Women category: 49097 books
Revolutionary Conceptions
Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760-1820
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In the Age of Revolution, how did American women conceive their lives and marital obligations? By examining the attitudes and behaviors surrounding the contentious issues of family, contraception, abortion, sexuality, beauty, and identity, Susan E. Klepp demonstrates that many women--rural and urban,...
by Cathy Rex
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Examining the appropriations and revisions of Indian identity first carried out by Anglo-American engravers and later by early Anglo-American women writers, Cathy Rex shows the ways in which iconic images of Native figures inform not only an emerging colonial/early republican American identity but...
A Game for Rough Girls?
A History of Women's Football in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Can we truly call football England's 'national' game?
How have we arrived at this point of such clear inequality between men's and women's football?
Between 1921 and 1972, women were banned from playing in football League grounds in the UK. Yet in 1998 FIFA declared that "the future is...
Reading the Romance
Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2009
Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists...
by Christine Eickelman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1984
Before 1970 Oman was one of teh more isolated countries on the Arab peninsula. The growth of the oil economy during the seventies, however, has brought rapid change to the small towns and villages that make up the country.
In Women and Community in Oman Chritine Eickelman captures the tone and feel...
Arresting Hope
Women Taking Action in Prison Health Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Arresting Hope reminds us that prisons are not only places of punishment, marginalization, and trauma, but that they can also be places of hope, blessing even, where people with difficult lived experiences can begin to compose stories full of healing, anticipation, communication, education, connection,...
Longing to Tell
Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
The Sexual Lives of Black Women, In Their Own Words
In a culture driven by sexual and racial imagery, very few honest conversations about race, gender, and sexuality actually take place. In their absence, commonly held perceptions of black women as teenage mothers, welfare recipients, mammies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Equal rights for women are an essential aspect for establishing strong societies. By making strides on these issues, nations are helping to create valuable civilizations for their own population to establish livelihoods in. The Handbook of Research on Women's Issues and Rights in the Developing World...
Feminism and the Women's Movement in Malaysia
An Unsung (R)evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Combining both personal and academic insights into the Malaysian women’s movement, this study provides an in-depth account of the multiple struggles of the Malaysian women’s movement, from securing gender equality in a patriarchal society to achieving unity among members of a multi-ethnic society...
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Women's Rights in the United States: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Issues, Events, and People [4 volumes]
A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Issues, Events, and People
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
A comprehensive encyclopedia tracing the history of the women's rights movement in the United States from the American Revolution to the present day.
• Offers informed, critical insights and perspectives from editor Tiffany K. Wayne; advising editor Lois Banner, noted author, professor, historian,...
A Woman's View
How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Now, Voyager, Stella Dallas, Leaver Her to Heaven, Imitation of Life, Mildred Pierce, Gilda…these are only a few of the hundreds of “women’s films” that poured out of Hollywood during the thirties, forties, and fifties. The films were widely disparate in subject, sentiment, and technique,...
Don't Laugh
A Woman's Playbook to the U-R-In Line for the Women's Public Bathroom... Again!
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2017
You gotta pee… You gotta pee… Oh where, oh where could the women’s public bathroom be?
Women’s bathrooms pretty much always have a lineup, no toilet paper, and tiny stalls. Who designs these things? It is a very familiar scene that we as women experience all too often… which is why...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Even though women have been historically underrepresented in official histories and literary and artistic traditions, their voices and writings can be found in abundance in the many archives of the world where they remain to be uncovered. The present volume seeks to recover women’s voices and actions...
W Stands for Women
How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Taking seriously the “W Stands for Women” rhetoric of the 2004 Bush–Cheney campaign, the contributors to this collection investigate how “W” stands for women. They argue that George W. Bush has hijacked feminist language toward decidedly antifeminist ends; his use of feminist rhetoric is...