Gender studies: women and girls Books

The Baby's Cross is a memoir about a tuberculosis survivor named Gale, a young girl who fought many obstacles in her life. She was born prematurely and with the help of a neighbor, she survived. At age two, a fall down the stairs was to take her life...

Tuesday 5th April 2022 marked the centenary of the death of Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922). Ramabai was an extraordinary Indian Scholar, Feminist and Educator. Though still little known in the West, she was a pioneer for women's education and...

Caroline's a high-powered executive in a demanding job, she has always put her career first and in all of her relationships; she has felt like the trophy on someone's arm. This is a story about the awakening of her innermost desires and the...

Are you going through a spiritual awakening?Or maybe you are curious about what a spiritual awakening is and what the journey looks like? The Universe has been sending Lindsay various topics to explore since finishing her last book, A Gentle Hug for the...

Motherhood In and After Prison focuses on how imprisonment impacts incarcerated mothers' maternal identity, emotions and role. It explores both the short and longer-term consequences of sending mothers to prison. It reveals the devastating and often...

Be strong, but not too strong so you don't look manly.Be confident, but not too confident because it makes you look bossy.Love yourself, but not too much. It makes you vain and arrogant.Don't wear bright colors because wearing black makes you look...

Women of color have always had to navigate a rocky path to #LevelUp to #LiveTheirBestLife; after all, the world is not designed for women of color to excel. BossLadyShip is a guide to help women-particularly women of color- to navigate a path to...

The contribution of women to the construction of modern society has been largely forgotten in Irish history. Even though the interest in women's studies has improved in the past decades, adding women's names to history is not enough: we need to question...

Are you looking for a blueprint for business success? A step-by-step plan that inspires and empowers you? A roadmap to achieve the lifestyle you desire? It does exist! Stop overcomplicating things and start doing business your way, On Your Terms!In this...

The French literary collective OuLiPo was founded in 1960 with the goal of applying mathematics to literary creation. This book retraces the historical foundations of the group's unprecedented literary project, demonstrating the impact of the group's...

This book is intended to challenge the status quo of music learning and experience by intersecting various musical topics with discussions of spirituality and queer studies. The book reaches an international audience, with invited authors from around the...

The figure of the Muslim woman or girl performs a crucial role in far-reaching socio-political debates in Germany. Indeed, such figures challenge the boundaries of gender equality and secularism and contest notions of tolerance and integration. The...

Sex After Life aims to consider the various ways in which the concept of life has provided normative and moralizing ballast for queer, feminist and critical theories. Arguing against a notion of the queer as counter-normative, Sex After Life appeals to...

Death of the PostHuman undertakes a series of critical encounters with the legacy of what had come to be known as 'theory,' and its contemporary supposedly post-human aftermath. There can be no redemptive post-human future in which the myopia and...

Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm: Fashioning the Feminine in I nostri antenati and Gli amori difficili is the first book-length analysis of the representation of the feminine in Calvino's fiction. Using the structural umbrella of the Pygmalion paradigm...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a leading feminist thinker of her age, is best known for her novella "The Yellow Wallpaper" which is a chilling description of post-partum depression. This volume also contains "Why I wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'", "Herland" (a...

Enid Bagnold served first as a nurse and then as driver in the First World War. She writes frankly about these experiences in "A Diary without Dates" and "The Happy Foreigner". She is best known for her novel "National Velvet."

The share of funding secured by female founders is unfairly and disproportionately low, a state of affairs that has remained unchanged for many years despite advances made in other areas of gender equality in business. The truth is that there is clear...

The We Are Awesome coloring project celebrates awe inspiring women and non-binary people currently working to create positive change in our world with the everyday art of coloring pages.This collection of portraits and biographies of femmes making...

This ain't your mama's memoir. Or maybe it is.From her military experience and being gay in the Bible Belt, to an expanding career and finding real and lasting love, Desiree takes you on her journey with unflinching candor, wit and heart. It's a trip...

When you look at country singer-songwriter Jonelle Carter, what do you see? On the outside, a talented musician who is also a wife, mother, and friend to many. But what about on the inside?In More Than A Country Song, Jonelle tells the riveting true...

One woman's inspired idea would help bring about a change in sexual equality unlike any the world had seen before.A Teardrop on a Rose tells the emotionally gripping true story of how fate brought one man and one woman together from very different parts...

There is a massive amount of historical information available about Marian Anderson in over twenty biographies, her extensive personal papers at the University of Pennsylvania Library, the National Marian Anderson Historical Society's Residence Museum,...

