Gender studies: women and girls Books

Book SynopsisDaughter of God, Break Free from Tradition and Embrace Your Divine Destiny!For centuries, religion, tradition, and even the devil himself have tried to suppress the role and potential of women. But what does God say about women in life and in the Church? Can women freely embrace God''s call in their lives? Are women esteemed in Scripture and in the eyes of God?Rhonda Garver, minister and co-pastor of Cornerstone Word of Life Church, reveals the unique power, purpose, and value of women in God?s Kingdom, empowering you to boldly walk in God?s calling and embrace His divine blueprint for your life.From the Gospels to the Epistles, witness how God liberates and equips women to follow His divine direction for their lives. The question is not where a woman?s place is, but where God is calling her to be!With comprehensive and encouraging teachings, you?ll learn how: God doesn?t distinguish between men and women in their ability to serve Him. God created Adam and Eve as co-rulers since the beginning. Women held significant positions of authority in the Old Testament. Jesus was the strongest advocate for the value and ministry of women. God desires every woman to be free to serve Him and fulfill His purposes. Cast aside the chains of religion and tradition and see women through God?s eyes. Boldly step into your God-given role, igniting a powerful movement in this last-day harvest.

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Book SynopsisCourtly love and feminism are strange bedfellows, the one a controversial literary concept, and the other a continuing crusade. Both can be taken seriously or ridiculed. In this incisive book, Antonia Southern tries to do both with both. Courtly Love focuses a feminist lens on fourteen authors, some well-known and some less so. They aimed variously to entertain, amuse, instruct, make money, or please themselves. Marie de France is the supreme example of the last category. Sir Thomas Malory wrote in prison and needed to pass the time. Christine de Pizan wrote to make a living for herself and her family. The Knight of La Tour-Landry wrote advice for his own daughters. Sir Philip Sidney wrote for his sister and her friends. Chrétien de Troyes and Andrew Capellanus had patrons to please, and so sometimes did Geoffrey Chaucer. A historian unrepentantly trespassing in the verdant fields of English literature, Southern rejects the concept of "the Death of the Author" and the divorce of authors from their writing and seeks to understand them on their own terms.

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Book SynopsisWomen and Art surveys the history of women in art and addresses the effects of feminist art history and art production. This book is among the first to offer a critical assessment of the role of feminism in art history and how it has presented and misrepresented women's roles in art. Seeking to counterbalance overwhelmingly pro-feminist narratives, it relies on evidence from artists, statisticians, and historians to support individual women artists while remaining critical of feminism. Cogent and persuasive, Women and Art stands as a key for students and researchers interested in art history, gender studies, feminism, and cultural studies.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Cecilia Tossounian reconstructs different representations of modern femininity from 1920s and 1930s Argentina, a complex period in which the country saw prosperity and economic crisis, a growing cosmopolitan population, the emergence of consumer culture, and the development of nationalism. Tossounian analyzes how these popular images of la joven moderna—the modern girl—helped shape Argentina’s emerging national identity. Tossounian looks at visual and written portrayals of young womanhood in magazines, newspapers, pulp fiction, advertisements, music, films, and other media. She identifies and discusses four new types of young urban women: the flapper, the worker, the sportswoman, and the beauty contestant. She shows that these diverse figures, defined by social class, highlight the tensions between gender, nation, and modernity in interwar Argentina. Arguing that images of modern young women symbolized fears of the country’s moral decadence as well as hopes of national progress and civilization, La Joven Moderna in Interwar Argentina reveals that women were at the center of a public debate about modernity and its consequences. This book highlights the important but underappreciated role of gendered figures and popular culture in the ways Argentine citizens imagined themselves and their country during a formative period of cultural and social renewal.

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