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Exile and Gender I - Literature and the Press (English, German, Paperback): Charmian Brinson, Andrea Hammel Exile and Gender I - Literature and the Press (English, German, Paperback)
Charmian Brinson, Andrea Hammel
R3,599 Discovery Miles 35 990 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Exile and Gender I: Literature and the Press focuses on the work of exiled women writers and journalists and on gendered representations in the writing of both male and female exiled writers, examining the concepts of gender and sexuality in exile. The contributions are in English or German. Dieser Band Exile and Gender I: Literature and the Press enthalt Beitrage zu den Werken exilierter Schriftstellerinnen und Journalistinnen und zu geschlechtsspezifischen Darstellungen in den Texten von Exilschriftstellern und Exilschriftstellerinnen, sowie zu Gender- und Sexualitatskonzepten. Die Beitrage sind entweder in deutscher oder englischer Sprache.

Bitter Cup, Sweet Aftertaste - Lessons from the Wilderness (Hardcover): Sharon Newton Bitter Cup, Sweet Aftertaste - Lessons from the Wilderness (Hardcover)
Sharon Newton
R872 R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Revealing Bodies - Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (Hardcover): Erin M. Goss Revealing Bodies - Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (Hardcover)
Erin M. Goss
R3,344 Discovery Miles 33 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Revealing Bodies turns to the eighteenth century to ask a question with continuing relevance: what kinds of knowledge condition our understanding of our own bodies? Focusing on the tension between particularity and generality that inheres in intellectual discourse about the body, Revealing Bodies explores the disconnection between the body understood as a general form available to knowledge and the body experienced as particularly one's own. Erin Goss locates this division in contemporary bodily exhibits, such as Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds, and in eighteenth-century anatomical discourse. Her readings of the corporeal aesthetics of Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, William Blake's cosmological depiction of the body's origin in such works as The [First] Book of Urizen, and Mary Tighe's reflection on the relation between love and the soul in Psyche; or, The Legend of Love demonstrate that the idea of the body that grounds knowledge in an understanding of anatomy emerges not as fact but as fiction. Ultimately, Revealing Bodies describes how thinkers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and bodily exhibitions in the twentieth and twenty-first call upon allegorized figurations of the body to conceal the absence of any other available means to understand that which is uniquely our own: our existence as bodies in the world.

Mother's Century - A Survivor, Her People and Her Times (Hardcover): Richard L. Hermann Mother's Century - A Survivor, Her People and Her Times (Hardcover)
Richard L. Hermann
R885 R779 Discovery Miles 7 790 Save R106 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Unpunished (Hardcover): D.D.K. Unpunished (Hardcover)
D.D.K.
R706 Discovery Miles 7 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Unpunished is a story about, love, abuse, sex, betrayal, deceit, mental illness, murder and the unknown. It's NOT a pretty story, however it is one woman's true story. Donna was on her way home from work one afternoon when she stopped to pick up her mail. She tore excitedly into a package that she assumed was from her mother; instead photographs from her past tumbled onto her lap. She is thrown into the memories of her past, memories that are unwanted and of deeds that went unpunished

Real Girl Next Door (Paperback): Denise Richards Real Girl Next Door (Paperback)
Denise Richards
R441 R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

IT'S COMPLICATED.
We've read the scandalous headlines, watched her sexy breakout performances in "Starship Troopers "and "Wild Things," and seen her many public faces on her reality television show--the beautiful vixen, the devoted mother, the hard-working entertainer, and the fun-loving friend. But how well do we really know Denise Richards?
Like so many small-town girls, she dreamed of making it big in Hollywood. But following a painful, high-profile divorce from Charlie Sheen, she found herself raising their two young daughters alone as her mother was dying of cancer. Denise writes openly and honestly about these experiences and more: she lets you in on her childhood dreams, her fated move to Hollywood with her close-knit family, her rise to fame, the pressures of living in the spotlight, and the controversy surrounding her relationships. Through it all, she managed to keep her sense of humor and optimism.
She offers an up-close and personal look at her most intimate battle scars and the lessons she's learned as she's healed and grown. Denise's story will resonate with anyone who has had to look within herself to find strength and courage when life is throwing curveballs.
Inspiring and uplifting, raw and revealing, Denise finally lets her fans in on the resilient woman behind the bombshell persona, the person her friends and family already know: "The Real Girl Next Door."

