Gender studies: women and girls Books

This report provides a gender analysis of national laws and policies in the Lao People's Democratic Republic to inform efforts to strengthen women's resilience to climate change and disasters.Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate...

This report provides a gender analysis of national laws and policies in Mongolia to inform efforts to strengthen women's resilience to climate change and disasters.The report presents findings of a gender analysis of national legal and policy frameworks...

La Constitución de la Nación Argentina de 1853, promulgada en Santa Fe bajo el liderazgo de Justo José de Urquiza, es un documento fundamental en la historia política y social de Argentina. Inspirada en las ideas progresistas de Juan Bautista Alberdi,...

«Es sólo nuestra humanidad, es decir, nuestro ‘núcleo’ lo que hace que la comparación (e incluso la discriminación, me atrevería a decir) entre nosotros sea aceptable, en lugar de adoptar nuestras...

Kali is a figure that is known Worldwide. If you don't know Her by face, you know Her by name. Whether She is being worshipped by Hindus, used as a symbol of Empowerment in Western Feminism or looked upon as the embodiment of Sacred Rage-- Kali is...

By the mid 1800s, American feminism began gaining momentum. Women writers belonged to a small group of women whose voices had cultural weight, and they had to negotiate between the demands of their writing and their involvement in the feminist movement...

Zentraler Gedanke dieses Bandes ist die Feststellung, dass das Unheimliche integraler Bestandteil der Heimat ist. Es fungiert als dynamisierendes Element, das gegen die Erstarrung eines homogenen Heimatverständnisses wirkt, das heißt gegen die...

Der Band schließt eine Lücke in der Erforschung der Zensur als Herrschaftsinstrument der Frühen Neuzeit. Er analysiert Begriffe, Diskurse und Praktiken der Kommunikationskontrolle und -lenkung von der Reformationszeit bis zur Aufklärung und schlägt eine...

Der Eintritt der Frauen ins Medizinstudium und in die Arztpraxis seit 1850 wird ländervergleichend und im Kontext des frühen Feminismus und der unterschiedlichen Frauenrechtsbewegungen in Europa und Amerika dargestellt. Zehn Porträts prominenter...

La prépondérance des narrateurs masculins dans la prose de Kristof suggère une supériorité; les personnages féminins sont plutôt marginalisés ou relégués à la sphère domestique. Mais les thèmes de la violence contre les femmes, de leur folie et de la...

Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. The volume shows how Soviet authors drew on the traditional archetypes of the genre, such as the castle, the body, vampires, ghosts, villains,...

Based on a dialogical premise, this book provides a comparative analysis of two interrelated literary fields: postcolonial and women's/feminist, viewed through the ideological and aesthetic prism of the grotesque. The author examines the work of...

Education is an important tool for the development of human potential. Organizations and individuals interested in development consider knowledge, skills and attitudes, obtained through formal, non-formal and incidental learning, as invaluable assets...

Issues dealt with in this study of democracy in Africa, include underdevelopment and economic marginality, ethnic consciousness and the nature of political power in Africa. A true African democracy, Ake argues, is both a second independence and a deep...

"In this tender, evocative and thought-provoking collection, Leah Soeiro's complex, condensed narratives, both poetic and photographic, allow the reader the voyeuristic pleasure of being temporarily included in the protagonist's world. Created...

"One of the most engaging memoirs I've read in ages. The wise and feisty voice I've come to know and love in Elizabeth Cunningham’s Maeve Chronicles fills these pages and carried me away. Anyone who has forged an independent path through...

Finn Hemingway knows for a fact that she's been born at the wrong time into the wrong family with the wrong talents, making her three dreams for the future almost impossible to attain. She burns to be a trial lawyer in an era when Ruth Bader Ginsburg is...

Welfare to Warden is the insightful and inspiring autobiography of Pamela Withrow, an Indiana farm girl who aspired to be an English teacher but instead became a prison warden. It carries the reader through Withrow's first-woman roles at Camp...

In the 1930s, 15-year old Mary Marks moved to a rural community along the Imnaha River in northeast Oregon's Wallowa County. There, in country so remote that electricity didn't arrive until the 1960s, she married and built a life of hard work and deep...

A dazzling array of starshot across the sky from the brilliant Cris Mazza, who reminds us again and again that we must not only hold the line when it comes to our individual and community worth, but endlessly imagine a future. Cris Mazza makes feminism...

In this revised and updated edition of her award-winning book, Keisha Blair will teach you to master the tenets of a happy and joyful life, giving you a greater sense of wholeness and resilience in times of difficulty.

Diana wanted nothing more than becoming the Princess of people's hearts, as she enraptured the downtrodden and the poor in spirit by the touch of her hand and the smile on her face. The Princess filled my life the moment she emerged on the royal scene as...

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On the road of your professional life's journey, "seeming" obstacles to your success may appear. At times, you may feel as if you are "clogged up" and can't move forward toward the success you desire. Your ability to overcome may first mean coming...

