Women category: 49097 books
What's Missing?
Inspiration for Women Seeking Faith and Joy in Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
In What’s Next?: Inspiration for Women Seeking Faith and Joy in Their Lives, Rena Pederson helped thousands of women discover their own "next step" by looking to the lives of successful women – famous and not-so-famous – who redefined themselves in midlife. Now, in What’s Missing?,...
Anna Maria van Schurman, 'The Star of Utrecht'
The Educational Vision and Reception of a Savante
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Dutch Golden Age scholar Anna Maria van Schurman was widely regarded throughout the seventeenth century as the most learned woman of her age. She was 'The Star of Utrecht','The Dutch Minerva','The Tenth Muse', 'a miracle of her sex', 'the incomparable Virgin', and 'the oracle of Utrecht'. As the first...
The Woman in the Shaman's Body
Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe...
Champion of Choice
The Life and Legacy of Women's Advocate Nafis Sadik
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Not many women can claim to have changed history, but Nafis Sadik set that goal in her youth, and change the world she did. Champion of Choice tells the remarkable story of how Sadik, born into a prominent Indian family in 1929, came to be the world’s foremost advocate for women’s health and reproductive...
Women's Work
A Reckoning with Work and Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
From National Book Award finalist Megan K. Stack, a stunning memoir of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers
When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and...
Disloyal Mothers and Scurrilous Citizens
Women and Subversion during World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999
A concise and highly readable study of women’s influence on a crucial era in American political and cultural history.
Kathleen Kennedy’s unique study explores the arrests, trials, and defenses of women charged under the Wartime Emergency Laws passed soon after the US entered World War I....
Women Novelists Before Jane Austen
The Critics and Their Canons
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
By the time Ian Watt published The Rise of the Novel. in 1957, it was clear that many women novelists before Jane Austen had been overlooked in critical studies of literature and that some of them had been completely forgotten by the reading public. In this book, Brian Corman explores the question...
Women's Hebrew Poetry on American Shores
Poems by Anne Kleiman and Annabelle Farmelant
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Although Anne (Chana) Kleiman—who died in 2011 at the age of 101—was the first American-born Jewish woman to publish poems in Hebrew, and Annabelle (Chana) Farmelant—who is still living and occasionally publishing—wrote a substantial body of Hebrew verse from the 1940s to the 1960s, their work...
Rewriting the Return to Africa
Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Rewriting The Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean Women Writers examines the ways Guadeloupean women writers Maryse Condé, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the theme of the return to Africa as opposed to the masculinist version by Négritude male writers from the...
Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales
Nation, Gender, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
The first volume in the new series Gender Studies in Wales, this book argues that the way in which people came to perceive and to represent themselves as Welsh was profoundly affected by the gender ideologies prevalent during the Romantic and Victorian periods. "Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing...
Where No Man has Gone Before
Essays on Women and Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
How do women writers use science fiction to challenge assumptions about the genre and its representations of women?
To what extent is the increasing number of women writing science fiction reformulating the expectations of readers and critics?
What has been the effect of this phenomenon...
War Is Not Over When It's Over
Women Speak Out from the Ruins of War
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
From the renowned authority on domestic violence, a startlingly original inquiry into the aftermath of wars and their impact on the least visible victims: women
In 2007, the International Rescue Committee, which brings relief to countries in the wake of war, wanted to understand what really...
by Patsy Sims
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Stories We Tell celebrates the work of twenty women who have made major contributions to the cannon of American magazine writing.While each has her own style, the women in these pages share the attributes of all good writers: meticulous research and reporting, attention to detail, a talent...
Archives of Labor
Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
In Archives of Labor Lori Merish establishes working-class women as significant actors within literary culture, dramatically redrawing the map of nineteenth-century US literary and cultural history. Delving into previously unexplored archives of working-class women's literature—from autobiographies,...