Gender studies: women and girls Books

The Autobiography of Alice Thornton: Of East Newton, County, York is a historical book written by Alice Wandesford Thornton in 1875. The book is an account of the author's life and experiences, as she narrates her story from childhood to adulthood. Alice...

Summer Wind is a novel written by Bessie C. Wigren and originally published in 1919. Set in the early 20th century, the story follows the life of a young woman named Ruth who lives in a small town in the Midwest. Ruth is a gentle and kind-hearted girl...

Social Service is a book written by Louis Freeland Post in 1909. It is a comprehensive guide to the field of social work and the role of social workers in society. The book covers a wide range of topics related to social service, including the history...

Sunbeams And Shadows, And Buds And Blossoms: Or Leaves From Aunt Minnie�������s Portfolio (1851) is a book written by Georgie A. Hulse. The book is a collection of short stories and poems that revolve around the themes of nature, love, and family. The...

Political Women V1 is a historical book written by Menzies Sutherland in 1873. The book explores the role of women in politics during the 19th century. It provides a detailed account of the lives and achievements of several women who played a significant...

Poetical Tales: Founded On Facts is a book of poems written by Martha Savory Yeardley and published in 1808. The poems are based on real-life events and people, and they cover a range of topics including love, loss, and social issues. The book is divided...

Molly Carew: An Autobiography is a novel written by A. M. W. (Anna Maria Wilhelmina) in 1884. The book is a first-person narrative of the life of Molly Carew, a young Irish woman who grows up in poverty in the countryside. Molly's story is one of...

Morning Stars of the New World is a historical non-fiction book written by Helen Fitch Parker and published in 1854. The book explores the lives of several women who played significant roles in the establishment of the United States of America. Parker...

Modern Women is a book written by Laura Hansson and published in 1896. The book is a collection of essays that explore the changing roles and experiences of women in modern society. Hansson examines the challenges women face in their personal and...

Modern Persecution V2: Or Married Woman�������s Liabilities is a book written by Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard and published in 1873. The book explores the legal and social injustices faced by married women in the United States during the 19th century...

Miscellanies, Comprising Letters, Essays, And Addresses: To Which Is Added A Biographical Sketch Of Ann Amelia Andrew (1854) is a book written by James Osgood Andrew. The book is a collection of various written pieces, including letters, essays, and...

""Five Years of Youth: Of Sense and Sentiment"" is a memoir written by Harriet Martineau and published in 1832. The book chronicles the author's teenage years, specifically her experiences from the ages of 12 to 17. Martineau writes about her family...

Histoire D�������Une Grande Dame Au XVIII Siecle: La Princesse Helene De Ligne (1892) est un livre �����crit par Lucien Perey. Ce livre raconte l'histoire de la princesse Helene de Ligne, une grande dame du XVIIIe si�����cle. La princesse Helene de Ligne...

This book explores the emergence of "lifestyle" in the US, first as a term that has become an organizing principle for the self and for the structure of everyday life, and later as a pervasive form of media that encompasses a variety of domestic and...

This interdisciplinary book represents the attempt at unpacking the legacy of modern ideas of race initiated and established during the conquest of the Americas and its contemporary implications for literary criticism of ethnic writing, also known as...

This book characterises the problematic status of motherhood in present-day Iranian society - that is, problem in the Foucauldian sense of an object of thought and a source of tension, not as a pathological issue - and explains the historical processes...

Bringing new research from true crime writers, scholars, and media practitioners around the world, this book offers fresh perspectives on how women read, write, and are portrayed in true crime stories across different platforms, including documentaries,...

This is the first major piece of scholarship to provide an overview of the lives of Sweden's earliest documented queens, together with some of their most influential female relatives, who lived between 970 and 1330.

The Routledge International Handbook of Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health is the authoritative reference work on important, leading-edge developments in the domains of women's sexual and reproductive health.The handbook adopts a life-cycle approach...

This book examines the roots of systemic aggression against women in contemporary Mexico, and the connection between social practices and the institutional permissiveness of the Mexican State with regard to gendered violence.

This book investigates gender equality and women's empowerment in Sierra Leone, focusing in particular on women's interactions with the state and its development partners.

This book studies the relevance of dowry as a customary practice in Indian marriages. It examines the historical articulation between traditional cultural texts and modern statutory law to understand how daughters are valued, and how dowry as a custom...

This edited collection brings together leading and emerging scholars in the important field of sexual violence scholarship.

