Gender studies: women and girls Books

Supercharge Your Brilliance! The Modern Businesswoman's Guide to Scaling Faster with AI is a must-read for women entrepreneurs and business leaders who want the smartest and fastest growth hacks to scale their organizations. In this book, author,...

Life is like a theater run: a limited engagement. And her approach to life, as author Jacquelyn Shah renders it in her memoir-essay collection, is grounded in limited engagement with the world and its people. Not a tell-all, how-to, or straightforward...

Dear Alpha Female, It's Not Him. It's YOU!A love letter wrapped in accountability to the accomplished, proud alpha female of the twenty-first century who-despite her successful business track record, academic accolades, lavish lifestyle, and strong...

Growing up in a remote valley on a sparsely populated planet, Shevra doesn't remember ever encountering anyone other than her parents and sister. And she longs to explore more of what she is certain lies beyond. But when tragedy thrusts her out into that...

Breaking doesn't mean you're broken.  In a pedestrian crosswalk on a quiet tree-lined street, Naseem is hit and then run over three times. Onlookers yell for the driver to stop as she hears her fate in her husband's screams. Is he is watching...

An insiders view of when the airlines started to hire women pilots. Originally banned from the airline cockpit. In 1973, the first woman pilot was finally hired; others followed. In this entertaining and informative story of determination, courage, and...

My Peacock Tale: Secrets Of An NBC Page is a funny, sexy, gossipy, celebrity-filled memoir with real-life, never-before-told stories. Set against the backdrop of NBC Burbank in the mid-70s, the Pages had VIP access to stars ranging from Johnny Carson to...

My Peacock Tale: Secrets Of An NBC Page is a funny, sexy, gossipy, celebrity-filled memoir with real-life, never-before-told stories. Set against the backdrop of NBC Burbank in the mid-70s, the Pages had VIP access to stars ranging from Johnny Carson to...

MIDDLE OF THE RAINBOW The blunt and honest memoirs of Emmy-winning actress Bonnie Bartlett Daniels. It's the story of her 70-plus year career, and her struggles in the pre-#metoo and pre-feminist world. It's also the rare and unique story of a...

A catalyst is something or someone that provokes significant change. A trauma is a catalyst. The change--whether physical, emotional, spiritual, or all three--doesn't happen immediately. The change is a journey with side steps and detours along the way...

In the intricate tapestry of life there exist moments in our lives that define us as individuals and as part of our communities. To gain insights into what makes a great leader, we can learn from those who have built the road before us. A profound...

Despite decades of activism and efforts in society and government, women still face significant barriers to gender equality and economic empowerment in the business world. However, advancements in modern technology may present an opportunity to upend the...

In the field of global agricultural development, the unequal recognition and acknowledgment of women's indispensable role in shaping the sector has become a pressing concern. While women have long been the backbone of agricultural progress, their...

Women encounter multifaceted threats, ranging from personal safety hazards to discrimination deeply embedded in societal structures. The existing landscape demands innovative strategies to ensure women can participate fully in society without fear or...

A persistent challenge infects the vast setting of academic pursuits; the enduring gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Despite incremental progress, women continue to face formidable obstacles, ranging from entrenched...

The world is in a race against time to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) by 2030. Despite global efforts to address these ambitious goals, progress remains uneven, and significant gaps persist. Women are often...

Within academic circles, there is a longstanding issue concerning the portrayal and understanding of African womanhood. Frequently, these narratives are crafted by outsiders, predominantly Western scholars, often distorting the lived experiences and...

Elevating the voices of women of color in the workplace is crucial for fostering a diverse and inclusive organizational culture. These women often face unique challenges and systemic barriers, and amplifying their perspectives encourages dialogue in...

With the new challenges in globalization, the role of women in contemporary politics, economics, and management practices remains pressing. Women in leadership now serve as role models, contributing to the political and economic development of their...

In contemporary academia, the multifaceted roles of women and the unique challenges they encounter throughout their lives and motherhood are often understudied and overlooked. Issues ranging from everyday struggles faced by immigrant women to the...

Fortitude's Footing is the powerful memoir of an active, creative woman whose life is dramatically altered while on a bus trip with family and friends through the western Pennsylvania Highlands. In a flash, she is incapacitated, and her foray into the...

" Ce serait une entreprise téméraire que de vouloir donner, dans une bro- chure de 80 pages, une encyclopédie du féminisme. Aussi l'auteur s'est- elle bornée à étudier ce mouvement aux États-Unis de l'Amérique du Nord, en France, dans la Grande-Bretagne,...

