Gender studies: women and girls Books

"The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution."-Jane AddamsIn this profound and influential work, Addams confronts the societal scourge of prostitution with unwavering clarity and compassion. Drawing from her...

Bonnie Dust appeared on the surface to have a normal childhood, growing up on a farm near Osoyoos, British Columbia on the Canada-U.S. border in the 1950s and 1960s. She rode horses and excelled in school and Girl Guides.But for years she kept a secret...

Amy Croft writes about her complicated childhood and fraught adulthood to bring to life the cultural chains operating in all aspects of the patriarchal society. She understands the pressures on women having worked in social services for the majority of...

OVARIAN REBOOTEven if you're a morning person, the ovary's biological clock starts ticking way too early. Before that very first ovulation, your egg count is already silently slipping away. It's so unfair!But what if there were a way to turn that clock...

The meaning of life is a lifelong endeavor, a constant quest and task to live up to. Philosophy, poetry, existential self-questioning, and sacrifice are all part of the art of living. In special cases, one person's life - and death - can be meaningful...

How To Get Money for Small Business Start UpHow to Get Massive Money from Crowdfunding,Government Grants and Government Loans          By Ramsey ColwellImagine you can have the knowledge you want to start your...

A story of girlhood friendships, Why Don't We Just...? is a look backward to a decade that began over sixty years ago.  Janet Ruth and I were born towards the end of World War II. We tip-toed through the Korean War, came of age during the...

Our Duty follows the shenanigans of Polly and Aggie, student nurses when World War II begins. Eager to be a part of the action, Aggie joins the Army Air Corps and qualifies as a flight nurse. She is shipped off to the Pacific, while Polly chooses to...

Scorned, but Not Broken is a collection of stories, poems and prayers that were documented during one woman’s journey to escape abusive relationships, and her quest for healing, redemption and freedom. In this memoir, Mrs. Tonya...

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 was an unmitigated disaster for the women of Iran. That fact is well known. What is less well-known and what Manda Zand Ervin brings to light in her remarkable book, is the long history of struggle against clerical...

This new work sets six important texts (two full texts and four novel extracts) in the context of Rosa Mulholland's writing career, and the cultural context of the time. Mullholland's writing reflects a creative tension between issues of class, gender,...

The nursing profession called to her from a young age. But to make it in this business, she'll have to grow up fast.Leicester, 1977. Dawn Brookes was excited to trade in her job for a career. While her family worried the hard-partying girl was too...

This feisty feminist book is unlike any other you may have read.  Spiritual, real, raw, and unapologetic, this book pulls no punches. It's comprised of four sections: The Journey, explores our rites of passage, the challenges women face and...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'Herland Trilogy' is widely recognized as a classic of early feminist literature. It recounts the utopian advances made in 'Herland' - a parthenogenetic all-female society isolated from the rest of humanity...

Dans le féminisme il y a le mot et la chose. Le mot est né en France... Quant à la chose, elle est plutôt d'origine américaine...En réalité, le programme de l'émancipation féminine, que nous étudierons, article par article, suivant l'ordre dans lequel...

A la vérité, ce qu'on appelle pompeusement l' ascension intellectuelle de la femme semble incompatible avec les obligations de l'épouse et de la mère. Dès l'enfance, on initie la future compagne de l'homme aux connaissances les plus indigestes. On...

Wounded by a Japanese bullet as she led nearly a hundred refugee children to safety over the mountains of China, Gladys Aylward's story has been immortalised through the film 'The Inn of the Sixth Happiness' (1958). Born in 1902 in the East End of...

The new edition of Beauty and Misogyny revisits and updates Sheila Jeffreys' uncompromising critique of Western beauty practice and the industries and ideologies behind it. Jeffreys argues that beauty practices are not related to individual female choice...

Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles...

"…it reaches far beyond dates of birth, marriage and death and into the heart and soul of a woman and her family…" Multi-Award-Winning Author P.M. TerrellWhat do you really know about your Mom?Do you know what her hopes, dreams...

Pam Roe, later Robinson, was unprepared for her role as the first female police officer in the City of Gloucester, a small city in Eastern Ontario. Going from a life of fun, friends and summertime frolic along the shores of the St. Lawrence to the...

