Women category: 49097 books
Laboring Women
Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World...
Fast Fat Burning For Busy Women - Exercises To Sculpt A Leaner, Healthier, Sexier You
Fit Expert Series, #7
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Fast Fat Burning for Busy Women is the perfect book for any woman who wants to shed those extra pounds of weight. The information provided is a no fluff look at ways to burn fat fast and efficiently even when you are at rest!
With the correct use of interval training burning fat can be achieved...
Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development
From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths, edited by Elesha L. Ruminski and Annette M. Holba, intertwines the disciplines of communication studies, leadership studies, and women's studies to offer theoretical and practical reflection...
The War on Women in Israel
A Story of Religious Radicalism and the Women Fighting for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
THIS EYE-OPENING LOOK AT THE RISING OPPRESSION OF ISRAELI WOMEN OFFERS A RALLYING CRY FOR HOW WOMEN EVERYWHERE CAN FIGHT BACK.
ACROSS ISRAEL-one of the world's most democratic countries-women are being threatened and abused as ultra-Orthodox Jewish factions seek to suppress them. In this stunning...
Junctures in Women's Leadership
Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
From Eleanor Roosevelt to feminist icon Gloria Steinem to HIV/AIDS activist Dazon Dixon Diallo, women have assumed leadership roles in struggles for social justice. How did these remarkable women ascend to positions of influence? And once in power, what...
Literary Crossroads
An International Exploration of Women, Gender, and Otherhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This book explores the different ways women have been liberating themselves from the shackles of patriarchy and cultural laws that inhibit their independence and freedom to show that women are also contributing meaningfully to society. Women have worked to attain freedom through speaking out, writing...
Women in the Middle East
Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, Women in the Middle East is a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. Nikki Keddie shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate to the diversity...
by Christine Oneto
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
Since I first began my work on the concept for One Woman's Voice, much has changed in the current landscape and outlook for the rights of women and girls, here in 2013 -- changed for the better! In 2008, a woman was almost selected to be a presidential contender. She was later elevated to U.S....
Women Warriors
An Unexpected History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Who says women don’t go to war? From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor.
The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly—Joan of Arc, not GI Jane. But women, it turns...
Inequalities of Love
College-Educated Black Women and the Barriers to Romance and Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Inequalities of Love uses the personal narratives of college-educated black women to describe the difficulties they face when trying to date, marry, and have children. While conventional wisdom suggests that all women, regardless of race, must sacrifice romance and family for advanced educations and...
A Woman's Place Is in the House
Campaigning for Congress in the Feminist Era
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
In this first comprehensive examination of women candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives, Barbara Burrell argues that women are as successful at winning elections as men. Why, then, are there still so few women members of Congress? Compared to other democratically elected national parliaments,...
More Women Can Run
Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Women remain dramatically underrepresented in elective office, including in entry-level political offices. While they enjoy the freedom to stand for office and therefore have an equal legal footing with men, this persistent gender imbalance raises pressing questions about democratic legitimacy, the...
The Hormone Myth
How Junk Science, Gender Politics, and Lies about PMS Keep Women Down
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
**“**The Hormone Myth is a bracing, accurate breath of fresh air. It turns conventional wisdom about hormones on its head, and provides a far more liberating view of women’s health than what we’ve all been taught.”
—**Christiane Northrup, MD, author of **Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
“Is...
Quaker Women
Personal Life, Memory and Radicalism in the Lives of Women Friends, 1780–1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
One nineteenth-century commentator noted the ‘public’ character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history. This study examines such claims through the story of middle-class women Friends from among the kinship circle created by the marriage in 1839 of Elizabeth Priestman and the...