Women category: 49097 books
by Carl Holliday
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
What was life like for women in the American colonies? Did colonial women lead the sober, cheerless lives of hardship often portrayed by later generations? Professor Holliday's classic study, drawn from a wide range of sources, suggests otherwise. Dispelling images of the lives of colonial woman as...
Women in Sports
50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Illustrated profiles of fifty pioneering female athletes, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science.
Women for the win!
A richly illustrated and inspiring book, Women in Sports highlights the achievements and stories of fifty notable women athletes from the 1800s...
Energy Medicine for Women
Aligning Your Body's Energies to Boost Your Health and Vitality
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2008
"Even the most hard-nosed doctor will admit that some people have a healing presence that makes us--and our immune systems--better than before. Donna Eden is one of those rare healers."
--Gloria Steinem
Energy Medicine for Women was awarded the prestigious 2009 Nautilus Gold Award in the Health, Healing...
by Grace Cornish, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
"It's time to take back your power and your life--take it back from the bad relationships, bad careers, bad investments, bad company, and bad memories. It's time for you to live a fuller, happier, more productive, and wholesome life. This is your time to claim your blessings. God has given you a choice....
Your Life In Your Hands
Understanding, Preventing, and Overcoming Breast Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
One out of nine women in the United States will develop breast cancer in her lifetime. In fact, it is the second leading cause of cancer death for women (after lung cancer) and the leading overall cause of death in women between the ages of forty and fifty-five. For too long women have erroneously...
Women on Top
How Real Life Has Changed Women's Sexual Fantasies
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Nancy Friday's groundbreaking books My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers offered an unprecedentedly detailed and honest look at the inner fantasy lives of ordinary women. In Women on Top, Friday returns to this topic, collecting detailed sexual fantasies from over 150 contemporary women from diverse...
Working with Immigrant Women
Issues and Strategies for Mental Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Working with Immigrant Women addresses the gap between the needs of newcomer women and established structures and practices in Canada’s mental health care system.
With an interest in changing paradigms in mental health practice, the multidisciplinary group of authors—including researchers,...
Love Sex Again
A Gynecologist Finally Fixes the Issues That Are Sabotaging Your Sex Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Love Sex Again is an all-encompassing guide to women's sexual health from Dr. Lauren Streicher, a cutting-edge Gynecologist, and a regular on The Dr. Oz Show.
Ladies, what if one of America's leading sexual specialists and Gynecologist told you that she knew your body better than you did? What...
by Gillian Anderson, Jennifer Nadel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Urgent and provocative, We: A Manifesto for Women Everwhere is “part self-help, part social theory, centered in the idea that instead of having it ‘all,’ women can live happier, better lives by becoming more free” (Glamour), from longtime friends Gillian Anderson and Jennifer Nadel.
We:...
Confederate Women and Yankee Men
A UNC Press Civil War Short, Excerpted from Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Gilpin Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged...
U.S. Women's History
Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women’s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach—acknowledging that no woman...
Working Difference
Women’s Working Lives in Hungary and Austria, 1945–1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2003
Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Éva Fodor examines women's inclusion in and exclusion from positions of authority in Austria and Hungary in the latter half of...
by Rachel G. Fuchs, Victoria E. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2004
During the nineteenth century, European women of all countries and social classes experienced dramatic and enduring changes in their familial, working and political lives. However, the history of women at this time is not one of unmitigated progress - theirs was an uphill struggle, fraught with hindrances,...
Entering the Fray
Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The study of the New South has in recent decades been greatly enriched by research into gender, reshaping our understanding of the struggle for woman suffrage, the conflicted nature of race and class in the South, the complex story of politics, and the role of family and motherhood in black and white...