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Women Healing Women

A Model of Hope for Oppressed Women Everywhere

by William Keepin
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

Much has been written on the plight of women in Indian society, but this book presents an effective practical response to the appalling injustices - and a model of hope for agencies and programs for oppressed women around the world. This book recounts the true story of "Maher", a remarkable project and...
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by Caroline Shearer
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012

Leading women across the nation celebrate the feminine nature through stories of collaboration, creativity, intuition, nurturing, strength, trailblazing, and wisdom in "Women Will Save the World." Inspired by a quote from the Dalai Lama, bestselling author and Absolute Love Publishing Founder...
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by Allen Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012

Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) is disorder occurs in women during their reproductive years. PMS is characterized by between one and one hundred physical and emotional symptoms that commonly repeat themselves on a cyclic basis associated with the woman’s Menstrual cycle. PMS symptoms always occur...
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by Kristen A. Renn
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014

Educating girls and women is a powerful route to improving societies worldwide. When women receive more education, literacy rates in children rise, maternal and infant death rates drop, and women enjoy an increased earning capacity. Yet in parts of the developing world, women’s education is considered...
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by Joanna Mercury, Blaise Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015

Hot sex tips from escorts that will really spice up your bedroom! Want to be a goddess in the bedroom? First, you need to know the down and dirty of how men enjoy sex...as only escorts know. AT LAST! A truthful woman’s view on men's sexuality from the women who know it best – escorts!...
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Women’s Lives and Livelihoods in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan

Ceremonies of Empowerment and Peacebuilding

by Zulfiya Tursunova
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014

Women in Uzbekistan have been labeled as victims of patriarchy and submissive, voiceless bodies who lack agency and decision-making power. They are also often symbolized as preservers of rituals and culture and also the victims of socio-economic transformations. During the years of land tenure changes...
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Available Means

An Anthology Of Women'S Rhetoric(s)

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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2001

“I say that even later someone will remember us.”—Sappho, Fragment 147, sixth century, BC Sappho’s prediction came true; fragments of work by the earliest woman writer in Western literate history have in fact survived into the twenty-first century. But not without peril. Sappho’s...
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Equality of Women and Men

An unstoppable evolution of Humanity

by Reynaldo Pareja
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018

We are witnessing today women being elected as presidents or prime ministers, women that have been awarded Nobel prizes, that perform exceedingly in sports winning Olympic medals, women that excel in art, that have defended the rights of the oppressed, that have gone to space, that are active in politics...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019

Recent books have drawn attention to an unfinished gender revolution and the reversal of gender progress. However, this literature primarily focuses on gender inequality in the family and its effect on women’s career and family choices. While an important topic, these works​ ​are critiqued for...
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Beyond the Pulpit

Women’s Rhetorical Roles in the Antebellum Religious Press

by Lisa J. Shaver
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2012

In the formative years of the Methodist Church in the United States, women played significant roles as proselytizers, organizers, lay ministers, and majority members. Although women’s participation helped the church to become the nation’s largest denomination by the mid-nineteenth century, their...
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Republican Women

Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right

by Catherine E. Rymph
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006

In the wake of the Nineteenth Amendment, Republican women set out to forge a place for themselves within the Grand Old Party. As Catherine Rymph explains, their often conflicting efforts over the subsequent decades would leave a mark on both conservative politics and American feminism. Part...
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Compact Clinical Guide to Women's Pain Management

An Evidence-Based Approach for Nurses

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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013

"This wonderful and insightful book is an excellent resource for providers caring for women experiencing pain. This group of patients is considered a vulnerable population that is often faced with issues of power imbalance and lack of understanding from the healthcare professionals charged with providing...
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Political Women

The Women's Movement, Political Institutions, the Battle for Women's Suffrage and the ERA

by Alana Jeydel
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004

Under what conditions are political elites responsive to social movements, and when do social movements gain access to political elites? This book explores this question with regard to the women's movement in the US, asking under what conditions are Congress and the presidency responsive to the women's...
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Mothering Babies in Domestic Violence

Beyond Attachment Theory

by Fiona Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017

This unique book offers an innovative feminist critique of attachment theory that offers an alternative understanding of relationships between women and their babies in domestic violence. Fiona Buchanan identifies a way forward for working with women, babies and people who have grown up with domestic...
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