Women category: 49097 books
by Beverly Lyon Clark
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The hit Broadway show of 1912; the lost film of 1919; Katharine Hepburn, as Jo, sliding down a banister in George Cukor’s 1933 movie; Mark English’s shimmering 1967 illustrations; Jo—this time played by Sutton Foster—belting "I'll be / astonishing" in the 2004 Broadway musical flop:...
by Donna Aza Weir-Soley
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
"Provocative . . . articulates the importance of embodied, erotic spirituality to black female subjectivity and empowerment."--Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature "Sets out to reclaim the right of black women to their sexual and erotic expression untainted by the stereotypes and disparagements...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2003
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates...
by Li Guo
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
In Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Modern China, Li Guo presents the first book-length study in English of women’s tanci fiction, the distinctive Chinese form of narrative written in rhymed lines during the late imperial to early modern period (related to, but different from,...
A Bold Vision
Women Leaders Imagining Canada's Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
One hundred and fifty years ago in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 23 men met for the Charlottetown Conference that led to Canadian Confederation. Visions of Canada began before them and continue since. The Prince Edward Island women's organizations that planned the Bold Vision project wanted to...
The Justice Women
The Female Presence in the Criminal Justice System 1800-1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite the fact that women worked as matrons in Victorian prisons, there were few professional women working as prison officers...
Her Space, Her Story
Exploring the Stepwells of Gujarat
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
A fascinating, multi-disciplinary exploration of water, wells and women’s spaces in Gujarat. Centuries ago, in the arid landscape of Gujarat, where water is scarce and rains scanty, stepwells sustained life and enabled crops to flourish. Women played a major role in the construction and patronage of...
by Carmen L. Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
A disproportionate number of male writers, including such figures as Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal, Maulana Karenga, and Haki Madhubuti, continue to be credited for constructing the iconic and ideological foundations for what would be perpetuated as the Black Art Movement. Though there has arisen an increasing...
Imagining la Chica Moderna
Women, Nation, and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1917–1936
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2008
In the years following the Mexican Revolution, visual images of la chica moderna, the modern woman, au courant in appearance and attitude, popped up in mass media across the country. Some of the images were addressed directly to women through advertisements, as illustrations accompanying articles...
by Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
This book moves the discussion forward so that Australia will have a woman Prime Minister sooner rather than later. Underlined with a reflective, interpretive and explorative stance of Julia Gillard’s Prime Ministership, it presents an analysis on issues to do with gender and leadership...
Women's Camera Work
Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1998
Women’s Camera Work explores how photographs have been and are used to construct versions of history and examines how photographic representations of otherness often tell stories about the self. In the process, Judith Fryer Davidov focuses on the lives and work of a particular network of artists...
Feminism and War
Confronting US Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Women across the globe are being dramatically affected by war as currently waged by the USA. But there has been little public space for dialogue about the complex relationship between feminism, women, and war. The editors of Feminism and War have brought together a diverse set of leading theorists...
Nice Girls Finish Fat
Put Yourself First and Change Your Eating Forever
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
From a therapist and expert in emotional eating, the first book to explore the link between weight gain and women who do too much, complete with proven techniques for dropping pounds.
Many women put too much on their plates, both literally and figuratively. In Nice Girls Finish Fat, psychotherapist...
The H-Spot
The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
What do women want? The same thing men were promised in the Declaration of Independence: happiness, or at least the freedom to pursue it.
For women, though, pursuing happiness is a complicated endeavor, and if you head out into America and talk to women one-on-one, as Jill Filipovic has done,...