Gender Studies

Hailed by the New Yorker as "a crucial forebear of generations," award–winning director Joyce Chopra came of age in the 1950s, prior to the dawn of feminism, and long before the #MeToo movement. As a young woman, it seemed impossible that she might one day realize her dream of becoming a film director. In this engaging, candid memoir, award–winning director Joyce Chopra describes how she learned to navigate the deeply embedded sexism of the film industry, helping to pave the way for a generation of women filmmakers who would come after her.

In 1972, Martha "Marty" Goddard volunteered at a crisis hotline, counseling girls who had been molested by their fathers, their teachers, their uncles. Soon, Marty was on a mission to answer a question: Why were so many sexual predators getting away with these crimes? By the end of the decade, she had launched a campaign pushing hospitals and police departments to collect evidence of sexual assault and treat survivors with dignity. She designed a new kind of forensics tool—the rape kit—and new practices around evidence collection that spread across the country.

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay, originally delivered in 1928 as two lectures at two of Cambridge University's women's colleges—Newnham College and Girton College. Through the use of several metaphors, lauded author Virginia Woolf explores the social injustices and structures that prevent women from engaging in free expression and contributing to literature.

Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796–1833), the enslaved wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, owner of Blue Spring Farm, veteran of the War of 1812, and US vice president under Martin Van Buren. Johnson never freed Chinn, but during his frequent absences from his estate, he delegated to her the management of his property, including Choctaw Academy, a boarding school for Indigenous men and boys on the grounds of the estate.

Die Scham muss die Seite wechseln. Ein Prozess, der die Welt erschüttert. Eine Mutter, die als Ikone gefeiert wird. Ein Vater, den man als Monster bezeichnet. Eine Tochter, die ums Überleben kämpft. Weil sie Teil eines Verbrechens ist, in dem ihre Eltern Opfer und Täter sind. Das ist ihre Geschichte. Caroline Darian, Tochter von Gisèle und Dominique Pelicot, erhält am 2. November 2020 einen Anruf von ihrer Mutter. Ihr Vater wurde verhaftet.

Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934, in Toledo, Ohio) is an American journalist, social-political activist, and former CIA operative. Steinem emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s—bolstered by a 1969 article Steinem wrote, "After Black Power, Women's Liberation." In 1972, Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine, aided by her CIA connections, according to the Redstockings feminist organization. The following recording is from 1967.

Siguiendo la huella de los canes cervantinos, Cipión y Berganza, y de las perras Fina y Franca de Rosario Ferré, Lina Meruane organiza en este ensayo-ficción su propio coloquio sobre las tensiones que asaltan a los feminismos contemporáneos. Sus perras callejeras –la vieja quiltra chilena «Lina» y la joven chucha española «Luna» –debaten qué implica la liberación de los cuerpos: tener o no crías, exaltar o no la desnudez, aceptar y practicar las transiciones de toda especie, e incluso legitimar el perreo vis a vis una violencia sexual, sicológica y simbólica.

To her contemporaries, Amy Brown Lyman was a leader, admired for her dynamic personality, her inspiring public addresses, and especially for her remarkable vision of what Mormon women in the Relief Society could achieve. Yet today her name is barely known. This volume brings her work to light, showing how the accomplishments of Lyman and her peers benefitted their own and subsequent generations.

¿Por qué los hombres hacen tan poco en casa? ¿Por qué las mujeres hacen tanto? ¿Por qué nuestros valores igualitarios no coinciden con nuestras experiencias? La periodista y psicóloga Darcy Lockman ofrece una mirada lúcida al problema más pernicioso al que se enfrentan las madres y padres modernos: cómo las relaciones progresistas se convierten en tradicionales cuando se introducen los niños en el hogar.

Believe It’s Possible: Conquer Your Mountains, Blaze Your Trial, and Achieve Uncommon Success is part guide to life without limits and part inspirational memoir that proves it’s possible, no matter what mountain you are facing right now. This blueprint for personal transformation is abundant with tangible tools and actionable strategies to guide you through a path of self-discovery, resilience, and personal inner growth.