Gender studies: women and girls Books

Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men's seemingly never-ending dominance in boardrooms, in parliaments, in the bureaucracy and in almost every workplace. So why is gender inequality still such a pressing issue?Wage inequality...

Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God's Police was first published in 1975. That was before the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 and before large...

Matriarch of the criminal underworld ... or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney?The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydney's famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has loomed large in TV's Underbelly and every other account of Sydney's criminal history...

Wedding and event florist and founder of the Chapel Designers floral community, Holly is a creative visionary and a highly recognised and sought-after floral designer whose work has been published in countless prestigious publications and top industry...

Step inside the places where flowers come to life. Slow Flowers Society founder Debra Prinzing's new book showcases the beautiful plant and flower filled settings of Slow Flowers designers, farmer-florists, and growers. Each environment reflects...

An extraordinary portrait of a brilliant mind on the brink: A new edition of the 1974 memoir by the author of the acclaimed collection Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage. With an introduction by Yiyun Li.'For a long time it had seemed to me that...

An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert "fictive-art" practitioner.In her groundbreaking book, internationally recognized multimedia artist and writer...

'Unsurprisingly, feminists have been at the forefront of writing illness narratives, from Virginia Woolf to Audre Lord and Susan Sontag. My family's inability to accommodate my mother's illness, the perniciousness of her particular subtype of...

In 'Coalescing Geometries' the painter expresses a creative response to her environment and an inner sense of the essence of nature's growth force.The designs intricacy with its prismatic color sensibility springs from a love of nature and its patterns...

Mrs. Daniels and Paula spend their afternoons after school having tea and learning about all the different places Mrs. Daniels has visited. Their friendship grows over cups of tea and bouquets of roses, and becomes an instrumental part of Paula's...

How does a square peg survive in a world of round holes? What happens to our sharp edges as we careen into our seventh decade of a wild life? Follow this cage-rattling lady from down-and-out in Central Florida, where she finds herself unceremoniously...

A purposeful career path starts with you.As a woman, navigating your career path can be challenging. At times you're faced with lack of support, unconscious bias and negative assumptions, disruptive career pauses, and more. So how can you get...

Find success in a workplace dominated by men.Sexism. Self-doubt. Invisibility. When you're one of the only women in your workplace, it can be difficult to gain your footing. Organizations need to change, but in the meantime, women can find...

Build trust - and create more value.Whether you're negotiating a salary, a deal with a supplier, or your workload, thoughtful preparation increases your confidence, resilience - and results. But it's not just numbers and strategies...

Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty delivers a powerful combination of memoir, leadership lessons, and big ideas on how we can all drive meaningful change.Ginni Rometty led one of the world's most iconic companies, and in Good Power she recounts her...

Gender equity can't happen without racial equity. We need Shared Sisterhood.Bias persists in organisations and society. Despite efforts that have been made in the last few decades, gender and racioethnic equity still hasn't been achieved...

It's time for female leaders to stand out.Women often aren't seen for their leadership potential. We face a double bind, forced to choose whether to be liked or respected, while neither one alone is enough to secure a seat at the table...

A ghost is not what you think it is, says Raven. A ghost is a commitment. When Laraine Herring receives an unexpected colon cancer diagnosis, her father, thirty years dead, returns to her as a raven, setting off a magical journey into complicated grief,...

A proudly humanist portrayal of sexual impulse and impropriety in the City of Angels, The First 50 is a chronological recapitulation of fifty erotic encounters that take place between the ages of thirteen and thirty-three. Columbine, 9/11, The Iraq War,...

Karmen Karma is known as a contract star on the popular porn site BrazzersShe has 530k twitter followersShe has 322k Instagram followersShe will be promoting to all of her social mediaEvents in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and moreInterviews with adult film...

From 2013 to 2017, Linda Bostrm Knausgrd was periodically interned in a psychiatric ward where she was subjected to electroconvulsive therapy. As the treatments at this "factory" progressed, the writer's memories began to disappear. What good is a writer...

A thirty-five-year-old writer decides she wants to have children. Rounds of IVF treatments and several years later, she has two daughters and sits down to write this book. World's Best Mother is a sublime journey - through pregnancy, the mothering of...

June 1, 1943, Eastern Poland. Within just a few hours, the village of Sochy had ceased to exist. Buildings were burned. Residents shot. Among the survivors was nine-year-old Teresa Ferenc, who saw her family murdered by German soldiers,...

An essential guidebook to influential Black women from Chicago's South and West Sides, and their social, cultural, and artistic contributions to movements both past and present. Geographically, historically, and politically, Lifting As They Climbed...

'Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.' - Claudia Tate, from the introductionLong out of print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to...

In this brave and devastatingly beautiful anthology, the illustrious poet and editor Aracelis Girmay gathers complex and intimate pieces that illuminate the nuances of personal and collective histories, analyses, practices, and choices surrounding...

Critical Approaches to International Relations: Philosophical Foundations and Current Debates explores the achievements of a wide variety of critical approaches in International Relations theory, discusses the barrage of criticism and theoretical...

Hating Girls is a collection of cutting-edge essays addressing the pervasive problem of misogyny from an intersectional framework, particularly focused on identities of gender, race, class, sexuality, and religion. Scholars, activist reformers, and...

This comprehensive collection of fiction, poetry, and reportage by revolutionary women of the 1930s lays to rest the charge that feminism disappeared after 1920. Among the thirty-six writers are Muriel Rukeyser, Margaret Walker, Josephine Herbst, Tillie...

Black Panther and Cuban exile Assata Shakur has inspired generations of radical protest, including the contemporary movement for Black lives. Drawing its title from one of America's foremost revolutionaries, this collection of thought-provoking essays by...

A feminist reclamation of London's hidden history, through a reimagining of the city's iconic Tube map. Londoners Reni Eddo-Lodge and Emma Watson have reimagined the iconic Tube map, in collaboration with Rebecca Solnit, to celebrate the lives of women...

The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has generated a critical urgency for this landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays.Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend...

Krista Franklin draws on Pan African histories, Black Surrealism, Afrofuturism, pop culture, art history, and the historical and present-day micro-to-macro violence inflicted upon Black people and other people of color, working to forge imaginative...

In Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction, Martha E. Gimenez offers a distinctive perspective on social reproduction which posits that the relations of production determine the relations of social reproduction, and which links the effects of...

9 to 5 wasn't just a comic film - it was a movement built by Ellen Cassedy and her friends.Ten office workers in Boston started out sitting in a circle and sharing the problems they encountered on the job. In a few short years, they had built a...

Birthing Liberation presents reproductive justice as the pathway to equity and the birthplace of liberation.Sabia C. Wade, renowned radical doula and educator,speaks to the intersections of systemic issues-such as access to health care, house...

Featuring dozens of interviews with the cast and crew, fans of the franchise, film scholars, former and current cheerleaders, fellow filmmakers, and more.Gabrielle Union, Kirsten Dunst, and Eliza Dushku have all risen to fame since their performances in...

A nostalgia-packed, star-studded anthology featuring contributors such as Kristen Arnett, Yumi Sakugawa, Myriam Gurba, and others exploring the lasting impact of Ann M. Martin's beloved Baby-Sitters Club seriesIn 1986, the first-ever meeting of the...

Nora Ephron was one of the most popular, accomplished, and beloved writers in American journalism and film.Nora Ephron: A Biographyis the first comprehensive portrait of the Manhattan-born girlwho forged a path of her own, earning accolades and adoration...

"Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling"-Cecile Richards, author ofMake TroubleAt a time where reproductive rights are at risk, these vital stories of diverse individuals serve as a reminder of the...

North American Guild of Beer Writers Best Book 2022Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer.It's women, not men, who've brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and village brewer lasted for hundreds of thousands of...

Niloofar Rahmani was born in 1991 in Kabul, Afghanistan, just a few years after the Soviets left. During the rise of the Taliban, her father took his young family to Pakistan, where they lived for nine years as refugees. Then, after the 9/11 terrorist...

Lupente showcases five outstanding contemporary artists in an elegant and absorbing package. This volume - the first in our ongoingFlesk Artist Showcaseseries - features Julia Blattman, a premier visual-development artist working in the animation...

What does it take for women to succeed in a male-dominated world? The Grit Factor.At age nineteen, Shannon Huffman Polson became the youngest woman ever to climb Denali, the highest mountain in North America. She went on to reach the summits of Mt...

The best articles HBR has published on gender and women in leadership and in the workplace.The best articles on gender in the workplace, all in one place. A resource for leaders who want to see change, no matter their own gender identity. Includes both...

Look around your office. Turn on the TV. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there's no denying it.There's also no denying that women make up only a tiny handful of senior leaders worldwide. In this provocative book, author Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic...

Why the gender gap persists and how we can close itWomen have made up roughly half of the college-educated workforce for years, and before the onset of the economic crisis of 2020, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the...

One of the great political friendships of the modern world, as told through key moments that shaped the twenty-first centuryToday, we know US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel as two of the world's most influential leaders,...