Women category: 49097 books
Still Doing It
The Intimate Lives of Women over Sixty
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2008
"An informed, honest, joyous book. Younger women may well envy us." -Suzanne Braun Levine, author of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives and
"Sex, love, and life can grow even richer as we grow older, and the stereotype-busting women in this book show us scores of ways. These women...
by Jennifer L. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Women in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster, tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the Republic. This volume goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or Abigail Adams, recovering...
Psychological Health of Women of Color: Intersections, Challenges, and Opportunities
Intersections, Challenges, and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Psychological Health of Women of Color: Intersections, Challenges, and Opportunities is an anthology that examines core issues of women of color's emotional health and well-being. Organized by subject, the work comprises contributions from noted experts on the psychological health of women of color.
The...
Women, Wives, Mothers
Values and Options
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
One of the most important series of events in modern times--the restructuring of sex roles to adapt them to modern life--is here chronicled from the perspective of a lifetime of studying and writing about women. In this lively, lucid book Jessie Bernard examines, with concern and expertise, the dramatic...
by Lora Wildenthal, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
When Germany annexed colonies in Africa and the Pacific beginning in the 1880s, many German women were enthusiastic. At the same time, however, they found themselves excluded from what they saw as a great nationalistic endeavor. In German Women for Empire, 1884–1945 Lora Wildenthal untangles the...
Winning Their Place
Arizona Women in Politics, 1883-1950
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
In January 1999, five women were elected to the highest offices in Arizona, including governor, secretary of state, attorney general, treasurer, and superintendent of public instruction. The “Fab Five,” as they were dubbed by the media, were sworn in by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor,...
Roman Women
The Women who influenced the History of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Using historical sources ( Livy, Suetonius, et al) as well as numismatic and sculptural evidence, Roman Women details the lives of Rome’s most influential women to examine, uniquely, what effect they had on contemporary politics, and or how far they and their reputations and actions reflected...
Girls Coming to Tech!
A History of American Engineering Education for Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
How women coped with both formal barriers and informal opposition to their entry into the traditionally masculine field of engineering in American higher education.
Engineering education in the United States was long regarded as masculine territory. For decades, women who studied or worked...
Soft Force
Women in Egypt's Islamic Awakening
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from power in Egypt, Muslim women took a leading role in developing a robust Islamist presence in the country’s public sphere. Soft Force examines the writings and activism of these women—including...
Women Embracing Islam
Gender and Conversion in the West
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Many Westerners view Islam as a religion that restricts and subordinates women in both private and public life. Yet a surprising number of women in Western Europe and America are converting to Islam. What attracts these women to a belief system that is markedly different from both Western Christianity...
Women in Modern Terrorism
From Liberation Wars to Global Jihad and the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Recent events, including the rise of the Islamic State and its overt recruitment of Western women, have once again brought the issue of women participating in terrorist organizations to the forefront. Yet much remains to be understood about why women join terrorist organizations and why groups choose...
by Daniel Marques
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Have you ever wondered why Asian women are among the most fit and thin women in the world?
Many women have tried to understand the hidden secrets those Asian women keep but failed.
The reason why it is so difficult to unveil the secret is that Asian women have a huge variety of traditions to keep...
Women's Voices in Ireland
Women's Magazines in the 1950s and 60s
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Women's Voices in Ireland examines the letters and problems sent in by women to two Irish women's magazines in the 1950s and 60s, discussing them within their wider social and historical context. In doing so, it provides a unique insight into one of the few forums for female expression in Ireland...
Unruly Women
The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates "unruly" women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War. Analyzing the complex and interrelated impact of gender, race, class, and region on the lives of black and white women, she shows how their...