Dear Proverbs 31 Woman...Stop Making Me Look Bad! - 7 Unshakable Truths to Reignite Your Passion for Authentic Spiritual Growth... Dear Proverbs 31 Woman...Stop Making Me Look Bad! - 7 Unshakable Truths to Reignite Your Passion for Authentic Spiritual Growth (Hardcover)
Kelly Foster
R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Lombard Street - A Description of the Money Market (Hardcover) (Hardcover): Walter Bagehot Lombard Street - A Description of the Money Market (Hardcover) (Hardcover)
Walter Bagehot
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Lombard Street is Walter Bagehot's famous explanation of the England central banking system established during the 19th century. At the time Bagehot wrote, the United Kingdom was at the peak of its influence. The Bank of England in London, was one of the most powerful institutions in the world. Working as an economist at the time, Walter Bagehot sets about explaining how the British government and the Bank of England interact. Leading on from this, he explains how the Bank of England and other banks - the Joint-Stock and Private banking companies - do the business of finance. Bagehot is not afraid to admit that life at the bank is usually quite boring, albeit punctuated by short periods of sudden excitement. The sudden boom of a market, or sudden fluctuations in the credit system, can create an excited demand for money. The eruption of an economic depression, which Bagehot aptly notes is rapidly contagious around different sectors of the economy, can also make working in the bank a lot less tedious.

I Want My Mommy A Parent's Guide to Child Care and Education Red Book (Paperback): Cameron Kidston I Want My Mommy A Parent's Guide to Child Care and Education Red Book (Paperback)
Cameron Kidston
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Social and Spiritual Dancing in Cancer - Inspired by a True Story (Hardcover): Vera Eikon Social and Spiritual Dancing in Cancer - Inspired by a True Story (Hardcover)
Vera Eikon
R573 Discovery Miles 5 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Ohio River Trilogy including (complete and unabridged) Betty Zane, The Last Trail and The Spirit of the Border (Hardcover):... The Ohio River Trilogy including (complete and unabridged) Betty Zane, The Last Trail and The Spirit of the Border (Hardcover)
Zane Grey
R1,224 Discovery Miles 12 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
No Small Lives - Handbook of North American Early Women Adult Educators, 1925-1950 (Hardcover): Susan Imel, Gretchen T Bersch No Small Lives - Handbook of North American Early Women Adult Educators, 1925-1950 (Hardcover)
Susan Imel, Gretchen T Bersch
R2,823 Discovery Miles 28 230 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

No Small Lives: Handbook of North American Early Women Adult Educators, 1925-1950 contains the stories of 26 North American women who were active in the field of adult education sometime between the years of 1925 and 1950. Generally, women's contributions have been omitted from the field's histories. No Small Lives is designed to address this gap and restore women to their rightful place in the history of adult education in North America. The primary audience for this book is adult education professors and their graduate students. This book can be used in courses including history and sociology of adult education, the adult learner, courses specific to exploring women's contributions and activities. The secondary audience is the broader fields of women's studies, feminist history, sociology and psychology or those fields that include an examination of women in the early twentieth century. It could also be useful to those focusing on more specific topics such as gender and race studies, prejudice, marginalization, power, how women were sometimes portrayed as invisible or as central figures, and women in leadership and policy making.

Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World - Between Self and Other (Hardcover): Eve Colpus Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World - Between Self and Other (Hardcover)
Eve Colpus
R4,318 Discovery Miles 43 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Female philanthropy was at the heart of transformative thinking about society and the role of individuals in the interwar period. In Britain, in the aftermath of the First World War, professionalization; the authority of the social sciences; mass democracy; internationalism; and new media sounded the future and, for many, the death knell of elite practices of benevolence. Eve Colpus tells a new story about a world in which female philanthropists reshaped personal models of charity for modern projects of social connectedness, and new forms of cultural and political encounter. Centering the stories of four remarkable British-born women - Evangeline Booth; Lettice Fisher; Emily Kinnaird; and Muriel Paget - Colpus recaptures the breadth of the social, cultural and political influence of women's philanthropy upon practices of social activism. Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World is not only a new history of women's civic agency in the interwar period, but also a study of how female philanthropists explored approaches to identification and cultural difference that emphasized friendship in relation to interwar modernity. Richly detailed, the book's perspective on women's social interventionism offers a new reading of the centrality of personal relationships to philanthropy that can inform alternative models of giving today.

