Women category: 49097 books
Dakota Women's Work
Creativity, Culture, and Exile
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
A tiny pair of beaded deerskin moccasins, given to a baby in 1913, provides the starting point for this thoughtful examination of the work of Dakota women.
Mary Eastman Faribault, born in Minnesota, made them almost four decades after the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862. This and other ornately decorated...
Her Best-Kept Secret
Why Women Drink-And How They Can Regain Control
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
“Glaser has written an engaging account of women and drink, citing fascinating studies about modern stressors…and evidence that some problem drinkers can learn moderation….Bound to stir controversy” (People).
In Her Best-Kept Secret, journalist Gabrielle Glaser uncovers a hidden-in-plain-sight...
Drink
The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous...
Women at the Front
Hospital Workers in Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various social classes, these women served as nurses, administrators, matrons, seamstresses, cooks, laundresses, and custodial workers. Jane E. Schultz provides the first full...
Arguments with Silence
Writing the History of Roman Women
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Women in ancient Rome challenge the historian. Widely represented in literature and art, they rarely speak for themselves. Amy Richlin, among the foremost pioneers in ancient studies, gives voice to these women through scholarship that scours sources from high art to gutter invective.
In Arguments...
Pistols and Petticoats
175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
A lively exploration of the struggles faced by women in law enforcement and mystery fiction for the past 175 years
In 1910, Alice Wells took the oath to join the all-male Los Angeles Police Department. She wore no uniform, carried no weapon, and kept her badge stuffed in her pocketbook. She...
Messengers of the Wind
Native American Women Tell Their Life Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
"Messengers of the Wind goes beyond the autobiographies of everyday women. These are women who have long been an invisible part of American culture. Their stories are haunting, frightening, encouraging, and courageous. . . . Katz is a faithful guide."
--The Minnesota Daily
In Messengers...
by Carol Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2000
Long before the outbreak of World War II, official calculations showed Britain would be short of the manpower needed to fight the enemy and keep up production of weapons, food, and other essentials. It was hoped that women volunteers would fill the gaps and so they volunteered as workers in Civil...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Today the friendships that grab people’s imaginations are those that reach across inequalities of class and race. The friendships that seem to have exerted an analogous level of fascination in early modern France were those that defied the assumption, inherited from Aristotle and patristic sources,...
by Christine Peters
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2003
Although in its infancy, the history of women in Wales and Scotland before and during the Reformation is now thriving. A longer tradition of historical studies has shed light on many areas of women's experience in England. Drawing on this historiography, Christine Peters examines the significance...
Sisters of the Extreme
Women Writing on the Drug Experience: Charlotte Brontë, Louisa May Alcott, Anaïs Nin, Maya Angelou, Billie Holiday, Nina Hagen, Diane di Prima, Carrie Fisher, and Many Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
• An anthology of writings by some of the most influential women in history on the often misunderstood and misrepresented female drug experience.
• With great honesty, bravery, and frankness, women from diverse backgrounds write about their drug experiences.
Women have been experimenting...
by Teresa Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their persistence opened up attributes of potent female imagination, radical endeavour, literary vigour, and self-education that compares well with male...
The Artistry of Anger
Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Linda Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history. Exploring how black and white nineteenth-century women writers defined, expressed, and dramatized...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Tracing the rise of conduct literature and the didactic novel over the course of the eighteenth century, this book explores how British women used the didactic novel genre to engage in political debate during and immediately after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Although didactic novels...