Women category: 49097 books
Constructive Feminism
Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in the American City
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men. Placing the women's movement of the 1970s in the context of other social movements that...
Paradise Beneath Her Feet
How Women Are Transforming the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author
“Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East.”—Los Angeles Times
Inthis timely and important book, Isobel...
Women of the American South
A Multicultural Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1997
Among the most prominent icons of the American south is that of the southern belle, immortalized by such figures as Scarlett O'Hara, Dolly Madison, and Lucy Pickens (whose elegant image graced the Confederate $100 bill). And yet the women of America's south iave always defied pat generalization, no...
by Swanee Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
In the spring of 1994, the tiny African nation of Rwanda was ripped apart by a genocide that left nearly a million dead. Neighbors attacked neighbors. Family members turned against their own. After the violence subsided, Rwanda's women—drawn by the necessity of protecting their families—carved...
Women and Civil Society in Turkey
Women's Movements in a Muslim Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Focusing on three important interrelated issues, Women and Civil Society in Turkey challenges the classical definition, developed in the West, of civil society as an equivalent of the public sphere in which women are excluded. First it shows how feminist movements have developed a new definition of...
Muslim Women in America
The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
The treatment and role of women are among the most discussed and controversial aspects of Islam. The rights of Muslim women have become part of the Western political agenda, often perpetuating a stereotype of universal oppression. Muslim women living in America continue to be marginalized and misunderstood...
Muslim Women Online
Faith and Identity in Virtual Space
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
While issues surrounding Muslim women are common in the international media, the voices of Muslim women themselves are largely absent from media coverage and despite the rapidly increasing presence of Muslim women in online groups and discussions, it is still a relatively unexplored topic.This book...
Women's Health in Canada
Critical Perspectives on Theory and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2008
In recent years, healthcare professionals have recognized the distinctly different healthcare needs and concerns of men and women. Women's health, in particular, has come into its own in the last two decades. In Canada, however, there has been little available in the way of a general text on women's...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Women in many Westernized countries encounter a wider variety of career opportunities than afforded in previous decades, and the percentage of women leaders in nearly every sector is on the rise. Sport coaching, however, remains a domain where gender equity has declined or stalled, despite increasing...
Beyond Bylines
Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada explores the ways in which several of Canada’s women journalists, broadcasters, and other media workers reached well beyond the glory of their personal bylines to advocate for the most controversial women’s rights of their eras. To do...
Cherokee Women In Crisis
Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Explains how traditional Cherokee women's roles were destabilized, modified, recovered, and in some ways strengthened during three periods of great turmoil.
American Indian women have traditionally played vital roles in social hierarchies at the family, clan, and tribal levels. In the Cherokee...
Winning Women's Votes
Propaganda and Politics in Weimar Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
In November 1918, German women gained the right to vote, and female suffrage would forever change the landscape of German political life. Women now constituted the majority of voters, and political parties were forced to address them as political actors for the first time.
Analyzing written...
by Barbara Brookes
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
What would a history of New Zealand look like that rejected Thomas Carlyle’s definition of history as ‘the biography of great men’, and focused instead on the experiences of women? One that shifted the angle of vision and examined the stages of this country’s development from the points of...
by Joyce A. Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2003
Mary McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history. She devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. She distinguished herself by creating lasting institutions that trained black women for visible and expanding public leadership roles....