Women category: 49097 books
Compositional Subjects
Enfiguring Asian/American Women
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2002
In Compositional Subjects Laura Hyun Yi Kang explores the ways that Asian/American women have been figured by mutually imbricated modes of identity formation, representation, and knowledge production. Kang’s project is simultaneously interdisciplinary scholarship at its best and a critique of the...
Azeri Women in Transition
Women in Soviet and Post-Soviet Azerbaijan
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This study of women and gender in a Muslim society draws on archival and literary sources as well as the life stories of women of different generations to offer a unique ethnographic and historical account of the lives of urban women in contemporary Azerbaijan. Focussing on a group of professional...
Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Why Women's Lives Aren't Getting Any Easier--And How We Can Make Real Progress For Ourselves and Our Daughters
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
As a young woman, Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney asked her grandmother for career advice. She was shocked by the reply: "Get married."
Though much has changed for women since then, more has remained the same. On a January night in 2008, Maloney and her daughter attended a Hillary...
by Bobette Perrone, Victoria Krueger, H. Henrietta Stockel
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The stories of ten women healers form the core of this provocative journey into cultural healing methods utilized by women. In a truly grass-roots project, the authors take the reader along to listen to the voices of Native American medicine women, Southwest Hispanic curanderas, and women physicians...
Women Who Roar
Female Pioneers of Alberta
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Women Who Roar presents exciting stories based on the lives of real women living in Alberta today, who have struggled, fallen, risen again, and ultimately fought to succeed. These are the tales of courage and passion with which every woman can identify. Anyone who has ever faced obstacles on lifes...
Framing Female Lawyers
Women on Trial in Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As real women increasingly entered the professions from the 1970s onward, their cinematic counterparts followed suit. Women lawyers, in particular, were the protagonists of many Hollywood films of the Reagan-Bush era, serving as a kind of shorthand reference any time a script needed a powerful career...
Women and Print Culture (Routledge Revivals)
The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
With the growth of popular literary forms, particularly the periodical, during the eighteenth century, women began to assume an unprecedented place in print culture as readers and writers. Yet at the same time the very textual practices of that culture inscribed women within an increasingly restrictive...
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry
Experiments in Form
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
The Romance of the Lyric in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry: Experiments in Form offers a new account of the nature of the lyric as nineteenth-century women poets developed the form. It offers fresh assessments of the imaginative and aesthetic complexity of women’s poetry. The monograph seeks...
by Mrs Arthur Lyttelton
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
First published in 1901, this title lends insight into the position of English women in the workforce at the turn of the twentieth century. The conditions of women changed rapidly throughout the 1800s, leading to more varied choices in terms of career and lifestyle. However, this title also reveals...
The Status of Women
Collected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
In 1792, the same year as the appearance of Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman," an anonymous treatise was published in German using Enlightenment principles to argue for equal rights for women in the domestic, political and religious spheres. The author was later...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century texts presented here describe female servants' experiences of work in early modern London. Domestics' court depositions offer qualitative evidence that female servants were an important support of emergent capitalism in the early modern metropolis....
The Women's Book of Healing
Auras, Chakras, Laying On of Hands, Crystals, Gemstones, and Colors
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Women are naturally healers. Throughout time, they have performed curative roles as mothers, midwives, caregivers, and wisewomen, but modern medicine has suppressed this important tradition. Ancient women healers knew that the body is more than what is seen: through body, emotions, mind, and spirit,...
Arab Women in the Middle Ages
Private Lives and Public Roles
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Regardless of social rank and religion, whether Christian, Jew, or Muslim, Arab women in the middle ages played an important role in the functioning of society. This book is a journey into their daily lives, their private spaces and public roles. First we are introduced into the women's sanctuaries,...
Midrashic Women
Formations of the Feminine in Rabbinic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
While most gender-based analyses of rabbinic Judaism concentrate on the status of women in the halakhah (the rabbinic legal tradition), Judith R. Baskin turns her attention to the construction of women in the aggadic midrash, a collection of expansions of the biblical text, rabbinic ruminations, and...