Gender studies: women and girls Books

With equal parts wit and empathy, lived experience and cultural criticism, Kelly Davio’s It’s Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability explores what it means to live with an illness in our contemporary culture, whether at home or abroad.“When...

Smith’s body of work examines the influence of significant factors—such as place, memory, art, tradition, social expectation, media,religion, history, and story—on personal identity. Enriching hertreatment of the subject, she explores...

“This book was not intended to make women think they are better than men or to promote the Women’s Liberation Movement. Rather it is to let women know that God has a plan for their lives. He created men and women equal and set the woman to...

This is a new edition of a Darwin Porter classic from 2014, this is the most scandalous compilation of cash-soaked ambition, sexual indiscretion, and social embarrassment ever published about a former First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, all of it...

A classic surreal & subversive novel by one of the original magical realist authors, Luisa Valenzuela.Here's what the old masters say: "Luisa Valenzuela is the heiress of Latin American Fiction. She wears an opulent, baroque crown, but her...

On February 24th, 1934 - shortly after the civil war in Austria and the defeat of the Socialists - Naomi Mitchison left Eng­land on a visit to Vienna in order to do what she could to relieve the terrible distress of the defeated. In this day-by-day...

"From the age of thirteen I wandered abroad and at twenty-one I decided to take a little trip across France dressed as a man....." Maria ter Meetelen tells the story of her capture by Barbary pirates and twelve years as a slave at Meknès...

He probably saw me as an immature, outspoken and thoroughly irritating iconoclast. I certainly hoped he did, at least - I worked hard at that....Meet Alison Weston - outspoken and passionate, a popular and successful English teacher who loves her job and...

Women and Migration(s) II draws together contributions from scholars and artists showcasing the breadth of intersectional experiences of migration, from diaspora to internal displacement. Building on conversations initiated in Women and Migration:...

Girls and young women, particularly those from rural and indigenous communities around the world, face some of the most adverse social issues in the world despite the existence of protective laws and international treaties. Ethical Practice in...

The Red Badge of Courage 'would become the godfather of all American war novels, and an inspiration for writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway and JD Salinger ... the laconic realism of his prose, the fierce investigation of the soldier's psyche,...

The Opaque Experience is a thorough investigation of the changes in aesthetics that occurred in Argentina and Brazil during the 1970s and 1980s. It analyses a slow transformation of the status of the literary, which has become increasingly manifest in...

It all started with a bet thrown down by my husband, Jimmy. If I ran thirteen miles, I could bring home our first family dog-any kind of dog I wanted. The perfect dog.Like every other decision in my life, this required hours of research and planning,...

Inspired by powerful women, this book speaks about 5 women who fought hard to be where they are today. Whether it’s writing, business, aviation or manufacturing, the fight at the workspace and at home is one that women today continue to face. This...

Following the deaths of her parents, Linda Murphy Marshall returns to her midwestern childhood home; in the process of going through each room, she evokes memories and insights from her patriarchal 1960s upbringing, and-informed by her training as a...

Remember Whose Little Girl You Are captures the flavor of the Deep South like no author since Eudora Welty or Flannery O'Connor. Ellen Nichols captures the tenor of small-town Southern life in the fifties and sixties, with its vicissitudes and...

 What happens when a ‘father’ appears to take his ‘daughter’ home from the orphanage one day? What happens when a blind Hindu girl falls in love with a Muslim man? What happens when a little girl in Delhi reads the diary of...

There she thinks, the woman on a mission, what she sees and reads changes everything for these new lives. She wants you to know we are out there, and there is another way. Help is on the way.Do you feel stuck in your life? Looking for purpose?Take the...

Gina was born a free-spirited happy child and always wanted to make others uplifted. She knew she had a spiritual gift to help and heal people. Unfortunately, when she was at the tender age of four years old, she was sexually abused for the first time...

Johnnie M. Stover explores the origin and power of black women writers' voices using the personal narratives of 19th-century Americans who were slaves or indentured servants. Displaying aspects of the oral traditions of Yoruba culture in West Africa,...

For Victorian women, danger lurked between the covers of a book. In an exploration of this notion, Catherine Golden examines women and reading in literary and visual representations in Britain and America, aiming to bring to life the world of the 19th-...

