Women category: 49097 books
When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies
Freeing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
“Will empower all women to stop believing that our bodies are the problems, dieting the solution.”—Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author of The Dance of Anger
In this revolutionary new book, bestselling authors Carol Munter and Jane Hirschmann explore the myriad reasons why women cling to diets...
Botox Nation
Changing the Face of America
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
One of NPR's Best Books of 2017
The first in-depth social investigation into the development and rising popularity of Botox
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery estimates there are about two-and-a-half million Botox procedures performed annually, and that number continues...
Birth Strike
The Hidden Fight over Women's Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
When House Speaker Paul Ryan urged U.S. women to have more children, and Ross Douthat requested 'More babies, please,' they openly expressed what U.S. policymakers have been discussing for decades with greater discretion. Using technical language like 'age structure,' 'dependency ratio,' and 'entitlement...
Woman President
Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
What elements of American political and rhetorical culture block the imagining—and thus, the electing—of a woman as president? Examining both major-party and third-party campaigns by women, including the 2008 campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, the authors of Woman President: Confronting...
The Women's Pill Book
Your Complete Guide to Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medications
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Women are major consumers and highly proactive when it comes to attending to their health care. In the tradition of the mega-bestseller, THE PILL BOOK, comes a medication guide just for women—a book that addresses their needs, concerns, and questions about the plethora of prescription and over-the-counter...
Reading Like a Girl
Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
By examining the novels of critically and commercially successful authors such as Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You), Stephenie Meyer (the Twilight series), and Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak), Reading Like a Girl: Narrative Intimacy in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature explores the use of narrative...
by Clinton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Top short women's fiction from periodicals such as WOMEN'S WEEKLY, CLEO, WOMAN'S DAY, ARGOSY UK and ABC Books.There's 'The Sand Man' - an award-winning story about a crazily-in-love couple who build a huge sand man on the beach. What happens then will make you...
Married Women Who Love Women
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
This book is about women in heterosexual marriages who discover or come to terms with their lesbianism or bisexuality. It answers questions such as how women make this discovery, what they do once they realize their same-gender sexuality, how family and friends deal with the situation, and what happens...
by Philippa Levine
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
The second half of the nineteenth century saw in newly industrialized England the creation of a “domestic ideology” that drew a sharp line between domestic woman and public man. Though never the dominant reality, this demarcation of men’s and women’s spheres ordered people’s values and justified...
by Karen Truesdell Riehl
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
The Chester Writers Club of Chester, California, was established thirteen years ago by six women who met in a local community college writing class. They meet the last Thursday of each month at noon. Their ages range from 42 to 93. Each month a member is chosen to bring her latest writing sample to...
A Feeling of Belonging
Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, Filipina,...
The Repeating Body
Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Haunted by representations of black women that resist the reality of the body's vulnerability, Kimberly Juanita Brown traces slavery's afterlife in black women's literary and visual cultural productions. Brown draws on black feminist theory, visual culture studies, literary criticism, and critical...
by Maren Bradley Anderson, Elizabeth Beechwood, Taylor Buccello
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Not a Pipe Publishing is one of the only companies in the world to accept author Kamila Shamsie's challenge to only publish women during 2018, making it the Year of Publishing Women. This collection of the best short story submissions showcases the talent of 18 amazing writers across genres who all demonstrate the strength of their voices.
There Are Two Sexes
Essays in Feminology
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
Antoinette Fouque cofounded the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (MLF) in France in 1968 and spearheaded its celebrated Psychanalyse et Politique, a research group that informed the cultural and intellectual heart of French feminism. Rather than reject Freud's discoveries on the pretext of their...