Gender studies: women and girls Books

Why are so many fewer women than men writing business books about their knowledge, experience and expertise?Maybe for the same reasons that fewer women than men start their own businesses: we have less confidence in our own abilities, are more risk...

Discover the captivating voices of 30 extraordinary women in this remarkable collection of poetry. Each poem weaves a delicate thread, unraveling the raw and unfiltered emotions that encompass the complex experience of being a woman. From joy to...

Reading You is the first book in the trilogy Two Worlds: Beginning.Lana is a mind-reader who dreams of becoming a detective. However, in a world dominated by men, her only option seems to be an arranged marriage. Everything changes when a local high...

This uninhibited memoir by controversial writer/sexologist Gloria G. Brame, Ph.D. spares no details about the transformation of a girl into a woman. Naked Memory paves a new path in sex history, fearlessly depicting the true psychological landscape of...

Stolen Fruit is a saga that breaks rules. It's a raw and real tale of pioneer life in the Australian bush against a background of World War Two. A time in which citizens lived daily with the fear of invasion. This Babushka Doll of a book reveals stories...

"This is my memoir - a very personal story of families and fate."The Fate We Make: Heartbreak, is the first volume of a remarkable, occasionally tragic, but ultimately redemptive coming-of-age story. From an early age, Simone Warren recognized that she...

Illuminating the activism of Black women during Cuba’s prerevolutionary periodIn Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba, Takkara Brunson traces how women of African descent battled exclusion on multiple fronts and played an...

Edith Wharton's Controversial Coming-of-Age NovelA story full of spirit and scandal...Charity Royall longs for more in life. She can't stand her sleepy little village or the people who walk its streets. Then, Lucius Harney strolls into town. He...

Gender equality remains a struggle for many countries today. Indeed, the abilities of women to lead are always faced with suspicion and doubts. However, unknown to many, the Golden Age of Southeast Asia represents a time and place when female rule...

For fans of Kate White suspense novels, Will End in Fire is a heart-racing domestic thriller about an alienated young woman who must find an arsonist before her own life goes up in smoke. "A tumultuous narrative that will confound readers' expectations...

When Sue Lick's husband's charming forgetfulness worsens into dementia, she trades her life of writing, music, and travel with the love of her life for years of caregiving, guilt, and impossible decisions. And yet the love remains.

After revealing long-held secrets of adverse childhood experiences including clergy abuse, Kathleen Rose Morgan discovers energy medicine and is far into a healing journey when her dying mother confesses to complicity in her abuse. The revelation sends...

Hiding who you are can't help but alter the course of your life-and in some cases, it can even kill us or those we hold most dear. In this memoir of her twenty-two-year career in the U.S. Navy, retired Senior Chief Karen Solt shines a light on the heavy...

Two shattered spirits, a roving museum curator and a bereaved, cantankerous rancher, come together amidst the dazzling beauty and seasonal rhythms of a cattle ranch in a hidden Montana mountain valley-a wide-open, wind-filled place where words give way...

This is the story of my search for truth-first, the truth of a childhood with a sexually abusive, alcoholic father and an emotionally absent mother; then, a search for truth as a journalist and a grown woman.

"As they fastened her to the fatal plank, her eyes fell on a colossal statue of liberty erected to celebrate the first anniversary of the 10th of August. 'O liberté,' she cried, 'comme on t'a jouée.' Then the axe dropped, the beautiful head fell; Madame...

"It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity." -Beatrice Potter Webb, My ApprenticeshipIn My Apprenticeship (1926), Beatrice Potter Webb provided the first of...

Some things in life stick to our throats. Whether it’s the crumbs of memory or modernity’s unsavory realities, we often reach for water just outside our grasp. We bite our tongues in defense, trying to swallow the shoulder-chip we realize...

This is the journey of a young European immigrant who was living the American dream—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—until she found herself a prisoner of the social injustice of domestic abuse with a partner who had succumbed to...

The book presents a revolutionary approach to higher education based on empathy, trust and collaboration. It describes how people can be brought together across cultural, racial, ethnic, gender, sexuality, class, ability and other divides in a spirit of...

A funny contribution to solve the gruesome War of the Sexes.All wars have a beginning and an end.The War of the Sexes has begun in Eden, and it will never end.In this memorial written by a male survivor of the feminist dictatorship, the events of the...

Marie Laveau of New Orleans is recognized as one of the most influential women of 19th Century North America. The life and legend of this Voodoo Priestess has been clouded in mystery. Her followers in the American South witnessed her supernatural powers...

Essays on how women's history is written in the wake of The Southern LadyContributions from Laura F. Edwards, Crystal Feimster, Glenda E. Gilmore, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Darlene Clark Hine, Mary Kelley, Markeeva Morgan, Anne Firor Scott, Laurel Thatcher...

Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the...

Heartwell chronicles her heroic (and often hilarious) determination to live an unremarkable life as a member of a poor, super-dysfunctional family that includes a mostly absent father, a religious fanatic mother, a kleptomaniac grandmother, and two...

The Butcher Shop Girl begins with Carmen's unique coming-of-age as she's ripped from her extended family after her Catholic parents' divorce. Learning to conquer unusual places in the name of survival, Carmen spends her childhood working in her mother's...

GRACE ON TIME is the story of about three generations of overseas Chinese women whose lives were intertwined in the fast moving history of British Malaya, independent Malaya and Malaysia. Though subconsciously and consciously rooted in the deep...

Memoir of an Artist is a compelling account of an unpredictable life that stretches through India, Nigeria, and Paris. As a student, he was a witness to the student revolt in Paris in 1968; in the seventies, he was in Nigeria observing the post-Biafra...

"God Loves Abused Women Too" is an inspiring book that not only does it bring about an awareness for the abuse in many women's lives but how God deals through the abuse.  This book demonstrates the skills and strategies used to break the abuse in a...

Based on a true story: What if you could go back in time to record every relationship you ever had, would it inspire you? Make you cringe? Or would you read it with an open mind to see where things went wrong and use it to learn lessons that you can take...

What Hath Eve Wrought? or W.H.E.W! is an historical view of how the Creation story of Eve as the "sinner" in the Garden became an all important element in the nineteenth century to suppress the idea of the equality of womankind. Many women began to...

<p><strong>This collection brings together Virginia Woolf's personal letters and reflections on a wide array of subjects, including feminism, war, and literature, providing a unique insight into the mind of one of the twentieth century's most...

<p><strong>In this second volume of <em>The Common Reader</em>, Virginia Woolf continues her exploration of literature with a collection of essays that reflect her deep passion for reading and her profound understanding of the...

<p><strong>The first volume of Virginia Woolf's <em>The Common Reader </em>is an engaging collection of literary essays addressing those who read for pleasure, rather than for academic purposes, as she reflects on literature,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935) was an acclaimed American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were...

This early work by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was originally published in 1935. It is the autobiography of the American sociologist, novelist and poet who is best remembered for her semi-autobiographical short story 'The Yellow Wallpaper'.

The first edited volume solely dedicated to the philosophy of Adriana Cavaero.

Examines traditional sites of binary thinking in ancient Greek texts and culture to demonstrate surprising ambiguity, especially with regard to sexual difference.