Gender studies: women and girls Books

Imodale Caulker-Burnett was born in Sierra Leone and has lived most of her adult life in the United States of America. She is a retired Family Nurse Practitioner, Substance Abuse Consultant and Healing Touch Practitioner, and lives with her husband...

This book brings together an impressive collection of meticulously collected articles on the lives and accomplishments of Muslim women icons of India. This work coalesces the stories of Muslim women achievers, their contribution to society and highlights...

This book explores the nature of poetic reading using a creative approach to understanding Old Norse poetry. Through a poetic enactment, an epic poem and its companion reader, the author explores critical approaches to Old Norse poetry and poetics,...

This book explores the intersection of folklore and new media storytelling in feminist adaptations of traditional fairy tales, with a focus on the Germanic folktale and its reinterpretation within online fan fiction. The adaptations show the fascinating...

Marie Nimier's writing exemplifies a contemporary 'return of the subject' in the rich diversity of the fifteen novels she has published since Sirène in 1985, blending fiction and life-writing. This collection of essays explores central aspects of self...

A deep journey through poetry. Surviving every obstacle thrown my way. From finding love to choosing the right friends you tend to lose yourself in the process. I never express how I feel because no one truly understands. But somehow when I write these...

Multicultural stories from women about women that will delight, entertain and occasionally break your heart. What happens when eleven women from around the world team up and challenge each other to write a story outside their genre? The result: the...

"In telling her own true story in Real Belonging, Lynn Price masterfully weaves in lessons to benefit all youth and families involved in foster care, and even those that are not. Lynn tells stories showing the twists, triumphs, setbacks, myths and facts...

Are men poised to dominate the burgeoning cannabis industry business by default? Not if Dr. Leslie Apgar and Gina Dubbé have anything to say about it. These two best friends and businesswomen challenged norms and expectations by opening their own...

En honor de la insigne labor de "Doña Leo", se rinde tributo a las mujeres en general, a aquellas madres que con su lucha y todas las brechas sociales y económicas, aquellas mujeres cabeza de familia y sobre todo madres sin límites por el amor infinito a...

 Despite all the progress, many women do not have a sense of self-existence. This book is very useful for all those women, men and research scholars who want to rise the nation and respect women.

Open this book and enter the world of eros and, curiously, emptiness-two vital qualities of the Wise Old Woman spirit that can help us survive ... possibly even thrive. Through the human imagination and dreams, the Wise Old Woman spirit offers a kind of...

The animus remains a baffling, misunderstood force in women's psychology, but the fairytale "Fitcher's Bird" brings his ambivalent, wizardly power and his psychic aims as the spirit of individuation into view, reaching into rich alchemical symbolism to...

For years, Mona Lisa looked in the mirror and profusely hated the person looking back. She lived her life based upon other people's perceptions and her negative views about herself. Following the deaths of several close friends and other life...

Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field which focuses on the topics like women's studies, feminism, politics, gender, queer studies, men's studies and also includes the study of sexuality. The study area specializes in the role of gender in the...

How did a British queen foster a court of women writers in the 1600s-an age when female authorship was rare? Follow American scholar Susan Godwin's quest to unearth Mary of Modena's real story—a journey that involves revisiting seventeenth-century...

What happens when a woman is told she must place her severely disabled twin in a nursing home? What happens to that twin when, after spending her entire life with her parents, she is sent to live with strangers in a place she doesn't know? Frank and...

While Experience Is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academic is about leadership, it is not a handbook on how to be a leader.When her parents moved from New York City to a small town in Alabama, R. Barbara Gitenstein knew that she just did not...

"We're looking for a few good men . . ."She should've known something was up when the USMC recruiting office was open on Christmas Day.This is the secret story of an odd young woman who chose to enlist in the Marine Corps to escape her hometown in...

Tread the City’s Streets Again is the first book to explore the theology and vocation of Frances Perkins, the settlement house worker who went on to lift millions of Americans out of poverty through the creation of the Social Security system. From...

My thirteen-year-old daughter walked into the living room and sat down beside me on the sofa. She was crying. “Momma, I think God has called me to preach. I had a dream and I saw a sea of people with black hair. There were so many people crowded...

