Women category: 49097 books
Women in Revolutionary Egypt
Gender and the New Geographics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The 25 January 2011 uprising and the unprecedented dissent and discord to which it gave rise shattered the notion of homogeneity that had characterized state representations of Egypt and Egyptians since 1952. It allowed for the eruption of identities along multiple lines, including class, ideology,...
Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan
Navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
From the 1980s onwards, the incidence of eating disorders and self-harm has increased among Japanese women, who report receiving mixed messages about how to be women. Mirroring this, women’s self-directed violence has increasingly been thematised in diverse Japanese narrative and visual culture.
This...
Votes for Women
The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2002
In Votes For Women, Jean H. Baker has assembled an impressive collection of new scholarship on the struggle of American women for the suffrage. Each of the eleven essays illuminates some aspect of the long battle that lasted from the 1850s to the passage of the suffrage amendment in 1920. From the...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Women are among the most competent, yet marginalized, unnoticed and underutilized actors in efforts to rebuild war-torn societies. Opportunities for sustainable peacebuilding are lost — and sustainable peace is at risk — when significant stakeholders in a societys future peace and conflict architecture...
In Practice
The lives of New Zealand women doctors in the 21st century
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
A new wave of female medical students trained in the 1970s and entered a profession previously dominated by men. These women have now made their mark in various fields of medicine. In this thought-provoking book, editor Dr Rosy Fenwicke asks: How do these women combine their professional and personal...
Women and Therapy in the Last Third of Life
The Long View
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
What is distinct about the last third of life, about women, that makes psychotherapy different? In this diverse collection, the psychological meanings and challenges of the last third of life are explored, as the capacity of the psyche expands, sense of time changes, and some questions take on new...
A Call to Action
Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world’s most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation of basic human rights: the ongoing discrimination and violence against women and girls.
President Carter was encouraged to write this book by a...
Research Notes for Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball
Maud Nelson, Margaret Nabel
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2010
Research Notes for Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball is a chronological collection of public domain newspaper articles - research information on which Barbara Gregorich's book detailing the history of women in hardball, 1893 to 1993, was based. The reprints and notes are arranged...
A Game of Their Own
Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
In 2010 twenty American women were selected to represent Team USA in the fourth Women’s Baseball World Cup in Caracas, Venezuela; most Americans, however, had no idea such a team even existed.
A Game of Their Own chronicles the largely invisible history of women in baseball and offers an...
Afghan Women
Identity and Invasion
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Through years of Taliban oppression, during the US-led invasion and the current insurgency, women in Afghanistan have played a hugely symbolic role. This book looks at how women have fought repression and challenged stereotypes, both within Afghanistan and in diasporas in Iran, Pakistan, the US and...
Women in the Qur'an
An Emancipatory Reading
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
Today, the issue of Muslim women is held hostage between two perceptions: a conservative Islamic approach and a liberal Western approach. At the heart of this debate Muslim women are seeking to reclaim their right to speak in order to re-appropriate their own destinies, calling for the equality and...
Wednesdays in Mississippi
Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
As tensions mounted before Freedom Summer, one organization tackled the divide by opening lines of communication at the request of local women: Wednesdays in Mississippi (WIMS). Employing an unusual and deliberately feminine approach, WIMS brought interracial, interfaith teams of northern middle-aged,...
The Smart Woman's Guide to Midlife and Beyond
A No Nonsense Approach to Staying Healthy After 50
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Smart women understand that taking care of their health is essential to maintaining an active lifestyle. This comprehensive guide shows you how to work with your body instead of against it to stay healthy and happy through menopause and beyond. Written by two practicing doctors who have been close...
by Nieca Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
If you’re a woman over thirty-five you probably have a lot of stress in your life–maybe even more than you realize. You may have a demanding job, family obligations, financial pressures, or a combination of all three. You’re most likely low on energy, gaining weight, and not sleeping as well...