Women category: 49097 books
The Strength of Women
Âhkamêyimowak
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Women are the unsung heroes of their communities, often using minimal resources to challenge oppressive structures and create powerful alternatives in the arts, education, and the workplace. The stories included here are by women with vision, who inspire and lead those who have lived in their midst....
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Based on a broad literature review, this publication discusses rural women’s time poverty in agriculture, elaborates on its possible causes and implications and provides insight into the various types of constraints that affect the adoption of solutions for reducing work burden. This paper raises...
Beyond Rosie
A Documentary History of Women and World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
More so than any war in history, World War II was a woman’s war. Women, motivated by patriotism, the opportunity for new experiences, and the desire to serve, participated widely in the global conflict. Within the Allied countries, women of all ages proved to be invaluable in the fight for victory....
by Mary Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Life doesn’t always go as planned. Divorce, disease, addiction, bad things can happen and the next thing we know our dreams are shattered. For many women, these things happen during midlife, when so many things are changing, their bodies, their relationships, their hormones, everything!
When bad...
Forging Freedom
Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, defined, and defended their own vision of freedom.
Drawing...
How Long? How Long?
African American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 1997
A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-American women, in favor of higher-profile...
To Be Useful to the World
Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Offering an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center, Joan R. Gundersen provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war as either a "golden age" or a disaster...
Sweet and Sour
Life-Worlds of Taipei Women Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Sweet and Sour explores the experiences of women entrepreneurs amidst the contradictions of a freewheeling commercial culture set within the patriarchal constraints of contemporary Taiwan. To what extent are Taiwanese women empowered by entrepreneurship? What challenges do they face as women in their...
by Lara Owen
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2016
Awakening to the Wisdom of MenstruationThis book helps you:Understand how cultural attitudes affect women's healthIdentify the different phases of your periodLearn natural ways to relieve menstrual symptomsDevelop your ability to process premenstrual feelings constructivelyUnderstand the...
Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans
Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Ashley Baggett uncovers the voices of abused women who utilized the legal system in New Orleans to address their grievances from the antebellum era to the end of the nineteenth century. Poring over 26,000 records, Baggett analyzes 421 criminal cases involving intimate partner violence" physical...
A World Apart
Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Life in a women’s prison is full of surprises,” writes Cristina Rathbone in her landmark account of life at MCI-Framingham. And so it is. After two intense court battles with prison officials, Rathbone gained unprecedented access to the otherwise invisible women of the oldest running women’s...
by Pattie Kuwong
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Marital conflicts are increasing exponentially and women are becoming more and more confused as to what to do. Women and men are in a dilemma of identifying who they really are. Two people, who were created to live as one, think as one and act as one are getting more distant from each other. Humanity...
All Bound Up Together
The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women...
Sympathy and Science
Women Physicians in American Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
When first published in 1985, Sympathy and Science was hailed as a groundbreaking study of women in medicine. It remains the most comprehensive history of American women physicians available. Tracing the participation of women in the medical profession from the colonial period to the present, Regina...