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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This book explores the diverse landscapes wherein women struggle for their personal and social identities and lives, between biology and culture, destiny and choice, shared and individual worlds, tradition and modernity. Their “peripheral lives” have “central meaning” (Chaudhary, this volume)...
Education, Gender and Development
A Capabilities Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This compelling book takes a novel approach to the complexities of girls’ and women’s education in the global South. To unravel the critical issues and processes behind educational advancement and to identify the factors that support the construction of educational well-being and agency from gender...
Hypothesis
An HPV healing experiment
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
This is how my personal healing experiment became an opportunity to educate women about HPV treatment options and their power of choice-making. I share my story of regression and guide the reader through a decision-making process. My intention is to help women feel empowered to take their health into...
by Kenneth Kee
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book describes fibrocystic breast condition that is a benign disorder in which a female has painful breast lumps.The more important issue here is about the suffering of all females after puberty.The hormones that regulate the female's child bearing ability not only affect her uterus but also...
The Two Finger Diet
How the Media Has Duped Women into Hating Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
In The Two Finger Diet: How the Media Has Duped Women into Hating Themselves, author Benjamin Straight delivers a compelling sociological examination of how the American media advertises to women, a key marketing demographic ruthlessly targeted since 1870. The author traces the historical roots of...
Wife, Inc.
The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A fascinating look at the changing role of wives in modern America
After a half century of battling for gender equality, women have been freed from the necessity of securing a husband for economic stability, sexual fulfillment, or procreation. Marriage is a choice, and increasingly women (and...
Postcolonial Hauntologies
African Women's Discourses of the Female Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Postcolonial Hauntologies is an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of critical, literary, visual, and performance texts by women from different parts of Africa. While contemporary critical thought and feminist theory have largely integrated the sexual female body into their disciplines, colonial...
by Victoria Hesford
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
The term women's liberation remains charged and divisive decades after it first entered political and cultural discourse around 1970. In Feeling Women's Liberation, Victoria Hesford mines the archive of that highly contested era to reassess how it has been represented and remembered. Hesford refocuses...
by Angela DeRosa
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
When it Comes to Healthcare, Women are Getting the ShaftHow Your Doctor is Slowly Killing You: A Women’s Health Survival Guide takes a frank, tell-it-like-it-is look at the state of women’s health. Common health conditions in women of all ages can often be traced to one root cause: hormone...
Complementary Health for Women
A Comprehensive Treatment Guide for Major Diseases and Common Conditions
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2008
"The volume features extensive references throughout to document evidence-based practices...For practitioners of complementary therapies this is a useful resource...that provide[s] more in-depth understanding of each condition and therapy. Summing up: recommended."
--Choice
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by Rosalie Morales Kearns
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In a slightly alternate near-future, women are forming vigilante groups to wreak vengeance on rapists, child abusers, and murderers of women. Averil Parnell, a female Catholic priest, faces a dilemma: per the Golden Rule she should advise forgiveness, but as the lone survivor of an infamous massacre...
Outspoken Women
An Anthology of Women's Writing on Sex, 1870–1969
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Studying a broader period than its contemporaries, this comprehensive study reveals a neglected tradition of British women’s writing from the Victorian era to the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Outspoken Women brings together the many and varied non-fictional writings of British women on sexual...
Minds of Our Own
Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women’s Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966–76
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009
This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women’s studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women’s studies as a new way of understanding women, men, and society, and they...
by Leora Tanenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Bad Shoes & the Women Who Love Them is a lighthearted wake-up call to women to make informed decisions when buying and wearing fashionable shoes. Arming the reader with essential facts, citing medical literature as well as leading podiatric surgeons and orthopedists, Tanenbaum covers the history...