Gender studies: women and girls Books

This is a true story of my Mennonite family's journey through happy and heartache years. My reflections of the past, being bullied in school, being banned from church youth meetings and then being denied communion left a devastating mark on my fun,...

When I was growing up, I wanted to be funny and make people laugh. This was the focus of my attention in Church Sunday mornings. I watched my dad fall asleep as the Priest droned on and on about the Bible, ignoring the heads bobbing in front of him. I...

In the early 1970s, the national conversation regarding feminism was very different. Public discussions of womanhood—single life, marriage, workplace harassment, rights, gripes—were often channeled through movement spokeswomen and always...

Long live female empire , There's hope , The rise and rise of the female empire Inequality is the question...Are you the answer? Equality: ♀ = ♂, 3+1 wise women and the feminist dream, Woman Power, feminism activists, The power of women, No woman No.....

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the evolution of Black women's literacy practices from 1892 to 1934. A dynamic chronological study, the book explores how Black...

Although US history is marred by institutionalized racism and sexism, postracial and postfeminist attitudes drive our polarized politics. Violence against people of color, transgender and gay people, and women soar upon the backdrop of Donald Trump, Tea...

Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, Leah Anderst, Alissa S. Bourbonnais, Tyler Bradway, Natalja Chestopalova, Margaret Galvan, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Katie Hogan, Jonathan M. Hollister, Yetta Howard, Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, Don L. Latham, Vanessa...

Contributions by Darrell Gerohn Baksh, Jan de Cosmo, Frances Henry, Jeff Henry, Adanna Kai Jones, Samantha Noel, Dwaine Plaza, Philip W. Scher, and Asha St. BernardWomen are performing an ever-growing role in Caribbean Carnival. Through a feminist...

In 1999, author Grace Carrington was a college-educated, young, single, employed woman just doing her thing in New York City. And then she met the charming Mr. LC, a man ten years her senior. In Deconstructing My Fairy Tale, Carrington tells the story of...

Have you ever wondered why some women behave in unpredictable ways as if there are no rules governing their behavior? Have you been puzzled by a sudden, seemingly illogical change in your woman’s mood? If so then this book is for you. This latest attempt...

Far from Home: One Woman's Story of Her Life in South Texas. Eny Samuel enjoyed a life of privilege nearly all her life. With a devoted and loving family, she attended some of the best private schools in Kenya and England, and enjoyed vacations abroad...

History paints war out to be a man's business, but there is an army of women warriors who stand between the lines of history books, waiting to be seen. This biographical dictionary tells the story of the females who armed themselves against threats to...

The Arab region continues to be among the most challenging in the world for the progress of women's rights. Equality remains elusive for women and vulnerable groups in the region due to traditional patriarchal cultures, protracted crises, lack of...

Short Stories with moral lessons: some humorous, others serious; all with supporting scriptures.There are times when words make us feel, peaceful, like we're home again. We sit back and the words radiate through us like a warm sun rising through a screen...

This book was written to inspire hope and to begin healing for those experiencing adversity or who have wounds to heal. I hope that my words help you gain perspective on the past and avoid the mistakes I've made as you go forward on your journey. I now...

I HAVE BEEN AWARE OF A DIFFERENT KIND OF WOMAN IN A.A. YEARS AGO,INFORMATION ABOUT AN ALCOHOLIC WOMAN, WERE VERY DISMAL.WORDS SUCH AS: "DEVIANT BEHAVIOR". THOSE ARE HARDLY WORDS THATWOULD MAKE A WOMAN WANT TO GET SOBER. LABELS LIKE THAT...

Asks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.

A Personal Story of Domestic AbuseThis is my autobiography. I have written about my life, and the things I endured as a child. I was physically and verbally abused as a child. These people hated me so much that they spent their entire life trying to...

A Painter's Tragedy and Triumph RevealedWith the recent surge of the American painter's popularity, Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones: The Artist Who Lived Twice captivates readers by revealing little-known details about the journey of a woman (1885-1968) almost...

Liber ""Demosthenis De Corona Oratio: In Vsvm Scholarvm"" auctore Lipsivs, Ivstvs Hermannvs, anno 1887 editus, est commentarius in orationem Demosthenis De Corona, quae in Athenis habita est. Oratio De Corona est controversia inter Demosthenem et...

De Vergilio In Informandis Muliebribus Quae Sunt In Aeneide Personis Inventore est liber auctore Rebelliau, Alfred, editus anno MDCCCXCII. In hoc libro, auctor de vita et operibus Vergilii, poetae Romani, scribit, sed focus est in personis feminis, quae...

