Gender studies: women and girls Books

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates, edited by Greg Johnson, offers a rare glimpse into the private thoughts of this extraordinary writer, focusing on excerpts written during one of the most productive decades of Oates's long career. Far more than just a...

United States senator Kay Bailey Hutchison examines the lives of sixty-three pioneers in military service, journalism, public health, social reform, science, and politics--all American women.Following in the footsteps of her national bestseller, American...

The first commercial, in-depth biography of the American-born Roman Catholic priest who may well be declared a saint. . . . “Delightful. . . . No magisterial biography emanating a suffocating aura of pomp and self-importance, this book is as low-key...

Cindi Broaddus didn't realize that her life was about to be forever altered as she sat in the passenger seat of a car on a lonely highway, speeding toward the airport in the early morning hours of June 5, 2001. A single mother of three and a delighted...

Black women have been balancing the competing demands of work and home since before women even won the right to vote. But black voices are barely acknowledged in the mainstream "mommy wars" dialogue. Lonnae O'Neal Parker is determined to change that, in...

As one of the country's foremost restaurant reviewers, Mimi Sheraton set the standard for food writing and criticism. In this engrossing memoir, the doyenne of food criticism explains how she developed her passion for writing about food and wine, sharing...

One out of every thirty five women born is killed for cultural or sexual reasons. In the twentieth century more women were killed for those reasons than all the people who died in wars. Women everywhere live in the higher stages of Gregory Stanton's...

I Laughed Until I Cried chronicles my terrific and tumultuous journey from my southern birth through adulthood. Nearby Memphis, TN was the home of baby broker Georgia Tann and her illegal orphanage. Georgia, "The Mother of Adoption in the United States"...

When Rose Philippine Duchesne was born in Grenoble, the beautiful gateway to the French Alps, in 1769, no one knew she'd eventually be canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.When she went to the Sisters of the Visitation convent, Ste. Marie...

Extraordinary Nurses Throughout History is a fascinating collection that includes insightful writings on eight notable nurses of the past and celebrates their brilliant contributions to medicine.Many incredible women made invaluable improvements to...

This volume contains a collection of essays and assorted writings on the subject of the Brontë sisters by G. K . Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Gaskell, Mrs Oliphant, and other notable writers. The Brontës were a famous literary family during the...

A courageous, touching and deeply personal story about mental illness, Dawn Rodger's memoir will shed light on the dark days she experienced before discovering a life of health, happiness and balance. When Dawn, a passionate music teacher and a loving...

Throughout your life, you will try on many different types of shoes, only choosing to wear some of them. Soul to Sole: The Views from the Shoes presents shoe analogies that inspire you to find the shoe that fits. It encourages you to find the shoe that...

Jane Carson-Sandler, a native of Northern New Jersey, entered the US Air Force Nurse Corps in 1969 and retired in 1999 after serving 30 years of active and reserve duty. Seven years after entering the military, she was raped in her own home while her...

This work is a gendered reading of Sahgal as a writer of fiction and looks at events in post-Independence India from a gendered perspective.As a tangent, it has also discussed the reliability of fiction as a source material for history.The debate and...

Hello, this is SunShine, coming at you with wisps and wonderings of poems, all written on pages of tablets in a state mental hospital and typed up on my relatively inexpensive laptop, the one I bought while living in a van, by city parks and the river...

From the beginning of time, certain women-Catherine the Great, Golda Meir, Nancy Pelosi, Margaret Thatcher, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and others-have been beacons, inspiring those who followed to fight against injustice and for ultimate equality. They often...

After Barbara Frechette arrived in Colombia in 1994 as the wife of the United States ambassador, she witnessed the fascinating rise of powerful women leaders during the uncertainty of a dangerous drug war that raged for years. Fascinated as to how and...

This book has been many years in the making. My intention of writing this book is to share with people my memoirs so they can receive knowledge and comfort concerning angels and actual death experience.Author's Astrological Reading for 09-09-09:Sharing...

Draws on the rich history of Black feminist writing to help scholars manage the stress of writing and publishing academic books.Writing scholarly books is stressful, and academic publishing can be intimidating-especially for women, queer folks, and...

