Result for "Hope" in Gender Studies

Brought to you by Penguin. Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer's? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? And does the female brain really exist? In Eve...

Von uns Männern wird viel erwartet.Wir sollen: stark sein, männlich sein, Beschützer sein, perfekte Liebhaber sein, einfühlsam sein, erfolgreich sein, Väter sein, unsere Liebsten ernähren, perfekt durchtrainiert sein, wohlhabend sein, gebildet sein, Frauenversteher sein, angstlos sein, gutaussehend sein, uns stilvoll kleiden, uns gepflegt ausdrücken, die Welt bereist haben, Problemlöser sein, und vieles mehr... Aber müssen wir diese Dinge wirklich alle können und verkörpern?

In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness.

Although a mother's mortality is inevitable, no book has discussed the profound lasting and far reaching effects of this loss until Motherless Daughters. More than 20 years later, it is still the go-to book that women of all ages look to for comfort, help, and understanding when their mother dies. Building on interviews with hundreds of mother-loss survivors, Edelman's personal story of losing her mother, and recent research in grief and psychology, Motherless Daughters reveals the shared experiences and core identity issues of motherless women.

From the birth of hip-hop in the 1970s to today, women have been just as integral to the growth and development of the rap game as their male counterparts. Nonetheless, they’re consistently shortchanged as artists, creators, renegades, and cultural visionaries in prevailing histories of the genre. The Motherlode changes that.

From Nobel laureate, world-renowned doctor, and noted human rights activist Dr. Denis Mukwege comes an inspiring clarion call-to-action to confront the scourge of sexual violence and better learn from women's resilience, strength, and power. At the heart of Dr. Mukwege’s message will be the...

A FINANCIAL TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK TO READ IN 2023 A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 for VULTURE, LIT HUB, GOODREADS, RUMPUS, BUSTLE, READER'S DIGEST and more Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature – vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry...

An ideal introduction to the work of the poet, activist, and visionary whom Toni Morrison called “our premiere Black woman essayist,” Nothing Less Than Love brings together for the first time June Jordan’s essential writings on the revolutionary power of love. A Penguin Classics Deluxe...

How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic", as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business? In Hope in a Jar, historian Kathy Peiss gives us the first full-scale social history of America's beauty culture.

This book explores the nature and essential role of hope in human life under conditions of oppression. Oppression is often a threat and damage to hope, yet many members of oppressed groups, including prominent activists pursuing a more just world, find hope valuable and even essential to their personal and political lives. Katie Stockdale offers a unique evaluative framework for hope that captures its intrinsic value, the rationality and morality of hope, and ultimately how we can hope well in the non-ideal world we share.  

The truth about the most important woman in America In Her Way, two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalists deliver: Previously undisclosed details about the Clinton's multi-decade plan for powerincluding 8 years in the White House for Bill and 8 years for Hillary...

From the preeminent scholar on Black masculinity in America, Save a Seat for Me is Mark Anthony Neal’s attempt to bring his scholarship on fatherhood to a broader audience. Save a Seat for Me embraces the nuances of how contemporary frameworks of masculinity informed by unprecedented advances...

Brought to you by Penguin. 'A book to save a whole generation of women' Adele 'This moving book was a pleasure to read and I didn't want to put it down. If anyone is going through a similar experience it will make them feel less alone' Philippa Perry This is a raw and honest memoir about being...

Esta hermosa recopilación de conversaciones de un minuto con Dios te ayudará a compartir el deseo de tu corazón de caminar con Jesús, crecer en tu espiritualidad y ayudar a otros. Incluye a Dios en tu vida diaria y siente su paz, su gracia y su alegría. Cuando comprometas tu día a su propósito, él transformará tu corazón y tu vida.

Comienza tu día con Dios Fortalece tu relación con Dios que te ama, hablando con él frecuentemente. Estas oraciones rápidas de un minuto te ayudarán a enfocarte en Dios y en Sus planes para tu día. Este gran libro de oraciones incluye temas importantes, como familia, salud, sexualidad, el éxito, tentaciones, y trabajo.

Esta encantadora recopilación de conversaciones de un minuto con Dios te ayudará a compartir el deseo de tu corazón de caminar con Jesús, crecer espiritualmente, compartir con otras personas y encontrar consuelo. Ya sea que comiences tu mañana con Dios, encuentres fuerzas a media tarde o cierres el día con Él, experimentarás Su paz, abrazarás Su gracia y encontrarás gozo en Su presencia.

The social perception of masculinity is very black and white: one is either an alpha male or a beta male, and there can be no variation. However, this is not the reality of masculinity in today's society. Non-alpha males exist somewhere in the middle of the masculinity spectrum and are far more common than most people realize.

Ananda was a shy, small town girl from Alabama, but had some big city dreams. She was raised with a good upbringing from her parents, and sheltered from the evils of the world. Ananda soon realized after she moved that ignorant people lives everywhere. As she gets older she realizes that the ups and downs of life can be exhausting and sometimes a little "me" time may be just what the doctor ordered. Ananda discovers that the power of prayer and having a voice to speak up is essential to her everyday life's journey, as she takes control of her destiny.

Unbroken is an extraordinary work of memoir and investigative journalism focusing on missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, written by an award-winning Gitxsan journalist who survived life on the streets against all odds.

Many have tried to silence her, but Mozhdah Jamalzadah remains the most powerful female voice of her generation in Afghanistan, boldly speaking out about women’s rights. Voice of Rebellion charts her incredible journey, including arriving in Canada as a child refugee, setting her father’s protest poem to music (and making it a number one hit), performing that song for Michelle and Barack Obama, and, finally, being invited to host her own show in Afghanistan.