Women category: 49097 books
English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550
Marriage and Family, Property and Careers
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2002
Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed and bejeweled nobility, exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlike their male counterparts, their sitters have not been judged for their professional accomplishments. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara...
by J Horsfield @ Hearts Minds Media, J. HORSFIELD
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Womens rights and the family in a changing world
by Hearts and Minds Media
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide, and formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the nineteenth century and feminist movement during the 20th century. In some countries,...
Women and Trade Unions in France
The Tobacco and Hat Industries, 18901914
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Based on the thorough examination of French archival sources, this book examines in detail two industries in which women formed the majority of the workforce in France between 1890 and 1914. The choice of the tobacco and hat industries is particularly relevant in the sense that the tobacco industry,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership considers how these factors can be understood, nurtured, or thwarted and the subsequent impact on women’s identity, authority and satisfaction.
Psychoanalysis has long struggled with its ideas about...
Women Moving Forward®
12 Years of the Women's Leadership Retreat Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
For nearly forty years, Susan Bash Van Vleet has been conducting groundbreaking workshops that have helped thousands of women worldwide move forward both professionally and personally. In her latest guidebook, Van Vleet presents twenty-seven innovative concepts that will help women live with intention...
Technofeminist Storiographies
Women, Information Technology, and Cultural Representation
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Technofeminist Storiographies: Women, Information Technology, and Cultural Representation analyzes both historical and contemporary accounts of women’s lived experiences of technology, from Ada Lovelace and Hedy Lamarr to women working across the tech industry today, and juxtaposes them with larger...
Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts
A Re-examination of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Overwhelmingly, it is women who are the victims of domestic violence and this book puts women’s experiences of domestic violence at its centre, whilst acknowledging their many diverse and complex identities.
Concentrating on the various forms of domestic abuse and its occurrence and manifestations...
Heart Solution for Women
A Proven Program to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Heart disease remains the number one killer of women, outpacing breast cancer, diabetes, and stroke, with one in four women receiving a diagnosis in her lifetime. And the problem is only getting worse.
Dr. Mark Menolascino has been on the front lines of cardiac research for most of his life,...
by Rebecca Moore
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Women in Christian Traditions offers a concise and accessible examination of the roles women have played in the construction and practice of Christian traditions, revealing the enormous debt that this major world religion owes to its female followers. It recovers forgotten and obscured moments in...
Struggle and Suffrage in Swindon
Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2019
As the industrial revolution and the coming of the railways transformed the Wiltshire countryside Swindon women were on the front line of change, shaping the new industrial town and transforming the old market one.
Newcomers arrived from the great railway centers across the country to create...
The Ultimate Nutrition Guide for Women
How to Stay Healthy with Diet, Vitamins, Minerals and Herbs
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2009
Natural ways to improve your nutritional health
When it comes to health and nutrition, women have unique needs; they experience more health problems and visit the doctor more often than men. Women are also at particular risk for major nutrition-related health conditions, including heart disease...
THE D.I.R.T. COMMITTEE
Breast Implants, proprietary ingredients and other secrets
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
THE D.I.R.T. COMMITTEE
At a time when people are fed up with big government and big corporations that drown out the voice of the everyday man and woman, THE D.I.R.T. COMMITTEE stands up and shouts on behalf of every woman who has suffered at the hands of Dow Corning or any other corporation...
by Therese Huston
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
“An authoritative guide to help women navigate the workplace and their everyday life with greater success and impact” (Forbes).
So, you’ve earned a seat at the table. What happens next?
We all face hard decisions every day—and the choices we make, and how others perceive them,...
Fifty Million Rising
The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
There is a quiet revolution that is radically reshaping the Muslim world: 50 million women have entered the workforce and are upending their countries' economies and societies.
Longlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Across the Muslim world, ever greater...