This report assesses how Bangladesh is cutting gaps in gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) in financial services and shows how support for women entrepreneurs alongside better technology access can boost sustainable development. It explains the...

Have you been struggling in your business for a long time? Do you feel like you have done it all but still can't see the result? Or have you lost the spark after working for decades in your field? Or maybe you're wondering, 'How can I create the...

I Am Man is a collection of reflections and poems on gender difference. In a profound and quirky way, Ana María Munar combines biographical experiences, philosophy, feminist thought, literature and art. She creatively reveals the interlinkages of...

This book combines the theory of intertextuality and intermediality with imagological reflections. It focuses on the circulation of "culture images" as a multilayer text, where reality is represented through verbal means and interpretational proceedings.

This book explores how recent textual and visual narratives from the Americas and Spain challenge the traditional notion of the monstrous in the twenty-first century, focusing on representations that give life to mutants:s that dislocates regimes of...

Auf interdisziplinäre Weise verarbeiten fünf Maraini-Frauen ihre Familienhistorie. Diese ist von bedeutenden Reisen geprägt. Neben Dacia Maraini beschäftigen sich auch ihre Vor- und Nachfahrinnen literarisch und kinematographisch mit dem Frau-Sein in...

Theatralisierung frühneuzeitlicher Berufsgruppen, aristokratische Verhaltensrituale auf der Bühne, Ritualisierungen folkloristischer Traditionen, rituelle Glaubenspraktiken in der Alten und der Neuen Welt, theatrale Entsakralisierungen der Politik um...

This book is devoted to four Slavonic translations of three homilies of John of Damascus dedicated to the Mother of God. It examines their translational peculiarities and textual history. It provides an edition of the Church Slavonic translations and a...

Im deutsch-polnischen Dialog sollte Kultur zielgerichteter genutzt werden. Kulturschaffende weisen auf Aspekte der deutsch-polnischen Beziehungen hin, die von uns nicht immer unmittelbar wahrgenommen werden. Sie präsentieren Lösungswege und zeigen uns,...

Few full-length studies exist in English on French-speaking authors from Belgium. What, if any, are the particular features of francophone Belgian writing? This book explores questions of cultural and literary identity, and offers an overview of currents...

The globalisation of culture and the shifting nature of national identities have propelled the stakes of memory and identity to the forefront of current intellectual debates. In recent years, the works of the Algerian francophone author Assia Djebar have...

This study examines the meanings of the kitchen to women who were wives, mothers, housewives and homemakers in the 1950s in Western Australia. It uses qualitative data collected from oral history interviews with migrant and Australian born women. The...

Janet Frame's literary career was inextricably woven into the fabric of the twentieth-century New Zealand literary scene. However, she also became New Zealand's best-known international writer and her great literary influence in both fields has not been...

This monograph is the first to identify an important theoretical overlap between Anglo-Saxon and Lusophone postcolonial theories: the systematic neglect of gender and sexual variables in the analysis of the marketing of cultural difference in the post...

In Four Fridays with Christina: Friendship, Death, and Lessons Learned by Letting Go, author Cynthia Barlow explores the nature of life, love, loss, and letting go, inspired by the passing of a dear friend taken by cancer. Barlow travels from her...

Na turas de màthair òg, cò 'nn an ceartair beir do 'n pàiste sèthamh aice bh' i gu aodann na diagnosachd de Aillse marbhach (Aillse-leoicéime). Sgeul do-chreidsinn de marthanas, diagnosachd ann aimsir nuair...

On a pleasant New Hampshire summer day in 1950, an inexperienced US Army Reserve Surgical Nurse nestles at home with a newborn infant recently abandoned by her alcoholic sister-in-law. Just weeks earlier, North Korean troops streamed across the 38th...

Buwei Yang Chao (1889-1981) was a Chinese-American physician and writer. She was one of the first women to practice Western medicine in China. Assisted by her husband (linguist Yuenren Chao), she wrote this autobiography in 1947. A truly unique...

At the center of The Ballad of Two Sisters are Stella and Helen, two sisters who die on the same day. One fragile and one strong, the sisters confront the troubles of the past and the uncertainty of the future as they seek connection, joy, and completion...

What a magical time we live in. There's been a rising tide of women all over the world that have been awakened to their own power. The power that lives within. They have begun to listen to that still, small voice inside. To trust their own knowing. To...

Miracles in the Midst of Storms leads us on a personal journey in the life of a woman of faith, the miracles she witnesses, and her absolute reliance on God which sustains her through her storms. Ann Wilson, author and main character of this memoir,...