Montaha Hidefi's Groping for Truth – My Uphill Struggle for Respect, is a gripping #MeToo movement-inspired memoir that recaps the staggering story of sexual harassment and violence she endured throughout her life. The abuse began at the...

"We all know what leadership is. What we don't know is why so many women are turned off by the whole idea of doing it. Because leadership has generally been defined by men (and is mainly done by men), we also know that most of the women who do lead...

This ordinary woman's true account of her far from ordinary life provides a very real, and very personal insight into how resilient the human spirit can be.The untimely death of her mother sees this modest woman, while still a young child, thrown into a...

Black Women Manifesting Greatness Through Education: The Detroit Anthology is a collection of essays that shines a light on the resilience, strength, and educational triumphs of 21 Black women who graduated from Detroit's historically challenged public...

This book features 13 current artists pursuing varying mediums of art, exploring their individual processes and their journeys into the art world specific to them.  As a photographer, author Maria Soto chose to showcase her own work while...

Losing a parent is never easy-especially not when they've left such a lasting impact on not only their children, but the entire communities to which they belonged. Thankfully, though, for those left behind, it is often those very communities that stand...

Using intersectionality as a framework, this edited collection explores the experiences of women of color in library and information science (LIS). With roots in black feminism and critical race theory, intersectionality studies the ways in which...

Detailing twelve personal narratives of transformation through feminist education and activism, Audacious Voices is an accessible, pragmatic book that emphasizes hope, empathy, resiliency, and solutions in a time of so many entrenched problems.

Grief is universal. How and whether we heal from grief is not. Joy's suicide had been the ultimate rejection but my shared death experience with Aunt Pat was the ultimate acceptance. The First signs of April is an inspirational memoir that will connect...

This book traces the development of a Left feminist consciousness as women became more actively involved in the American Left during and immediately following World War II. McDonald argues that women writers on the Left drew on the rhetoric of...

The autobiography Grass, and Then There Were Trees follows the whirlwind story of a woman who started a relationship with an evil man. Krisha Stanworth was a happy mum who was catapulted into a life over which she had no control. She lost custody of...

Brave New Collection Honors Women's Spirit WorldwideNo Ocean Here bears moving accounts of women and girls in certain developing and underdeveloped countries. The book raises concern, and chronicles the socio-cultural conditions of women in parts of...

Eudora Welty and Surrealism surveys Welty's fiction during the most productive period of her long writing life. The study shows how the 1930s witnessed surrealism's arrival in the United States largely through the products of its visual artists. Welty, a...

Meet the incomparable St. Hildegard: nourishing, challenging, and idea-bursting. This essential reader includes selections from her songs, theological texts, liturgical music, and letters and will stir and awaken your soul. Combined with an introduction...

Most feminists agree that successful prostitution reform requires that prostitutes be respected by their clients, peers, and the community. Although respect is not the only criterion necessary for acceptable reform, many feminists believe that the...

Images of America: Women in Lexington is a celebration of Kentucky women at work, in the home, at play, in society, and as part of the larger fabric of women's equality. Women in Lexington were active during World War II: they fought for women's rights,...

<p><strong>Discover the trailblazing work of artist naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian in this beautifully illustrated volume on the life cycle of butterflies and moths.</strong></p><p>Maria Sibylla Merian is one of the...

Although Gwyneth's writings about her cancer journey are sometimes brought into sharp focus by the urgency of living with debilitating illness, there were aspects of that journey that were not unlike what we each encounter, must grapple with, or give...

Moviegoers know her as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and the crotchety choir director in Sister Act. This book, filled with never-published behind-the-scenes stories from Broadway and Hollywood, chronicles the life of a...

<p>Frederick Grimke is the last person anyone – including scholars who have recounted the careers of his two sisters Sarah and Angelina in the nineteenth century feminist movement – would have suspected of having a sympathetic interest...

I was an Army wife for thirteen years. I spent the five years of that time trying desperately to hold on to my marriage and myself while my Green Beret husband was fighting insurgents in Iraq. Bringing Home the War: The True Story of an Army Special...