Gender studies: women and girls Books

An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world.

A feminist approach to the Anthropocene that recovers the relevance of sensation and phenomenology.

Argues for postcoloniality as a model for philosophical practice.

First book in English to offer a thorough introduction to key concepts and figures in Spanish feminist thought.

Focuses on Black women's experiences and expertise in order to advance educational philosophy and provide practical tools for social justice pedagogy.

Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.

The first in-depth analysis of the radical feminist theory and coalitional praxis of scholar-activist María Lugones.

Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico.

Challenges the monolithic view of Hinduism in the nineteenth century, and instead offers a vision of India that contains a rich multiplicity of Hinduisms, women's stories, and cultural histories.

Argues that affirming the irreducible differences between men and women can lead to more transformative politics than the struggle for abstract equality between the sexes.

""A Journal Kept During A Summer Tour For The Children Of A Village School, Part 3: From The Simplon Through Part Of The Tyrol To Genoa"" is a travelogue written by Elizabeth Missing Sewell in 1852. The book is the third part of a series of journals that...

A Japanese Journey is a travelogue written by Natalie B. Grinnell in 1895. The book is a detailed account of her journey to Japan, where she spent several months exploring the country's culture, customs, and people. Grinnell describes her experiences in...

""A Hard-Won Victory"" is a book written by Grace Denio Litchfield in 1888. The book is a historical novel that tells the story of a young girl named Faith Meredith who grows up in the aftermath of the American Civil War. Faith's family is deeply...

This book introduces voices of Native activists blazing trails of resistance in new fields of engagement.

This book gestures toward a future in which, through a more nuanced and productive discourse, we can better support Jewish educators and students and engage Jewish members of the discipline as better accomplices in antiracism.

Why Am I Still Crying!In My last book All's Well That Ends Well I told the story about how I was so mistreated, I blammed everyone in my life for everything that went wrong except me. I blamed my ex husband, his parents, and my parents. In this book I...

Il libro ""Il 17 Fanteria: Memorie Storiche, 1703-1893"" scritto da Gaetano Polver ����� un'opera che narra la storia del reggimento di fanteria numero 17 dal 1703 al 1893. Il testo ����� stato pubblicato nel 1893 e contiene una dettagliata descrizione...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

From the pulpit to the parking lot, anger has become a debilitating cancer to the souls of Christians. A cancer that stunts the spiritual maturation and matriculation of Christians every day. However, the Bible still suggests that Christians possess the...

Leah Tanner is now a 60-year-old woman living with her fourth husband in Missouri and is newly diagnosed after 39 years with Bipolar 2 disorder. Leah lived a life of emotional pain related to her bad decisions regarding men, jumping from one bad...

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The longing and quest for dreams as experienced by two completely different women is paralled in this tale through their acts of perseverance, survival and self-discovery. Each must decide to surrender or continue in their quests, as they...

How do otherwise decent people become mesmerized by a doctrine of hate? How can its grip be broken? In seeking answers to these pressing questions for our times, Barbara Leimsner confronts the past to discover how one ordinary man-her adored German...

For many, costumes represent only one day a year-Halloween. But not for anyone born into the Malabar family! Being a Malabar meant you were an active participant in forming the history of Canada's premier theatrical supplier, one costume at a time. From...

This volume explores the various ways that the concept and practice of resilience inhabit the thinking and lived experiences of Filipina philosophers.

This book explores the complex history of child marriage as a social and feminist issue in India across different domains. It critically reviews a wide range of historical, demographic, and legal scholarship on the subject, questions existing approaches,...

Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how white American women writers translated petitioning -- a political form for redress of grievances with religious resonance, or what Strand calls "political prayer" -- in their...

This pathbreaking book, written by leading thinker in gender and organisations, Elisabeth Kelan, raises awareness of certain forms of gender binarity and inequality that are reinforced through digitalisation, so that organisations can understand more...

In 2010 the author was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer at a time when she was intensely involved with an archaeological project in southern Jordan, and had become a serious student of the Arabic language. With the paradoxical juxtaposition of...

The history of the AIDS epidemic has largely been told from the perspective of gay men: their losses, struggles and contributions. But what about the women - in particular, straight women? Not just Elizabeth Taylor and Princess Diana, but thousands whose...

Coastal-hopping up the east coast from Melbourne to Darwin - the "jumping off" point to cross the Indian Ocean, which must be attained before August to avoid cyclones - I write about my doubts and fears, and the crisis of confidence that almost stopped...

Katrina Ellis N.D. Naturopath, Iridologist, Herbalist, Lecturer"An inspiring story of courage that goes on to make a difference"Katrina Ellis' story is one that will amaze and encourage anyone who has found themselves affected by the harsh realities of...

What if the leadership practices we’ve worked so hard to master are now getting in the way? In fact, what if they are actually holding us down and preventing us from leading for growth and innovation? Forget “what if.” It’s...

Discover the adventures of an Alaskan woman biologist as she relates experiences working across varied landscapes and water bodies, including caribou counts in the Northwest Arctic, king crab index fishing in Lower Cook Inlet, and Chinook salmon...

In her sixth full-length collection, Martha Deborah Hall explores the shifting lights and shadows that fall on a woman in her so-called golden years, offering us a voice that sweeps the full register from sassy to gritty to tender. In elegant free verse...

Mississippi author Eudora Welty, the first living writer to be published in the Library of America series, mentored many of today's greatest fiction writers and is a fascinating woman, having lived the majority of the twentieth century (1909-2001). Her...

Rachel Berghash's lyrical, impressionistic memoir charts her relationship with her homeland during a lifelong journey of self-discovery, beginning with a child's-eye view of the city's sacred mysteries, her family's religious orthodoxy, and the...

Las Raras proposes that the Modernistas' advocacy for a writing style they considered feminine helps us to understand why so few (and perhaps no) women were accepted as active participants in Modernismo. Author Sarah Moody studies how particular writers...

Continually Working tells the stories of Black working women who resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the 1940s to the 1970s. The book explores the job-related activism of Black Midwestern working women and uncovers the political...

This is the story of a remarkable woman whose artistic mission was to relate Mexican cultural history to English-language readers. A world-renowned playwright in the 1930s and best-selling novelist in the 1940s, Josefina Niggli published at a time when...

When John McPhee discovered these journals he found that Ethel Waxham wrote "with such wit, insight, grace, irony, compassion, sarcasm, stylistic elegance, and embracing humor that I could not resist her." Waxham was a Wellesley graduate who decided in...

Cleofas M. Jaramillo (1878-1956) grew up in northern New Mexico, and her memoir, originally published in 1955, offers a unique and engaging portrait of daily life and customs from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century. The story of her...

Lydia Spencer Lane's account of her life as a young army bride on the early southwestern frontier is both invaluable history and delightful commentary. As an officer's wife, Lane left her home in Pennsylvania in 1854 to accompany her new husband to his...

In antebellum society, women were regarded as ideal nurses because of their sympathetic natures. However, they were expected to exercise their talents only in the home; nursing strange men in hospitals was considered inappropriate, if not indecent...

This collection from Helen Brown gives a daily "sip" of inspiration and encouragement. Each story is taken from her real-life experiences of walking, with God, through farming, drought, hardship, family life, and depression. Each story is designed to...

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