Gender studies: women and girls Books

Against Violence Against Women is a journey through time and across the globe to bring to light the roots of sanctioned violence against women. Rona M. Fields utilizes an interdisciplinary approach combining psychology, sociology, anthropology, and...

It is a commonplace that writers draw on their personal experiences in myriad ways. However, it is decidedly uncommon for writers to reciprocally transform versions of their relationship with each other into fiction. While Doris Lessing was composing The...

How can feminism draw productively on its own history, without passively conforming to expectations of the past, or elevating the past as a nostalgic ideal against which to measure and compare the present? Feminism, Time, and Nonlinear History proposes an

Providing new perspectives on critically-acclaimed contemporary women writers, Confronting Visuality in Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Women's Writing examines works by Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason, Margaret Atwood, Louise Erdrich, Gish Jen, Chitra Banerjee

Serial Memoir: Archiving American Lives interrogates the presentation of subjectivity in serial memoir, arguing that seriality not only influences the way we read and understand contemporary autobiographical texts, it also changes our approach. In serial...

The Asian continent which is composed of tiger and emerging economies, is both a big producer and consumer of computer mediated communication. Research on cyberspace in the Asian context, however, began only after the 1990's when the digital revolution...

Jane Austen's novels are constantly re-imagined on page and screen, in updated and transplanted re-tellings, adaptations, spin off publications, and fan fiction. The Digital Afterlives of Jane Austen explores the ever-expanding realm of Austen fandom on...

The femme fatale has long been constructed and understood in popular culture and cinema as a beautiful heterosexual Caucasian woman that belongs to film noir and neo-noir. Here, da Silva shows the need to incorporate diverse ethnic groups and male...

The marginalization of women can often be linked to certain embedded informal norms, especially in collectivist communities in developing countries. Understanding the roots and processes of marginalizing women is vital for designing and proposing...

Postfeminist Digital Cultures explores some of the more controversial and contested social media practices engaged in by girls and young women, including sexual self-representations on social network sites, sexting, and self-harm vlogs. Informed by...

Who owns, who buys, who gives, who mentions, and who notices objects is always significant in Austen's writing. The trimming on a gown or the style of a carriage is made to place a character socially. Covetousness and meanness are clearly damned, but...

The question of whether or not George Eliot was what would now be called a feminist is a contentious one. This book argues, through a close study of her fiction, informed by examination of her life's story and by a comparison of her views to those of...

While the reception of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë has drawn extensive attention from critics in the United Kingdom and in the United States, much needed scholarship on their position in other wor(l)ds - languages and cultures - remains to be done...

Nabokov gained international fame with Lolita, a highly erotic and morally disturbing novel. Through its comprehensive study of the amorous and sexual behaviors of Nabokov's characters this book shows how Eros, both as a clown or a pervert, contributes...

The female terrorist circulates within contemporary Western culture as an object of fascination and heightened concern. Gender and the Political analyses cultural constructions of the female terrorist, arguing that she operates as a limit case of both...

There is increasing resistance to gendering in contemporary society, seen in gender-neutral childrearing and pronouns, expansion of legal sex categories and intersex rights, and queer and genderqueer movements. This timely book considers the utopian...

The ethics of care has flourished in recent decades yet we remain without a succinct statement of its core theoretical commitment. This study argues for a simple care ethical slogan: dependency relationships generate responsibilities. It uses this slogan...

A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence is about Black women's search for relationships and encounters that support healing from intimate and cultural violence. The text is shaped around hearing Black women who teach readers...

Horror film is particularly prone to articulating fears and tensions about maternal figures, and reflects cultural apprehensions concerning the changing nature of motherhood. Via predominantly US and European case studies, Maternal Horror Film: Melodrama...

"My dad always told me a buzzard hatched me out on a stump every time I asked..."This is my story, so sit back, grab a cup of coffee, and let me tell you about my life. Mine is just a simple tale; one woman's destiny as it unfolds from birth.Psalms...

This work is a biography of Margaret Winthrop, the wife of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The book presents a nuanced and detailed portrait of Margaret Winthrop, drawing on her own writings, as well as those of her...

Dieses Buch ist ein Bericht über die Deutsche Nationalkonferenz zur Bekämpfung des Mädchenhandels. Es bietet einen Einblick in die damalige Konferenz und zeigt auf, wie Deutschland mit diesem Problem umgegangen ist. Dieses Buch ist ein wichtiger...

In this gripping novel, James Otis presents a compelling case for a woman's right to divorce in a time when it was not widely accepted. Through the story of a woman trapped in a loveless marriage, Otis comments on the state of women's rights and the...

Dieses Buch behandelt die Geschichte der Frauenbewegung in der Schweiz. Es enthält sechs Vorträge, die von der Pestalozzi-Gesellschaft veranstaltet wurden. Es richtet sich an Leser, die sich für die Geschichte der Frauenbewegung interessieren.This work...

