Women category: 49097 books
Women Lawyers
Rewriting the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
The very presence of women in the law—normal as it may seem to us today—signals revolutionary change in a social order that for centuries entrusted control over its rules to men. Mona Harrington examines both the problems women meet when they claim equal authority as rule makers, and the impact...
Women at the Margins
Neglect, Punishment, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
A compelling look at the crisis of disadvantaged women This powerful document takes a sobering look at the phenomenon of marginalized women pushed to the edges of society, holding on with the barest of hope and extraordinary bravery. Handicapped by the increasing societal inequality they face as an...
by Susan Ware
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In 1607, Powhatan teenager Pocahontas first encountered English settlers when John Smith was brought to her village as a captive. In 1920, the ratification of the 19th Amendment gave women the constitutional right to vote. And in 2012, the U.S. Marine Corps lifted its ban on women in active combat,...
Women and Politics
A Quest for Political Equality in an Age of Economic Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This textbook for courses on women and politics thematically integrates two profound historical developments focusing on women's political participation in contemporary public life in the United States. The second wave of women’s rights activism has now spanned a half century producing a revolution...
Women Escaping Violence
Empowerment through Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The statistics are alarming. Some say that once every nine minutes a woman in the United States is beaten by her spouse or partner. Others claim that once every four minutes a woman in the world is beaten by her spouse or partner. More women go to emergency rooms in the United States for injuries...
by Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Nancy C Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Discover the diverse ways aging women attempt to deal with the universal challenges of loss, sickness, and death along with the problems of being old women in a society that values women mainly as sexual partners or producers of children. Old women are often seen as poor, powerless, and pitiful in...
Answering the Call: Women in Action, Vol 2: Women in America
Women in Action, Vol 2: Women in America, #2
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
With all the information available about the benefits of inviting women into the boardroom, America barely shows an interest. In the rest of the world there are over 15 women sitting at the top of the organizational chart as world leaders. (See Answering the Call - Women in Action, Vol I: Leaders...
Women Lifers
Lives Before, Behind, and Beyond Bars
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2019
The number of women in United States prisons has increased dramatically since the 1980s, and has in proportion outpaced that of men’s incarceration. Despite these numbers, incarcerated women, and women lifers specifically, represent a relatively small percentage of the overall correctional and lifer...
Tidal Wave
How Women Changed America at Century's End
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Forty years ago few women worked, married women could not borrow money in their own names, schools imposed strict quotas on female applicants, and sexual harassment did not exist as a legal concept. Yet despite the enormous changes for women in America since 1960, and despite a blizzard of books that...
Body Sculpting Exercises for Women Over 40
Fit Expert Series, #5
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Body Sculpting Exercises for Women Over 40 is a 7 chapter, no fluff guide for any woman who wants to look and feel the best they can be.
As with all the, “Fit Expert Series” books this volume delves into the heart and soul of looking great at 40 and beyond.
As we get older our bodies...
Texas Women
Their Histories, Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives engages current scholarship on women in Texas, the South, and the United States. It provides insights into Texas’s singular geographic position, bordering on the West and sharing a unique history with Mexico, while analyzing the ways in which Texas stories...
No Excuses
9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think about Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
An invaluable guidebook, which contends that the most vexing problems facing women today isn't that doors of opportunity aren't open but that not enough women are walking through them
Feminist icon Gloria Feldt pulls no punches in this new book, which argues that the most confounding problem...
Occupied Women
Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In the spring of 1861, tens of thousands of young men formed military companies and offered to fight for their country. Near the end of the Civil War, nearly half of the adult male population of the North and a staggering 90 percent of eligible white males in the South had joined the military. With...
Trust Women
A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In an age in which women’s reproductive rights are increasingly under attack, a minister and ethicist offers a stirring argument that abortion can be a moral good
Here’s a fact that we often ignore: unplanned pregnancy and abortion are a normal part of women’s reproductive lives. Roughly...