Women category: 49097 books
Work and Family Commitments of Low-Income and Impoverished Women
Guilt Is for Mothers with Good Jobs
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Conflict between work and family life is an all too familiar experience for many Americans. The difficult choices facing women who combine paid work with childcare are the subject of a deluge of books and articles in addition to an ongoing public debate about how women and men should balance their...
Women on Women
Indian Women Writers' Perspectives on Women
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Women's writing has become the focus of academic discourse in present times. There are books on women in Indian English literature and there are books on Indian literature in translation but there is not yet a book that foregrounds Women in Indian writing by women. I take this approach because I feel...
by Maria Newfield
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
40% of 9-10 year old girls have tried to lose weight, 78% of 17 year old girls are unhappy with their bodies, and 37% of the articles in teen magazines for girls are focused on their appearance. Maria Newfield, a woman who beat her own body image-related demons, publishes a book teaching radical self-acceptance...
Women and Law
Critical Feminist Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
How should we approach the problem of “women and law”? Should the focus be on women-centred laws and their efficacy? Or should the focus be, instead, on the ways in which the law imagines women and the ways in which women have engaged with the law—spilling beyond fields traditionally associated...
by Laura Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Women in New Religions offers an engaging look at women’s evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religions—Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca—to illuminate their implications for gender socialization,...
Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State
Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
"Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State" reflects the commitment of the United Nations to promote mechanisms that aim to achieve equality between women and men. It identifies institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women including national machineries as one of twelve critical...
Working Women
Stories of Strife, Struggle and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
This book contains narratives pertaining to the challenges, struggles and success stories of women in the workplace who come from diverse cultures and social backgrounds. The essays discuss the struggles of women who were marginalised but who fought for recognition, dignity, and respect in their workplaces...
Women in Wonderland
Lives, Legends and Legacies of Yellowstone National Park
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
“Betsy Watry tells the tales of a dozen women, some of whom had short-lived adventures in Yellowstone National Park, but most of whom spent decades as rangers, scientists, interpreters, and entrepreneurs, shaping the Park’s physical and cultural landscape. This is a wonderful ‘hidden’ history,...
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Studies and Thoughts)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist,...
Ingredients of Outliers: Women Game Changers
Outlier Series, #3
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 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...
by A. J. White
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
There’s a new power broker in town: The person with the money, control, and wisdomto change the world! She is a member of a powerful group—a most powerful group that has been invisible to the world—until now.She is one of The Bloomers! She is the woman over 50 who has the capability ofchanging...
Transforming the Public Sphere
The Dutch National Exhibition of Women’s Labor in 1898
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2004
In 1898, the year Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was inaugurated, five hundred women organized an enormous public exhibition showcasing women’s contributions to Dutch society as workers in a strikingly broad array of professions. The National Exhibition of Women’s Labor, held in The Hague,...
by Carol Vinson Lea
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This book is designed to help women discover and rediscover the confidence Almighty God has placed inside each one of us.
Confident Women Designed by Almighty God is a Bible study highly recommended for women who want to increase their self-esteem and confidence by following the path God ordained...
by Jai Shankar Prasad
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Gender is now considered not a biological but a social construct. Women have been oppressed, suppressed, marginalized or rather colonized by men since ages. Violence against women should be viewed as a human right violation and a crime, detrimental to the development of women and the society. Human...