Women category: 49097 books
by Jai Shankar Prasad
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
In India, the Dalits constitute over 16.6 per cent with little less than half being women, which means that 97.9 million Dalit women face multiple forms of discrimination in this country alone. Violence against Dalit women reinforces caste norms wherein they are seen as available for all forms of...
Man-Made Medicine
Women’s Health, Public Policy, and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
If not for the reproductive functions of women, would there be anything called women’s health care? A review of medical literature, practice, and policy in this country would suggest that the answer is no. Offering a startling view of the current state of health care for women in the United States...
Good and Mad
The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***
***BEST BOOKS OF 2018 SELECTION BY***
* WASHINGTON POST * People * NPR * ESQUIRE * ELLE * WIRED * REFINERY 29 *
“In a year when issues of gender and sexuality dominated the national conversation, no one shaped that exchange more than Rebecca Traister....
Founding Mothers
The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve...
Jewels of Allah
The Untold Story of Women in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
International Book Award in "Women’s Issues"
Eric Hoffer Award for "Best Culture Book"
Eric Hoffer Award for "Best Book Cover"
Eric Hoffer Award for "Best Debut Author"
Indie Book Award for "Historical Nonfiction"
Indie...
by Rachel Knowles
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Profiles of twelve trailblazing Regency Era women—from Jane Austen to Madame Tussaud—who took charge of their destinies and changed the world.
In the nineteenth century, women faced challenges and constraints that many of us would find shocking by today’s standards. What Regency Women Did...
America's Women
400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking,...
Tied Up in Knots
How Getting What We Wanted Made Women Miserable
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Fifty years after Betty Friedan unveiled The Feminine Mystique, relations between men and women in America have never been more dysfunctional. If women are more liberated than ever before, why aren't they happier? In this shocking, funny, and bluntly honest tour of today’s gender discontents,...
Pain Free for Women
The Revolutionary Program for Ending Chronic Pain
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
“Women today not only deserve but should expect a pain-free, active lifestyle, no matter their age, no matter their previous experience.”
Pain Free for Women
In his famed San Diego clinic, Pete Egoscue has taught women of all ages and from all walks of life how to use the Egoscue...
South Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world...
Selling Women's History
Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Only in recent decades has the American academic profession taken women’s history seriously. But the very concept of women’s history has a much longer past, one that’s intimately entwined with the development of American advertising and consumer culture.
Selling Women’s...
Without Child
Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Without Child challenges the stigma of childlessness by offering childless women the lifeaffirming story of themselves. Beginning with the difficult inner journey a woman faces before finally deciding or realizing she will not bear children, Without Child explores the myth of the childless woman's rejection...
The Trials of Nina McCall
Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
**The nearly forgotten story of the American Plan, a government program to regulate women’s bodies and sexuality—and how they fought back—told through the lens of one of its survivors
“A consistently surprising page-turner . . . a brilliant study of the way social anxieties have historically...
by Marie S. Molloy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South investigates the lives of unmarried white women—from the pre– to the post–Civil War South—within a society that placed high value on women’s marriage and motherhood. Marie S. Molloy examines female singleness to incorporate...