...

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) is often referred to as an important American writer of the early decades of the 20th century, with much of her work concerning nature and Native American culture. Hunter Austin was also considered to be one of the early...

A Memoir of a Buddhist is a captivating and honest story detailing Nong's experiences as a young girl who grew up in Thailand and then moved to the United States when she was older. This move into a new culture proved to be more difficult than she...

Jacomena Maybeck, a legendary Berkeley potter, was one of the thirty-two women Pam Valois portrayed in her best-selling book Gifts of Age. Now in her seventh decade herself, Pam returns to tell the whole story of Jackie's life, inviting us to reflect on...

"Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return."-Frances Burney, The Early Diary of Frances Burney (1769)The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778, Volume II (1889) began in Burney's teen years as her personal...

"Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return." -Frances Burney, The Early Diary of Frances Burney (1769)The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778, Volume I (1889) began in Burney's teen years as her personal...

Hurricane seasons have become overactive since 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit. The only longitudinal study on a single group of women disaster survivors in America, The Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina brings overlooked voices to the forefront as...

KEEP THE SINGING is a collection of elegies. The poetry's images include the ocean, music, piano, singing, childhood landscape images and grieving, in the author's attempt to come to terms with her sister's death. Six of the poems placed in the Blue...

Shimmers, Shadows, and Shells The Art of Kathryn M. Niles, represents a career retrospective in the form of a collection of the artist’s work, through paintings, drawings, encaustic, sculpture and mixed media.  Niles shares her influences in...

Studies in Rhetorics and FeminismsEditors: Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson Logan A Rhetoric of Becoming: USAmerican Women in Qatar takes Western feminism abroad into the complexity of transnational spaces. Working at interdisciplinary intersections...

"Take Maddie home and make her comfortable for whatever time she has left." Maddie's parents were hearing these words from the doctor after their four-year-old daughter was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension, an incurable...

This autobiography depicts the author’s haunting memories, frustrations of ignorance (darkness) as a child, and the confusion that escorted introverted Rose Rutland into a season of promiscuity as a young woman and an unplanned pregnancy, then...

Women in early 18th century Spanish Colonial New Mexico had rights and privileges under Spanish law that were not enjoyed by other women in North America until the late 19th and early 20th century. Women were considered separate entities under the law...

A book of happy times, disappointments, mental illness, addictions, sexual abuse, neglect and abuse-and even death! A mom sharing her youngest daughter's life of struggles in abusive situations and addictions. As a grandma witnessing her four little...

My Life Story by Becky Lynn Black isn't a celebrity autobiography. It's better.Becky's story is a testimony. We are promised we can overcome through the word of our testimonies (Rev. 12:11). A testimony doesn't just tell a story to...

Evil Paradise is based on the author's unique and moving life story. Jane Schwalger-Wyatt was born the illegitimate child of a wealthy plantation owner's nephew and a traditional village girl on the exotic Polynesian island of Samoa. Born between two...

Raised in the idyllic and close-knit northern California town of Moraga, Kristen Lewis Cunnane had it all at 12: a treasured family, close friends, a valued position on a variety of sports teams, and excellent grades. By any pre-teen’s standards,...

"A splendid sampler of the very latest and best of scholarship in the field of southern women's history."--Thomas Appleton, Eastern Kentucky UniversitySpanning the sweep of southern women's history from colonial times to the late 20th century, this...

Tracing Arachne's Web examines the use of myth in works by American women novelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, showing how both classical allusions and ethnic folk myth liberated these writers and enabled them to understand and experience

An innocent young girl, neglected and living in poverty in Guatemala, dreamed of one day living in America.Years passed and Esperanza's dream materialized when she married an American man and, though unable to speak English, moved to America as a new...

Women have had their place in history, but none have created as much of an impact as the classical Amazon warriors of Ancient Greece. An entire culture whose foundation was based on an all-female society, the Amazons were both industrious and intelligent...

Educated during the American Army occupation in Japan, the author begins with her childhood memories describing the postwar era of Japan -- how General Douglas MacArthur saved a doomed nation and reformed it to a democratic state. Being raised in a...

Amusing, inspiring and touching. 50 YEARS OF RESUMES AND PASSPORT STAMPS shares Elizabeth Lydia Palmer’s journey through life. Go to work with her as her career in data processing follows the development of computers–from mechanical...

In the unique work Six Eves Prevail through the Garden of Nutrition, six African-American nutrition professionals share their individual stories about becoming nutritionists and dietitians during the ‘60s and ‘70s. These professions have...

The Lady with the Lamp is a fantastic collection of insightful essays and extracts about pioneering nurse Florence Nightingale - the founder of modern nursing. In this volume, various authors detail her life and incredible nursing work, as well as her...

<p> <b> <i> “I am what I am today , not because of, but in spite of, the past.” </i> </b> </p><p> For author Stephanie Harrington, that statement encapsulates a life story that she shares with you in...

Women Unsilenced explores the impact of unthinkable violence committed against women and girls through multiple perspectives-women's recall of life-threatening ordeals of torture, human trafficking, and organized crime, society's failure to recognize and...

In Wo/men, Scripture, and Politics, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, brings to bear years of trailblazing scholarship of feminist thought and hermeneutics onto the current political and cultural landscape. In this book, she seeks to articulate and use...

Danièle Pitavy-Souques (1937-2019) was a European powerhouse of Welty studies. In this collection of essays, Pitavy-Souques pours new light on Welty's view of the world and her international literary import, challenging previous readings of Welty's...

Appearing first as a weekly serial in The Christian Herald, Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna was first published in book form in 1913. This popular story of an impoverished orphan girl who travels from America's western frontier to live with her...

Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara reveals an artist and activist whose work deftly negotiates boundaries of feminism, nationalism, and film. The intimacy of these collaborations or conversations between Bambara (1939-1995) and her interviewers...

<p>Natasha, an idealist from humble beginnings, has reached the third decade of her life: the twenties. Traveling through this time capsule revealed her idealistic perspective as well as the layers of her strengths and weaknesses. More than...

The Rotary Club of Duarte, California, was chartered in District 530 in 1952. But just before its twenty-fifth birthday in 1976, the Duarte club violated Rotary's bylaws by inviting women to join, ultimately causing its charter to be unceremoniously...

In the late 1700s in a village east of Trois-Rivieres, Lower Canada, young and high spirited Marie Anne Gaboury, born 1782, with no dowry, no marriage prospects, is despatched by her widowed mother to serve as assistant housekeeper in the priest's home. ...