Explores the role of the South in Black queer lesbian experiences of hurting and healing.Snapping Beans offers a collective narrative of Southern queer lesbian women and gender-nonconforming persons. Throughout the text, the American South acts as both a...

The book analyses the successful and impressive efforts of Chinese sportswomen in their collective striving for, and achieving of, national and international recognition, status and supremacy. Owing to their international ascendancy, these Chinese...

En Escrituras de lo diabólico, Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez estudia obras latinoamericanas donde la imagen diabólica se usa para mapear la representación literaria de formas problemáticas de alteridad. Frente a trabajos que se concentran en el diablo ya...

Above the Fog is a powerful story of one woman's struggles with DES (diethylstilbestrol). The drug was developed in 1937 as the first synthetic estrogen and given to millions of pregnant women who had previously had miscarriages. Years later the tragic...

I left Canada in 1953 to work for the Red Cross in the Far East for the Canadian Forces in Korea and Japan. After my tour of duty I went to Australia, where I worked and hitchhiked to the Outback. On my way to South Africa I visited the Dutch West...

This book charts and challenges the bruising impact of post-Saussurean thought on the categories of experience and self-presence. It attempts a reappropriation of the category of lived experience in dialogue with poststructuralist thinking. Following the...

This book discusses how civilized oppression (the oppression that involves neither violence nor the law) can be overcome by re-examining our participation in it. Moral community, solidarity and education are offered as vibrant strategies to overcome the...

This collection of essays considers the ways in which feminism is still an important issue in twenty-first century society. Looking at various forms of literature, media, and popular culture, the book establishes that contemporary images of femininity...

This book develops creative imagining of traditional doctrines. Chapters show the effectiveness of Latina/mujerista, evangélica, womanist, Asian American, and white feminist imaginings in the furthering of global gender justice.   

Catholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century and beyond. These essays explore the ways in which some...

What does it mean to be a woman in the 21st century? The feminist movement has a long and rich history, but is its time now passed? This edited collection is driven by the question, why is feminism viewed by some (we would add a majority) as outdated, no...

How has popular film, television and fiction responded to the realities of an ageing Western population? This volume analyses this field of representation to argue that, while celebrations of ageing as an inspirational journey are increasing, most...

The interest of this book lies at the very center of a recent deployment of homosexual liberation on a larger scale. The reader will be able to understand how each of the traditions studied articulates its own regulatory mechanisms of male sexuality in...

This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. It contributes to the philosophical and theoretical debate, as well as offering practical, social and political responses to the issues examined...

When like-minded women come together anything is possible. As the visionaries of this Anthology, we pulled from our own experiences of building a business to encourage other business owners to share their business-building journey. We did this in hope...

Tardanika Marshall, is a Forty-two-year-old female, who was born on October 16, 1980.She Attended High School at A.C. Flora High, Midlands Technical College, and Strayer University all in Columbia SC. She is also working a full-time job with long hours...

In parts scholarly work, memoir, and polemic, Escorting for Jesus: Why Religious Fundamentalists Need to Crawl Back to Their Caves recounts the circus adventures of a volunteer escort at a family planning clinic. The inevitable collision among...

We (Men and Women) together are better, smarter, stronger together. There is a phenomenal world that emerges when a society goes beyond matriarchy and patriarchy: thriving in both business and personal life. The book focuses on succeeding in...

AND SHE SHALL HAVE MURDER WHEREVER SHE GOES...The young men of Coventry are dying, violently and bloodily, and nobody seems to know why. There's no obvious reason for their deaths, and no connection at all between the victims.Enter demonic, immortal and...

Winston Karel was an incredibly gifted man who worked as a senior staff geologist, a petrophysical specialist, a senior log analyst, and a well site supervisor in the oil and gas industry. He also served as an instructor of all of these professions. This...

A gangly girl grows into a classy lady. Creasy Jones Simmons exemplifies the characteristics of a person on a mission to overcome trials, tribulations, obstacles, and the era in that she lived. Encompassed in the pages of this book, Mrs. Creasy Jones...