Women category: 49097 books
by Anna Noyes
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Interconnected stories of women of all ages. “If the fiction of Stephen King and Alice Munro had a literary love child, it might look like this” (The Washington Post).
Moving along the Maine coast and beyond, the stories in Goodnight, Beautiful Women bring us into the sultry, mysterious...
Otherhood
Modern Women Finding A New Kind of Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
More American women are childless than ever before-nearly half those of childbearing age don’t have children. While our society often assumes these women are childfree by choice,” that’s not always true. In reality, many of them expected to marry and have children, but it simply hasn’t happened....
How We Love Now
Women Talk About Intimacy After 50
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Where do we find the relationships that matter in our second adulthood? Susanne Braun Levine, author of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives, anwers these questions with charming wit, experience, and intrigue in How We Love Now, with a new introduction by the author.
Today, women in their fifties,...
Women and the Media
Feminism and Femininity in Britain, 1900 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The media have played a significant role in the contested and changing social position of women in Britain since the 1900s. They have facilitated feminism by both providing discourses and images from which women can construct their identities, and offering spaces where hegemonic ideas of femininity...
by Barbara Seaman, Laura Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
For nearly as long as women have been around, they have been going through menopause. It is a bodily process as old as human birth, death, and of course, menstruation. Like many normal biological events, menopause was gradually medicalized, and with the rise of pharmaceutical medicine, women and their...
by Margaret Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
A woman of many gifts, Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) is most aptly remembered as America's first true feminist. In her brief yet fruitful life, she was variously author, editor, literary and social critic, journalist, poet, and revolutionary. She was also one of the few female members of the prestigious...
Regulating Girls and Women
Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2001
For people living in Ontario, as throughout Canada, the period from 1920 to 1960 was one of great change and turmoil – the roaring twenties the Great Depression, the upheaval of war, and the economic boom of the postwar years. One constant in society over those years, however, was the differential...
Making Men
Gender, Literary Authority, and Women’s Writing in Caribbean Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 1998
Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked—and relocated—to the United States. Incorporating...
What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us
Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Talk to women under forty today, and you will hear that in spite of the fact that they have achieved goals previous generations of women could only dream of, they nonetheless feel more confused and insecure than ever. What has gone wrong? What can be done to set it right?
These are the questions...
HISTORY OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE Trilogy – Part 2
The Trailblazing Documentation on Women's Enfranchisement in USA, Great Britain & Other Parts of the World (With Letters, Articles, Conference Reports, Speeches, Court Transcripts & Decisions)
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
This edition covers the women's fight from 1883 to 1920. See the movement in its full light and learn what it took to obtain most basic civil rights. Learn about the decades long fight, about the endurance and the strength needed to continue the battle against persistent indifference and injustice....
In Love and Struggle
Letters in Contemporary Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
Winner of the 2009 Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize
Do you think I can be a feminist mother? Did I make you and your kisses up in my mind? Will you join our military protest at the gate? Will you feed the kids when I'm in prison? Are you able to forgive me for breaking off...
by Jacqueline Rose
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Jacqueline Rose's new book begins with three remarkable women: revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg; German–Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, persecuted by family tragedy and Nazism; film icon and consummate performer Marilyn Monroe.
Together these women have a shared story to tell, as...
Wet Silence
Poems about Hindu widows
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
"Sweta Vikram captures bold raw passion, poignant reality and crafts a powerful voice for the voiceless."
--Kate Campbell Stevenson, Actor & Producer
Wet Silence bears moving accounts of Hindu widows in India. The book raises concern about the treatment of widowed women by society;...
Women in Game of Thrones
Power, Conformity and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Game of Thrones, one of the hottest series on television, leaves hundreds of critics divided on how “feminist” the show really is. Certainly the female characters, strong and weak, embody a variety of archetypes—widow queens, warrior women, damsels in distress, career women, priestesses, crones,...