Multicultural and Gender Studies eBooks
Mary Wollstonecraft and the beginnings of sexual emancipation
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Jacob BoutenMary Wollstonecraft ( 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that...
Mrs. Warren's daughter; a story of the woman's movement
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Harry Hamilton JohnstonA sequel of Bernard Shaw´s play. Men who could afford to get married in the Victorian era could make use of “laws that gave him total control of his wife's person — and her fortune”. Victorian women were expected to maintain a poised and dignified manner, and to be obedient to their husbands' requests. The character Vivie defies the Victorian expectations of an obedient woman. She is...
Practicing Spanish based on comics - Condorito
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Diosdado CorralesThis material is intended to help advanced learners of Spanish in the practicing of the most popular structures based on the comic strip Condorito, which is a truly representation of the Latin American people and culture. This awesome funny bird was created by the Chilean cartoonist René Ríos. The truly Spanish language used in each of Condorito's editions reflects the every-day language...
Spanish Language Booklet - Level 1
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Diosdado CorralesThis Booklet is intended to help beginning learners of Spanish in their language acquisition. The explanations, videos, exercises, caption recordings and self-evaluation during the learning process are the most useful activities included in this material. The content of this booklet has the following practical aims: • to help learners to get the language skills based on the communicative...
The case for women's suffrage
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Brouhman VilliersWomen's suffrage or woman suffrage[1] is the right of women to vote and to run for office. The expression is also used for the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending these rights to women[2] and without any restrictions or qualifications such as property ownership, payment of tax, or marital status. The movement's modern origins can be attributed to late-18th century France...
The Construction of Latino Youth
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Jacobo SchifterWe have erronous assumptions of what Latin sexuality is all about and this is one of the major works on how Latinos are brought to have the particular ideas about sexuality that they have. Schifter analyses how Latin gender is a threat to human rights and how young people use gender to develop their ethical guidelines. The author develops Foucault´s ideas about sexual discourses and shows us...
The emancipation of women. Its probable consequences
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Adele CrepazFirst-wave feminism was a period of activity during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. In the U.K. and U.S., it focused on the promotion of equal contract, marriage, parenting, and property rights for women. By the end of the nineteenth century, activism focused primarily on gaining political power, particularly the right of women's suffrage, though some feminists were active in...
The Empire of the Nairs; Or, The Rights of Women
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by James LawrenceA masterpiece of utopian thought in the 18th Century. Utopian thought cast considerable light on ideas of property-holding, community, and social and political reform movements, including those for the extension of rights to slaves, women and animals. Much of the later programme of communitarian communism later associated with early socialism was outlined first in utopian form, and utopian...
The Englishwoman in America
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Isabella Lucy BirdDid you ever wonder what life was like in America pre-civil war? Isabella Bird is a young Englishwoman traveling in the north-eastern United States and Canada in the 1850s. The book is packed with information - every detail of life, traveling, education, industry, medicine, shopping, entertainment, etc. It is written almost textbook style - no character development - she barely mentions...
The excellency of the female character vindicated
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Thomas BranaganThomas Branagan was an Irish slave trader, privateer, and plantation overseer who, touched by Christ and American rhetoric, dedicated his life at the beginning of the nineteenth century to alleviating the physical and spiritual plight of the new nation's poor and unfortunate. During the early decades of the nineteenth century, he preached relentlessly against oppression and immorality and...
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