Women category: 49097 books
Casino Women
Courage in Unexpected Places
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Casino Women is a pioneering look at the female face of corporate gaming. Based on extended interviews with maids, cocktail waitresses, cooks, laundry workers, dealers, pit bosses, managers, and vice presidents, the book describes in compelling detail a world whose enormous profitability is dependent...
Junctures in Women's Leadership
Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
How have women managed to break through the glass ceiling of the business world, and what management techniques do they employ once they ascend to the upper echelons of power? What difficult situations have these female business leaders faced, and what strategies have they used to resolve those challenges?
Junctures...
by Maxine Baca Zinn
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1993
The theme of race, class, and gender as interlocking systems of oppression unites these original essays about the experience of women of color—African Americans, Latinas, Native Americans, and Asian Americans. The contributing scholars discuss the social conditions that simultaneously oppress women...
Women in Management Worldwide
Progress and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
'Excellent', 'Outstanding' and 'Inspirational' were words used to describe the highly acclaimed and award winning first edition of Women in Management Worldwide. Edited by two of the world's most eminent researchers into the role of women in work and management, their findings from around the world...
The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches)
Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer...
O.M.G. I’m Lesbian
So Natural, So Right
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
During adolescence, most young women begin to be aware of sexual feelings and to take an interest in dating. Many young women feel physically attracted to men. But other young women feel physically attracted to women. You may notice that you feel “turned on” by other women.
You may feel...
Reproductive Justice and Women’s Voices
Health Communication across the Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Reproductive rights are human rights. Reproductive Justice and Women's Voices: Health Communication across the Lifespan offers an in-depth analysis of women’s reproductive health in a transformative, sociopolitical moment that is redefining women’s access to health care; reducing disparities in...
Women Ethnographers and Native Women Storytellers
Relational Science, Ethnographic Collaboration, and Tribal Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book focuses on the collaborative work between Native women storytellers and their female ethnographers and/or editors, but the book is also about what it is that is constitutive of scientific rigor, factual accuracy, cultural authenticity, and storytelling signification and meaning. Regardless...
Complicated Women
Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema were modern! For five short years women in American cinema were modern! They took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, led unapologetic careers and, in general, acted the way many think women only...
by Cathy Harris
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Beautiful hair –every woman wants it but very few really understand how to achieve it. We spike, tease, color and curl it. We heat, gel, straighten and spray it. We fret and fume over it, spend pots of money on it and weep when we lose it. It’s our crowning glory, a vital sign of health, youth...
Wonder Women
Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a man's world?
Debora L. Spar never thought of herself as a feminist. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed the gender war was over. As one of the youngest female professors to be tenured at Harvard Business School...
Untrue
Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Primates of Park Avenue, a bold, timely reconsideration of female infidelity that will upend everything you thought you knew about women and sex.
What do straight, married female revelers at an all-women's sex club in LA have in common with nomadic...
The Pill Problem
How to Protect Your Health from the Side Effects of Oral Contraceptives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Oral contraceptives were first approved in the United States in 1960. It is estimated that over 80% of women born in the U.S. after 1945 have used oral contraceptives at some time in their lives. The “pill” ushered in a new ear of sexual freedom for women. For the first time women had the freedom...
by Fred Strebeigh
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
The dramatic, untold story of how women battled blatant inequities in America's legal system.
As late as 1967, men outnumbered women twenty to one in American law schools. With the loss of deferments from Vietnam, reluctant law schools began admitting women to avoid plummeting enrollments....