Gender Studies

In a world in which all the old certainties seem to be crumbling, it's hard not to feel we have lost our way. Long before they became bywords for people-pleasing princesses, these old stories – passed down to us through generations by our peasant ancestors – told us everything that women need to learn about the world. They teach us to be savvy, inspire us to grow in confidence, show us how to be bold and claim the future we dream of. They might be set in difficult and dangerous times, but they require their heroines to face the unfaceable and dig deep for previously unimagined inner resources.

From Sunday Times bestselling author Alex Light comes an empowering, incisive new book examining the crushing beauty standards women are subjected to – and how we can learn to fight back. In a world full of filters, tweakments, and weight-loss drugs, take back control and rewrite the rules of...

From the author of million-copy bestseller The Way of the Superior Man, a guide to help men achieve deep meaning and true freedom in their lives. Many men come to a point in life where they feel a sense of emptiness or lack of motivation. This state may be confused for depression, but David...

GLOBAL IN SCOPE, FEARLESS IN TONE AND DARING ABOUT WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN NEXT 'The world is on fire, and this is the book we need in this moment' ANGELA SAINI, author of THE PATRIARCHS 'Fantastic and timely . . . I highly recommend this book to all women' ZAHRA JOYA, author of THE VANISHING GIRL OF...

Author of Take Back the Magic and co-founder of the beloved non-denominational fellowship The Way of the Rose Perdita Finn offers a profound invitation to remember and recover the power, presence, and wisdom of the Mother Figure. "This book is not optional reading for our moment. It is essential...

The brilliant and sometimes scandalous lives of twenty-one women who made French history. From Eleanor of Aquitaine to Edith Piaf, Colette to Coco Chanel, discover the lives of 21 women who made French history. French women have always had so much more to say than ‘let them eat cake’! Whether kicking the English out of Orléans, marching on Versailles or running messages for the French resistance, their stories of courage, creativity and genius have long defined French history.

A bold new history of psychology that uncovers the lost legacies of the women who shaped our understanding of what it is to be human If asked to name a psychologist, who springs to mind? No doubt Freud, perhaps Pavlov and his dog, maybe Jung or Piaget. But what of Mary Whiton Calkins, who has...

A hundred years. Thousands of women. One extraordinary pond. I have learned about peacocks and terrapins, giant cobras and booming widgeons; I have heard about celebrity spottings and al-fresco lovemaking and digestive biscuits. These things make up the history of the Ladies’ Pond, but they...

Examinando mitos e arquétipos da Deusa em diferentes sociedades, descobrimos como Sua marginalização reflete os padrões de desigualdade de gênero e opressão ao longo da história. Ao abordar uma espiritualidade que não está fundamentada na tradição patriarcal, a historiadora e teóloga Carol P. Christ, doutora em Estudos da Religião pela Universidade Yale, retorna a cosmovisão ancestral que celebra a vida, as mulheres, a criatividade e a interconexão com a natureza.

Despite being one of the leading thinkers of the second wave feminist movement, today Shere Hite is little known, little written about, and, unsurprisingly, little read. Her groundbreaking book, The Hite Report, was the first feminist exploration of the link between sex and male power. It sold millions of copies when first published in 1976 and revolutionized the way people thought about marriage and the female orgasm. How, then, did it, and Hite, disappear from public consciousness?

30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION NATIONAL BESTSELLER In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and...

In this bold and intimate semi-autobiographical novel, La Maison, Emma Becker transports the reader behind the closed doors of a Berlin brothel, where she worked for two years not only to earn a living, but to immerse herself in a world she wanted to understand?and to write about with...

You know that 3 a.m. feeling? When you’re wide awake asking yourself: Is this really it? That nagging feeling that "this isn’t enough anymore" isn’t weakness—it’s wisdom. What once felt fresh now feels like going through the motions. Successful but not satisfied. Accomplished but not...