Le livre ""De La Capacite Civile De La Femme Mariee: Et De L'Extension Rationnelle Qu'elle Comporte"" de Henri Pascaud, publi����� en 1890, traite de la capacit����� civile des femmes mari�����es et de son extension rationnelle. L'auteur explore les...

El libro ""De La Beneficencia En Inglaterra Y En Espa�����a"" es una obra escrita por Salustiano de Olozaga en el a�����o 1864. En esta obra, el autor realiza una comparativa entre los sistemas de beneficencia y caridad existentes en Inglaterra y...

De Genetivi Apud Martialem Et Iuvenalem Usu Syntactico est liber a Guilelmo Meinzer editus, anno MDCCCXCIV. In hoc libro, auctor genus genitivum in carminibus Martialis et Iuvenalis scrutatur, et modos syntacticos eius in utroque scriptore investigat...

This book presents humiliation as a key harm of sexual violence against women, showing that humiliation manifests within the relation of self to itself, and that Foucault's critique of subjectivity provides resources for feminist...

In the past, sport, particularly football, has been defined as a male domain. Women's interest stereotypically ranges from gentle tolerance to active resistance. But increasingly, women are proudly identifying themselves as supporters of their teams, and...

2020 will mark thirty years since the first publication of Judith Butler's ground-breaking book, Gender Trouble. Here, and in subsequent work, Butler argues that gender and other forms of identity can best be understood as performative acts. These acts...

Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called 'sharia-tribunals', Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question - does accommodating Islam violate women's rights? The book...

Disruptive Feminisms provides a revolutionary new approach to feminism as a disruptive force. By examining various films and filmmakers who are not so obviously read as feminist or Marxist, Gwendolyn Foster showcases their ability to disrupt and...

 This book draws on the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer to inform a feminist perspective of social identities. Lauren Swayne Barthold moves beyond answers that either defend the objective nature of identities or dismiss their significance...

Ruling Women is a two-volume study devoted to an analysis of the conflicting discourses concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. In this second volume, Configuring the Female Prince in Seventeenth-Century French Drama, Conroy...

Ruling Women is the first study of its kind devoted to an analysis of the debate concerning government by women in seventeenth-century France. Drawing on a wide range of political, feminist and dramatic texts, Conroy sets out to demonstrate that the...

Women's football is the fastest growing participation sport in the UK and across the world and the 2015 Women's World Cup was the biggest tournament it had ever seen. This book looks at fans' experiences of following their teams in Canada and how they...

This critical account of the American Girl brand explores what its books and dolls communicate to girls about femininity, racial identity, ethnicity, and what it means to be an American. Emilie Zaslow begins by tracing the development of American Girl...

Through an empirical inquiry into three categories of offending women, Offending Women in Contemporary China: Gender and Pathways into Crime explores the socioeconomic conditions that facilitate womens' pathways into crime, and examines the interplay...

This is a refreshing and thought provoking book, presenting the views of female and male counselling clients about their experience of therapy after domestic violence. It brings together the existing literature and client views to present a new...

Fat, especially the fat female body, is a unique construction within American culture that has been understood and "read" in a variety of ways in popular representation during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. With an interdisciplinary...

With the rapid expansion of the field of autobiography due to the emergence of new digital media, black American women have excelled at expanding the genre's boundaries as they address disparaging depictions of themselves. Examining novelists, bloggers,...

This is the first book-length empirical study of lesbian, transgender and queer BDSM practices, identities, relationships and communities. Based on interviews and participant observation, Queer BDSM Intimacies explores various women's and queer BDSM...

As gender training is applied increasingly as a development solution to gender inequality, this book examines gender inequality in Pakistan's public sector and questions whether a singular focus on gender training is enough to achieve progress in a...

In this book Paddy McQueen examines the role that 'recognition' plays in our struggles to construct an identity and to make sense of ourselves as gendered beings. It analyses how such struggles for gender recognition are shaped by social discourses and...

Feminist Community Engagement argues that feminism, with its emphasis on consciousness-raising, interrogating power structures, and activism, is strategically necessary for the community engagement (CE) movement in higher education. Following an editorial

Revisiting Iris Marion Young on Normalisation, Inclusion and Democracy presents an innovative collection of politically and theoretically inspiring papers by feminist, queer and postcolonial writers. All authors engage with Young's politics of cultural...

This volume offers a wide-reaching overview of current academic research on women's participation in combat sports within a range of different national and trans-national contexts, detailing many of the struggles and opportunities experienced by women at...