Women category: 49097 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Women and Health is a comprehensive reference that addresses health issues affecting women of all ages — from adolescence through maturity. It goes far beyond other books on this topic, which concentrate only on reproductive health, and has a truly international perspective. It covers key issues...
Country Women and the Colour Bar
Grassroots Activism and the Country Women's Association
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Country Women and the Colour Bar is a timely corrective to established ideas about race relations in rural New South Wales by revealing the untold story of grassroots efforts by Aboriginal and white women, working together. In the 1950s and 1960s, in towns across New South Wales, Aboriginal women...
At Home in the World
Women and Charity in Late Qing and Early Republican China
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
During the years spanning the late Qing dynasty and the early Republican era, the status of Chinese women changed in both subtle and decisive ways. As domestic seclusion ceased to be a sign of virtue, new opportunities emerged for a variety of women. Much scholarly attention has been given to the...
by Marilyn Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
What do you have in common with the women of the Old Testament?With Eve?Or Sarah?Or Ruth?This 8-session group study will help you discover your links to the past and how God is still working todayin YOU!Women's Stories for God's Glory is designed for groups of 8 participants to study the Old Testament...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
This book discusses ‘how’ to respectfully and responsibly include pregnant women in clinical research. In sharp contrast, the existing literature predominantly focuses on the reasons ‘why’ the inclusion of pregnant women in clinical research is necessary – viz., to develop effective treatments...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
This book provides an encyclopedic sourcebook on the evolution of women's involvement in American politics from the colonial era to the present, covering all of the individuals, organizations, cultural forces, political issues, and legal decisions that have collectively served to elevate the role...
African American Women in the News
Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
African American Women in the News offers the first in-depth examination of the varied representations of Black women in American journalism, from analyses of coverage of domestic abuse and "crack mothers" to exploration of new media coverage of Michelle Obama on Youtube. Marian Meyers interrogates...
Breaking into the Lab
Engineering Progress for Women in Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Why are there so few women in science? In Breaking into the Lab, Sue Rosser uses the experiences of successful women scientists and engineers to answer the question of why elite institutions have so few women scientists and engineers tenured on their faculties. Women are highly qualified, motivated...
Taking the Heat
Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
A number of recent books, magazines, and television programs have emerged that promise to take viewers inside the exciting world of professional chefs. While media suggest that the occupation is undergoing a transformation, one thing remains clear: being a chef is a decidedly male-dominated job. Over...
Women's Equality
A Struggle for Survival
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
This work is a comprehensive account of the condition of women in every walk of life. In order to study the condition of women in China a high-powered Indian delegation visited that country. It is emphasized in the Book that the development activities should be managed by value and vision only. The...
Latina Activists across Borders
Women’s Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2007
Over the past twenty-five years, nongovernment organizations (NGOs) run by women and devoted to advancing women’s well-being have proliferated in Mexico and along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. In this sociological analysis of grassroots activism, Milagros Peña compares women’s NGOs in...
Continuing to Disrupt the Status Quo?
New and Young Women Professors of Educational Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Continuing to Disrupt the Status Quo? Young and New Women Professors of Educational Leadership was conceptualized as a followup to Breaking Into the AllMale Club: Female Professors of Educational Administration (Mertz, 2009), a book about and by many women who were the first women faculty admitted...
by Robert Lopresti
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Much of women's history has been hidden and filtered through unrealistic expectations and assumptions. Because U.S. government data about women's lives and occupations has been significantly inaccurate, these misrepresentations in statistical information have shaped the reality of women's lives. They...
Contagious Representation
Women’s Political Representation in Democracies around the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Women’s participation in parliaments, high courts, and executive
offices worldwide has reached record high numbers, but this
global increase in women’s representation masks significant variation
among different democratic political systems. For example, in
December of 2009, Rwanda’s legislature...