Gender studies: women and girls Books

This is the true story of how Anna entered the world of spanking to pay off a £20,000 debt left by her husband when he died suddenly of a heartattack. At the age of 57, she discovered she could charge £100 an hour to be...

Dr Jodie Fleming, a clinical and health psychologist who previously specialised in the field of psycho-oncology – the human side of cancer – receives the terrifying news that she has two primary breast cancers. This becomes a frightening...

A gunshot shattered the stillness of the warm South African night. This time it was for real, and it would change my life forever. I was unwanted even before I was born. Maybe that was what made me strong enough to endure my mother's lack of love and...

This story will take you around the streets of Derby. You will relive all the hurt, pain, highs and lows. Angela Will revisit her younger life with all the loves and losses. This is a true story of love and hate. She shares her journey through the most...

Throughout history women have struggled to reclaim their bodies from the meanings and assaults imposed on them by cultural practices, sexual mores, victimization, and concepts of how their bodies should be presented and managed in public, to intimate...

Être aimée et chérie est un désir ressenti dans le cœur d'une femme face au mariage. Ce livre est écrit pour rétablir votre espoir de voir se réaliser ce désir et pour suggérer des principes que vous pouvez appliquer pour gagner l'amour sincère d'un...

Women leaders and the COVID-19 pandemic are currently trending in the news. Major news outlets are all offering their positive opinions on how world-wide women leaders have addressed the crisis and reassured their people. While this sort of press...

Women have been represented in art, literature, music, and more for decades, with the image of the woman changing through time and across cultures. However, rarely has a multidisciplinary approach been taken to examine this imagery and challenge and...

Across the world, it has remained a significant challenge for women to be heard within crucial components of society. Male domination has a vast history of restricting the visibility and voices of women in areas including economics and politics. In...

Despite a plethora of initiatives, policies, and procedures to increase their representation in STEM, women of color still remain largely underrepresented. In the face of institutional and societal bias, it is important to understand the various methods...

Migration is a multifaceted phenomenon that plays a critical role in today's world, yet there have been few attempts to look beneath the surface of the mass movements of people. Particularly, the changing face of migration is becoming more feminized,...

By necessity, understanding of leadership has been based on who used to be business leaders, namely men. In the last few years, Asian women have been making their mark in corporate America. Although Asian women have become part of the American workforce,...

Recently, greater emphasis has been placed on the fact that women, regardless of whether they are located in developed or developing nations, are still facing numerous challenges regarding their financial status, education, and independence. As recent...

Women in the Academy are raising issues of pay parity, equal representation on committees, increased leadership positions, stories of resilience, and mentorship espousing changes at all levels including teaching, research, and administration. These...

These are stories of inspirational women whose claims to fame were their insistence not to succumb to the toxic quicksand of society. This includes real talk about life and love and rhymes from the rhythm of my heartbeat. This is one of the best rushes...

Do You Remember Your Wildness?Thunder does not always speak in bone-shaking, cloth-tearing, cracking, clashing cannon bursts. Her language is not always a purring, growling, shivering reverberation, leaving us expectant. She is unpredictable, moving in...

Many Roads to Home: New York to California reveals Virginia Wink Hilton's inner and outer journey from the 1950s to the 1980s as she rears her three children and embraces an exciting, fulfilling vocation. The story follows the arc of one...

Open this book and step into the East African bush. Climb into a Land Rover with Jeannette and David and head for adventure! Take a lion-mauled warrior to hospital. Search for singing stones and hidden treasure. Explore the rock paintings of central...

Winner - Book Excellence Award, Memoir Bronze Medalist, IPPY Award • Best First Book - Nonfiction ". . . a darn good page-turner that could easily rival any riveting novel." --INDIEREADER (5-Star Review)My teenage mom viewed my arrival as...

“She told them to look for little signs, like dimes on a sidewalk, to know they were not alone.”Following the death of her husband, Robyn Lane finds herself stuck in the transition from “we” to “me.” Navigating as one...

For fans of The Glass Castle and Educated, comes mystery author Toby Neal’s personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.We never call it homeless. We’re just “camping" in the jungle on Kauai...We live in a place...

