Women category: 49097 books
The Women of the Mahabharata
The Question of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
In the stories where the Mahabharata speaks of life, women occupy a central place. In living what life brings to them, the women of the Mahabharata show, that the truth in which one must live, is however, not a simple thing; nor can there be any one absolute statement about it. Each one of them, in her...
Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region
Domination, Resistance, Accommodation
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Although socio-cultural issues in relation to women within the fields of sport and exercise have been extensively researched, this research has tended to concentrate on the Western world. Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region moves the conversation away entirely from Western contexts...
by Alexie Linn
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Joan Freed, the rebel life coach and nutritional therapist, promotes self-help recovery from anything, but seems to attract grief stricken people no matter where she goes. She meets Queenie in the Kaibab National Forest of Arizona under strange circumstances – Joan's out of breath and Queenie's...
Producing Women
The Internet, Traditional Femininity, Queerness, and Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Producing Women examines the ways femininity is produced through new media. Michele White considers how women are constructed, produce themselves as subjects, form vital production cultures on sites like Etsy, and deploy technological processes to reshape their identities and digital characteristics....
In Spite of Everything....
For the Woman She Loved
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
In Spite of Everything invites us into the lives of twenty-two ordinary, but also extraordinary women. Part Ellen DeGeneres, part Studs Terkel, Leila Peters allows the women to tell their own storiesabout their lives, their challenges, their relationships. The women trust herand usenough to share...
Women and Erotic Fiction
Critical Essays on Genres, Markets and Readers
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Erotic texts written by and for women play a significant role in negotiating relations of gender, sexuality and kinship, and in shaping popular ideas about romance and the erotic. Examining the “mainstreaming” of women’s erotica following the runaway success of Fifty Shades of Grey, this collection...
Breast Cancer Surgery and Reconstruction
What's Right For You
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
More than 100,000 American women undergo mastectomy and breast reconstruction every year because of breast cancer. Thousands more are having double mastectomies to prevent it. So much has been written about breast cancer, and so much overlooks the reality of reconstruction when a woman has a mastectomy...
Jailcare
Finding the Safety Net for Women behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Thousands of pregnant women pass through our nation’s jails every year. What happens to them as they carry their pregnancies in a space of punishment? In this time when the public safety net is frayed, incarceration has become a central and racialized strategy for managing the poor. Using her ethnographic...
by Jillian Giles
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
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Giving Women
Alliance and Exchange in Victorian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Altruism and self-assertiveness went hand in hand for Victorian women. During a period when most lacked property rights and professional opportunities, gift transactions allowed them to enter into economic negotiations of power as volatile and potentially profitable as those within the market systems...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This study reassesses several accepted truths about Arab village society. It shows first that one cannot speak about the position of women in general, because there is a great difference among women depending on the structure of their households and relationships. Women whose work contributes to the...
Minority women and austerity
Survival and resistance in France and Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
In the first book of its kind, Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women’s experiences of and resistances to austerity measures in France and Britain. Minority women are often portrayed as passive victims. However, Minority women and austerity demonstrates how they use their race, class, gender...
Struggle and Suffrage in Manchester
Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
‘Women are not persons.’ That was the ruling of the Court of Appeal when Gwynneth Bebb challenged the Law Society to allow her to take exams and become a solicitor. The case was dismissed because only ‘persons’ (i.e. males) could become members of the Law Society and it proved the depth of...
Imagining Medea
Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
This ain't no Dreamgirls," Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs. Her expectations are grounded in reality, tempered, for example, by the fact that women are the fastest growing population in U.S. prisons. Still,...