Women category: 49097 books
Unruly Women
The Politics of Confinement & Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Winner of the VanCity Book Prize, Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about women’s imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get them there....
Governing Women
Women’s Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s...
by Wendy Brown, Robyn Wiegman, Gayle Salamon
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
At many universities, women’s studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments. Yet, as Joan Wallach Scott notes in her introduction to this collection, in the wake of its institutional successes, women’s...
Women through Women's Eyes
Latin American Women in 19th Century Travel Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where a new political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Such expeditions resulted in numerous travel accounts, most by men. However, because this period was a time of significant change...
Women in the Classical World : Image and Text
Image and Text
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1994
Information about women is scattered throughout the fragmented mosaic of ancient history: the vivid poetry of Sappho survived antiquity on remnants of damaged papyrus; the inscription on a beautiful fourth century B.C.E. grave praises the virtues of Mnesarete an Athenian woman who died young; a great...
Half Sisters of History
Southern Women and the American Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 1994
Long relegated to the margins of historical research, the history of women in the American South has rightfully gained prominence as a distinguished discipline. A comprehensive and much-needed tribute to southern women’s history, Half Sisters of History brings together the most important work in...
by Evelyn R Rosenthal
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Here is a unique text that examines the lives of middle-aged and old women. Women, Aging and Ageism, in response to the lack of literature that focuses on aging women, presents timely and definitive research that illustrates the implications of ageism and sexism. This landmark volume challenges powerful...
by Teresa Anne Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and the young American republic. Early women's histories had criticized the economic practices, intellectual...
Black Women against the Land Grab
The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, black women, especially poor black women, are rarely considered leaders of social movements let alone political theorists. But in the northeastern city of Salvador, Brazil, it is these very women who determine how urban policies are established. Focusing...
North Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women—women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American...
Arkansas Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Following in the tradition of the Southern Women series, Arkansas Women highlights prominent Arkansas women, exploring women’s experiences across time and space from the state’s earliest frontier years to the late twentieth century. In doing so, this collection of fifteen biographical essays productively...
Women Still at Work
Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
From Betty White to Toni Morrison, we’re surrounded by examples of women working well past the traditional retirement age. In fact, the fastest growing segment of the workforce is women age sixty-five and older. Women Still at Work tells the everyday stories of hard-working women and the reasons...
Women in Palestine
The role of women in politics, society and economic development
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The empowerment of women - socially, culturally, economically and politically, is one of the fundamental keys to achieving development in addition to education. Palestine has been doing great in raising a well-educated population. The participation of Palestinian women in educational institutions...
Lady Driver
Stories of Women Behind the Wheel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
In 2008, when the Azad Foundation, an NGO based in Delhi, began training women to become drivers of commercial and private vehicles, most people thought they were somewhat out of touch with reality. Poor, illiterate women, many of them from violent homes, some of them single mothers, others from families...