Gender studies: women and girls Books

This book brings together a unique blend of researchers, civil society and community activists all working on different aspects of conflict sexual violence on the African continent. The contributions included here offer a detailed reading of the social...

This book dwells in the discussion of "patriarchy and gender stereotypes". It specifically deals with impact of gender stereotyping on women in organisations and higher education.

This compelling collection of essays examines how historically significant marketing schemes have profoundly impacted women's health and healthcare across the world, this book will find readers among students in Public Health, Allied Health, Gender...

This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of gender, feminism and peace.

In Leading in Place, the authors open up new avenues in the debate on leadership by drawing the reader's attention to the ways in which women can be-and are-leading in organizations and communities in sometimes unconventional, often unrecognized, ways...

Born, raised, and retired in Mississippi, Lucy Somerville Howorth (1895--1997) was a champion for the rights of women long before feminism emerged as a widely recognized movement. As told by Dorothy S. Shawhan and Martha H. Swain, hers is a remarkable...

In the spring of 1861, tens of thousands of young men formed military companies and offered to fight for their country. Near the end of the Civil War, nearly half of the adult male population of the North and a staggering 90 percent of eligible white...

How women's efforts to reform public education in postbellum Georgia had the broader effect of reshaping social relationsAfter the upheavals of Reconstruction, white men in Georgia made a concerted effort to restore state government to its antebellum...

In her moving and deeply personal memoir, Ella E. Schneider Hilton chronicles her remarkable childhood -- one that took her from the purges of Stalinist Russia to the refugee camps of Nazi and postwar Germany to the cotton fields of Jim Crow Mississippi...

This impressively researched book tells the important but little-known story of elite southern white women's successful quest for a measure of self-reliance and independence between antebellum strictures and the restored patriarchy of Jim Crow...

This volume presents a collection of essays offering a range of critical perspectives of Kate Chopin and her work.

First published in 1865, Belle Boyd's memoir of her experiences as a Confederate spy has stood the test of time and interest. Belle first gained notoriety when she killed a Union soldier in her home in 1861. During the Federal occupations of the...

An account of the childbearing and rearing responsibilities which consumed, often literally, the lives of women in the old south. The author explores the social, political and medical influences of the time that led women to assume fervently the full...

This is a collection of oral-history narratives that explore the complex bond between black female domestic workers and their white employers from the turn of the 20th century to the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. It is based on interviews with 42...

With actress Pam Grier's breakthrough in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films--genres that had previously been considered the domain of male protagonists. This ground-breaking cinema,...

Medieval literature makes it plain that the Battle of the Sexes has been alive and raging since at least the Middle Ages. As depicted by Martin Le Franc in Le Champion des Dames, this battle takes on literally epic proportions. Translated from the...

Since the time of its inception, the field of aviation has rapidly grown in both importance and popularity. The acceptance and recognition of women's participation and achievements in this activity, however, did not develop with nearly the same speed...

Even though the people of Afghanistan in general suffered under the rule of the Taliban, women lived especially difficult lives, enduring terrible hardships. They were denied basic human rights, forced to wear veils and kept in seclusion. This work...

After centuries of repression of the female voice in literature, the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) periods in Japanese history saw important changes in both the way women wrote and the way they were read. However, even the most accepted female...

Dominique Jones shares her timeline of near death situations, timeless confusions, pain, heartache, abuse & rape while she stumbles across life shaky grounds. Finally finding her purpose of life, still having faith that she will get through, she have to...

This book studies women's resistance in the three countries of the Maghreb, concentrating on two questions: First, what has been the role of women artists since the 1960s in unlocking traditions and emancipating women on their own terms? Second, why have...

Science fiction, as a literature of fantasy, goes beyond the mundane to ask the question: what if the world were different from the way it is? It often challenges the real, builds on imagination, places no limits on human capacities, and encourages...

Eliza Haywood was one of the most prolific English writers in the Age of the Enlightenment.　 Her career, from Love in Excess (1719) to her last completed project The Invisible Spy (1755) spanned the gamut of genres: novels, plays, advice manuals,...

Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine examines women's graphic memoirs on infertility, foregrounding the complex interrelationship between women's life writing, infertility studies, and graphic medicine. Through a scholarly examination of the artists'...

Sally Hemings: Given Her Time is an exciting, concise biography which tells the extraordinary tale of Sally Hemings, mother of Thomas Jefferson's enslaved children. It is an accessible and lively read for students in Women and Gender Studies, Women's...

Throughout the study of trauma theology runs a lineage that is deeply feminist. As traumatic experience is being more frequently acknowledged in public, this book seeks to articulate an explicit understanding of feminist trauma theology for the first...

Feminist Theory, Crime, and Social Justice offers an insightful look at the primarily masculine-driven perspective on crime and justice through the lens of feminist theory. The book presents the argument that an increased understanding of the female...

Janet Holmes's second book of poems explores and interrogates the quotidian life of the late twentieth century for what exists behind its often seductive appearance. In these poems we see beneath acceptable, sleek surfaces into the turbulence they often...

In her debut best-selling true story, Lisa Dianne McInnes urges us to explore the meaning of loss, the evil side of human nature, and the infinite power of love and rising above it all.Between the years 2012 and 2017, like a pile of dominos, Lisa Dianne...

The name-calling and hurtful actions from others began the day Linda entered the public school system. Searching to belong, she learned quickly that a snappy comeback was her best defence. Born in 1947, just after the Second World War, into a home of...

Join me on this miraculous journey of a courageous God-fearing woman and her children. See how God has turned a painful situation around and brought her from the pit to the pulpit.Barbara accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior at the age of 9, at the...

Letters of the Marchioness Broglio Solari is a book written by Catherine Hyde Govin Broglio Solari and published in 1845. The book is a collection of letters written by the Marchioness Broglio Solari, as well as a sketch of her life and recollections of...

Lettres D'Une Dame Angloise, Et De Son Amie A Paris, Contenant Les Memoires (1771) est un livre �����crit par Helen Maria Williams. Il raconte l'histoire d'une dame anglaise et de son amie ������ Paris, ������ travers une s�����rie de lettres. Les...

Lettres De Madame La Marquise De Villars (1760) est un recueil de lettres �����crites par Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, la marquise de Villars, une femme de la noblesse fran�����aise du XVIIIe si�����cle. Dans ces lettres, elle raconte sa vie et ses...

""Letters of Lady M...y W...y M...e: Written During Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa, to Persons of Distinction"" is a collection of letters written by Mary Wortley Montagu during her travels across Europe, Asia, and Africa. The book was published...

The book ""Letters Of Lady Mary Wortley Montague: Written During Her Travels In Europe, Asia, And Africa, To Which Are Added Poems (1800)"" is a collection of letters and poems written by Lady Mary Wortley Montague during her travels in various parts of...

Lessons Of A Governess To Her Pupils V1 (1792) is a book written by Stephanie Felicite Genlis. It is a comprehensive guide for governesses who are responsible for educating young girls. The book covers a wide range of topics, including reading, writing,...