Women category: 49097 books
Private Woman, Public Stage
Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century's most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley's landmark study: Maria Cummins, Caroline Howard Gilman, Caroline Lee Hentz, Mary Jane Holmes, Maria McIntosh,...
Price of Honor
Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2002
ANEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“Explains powerfully how Muslim women are affected by the rise of fundamentalism.”—Dan Rather
In recent years, the expanding movement of militant Islam has changed the way millions think, behave, dress, and live, but nowhere has its impact been more...
The M Word
Conversations about Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A CNQ Editors’ Book of the Year
A Dropped Threads-style anthology, assembling original and inspiring works by some of Canada's best younger female writers — such as Heather Birrell, Saleema Nawaz, Susan Olding, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, Carrie Snyder, and Alison Pick — The M Word asks...
Hers
Through Women's Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
A collection of sixty-five of the most memorable essays to appear in the “Hers” column in The New York Times
Among the talented writers who examined the private and public issues facing women are Lois Gould, Gail Godwin, Gail Sheehy, Joyce Maynard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Cantwell, Linda...
by Marisa Bate
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
A cleverly nerdy review of feminist history told through the wide range of women who have shaped it, from Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Oprah to Beyoncé and The Spice Girls
A quirky, intelligent, and stylish review of the feminist movement, told through the stories of standout figures who have shaped...
by Kanchan Kabra
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Cooking For Pregnant And Lactating Women
by Kanchan Kabra
This book presents a feast of delicious and nutritious recipes created for women planning a baby, for pregnant women and for lactating ones. This is a boon to them.
Kanchan Kabra being a nutrition consultant and a dietician has...
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace
American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890-1940
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Women's Studies
Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace explores the social and
political activism of American Jewish women from approximately
1890 to the beginnings of World War II.
Written in an engaging style, the book demonstrates that...
In Her Own Words
Women's Memoirs from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Jill Ker Conway, author of one of the most celebrated memoirs of recent decades, is also the premier anthologist of women's autobiographical writing. In Her Own Words is Conway's distillation of women's experience from the British Commonwealth world she came from, compared with major themes in women's...
At Home in the World
Women Writers and Public Life, from Austen to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public life
In a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic...
Women and Jewish Law
The Essential Texts, Their History, and Their Relevance for Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
How has a legal tradition determined by men affected the lives of women? What are the traditional Jewish views of marriage, divorce, sexuality, contraception, abortion? Women and Jewish Law gives contemporary readers access to the central texts of the Jewish religious tradition on issues of special...
Women's History, Britain 1700-1850
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Placing women’s experiences in the context of the major social, economic and cultural shifts that accompanied the industrial and commercial transformations of this period, Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus paint a fascinating picture of the change, revolution, and continuity that were encountered...
Women in Science
A Social and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The first book of its kind to provide a full and comprehensive historical grounding of the contemporary issues of gender and women in science.
Women in Science includes a detailed survey of the history behind the popular subject and engages the reader with a theoretical and informed understanding...
by Christopher Lasch
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 1997
"Vintage Lasch.... One of the refreshments of reading him is that he states his beliefs outright."—Andrew Delbanco, New York Times Book Review
Christopher Lasch has examined the role of women and the family in Western society throughout his career as a writer, thinker, and historian....
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
Seminal work on the rights of woman. According to Wikipedia: "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft...