Gender studies: women and girls Books

"Think before you believe." Despite her strict Christian upbringing, skepticism was somehow in Sharon Taylor's DNA. Perhaps it was a young girl's innate sense of right and wrong that led her to root out bigots and perverts, question the hypocrisy in her...

Is there anything better than sleeping deeply, and waking up to a rising dawn with a smile? Studies show that 57 percent of North American women experience insomnia at least a few times a week, making their way through restless nights as best they can...

What do you do when you receive a vision from God, telling you to build a church? Eighteen years ago, Betty Charles received such a vision. She was a new believer, and the vision seemed impossible. In her search for answers to her many questions about...

The story of Medusa Gorgonis is partly based on the classical Medusa, one of the three Gorgon sisters, and Greek mythology. It depicts the untold story of Medusa: the brave girl who becomes a powerful leader of women warriors, the monstrous Serpent...

This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose, and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead...

The edited volume tackles two main questions: first, what are the main claims, struggles, and possibilities of contemporary intersectional feminisms; and second, how shall we, as scholars, address intersectional (feminist) activisms in our research -...

In this volume, the authors adopt an intersectional methodology to question Italian "white innocence" and to examine the specificity of Italian racial discourse through the analysis of different kinds of texts and representations.

William Blake's Divine Love explores the hermeneutical possibilities of Oothoon's self-annihilation and the epistemological potential of her visual copulation by establishing an artistic and hagiographical heritage.

Originally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women's lives in the period 1914-45. The volume describes women's activities in many different areas, ranging...

Originally published in 1981, this study is concerned with the extent to which the goal of sexual equality in employment, as set out, for example, in the Soviet constitutions of 1936 or 1977, had been realised in the USSR at the time. The main focus is...

Originally published in 1932, this title is an attempt to outline the economic position of women at the time, to trace the origin of those features which most sharply differentiated Economic Woman from Economic Man, and to focus in a coherent view of the...

Michele Anstead’s inspiring true story is a stunning account of ultimate triumph over the most impossible of odds. From an early age, her life was marred by abuse, deprivation, abandonment, addiction, incarceration, tragedy and loss...

My Journey with MS: A Story of Change, Hope, Faith, and Resilience is a heartfelt and empowering short narrative story that chronicles one woman's transformative experience living with multiple sclerosis (MS). Through the candid and engaging narrative of...

Annotation: Sessy's Journey is a gritty account about the life of an African/Native American woman born in Mississippi during the Great Depression. Sessy's Journey keeps you flipping the pages to find out what happens next in her tumultuous life of...

This book is about the early life of Michele E. Sweeney, and the years she lived as a young girl trying to make it in a dark world of a lot of pain and heartache. In the mist of it all, she was still trying to be the good girl that she desired to be...

The Battle Between Faith and Justice is a gripping memoir that chronicles the inner turmoil and external conflicts of a person torn between her unwavering faith and her unyielding pursuit of justice. Through vivid portrayal and introspection, the author...

Please can you change the book description to read as follows:Bring out the Glamour offers a lively, funny, sardonic but accurate picture of the profession of cabin crew, shedding light on the health problems this job might potentially be responsible for...

Founded in 1931 in Schenectady, New York by nurse M. Grace Jorgensen, Bellevue Maternity Hospital grew into the most trusted name in women's health care. It remained the region's premier facility dedicated to the care of women & infants while under the...

In this ground-breaking study, Margo Maine declares war on a culture that dismisses, devalues, and disempowers women by making them hate their own bodies. This book covers issues from dieting and weight prejudice to concepts of beauty and ageism to...

Equal under the Sky is the first historical study of Georgia O'Keeffe's complex involvement with, and influence on, US feminism from the 1910s to the 1970s. Utilizing understudied sources such as fan letters, archives of women's...

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Tongan migrant mothers and adult daughters in Australia, anthropologist Makiko Nishitani provides a unique account of how gifts, money, and information flow along the connections of kin and kin-like...

