Women category: 49097 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Examining the global experiences, challenges and achievements of Muslim women participating in physical activities and sport, this important new study makes a profound contribution to our understanding of both contemporary Islam and the complexity and diversity of women’s lives in the modern world.
The...
by Gladys M. Francis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Odious Caribbean Women and the Palpable Aesthetics of Transgression examines the methods through which the works of French Caribbean women resist hedonistic conceptions of pleasure, “art for art’s sake” aestheticism, and commodification through representations of “uglified” spaces, transgressive...
Invisible
How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Already appearing on must-read lists for Bitch, PopSugar, BookRiot, and Autostraddle, this is an exploration of women navigating serious health issues at an age where they're expected to be healthy, dating, having careers and children.
Miriam’s doctor didn’t believe she had breast cancer....
The Psychological Development of Girls and Women
Rethinking change in time
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Choice Recommended Read
This thoroughly revised new edition updates Sheila Greene's original transformative account of the psychological development of girls and women and the central role of time in shaping human experience. Greene critically reviews traditional and contemporary theoretical...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 is a landmark publication that provides the most coherent overview of woman’s role and place in western Europe, spanning the era from the beginning of the eighteenth century until the twentieth century.
In this collection of essays, leading...
Writing Herself into Being
Quebec Women's Autobiographical Writings from Marie de l'Incarnation to Nelly Arcan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
WINNER - Prix du livre d’Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Éthier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix littéraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender. Tracing the evolution...
Transforming Labour
Women and Work in Postwar Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2010
The increased participation of women in the labour force was one of the most significant changes to Canadian social life during the quarter century after the close of the Second World War. Transforming Labour offers one of the first critical assessments of women's paid labour in this era, a period...
by Rosanna Hertz
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
A remarkable number of women today are taking the daunting step of having children outside of marriage. In Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice, Rosanna Hertz offers the first full-scale account of this fast-growing phenomenon, revealing why these middle class women took this unorthodox path and how they...
Canada 150 Women
Conversations with Leaders, Champions, and Luminaries
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
From politicians to spacewalkers, entrepreneurs to scientists, Olympians to artists, Canada 150 Women profiles the achievements and struggles of groundbreaking female role models like Deepa Mehta, Elizabeth May, Cindy Blackstock, Michele Landsberg, Lisa Charleyboy, Julie Payette, Louise Arbour, Evelyn...
Hemingway and Women
Female Critics and the Female Voice
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Female scholars reevaluate gender and the female presence in the life and work of one of America’s foremost writers.
Ernest Hemingway has often been criticized as a misogynist because of his portrayal of women. But some of the most exciting Hemingway scholarship of recent years has come from...
Texas Women and Ranching
On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
The realm of ranching history has long been dominated by men, from tales—tall or true—of cowboys and cattlemen, to a century’s worth of male writers and historians who have been the primary chroniclers of Texas history. As women’s history has increasingly gained a foothold not only as a field...
Global Women Leaders
Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Global Women Leaders: Studies in Feminist Political Rhetoric demonstrates the ways in which women have used political rhetoric and political discourse to provide leadership, or assert their right to leadership, on a global level. This collection fits into the robust research area of international...
Mama Learned Us to Work
Farm Women in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2003
Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated. Lu Ann Jones tells quite a different story in Mama Learned Us to Work. Building upon evocative oral histories, she encourages us to understand these women as consumers, producers, and agents of economic...
Summary & Analysis of Good and Mad
The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger | A Guide to the Book by Rebecca Traister
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger is a timely and thoughtful exploration into...