Women category: 49097 books
Summary of First Women
by Kate Andersen Brower | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Summary of First Women by Kate Andersen Brower | Includes Analysis Preview: Kate Andersen Brower’s First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladiesexamines how women from Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama have negotiated the personal and political challenges...
by Linda Fairstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Crime expert Linda Fairstein reveals the surprising locations where women are most vulnerable to attacks, and what they can do to stay safe
Leaving work, riding in a taxi, even sitting in the comfort of one’s own home, these places are linked by one harrowing feature: They are where women...
by Staci Catron-Sullivan, Susan Neill, Atlanta History Center
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2005
Although Southern women are often portrayed as belles, the photographic record suggests the true diversity, complexity, and richness of their lives. In their roles as wives, mothers, teachers, pilots, businesswomen, and reformers, among others, women contributed greatly to the growth and development...
Out of the Mouths of Babes
Quips and Quotes from Wildly Witty Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
Humorous, startling, and shocking quotations from fierce and fiery women fill the pages of this sassy little book. Out of the Mouths of Babes continues the tradition started by author Autumn Stephens in her books Wild Women and Wild Words from Wild Women. There is no lack of confidence and sense of...
Stop Fixing Women
Why Building Fairer Workplaces Is Everybody's Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men's seemingly never-ending dominance in boardrooms, in parliaments, in the bureaucracy and in almost every workplace. So why is gender inequality still such a pressing issue? Wage inequality between men and women seems one of the intractables...
Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History
Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
This fascinating work presents biographical essays about women from the colonial period to modern times, chronicling the previously untold story of the female financial experience in the United States.
• Explores the female financial experience in the United States from the colonial period...
We Also Served
The Forgotten Women of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
A social history of British women’s brave yet forgotten service during WWI from a historian of female wartime experiences—includes photos.
At the outbreak of World War I, women looking to contribute to the Allied effort were told by the war office to “go home and sit still.” Thankfully,...
Quotes for Nasty Women
Empowering Wisdom from Women Who Break the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Nasty women, unite—and read this compendium of fascinating quotations about powerful women through history.
“My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today. I knew it then as purpose.” —Bette Davis
When Donald Trump referred...
Changing the Subject
How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2004
This remarkable story begins in the years following the Civil War, when reformers—emboldened by the egalitarian rhetoric of the post–Civil War era—pressed New York City's oldest institution of higher learning to admit women in the 1870s. Their effort failed, but within twenty years Barnard College...
Seafaring Women
Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
For centuries, the sea has been regarded as a male domain, but in this illuminating historical narrative, maritime scholar David Cordingly shows that an astonishing number of women went to sea in the great age of sail. Some traveled as the wives or mistresses of captains; others were smuggled aboard...
I Am Not a Slut
Slut-Shaming in the Age of the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The author of the groundbreaking work Slut! explores the phenomenon of slut-shaming in the age of sexting, tweeting, and “liking.” She shows that the sexual double standard is more dangerous than ever before and offers wisdom and strategies for alleviating its destructive effects on young women’s...
by Lyde Cullen Sizer
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction,...
by Patricia Chappine
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Real-life Rosie the Riveters worked the lines in New Jersey’s factories, such as those of General Motors’ Eastern Aircraft Division, while women on the vulnerable coast enforced blackout orders. Others sold war bonds, planted victory gardens and conserved materials for the war effort. Thousands more...
Women, Abuse and Trauma Therapy
An Information Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2004
For many women, choosing to go into therapy to deal with a past traumatic event is a huge step. It takes a lot of time, money and emotional energy. Women, Abuse and Trauma Therapy is for women who are in therapy to deal with the long-term effects of abuse and violence, or who are looking for a therapist.
This...