Women category: 49097 books
Signatures of Citizenship
Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
In this comprehensive history of women's antislavery petitions addressed to Congress, Susan Zaeske argues that by petitioning, women not only contributed significantly to the movement to abolish slavery but also made important strides toward securing their own rights and transforming their own political...
Bargaining for Women's Rights
Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Gender relations in Muslim-majority countries have been subject to intense debate in recent decades. In some cases, Muslim women have fought for and won new rights to political participation, reproductive health, and education. In others, their agendas have been stymied. Yet missing from this discussion,...
Our Pictures, Our Words
A Visual Journey Through the Women's Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Vibrant, dynamic, spirited and forceful. The contemporary women’s movement in India, which began in the late 1970s protested against the dark times, the violence and the misogyny. It also colourfully celebrated liberation, solidarity among women and breaking the shackles of patriarchy. It sang, performed...
Discounted Labour
Women Workers in Canada, 1870-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
The years between 1870 and 1939 were a crucial period in the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada, as well as a time when many women joined the paid workforce. Yet despite the increase in employment, women faced a difficult struggle in gaining fair remuneration for their work and in gaining access...
Without Child
Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
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...
Changing the Game
Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
The growth of Las Vegas that began in the 1940s brought an influx of both women and men looking to work in the expanding hotel and casino industries. In fact, for the next fifty years the proportion of women in the labor force was greater in Las Vegas than the United States as a whole. Joanne L. Goodwin’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
In Spain, the two hundred years that elapsed between the beginning of the early modern period and the final years of the Habsburg Empire saw a profusion of works written by women. Whether secular or religious, noble or middle class, early modern Spanish women actively composed creative works such...
Lifting a Ton of Feathers
A Woman's Guide to Surviving in the Academic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Lifting a Ton of Feathers is not only a survival guide, it is also a destroyer of academic myths about women's career chances in the university, and a revelation of the catch-22 positions in which women find themselves. Caplan demonstrates that while many women believe that when they fail it is their...
by John Shufeldt
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
While many of us can quickly name five top-achieving men of our time, many of our forefathers, and a glut of masculine trail blazers, the gap certainly exists between the presence of accomplished, world-changing career women, and the availability of books which represent their powerful voice and life...
Women in the Club
Gender and Policy Making in the Senate
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, Democrats and Republicans were locked in a fierce battle for the female vote. Democrats charged Republicans with waging a “war on women,” while Republicans countered that Democratic policies actually undermined women’s rights. The women of the...
Women and Exercise
The Body, Health and Consumerism
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Exercise for women is a heavily-laden social and embodied experience. While exercise promotion has become an increasingly visible part of health campaigns, obesity among women is rising, and studies indicate that women are generally less physically active than men. Women’s (lack of) exercise, therefore,...
Women of Steel
Female Bodybuilders and the Struggle for Self-Definition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
"A lot of people in the general public think female bodybuilding is gross and freaky . . . that that's not what a woman is supposed to look like." So says Michelle, a national bodybuilding judge. In fact, athletic women, especially those in sports where strength, muscle, and sweat feature...
by Charles J. Esdaile
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808–14, women are well represented—both as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims, whether of starvation or of French brutality. In history, however, with its focus on high politics and military operations, they are invisible—a...
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by June Melby Benowitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This second edition of Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion provides updated and expanded information from historians and other scholars of religion, covering new issues in religion to better describe and document women's roles within religious groups. For instance, the term "evangelical...