Women category: 49097 books
Sisterhood Is Global
The International Women's Movement Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A powerful and essential anthology that sheds light on the status of women throughout the world
Hailed by Alice Walker as “one of the most important human documents of the century,” this collection of groundbreaking essays examines the global status of women’s experiences, from oppression...
by Matthew Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that their role in Greek religion was actually more important...
The Women's Health Book
A Guide for the Irish Woman
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Following on from the success of The Men's Health Book, The Women's Health Book is a comprehensive and informative guide to female health written by GP and owner of the Women's Health Clinic in Dun Laoghaire Dr Rachel Mackey.
The Women's Health Book:
Addresses the lack of a thorough...
Unbending Gender
Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2001
In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn't addressed the issues that dominate their daily...
by Michael Porter
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
It has long been argued that women, especially black women, have been relegated to a second-class status in American society, and despite modern advances remain subject to a debilitating discrimination in many areas of life. This book presents a fresh perspective on the many facets of sexism experienced...
Discovering Eve
Ancient Israelite Women in Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1991
This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reconstruct the typical everyday lives of women in ancient Israel. Meyers argues that biblical sources alone do not give a true picture of ancient Israelite...
Women Imagine Change
A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 1997
This global, multicultural anthology shows how women from some thirty countries, across twenty-six centuries, have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around themes of concern to contemporary readers, Women Imagine Change explores: relationships between women's sexuality and spirituality; women's interlinked s
Healing PCOS
A 21-Day Plan for Reclaiming Your Health and Life with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A proven 21-day diet and lifestyle plan to help women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) take back control of their health and resolve their symptoms from a certified health coach and founder of the large PCOS Diva online community.
PCOS is one of the most common hormonal disorders, and...
Building Houses out of Chicken Legs
Black Women, Food, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Chicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile...
Super Nutrition for Women
The Award-Winning Guide No Woman Should Be Without, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Winner of the Excellence in Medical Communications Award, SUPER NUTRITION FOR WOMEN is the first scientifically based nutrition program to take into account women's distinct body chemistry and dietary needs—and reveals the best way to incorporate them into any weight-loss or workout plan.
This...
Core Performance Women
Burn Fat and Build Lean Muscle
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
World-renowned strength and performance coach Mark Verstegen has trained top athletes and countless workaday warriors into the best shape of their lives. He's spent years developing a proven system for a wide range of clients, and he knows the essential keys for building lean muscle, shedding excess...
Natural Menopause Remedies
Which Drug-Free Cures Really Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Learn the most effective ways to ward off specific menopausal symptoms--without the use of synthetic hormones.
We learned the bad news: Women on Hormone Replacement Therapy have a higher risk of heart disease, blood clots, stroke, and breast cancer than those who are not. Some six million women...
The Hormone "Shift"
Using Natural Hormone Balancing for Your... Mood, Weight, Sleep & Female Health
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Would you like to lose five pounds, stop your hot flashes and sleep better, THIS WEEK?
These results are attainable when your hormones get into balance. The author explains how natural, safe solutions can bring fast results that last.
From her twenty-three years of experience in the...
Women of Mayo Clinic
The Founding Generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The story of Mayo Clinic begins on the Minnesota prairie following a devastating tornado in 1883. It also begins with the women who joined the growing practice as physicians, as laboratory researchers, as developers of radium therapy and cancer treatments, and as innovators in virtually all aspects...