The greatest lessons that Olu Laoye learned in life have come from her kitchen.Much of that time was spent alone, where she meditated on life lessons and even random thoughts on different philosophies. She shares lessons such as:•Ignore the negative...

Celia Benge was born in 1888 in the hills of Kentucky when women were expected to tend to the children, take care of the farm, and feed their families. They were not expected to paint or be entrepreneurs. Celia defied that expectation by making room for...

House of HR is a debut book containing Meher's personal narrative of the trials and triumphs she's experienced and the lessons she's learned as a Pakistani, and now American, woman navigating the international corporate world of Human Resources. Through...

Do you believe…you don’t know what you don’t know? What if I told you the last harvest predicted by thousands of scientists was to be 2080, would you believe me? Would you believe today it is a scientific observational truth that the...

The Language of Emily Dickinson provides valuable insight into the cryptic, complex, and unique language of America’s premier poet. The essays make each subject of exploration accessible to general readers, providing sufficient background and...

Women are you tired of suffering with your greatest fearshaunting you day and night? Have you tried everything your friendsand family have suggested – read a number of books, gone to numerous conferences – and still, things are the same?Women...

"A prime resource for any leader's library."-James Mattis, General, US Marines (ret), and 26th Secretary of DefenseToday, our nation is like a ship being tossed in tumultuous seas. The winds and waves of change have divided and distanced our society,...

This young lady, who was in south central Texas at the time, rushed into a marriage with a young man she barely knew. They met online, spent every day together, and married quickly. She never truly got to know him, as she just felt a need to rush things,...

 It is a simple truth that throughout history, certain rapes have become “famous.”  Old Master painters depicted sexual violence again and again, generally representing it as the transcendent work of heroes. Traditional...

<p>Mothers and daughters share a special bond that ebbs and flows throughout their lives. It may not always be solid, but no matter what difficulties they face, their relationships are usually unbreakable.</p><p>Take a step back in time...

"Who's Afraid of Edna O'Brien?" asks an early interviewer in Conversations with Edna O'Brien. With over fifty years of published novels, biographies, plays, telecasts, short stories, and more, it is hard not to be intimidated by her. An acclaimed and...

"Sweta Vikram captures bold raw passion, poignant reality and crafts a powerful voice for the voiceless." --Kate Campbell Stevenson, Actor & Producer Wet Silence bears moving accounts of Hindu widows in India. The book raises concern about the...

Sweta Srivastava Vikram is an award-winning writer, poet, novelist, author, essayist, columnist, blogger, and educator whose musings have translated into four chapbooks of poetry, two collaborative collections of poetry, a fiction novel, and an upcoming...

"...a perfect genius that makes the impossible in expression, possible; the unknowable in experience, knowable"--Anya Achtenberg, author of The Stories of Devil-GirlNickels follows a biracial girl named "Little Miss So and So", from...

From the Edo-period works of Chikamatsu Monzaemon and Saikaku Iharu, to modern texts by Nagai Kafû, Tanizaki Junichiro, and Nobel-prize winner Kawabata Yasunari, the Japanese literary canon is filled with works about the demimonde, or karyûkai. After...

Women who skirt traditions, whether on the frontier of a young state or in a male-dominated profession, have relied on resilience, creativity, and grit to survive...and to flourish. These short biographies of twenty-eight female writers and journalists...

In a society perceiving that language was for the province of male, white speakers, how did women writers find a voice? Martha J. Cutter answers this question by examining works by ten African American and Anglo American women who wrote between 1850 and...

The Stein-Wright connection and its meaning for American literature and literary historyAfter the Second World War Gertrude Stein asked a friend's support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris. "I've got to help him," she said. "You see,...

"In Walk Like You Have Somewhere to Go Lucille will take you on a 40-year journey from 'mental welfare to mental wealth.' You will laugh- you may cry-and in the process you will be encouraged, enlightened, and empowered."-Paula White, author of Dare to...

What appears on the surface as a featherweight teenage romp is in reality a hotbed for social and political debate. Patty Duke's Billie is celebrating its 50th birthday as a pop culture oddity. And there's no better time to explore this neo-musical's...

"An engaging read that provides an intimate look into the lives, careers, triumphs, and heartbreaks of some of cinema's toughest ladies."-Jordan Garren, The B Movie VaultMartial arts actresses, cult heroes, stuntwomen. In a series of interviews by Chris...

After September 11, a globetrotting mom and her two kids set off on a 12,000-mile American road trip, discovering their country's majesty and humanity, its unwavering pride and resilience, and the quiet love that binds a family together.