Women category: 49097 books
You've Come A Long Way, Baby
Women, Politics, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
The landmark 2008 presidential and vice presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin brought the role of women in American leadership into sharper focus than ever before. These women and others such as Nancy Pelosi and Katie Couric who are successful in traditionally male-dominated fields,...
by Maria Shriver
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
When we look back over the 20th century and try to understand what's happened to workers and their families and the challenges they now face, the movement of women out of the home and into paid employment stands out as a unique and powerful transformation. At one level, everything has changed. And...
What Works for Women at Work
Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Up-beat, pragmatic, and chock full of advice, What Works for Women at Work is an indispensable guide for working women.
An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan...
by Deborah L. Rhode
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
For most of recorded history, men have held nearly all of the most powerful leadership positions. Today, although women occupy an increasing percentage of leadership positions, in America they hold less than a fifth of positions in both the public and private sectors. The United States ranks 78th...
The Internet of Women
Accelerating Culture Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Female scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians worldwide are making historic contributions to their fields. The modern workforce is closer to gender-equal than it has ever been, and many efforts are in place to support further progress. The Internet of Women provides an exciting look...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Collection
The Yellow Wallpaper, Herland and The Man-Made World
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Fans of feminist trailblazer Charlotte Perkins Gilman are in for a treat. Gathered in this volume are three of Gilman's most famous works:
The Yellow Wallpaper
This short story is one of the most popular pre-1923 texts in the English language, ranking third only to The Bible and Shakespeare...
Women's Work
A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
While most women’s studies texts function “topically” as “readings” for courses and general use, Women’s Work: A Survey of Scholarship By and About Women takes a broad spectrum of women’s disciplines--psychological, artistic, religious, and philosophical--and gives you a diverse, interdisciplinary...
Jesus, Jobs, and Justice
African American Women and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
“The Negroes must have Jesus, Jobs, and Justice,” declared Nannie Helen Burroughs, a nationally known figure among black and white leaders and an architect of the Woman’s Convention of the National Baptist Convention. Burroughs made this statement about the black women’s agenda in 1958, as...
Women of the Republic
Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Women and Leadership around the World is the third volume in a new series of books (Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice) that will is now being published to inform leadership scholars and practitioners. The purpose of this volume is to explore areas of women’s leadership in four...
Gender, Media, and Organization
Challenging Mis(s)Representations of Women Leaders and Managers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Gender, Media, and Organization: Challenging Mis(s)Representations of Women Leaders and Managers is the fourth volume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice series. This cross?disciplinary series from the International Leadership Association draws from current research findings,...
Women of Vision
Their Psychology, Circumstances, and Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2007
From the reviews:
"Women of Vision blends biographical narrative with psychological perspectives on human development, resulting in a moving and passionate book that is suitable for both academic and nonacademic readers. It is a useful tool for teaching purposes or for simple, enjoyable,...
Ladies, Women, and Wenches
Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston and Boston
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Pursuing the meaning of gender in nineteenth-century urban American society, Ladies, Women, and Wenches compares the lives of women living in two distinctive antebellum cultures, Charleston and Boston, between 1820 and 1850. In contrast to most contemporary histories of women, this study examines...
Women and Media in the Middle East
Power Through Self-expression
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
Are women benefiting from current changes in the Middle East media? With media all over the world still marginalizing women and trivializing gender inequalities, how does the situation in the Middle East compare? Proliferating satellite channels have increased women's visibility in the region but...