Women category: 49097 books
In the Company of Women
Indirect Aggression Among Women: Why We Hurt Each Other and How to Stop
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2003
In the Company of Women explains how indirect, or "relational," aggression can hurt women and hinder them from achieving success and harmony in their adult lives. Gender studies have shown that when a goal is in sight, men generally use direct action to attain it. Women, on the other hand,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005
Readers and critics everywhere have applauded the Best Women's Erotica series, exclaiming that it shows "women's sexuality in all its wet, juicy, romantic, and lustful guises" (Libido) and "gets racier every year" (San Francisco Bay Guardian). With stories that have raised the...
Waveform
Twenty-First-Century Essays by Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Waveform celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature. Historically, women have been instrumental in moving the essay to center stage, and Waveform continues this rich tradition, further expanding the dynamic genre’s boundaries and testing its edges. With thirty essays by thirty...
Your Next Level Life
7 Rules of Power, Confidence, and Opportunity for Black Women in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
How Big Do You Want to Live?
Channel your black girl magic: If you’re feeling stuck or trapped by other people’s expectations of what you can achieve, it’s time to stop playing small and start redefining what success can mean for you. It’s time to get that upgrade. Karen Arrington—founder...
Women Rowing North
Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
New York Times Bestseller *USA Today Bestseller*Los Angeles Times Bestseller *Publishers Weekly Bestseller
A guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age by the author of Reviving Ophelia.
Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher...
Colored Amazons
Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2006
Colored Amazons is a groundbreaking historical analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Kali N. Gross reconstructs black women’s crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses...
This Was Not Our War
Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2004
“Replacing tyranny with justice, healing deep scars, exchanging hatred for hope . . . the women in This Was Not Our War teach us how.”—William Jefferson Clinton
This Was Not Our War shares amazing first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following...
The Mercury 13
The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
**For readers of The Astronaut Wives Club, The Mercury 13 reveals the little-known true story of the remarkable women who trained for NASA space flight.
In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s...
The Book of the Courtesans
A Catalogue of Their Virtues
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2002
From Pulitzer-Prize-nominated author Susan Griffin comes an unprecedented, provocative look at the dazzling world of the West’s first independent women, whose lively liaisons brought them unspoken influence, wealth, and freedom.
While they charmed some of Europe’s most illustrious men honing...
Her Honor
Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Women’s Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
While there is no single hero of the Minnesota women's movement, Rosalie Wahl, the first woman on the Minnesota Supreme Court, changed the way her fellow judges saw the cases they decided. A champion of both women's rights and civil rights, she brought new attention to the problems that faced women...
Pirate Women
The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In the first-ever Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas tells the story of women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside—and sometimes in command of—their male counterparts....
Women Change the World
Noteworthy Women on Cultivating Your Potential and Achieving Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
“A collection of essays by more than 40 women successful in a cross section of careers, from politics to philanthropy, firefighting, and finance . . . Inspiring” (Booklist).
Women Change the World is a collection of world-changing women—from actresses, recording artists, and writers to...
by Buzzy Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
The women who broke the rules, creating their own legacy of how to live and sing the blues.
An exciting lineage of women singers—originating with Ma Rainey and her protégée Bessie Smith—shaped the blues, launching it as a powerful, expressive vehicle of emotional liberation. Along with...
Rank Ladies
Gender and Cultural Hierarchy in American Vaudeville
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
A disrobing acrobat, a female Hamlet, and a tuba-playing labor activist--all these women come to life in Rank Ladies. In this comprehensive study of women in vaudeville, Alison Kibler reveals how female performers, patrons, and workers shaped the rise and fall of the most popular live entertainment...