Women category: 49097 books
After Pornified: How Women Are Transforming Pornography & Why It Really Matters
How Women Are Transforming Pornography & Why It Really Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Porn brings up a lot of negative images in our sexualized, pornified culture. But today a growing number of women are radically changing porn to respectfully capture the authentic sexual lives of women and men, empowering and inspiring the viewer to claim her sexuality against a sexualized culture, and...
Wild Irish Roses
Tales of Brigits, Kathleens, and Warrior Queens
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Forget the myth of the sweet Irish Colleen. Real Irish women were no cream-puff debs. From the ancient warrior queens Marrigan, Macha, and Badbh to the labor-movement maven Mother Jones, Irish women have backbones of steel. Wild Irish Roses is a fascinating look at wild Irish women throughout history;...
White Women's Work
Examining the Intersectionality of Teaching, Identity, and Race
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Historically, white women have had a tremendous influence on establishing the ideological, political, and cultural scaffold of American public schools. Pedagogical orientations, school policies, and classroom practices are underwritten by white, cisgender, feminine, and middle to upper class social and...
Coping with Gender Inequities
Critical Conversations of Women Faculty
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
This book provides a discussion of women faculty members’ experiences on college and university campuses and examines their thoughts, perceptions, responsibilities, and status in the academy. Most specifically, this book explores the differences between male and women faculty in the academy; women...
New and Improved
The Transformation of American Women's Emotional Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1998
As the Victorian era drew to a close, American culture experienced a vast transformation. In many ways, the culture changed even more rapidly and profoundly for women. The "new woman," the "new freedom," and the "sexual revolution" all referred to women moving out of...
A Troubled Marriage
Domestic Violence and the Legal System
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
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The development of a legal regime to combat domestic violence in the United States has been lauded as one of the feminist movement’s greatest triumphs. But, Leigh Goodmark argues, the resulting system is deeply flawed in ways that prevent...
by Nana Akua Amponsah, Toyin Falola Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Women play essential, critical roles in every society; African women south of the Sahara are certainly no different. Women's Roles in Sub-Saharan Africa adds significantly to our understanding of the ways in which women contribute to the fabric of human civilization.This book provides...
Life Stages and Native Women
Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities.The process of “digging up medicines” - of rediscovering the stories of the past - serves as a powerful healing force in the decolonization and recovery of Aboriginal communities. In Life Stages and...
by Mona Eltahawy
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they've been trained to avoid.
Seizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular, out-loud approach...
On Their Own
Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
South Africa, the most urbanized country on the African continent, displays some of the highest levels of socio-economic inequality in the world. What is life like for low-income African women in urban South Africa in the post-apartheid era? Does urban life offer new opportunities for personal development,...
Women on the Verge
Japanese Women, Western Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2001
Over the past few decades, many young Japanese women have emerged as Japan’s most enthusiastic “internationalists,” investing in study or work abroad, or in romance with Western men as opportunities to circumvent what they consider their country’s oppressive corporate and family structures....
The History of Doing
An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
A thematic history of the women’s movement in India both before and after independence, this book covers the period from the nineteenth century to the present day. It looks at how women’ s issues were raised, initially by men and as part of the movements for social reform, and then with the involvement...
Women's Role In the 20th Century, Manipur
A Historical Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Women of Manipur both in the valley and the hills enjoy a comparatively better position than their counterparts in the rest of the country. For the last many decades they have actively participated in the social, economic, cultural and political life of the state. Though the society is deeply patriarchal,...
Women in the Line of Fire
What You Should Know About Women in the Military
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
In 2004, Erin Solaro went to Iraq to study American servicewomen - what they were doing, how well they were doing it, how they were faring in combat. In 2005, she went to Afghanistan on the same mission. Having spent time embedded with combat troops and conducting stateside interviews with numerous...