Women category: 49097 books
Excellent Daughters
The Secret Lives of Young Women Who Are Transforming the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux. Only a generation ago, female adolescence as we know it in the West did not exist in the Middle East. There were only children...
Pearls, Politics, and Power
How Women Can Win and Lead
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Pearls, Politics, and Power is a call to action for new political engagement and leadership from the women of America. Informed by conversations with elected women leaders from all levels, former three-term Vermont Governor and Ambassador to Switzerland Madeleine M. Kunin asks: What difference do...
Answering the Call: Women in Action, Vol 1: Women in the World
Women In Action Vol 1: Women In The World, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
World news coverage in America is rare and coverage of women leaders in the world is even rarer. Most people are unaware that there are over 15 women currently serving as head of state, many more serving in top cabinet levels. Women all over the world continue to search for a political solution...
The New Soft War on Women
How the Myth of Female Ascendance Is Hurting Women, Men--and Our Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
For the first time in history, women make up half the educated labor force and are earning the majority of advanced degrees. It should be the best time ever for women, and yet... it’s not. Storm clouds are gathering, and the worst thing is that most women don’t have a clue what could be coming....
Pious and Rebellious
Jewish Women in Medieval Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of Jewish women in Europe during the High Middle Ages (1000–1300). Avraham Grossman covers multiple aspects of women’s lives in medieval Jewish society, including the image of woman, the structure...
by Malissa Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Records of modern female boxing date back to the early eighteenth century in London, and in the 1904 Olympics an exhibition bout between women was held. Yet it was not until the 2012 Olympics—more than 100 years later—that women’s boxing was officially added to the Games. Throughout boxing’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Women and Leadership in Higher Education is the first volume in a new series of books (Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice) that will be published in upcoming years to inform leadership scholars and practitioners. This book links theory, research, and practice of women’s leadership...
Fight Like a Girl
How to Be a Fearless Feminist
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
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Seely, the youngest elected president of California's chapter of the National Organization for Women, combines her own story of third-wave feminism with an overview of the feminist movement and words to guide others. Third-wave feminists are aware of both the victories won...
Challenging Images of Women in the Media
Reinventing Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
Challenging Images of Women and the Media: Reinventing Women’s Lives, edited by Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell, collects fifteen articles addressing the status of women through an examination of depictions of women in the media. This in-depth study shows how mixed messages from the media muddle...
Kickboxing Geishas
How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Forget the stereotypes. Today's Japanese women are shattering them -- breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. Shopping-crazed schoolgirls in Hello Kitty costumes and the Harajuku girls Gwen Stefani helped make so popular have grabbed the media's attention. But...
Women Art Critics in Nineteenth-Century France
Vanishing Acts
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Over the past years, studies have begun not only to identify the factors that impeded the full participation of women artists in French cultural life, such as women’s limited access to professional art education, but also to bring to light the considerable artistic accomplishments of women occluded...
Herbal Remedies for Women
Discover Nature's Wonderful Secrets Just for Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
More Women Choosing Herbal Alternatives
Now, more than ever before, women are taking control of their own health and vitality by choosing herbal remedies as an alternative to traditional medicine. Because every year there are new research findings that women and their health providers need to know...
For the Family?
How Class and Gender Shape Women's Work
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In the contentious debate about women and work, conventional wisdom holds that middle-class women can decide if they work, while working-class women need to work. Yet, even after the recent economic crisis, middle-class women are more likely to work than working-class women. Sarah Damaske deflates...
Women's Issues for a New Generation
A Social Work Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
How do you "hook" a Millennial student into caring about women's issues when feminism has been declared dead for decades? Written in an engaging style that promotes critical thinking, Women's Issues for a New Generation is intended for freshman- and sophomore-level undergraduates who have...