Inspiring Quotes from Inspiring Women 100 Quotes from 100 Influential Women in History (Hardcover): Katie Johnson Inspiring Quotes from Inspiring Women 100 Quotes from 100 Influential Women in History (Hardcover)
Katie Johnson
R855 Discovery Miles 8 550 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
My Orange Suitcase (Hardcover): Alicia Becker My Orange Suitcase (Hardcover)
Alicia Becker
R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Out of the Barrio. . .A Cop's Story (Hardcover): B. Silva Out of the Barrio. . .A Cop's Story (Hardcover)
B. Silva
R1,061 Discovery Miles 10 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Called (Hardcover): Anne Francis Called (Hardcover)
Anne Francis
R878 R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Save R122 (14%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Gender and Conflict since 1914 - Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Hardcover, New): Ana Carden-Coyne Gender and Conflict since 1914 - Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Hardcover, New)
Ana Carden-Coyne
R3,339 Discovery Miles 33 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The First World War was a turning point for modern globalised warfare. It involved the inclusion of women in 'war efforts', the homefront becoming the warzone, and produced millions of wounded and disabled men. At the same time, it incited an extraordinary arsenal of gendered discourses, practices and beliefs in the service of militarism, power structures and personal agency. This insightful collection of interdisciplinary essays, by a wide-ranging team of experts, draws out critical themes emanating from 1914. Spanning the First and Second World Wars, through to the Vietnam War, the 'War on Terror' and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the volume asks what has changed and what has continued? Ana Carden-Coyne demonstrates adeptly how understanding gender during periods of conflict has ongoing relevance across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Mishaps, Mayhem, & Menopause - Letters to Shirley (Hardcover): Carolyn Hendricks Wood Mishaps, Mayhem, & Menopause - Letters to Shirley (Hardcover)
Carolyn Hendricks Wood
R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Before the advent of e-mail and cell phones, there was the art of letter writing to communicate with one another. In "Mishaps, Mayhem, and Menopause, " author Carolyn Hendricks Wood shares a series of personal letters written to her sister Shirley during a seventeen-year-period, from 1980 to 1997. Separated by eight hundred miles, Wood kept Shirley updated with stories about special friends and family through her letters. Humorous and insightful, the letters recall events from childhood, confess embarrassing moments, bemoan the passing of youth and memory, and make growing old seem almost fun. "Mishaps, Mayhem, and Menopause" takes a lighthearted look at aging, menopause, and family life as Shirley shares her experiences, observances, and thoughts.While musing over the consequences of growing older, this collection of heartfelt letters provides reassurance to women everywhere that they are not alone in their battles against both the physical and mental effects of aging and menopause.

Invisible Women - Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Paperback): Caroline Criado-Perez Invisible Women - Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Paperback)
Caroline Criado-Perez 2
R345 R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Save R27 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued.

If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman.

Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap – a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s lives.

From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban planning and the media, Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes women.

Award-winning campaigner and writer Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the impact this has on their health and well-being. In making the case for change, this powerful and provocative book will make you see the world anew.

Women and War in the 21st Century - A Country-by-Country Guide (Hardcover): Margaret D. Sankey Women and War in the 21st Century - A Country-by-Country Guide (Hardcover)
Margaret D. Sankey
R1,878 Discovery Miles 18 780 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Twenty-three countries currently allow women to serve in front-line combat positions and others with a high likelihood of direct enemy contact. This book examines how these decisions did or did not evolve in 47 countries. This timely and fascinating book explores how different countries have determined to allow women in the military to take on combat roles-whether out of a need for personnel, a desire for the military to reflect the values of the society, or the opinion that women improve military effectiveness-or, in contrast, have disallowed such a move on behalf of the state. In addition, many countries have insurgent or dissident factions, in that have led armed resistance to state authority in which women have been present, requiring national militaries and peacekeepers to engage them, incorporate them, or disarm and deradicalize them. This country-by country analysis of the role of women in conflicts includes insightful essays on such countries as Afghanistan, China, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Russia, and the United States. Each essay provides important background information to help readers to understand the cultural and political contexts in which women have been integrated into their countries' militaries, have engaged in combat during the course of conflict, and have come to positions of political power that affect military decisions. Delineates the ways in which women are incorporated into national militaries in both the United States and countries around the world Offers in each entry the distinct national context in which countries have decided to employ women in warfare Reveals how different nations choose to include or exclude women from the military, providing key insight into each nation's values and priorities Examines how governments treat women serving in combat: battlefield experience can "earn" a woman citizenship or be cause for shunning her, depending on the state

Understanding the Purpose and Power of Women - God's Design for Female Identity (Paperback, Expanded Edition): Myles Munroe Understanding the Purpose and Power of Women - God's Design for Female Identity (Paperback, Expanded Edition)
Myles Munroe
R270 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R22 (8%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Women of every culture and society are facing the dilemma of identity. Traditional views of what it means to be a woman and changing cultural and marital roles are causing women conflict in their relationships with men. Women are under tremendous stress as they struggle to discover who they are and what role they are to play today—in the family; the community; and the world. In this expanded edition of Understanding the Purpose and Power of Women; now including helpful study questions following each chapter; best-selling author Dr. Myles Munroe examines societies’ attitudes toward women and addresses vital issues such as:

•Are women and men equal?

