Women category: 49097 books
Recoding Gender
Women's Changing Participation in Computing
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.
Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male “computer geek”...
Gender Talk
The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Why has the African American community remained silent about gender even as race has moved to the forefront of our nation’s consciousness? In this important new book, two of the nation’s leading African American intellectuals offer a resounding and far-reaching answer to a question that has been...
Women in the Security Profession
A Practical Guide for Career Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Women in the Security Profession: A Practical Guide for Career Development is a resource for women considering a career in security, or for those seeking to advance to its highest levels of management. It provides a historical perspective on how women have evolved in the industry, as well as providing...
Iraqi Women
Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The war in Iraq has put the condition of Iraqi women firmly on the global agenda. For years, their lives have been framed by state oppression, economic sanctions and three wars. Now they must play a seminal role in reshaping their country's future for the twenty-first century. Nadje Al-Ali challenges...
Early Detection
Women, Cancer, and Awareness Campaigns in the Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Dispelling the common notion that American women became activists in the fight against female cancer only after the 1970s, Kirsten E. Gardner traces women's cancer education campaigns back to the early twentieth century. Focusing on breast cancer, but using research on cervical, ovarian, and uterine...
Ribbons of Scarlet
A Novel of the French Revolution's Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Six bestselling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers—six unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative...
Arab Women Writers
A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
Arab women's writing in the modern age began with 'A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study-first published in Arabic in 2004-looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's...
by S. Pearl Sharp
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
There are over 519 million Black Women on the planet Earth, give or take a dozen. There’s a Black Woman on each of the seven continents, in almost every country and in almost every context.mThere are even Black Women in the space program. So no matter where you go, she’s already been there. She...
Unspinning the Spin
The Women's Media Center Guide to Fair and Accurate Language
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
The Women’s Media Center—founded by Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, and Robin Morgan—presents its first comprehensive guide to using accurate, inclusive, creative, and clear language. At a time when language is too often used to “spin” instead of communicate, Unspinning the Spin: The Women’s...
Women, Girls & Psychotherapy
Reframing Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Adolescent girls’special needs in the teen-age years are thoroughly examined in Women, Girls & Psychotherapy, a compelling book focusing on the vitality of resistance in young girls. Drawing on studies of women’s and girls’development, clinical work with girls and women, and their personal...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This innovative collection of contemporary essays in feminist literary criticism provides a spectrum of approaches and positions, united by their common focus on writing by and about women.
Spanning the novel, poetry, drama, film and criticism, the contributors emphasise some of the problems...
by Riv-Ellen Prell
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
The rise of Jewish feminism, a branch of both second-wave feminism and the American counterculture, in the late 1960s had an extraordinary impact on the leadership, practice, and beliefs of American Jews. Women Remaking American Judaism is the first book to fully examine the changes in American Judaism...
by Nancy R. Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Is a woman's writing different from a man's? Many scholars -- and readers -- think so, even thought here has been little examination of the way women's novels enact the theories that women theorists have posited. In Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women's Text, Nancy Harrison makes an important contribution...
The Glass Slipper
Women and Love Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Why is the story of romance in books, magazines, and films still aimed at women rather than at men? Even after decades of feminism, traditional ideas and messages about romantic love still hold sway and, in our “postfeminist” age, are more popular than ever. Increasingly, we have become a culture...