Women category: 49097 books
by Lindsey German
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women looks at the remarkable impact of war on women in Britain. It shows how conflict has changed women's lives and how those changes have put women at the centre of peace campaigning. *BR**BR*Lindsey German, one of the UK's leading anti-war activists and...
Stepping Lively in Place
The Not-Married, Free Women of Civil-War-Era Natchez, Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how free, single women navigated life in a busy slave-based river-port town before and during the Civil War, and how these women transitioned during Reconstruction,...
Smithsonian American Women
Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
An inspiring and surprising celebration of U.S. women's history told through Smithsonian artifacts illustrating women's participation in science, art, music, sports, fashion, business, religion, entertainment, military, politics, activism, and more.
This book offers a unique, panoramic look...
Women and Work in Precolonial India
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
A compilation of ancient Indian texts with feminist perspectives on women’s work
Women and work is an important dimension of the ongoing debate on gender parity. This book is a compilation of essays related to traditional perceptions of women’s work juxtaposed with recent feminist writings...
by Angela Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Winner, 2019 Liz Carpenter Award, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA)
In recent decades, a small but growing number of historians have dedicated their tireless attention to analyzing the role of women in Texas history. Each contribution—and there have been many—represents...
Why Do Women Crave More Sex in the Summer?
112 Questions That Women Keep Asking- and That Keep Everyone Else Guessing
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
*It’s been said that every woman is a mystery waiting to be solved...
And for as long as women have been around, no one has unraveled the enigma that is the feminine of the species—until now.*
In this fun, fascinating, head-to-toe female look at bodies, brains, love, sex and shiny...
Telling Political Lives
The Rhetorical Autobiographies of Women Leaders in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
This book investigates the autobiographical writings of Barbara Jordan, Patricia Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro, Elizabeth Dole, Wilma Mankiller, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Christine Todd Whitman. These eight women represent the diversity that permeates the cultural backgrounds,...
The Garden of Delights
Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In The Garden of Delights, Fiona J. Griffiths offers the first major study of the Hortus deliciarum, a magnificently illuminated manuscript of theology, biblical history, and canon law written both by and explicitly for women at the end of the twelfth century. In so doing she provides a brilliantly...
Women's Encounters with the Mental Health Establishment
Escaping the Yellow Wallpaper
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Explore women’s first-person experiences with the mental health establishment!
This unique contemporary anthology of women’s experiential writing shares women’s realities, perceptions, and experiences (positive and negative) within the therapeutic environment. These artistic expressions...
by Lisa Pace Vetter
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Recovering the powerful and influential contributions of women from the nation’s formative years.
The Political Thought of America’s Founding Feminists traces the significance of Frances Wright, Harriet Martineau, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner...
Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity
Life Off the Edge of the Table
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table is about understanding the relationship between food insecurity and women’s agency. The contributors explore both the structural constraints that limit what and how much people eat, and the myriad ways that women...
by Dr. Subhash Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
National Women Commission (Rashtriya Mahila Panch) is having such bursting views on the poor conditions of women in India, it is high time to work for and volunteer for the cause of the movement of women liberation. The immediate and urgent worry pertains to problems of family life, married life and...
Abortion Counseling
A Clinician's Guide to Psychology, Legislation, Politics, and Competency
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
The majority of women who have had abortions report feeling happy, satisfied, and relieved following their abortion. Some few women who have had an abortion may experience some feelings of guilt and sadness; however, this rarely lasts longer than a few days. Those very few women who present with prolonged...
Highs and Lows
Canadian Perspectives of Women and Substance Use
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Women’s and girls’ substance use is an important health, economic and social issue in Canada. However, most books about alcohol and other drug use do not address the unique needs and circumstances of this population.
Highs & Lows draws on the latest theory and research to offer strategies...