Women category: 49097 books
by Danielle Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing provides an introduction to the ever-expanding field of early modern women's writing by reading texts in their historical and social contexts. Covering a wide range of forms and genres, the author shows that rather than women conforming to the conventional...
by Emily J. Orlando
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
An insightful look at representations of women’s bodies and female authority.
This work explores Edith Wharton's career-long concern with a 19th-century visual culture that limited female artistic agency and expression. Wharton repeatedly invoked the visual arts--especially paintingas a...
Unsuitable for Ladies
An Anthology of Women Travellers
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2001
Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have not...
Breaking Barriers
Portraits of Inspiring Chinese-Indonesian Women
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2012
As members of a tiny ethnic minority in Indonesia—the world's largest Islamic nation—Chinese-Indonesian women face hurdles of race and gender that others would find insurmountable. In Breaking Barriers, author Aimee Dawis profiles nine highly accomplished women who have overcome these obstacles...
Women in the Shadows
Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Wayang kulit, or shadow puppetry, connects a mythic past to the present through public ritual performance and is one of most important performance traditions in Bali. The dalang, or puppeteer, is revered in Balinese society as a teacher and spiritual leader. Recently, women have begun to study and...
Gender and Education in China
Gender Discourses and Women's Schooling in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Gender and Education in China analyzes the significance, impact and nature of women's public education in China from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century. Educational change was an integral aspect of the early twentieth century state-building and modernizing reforms implemented by the...
The Awakened Woman
A Guide for Remembering & Igniting Your Sacred Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Winner of a 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, this moving manifesto “empowers women to access a fearlessness that will enable community progress” (Essence). Through one incredible woman’s journey from a small Zimbabwe village to becoming one of the world’s most recognizable...
Sisters or Strangers?
Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Spanning two hundred years of history from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. The volume deals with a cross-section of peoples - including Japanese, Chinese, Black, Aboriginal, Irish, Finnish,...
Dalit Women
Fear And Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Dalit women are one of the most marginalized segments in the society. The condition of dalit women is more vulnerable than non-dalit women. The women are not properly informed about the Government schemes and there is an urgent need to get a feedback about the welfare schemes where lot of money is...
by Breda Gray
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Women and the Irish Diaspora looks at the changing nature of national and cultural belonging both among women who have left Ireland and those who remain. It identifies new ways of thinking about Irish modernity by looking specifically at women's lives and their experiences of migration and diaspora....
Gender, 'Race' and Patriarchy
A Study of South Asian Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The book offers one of the first detailed studies of South Asian women, it provides new empirical data on the issues apparent in South Asian women's lives by 'giving voice' to a group of women who would otherwise remain silent. It is based upon an ethnographic study of a small South Asian community...
Women's and Children's Chambers of Parliament
1) Girls Survive on the Boyfriend Economy, Mothers on the Sweat Economy ; 2) Democratizing Representation Centuries After Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Oh men! As our eyes cannot ignore the beauty and charm of our women, our ears should not ignore the cries of their suffering and neglect. Unity Yang Women and children need to become aware of the necessity for them to speak for themselves, and to understand what they lose when others speak for them....
by Drude Dahlerup
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
The introduction of electoral gender quotas in diverse contexts around the globe has attracted a great deal of scholarly and political interest. To date, research on these measures has focused primarily on quota design, adoption, and effects on the numbers of women elected. While this remains a crucial...
Bare
Irish Women's Sexual Fantasies
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Asked what they fantasize about, more than one hundred women in Ireland were willing to share. The results are in this book. It seems that there is a real hunger to know what other women are thinking about sex - perhaps just out of curiosity, perhaps because we want to know whether what we are thinking...