On July 4, 1990, while on a morning walk in southern France, Susan J. Brison was attacked from behind, severely beaten, sexually assaulted, strangled to unconsciousness, and left for dead. She survived, but her world was destroyed. Her training as a philosopher could not help her make sense of things, and many of her fundamental assumptions about the nature of the self and the world it inhabits were shattered.

The historical figure of the dandy has commonly been described as an upper-class gentleman. But there is a broader history to be told about the dandy—one that incorporates unknown men from the lower strata of society. The Dandy: A People's History constitutes the first history of those dandies...

In the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s Tribe and Chris Hedges’s classic War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, a powerful investigation into the fraught history and ominous future of military education in the United States, and how it formed and fuels increasingly volatile strains of American...

An empathetic, practical, and deeply relatable exploration of midlife today—and a field guide to do it your way. AN OPEN FIELD BOOK FROM MARIA SHRIVER Your forties can feel like navigating a relentless wave of pressure. Questions such as “Am I where I ‘should’ be?”, “Should I be...

Die Autorin und Feministin Hedwig Dohm entlarvt in diesem Essay die scheinwissenschaftlichen Begründungen für weibliche Bildungsbenachteiligung – pointiert, ironisch und analytisch scharf. Dohm plädiert für gleiches Bildungsrecht und stellt die Frage nicht nur, ob Frauen dürfen – sondern ob sie können und sollen. Ihr Text ist ein Aufruf zu Selbstbestimmung, geistiger Unabhängigkeit und zur Überwindung gesellschaftlicher Rollenzwänge.

Journalist and human rights advocate Antoinette Lattouf takes us on a gripping journey through women who defied expectations and shattered cultural and legal barriers - usually while being cast aside and asked to calm down. In these pages you'll meet: - Australia's first female law graduate -...

America’s first female soldier, Deborah Sampson tells the story of America’s birth. She was the descendant of those who sailed the Mayflower, Myles Standish and William Bradford. Growing up in a destitute family in Plympton, Massachusetts, Deborah was inspired by her maternal grandmother, Bathsheba Bradford, abandoned by her father, neglected by her morose mother, separated from her starving siblings, and finally sold into indentured servitude. Her rise from her disastrous childhood, her decision to masquerade as a man, her fervor to fight for her liberty, is the story of America.

Embark on a riveting, real-life journey through history and mystery as two intrepid sleuths uncover secrets of their great-grandmother's enigmatic life. Set in the 1930's, the narrative of this tale weaves together threads of trauma and unexpected twists, immersing you in the resilient pursuit of a woman navigating the challenges of her era with unwavering grit.

This program is read by the author. GIRLS: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything is a passionate, provocative, and deeply personal journey into the pressures shaping young lives today. Freya India shows that age-old anxieties of girlhood are now being amplified by modern life and...

A tender, moving, and insightful account of queer motherhood and an interrogation of life on the margins of American culture as a self-described “ugly” woman “A rigorous ladyballs-out polemic that also tells the most raw, tender, against-all-odds story of parenthood that I've ever read.”...

En las viejas mansiones de Constitución hoy convertidas en hoteles para pobres, se amontonan migrantes, trans y trabajadores precarizados. En ese barrio está ubicada la Casa Roja, sede gremial, hogar y trinchera por donde se cruzan y despliegan las vidas de putas. Aquí, Georgina Orellano denuncia la tensión permanente con la policía, las instituciones—incluidas las que se acercan a "ayudar"—y los vecinos que quieren "limpiar" la zona. Escritas con una ternura y un humor a prueba de tragedias, cuentan al detalle el narcomenudeo, la enfermedad, la intemperie.

Un ensayo radical y provocador sobre el negocio del deseo femenino en la era del empoderamiento y el pacto patriarcal. ¿Es el consumo de servicios eróticos por parte de mujeres una forma de empoderamiento? ¿Pagar es consentir? A través del análisis de productos culturales y entrevistas con...