In the twilight of life, a black ribbon emerges from a frame and coils itself inside the mind of one of the great French chroniclers of the internal. Across the world, a young girl stares at an image in a book: a woman, naked but for slippers, jewels,...

An irresistible compulsion to travel and a nervous affliction: put these together and you get the collywobbles, that jittery feeling one gets from anxiety. Faye Brenner pursued a wanderlust ever since her high school trip to Europe, anxiety be damned.....

An anthology of essays and interviews exploring the undeniable history of women creators in Science Fiction/Fantasy & Media fandom during the latter half of the 20th century.These women were writers. Artists. Costumers. Editors. Gamers. Scientists...

Memoirs of Successful Women is a collection of stories from women who have lived, breathed, and elevated their brand. Memoirs of Successful Women showcases the big-break moments, taking a woman from a dreamer to an entrepreneurial visionary in...

Nalule's Travels and Adventures is the autobiography of a feminist, activist and researcher who acted against atrocities and abuses perpetrated on conflict survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and torture to aim to improve survivors'...

A narcissist can smell an empath a million miles away. They know how to mirror you, and they know they game to play - love bomb and build you up, then slowly cut you down. It's the main story in this book, and the second time I felt love. The sad part is...

Captain Hector McQuarrie a seasoned shipwright, sails from Mull Scotland in 1855 for a burgeoning new world in Australasia. Buoyed with bright hopes and infused with the Clan McQuarrie spirit, He courageously forges new endeavours, settling in...

One of the critical challenges facing Africa is how to harness the potential of internal and international migration in the interests of development. The Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) is an international network of organizations founded in...

When Jane marries the elderly grocer William Chirp, she thinks she has moved up into the comfort of middle class. Instead, she discovers that William exerts a control over her life that forces her to live like a prisoner. His tight-fistedness and...

How does fear - deep, ongoing, systemic fear - impact on Black lives?Through reflections on her own life, anthropologist Dr Linda Jean Hall PhD draws on traditions of African storytelling to explore the question of how systemic fear affects the...

In the world of today, all human beings everywhere stand aghast. Corruption, disease, psychological and emotional trauma that prevails goes beyond human comprehension.But adversity is not meant to bring us down.Veronica Lagat in her motivational memoir...

 Women Who Changed the Face of War: Discover the Fascinating Histories of Women Who Overcame Prejudices, Destroyed Obstacles, and Paved the Way for Female Marines in the US.  Today, only 8% of the officers in the Marines are women. We...

Una habitación propia se estableció desde su publicación como uno de los libros fundamentales del feminismo. Basado en dos conferencias pronunciadas por Virginia Woolf en colleges para mujeres y ampliado luego por la autora, el texto es un testamento...

Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920), whose career spanned over fifty years, was one of the most popular writers of the late-Victorian era. She burst into literary prominence-and notoriety-in 1867, with the publication in volume form of her first two novels,...

Una habitación propia se estableció desde su publicación como uno de los libros fundamentales del feminismo. Basado en dos conferencias pronunciadas por Virginia Woolf en colleges para mujeres y ampliado luego por la autora, el texto es un testamento...

What really happens when wild women get together?In June 2021, in the aftermath of a global pandemic, a group of magical women gathered on retreat in Glastonbury. Basking in warm sunshine, drinking red wine and enjoying the delights of a particular...

Jane Anger is credited with being the first feminist writer in the English language. Her pamphlet ‘Protection for Women’ provides insight into the relationship between the sexes, regarded, for the first time, solely from a woman’s...

HOW YOU START IS NEVER HOW YOU FINISH- SHE-VESTOR™Imagine starting a new adventure in the midst of a worldwide pandemic. Job loss is at an all-time high. Hospitals are filled to capacity. The year is 2020 and is deemed one of the worst financial times in...

"Eat Pray Love" meets "The Secret". What if your “superpower” was the ability to create the life of your dreams?Who would you have to be? What would you have to do? Would you have to travel far and wide to discover whom...

All too often we feel very small, as if our lives are insignificant compared to the vastness of the universe, especially when we suffer the grief of losing a loved one. But in this, Jacqueline Rogers' uplifting and often astonishing debut book, we learn...

This is the fascinating story of Katherine Stewart MacPhail (1887-1974), the third daughter of Dr Donald MacPhail, a Glasgow physician. Following in her father's footsteps, she studied medicine at Glasgow University, qualifying in 1911. During the First...

A butterfly-this butterfly, Evelyn, has moved out of the painful cocoon of abuse to fly! Her memoir is a powerful testament to courage under fire.What a testament of grace and guts! Evelyn's evolution into consciousness from victim to survivor to pastor...

Nieves has blessed us with a cacophony of magical verses; conjure and spells that give us clarity about the experiences of women, mothers, and immigrants. They give us new ways of understanding loss, love, and redemption. By reading and re-reading these...

Across half a century, from the division of Germany through the end of the Cold War, a cohort of thirty women from the small German town of Schönebeck in what used to be the GDR circulated among themselves a remarkable collective archive of their lives:...