Women category: 49097 books
American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism
More Than a Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Following the events of September 11, 2001, American Muslims found themselves under unprecedented scrutiny. Muslim communities in the United States suffered from negative representations of their religion, but they also experienced increased interest in aspects of their faith and cultures. They seized...
Women and Genocide
Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
The genocides of modern history–Rwanda, Armenia, Guatemala, the Holocaust, and countless others–and their effects have been well documented, but how do the experiences of female victims and perpetrators differ from those of men? In Women and Genocide, human rights advocates and scholars come together...
Asian/Pacific Islander American Women
A Historical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Asian/Pacific Islander American Women is the first collection devoted to the historical study of A/PI women's diverse experiences in America. Covering a broad terrain from pre-large scale Asian emigration and Hawaii in its pre-Western contact period to the continental United States, the Philippines,...
Indigenous Women, Work, and History
1940-1980
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
When dealing with Indigenous women’s history we are conditioned to think about women as private-sphere figures, circumscribed by the home, the reserve, and the community. Moreover, in many ways Indigenous men and women have been cast in static, pre-modern, and one-dimensional identities, and their...
Women, Violence and Tradition
Taking FGM and Other Practices to a Secular State
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Is the practice of FGM on the rise in the UK and US? Why? What happens to religious and cultural traditions when they are taken from their context into a new, often secular, state? Women, Violence and Tradition is a fascinating look into the life histories of women from ethnic minority communities...
by Roseann Lake
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Factory Girls meets The Vagina Monologues in this fascinating narrative on China’s single women—and why they could be the source of its economic future.
Forty years ago, China enacted the one-child policy, only recently relaxed. Among many other unintended consequences, it resulted in both...
Sport and Women
Social Issues in International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
Although female athletes are successful in all types of sport, in many countries sport is still a male domain. This book examines and compares the sporting experiences of women from different countries around the world and offers the first systematic and cross-cultural analysis of the topic of women...
by Kathrine Switzer
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
A fun, easy, and economical route to fitness and health: “This book will give women everywhere the guidance they need” (Grete Waitz, nine-time winner of the New York City Marathon).
Women’s fitness pioneer Kathrine Switzer has been on her feet for over fifty years. She knows how running...
Pink Noises
Women on Electronic Music and Sound
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Pink Noises brings together twenty-four interviews with women in electronic music and sound cultures, including club and radio DJs, remixers, composers, improvisers, instrument builders, and installation and performance artists. The collection is an extension of Pinknoises.com, the critically-acclaimed...
by Mary Lynn Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
In the late nineteenth century, the first wave of female journalists began writing in the French daily press. Yet, while they undeniably opened doors for the next generations of educated women, sexist hiring practices, assumptions about women’s aptitudes as reporters, and more subtle gender biases...
Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race and the Politics of Memory
Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
In Women and the Historical Enterprise in America, Julie Des Jardins explores American women's participation in the practice of history from the late nineteenth century through the end of World War II, a period in which history became professionalized as an increasingly masculine field of scientific...
Edging Women Out
Victorian Novelists, Publishers and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, "men of letters" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist...
Wise Women
Wit and Wisdom from Some of the World’s Most Extraordinary Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
'A woman is like a teabag - only when in hot water do you realise how strong she is' - Nancy Reagan
Women are never at a loss to express themselves, and smart women will have something to say for every occasion.
Wise Women is a hilarious, ribald and revealing collection of observations...
Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation
A History of Argentine Jewish Women, 1880–1955
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
In Crossing Borders, Claiming a Nation, Sandra McGee Deutsch brings to light the powerful presence and influence of Jewish women in Argentina. The country has the largest Jewish community in Latin America and the third largest in the Western Hemisphere as a result of large-scale migration of Jewish...