In 1837 Mariquita Sánchez de Mendeville was so fed up with governor Juan Manuel de Rosas that she chose to leave her beloved city of Buenos Aires. Leaving was especially hard because Mariquita felt that she had played an influential role in...

'What you are thinking about me is right,' says I, 'and it's wonderful and beautiful, and if you make it ugly for me I'll hate you for the rest of my life!' So flopping down and turning my poor brave face to the wall ... I'm...

Holding on in a loveless marriage. I want my boys’ lives to be better than mine. Can I endure Javier’s possessive behaviour to bring change for my family?Something keeps informing me of impending death. Why am I sensing such...

Running in Circles: Chasing Dreams and Dodging Hot Flashes. A Memoir of 12 Marathons and the Journey to Empowerment, is an inspiring story of one woman's journey to overcome the challenges of life and menopause through the transformative power of running...

Why does my mother, Anna Kurovcova, have two different birth dates that are two years apart and no birth certificate as proof of identity?Born during WWI into a middle-class farming family in Moravia, Czechoslovakia, Anna grows up during the halcyonian...

This lady, this monster, that I barely know, just decided to take me from everything I've ever known.I got no warning. I had no choice. I didn't even get to say goodbye.I'm screaming at Anne in my mind, but in reality, I'm frozen in place.I feel like...

Here I am again. Luisella Von Schönberg: A fearless life from Baroness to the Gulag and back.My grandmother, Luisella, vanished behind the Iron Curtain in 1947, and I grew up thinking she was dead. My father rather hoped that she was dead. Then suddenly...

Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade. In fact, late modernity has become conspicuously...

Examining the global experiences, challenges and achievements of Muslim women participating in physical activities and sport, this important new study makes a profound contribution to our understanding of both contemporary Islam and the complexity and...

Can we truly call football England's 'national' game?How have we arrived at this point of such clear inequality between men's and women's football?Between 1921 and 1972, women were banned from playing in football League grounds in the UK. Yet in 1998...

Pretty Girls is a visceral narrative of violence, personal tragedy and female resilience set against the backdrop of one of Australia's most politically charged communities, Redfern, where sinister racial tensions underpin everything. Evie is a woman in...

Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature exam>ines Woolf's life and oeuvre from the perspective of recycling and pro>vides answers to essential questions such as: Why do artists and writers recycle Woolf's texts and introduce...

This edited collection explores how the relationship between comic art and feminism has been shaped by global, transnational, and local trends, curating analyses of multinational comic art that encompass themes of gender, sexuality, power, vulnerability,...

The phrase 'LGBT community' is often used by policy-makers, service providers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people themselves, but what does it mean? What understandings and experiences does that term suggest, and ignore? Based on a...

In this compelling memoir, author Tam MacPhee bares her soul and shares her deepest memories. As a little girl she battles through abuse, with her innocence betrayed by the males closest to her. Becoming a single parent at the age of eighteen, she is...

From Hillary Clinton to Ivanka Trump and from Emma Watson all the way to Beyonc�, more and more high-powered women are unabashedly identifying as feminists in the mainstream media. In the past few years feminism has indeed gained increasing visibility...

The first biography in any language of one of the most celebrated Italian writers of the twentieth century.Born in 1912 to an unconventional family of modest means, Elsa Morante grew up with an independent spirit, a formidable will, and an unshakable...

Alison Weaver's privileged upbringing hid the darker undertones of her childhood until her parents shipped her away, at fifteen, to the cultish Cascade School, warping her perception of reality. Upon graduation, set adrift in New York's East Village in...

When Doris Harvey's English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of those running from slavery, he gives his name to what will become his family's home for generations. For Doris, Harvey River is the...

"A world straight from the pages of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. . . . An extraordinary story about coming of age, following your dreams and discovering (or rediscovering) who you are, were and want to be." -- ParadeRescued from a Dumpster on the Upper...