Tag: Women

Free Download Julie Hotchin, "Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000 – 1500: Debating Identities, Creating Communities "
English | ISBN: 1837650497 | 2023 | 296 pages | EPUB | 18 MB
New approaches to understanding religious women’s involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how women’s experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously assumed.

Free Download Women and Borders in the Mediterranean: The Wretched of the Sea
by Camille Schmoll
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031450965 | 200 Pages | True PDF | 3.53 MB

Free Download Camille Schmoll, "Women and Borders in the Mediterranean: The Wretched of the Sea "
English | ISBN: 3031450965 | 2024 | 204 pages | EPUB | 366 KB
This book offers a history of migration in the Mediterranean written about and from the perspective of women. It gives a complex picture of individual journeys of migrant women, and in a radical departure from the miserabilist or culturalist approach through which women are usually viewed, the book argues for a politically and socially aware, activist feminism that is attuned to what border-obsessed migration policies actually do to women.The research presented in this book is based on multi-sited fieldwork that led the author to closely follow migration survivors. The book depicts the journey of women as they experience brutal separations, have to make heart-wrenching decisions and end up wandering from one place to another, but also as they make acquaintances and find new opportunities. The first-person accounts collected here demonstrate that the reasons behind these women’s decision to leave are anything but simple and linear: they combine various forms of persecution and oppression, a desire for autonomy and a yearning for new horizons, as well as changes in gender relations in their countries of origin.The book further explores the daily lives of women in reception centres, where they are in limbo, their journey as if "suspended," as they wait for this Europe rejecting them to acknowledge their presence. These women live on and "in" the border – a border that relentlessly haunts them and pursues them everywhere they go. Boredom is constant and, likewise, racism and marginalisation processes are pervasive. At the same time, this study shows that these women are also resisting, strategising, taking charge of their own destinies and journeys, and looking for a way out.Written from the standpoint of a geographer, this study accordingly puts the space of everyday life front and centre. Such a space acts as an impediment to these women’s journeys: it generates a "moralscape" of waiting, which plays a key role in these women’s daily lives.However, it can also help these women gain greater autonomy, thus empowering them, and it may be subverted through various tactics and stratagems, which sometimes take the form of spatialised strategies.

Free Download Women Vloggers, Cultures & Nature: Narrativising Rural Lifescape
by Alberta Natasia Adji
English | 2024 | ISBN: 303136953X | 122 Pages | True PDF | 1.9 MB

Free Download Alberta Natasia Adji, "Women Vloggers, Cultures & Nature: Narrativising Rural Lifescape "
English | ISBN: 303136953X | 2024 | 126 pages | EPUB | 488 KB
This book explores the nature-inspired and place-based vlogging activities of five young women who have become global icons in the last five years, and whose digital projects are a form of ‘nature life writing’ in the Anthropocene. Li Ziqi, Dianxi Xiaoge, Jonna Jinton, Annabel Margaret and Paola Merrill draw on their culture and use technological equipment and social media (especially YouTube) to build dynamic narratives about living in the countryside. Through their online platform they show unique, picturesque footage of their daily routines and rural environments, and present the ways in which they nurture connections between people in the community and animals and landscapes. The study shows how, paradoxically, their digital life writing projects attempt to resist the attention economy but at the same time use strategies to sustain it. Through the various lenses of ecobiography, cultural ecology, digital archiving, ecospirituality, phytography, and ethological poetics, this book also foregrounds the significance of plant life and landscapes – they are reminders of how human lives are inextricably entangled with traditional values and the natural world.

Free Download Aliyah Ali Bilgrami, "Women Prisoners: A Case Study of Central Prison for Women Karachi"
English | ISBN: 3031463307 | 2023 | 112 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book examines the female criminals and the prison conditions and issues they must endure through the lens of a case study in the Karachi women’s prison in Pakistan. With higher events of crime and poverty due to COVID-19, this volume considers the worsening conditions for women inmates as it relates to psychological trauma, access to resources, economic factors, and working against the cultural forces and criminal justice forces that contribute to the unstable state of women’s prisons. This book includes case studies of women prisoners. Addressing a gap in literature about female inmates in South Asia and Pakistan this volume is ideal for researchers in feminist criminology, women’s studies, prisoners psychology, and for law enforcement agencies.

Free Download Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality by Josie Cox
English | April 5th, 2024 | ISBN: 1419762982 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 4.30 MB
In Women Money Power, financial journalist Josie Cox tells the compelling story of women’s fight for financial freedom, the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality―​and the work that remains to be done.

Free Download Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hindi Cinema: Looking through their Gaze
by Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031102312 | 330 Pages | True PDF | 5.68 MB

Free Download Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy By Melvin Konner
2015 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0393239969 | EPUB | 1 MB
A lively, richly informed argument for the natural superiority of women from the acclaimed author of The Tangled Wing.There is a human genetic fluke that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of chromosomes. In the normal condition the two look the same, but in this disorder one is malformed and shrunken beyond recognition. The result is a shortened life span, higher mortality at all ages, an inability to reproduce, premature hair loss, and brain defects variously resulting in attention deficit, hyperactivity, conduct disorder, hypersexuality, and an enormous excess of both outward and self-directed aggression.It is called maleness.In Women After All, Melvin Konner traces the arc of evolution to explain the relationships between women and men. With patience and wit he explores the knotty question of whether men are necessary in the biological destiny of the human race. He draws on multiple, colorful examples from the natural world―such as the mating habits of the octopus, black widow, angler fish, and jacana―and argues that maleness in humans is hardly necessary to the survival of the species.In characteristically humorous and engaging prose, Konner sheds light on our biologically different identities, while noting the poignant exceptions that challenge the male/female divide. We meet hunter-gatherers such as those in Botswana, whose culture gave women a prominent place, invented the working mother, and respected women’s voices around the fire. Recent human history has upset this balance, as a dense world of war fostered extreme male dominance. But our species has been recovering over the past two centuries, and an unstoppable move toward equality is afoot. It will not be the end of men, but it will be the end of male supremacy and a better, wiser world for women and men alike. Provocative and richly informed, Women After All is bound to be controversial across the sexes.

Free Download Wings of Gold: The Story of the First Women Naval Aviators by Beverly Weintraub
English | December 15, 2021 | ISBN: 1493055119 | 304 pages | PDF | 7.58 Mb
On Feb. 2, 2019, the skies over Maynardville, Tennessee, filled with the roar of four F/A-18F Super Hornets streaking overhead in close formation. In each aircraft were two young female flyers, executing the first all-woman Missing Man Formation flyover in Navy history in memory of Captain Rosemary Mariner – groundbreaking Navy jet pilot, inspiring commander, determined and dedicated leader – whose drive to ensure the United States military had its choice of the best America had to offer, both men and women, broke down barriers and opened doors for female aviators wanting to serve their country.