Women category: 49097 books
The Secret Life of the Cheating Wife
Power, Pragmatism, and Pleasure in Women’s Infidelity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Using a sample collected from Ashley Madison, this book is the result of a yearlong inquiry into women’s extramarital experiences. Ultimately, these women reject the binary proposition of marriage that assumes that either we work on our marriages and remain monogamous within them, or we break up...
Still Lifting, Still Climbing
African American Women's Contemporary Activism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Still Lifting, Still Climbing is the first volume of its kind to document African American women's activism in the wake of the civil rights movement.
Covering grassroots and national movements alike, contributors explore black women's mobilization around such areas as the black nationalist movements,...
Writing Women’s History
A Tribute to Anne Firor Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Anne Firor Scott's The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930 stirred a keen interest among historians in both the approach and message of her book. Using women's diaries, letters, and other personal documents, Scott brought to life southern women as wives and mothers, as members of their...
by International Conference on Women's History
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This lively collection of essays, originally published in 1989, illustrated recent developments in the area, with chapters by contributors from many different countries and disciplines.
Asking new questions and using sources in a challenging way, the contributors reflect 1980s debates about...
Conceiving Freedom
Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War. Focusing on late...
Zapotec Women
Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and merchants in the Zapotec-speaking town of Teotitlán...
Tanzanian Women in Their Own Words
Stories of Disability and Illness
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Tanzanian Women in Their Own Words is a compilation of oral histories by Tanzanian women living with disabilities or chronic illnesses. Beginning with their earliest childhood memories, the narrators weave their life stories through adulthood, telling of the hardships and support systems in their...
Refusing the Favor
The Spanish-Mexican Women of Santa Fe, 1820-1880
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2001
Refusing the Favor tells the little-known story of the Spanish-Mexican women who saw their homeland become part of New Mexico. A corrective to traditional narratives of the period, it carefully and lucidly documents the effects of colonization, looking closely at how the women lived both before and...
Clio in the Classroom
A Guide for Teaching U.S. Women's History
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Over the last four decades, women's history has developed from a new and marginal approach to history to an established and flourishing area of the discipline taught in all history departments. Clio in the Classroom makes accessible the content, key themes and concepts, and pedagogical techniques...
Domestic Violence in Iran
Women, Marriage and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This book offers a new methodological and theoretical approach to the highly sensitive and complicated issue of violence against women in contemporary Iran. Challenging the widespread notion that secularisation and modernisation are the keys to emancipating women, the author instead posits that domestic...
Making a Way out of No Way
African American Women and the Second Great Migration
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2009
The Second Great Migration, the movement of African Americans between the South and the North that began in the early 1940s and tapered off in the late 1960s, transformed America. This migration of approximately five million people helped improve the financial prospects of black Americans, who, in...
The Power of Good Deeds
Privileged Women and the Social Reproduction of the Upper Class
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
The Power of Good Deeds allows us to see behind the media image of upper-class women and to observe how these women use their social power not only to benefit other, less-fortunate people, but also to benefit themselves and their families. Kendall's ethnographic research yields the personal narratives...
Moving Toward the Millionth Circle
Energizing the Global Women's Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In Jungian analyst and activist Jean Shinoda Bolen’s writing, symbol, archetype, soul work, and synchronicity come together with activism and the potential to change the world or save the planet when grassroots and enlightened leaders work together. In her latest book, Moving Toward the Millionth...
On Shifting Ground
Muslim Women in the Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
“Thoughtful, highly relevant, and frequently brilliant essays on the contemporary ideas, organization, activities, and agency of Muslim women” (Nikki Keddie, author of Women in the Middle East: Past and Present).
The world has drastically changed in recent years due to armed conflict, economic...