Silver Nautilus Book Award--Art & Photography; Next Generation Indie Book Award--Gold--Spirituality.There is a growing awareness that we are threatened as a species and planet unless we have a radical shift in consciousness, and the re-emergence of...

Brilla en la oscuridad es la historia real de una joven que, desde muy pequeña, en una pequeña ciudad de Honduras, tuvo que enfrentar experiencias de casi muerte. No obstante, sus relatos son verdaderas enseñanzas de que es posible perdonar y seguir...

Pain So Deep but Faith Still Strong did not start out as a book, but from a poem that I had written a little over fifteen years ago! The poem is titled "If Only You Knew!"This poem was written out of pain, depression, loneliness, and a lack of love from...

Only Women Can Save the World—all women have to come together to make this happen. This book is to uplift the thinking of women and to motivate them to get the job done. Man is so out of control, you as a woman must be Lord God like my mother, and...

Hilarious and heart-wrenching stories about the realities of living life on a cattle ranch as the hired hand-told by a woman who knows nothing about agriculture.Kacee Rundell poses an upfront and honest look into the lives of ranchers through the fresh...

This book is a story about my mother, who got pregnant at a relatively young age while she was still a student. It describes the challenges she faced as a young female living in an African society (Togo) with a culture heavily founded on patriarchal...

American soul music of the 1960s is one of the most creative and influential musical forms of the twentieth century. With its merging of gospel, R&B, country, and blues, soul music succeeded in crossing over from African American culture into the...

Cultural Studies have been preoccupied with questions of national identity and cultural representations. At the same time, feminist studies have insisted upon the entanglement of gender with issues of nation, class, and ethnicity. Developments in the...

Monologues of Women of the Bible is designed to provideChristian monologues in the market place, particularly for female actors. Thiswill give actors additional choices of monologues to select. Perhaps, thesemonologues will address and help someone who...

Book Two, “The Trees Shall Clap Their Hands,” takes Verna through the rigors of Nursing School, the ordeals of a single mother on Welfare, and the unbelievable, heartbreaking loss of her girls. Through it all, Verna’s steadfast...

Be inspired by the story of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor in the United States. Blackwell worked her to make the field of medicine accessible to women during a time when women's rights was still being tackled. How did she change the medical...

Amy Le Vesconte was born at the end of the nineteenth century but exemplified the modern teacher and woman scientist of the twenty-first century. She earned her PhD in chemistry in 1931 and devoted the next four decades to teaching chemistry to young...

Tragedy.  TRIUMPH.  Adversity.  OVERCOMING.  Darkness.  LIGHT.  Defeat.  VICTORY.   These are the words that describe and epitomize a group of brave and fearless women whose stories comprise this highly...

A spiritual and knowledgeable woman once told me that I was a Sacred Prostitute. She explained that a Sacred Prostitute is someone who soothes, nurtures and heals another and then sends them on their way to find their true destiny, a better, more...

Much is made of the test scores, earning power, and innovative contributions of highly intelligent kids, but we rarely ask what it's actually like to be "gifted." In a culture obsessed with exceptionalism, sorting by intelligence has become an...

Johanna Maula was only eight years old when her family-mother, father, and four small girls-moved from the snow-covered Finnish countryside to middle of the tropical heat of Nigeria. The Biafran war was raging, and the young girl saw many historical...

Choice is a tricky proposal, and every choice, good or bad, has its consequences. In A Hadassah Story, author Hadassah Grey shares both the choices she's made in her life and the results of those choices.Beginning with her birth in Akers, South Carolina,...

This book was an alternative to suicide. When I thought the only solution was to end my life I decided to write a book outlining my decision. I figured that way everyone I cared about could see that i had no choice but to end it all. The further I got...

In a fresh and compelling way, Why Did You Give Up The Koochie And Now You Mad will educate men and women in understanding God’s idea about woman, wife, and marriage. God built woman as a spectacular and wondrous masterpiece. She is indeed...

Little Miss and Spirit Bear's Kiss tells the story of Little Miss, a lost soul who has had her light stolen and blames herself. Sitting in her special field of purple bloom, Little Miss all but gives up hope that she will ever feel whole again. ...

The first exploration of vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism.