Women category: 49097 books
Thirty-Three Secrets Arab Men Never Tell American Women
A Dissection of How Muslims Treat Women and Infidels
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
There exists in this world people who have no soul. Anyone who could inflict such endless cruelty on women and children is less than human. It's hard for me to find the precise words I can use to describe my feelings about this reading experience: deep sadness, blistering rage, and a need to take...
by Jennifer Lawler
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Most people have heard of Lady Godiva and her horseback tax protest in the 11th century and Joan of Arc who in the 15th century fought against the English for the French gaining sainthood in 1920. Many know of Eleanor of Aquataine, 12th century Queen of France and England, and powerful manipulator...
Fed Up
Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
From Gemma Hartley, the journalist who ignited a national conversation on emotional labor, comes Fed Up, a bold dive into the unpaid, invisible work women have shouldered for too long—and an impassioned vision for creating a better future for us all**.**
Day in, day out, women anticipate...
Making Home Work
Domesticity and Native American Assimilation in the American West, 1860-1919
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women. Yet the vision of America as "home" was more than a metaphor for women's stake in the process of conquest--it took deliberate...
This Grand Experiment
When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War–Era Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2017
In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women. Although the press and government officials considered the federal employment of women to be an innocuous wartime aberration, women immediately saw the new development for what it was: a rare chance to obtain...
Profiles of Anabaptist Women
Sixteenth-Century Reforming Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
During the upheavals of the Reformation, one of the most significant of the radical Protestant movements emerged — that of the Anabaptist movement. Profiles of Anabaptist Women provides lively, well-researched profiles of the courageous women who chose to risk prosecution and martyrdom to pursue...
by Sudha Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This book examines the economic, cultural, political and social positions of Muslim women in medieval India. It explores the changes that took place with the advent of Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Tartars, Afghans and Persians whose customs and traditions influenced the existing Islamic society.
Though...
Rapunzel's Daughters
What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2005
The first book to explore the role of hair in women's lives and what it reveals about their identities, intimate relationships, and work lives
Hair is one of the first things other people notice about us--and is one of the primary ways we declare our identity to others. Both in our personal...
A Weekend to Change Your Life
Find Your Authentic Self After a Lifetime of Being All Things to All People
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
New York Times bestselling author Joan Anderson gives women practical advice and inspiration for building creative, independent, and fulfilling lives through discovering who they truly are and who they can be.
Like Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, Joan Anderson’s bestselling A Year by...
Women Who Opt Out
The Debate over Working Mothers and Work-Family Balance
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
In a much-publicized and much-maligned 2003 New York Times article, “The Opt-Out Revolution,” the journalist Lisa Belkin made the controversial argument that highly educated women who enter the workplace tend to leave upon marrying and having children. Women Who Opt Out is a collection of original...
The Confident Woman
How to Take Charge and Recharge Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
How Confident Are You?
Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz has won national awards for her work in women's health and has enjoyed the success some people only dream of: a prosperous professional life; a long, happy marriage; two Stanford-educated children; and a bestselling book, The Superwoman Syndrome,...
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
This is a Summary of Rebecca Traister’s All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent NationA nuanced investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women in America, this “singularly triumphant work” (Los Angeles Times) by Rebecca Traister “the...
Sharing Power
Colombia’S Dramatic Surge of Women Leaders (1957–1998)
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
After Barbara Frechette arrived in Colombia in 1994 as the wife of the United States ambassador, she witnessed the fascinating rise of powerful women leaders during the uncertainty of a dangerous drug war that raged for years. Fascinated as to how and why women progressed with such extraordinary speed...
Read My Lips
A Complete Guide to the Vagina and Vulva
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Many, if not most, people remain in the dark about the actual workings of the vagina and vulva. The primary purpose of Read My Lips is to educate women and men about the vulva and vagina in a manner that is smart, informative, and entertaining. Readers, both women and men alike, will come to think...