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The Woman's Bible (Complete Edition)
Volume I: Comments on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, Volume II: Comments on the Old and New Testaments from Joshua to Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The Woman's Bible" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Woman's Bible is a two-volumebook, written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and a committee of 26 women, published in 1895 and 1898 to challenge the traditional...
Fed Up
Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
From Gemma Hartley, the journalist who ignited a national conversation on emotional labor, comes Fed Up, a bold dive into the unpaid, invisible work women have shouldered for too long—and an impassioned vision for creating a better future for us all**.**
Day in, day out, women anticipate...
Life Out Of Reach
Spare Burden
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
One of six girls born to immigrants who moved from India to Wolverhampton, Jas Dosanjh tells a no-holds-barred, raw and harrowing first-hand account of growing up in a harsh, oppressive and male-dominated Sikh Punjabi family. In conversations with her therapist, Jas describes her grandfather’s way...
You are the Book
A Spiritual Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
A witness to the worst tragedies of hate—and the greatest healing of love Rabbi Tamara Miller’s life was touched by horrifying acts of bigotry turned deadly. She fought institutions, ingrained sexism, her own insecurities, and even her own family to forge a spiritual practice by which she could...
by Phil Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
From the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life and sexualities appear inseparable. Cities are the source of our most familiar images of sexual practice, and are the spaces where new understandings of sexuality take shape. In an era of global business...
At the Foot of the Mountain
Nature and the Art of Soul Healing
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2000
TEXT FOR AUTHOR BIO: Like philosopher and teacher Joseph Campbell, Alla Bozarth explores life's mysteries through the power of myth and metaphor: the salmon; the great bear; the ocean; the phoenix; the chambered nautilus; the iris; the lotus. Above all is her mountain -Mt. Hood- her "Medicine...
The Unfinished Revolution
Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
“It’s a time of change in the world, with dictators toppling and new opportunities rising, but any revolution that doesn’t create equality for women will be incomplete. The time has come to realize the full potential of half the world’s population.” —Christiane Amanpour, from the foreword
The...
Stars at Dawn
Forgotten Stories of Women in the Buddha's Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In this retelling of the ancient legends of the women in the Buddha’s intimate circle, lesser-known stories from Sanskrit and Pali sources are for the first time woven into an illuminating, coherent narrative. Interspersed with original insights, fresh interpretations, and bold challenges to the...
Decolonizing Anarchism
An Antiauthoritarian History of India's Liberation Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
Decolonizing Anarchism looks at the history of South Asian struggles against colonialism and neocolonialism, highlighting lesser-known dissidents as well as iconic figures. This approach reveals an alternate narrative of decolonization, in which achieving a nation-state is not the objective. Maia...
by Frederike Swaantje van Balen-Klaar, Aletta H. Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
“De afgevaardigde, die prijs stelt op zijn mandaat, moet bewust of onbewust, letten op hen, die bij de stembus invloed hebben, en het is onmogelijk dat de Kamer doorgaand even goed kan letten op de belangen van hen, die geen stem hebben.”
Van Houten. Vragen des Tijds, 1881.
“Het...
by Lawrence A Kurdek
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Here is an essential resource filled with advice for providing social services to gay and lesbian couples. Despite myths to the contrary, many gay men and lesbians form long-term couples relationships. Unfortunately, many professionals working in the area of social services lack training with regard...
by Clementine Ford
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Through a mixture of memoir, opinion and investigative journalism, Clementine Ford exposes just how unequal the world continues to be for women. An incendiary debut taking the world by storm, Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and as yet unrealised that will give them...
Women's Football in the UK
Continuing with Gender Analyses
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book examines the complex ways in which girls and women experience football cultures in Britain. It extends current debate surrounding women and football (namely, how gender has functioned to shape women’s experiences of playing the game), by focusing on organisational, administrative and coaching...
by Lynn Peril
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002
From board games to beauty pageants, a smart, witty, pop-culture history of the perilous path to achieving the feminine ideal.
Deluged by persuasive advertisements and meticulous (though often misguided) advice experts, women from the 1940s to the 1970s were coaxed to "think pink"...