Women category: 49097 books
Black Women and Breast Cancer
A Cultural Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Christian theology at its core is a story about someone being in trouble. In response to this trouble, the triune God intervenes. God identifies with those in trouble, walking with them through the experience. Yet, the God of Christian theology goes a step further. God prevails over trouble. God is...
by Edited by Cynthia Barrow-Giles
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Historically, women have been under-represented in politics. Patriarchal political parties, debilitating customs and discriminatory selection processes, and obstructionist attitudes have generally contributed to the inability of women to enter mainstream political life in a significant way. In Women...
Rural Women's Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy
A Critical Perspective on Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Based on twenty-five years of fieldwork, Rural Women’s Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Illiteracy: A Critical Perspective on Development examines rural women’s behaviors towards health in several developing countries. These women are confronted with many factors: gender inequalities, violence...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
On January 24, 2013, restrictions against women in ground combat units, to include U.S. Army Special Forces (SF), were rescinded by the Department of Defense. The military services...
A Force Such as the World Has Never Known
Women Creating Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
A Force Such as the World Has Never Known: Women Creating Change is a unique collection of narratives from women from all around the globe. These are stories of compassion and bravery, empowered by the vision of a better world for all life. It emphasizes the need to empower the feminine and assure...
We Are Afghan Women
Voices of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
“Inspiring stories that not only capture the suffering of Afghan women, but also show their tremendous courage and resilience and the contribution they are making to build a better future for Afghanistan” (Hillary Rodham Clinton).
Told in their own voices, the moving, courageous, and personal...
Struggle and Suffrage in Leeds
Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The story of Leeds is bound up in the stories of its women workers. But what were conditions like for ordinary women, and how did their lives change in the hundred years between 1850 and 1950? Who were the women who toiled in the mills, factories and sweatshops that transformed the city’s landscape?...
Women's Best Friendships
Beyond Betty, Veronica, Thelma, and Louise
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Explore the distinct relationships of close female friends!
Women’s Best Friendships: Beyond Betty, Veronica, Thelma, and Louise gives new and comprehensive insight into the complex world of women’s closest friendships. Recent studies have shown that women place enormous value on best friendships...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This expansive survey spotlights pervasive issues affecting girls’ and women’s sexual and reproductive health across the lifecourse. Research from diverse countries around the world analyzes the complex relationships among biological, psychological, sociocultural, and economic issues—particularly...
LITTLE WOMEN
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo,...
Boss Lady
How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Too often, depictions of women's rise in corporate America leave out the first generation of breakthrough women entrepreneurs. Here, Edith Sparks restores the careers of three pioneering businesswomen--Tillie Lewis (founder of Flotill Products), Olive Ann Beech (cofounder of Beech Aircraft), and Margaret...
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
HERLAND is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination.
The story is told from the perspective...
by Miriam Toews
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
National Bestseller
“This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale.” --Margaret Atwood, on Twitter**
"Scorching . . . Women Talking is a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions...
Rad Women Worldwide
Artists and Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other Revolutionaries Who Shaped History
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Educational and inspirational, this gift-worthy New York Times bestseller from the authors of Rad American Women A-Z, is a bold, illustrated collection of 40 biographical profiles showcasing extraordinary women from across the globe.
Rad Women Worldwide tells fresh, engaging, and amazing tales...