Women category: 49097 books
Together We Rise
Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In celebration of the one-year anniversary of Women’s March, this gorgeously designed full-color book offers an unprecedented, front-row seat to one of the most galvanizing movements in American history, with exclusive interviews with Women’s March organizers, never-before-seen photographs, and...
The Richer Sex
How the New Majority of Female Breadwinners Is Transforming Sex, Love and Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
A REVOLUTION IS UNDER WAY.
Within a generation, more households will be supported by women than by men. In The Richer Sex, Liza Mundy takes us to the exciting frontier of this new economic order: she shows us why this flip is inevitable, what surprising adjustments will have to be made along...
by Valentine Moghadam, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sarah White
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
The Women, Gender and Development Reader II is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration,...
by Lisa Baldez, Maryann Barakso, Jo Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
This ambitious volume brings together original essays on the U.S. women's movement with analyses of women's movements in other countries around the world. A comparative perspective and a common theme—feminism in social movement action—unite these voices in a way that will excite students and inspire...
Sweetening the Pill
or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Millions of healthy women take a powerful medication every day from their mid-teens to menopause - the Pill - but few know how this drug works or the potential side effects. Contrary to cultural myth, the birth-control pill impacts on every organ and function of the body, and yet most women do not even...
Baby Bod
Turn Flab to Fab in 12 Weeks Flat
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2015
A GROUNDBREAKING SELF-CARE PROGRAM FOR PREGNANT AND POSTPARTUM WOMEN. Let BabyBod® get you into the best shape for delivery and then get your sexy back on as a mom! This revolutionary program, tested on over 100 women, will give you phenomenal results, even if it’s been years since you had your...
Menopause Confidential
A Doctor Reveals the Secrets to Thriving Through Midlife
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
An authoritative guide to understanding and navigating the hormonal changes and health issues women experience in midlife and beyond, from one of the leading medical experts in the field.
The physical changes that occur after women turn forty are unavoidable—and can be unnerving. Menopause...
Come as You Are
The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
***A NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER***
An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research and brain science—that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy.
Researchers have spent the last decade trying...
by Daniel Marques
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Most of the things in which modern women believe regarding relationships and love is conditioned by movies, literature and social values in general. And, apart from any judgment that we could make about this fact, the truth is that the combination of such beliefs leads to stereotypes and behaviors...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
This e-only volume expands and updates the original 4-volume Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World (2011), offering a wide range of new entries and new multimedia content. The entries reflect such developments as the Arab Spring that brought women's issues in the Islamic world into sharp relief,...
by Cortney Hughes Rinker
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Rabat, Morocco, this ethnography analyzes the relationship between neoliberal development policies, women’s reproductive practices, and popular understandings of Islam. In the 1990s, Morocco shifted its attention from economic to human development, as economic reforms...
The Legendary Women Detectives
Six Classic Novelettes Featuring The World's Greatest Female Super-Sleuths
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Sherlock Holmes’ female rivals!
This unique collection for connoisseurs of detection brings back six of the greatest fictional women sleuths of the era of gaslights and horseless carriages. Fans of Kinsey Milhone and other contemporary women detectives, as well as of Agatha Christie and Honey...
Forbidden Flowers
More Women's Sexual Fantasies
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
The publication of the groundbreaking expose on women's sexual fantasies, My Secret Garden, ushered in a revolution in women's sexual freedom of expression. In Forbidden Flowers, Nancy Friday reveals even more erotic, wild, and explicit fantasies expressed by women all over the world, from all ethnic...
Because of Sex
One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
“Meticulously researched and rewarding to read…Thomas is a gifted storyteller.” —The New York Times Book Review
Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America’s working women. Title VII of the...