Intimate and intensely personal, the forty-five first-person narratives contained in Real Birth: Women Share Their Stories offer readers a window into the complex and emotionally exciting experience of childbirth. Women from a full range of socioeconomic...

From Shame to Honor: Mediterranean Women in Romans 16 explores the cultural context of women in Romans 16 and seeks to shed new light on the discussion of the role of women in the early church. A social-scientific model of cultural...

A strange fancy took them, however, for the manner of passing their afternoons. After dinner they seated themselves round a table, and, in complete silence wrote to each other charming little notes containing the ideas that were passing in their minds...

Lord Dorchester, however, did not leave his daughter alone, and when a more complaisant suitor with a handsomer income offered himself, briefly commanded her to marry him. To disobey such an order was then the height of undutiful conduct; yet so great...

One of the earliest works of protofeminist thought, this startling prescient 1792 book is the first published argument advocating for the societal elevation of women as the intellectual and emotional equals of men. Written against the background of the...

This edited volume of translations covers the major political essays of India's first feminist Hindi poet. A devout follower and advocate of Gandhi, Mahadevi Varma is a household name in India and is a major woman of letters in the modern Hindi world...

Donut Dolly is taken from the diary Joann Puffer Kotcher kept while working for the Red Cross for twelve months during the Vietnam War. She was one of the first women allowed in a combat zone and was almost killed six times. See the war through her eyes,...

Just as feminist scholars began to develop an analysis of "the state" and women in Europe gained access to its political, legal and bureaucratic arenas, increased attention and reliance on European institutions have begun to take precedence over the more...

The purse is the ultimate repository for a woman, filled with beauty, disgust, function, emotion, pleasure, amusement, alarm, and despair. This entertaining and engaging expose is a journey through uncharted territory—the purse—a vital...

The author of this autobiography lives on a ranch located in a beautiful valley along the Clearwater River surrounded by the majestic mountains of northern Idaho.  Until recently, Gloria has held a position on the local area Aglow board for many years...

S.L. Bowers is transparent in this heartfelt semi-autobiographical chronicle of her life. She takes us on her journey as an innocent, naive, young Christian girl to dipping her toe into an untapped secular world as a young adult and finally taking the...

In Broken But Not Abandoned, author Gloria Manns tells the amazing story of her life's journeythat has included abuse, child molestation, living in foster care, orphanages, to one day becominga caregiver and a nurse. The common thread in her life-evident...

She should have been focused on playing with dolls, spending time with friends and relishing hugs from her caring family around her. Yet five-year-old Sharyn experienced instead the sadness, anxiety and silent suffering that comes from being a young...

Born in England during World War II, author Diane Campbell Thompson, a war child, tells of bomb shelters, air raid sirens, meager food, and clothing rations. In Road to Ithaka, she narrates an honest account of her life beginning with her birth in 1941...

Author Julie McCulloch Burton has an amazing zest for life, love, and laughter. In Pen to Paper, she shares that zeal through a diverse compilation of anecdotes, humorous stories, family recipes, and personal photographs.In this, Burton's second book,...

Theresa Santmann found herself in a world far from the farm of her youth in Ellenburg, New York. Despite the fact that she had a husband with ALS, two very young children, and no way to care for her family and pay the mounting bills, she rose to an...

Suicide is at the top of the list for death among teenagers. Wedding vows are no longer sacred, while divorce is rampant. Thousands become addicted to prescription drugs while counselors search for new ways to help their patients cope with the cares of...

This collection of truly amazing and inspirational stories reflects the real-life accounts of women who have achieved greatness or overcome dynamic challenges at life's mid-point. Each story is true, and told in a unique way by the women contributors...

?Quiero ser tu inspiración? comenzó como una simple conversación entre amigas. Una de las protagonistas me sugirió que debía escribir un libro y que ella sería la primera en apoyar este proyecto, relatando su propia experiencia. Seguidamente se unieron...

Maria the Panther presents the story of the author's grandmother, Maria, who was a strong professional woman well ahead of her times. At the same time, her biography provides a sweeping overview of the history of twentieth-century Europe, transcending...

Far too many women are willing to believe that a role for a thinking woman already exists when 'his'-story shows that such a role does not exist, nor has it ever existed. American universities did not change their curriculums because large numbers of...