Gender studies: women and girls Books

For anyone who wants to make political change, start a campaign, advance a cause or just stay in the fight, former Senator Dede Feldman's memoir, Ten More Doors, charts an inspirational path. Arriving in New Mexico a stranger in 1975, Dede's...

Ladies, if you want to start a business—or you’re a little unsure of the path with your new brand—then, From Start-Up to Success: Navigating the Journey to Becoming (and Staying) a Successful Entrepreneur is just what you need to cut...

Alpha Females Unleashed: From the Boardroom to the Bedroom, the raw and revealing new book is the result of the courage of an up and coming author, CC Lyons. It dares to address the taboo topic of the Alpha Female, who has been mislabeled as the...

In this heartfelt tribute to the most inspiring women in her life, Teresa Renda Carlson reveals how one life can be powerfully shaped by the collective influence of others. With the threads of support and positive examples set by the ladies profiled in...

Total Black Empowerment:  A Guide To Critical Thinking in The Age of Trump is a book intended to facilitate the development of a New Mental Attitude in African Americans -- a  new mental attitude that will be fueled by...

The nineteenth-century ideal of domesticity identified home as women’s proper sphere, but the ideal was frequently challenged, profoundly so when woman left home and country to travel in foreign lands. This book explores the reasons for and...

Nicky was born into the world in the early 70's full of excitement and gumption.  With a loving mum and adoring sisters she felt protected and loved.  However, as she started to grow up she became more than aware that life wasn't always...

Is it possible for Tilda to uproot her life and start again when her personality avoids risk-taking at every opportunity? Is steadfastly single Bea really in love with Mal or is her HRT causing emotional turbulence? And how long can Stewart use his...

I love every story in this book and can’t wait to share it with my own daughter. – Sherry Coutu CBE Dear Female Founder is a personal, inspirational and at times a deeply moving read. I wish it had existed when I started my own...

Organized Crime QueensThe Secret World of Female GangstersFrom the bizarre world of female Japanese motorcycle gangs to the historic rise and fall of London’s Forty Elephants, the history of female organized crime is both fascinating and strange...

This book outlines a complex, nuanced, dynamic tool kit of interrelated factors that are key to propelling aspiring women into the C-Suite. These factors, some tangible, some intangible, can be used by business and professional woman as tools that they...

op 1% Goodreads reviewer gives "88 Guys for Coffee" 5 stars! "Read it, laugh with it, roll with it, this is a sparkling gem for sure!" Abandoned – no, dumped from her 7-year marriage, Laura's self-worth was in tatters...

Growing up within the Christian Church I learned about God’s order for marriage. Then when I grew up I met a Christian man who was taught the same standards of marriage as I was and we quickly began our new life together. However, when my husband...

International Book Award in "Women’s Issues"Eric Hoffer Award for "Best Culture Book"Eric Hoffer Award for "Best Book Cover"Eric Hoffer Award for "Best Debut Author"Indie Book Award for "Historical...

This third book in the Mixed Relations trilogy is the story of Gertrude Müller von Deham's rise to become the 'Soul of Moloch' and one of Vienna's most celebrated socialites. Her natural curiosity and wry humour made her a favorite amongst her set.While...

Under the threat of climate change, corruption, inequality and injustice, Americans may feel they are living in a dystopian novel come to life. Like many American narratives, dystopian stories often focus on males as the agents of social change. ...

Focusing on Egypt during the period 1760 to 1870, this book fills in some of the historical blanks for a dance form often known today in the Middle East as raqs sharki or raqs baladi, and in Western countries as "belly dance." Eyewitness accounts...

The literary tradition begun by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s has since flourished and taken new directions with a diverse body of fiction by more contemporary African-American women writers. This book examines the treatment of domestic violence in...

It's hard to find females in leading roles as athletes, coaches and owners in sports film story lines. With an abundance of male-focused stories, Hollywood continues to reinforce the association of athleticism with masculinity. Portrayals of women in...

The female vocalists who pioneered the disco genre in the '70s and early '80s were an extraordinarily talented group who dazzled the world with an exciting blend of elegance, soulful passion and gutsy fire. In this book of original interviews, 32 of...

