Women category: 49097 books
by Zing Tsjeng
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Selected for the Evening Standard present gift guide of the year
'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - indy100 ...
Sister in Sorrow
Life Histories of Female Holocaust Survivors from Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
Sister in Sorrow offers a glimpse into the world of Hungarian Holocaust survivors through the stories of fifteen survivors, as told by thirteen women and two spouses presently living in Hungary and Israel. Analyzing the accounts as oral narratives, author Ilana Rosen uses contemporary folklore studies...
Scarlett's Sisters
Young Women in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Scarlett's Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the...
Learning to Stand and Speak
Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Education was decisive in recasting women's subjectivity and the lived reality of their collective experience in post-Revolutionary and antebellum America. Asking how and why women shaped their lives anew through education, Mary Kelley measures the significant transformation in individual and social...
by John Stuart Mill
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Written in 1861 and published eight years later, this influential essay by the great English philosopher and economist is still relevant and its arguments significant. Believing that the subjugation of women was primarily political and psychological in origin, Mill urged the establishment of "complete...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Original essays by American and British scholars offer a reader-friendly introduction to the work of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, and a dozen other British women writers.
British women in the second half of the 20th century have produced a body of work that is as diverse as it is entertaining....
Women of Honor
Madonnas, Godmothers and Informers in the Italian Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The role of women in the Italian mafias has long been overlooked. Reduced to victim status and relegated to domestic life in a male-dominated society, women serve as the mafia's respectable facade: virtuous and docile. It is hard to picture these immaculate figures married to and raising brutal killers....
Qur'an and Woman:Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 1999
Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the female voice in the Qu'ran and brings it out of...
Gender and Jim Crow, Second Edition
Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
This classic work helps recover the central role of black women in the political history of the Jim Crow era. Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black...
The Good Girls Revolt
How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
It was the 1960s--a time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the "Help Wanted" ads were segregated by gender and the "Mad Men" office culture was rife with sexual stereotyping and discrimination.
Lynn Povich was one of the lucky...
Pregnancy and Power
A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
A sweeping chronicle of women's battles for reproductive freedom throughout American history, Pregnancy and Power explores the many forces—social, racial, economic, and political—that have shaped women’s reproductive lives in the United States.
Leading historian Rickie Solinger argues that a...
The Qualities of a Citizen
Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The Qualities of a Citizen traces the application of U.S. immigration and naturalization law to women from the 1870s to the late 1960s. Like no other book before, it explores how racialized, gendered, and historical anxieties shaped our current understandings of the histories of immigrant women. The...
Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance
Meetings with Remarkable Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
As the first examination of women's foremost contributions to Jerzy Grotowski's cross-cultural investigation of performance, this book complements and broadens existing literature by offering a more diverse and inclusive re-assessment of Grotowski's legacy, thereby probing its significance for contemporary...
Catfight
Women and Competition
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Catfight: Women and Competition is Leora Tanenbaum's dissection of the gender war waged among women. Tanenbaum meticulously analyzes the roots of destructive competitiveness among women, asserting that "catfights" thrive because, despite women's many gains, American women are conditioned...