Women category: 49097 books
The Tin Ticket
The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Historian Deborah J. Swiss tells the heartbreaking, horrifying, and ultimately triumphant story of the women exiled from the British Isles and forced into slavery and savagery-who created the most liberated society of their time.
Agnes McMillan and Janet Houston were convicted for shoplifting....
The Center Must Not Hold
White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy functions as a textual site where white women philosophers engage boldly in critical acts of exploring ways of naming and disrupting whiteness in terms of how it has defined the conceptual field of philosophy. Within...
Jane Eyre's Sisters
How Women Live and Write the Heroine's Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Ever since women in the West first started publishing works of fiction, they have written about a heroine who must wander from one place to another as she searches for a way to live the life she wants to live, a life through which she can express her true self creatively in the world. Yet while...
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers
American Women in Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
From pre-Columbian times to the environmental justice movements of the present, women and men frequently responded to the environment and environmental issues in profoundly different ways. Although both environmental history and women's history are flourishing fields, explorations of the synergy produced...
Keep Marching
How Every Woman Can Take Action and Change Our World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A GROUNDBREAKING, DEFINITIVE WORK ON HOW TO BUILD WOMEN'S POWER
"A perfect primer for women everywhere who want to take action-whether their heading to their first town hall meeting or running for office."
-Cecile Richards, New York Times bestselling author of Make Trouble and President...
Women in Charge (Routledge Revivals)
The Experiences of Female Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Why do women start their own businesses? Is it solely because they are searching for financial success, or for other reasons? On the basis of detailed interviews with a number of women who have started their own businesses, this book, first published in 1985, reveals the significance of factors that...
White Women in Fiji, 18351930
The Ruin of Empire?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
First published in 1986, White Women in Fiji 1835–1930: The Ruin of Empire? challenges assumptions and assertions about the role of European women in multiracial colonial societies. Author Claudia Knapman uses a combination of interviews, newspaper, and other sources to picture the lives of European...
Women and Leadership
A Contextual Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
This book examines womenís access to leadership roles and how these roles are perceived in society. It represents one of the first scholarly examinations of the burgeoning field of leadership. Using real-life examples and case studies of prominent women, Dr. Klenke explores the complex interactions...
Women at the Wheel
A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Ever since the Ford Model T became a vehicle for the masses, the automobile has served as a symbol of masculinity. The freedom of the open road, the muscle car's horsepower, the technical know-how for tinkering: all of these experiences have largely been understood from the perspective of the male...
by Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Judy Norsigian, Vivian Pinn
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2008
FROM THE EDITORS OF THE CLASSIC "BIBLE OF WOMEN'S HEALTH," A TRUSTWORTHY, UP-TO-DATE GUIDE TO HELP EVERY WOMAN NAVIGATE THE MENOPAUSE TRANSITION
For decades, millions of women have relied on Our Bodies, Ourselves to provide the most comprehensive, honest, and accurate information on women's...
Ladies of the Ticker
Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
Long overlooked in histories of finance, women played an essential role in areas such as banking and the stock market during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet their presence sparked ongoing controversy. Hetty Green's golden touch brought her millions, but she outraged critics...
Cold War Comforts
Canadian Women, Child Safety, and Global Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Cold War Comforts examines Canadian women’s efforts to protect children’s health and safety between the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. Amid this global insecurity, many women participated in civil defence or joined the disarmament...
Communicating Women's Health
Social and Cultural Norms that Influence Health Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This volume explores the conditions under which women are empowered, and feel entitled, to make the health decisions that are best for them. At its core, it illuminates how the most basic element of communication, voice, has been summarily suppressed for entire groups of women when it comes to control...
by Elaine F. Weiss
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2008
From 1917 to 1920 the WomanÆs Land Army (WLA) brought thousands of city workers, society women, artists, business professionals, and college students into rural America to take over the farm work after men were called to wartime service. These women wore military-style uniforms, lived in communal camps,...