Women and gender studies is a field of academics which makes use of feminist and interdisciplinary methods to study the lives of women and their experiences. It is a multidisciplinary academic domain of literature, history, economics, political science,...

Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole are recognized for their heroism in the Crimean War. Little is known about how these ordinary girls from very different cultural and economic backgrounds became extraordinary women leaders. The book describes the...

"Through My Trifocals Backward" is a journey in time through a 93 year old set of eyes and sensibilities. Told in an often whimsical voice, starting with her actual birth experience, the author expounds on her storybook childhood, a rebellious...

Profiles of superstar women athletes and the obstacles they faceEssays by Lisa Doris Alexander, Kathleen A. Bishop, Angela J. Hattery, Lisa R. Neilson, Roberta J. Newman, Elizabeth O'Connell, Martha Reid, C. Oren Renick, Joel Nathan Rosen, Yvonne D...

How novels targeted at teens engage narrator and reader in intimate dramas of friendship, love, identity, and sexualityBy examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You), Stephenie Meyer (the...

Anaïs Nin says:Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as basic as poetry.I would like to see women more concerned with women's contributions than with this great battle of attacking men. . . . We should be very busy creating the pattern...

Mary McCarthy says:In general I would say that men actually have more feeling, and women perhaps more intelligence.I do seem to have some confessional impulse, and it may have to do with my Catholic training.The writer, if he has any ability, is looking...

How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse offers a much needed corrective to the usual dry and uninspired creative writing pedagogy. The collection asks us to consider questions, such as “What does it mean to work through...

Although a prolific and popular writer in her day, Mary Wilkins Freeman has only recently been rediscovered and reevaluated as a realistic recorder of the status and sensibility of the New England woman in the early years of this century. Women form the...

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Eudora Welty’s first important publication, this special collection of critical essays celebrates her achievement as an incomparable literary artist. Since 1936, when “Death of a Traveling Salesman” was published, the...

Paule Marshall (b. 1929) is a major contributor to the canons of African American and Caribbean American literature. In 1959, she published her first novel, Brown Girl, Brownstones, and was quickly recognized as a writer of great talent and insight on...

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In 1849, a young German bride and her husband stepped off a ship in Corpus Christi Bay to establish their home in the new frontier settlement. For the next three decades Maria von Blücher wrote letters home describing the hardships of droughts and Indian...

It was hard growing up poor. I was the oldest of seven children and there was a lot of dysfunction. My parents were so wrapped up with each other’s faults and fighting, they neglected us in more ways than one. There was never any money for the...

Thanks to the classic Dolly Parton film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and ZZ Top's ode "La Grange," many people think they know the story of the infamous Chicken Ranch. The reality is more complex, lying somewhere between heartbreaking and absurd...

In 1891, four intrepid women from Lowell sailed to a remote island in Boston Harbor for a 17-day escape from New England's prim and proper society. Calling themselves the Scribe, the Aristocrat, the Acrobat, and the Autocrat, the women rusticated in a...

Connecticut has a long history of producing outstanding sports teams and athletes. Two of the greatest teams to come out of the state are the legendary Brakettes and Falcons women's fast-pitch softball teams. In their seventy-six-year history, the...

Dee Dee Brumm asks readers to hold her in their hearts as they read her memories of a childhood scarred by sexual abuse. It is a survivor’s story, the details unremembered until she grew to adulthood. Her story reflects the many dilemmas that a...

The author’s father was a man who had an angry, sinister soul inside of him, which she called “the foul beast within him.” How the author and her siblings survived all the tragedies bestowed upon them is unimaginable. They were starved,...

Penny Postcard is a dramatic narrative about the life of the author’s mother, Stella. Janet Lee has created a vivid account that begins with the birth of Stella, the sixth of twelve children, who is literally born in a barn in Texas. Her father is...

Maria K. had a crucial decision to make when her life hit rock bottom; not only for herself, but also for her children. She took a leap of faith, following her instincts and the universe’s powerful promptings as she embarked on an adventure that...

"Self and Self-Management" is a 1918 collection of essays by Arnold Bennett on the subject of the individual and self-betterment. Interesting and witty, the essays explore the art of finding rewarding work, with special reference to women doing war work...