The dynamics of Indian politics is reflected in the flexible and fluctuating relations between the centre and the states. This book is one of the first to explore the participation of women in state and local politics in India and how women navigate the...

Readers will be ushered into their own spiritual experience of literature as they consider how American writers craft images of God that affirm the aging process. In deploying the motif of the imago Dei, it establishes that literature reveals how...

In this book, leading law academics along with lawyers, activists and others demonstrate what legislation could look like if its concern was to create justice for women.

Revolutionary Care provides original theoretical insights and novel applications to offer a comprehensive approach to care as personal, political, and revolutionary. Exploring many disciplines, including authors of color, queer scholars, and indigenous...

In Justice, Care, and Value Thomas Randall argues for the radical potential of care ethics as a distinct and preferable theory of distributive justice. 

This book examines the participation of Indian women against apartheid and colonialism in South Africa within gendered and political frameworks.

Undaunted A Memoir is a harrowing story of unimaginable loss, horrible abuse, and unspeakable tragedy. For a young orphaned Vietnamese girl, living in a war torn country, growing up is the hardest journey. She flees an army of demons, ghostly...

A compelling memoir of a Latvian war refugee's flight and displacement during WWII.What if the comforts and security of your childhood were suddenly ripped away from you? In 1939, Biruta, a nine-year-old twin, lives an idyllic life with her sister and...

Memoir Book Awards GRAND PRIZE (2022)Winner SPR Book Awards GOLD PRIZE (2020)Book Readers Appreciation Group Medallion (2021)Crossing borders, cultures, creating homeThe View from Breast Pocket Mountain is a unique and previously untold story, a...

Challenging the longstanding interpretation of the early English public sphere as polite, inclusive, and egalitarian this book re-interprets key texts by representative male authors from the period-Addison, Steele, Shaftesbury, and Richardson-as...

Feminism and Empire establishes the foundational impact that Britain's position as leading imperial power had on the origins of modern western feminism. Based on extensive new research, this study exposes the intimate links between debates on the 'woman...

The femme fatale occupies a precarious yet highly visible space in contemporary cinema. From sci-fi alien women to teenage bad girls, filmmakers continue to draw on the notion of the sexy deadly woman in ways which traverse boundaries of genre and...

Since the early 2000s, Disney Channel has been dominated by original live-action programming popular among tween girls. The shows' successes rely not only on their popularity among girl audiences, but also on the development of star personae by girl...

This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, this book...

This book explores the circulation and reception of popular discourses of achieving girlhood, and the ways in which girls themselves participate in such circulation. It examines the figure of the achieving girl within wider discourses of neoliberal...

Examines the lived experiences of women criminals in Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1860, mainly as they navigated the nineteenth-century legal and prison systems.

Irene Pierce Dunn's life started out in hardship, abandonment and abuse in foster homes. She is the adult child of two alcoholic parents. The author triumphs over juvenile delinquency, peppered with suicidal tendencies, and suffers through psychosis,...

In 1984, Ginette Hodgson decided that her life was leading nowhere, so she quit the "rat-race" and moved to Tonga.Her deceased husband had fallen in love with the islands, when he visited Tonga, whilst serving in the Canadian Navy. It had been his dream...

All of these women were the great great grandmothers of the author. Born in the first half of the 1800s, over a 34 years range and died over a 74 year range, they had many different life experiences. Some experienced the Civil War, others were born...

Kanno Suga and Kaneko Fumika were both found guilty on different occasions in 1911 and 1926 of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Kanno was executed and Kaneko hanged herself whilst in prison, but both women maintained their defiance of the...

With the growth of popular literary forms, particularly the periodical, during the eighteenth century, women began to assume an unprecedented place in print culture as readers and writers. Yet at the same time the very textual practices of that culture...

How does Victorian fiction represent personality? How does it express emotion and how does it imagine the mind? These questions stand at the centre of Eros and Psyche, first published in 1984. In examining how three authors - Charlotte Brontë, Charles...

Health and medicine cannot be understood without considering the role of nurses, both as professionals and as working women. In India, unlike other countries, nurses have suffered an exceptional degree of neglect at the hands of state, a situation that...

The marginalisation of Muslims in India has recently been the subject of heated public debate. In these discussions, however, Muslim women are often either overlooked or treated as a homogenous group with a common set of interests. Focusing on the...

The Lemonade Reader is an interdisciplinary collection that explores the nuances of Beyoncé's 2016 visual album, Lemonade. The essays and editorials present fresh, cutting-edge scholarship fueled by contemporary thoughts on film, material culture,...