Gender studies, gender groups

Este libro es el resultado de una minuciosa investigación realizada por la autora, donde se retoman las voces de las mujeres nasas lideresas del resguardo de Huellas (Caloto, Cauca, Colombia) para describir sus relaciones con el territorio, así como sus vivencias producto de las violencias internas y externas que han sufrido en medio del conflicto armado colombiano.

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As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African-American teenager named Patrick and his classmates.

This unique collection of poems from the Poet Laureate, filled with her characteristic wit, is a feminist classic and a modern take on age-old mythology.

For the past fifty years, Monday afternoons in New Haven have always been the same: Roz, Rhoda, Bea, Jackie and Bette - the Bridge Ladies.

A vivid account of the love triangle between an American journalist and adventurer, a wealthy expatriate businessman and a Chinese poet in Shanghai in the late 1930s.

From the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Room, Inseparable explores the little-known literary tradition of love between women in Western literature.

Compelling, powerful, magnificent' THE TIMES In revealing encounters with monks, nuns, bishops and archbishops, in monasteries ancient and modern Victoria Clark measures the depth and width of the gulf now separating Europe's Orthodox East from the Catholic and Protestant West.

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Este ensayo describe los antecedentes, imaginarios históricos y proceso de la conformación del Resguardo Predio Putumayo, el resguardo más grande de Colombia, creado en abril de 1988, en el interfluvio de los ríos Caquetá-Putumayo, en el actual Departamento del Amazonas, el territorio ancestral de la hoy llamada "Gente del Centro" víctimas del holocausto de la Casa Arana en las primeras tres décadas del siglo XX; quienes a pesar de las dificultades lograron "renacer" y hoy conforman múltiples comunidades de la Amazonia Colombia, particularmente en sus territorios ancestrales y otras localidades del país.

Like their modern counterparts, the 'first ladies' of Rome were moulded to meet the political requirements of their emperors, be they fathers, husbands, brothers or lovers.

THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE FEMALE EUNUCH, GERMAINE GREER RETURNS TO THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM, WITH THE BOOK SHE VOWED SHE WOULD NEVER WRITE.

A fascinating insight into 18th century aristocratic life through the lives of the four Lennox sisters, the great grandchildren of Charles II, whose extraordinary lives spanned the period 1740-1832.

Brought up as female for fifteen years, Jon can remember feeling different from other girls since he was only five years old.

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After long afternoons spent with her great-aunt Yu-i, Pang-Mei, a first-generation Chinese-American, paints this unforgettable saga of a woman, born in Shanghai at the turn of the century to a well-to-do family, who continually defied the expectations of her class and culture.

Meena founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan in 1977 as a twenty-year-old Kabul University student.

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Conway opens with her assessment of her life, passions, possibilities and the making of her decision to leave Canada and return to the United States to become Smith's first woman president.

In 1919, in the wake of the upheaval of World War I, a remarkable group of English women came up with their own solution to the world's grief:a new religion.

By following a group of four contemporary girls - including her younger self - as they come of age in the seventies, Wolf shows how our culture tries to shape and confine women's desire.

Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal circles in Britain today.

Eve Was Framed offers an impassioned, personal critique of the British legal system.

If we live in an age of equality, why are women are still left holding the baby?

Love, like falling rain, can revive an arid life.

There are lots of books about parenthood.

In Is it me or it hot in here?

If Aphra Benn is widely regarded as the first important woman writer in English, who was the second?

The human female form is the brilliant end-point of millions of years of evolution, loaded with amazing adjustments and subtle refinements.

Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century.

Eight women who changed the worldCaroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma GoldmanSignificant Sisters traces the lives of eight women, each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics: the first woman doctor, the pioneer of birth control, a radical journalist, and suffragists.

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Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love.

TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' GuardianSimone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'.

'Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.

In August 1991 newspaper headlines around the world announced an amazing discovery: a difference in the brains of heterosexuals and homosexuals.

Janie McCleary runs one of the first movie theatres in New Brunswick.

Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon was the most unconventional and influential leader of the Victorian women's movement.

An exploration of the challenged state of masculinity in our post-feminist society of gender equality.

From girl next door to the nation's sweetheart, this is the story of Chantelle's spectacular rise to fame and celebrity.

Part cultural study, part call to action, this thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of white-collar work in America's hyper-individualistic, patriarchal society will change the way you think about sexual misconduct and workplace abuse.

Hannah Shah is an Imam's daughter.

Listen to the brand new dramatisation of How To Be a Woman, narrated by Caitlin herself, as part of BBC Radio 4's Riot Girls season Selected by Emma Watson for her feminist book club Our Shared Shelf It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727.

"e;Sexuality"e; may be an eighteenth-century coinage, but as this new study by award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, it has fascinated and frightened us for millennia.

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The changing nature of waged work in contemporary advanced industrial nations is one of the most significant aspects of political and economic debate.

This enlightening book makes visible the lives and works of women who played a critical role in the development of geography as an academic field.

Featuring extensive revisions and updates, the Second Edition of The Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research presents an introductory overview of gender theory and research, and continues to offer a unique and compelling approach to one of the most important topics in the field of sociology.