Gender studies: women and girls Books

Women's Police Stations examines the changing and complex relationship between women and the state, and the construction of gendered citizenship. These are police stations run exclusively by police women for women with the authority to investigate crimes...

A surprisingly large number of women writers, directors, and performers have created works that talk back to Shakespeare, or to most earlier and more traditional interpretations of his plays, in the late 20th century. For example, Jane Smiley's A...

Along with the rest of the world, the country of Turkey is beset by efforts to push women into a particular prototype. This collection of essays seeks to combat such efforts by delving below the surface of common stereotypes surrounding Turkish women...

This scholarly but accessible collection combines critical appraisals of Caribbean women fiction-writers.

The End of the Age of Innocence tells the dramatic story of Edith Wharton's heroic crusade to save the lives of displaced Belgians and suffering citizens of her adopted France, by organizing refugee relief efforts during WW I.

This book is about my experiences growing up in Jamaica and some life challenges aafter migrating to Canada at 11 years old, along with my three other siblings, in hope of finding a better life in a foreign country and to reunite with my father. Little...

"La vida de Rosie Mercado ha sido todo menos fâacil: Åcâomo es posible que haya tenido tres relaciones fallidas y dado a luz a tres hijos a solas? ÅQuâe habâia hecho ella para merecerlo? En su peor momento, llegâo a pesar mâas de ciento ochenta kilos...

"Reading Kelly Sundberg's writing--fresh, luminous, spirited--is a pleasure second only to witnessing her decision to survive. Goodbye Sweet Girl is a meditation on what it takes to save your own life." --Ariel Levy

"A smart, energetic, determined woman, someone who is always shooting for greater success and who really hates it when she fails at something. A revealing and timely portrait of a professional writer and the industry in which she works." --Booklist

The acclaimed actress and dedicated activist shares her personal journey of discovery, and destroys outdated ideas about partnership, love and family that will resonate with anyone in an unconventional life situation.Actress and activist Maria Bello made...

"Ariel Leve's haunting memoir about life with her unpredictable mother is maddening, devastating and consuming."--Minnesota Public Radio, Best Books of 2016

Helen Kendrick Johnson, Mrs. Rossiter Johnson: The Story Of Her Varied Activities is a biography written by Rossiter Johnson in 1917. The book details the life and accomplishments of his wife, Helen Kendrick Johnson. It covers her childhood, education,...

Growth In Silence: The Undertone Of Life is a book written by Susanna Cocroft and first published in 1819. The book is a collection of essays and reflections on the importance of silence in personal growth and spiritual development. Cocroft argues that...

Das Buch ""Faustina Hasse"" von Elise Polko wurde im Jahr 1860 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt von der gleichnamigen Hauptfigur Faustina Hasse, die in einer Zeit lebt, in der Frauen in der Gesellschaft noch sehr eingeschr�����nkt sind. Faustina ist eine...

An Admiral's Wife in the Making is a memoir written by Ida Margaret Graves Poore, originally published in 1917. The book chronicles the life of Ida as she marries into the British Navy and becomes the wife of Admiral Sir Richard Poore. The memoir covers...

Il libro ""Angiola Maria: Storia Domestica (1874)"" di Giulio Carcano ����� una raccolta di racconti che narrano la vita di una giovane donna di nome Angiola Maria. Ambientato nella Milano del XIX secolo, il libro segue la vita di Angiola Maria dalla sua...

Analectorum Belgicorum, Pars Prima: Continens Casparis Scheti, Corvini, Wesemaliae Baronis, Grobben Doncki Toparchae, Etc. (1772) a Burman, Pieter est liber qui continet varia scripta Belgica, inter quae sunt Casparis Scheti, Corvini, Wesemaliae Baronis,...

Clare Welsman (1883) is a book in the English language by Louisa Bigg.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is...

Claudia is a novel written by Fanny Ann Prideaux and published in 1865. The story is set in the early 19th century and follows the life of a young woman named Claudia, who is raised in a wealthy and aristocratic family in England. Despite her privileged...

This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James's interests.

Bringing together feminist theory, girlhood studies, and curriculum theory, this book contributes an in-depth critical analysis of curriculum in single-gender schooling for girls in postfeminist landscapes of "unlimited choices" and resurgences of proper...

Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction responds to the need for a more materialist perspective on migration by reorienting the focus on domesticity and the everyday practices of homemaking and away from a celebratory and aestheticized...

This book examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics. It documents the everyday practices that local female actors adopt to deal with the continuous economic, political, and social...

Some people have a gender which is neither male nor female and may identify as both male and female at one time, as different genders at different times, as no gender at all, or dispute the very idea of only two genders. The most often heard umbrella...

The volume explores the range of reactions to medical women from the mid-nineteenth century up until the start of the Great War in 1914. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this title will be of great interest to students of Women's History...

Drawing on feminist theory, as well as theory surrounding the correlation between poverty and suicide, this study explores the increased rate of suicide among women in western Iran. Based on empirical research, including interviews with women from the...

Black Feminist Sociology offers new writings by established and emerging scholars working in a Black feminist tradition. The book centers Black feminist sociology (BFS) within the sociology canon and widens is to feature Black feminist sociologists both...

This book explores the works of women writers and filmmakers across the African and African Diaspora world, reflecting on how the transnational sphere can serve to highlight voices that were at the margins of gender and race hierarchies.The book...

Family Plots traces the fault lines of the Freudian family romance and holds that the "family plot" is very much alive in post-World War II American culture. It cuts across all genres, insinuating, criticizing, reinforcing, and reinventing itself in all...

In original essays drawn from a myriad of archival materials, Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain reveals how the members of the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito, founded in 1787 to administer charities and schools for impoverished women and...

Created in 1941 by the psychologist William Marston, Wonder Woman would go on to have one of the longest continuous runs of published comic book adventures in the history of the industry. More than 70 years after her debut, Wonder Woman remains a...

During World War II Nathalie "Lily" Sergueiew, a woman of mystery, confidently seduced the German Intelligence Service into employing her as a spy against their British enemy. Little did they know that this striking woman--who turned heads when she...

This in-depth treatment of the organization and operation of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League draws on primary documents from league owner Arthur Meyerhoff and others for a unique perspective inside the AAGPBL. The study begins with...

This fascinating book looks at the wide-ranging therapeutic, social, and political implications of a new paradigm of women's sexuality. International in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, A New View of Women's Sexual Problems examines the...

This comprehensive exploration of the international environment examines not only traditional political-military concerns but also economic, ethnic, and environmental issues and the role of crime, terrorism, the drug trade, and migration in the security...

Light At The End Of The Funnel: Co-Authored Book Volume 1 is a compilation of stories from top entrepreneurs, small business owners, thought leaders, change makers, and influencers from around the world. You'll find each story thought-provoking and...

Did the accident that almost took Grada Robertson’s life, actually save her life?Grada Robertson always considered herself to be blessed.Grada was only seventeen years old when she met her soulmate, Peter. By nineteen she was married and had...

Making Gender, Making War is a unique interdisciplinary edited collection which explores the social construction of gender, war-making and peacekeeping. It highlights the institutions and processes involved in the making of gender in terms of both...

This book uses the Anglophone Caribbean as its site of critique to explore two important questions within development studies. First, to what extent has the United Nations' call to implement gender-mainstreaming projects resulted in the realization of...

This book provides a unique overview of contemporary quantitative approaches to feminist research and feminist approaches to quantitative research.This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology.

First published in 1992, this book is an historical introduction to a wide range of women's movements from the late eighteenth-century to the date of its publication. It describes economic, social and political ideas which have inspired women to...