This article shows the diversity of African American women’s life experiences through the study of the life narratives of seven women who belonged to different social milieus, had distinct regional identities and dissimilar occupations. Drawing on their correspondence, diaries, and autobiographies,...

We compare the association between educational attainment and housework participation among single and married women in Japan and the US. Using the cross-sectional time-use diaries from the 2006 American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and the 2006 Japanese Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities (STULA) a...

This paper discusses the change in women’s mentality towards the concept of war and their own role in it according to autobiographical sources such as was journals, diaries, letters or autobiographical novels authored by women who were present at the front during the Great War. The primary sources q...

The study of the stories of Canadian and French travellers of the 19th century can be surprising if one considers that the traditional image of the woman of that time is closely associated with a domestic role implying seden- tarism. However, personal newspapers, correspondence, journals and other t...

This work aims to explain, from a gender perspective, reading practices of women in the early19th century France. Until now, the way French women read in those days and their own usesof reading, behind stereotypes and sexist representations, are not really known in culturalhistory. According to thes...

Chick-lit has been subjected to accusations that it is too “realistic“, that the women who write autobiographical works about homely matters such as motherhood, relationship issues and family problems forget the fundamental imperative of writing fiction, “making stuff up“. It is to be found on the g...

In this paper, in commemoration of the seventieth anniversary year of 1944 in Hungary, I explore selected women’s Holocaust diaries, memoirs, letters, and other less studied documents, such as recipe books, all written during the war, which can provide invaluable resources for understanding the expe...

Traditionally, reading newspapers was typically considered a male practice. The reasons usually referred to content, not appropriate or outside the sphere of women’s interests (see g., political or economics). Women’s access to information therefore often took place through secondary and informal so...

This article shows the diversity of African American women’s life experiences through the study of the life narratives of seven women who belonged to different social milieus, had distinct regional identities and dissimilar occupations. Drawing on their correspondence, diaries, and autobiographies,...

This work aims to explain, from a gender perspective, reading practices of women in the early 19th century France. Until now, the way French women read in those days and their own uses of reading, behind stereotypes and sexist representations, are not really known in cultural history. According to t...

In a culture of women’s resignation and submission, the rural environment still contributes to alienation, with few spaces for reflection on the mechanisms of oppression that go through women’s lives. This objective study investigates the potential of institutional support as a facilitator of proces...

Article refers to publication of series of letters which had been written from mental health hospital in Pirna by Anna Moszyńska to her husband, children and friends in 1850. The publication is supplemented by personal diaries, Piotr Moszyński’s letters to his wife and doctors documentation. It w...

This text analyses how fighting and negotiating for feminities’ meanings produce geopolitical borders, specifically in Tijuana, Mexico. To this end, this study is based on a narrative analysis of local newspapers on abortion, sexuality and reproduction, placing it in the context of social movements...

In this article, a follow-up of her 2014 contribution in this journal on Hungarian women’s Holocaust diaries, Vasvári discusses six war diaries from 1944-45, which until recently lay forgotten in archives or in private hands. Two of the diaries are by Jewish victims, Anna, Mrs. Sándor Devényi (refer...

This article provides an analysis of those lexies that we consider to be most representative of the mono-parentality situations of a woman in the media discourse generated in Spain over the past three decades. To this end, we will use a specific corpus of texts extracted from four Spanish daily news...

The research on the place of women in history, feminism and gender is carried out in many countries of the world, now has a wide reach and is already characterised by an avalanche literary growth. Against this background, the article characterises research on the history of women on Polish soils in...

The increase in popularity of the Home Tour in the 19th century and the publication of many journals, diaries, and guides of tours of Scotland by, such as, Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, led to the perception of Scotland as a literary tour destination. The tour of Scotland invariably resulted in...

In this article I analyse the relationship between social movements of women, justice and the communication of new forms of corporate sexual crime in Argentina. The article focuses on a fundamental dimension of political life, the establishment of public authority in relation to respect for the syst...

The article presents the problem of the position of a rural child in traditional folk culture based on the memory of women. The choice of sources makes it possible to discover a women’s perspective in the description of the boys’ family. The author divides the memories about childhood, that is to sa...

Violence against women is a current and relevant topic. In order to deal with such a claim, professionals must therefore be empowered. In my view, this study seeks to reflect on how the process of training in this context for students graduating in Psychology at the University of Sorocaba has taken...