Women category: 49097 books
Cunt, 20th Anniversary Edition
A Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The twentieth-anniversary edition of the original women's empowerment manifesto
An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off its noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim the term as...
Woman Awake
Women Practicing Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Because women have been conditioned to live according to traditional feminine values—conformity, passivity, and surrender of the self—they often feel powerless to transform their lives and afraid to lose their sense of worth. In Woman Awake, Christina Feldman suggests that it is possible for women...
by Susan Sheridan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In the decades after World War II, the literary scene in Australia flourished: local writers garnered international renown and local publishers sought and produced more Australian books. The traditional view of this postwar period is of successful male writers, with women still confined to the domestic...
by Tedd Levy
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Situated at the mouth of the Connecticut River, Old Saybrook has been home to generations of remarkable women. The women of this quintessentially New England town have faced and overcome overwhelming adversity to leave indelible marks on their town and its history. Katharine Houghton Hepburn, mother...
American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870
A Reference Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
An annotated bibliography on women who wrote fiction in the US during the period 1790-1870. The first part is an annotated list of sources that discuss women's fiction in the period and women authors born before 1840 who published before 1870. The second part is an alphabetical list of the approximately...
Women and Guerrilla Movements
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2002
The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating what Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara called the "new man." But, in fact, many of the "new...
by Nigel Fountain
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Women at War captures the reality of women at war in their own words, examining the enormously important part that women played in the major wars of the twentieth century. From their involvement in the First World War - as munitions workers, land girls, postal workers, drivers, as well as nurses and...
We Mean to Be Counted
White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed
the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded...
by Kathy Peiss
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? Cheap Amusements is a fascinating discussion of young working women whose meager wages often fell short of bare subsistence and rarely allowed for entertainment expenses.
Kathy...
The Sisterhood
The Inside Story of the Women's Movement and the Leaders Who Made it Happen
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In this epic drama of personality and politics, passion and ambition, courage and betrayal, Marcia Cohen tells the fascinating inside story of the feminist revolution through the lives of the women who made it—and were sometimes unmade by it. Focusing on Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Latin American Women Writers: An Encyclopedia presents the lives and critical works of over 170 women writers in Latin America between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. This features thematic entries as well as biographies of female writers whose works were originally published in Spanish or...
From Coveralls to Zoot Suits
The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive population shifts and the war challenged Americans to rethink notions of race. At this extraordinary historical moment, Mexican American women found new...
by Faye Hammill
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon—celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited actors into brand-name stars, celebrity also spread to writers, whose personal appearances and private...
A Thousand Sisters
My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Lisa J. Shannon had a good life—a successful business, a fiancé, a home, and security. Then, one day in 2005, an episode of Oprah changed all that. The show focused on women in Congo, the worst place on earth to be a woman. She was awakened to the atrocities there—millions dead, women raped and...