Pubblicato originariamente nel 1842, questo volume raccoglie gli avvisi che il giurista Antonio Bresciani diede alla figlia in vista del suo matrimonio. Il libro offre un ritratto vivido delle aspettative sociali e delle convenzioni con cui si doveva...

In this book, Lillian Pettengill offers a collection of essays on the daily lives and struggles of working-class women in the early 20th century. She addresses issues such as wage labor, domestic work, and gender inequality, highlighting the ways in...

A groundbreaking book that challenges traditional gender roles and inspires women to take control of their financial futures. Drawing on personal experience and expert advice, the author offers practical strategies for earning money, building wealth, and...

Ce livre est un plaidoyer émouvant pour les droits des femmes et la justice sociale. Julie Victoire Daubié, la première femme française à obtenir un diplôme universitaire, décrit la condition des femmes pauvres en France au XIXe siècle. Elle expose leur...

Memorie della baronessa Olimpia Savio è una pubblicazione che raccoglie le memorie della baronessa Olimpia Savio, una donna italiana del XIX secolo. Le sue memorie offrono uno sguardo sulla vita delle donne italiane dell'epoca.This work has been selected...

Abigail Adams Smith, daughter of John Adams, kept a vivid and insightful journal during her travels in Europe in 1785. With entries on everything from art and fashion to politics and society, Smith's journal provides a unique window into the world of...

Soft cover, 11x8.5, 72 pages, full color. This book presents a 40-image sampling of watercolor artist Valerie Patterson's "Art To Start The Conversation" portfolio. With meticulous hyper-realism, these images combine intense emotion with an artist's...

How will you balance the roles of business owner and mother? Would you like wisdom from women who’ve been there?Here’s something you already know. When you become a mother, you want flexibility. You want to be there for your baby, and you...

How far would you go to find the family who don’t know you exist?Secret Sibling is a memoir of Christine's search for her biological family after she was given up for adoption as a baby. This globe trotting story spans from World War II to the...

Celebrated "Diva of the Demimonde [who writes] a love song to life on the shday side" (Katherine Dunn, "Geek Love"), Viva Las Vegas, the award-winning author of "Magic Gardens" and "The Last Days of My Left Breast" returns with a collection of popular...

Do you ever think you're "too old"? That it's "too late"? That no one has been through what's happening in your life right now?Now is the time to realize you are brave enough, you can succeed, and you can make your goals a reality.20 Lives Ignited: How...

Teresa Carlson was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 29, as the young mother a 17-month-old daughter, in 1972--when treatments were devastating; chances of survival, grim; and the subject, taboo. By age 35, Carlson had survived two bouts and a double...

Do men really love and marry bitches?The short answer is NO... and you probably wouldn't want the men who do.Third-wave feminists advise women who feel like they're "too nice" to succeed with men to be manipulative bitches...

Judy Juanita views activism and feminism as it plays out in her political, artistic and spiritual life. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU’s 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto… blends essays, poems, graphics by the late Rini...

This workbook is the result of running live workshops for women of all ages and from all walks of life. The women who attended my workshops looked as though they had perfect lives but quickly confessed that underneath the façade, they were actually...

It was fitting for a soldier's wife to make curtains out of military-surplus parachutes. That they would hang in the White House made little difference. Mamie Doud Eisenhower was a president's wife who seemed to most Americans like the friend next door...

Holly's Hell is a remarkable story of trauma and redemption.At the age of 29, Holly Deane-Johns was found guilty of attempting to post 15 grams of heroin to Australia from Bangkok.She narrowly avoided the death penalty but received a 31-year prison...

In the 1960s the Law did not punish a man for leaving a wife and four kids under the age of six years to survive by themselves. The Law did not punish men for sexual discrimination, or sexual harassment in the workplace. But when these things happened,...

This new sci-fi novel from author Eva Laurenson creates a world in the not-too-distant future where a pandemic threatens the existence of humankind, not with sickness and death, but hitting right at the core by changing our way of reproduction. As...

When Colleen Ashby woke up blind, she knew her life would change but she didn't want everyone else's life around her to change because of it. She grabbed life by the horns and took as much control as she could, never allowing it to limit her or make her...

AT 19 YEARS OLD SHE PARTIED WITH LONDON SOCIETY, STRUCK GOLD IN CALIFORNIA, AND FOUGHT TRAGEDY, DESTITUTION AND DANGER TO CARVE A FUTURE IN PIONEER NEW ZEALAND. IT WAS 1847, AND THIS IS HER TRUE TEENAGE LIFE STORY...If you think today’s teens have...

Women in Policing provides an insight into women's role within policing, their emergence, and development, offering a theoretical underpinning to explore this role as well as incorporating two empirical studies, one which reassesses the lived experiences...

Within much contemporary feminist theory there is a tendency to forget or ignore its own historicity and consider itself as primarily oriented towards the present. This book explores the historical roots of some of feminism's central concepts and...