Women category: 49097 books
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Diana Forster, Laura Sherbin
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The findings were announced at The New York Times auditorium with presentations by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, one of the authors of the study and Founder and President of The Center for Work Life Policy, and Lisa Belkin, the author of the New York Times Magazine cover story The Opt-Out Revolution” which...
Modern Misogyny
Anti-Feminism in a Post-Feminist Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Pundits and politicians often opine on the irrelevance of feminism and the women's movement today. Some commentators describe the state of feminism as "post-feminist," alongside equally questionable claims of Barack Obama's election as signaling a "post-racial" America. Modern...
Mapping Arab Women's Movements
A Century of Transformations from Within
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
This pioneering collection of analyses focuses on the ideologies and activities of formal women's organizations and informal women's groups across a range of Arab countries. With contributions on Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, and the Arab...
Staging Philanthropy
Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Staging Philanthropy is a history of women's philanthropic associations during Germany's "long" nineteenth century. Challenged by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic occupation and war, dynastic groups in Germany made community welfare and its defense part of newly-gendered social obligations,...
Women in a Globalizing World
Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
An exciting Canadian collection of feminist articles that pro- vide cutting-edge gender analysis for understanding diverse personal and political challenges and opportunities in our fast-changing global world. Canadian and international au- thors offer varied social justice, anti-racist, Indigenous,...
Moods, Emotions, and Aging
Hormones and the Mind-Body Connection
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
Despite the backlash against hormone replacement therapy, the depletion of natural hormones in the female body continues to be a problem for women at middle age and beyond. Remedying the problem has proved difficult for women and doctors who are unaware of, or reluctant to prescribe, bioidential hormones—those...
Holding Our World Together
Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities.
Too often ignored or underemphasized in favor of their male warrior counterparts, Native American women have played a more central role in guiding their nations than has ever been understood. Many Native communities...
Representing Women
Sex, Gender, and Legislative Behavior in Arizona and California
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Women in public office are often assumed to "make a difference" for women, as women--in other words, to represent their female constituents better than do their male counterparts. But is sex really an accurate predictor of a legislator's political choices and actions? In this book, Beth...
Women, Work, and Autoimmune Disease
Keep Working, Girlfriend!
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Women, Work, and Autoimmune Disease is a book for women who live with chronic illness, encouraging them to stay employed to preserve their independence and sense of self. Rich with information and inspiration, it is the voice of warmth, wisdom, understanding, and compassion.
Filled with tips,...
Gendered Paradoxes
Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2005
Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses...
The Bathing Women
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
From an award-winning and bestselling Chinese author, this stunningly original novel captures the spirit of a new generation of young professionals in contemporary China.
From award-winning and bestselling Chinese writer Tie Ning comes a stunningly original novel that captures the spirit of...
by Lauraine Snelling
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
On the verge of Mt. St. Helens’ historic eruption, three women must face the mountain: two to search for their missing husbands; the third, to rediscover her life…
After a local mountain becomes a deadly and imminent threat, three strikingly different women become linked in a desperate...
Stories 4 Women
A Collection of True Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Stories 4 Women, a collection of true short stories about the fairer sex, was created on an understanding that there is an unspoken solidarity that bonds us as women. However, we four writers felt it appropriate to give a voice to some of the stories unique to the womans experience, including the...
Wicked Women
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Wicked Women brings together twenty tales that lay bare the minds and hearts of men, women, and children
Victims, liberators, blackmailers, healers, and ghosts—they’re just a few of the fascinating men and women you’ll meet in this stellar, boundary-defying...