Women category: 49097 books
Inspiration
Profiles of Black Women Changing Our World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Inspiration shares the personal stories and unique voices of 30 extraordinary black women. Whether in the White House or on the courts of Wimbledon, in Hollywood or on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, these women have influenced the social, cultural, and political landscape of this country,...
Korean Women Managers and Corporate Culture
Challenging Tradition, Choosing Empowerment, Creating Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The typical view of Korean women is not as managers. The stereotype is of Korean women serving and pleasing men, or more recently as aggressive shopkeepers and bar-owners. Very little has been written to challenge this misconception. This fascinating book reveals there have always been managers amongst...
Country Women Cope with Hard Times
A Collection of Oral Histories
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
"It was hard times," French Carpenter Clark recalls, a sentiment unanimously echoed by the sixteen other women who talk about their lives in Country Women Cope with Hard Times. Born between 1890 and 1940 in eastern Tennessee and western South Carolina, these women grew up on farms, in labor...
Airbrushed Nation
The Lure and Loathing of Women's Magazines
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Glamour. Cosmo. SELF. Ladies’ Home Journal. Vogue. In an industry that has been in a downward spiral for years, these magazines-and other women-focused magazines like them-have not only retained their readership, they’ve increased it. Every month, five million-plus women peel back the slick cover...
Selling Women Short
The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
On television, Wal-Mart employees are smiling women delighted with their jobs. But reality is another story. In 2000, Betty Dukes, a fifty-two-year-old black woman in Pittsburg, California, became the lead plaintiff in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, a class action, representing 1.6 million women. In her...
Exemplary Women of Early China
The Lienü zhuan of Liu Xiang
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
In early China, was it correct for a woman to disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the public policy of a son who ruled over a dynasty or state? According to the Lienü zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it was not only appropriate but necessary for women to step in with wise...
by Maya Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
The narratives in this volume constitute immense challenges and small but profoundly significant triumphs. Located within a personal journey of emergence from a space fraught with silences and half-truths, the book documents the life-stories of ten working-class queer women living in north India....
Under My Thumb
Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Women write about their experiences of loving music that doesn’t love them back – a feminist 'guilty pleasures'.e - a kind of feminist guilty pleasures.
In the majority of mainstream writing and discussions on music, women appear purely in relation to men as muses, groupies or fangirls,...
Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace
Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2008
In Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace, Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II.
Brennan details the actions and experiences of prominent anti-communists Jean Kerr McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Freda Utley, Doloris Thauwald...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
The Harlem Renaissance is considered one of the most significant periods of creative and intellectual expression for African Americans. Beginning as early as 1914 and lasting into the 1940s, this era saw individuals reject the stereotypes of African Americans and confront the racist, social, political,...
Female Chauvinist Pigs
Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
A classic work on gender culture exploring how the women’s movement has evolved to Girls Gone Wild in a new, self-imposed chauvinism. In the tradition of Susan Faludi’s Backlash and Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth, New York Magazine writer Ariel Levy studies the effects of modern feminism on women...
Virginia Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection of seventeen essays, written by established and emerging scholars, recovers the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the seventeenth...
by David Cordingly
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
For centuries the sea has been regarded as a male domain. Fisherman, navy officers, pirates, and explorers roamed the high seas while their wives and daughters stayed on shore. Oceangoing adventurers and the crews of their ships were part of an all-male world — or were they?
In this illuminating...
The Caged Virgin
An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2006
Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Ayaan Hirsi Ali's profound meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western...