Women category: 49097 books
A Road Unforeseen
Women Fight the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This is the book I’ve been waiting for-only it’s richer, deeper, and more intriguing than I could have imagined. A Road Unforeseen is a major contribution to our understanding of feminism and Islam, of women and the world, and gives me fresh hope for change.” -Barbara Ehrenreich, author of...
Rise Up Women!
The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Marking the centenary of female suffrage, this definitive history charts women's fight for the vote through the lives of those who took part, in a timely celebration of an extraordinary struggle
An Observer Pick of 2018
A Telegraph Book of 2018
A New Statesman Book of 2018
Between the...
The Only Woman in the Room
Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computer science
In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set...
by Gina M. Martino
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Across the borderlands of the early American northeast, New England, New France, and Native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America. Far from serving as passive helpmates in a private, domestic sphere, women assumed wartime...
Inventing Herself
Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
Sure to take its place alongside the literary landmarks of modern feminism, Elaine Showalter's brilliant, provocative work chronicles the roles of feminist intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the present.
With sources as diverse as A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Scream 2, Inventing...
Before Victoria
Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
It might not have the been the revolution that Mary Wollstonecraft called for in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), but the Romantic era did witness a dramatic change in women's lives. Combining literary and cultural history, this richly illustrated volume brings back to life a remarkable,...
by Charlotte Perkins [Stetson] Gilman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Author of the well-known short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" and other important fiction, Charlotte Perkins [Stetson] Gilman (1860–1935) was an ardent advocate of women's rights. In this classic feminist treatise, Gilman argues that women's dependence on men for their livelihood results in a state...
The XX Factor
How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Noted British academic and journalist Alison Wolf offers a surprising and thoughtful study of the professional elite, and examines the causes—and limits—of women’s rise and the consequences of their difficult choices.
The gender gap is closing. Today, for the first time in history,...
by Belinda Jack
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring what and how women of widely differing cultures...
Breaking the Rule of Cool
Interviewing and Reading Women Beat Writers
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2004
The Beat movement nurtured many female dissidents and artists who contributed to Beat culture and connected the Beats with the second wave of the women's movement. Although they have often been eclipsed by the men of the Beat Generation, the women's contributions to Beat literature are considerable....
Gun Women
Firearms and Feminism in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Women, we are told, should not own guns. Women, we are told, are more likely to be injured by their own guns than to fend off an attack themselves. This "fact" is rooted in a fundamental assumption of female weakness and vulnerability. Why should a woman not be every bit as capable as a...
The Subjection of Women (Annotated)
(Women's rights)
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Sinossi
The Subjection of Women is one of the earliest written on this subject by a male author. In "The Subjection of Women" Mill attempts to prove that the legal subjugation of women is wrong and that it should give way to perfect equality. He talks about the role of women in marriage and...
Women's Lives
The View from the Threshold
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
Eve has been supposed to have remarked to Adam as they left the garden, my dear, we are in a state of transition, and of course they were. It is no coincidence that Eve delivers this line. While humanity in every era and stage in history has been marked by a strong sense of itself as being in a state...
by P. N. Premalatha
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2003
Status of women from ancient period to the early part of the twentieth century, the factors responsible for the awakening of women, their role in the freedom movement, the establishment of Women's India Association, the first all India women's organisation in Madras in 1917 and its works in connection...