Women category: 49097 books
by Bonnie G. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Women’s Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the pathbreaking and cross-disciplinary study of women—past and present. Tracing the history of the field from its origins, this revised and updated text sets out the main topics making up the discipline, exploring its global development...
Divided We Stand
The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
More than forty years ago, two women's movements drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives. The far-reaching legacy of that rift is still felt today.
One of Smithsonian Magazine's "Ten Best History Books of the Year†?
Gloria Steinem was quoted in 2015 (the New...
Rachel Carson and Her Sisters
Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America's Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“In Rachel Carson and Her Sisters, Musil fills the gap by placing Carson's achievements in a wider context, weaving connections from the past through the present. Readers will find new insight into Carson and contemporary figures she influenced...who have historically received less attention. Musil’s...
Workable Sisterhood
The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people...
Invisible No More
Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A timely examination of the ways Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color are uniquely affected by racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement.
Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial...
Women and Socialism
Essays on Women's Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Thirty years have passed since the heyday of the women’s liberation struggle, yet women remain second-class citizens. Feminism has shifted steadily rightward since the 1960s. This collection of essays examines these issues from a Marxist perspective, badly needed today.
Women and Socialism...
Alabama Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this...
Why Women Need Fat
How "Healthy" Food Makes Us Gain Excess Weight and the Surprising Solution to Losing It Forever
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
The groundbreaking discovery that shows why women need fat to lose fat.
Why do women struggle so much with weight? Can women ever lose weight and keep it off?
In this research-driven and counterintuitive book, an anthropologist and a public health doctor team up to answer those questions....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Feminist theory has been widely translated, influencing the humanities and social sciences in many languages and cultures. However, these theories have not made as much of an impact on the discipline that made their dissemination possible: many translators and translation scholars still remain unaware...
Veiled Courage
Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqa. A woman’s slightest infractions were met with brutal public beatings. That is why...
Women in the Church of God in Christ
Making a Sanctified World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today. In this first major study of the church, Anthea Butler examines the religious and social lives of the women in the COGIC Women's...
Women v. Religion
The Case Against Faith—and for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Throughout history, religion has been used as a tool of female subjugation. Women have been deemed less worthy than men, have been prevented from owning property, and worse—all in the name of a higher power. In recent decades, women have made progress in terms of equal rights with men, at least...
Ladies in the Laboratory III
South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian Women in Science: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Published in 1998, Ladies in the Laboratory provided a systematic survey and comparison of the work of 19th-century American and British women in scientific research. A companion volume, published in 2004, focused on women scientists from Western Europe. In this third volume, author Mary R.S. Creese...
Women Before the Bar
Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions--including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic...