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Free Download Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy "
English | ISBN: 0814348637 | 2023 | 236 pages | EPUB | 504 KB
Contemporary Chinese film and literature often draw on time-honored fantastical texts and tales which were founded in the milieu of patriarchy, parental authority, heteronormativity, nationalism, and anthropocentrism. Author Cathy Yue Wang examines the processes by which modern authors and filmmakers reshape these traditional tales to develop new narratives that interrogate the ingrained patriarchal paradigm. Through a rigorous analysis, Wang delineates changes in both content and narrative that allow contemporary interpretations to reimagine the gender politics and contexts of the tales retold. With a broad transmedia approach and a nuanced understanding of intertextuality, this work contributes to the ongoing negotiation in academic and popular discourse between past and present, traditional and contemporary, and text and reality in a globalized and postmodern world.

Free Download Erica Hirshler, John Sargent, "Sargent’s Daughters: The Biography of a Painting"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0878468609, 0878467424 | PDF | pages: 262 | 1.7 mb
"Sargent makes you feel simultaneously drawn into and excluded from the sisters’ world, a phenomenon that Erica E. Hirshler explores in intriguing detail in Sargent’s Daughters." -Megan Marshall, The New York Times Sunday Book Review

Free Download Gil Reavil, "Raising Our Athletic Daughters: How Sports Can Build Self-Esteem and Save Girls’ Lives"
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0385489609, 0385489595 | EPUB | pages: 255 | 1.9 mb
Now in paperback, the first book to document how participating in sports changes young girls’ lives during the difficult years of adolescence.

Free Download Craig Johnson, "Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters, and the Pursuit of Thinness"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0936077492 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 0.5 mb
"Father Hunger" is the emptiness experienced by women whose fathers were physically or emotionally absent-a void that leads to unrealistic body image, yo-yo dieting, food fears and disordered eating patterns. The term, which is now part of the psychology lexicon, originated with the first edition of this work in 1991.

Free Download Girls on the Brink: Helping Our Daughters Thrive in an Era of Increased Anxiety, Depression, and Social Media by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 0593233077 | 320 pages | PDF | 3.54 Mb
15 "simple but powerful" (The New York Times Book Review) strategies for raising emotionally healthy girls, based on cutting-edge science that explains the modern pressures that make it so difficult for adolescent girls to thrive

Free Download Samia Spencer, "Daughters of the Nile: Egyptian Women Changing Their World"
English | ISBN: 1443894575 | 2016 | 417 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The history of ancient Egypt is filled with fascinating queens and goddesses portrayed side by side with their male counterparts as equal partners, each playing a different and distinct role in society. Anyone interested in their identity and achievements can go to popular or academic sources, and find ample material on the subject. How about their descendants: contemporary Egyptian women? Who are they? What do we know about them, or about their accomplishments? Only scarce and limited information is available.

Free Download Hannah Currie, "Heart of a Royal (Daughters of Peverell)"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1946531537, 1946531553 | EPUB | pages: 308 | 0.5 mb
Brought to the palace as a newborn, the royal life bestowed upon Mackenna Sparrow was never meant to last forever. With Princess Alina engaged to be married, Mackenna’s presence as companion is no longer required and, like it or not, she must return to the birthright which should have been hers – that of a commoner. But not everyone at the palace wants her gone. When the truths she’s based her life on start crumbling as fast as her future, will she find the courage to trust, both herself and the prince she’s fallen in love with?

Free Download David James, "The Sons And Daughters Of Los: Culture And Community In L.A."
English | 2003 | pages: 266 | ISBN: 1592130135, 1592130127 | PDF | 31,6 mb
Los Angeles. A city that is synonymous with celebrity and mass-market culture, is also, according to David James, synonymous with social alienation and dispersal. In the communities of Los Angeles, artists, cultural institutions and activities exist in ways that are often concealed from sight, obscured by the powerful presence of Hollywood and its machinations.

Free Download The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind by Jodi M. Savage
English | November 14, 2023 | ISBN: 0063276089 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 2.4 MB
Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody’s Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that explore the author’s ever-changing relationships with her grandmother and mother, through sickness and health, as they experience the joys and challenges of Black American womanhood.

Free Download Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters (Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction) by Maya Sonenberg
English | August 1, 2022 | ISBN: 0268203016, 0268203024 | True EPUB | 150 pages | 0.6 MB
In these dense and startling stories, Maya Sonenberg telescopes seasons, decades, and generations in candid depictions of women’s family lives.