Women category: 49097 books
Counseling Women Across the Life Span
Empowerment, Advocacy, and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
"Dr. Jill Schwarz' Counseling Women Across the Lifespan is tailor made for gender-specific counseling courses. This text is highly accessible and comprehensive, and includes specific learning objectives, state-of-the-art research, and questions for student reflection and discussion. Importantly, each...
Spinsters and Lesbians
Independent Womanhood in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Americans have long held fast to a rigid definition of womanhood, revolving around husband, home, and children. Women who rebelled against this definition and carved out independent lives for themselves have often been rendered invisible in U.S. history.In this unusual comparative study, Trisha Franzen...
by Dr Mary Spongberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2002
The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times.This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming...
Women and Elective Office
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005
Since the publication of the first edition of this book, former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun's campaign for the presidency in 2004 and the widespread discussion of a run in 2008 by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton have significantly raised the profile of women on the national political stage. At...
by Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Phyllis Chesler
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Feminist Foremothers in Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health is by and about the more recent wave of feminist foremothers; those who were awakened in the 1960s and ’70s to the realization that something was terribly wrong. These are the women who created the fields of feminist therapy,...
Righting Feminism
Conservative Women and American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
When we think of women's activism in America, figures such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan invariably come to mind--those liberal doyennes who have fought for years to chip away at patriarchy and achieve gender equality. But women's interests are not synonymous with organizations like NOW anymore....
Doing Women's Studies
Employment Opportunities, Personal Impacts and Social Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
With the expansion of the EU in 2004 and its inclusion now of 25 European countries, the movement of workers across the Continent will affect the employment opportunities of women. But as this up-to-date investigation across nine countries shows, there remain significant differences amongst specific...
Refugee Women
Beyond Gender versus Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called ‘sharia-tribunals’, Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question – does accommodating Islam violate women’s rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate....
The Wealth of Wives
Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2007
London became an international center for import and export trade in the late Middle Ages. The export of wool, the development of luxury crafts and the redistribution of goods from the continent made London one of the leading commercial cities of Europe. While capital for these ventures came from...
Revising Herself
The Story of Women's Identity from College to Midlife
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 1998
In 1972, Ruthellen Josselson was a young psychologist fascinated by the riddle of how a woman creates an identity and chooses one path over another in life--particularly in the face of the nascent feminist movement, which challenged as never before the traditional role models of earlier generations....
Women's Human Rights
A Social Psychological Perspective on Resistance, Liberation, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
At a United Nations conference in 1995, 189 governments adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, an international agenda for women's equality and a statement of women's rights as human rights. Since that time, violations of women's human rights have become a widely-documented problem across many academic...
Women's Lives
A Psychological Exploration, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This cutting-edge and comprehensive fourth edition of Women’s Lives: A Psychological Perspective integrates the most current research and social issues to explore the psychological diversity of girls and women varying in age, ethnicity, social class, nationality, sexual orientation, and ableness....
The Wisdom Trail
In the Footsteps of Remarkable Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
An invitation to eavesdrop on a remarkable group of women who in their eighth and ninth decades reflect with candor and insight on the common threads in their well-lived lives
The Wisdom Trail follows the life trajectories of extraordinary women, now in their seventies and eighties, who share...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Women as Global Leaders is the second volume in the new Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice book series published for the International Leadership Association by IAP. Global leadership is an emerging area of research, with only a small but growing published literature base. More specifically,...