Multicultural and Gender Studies eBooks
The Kama Sutra
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by VatsyayanaThis book has had centuries of influence in the East and in the West.The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu[1][2] text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vātsyāyana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse.[3] It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses. "Kāma" which is...
The Man Made World
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Charlotte Perkins GilmanLarge Format for easy reading. A feminist classic which asserts female independance, that women should fully use their abilities for the benefit of society and for their own satisfaction.
The Mattering Map: A New Model for 21 Century Psychology
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Ellyn Kaschak, Ph.D.From the best-selling author of Engendered Lives, this groundbreaking article describes and elaborates upon the theoretical model of the Mattering Map. This model organizes the principles of contextual therapy in a manner that honors the complexity, multiplicity and morphing of the energetic field of mattering. The mattering map is more intimately related to 21st century physics, neuroscience...
The modern woman's rights movement; a historical survey
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Kathe Schirmacher (member of the right wing party)German-born Käthe Schirmacher studied at the Sorbonne, worked for a time in England, and earned a doctorate in Zürich. She traveled around Europe delivering lectures on various aspects of German culture and women's issues. She co-founded the Association of Progressive Women's Groups and the World Association for Women Suffrage in 1904. During World War I, her politics shifted rightward; after...
The physiology of marriage 1
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Honoré de Balzac..This is an odd work. George Saintsbury comments that “The Physiology of Marriage” and its companion piece “Petty Troubles of Married Life” “belong quite apart from the action of the “Comedie Humaine”, and can only be included therein by virtue of a special dispensation on the part of their author.” Saintsbury goes on to call them “grim, almost sardonic essays”. He also...
The physiology of marriage 2
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Honoré de Balzac..Balzac begins by stating that marriage is not an institution of nature and observing that marriage operates differently in different societies. These comments were made by someone in the presence of Napoleon, and Bazac says they made a ‘profound impression upon the author of this book.” Balzac seems centered on the issues of ADULTERY, which I capitalize as he does in his text. He claims that...
The rights of women and sexual relations
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Karl HeinzenHeinzen stood almost alone in the German-language press in his advocacy of women's rights. German papers occasionally noted feminist lectures of Mathilde Franziska Anneke, but aside from the Neue Zeit of St. Louis (George Schneider's short-lived paper) and Heinzen's Pionier, most German-language newspapers condemned the movement. Forty-Eighters like Reinhold Solger, Christian Esselen and...
The rights of women; a comparative study...
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Moīseĭ I͡Akovlevīch Ostrogorskiĭ, (1845- 1893)How did people see women´s rights in the middle of the 19th Century? What was the argument for them? Is it the same as what we today perceive to be as the political subjugation of women? This book is a gem of facts and interpretations about the source of women´s oppression.
The Second Sex
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Simone de BeauvoirThe Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe, June 1949) is one of the best-known works of the French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir. It is a work on the treatment of women throughout history and often regarded as a major work of feminist philosophy and the starting point of second-wave feminism. Beauvoir researched and wrote the book in about 14 months. She published it in two volumes and some...
The Suffragists: From Tea-Parties to Prison
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Sylvie Grace Thompson ThygesonThe Suffragists Oral History Project was designed to tape record interviews with the leaders of the woman's suffrage movement in order to document their activities in behalf of passage of the Nineteenth Amendment and their continuing careers as leaders of movements for welfare and labor reform, world peace, and the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Because the existing documentation of the...
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