•How is a woman unique from a man?

•What does the Bible really teach about women?

•Is the woman to blame for the fall of mankind?

•What are the purpose and design of the woman?

•What is a woman’s basic communication style?

•What are a woman’s emotional and sexual needs?

•Are women meant to be leaders?

•What is a woman’s potential?

To live successfully in the world; women need a new awareness of who they are and new skills to meet today’s challenges.Dr. Myles Munroe (1954–2014) was an international motivational speaker; best-selling author; educator; leadership mentor; and consultant for government and business. Traveling extensively throughout the world; Dr. Munroe addressed critical issues affecting the full range of human; social; and spiritual development. He was a popular author of more than forty books; including The Power of Character in Leadership; The Purpose and Power of Authority; The Principles and Benefits of Change; Becoming a Leader; The Most Important Person on Earth; The Spirit of Leadership; The Principles and Power of Vision; Understanding the Purpose and Power of Prayer; Understanding the Purpose and Power of Woman; and Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men. Dr. Munroe was founder and president of Bahamas Faith Ministries International (BFMI); a multidimensional organization headquartered in Nassau; Bahamas. He was chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the International Third World Leaders Association; president of the International Leadership Training Institute; and the founder and executive producer of a number of radio and television programs aired worldwide.

Jewish Feeling - Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women's Writing (Hardcover): Richa Dwor Jewish Feeling - Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women's Writing (Hardcover)
Richa Dwor
R3,335 Discovery Miles 33 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Jewish Feeling brings together affect theory and Jewish Studies to trace Jewish difference in literary works by nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish authors. Dwor argues that midrash, a classical rabbinic interpretive form, is a site of Jewish feeling and that literary works underpinned by midrashic concepts engage affect in a distinctly Jewish way. The book thus emphasises the theological function of literature and also the new opportunities afforded by nineteenth-century literary forms for Jewish women's theological expression. For authors such as Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) and Amy Levy (1861-1889), feeling is a complex and overlapping category that facilitates the transmission of Jewish ways of thinking into English literary forms. Dwor reads them alongside George Eliot, herself deeply engaged with issues of contemporary Jewish identity. This sheds new light on Eliot by positioning her works in a nexus of Jewish forms and concerns. Ultimately, and despite considerable differences in style and outlook, Aguilar and Levy are shown to deploy Jewish feeling in their ethics of futurity, resistance to conversion and closure, and in their foregrounding of a model of reading with feeling.

Women, Work and Transport (Hardcover): Tessa Wright, Lucy Budd, Stephen Ison Women, Work and Transport (Hardcover)
Tessa Wright, Lucy Budd, Stephen Ison
R3,759 Discovery Miles 37 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Women play an essential role in the transport workforce worldwide, working in formal and informal jobs in public transport, road freight and logistics, rail, maritime and aviation sectors, in ports and in active travel. Women, Work and Transport is an international collection that brings together researchers with global expertise in gender and transport work to provide original evidence of the experiences of women working in all transport modes across countries in the Global North and the Global South. The 21 chapters reveal the everyday challenges faced by women working in highly masculinised environments, including gender stereotypes about women's lack of suitability for transport work, gender-based violence and harassment, limited opportunities for promotion and progression, inflexible work patterns, poor working conditions, and lack of gender-specific facilities. The transport sector has also been severely affected by the coronavirus pandemic, resulting in widespread furlough and redundancies. The effect of the pandemic on women's work in transport is addressed, while other chapters also reveal how women have succeeded in transport occupations, with the support of mentoring schemes, leadership programmes and trade unions, highlighting new emerging opportunities to challenge occupational gender segregation as the transport sector transforms through automation, digitisation, and the transition to low-carbon technologies. The Transport and Sustainability series addresses the important nexus between transport and sustainability containing volumes dealing with a wide range of issues relating to transport, its impact in economic, social and environmental spheres, and its interaction with other policy sectors.

Polk Street (Hardcover): Serena Czarnecki Polk Street (Hardcover)
Serena Czarnecki; Photographs by R.A. Morgan
R713 R642 Discovery Miles 6 420 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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