Women category: 49097 books
by Sally McMillen
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
In a quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, held a convention that would launch the woman's rights movement and change the course of history. The implications of that remarkable...
Caesars' Wives
Sex, Power, and Politics in the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
In scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have been popularly characterized as heartless murderers, shameless adulteresses, and conniving politicians in the high dramas of the Roman court. Yet little has been...
We'll Call You If We Need You
Experiences of Women Working Construction
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Susan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978, the year president Jimmy Carter set goals and timetables for the hiring of women on federally assisted construction projects and for the inclusion of women in apprenticeship programs....
Cannery Women, Cannery Lives
Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1987
Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography--a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers...
Resistance Behind Bars
The Struggles of Incarcerated Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
As it examines daily struggles against appalling prison conditions and injustices, this collection of real-life prisoners' stories and analysis of the prison landscape as it is today documents both collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarcerated in the United States. In 1974,...
by Jessica Valenti
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs. Why is it that men grow distinguished and sexily gray as they age while women just get saggy and haggard? Have you ever wondered how a young woman is...
Uprising
A New Age Is Dawning for Every Mother's Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
From Africa to Asia to the Americas, women are the key to progress on ending poverty, violence, and conflict. Award-winning humanitarian and journalist Sally Armstrong shows us why empowering women and girls is the way forward, and she introduces us to the leading females who are making change happen,...
Eat My Words
Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Some people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote, Janet Theophano shows that cookbooks provide food for the mind and the soul as well. Looking beyond the ingredients and instructions,...
When Less Is More
The Complete Guide for Women Considering Breast Reduction Surgery
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
If you have ever thought that your breasts are too big, this book is for you. Do you suffer from chronic back and neck pain? Do you struggle to sit up straight? What about frequent headaches or hand numbness? Disabling muscle and joint pain, discolored shoulder grooves from your bra straps, and rashes...
Unaccompanied Women
Late-Life Adventures in Love, Sex, and Real Estate
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Before I turn 67, I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like.” This inspired personal ad from Jane Juska drew tremendous response and swept the retired teacher into a whirlwind existence she barely recognized as her own. She relayed her fun and frank exploits in the bestseller A Round-Heeled...
Good Catholic Girls
How Women Are Leading the Fight to Change the Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The widely exposed transgressions of priests within the Catholic Church stunned the faithful and sent a new surge of energy through the progressive church reform movement in the United States. Despite the movement's growing profile, the world has only recently learned that Catholic women are the driving...
Talking Taboo
American Christian Women Get Frank About Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
American Christian Women under 40 are being theologically trained in unprecedented numbers, accessing leadership in their communities through both orthodox and unorthodox avenues, and balancing the roles of professional, wife, mother, girlfriend, and friend. With all of the perceived progress, why...
Sima's Undergarments for Women
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
In a Brooklyn basement, Sima gives neighborhood women the support they need—but struggles with her own secrets: “Much more than a novel of female bonding” (Publishers Weekly).
Sima Goldner runs her own bra shop, where her customers can find not only a perfect fit but also a sympathetic...
Standing Alone
An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
As President Bush is preparing to invade Iraq, Wall Street Journal correspondent Asra Nomani embarks on a dangerous journey from Middle America to the Middle East to join more than two million fellow Muslims on the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca required of all Muslims once in their lifetime. Mecca...