Gender studies: women and girls Books

Our histories focus almost entirely on a relatively small group of men making big decisions in big buildings in cities, but most folks living at any given time were unaffected by their maneuverings. This book looks at "the other half" of the story,...

Confessions of a Woman (a novel) won the Literary Merit Award in the Naji Noman Literary Competition in Lebanon in 2007 AD. The novel is a woman's exploration of the hidden female within her, and the woman chosen by the writer within the text, "the ego,"...

Behind the iconic Gucci name lies a family torn apart by betrayal, jealousy, greed and even murder. Jenny was an operatic student in Florence when she first caught the eye of fashion designer Paolo Gucci - grandson of the founder of the world's biggest...

In recent years, a number of scholars trained in the area of economics have begun to pay attention to a fascinating and increasingly important question: Does the interrelationship between religion and enterprise shape entrepreneurial decision making?...

Gender studies has maintained its status as a heavily researched field. However, women and their role in cinema is a vastly understudied topic that deals with various aspects of feminism and sexism. The function of women in the film industry has evolved...

Good Morning Mayor, What's Up is a primer on local government, the government closest to the people. It explains how City governments are formed, managed and governed. It tells how to get elected to public office, how to advocate state legislators,...

This is a story of a life lived outside the rules for women. It is a brutally honest portrayal of a woman's journey beyond an unhappy marriage, a high-flying career and a nice house in the country. What happens when she leaves all that behind and follows...

 The House of the Boatmaker rests at the edge of the Irish sea on the Beara Peninsula, wild and seductive, a land that acknowledges no boundary, save for the delicate shimmer of light that lay upon the horizon, separating the heavens from the sea...

Leaping Over The Ocean is a deliberate attempt to include/intrude specific Black women into existing narratives on race, gender and travel.  My focus here is on the lives and specific motivations that pushed and pulled four Black women across...

Cherry Angels and Earthly Predators: My Life Among Dangerous Wild Animals is the stunning memoir of a beautiful, rebellious young woman who rescues scores of dangerous exotic animals and cares for them by turning to the dark side of the night's wild life...

DIAMONDS OF WISDOMLife Lessons Worth KnowingBy Mercedita Noland & FriendsDiamonds of Wisdom is an exciting collection of twelve essays by four women, united together by a unique heartstrings-sisterhood. It offers an endearing variety of...

Thank you for choosing God’s Elect Ladies, a book that allows you to share the journey of some remarkable women. Women of great courage and fervor, true survivors who continue to press through everyday challenges with diagnoses of various...

This book is dedicated to the ones who wonder why they go through so many things. The people with mixed emotions and broken spirits. The lovers of love who have experienced great joy blended with tremendous pain. The book is dedicated to those of us with...

La forma en que creciste y fuiste educado, marca mucho el tipo de persona en la que te conviertes en tu edad adulta, el tipo de pareja que elegimos, nuestras inseguridades, nuestros miedos. Nosotros decidimos qué papel vamos a representar en la vida, si...

Marie Romero Cash, an artist in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has survived over half of her eighty years propelling herself through the decades with courage and determination, using her creative skills every step of the way. This memoir is a testament to women...

For fans of Little Miss Sunshine and Secrets of Miss America, this memoir from a national award-winning author reveals the reality of being the first Guyrex Girl in the 1970s. Beauty pageant stories have never been this raw, this real. Growing up in West...

In Supplier Diversity from the Inside Out, award-winning strategist Kimberly Coffman delves into the intricacies of navigating supplier diversity programs and securing lucrative contracts with major corporations. With firsthand experiences garnered over...

  All Grace ever wanted was the normal things in life: a happy marriage, a big house, and a loving family. She never imagined her life would turn out so differently.          The submissive Christian life...

Sally Dickerson grew up in a loving, nurturing family who enjoyed the prosperity of 1950s. She was provided everything she needed to become a successful adult, yet she suffered silently, believing she was ugly, unlovable, and worthless. She remembered...

A recent Purdue University study showed that, in 2019, 95% of TV coverage, including highlights on sports networks, focused on men's sports. That doesn't leave much room for women, and female athletes are more than fed up with this inequality. One of...

Yellow hospital socks on my mom's feet,Yellow buildings surrounding me in Milan,Yellow backpack slung across my back, Yellow roses from my first love,Yellow . . .Who knew that one color could be the invisible string that ties your whole life together?In...

The 2020 global pandemic further underscored the need for justice and visibility for Black women. When unarmed, Breonna Taylor was killed by police, her story seemingly went unnoticed for months. This collection pays homage to her life, reclaims hope and...

Living in 1920s' Darjeeling, a young woman makes an unforgivable mistake. As we follow her story from India to England, where she determines to build a life worth living, regardless of the past, we're shown a unique glimpse into the social climate that...

Changes in human society are inevitable, particularly in the modern era of globalization. Members of society are consequently affected in one way or another, having to cope with different or new ideas, perceptions, expectations, and worldviews. Authored...

A Tiny Universe's Companion accompanies A Tiny Universe, a textbook on astrology which isbased on one version of the Birth-Chart of the Universe known as Thema Mundi.Companion expands on the fi rst book by exploring a number of techniques which were...

A Tiny Universe is a textbook which is based on Thema Mundi, a symbolic chart of the planets positions at the beginning of humankinds existence. Thema Mundi has existed as the teaching tool for astrological techniques since Hellenistic times and...

As a divorced single mother, author Sarah Attley learned to survive through many challenges in her life. She was raising two boys while working full-time and attending a college an hour away to earn a business administration degree. Attley was a busy mom...

One Latina Breaking The Language Barrier is a tribute to migrant workers who have been able to get out of poverty. This book has great stories to tell with heartwarming true tales from great women that suffered as migrant workers in the fields. Alice...

My Healing Heart is the simple, true story of Rosalie's search for God and love. Her quest began early in life, catalyzed by a painful childhood marked by sexual and emotional abuse.As this story unfolds, you are given a window into Rosalie's trials,...

From the moment young Australian teenager Helen Le Mesurier saw Hayley Mills in Walt Disney's Pollyanna, she felt a deep, intense connection that defied explanation. For years, Helen collected every photo, every article, every scrap of information she...

An inspiring true story of how a little girl grew to be a woman of God even in the midst of suffering and tragedy and how her life inspired her daughter. Experience the joy and sorrow of this woman's life and how God used all of these events to make her...

I've been accused of being a rebel, but I'm not really. I simply answer the call of the wild that runs deep in my blood. I hear it every time I smell the musky scent of game and wet earth. I savor it over open fires and far-seeing places, and I dream of...

Adolescent girls’special needs in the teen-age years are thoroughly examined in Women, Girls & Psychotherapy, a compelling book focusing on the vitality of resistance in young girls. Drawing on studies of women's and girls’development,...

This book examines the history and evolution of Title IX, a landmark 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination at educational institutions receiving federal funding. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and William Thro illuminate the ways in which the interpretation...

In contrast to the wealth of studies on progress towards gender equality, opposition to gender equality is rarely studied, which makes it difficult to understand the positive and negative dynamics of gender equality as a political project.The first of...

This collection of essays by feminist scholar-activists addresses the crucial problem of human security in a world of heavily armed, militarized states. It describes the gendered aspects of human security excluded from the realist militarism that...

This ground-breaking collection features the diverse voices, experiences, and scholarship of cross-cultural women of American Indian, Asian American, Black/African American and Hispanic descent at various levels of academe, actively engaged in the...

This edited volume combines cutting-edge research on feminist and intersectional writing methodologies with explorations of links between academic and creative writing practices. Contributors discuss what it means for academic writing processes to...

One of the founders of the posthumanities, Donna J. Haraway is professor in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Author of many books and widely read essays, including the now-classic essay "The Cyborg...

Carolyn Merchant's foundational 1980 book The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution established her as a pioneering researcher of human-nature relations. Her subsequent groundbreaking writing in a dozen books and over one hundred...

This wide-ranging collection of essays elaborates on some of the most pressing issues in contemporary postcolonial society in their transition from conflict and contestation to dialogue and resolution. It explores from new angles questions of violent...

With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato's dialogues in search of his conception of woman. The...