Women category: 49097 books
Women's Sports
What Everyone Needs to Know®
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Although girls and women account for approximately 40 percent of all athletes in the United States, they receive only 4 percent of the total sport media coverage. SportsCenter, ESPN's flagship program, dedicates less than 2 percent of its airtime to women. Local news networks devote less than 5 percent...
Women as Weapons of War
Iraq, Sex, and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2007
Ever since Eve tempted Adam with her apple, women have been regarded as a corrupting and destructive force. The very idea that women can be used as interrogation tools, as evidenced in the infamous Abu Ghraib torture photos, plays on age-old fears of women as sexually threatening weapons, and therefore...
Unmasked
Women Write About Sex and Intimacy After Fifty
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Women over fifty are “the invisible woman” in American culture. In a society that reveres youth – and particularly young, sexy women – women over fifty fade into the shadows. Yet, for many women at mid-life, this is a time of flowering and coming into one’s own, sexually and otherwise. Many...
I Can't Believe She Did That!
Why Women Betray Other Women at Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE DID THAT! offers a new and compelling perspective on conflict and competition among women in the workplace. Nan Mooney explores how and why some women hurt each other on the job, and what we can do to begin cleaning up the mess. Based on real stories from real women, I CAN'T BELIEVE...
by Jennifer Mieres, MD, Stacey Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Heart Smart for Women, Six S.T.E.P.S. in Six Weeks to Heart-Healthy Living equips women of all ages with a comprehensive program for heart-healthy living. This book is a call to action for women everywhere and the message is a positive one: Heart disease is preventable! Leading cardiologists, Drs....
by Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The number of women elected to Latin American legislatures has grown significantly over the past thirty years. This increase in the number of women elected to national office is due, in large part, to gender-friendly electoral rules such as gender quotas and proportional electoral systems, and it...
Voices From Within
Women Who Have Broken the Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Women in conflict with the law have their own ideas about why and how they became law breakers. Experts tell us who these women are and why they break the law, usually igonroing of discrediting the opinions of the women themselves.
As a counselling and research intern in a women's medium-security...
by Sara Bell
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Why Women Aren’t Engineers is not your typical women in engineering book. This book won’t tell you how to get the corner office or break through the glass ceiling. It offers no uplifting advice on how to succeed as a woman engineer. This is one woman’s account of the difficulties she faced...
Having It All?
Black Women and Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms.
In a single generation, black women have made extraordinary strides academically,...
by Melissa S. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Wall Street Women tells the story of the first generation of women to establish themselves as professionals on Wall Street. Since these women, who began their careers in the 1960s, faced blatant discrimination and barriers to advancement, they created formal and informal associations to bolster one...
Chinese Comfort Women
Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
During the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeatedly raped and tortured. Japanese imperial forces claimed they recruited women to join these stations in order to prevent the mass rape of local...
Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
"Provides scholars with a historical lens from which to view the higher education of black women . . . [and] how one generation of black women benefited from the work and sacrifices of the prior generation."--Adah L. Ward Randolph, Ohio University "Keen historical and theoretical observation...
Funding Feminism
Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst,...
Playing Big
Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A groundbreaking women’s leadership expert and popular conference speaker gives women the practical skills to voice and implement the changes they want to see—in themselves and in the world
In her coaching and programs for women, Tara Mohr saw how women were "playing small" in their...