Women category: 49097 books
50 Ways to Improve Women's Lives
The Essential Women's Guide for Achieving Equality, Health, and Success
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
A powerful new call-to-action series was launched with the New York Times bestselling MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country. The second book in the series, 50 Ways to Improve Women's Lives, written by nationally recognized women, is poised to again become an instrument for change and reinvigorate...
by Anne E. Kornblut
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
In the presidential election of 2008 America seemed ready to elevate a woman to the presidency or vice presidency and—with Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin—was on the verge of actually doing so. Words like inevitable and phenomenon were in the air and the political and cultural stars seemed to...
by Bonnie J. Morris, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Women’s History For Beginners offers a lively, revealing, and provocative overview of this important (and controversial) academic field. Who are the great women of history, and why don’t we know more about them? You don’t need to be a scholar to notice that men’s history dominates everything...
The Bold and the Brave
A History of Women in Science and Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
The Bold and the Brave investigates how women have striven throughout history to gain access to education and careers in science and engineering. Author Monique Frize, herself an engineer for over 40 years, introduces the reader to key concepts and debates that contextualize the obstacles women have...
by The Royal Women's Hospital
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The Women's Health Book: An Introduction
As a woman, looking after your health is the most important step you can take towards creating a healthy, happy family and a thriving community. But in today's busy world, with so many demands on your time, it's not always easy to find information you...
Motherhood, Rescheduled
The New Frontier of Egg Freezing and the Women Who Tried It
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
What would happen if we could stop time? A fascinating, inside look at five women who had their eggs frozen reveals what it’s like for them to be free of the constant ticking of their biological clocks.
How would you live your life if you could stop your biological clock? If you could be...
Doing Harm
The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Editor of the award-winning site Feministing.com, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women...
Her Share of the Blessings
Women's Religions among Pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Greco-Roman World
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 1994
In this pathbreaking volume, Ross Shepard Kraemer provides the first comprehensive look at women's religions in Greco-Roman antiquity. She vividly recreates the religious lives of early Christian, Jewish, and pagan women, with many fascinating examples: Greek women's devotion to goddesses, rites of...
Muslim Women Activists in North America
Speaking for Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
In the eyes of many Westerners, Muslim women are hidden behind a veil of negative stereotypes that portray them as either oppressed, subservient wives and daughters or, more recently, as potential terrorists. Yet many Muslim women defy these stereotypes by taking active roles in their families and...
by Marylynn Salmon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In this first comprehensive study of women's property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on women's lives. By focusing on such areas such as conveyancing, contracts, divorce, separate estates, and widows' provisions, Salmon presents a full picture...
Women, Men, and Spiritual Power
Female Saints and Their Male Collaborators
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2006
In Women, Men, and Spiritual Power, John Coakley explores male-authored narratives of the lives of Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Angela of Foligno, and six other female prophets or mystics of the late Middle Ages. His readings reveal the complex personal and literary relationships between...
Breaking into Baseball
Women and the National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
While baseball is traditionally perceived as a game to be played, enjoyed, and reported from a masculine perspective, it has long been beloved among women— more so than any other spectator sport. Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime upends baseball’ s accepted history to at last...
Tainted Witness
Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed by conservatives and Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. The tainting of Hill and her testimony...
Fabricating Women
The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2001
Winner of the 2002 Berkshire Prize, presented by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
Fabricating Women examines the social institution of the seamstresses’ guild in France from the time of Louis XIV to the Revolution. In contrast with previous scholarship on women and gender in the...