Women category: 49097 books
Women's Work
An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women have always been historians. Although few participated in the academic study of history until the mid-twentieth century, women labored as teachers of history and historical interpreters. Within African-American communities,...
Women's Health Easy Orgasms
Learn the Dirty Little Secrets to Guarantee Peak, Powerful Orgasms Every Time!
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Want to boost your odds of amazing sex, every time? Most of us would love our sex lives to be as steamy and satisfying as the thing of movies--but in reality, for most women, orgasms are elusive.
The majority of women don't "O" every time they hit the sheets and there are plenty of surveys,...
Women Leading Justice
Experiences and Insights
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
The women’s movement and increasing social consciousness regarding gender disparity and discrimination has helped to make gains over the past several decades to reduce gender disparity for women in the workplace. However, gender discrimination and disparity continue to exist. Women continue to receive...
by Joanne Pawlowski
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
Women in Solitary presents the powerful testimony of six women who were confined to solitary confinement in New York State prisons. Based on interviews conducted for Pawlowski's previous book Solitary: The History and Current Reality of Torture as a Means of Social Control, this ebook describes...
Feminist Revolution in Literacy
Women's Bookstores in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
This book examines the history of women's bookstores in the US from the 1970s to the 1990s. It establishes that women's bookstores played an important role in feminism by enabling the dissemination of women's voices and thereby helping to sustain and enrich the women's movement. They improved women's...
by Celia E. Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia E. Schultz demonstrates that in addition to observances of marriage, fertility, and childbirth, there were more--and more important--religious opportunities available to Roman women than are commonly considered.
Based...
Practiced Citizenship
Women, Gender, and the State in Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Over fifty years ago sociologist T. H. Marshall first opened the modern debate about the evolution of full citizenship in modern nation-states, arguing that it proceeded in three stages: from civil rights, to political rights, and finally to social rights. The shortcomings of this model were clear...
North Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
By the twentieth century, North Carolina’s progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in large part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics. These women included Gertrude Weil who fought tirelessly for the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended...
by Dustin M. Weber
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
For far too long, wrestling promoters have treated women’s professional wrestling like little more than a glorified burlesque sideshow featuring beautiful women dressed in outrageous and provocative outfits while reciting horribly lowbrow comedy skits and engaging in simulated catfights with one...
Political Acts
Women in Northern Irish Theatre, 1921-2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921, theatre has often captured and reflected the political, social, and cultural changes that the North has experienced. From the mid–twentieth century, theatre has played a particularly important role in documenting women’s experiences...
Body Work
The Social Construction of Women's Body Image
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Are scientific 'facts' about body image enough to define conceptions of normality?
Reassessing Experimental Psychology from a critical perspective, Sylvia Blood demonstrates how its research into Body Image can be misused and prone to misuse. Classifying women who experience distress and anxiety...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
This collection brings fresh perspectives to the current policy and programming initiatives concerning women teachers in South Asia. It discusses issues related to the lives and experiences of women teachers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Bangladesh, providing a common framework...
Ask Dr. Marie
What Women Need to Know about Hormones, Libido, and the Medical Problems No One Talks About
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
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One of America's most trusted voices on women's health offers women expert, reassuring advice on all that occurs “down there”
What would you ask if your best friend were also a physician? What might...
Birth of Democratic Citizenship
Women and Power in Modern Romania
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
What is it like to be a woman living through the transition from communism to democracy? What effect does this have on a woman’s daily life, on her concept of herself, her family, and her community? Birth of Democratic Citizenship presents the stories of women in Romania as they describe their experiences...