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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021 One
of The Times 50 Best Sports Books of 2021 Little Wonder tells the
epic, and until now largely unchronicled, story of Lottie Dod, the
first great heroine in women's sports. Dod was a champion tennis
player, golfer, hockey player, tobogganist, skater, mountaineer,
and archer. She was also a first-rate musician, performing numerous
choral concerts in London in the 1920s and 1930s, including in a
private performance before the King and Queen. In the late 19th
century, Dod was almost certainly the second most famous woman in
the British Isles, bested only by the fame of Queen Victoria. She
was fawned over by the press, and loved by a huge fan base - which
composed poems and songs in her honor, followed her from one
tournament to the next, voraciously read every profile published on
her and every report on her sporting triumphs. Yet, within a decade
or two of her retirement from sports, Dod was largely a forgotten
figure. She lived, unmarried and childless, until 1960, and for the
last half of her life she was shrouded in obscurity. In this new
book, Sasha Abramsky brings Lottie's remarkable achievements back
into the public eye in a fascinating story of resilience and
determination.
A coming-of-age travel memoir that probes thorny spiritual
questions while taking the reader on a wild ride from the deep
American South to the Middle East, Europe, and the Far East. Once
the golden girl of her Arkansas town, Natalie finds herself
squeezed under small town shame and rejection after being kicked
out of church for getting a divorce. It's a hard fall off of a
sanctimonious high horse, and religious fundamentalism has left her
feeling broken and stuck. But she can't shake the 'wanderlust woes'
that have plagued her since childhood, so she runs away to the
Middle East. As a mostly-sheltered Southerner, she struggles to
adapt but is determined to be 'at home' in the world. Her journey
is more than a pilgrimage, it's a peregrination: a one-way ticket
to elsewhere in search of the place of her own resurrection. Within
these pages is a suspenseful adventure filled with love, loss,
laughter, tears, and a little bit of scandalous behavior, but at
the heart of it, Natalie walks squarely into the unknown to
confront the secret matters of the soul that we wrestle with at
night.
This Research Handbook highlights the importance of women as agents
of change, acknowledging women entrepreneurs' efforts and
supporting their value-creation activities. With important
implications for policymaking, contributing authors direct
attention to and provide evidence for the positive contribution of
women entrepreneurs to the economy, regardless of their businesses'
size and formal status. Challenging the underperformance hypothesis
associated with women entrepreneurs, chapters present evidence that
women do not underperform in their businesses, but that they add
value even in constrained environments. This intends to shift the
focus of research from questions like 'what do entrepreneurs do?'
to 'how do they do it?', focusing on the unique ways in which each
woman entrepreneur creates value, and 'for whom do they do it?',
looking at the multiple value outcomes women entrepreneurs create
and the beneficiaries of that value. With a global perspective on
women's entrepreneurship and their value creation, this Research
Handbook will be vital reading for researchers of entrepreneurship,
as well as government agencies and policymakers interested in
promoting entrepreneurial activity.
This edited collection presents fascinating new insights on gender
and innovation with a central focus on the experiences of women
innovators, exploring different geographic and institutional
contexts through a series of in-depth case studies. It investigates
how intersecting characteristics such as age, race and ethnicity as
well as broader contextual and institutional factors enable and
constrain the innovation activities and ambitions of women. Drawing
on different theoretical perspectives, expert contributors
interrogate questions of gender and innovation to examine the
multiple factors influencing women innovators in the contemporary
world. The book also engages with how policies can support
diversity and inclusion within innovation, an area that has
historically been highly gendered. Further to this, it recommends
actions to take to support the development of inclusive practices,
and identifies directions for future research. Exploring the
diversity of gender and innovation as a concept as well as in
practice, this book will be a stimulating resource for scholars,
educators and students who wish to gain an overview of the topic.
Policy makers and practitioners will find the insights on how
policies and initiatives can achieve great equality and diversity
informative and illuminating.
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