Jane Austen's career as a novelist began in 1811 with the publication of Sense and Sensibility. Her work was finally adapted for the big screen with the 1940 filming of Pride and Prejudice (very successful at the box office). No other film adaptation...

Many aspects of British detective fiction are intriguingly different from the American detective fiction. And, confusingly, many of the British women detectives who have made it to American television are far from typical of the latest women...

Invisible Stars was the first book to recognize that women have always played an important part in American electronic media. The emphasis is on social history, as the author skillfully explains how the changing role of women in different eras influenced...

Sandy Prantl, an occupational and craniosacral therapist takes us on her journey of healing from childhood abuse that led to the development of post traumatic stress disorder(PTSD). An ordinary trip to the library set events in motion that changed the...

Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love meets Chelsea Handler's My Horizontal Life. The result is an irreverent, bawdy and at times painfully honest look at the oft-ignored realities of travel. Catch a ride on packed buses, smoky trains, tiny planes, bouncy...

You might love the idea of creating and growing an aligned business, but how do you actually do it?When you work for yourself there are constant challenges, decisions to make and directions you could go. If you lose connection to yourself and your own...

If conventional business and marketing advice has not landed in your heart and soul very well and you are spending too much time online, then this book is for you!Quiet Marketing is a book for highly sensitive solopreneurs who are seeking a calm,...

Here are stories that challenge the conventional views of working class women and their struggles. Strikes and demonstrations throughout the 20th century shatter traditional images of women as passive victims. From the women of Broken Hill, who fought...

This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS.

An important volume connecting classical studies with feminism, Feminism and Ancient Philosophy provides an even-handed assessment of the ancient philosophers' discussions of women and explains which ancient views can be fruitful for feminist theorizing...

By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, Jews and Feminism questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish women are not necessarily secure within this...

The attack on Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships set the stage for a Winter Olympics spectacle: Tonya versus Nancy. Women on Ice collects the writings of a diverse group of feminists who address and question our national...

This book examines how South Asian women's collective agency is operationalized through civic organizations in the UK. Drawing on black feminist theory and third world feminism, it shows the complexity of political agency and its relationship to identity...

Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the other, but the way that...

Accompanying China's economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, illicit drug use emerged in the late 1980s, and gradually developed into a serious social problem. Heroin was the dominant illicit drug consumed in the new drug epidemic, and the number...

Using gender and modernity as keystones, this book traces Rabindranath Tagore's evolution as a novelist by analyzing texts such as Chokher Bali, Gora and The Home and the World. Arguing that they cannot be readily assimilated within conventional...

This is the first full-length history of Russian peasant women in the twentieth century in English, and tells the story of all rural women - from ordinary farm girls to agrarian professionals to prostitutes. It offers a comprehensive...

This ambitious and wide-ranging essay collection analyses how identity and form intersect in twentieth- and twenty-first century literature. It revises and deconstructs the binary oppositions identity-form, content-form and body-mind through discussions...

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Rabat, Morocco, this ethnography analyzes the relationship between neoliberal development policies, women's reproductive practices, and popular understandings of Islam. In the 1990s, Morocco shifted its attention from...

This book explores the diversity and complexity of embodied experiences of maternity, illustrating how maternal bodies are constructed through different social, cultural and economic networks, and through different places and spaces.

Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America offers an essential perspective on the post-1960 movement for women's equality and liberation. Tracing the histories of feminist activism, through the National Organization of Women (NOW)...

Choice Recommended ReadThis thoroughly revised new edition updates Sheila Greene's original transformative account of the psychological development of girls and women and the central role of time in shaping human experience. Greene critically reviews...

This book questions how feminist beliefs are enacted within an artistic context. It critically examines the intersection of violence, gender, performance and power through contemporary interventionist performances. The volume explores a host of key...

Transforming Sport and Physical Cultures through Feminist Knowledges contributes new perspectives on the entanglement of digital and physical cultures, more-than-human relations, post and decolonial ways of knowing, and how onto-epistemologies of sport...