Women category: 49097 books
by Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
When it was first published in 1994, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom quickly became an international bestseller, and for the past fifteen years it has remained the veritable bible of women’s health. Now, in this revised and updated edition, world-renowned and much-beloved women’s health expert...
by Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
"Women's Suffrage: History of a Great Movement", by Millicent Garrett Fawcett compares the tactics of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in the United States of America and the Women's Social and Political Union in the UK. The NUWSS and the WSPU between 1905 and 1911 adopted...
Struggle and Suffrage in Southend-on-Sea
Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
While Southend-on-Sea, like many seaside towns, may not have been at the forefront of the struggle for suffrage and equal rights in the lives of women between 1850 and 1950, there are surprisingly famous names linked to the town and its women. Novelist Rebecca West, living in nearby Leigh-on-Sea during...
The Religious History of American Women
Reimagining the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
More than a generation after the rise of women's history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion. Mary Dyer, a Quaker who was hanged for heresy; Lizzie Robinson, a former slave and laundress who sold Bibles...
Women and Power in Argentine Literature
Stories, Interviews, and Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The astonishing talent of Argentine women writers belies the struggles they have faced—not merely as overlooked authors, but as women of conviction facing oppression. The patriarchal pressures of the Pern years, the terror of the Dirty War, and, more recently, the economic collapse that gripped the...
by Kathryn Gleadle
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2001
This highly original synthesis is the most comprehensive text to date on nineteenth-century British women. The book deals sensitively with women's evolving experiences of work, the family, the community and politics amongst all classes, prividing the reader with stimulating assessments of the key historiographical...
The Enclosed Garden
Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
The southern women's reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades behind the formation of the northern feminist movement. The Enclosed Garden explains this delay by examining the subtle and complex roots of women's identity to disclose the structures that defined -- and...
The Vulnerable Empowered Woman
Feminism, Postfeminism, and Women's Health
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
The feminist women’s health movement of the 1960s and 1970s is credited with creating significant changes in the healthcare industry and bringing women’s health issues to public attention. Decades later, women’s health issues are more visible than ever before, but that visibility is made possible...
by Jennifer Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
While most people believe that the movement to secure voluntary reproductive control for women centered solely on abortion rights, for many women abortion was not the only, or even primary, focus.
Jennifer Nelson tells the story of the feminist struggle for legal abortion and reproductive rights in...
by Evelyn Resh, CNM/MPH
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In her new book, Women, Sex, Power & Pleasure, Evelyn Resh, a sexuality counselor and certified nurse-midwife, takes an innovative approach to helping women create the lives – and sex lives – they want. With a funny and compassionate, yet tell-it-like-it-is style, she looks at the relationship...
Modern Women, Modern Work
Domesticity, Professionalism, and American Writing, 1890-1950
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Focusing on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists, Francesca Sawaya demonstrates how women intellectuals in early twentieth-century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian "cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism"...
Our Sisters' Promised Land
Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
In this powerful and timely book, Ayala H. Emmett examines the political roles of women in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Emmett's insights come from numerous trips to the region that included in-depth interviews with many of the participants. Excerpts from the interviews give voice to the...
A Romani Women's Anthology
Spectrum of the Blue Water
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Romani Women in Canada: Spectrum of the Blue Water is grounded upon Romani women’s lived experience as writers, essayists, visual artists, and activists. Reflecting the panoply of women’s voices, the book links everyday experience and a social critique of the factors that enable and constrain...
by Wendy Martin, Sharone Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
The Routledge Introduction to American Women Writers considers the important literary, historical, cultural, and intellectual contexts of American women authors from the seventeenth century to the present and provides readers with an analysis of current literary trends and debates in women’s literature....