Women category: 49097 books
Made From This Earth
American Women and Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The broad sweep of environmental and ecological history has until now been written and understood in predominantly male terms. In Made From This Earth, Vera Norwood explores the relationship of women to the natural environment through the work of writers, illustrators, landscape and garden designers,...
Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband
Russian-American Internet Romance
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2007
In the American media, Russian mail-order brides are often portrayed either as docile victims or as gold diggers in search of money and green cards. Rarely are they allowed to speak for themselves. Until now. In Dreaming of a Mail-Order Husband, six Russian women who are in search of or have already...
Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text
Essays on Caribbean Women’s Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
While scholarship on Caribbean women’s literature has grown into an established discipline, there are not many studies explicitly connected to the maternal subject matter, and among them only a few book-length texts have focalized motherhood and maternity in writings by Caribbean women. Reading/Speaking/Writing...
Becoming Women
The Embodied Self in Image Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
In a culture where beauty is currency, women’s bodies are often perceived as measures of value and worth. The search for visibility and self-acceptance can be daunting, especially for those on the cultural margins of “beauty.”
Becoming Women offers a thoughtful examination of the search...
by Susan Moller Okin
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 1999
Polygamy, forced marriage, female genital mutilation, punishing women for being raped, differential access for men and women to health care and education, unequal rights of ownership, assembly, and political participation, unequal vulnerability to violence. These practices and conditions are standard...
Facing Age
Women Growing Older in Anti-Aging Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory...
by Nathaniel Cadle, Jody Cardinal, Laura Dawkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Modernist Women Writers and American Social Engagement explores the role of social and political engagement by women writers in the development of American modernism. Examining a diverse array of genres by both canonical modernists and underrepresented writers, this collection uncovers an obscured...
Battle Cries and Lullabies
Women in War from Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In this groundbreaking work, which covers thousands of years and spans the globe, Linda Grant De Pauw depicts women as victims and as warriors; as nurses, spies, sex workers, and wives and mothers of soldiers; as warrior queens leading armies into battle; and as baggage carriers marching in the rear.
Beginning...
Teaching Women's Studies in Conservative Contexts
Considering Perspectives for an Inclusive Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Women’s Studies is a field that inspires strong reactions, both positive and negative, inside and outside of the classroom. The field, partly due to its activist origins, is often associated with liberal ideology and is therefore chided by students and others who identify as conservative. The goal...
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia
A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia, a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts associated with some of the best-known personalities of the European Middle Ages, including Boniface of...
Even the Women Must Fight
Memories of War from North Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Even the Women Must Fight
"Karen Turner and Phan Thanh Hao have brought scholarship and compassion to a long-neglected aspect of the Vietnam War--the contributions of Vietnamese women to the independence struggle of their nation and the terrible price they paid for their courage and patriotism."--Neil...
The Women
A Family Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Family history, usually destined or even designed for limited consumption, is a familiar genre within Mormon culture. Mostly written with little attention to standards of historical scholarship, such works are a distinctly hagiographic form of family memorabilia. But many family sagas in the right...
Go Get Mother's Picket Sign
Crossing Spheres With the Material Culture of Suffrage
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Go Get Mother's Picket Sign tells the story of American suffragists who worked to balance their public and private lives as wives, mothers, and homemakers. American suffragists battled an intense fight against the idea that women in America could not engage in politics without also creating a great...
Home on the Rails
Women, the Railroad, and the Rise of Public Domesticity
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there.
For a time, Richter argues, nineteenth-century Americans imagined the public realm as a chaotic...