Women category: 49097 books
by Jo Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom strives to answer life's most imponderable question: What Do Women Really Do in the Bathroom?
When the witty and urbane Claire St. John leaves New York City and returns to Austin, Texas, she realizes that all of the good advice she has ever received has...
Bachelor Girl
100 Years of Breaking the Rules--a Social History of Living Single
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
In this lively and colorful book of popular history, journalist Betsy Israel shines a light on the old stereotypes that have stigmatized single women for years and celebrates their resourceful sense of spirit, enterprise, and unlimited success in a world where it is no longer unusual or unlikely to...
O My America!
Six Women and Their Second Acts in a New World
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
In O My America!, the travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler embarks on a journey across the United States, guided by the adventures of six women who reinvented themselves as they chased the frontier west.
Wheeler's career has propelled her from pole to pole—camping in Arctic igloos, tracking...
by Carol Shields, Marjorie Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
What are those life experiences that catch us by surprise, that haven't ever been part of our discussions or readings because they lie beyond the limit of words or the courage and will to articulate? When Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson began asking other women - friends, colleagues, family members...
Stealing the Show
How Women Are Revolutionizing Television
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From a leading cultural journalist, the definitive cultural history of female showrunners—including exclusive interviews with such influential figures as Shonda Rhimes, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Mindy Kaling, Amy Schumer, and many more. “An urgent and entertaining history of the transformative powers...
Women of the Left Bank
Paris, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's early...
Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing
Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and purposeful...
Women Strikers Occupy Chain Stores, Win Big
The 1937 Woolworth's Sit-Down
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
The fightback against corporate rule has again come into National focus following the economic collapse of 2008, the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, the Occupy movement, the Longshoreman's strike in California and the increasing disparity between rich and poor.
People are beginning...
by Gillian McClelland, Diana Hadden
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Few topics have produced more heroines than the struggle of women for their right to education. Foremost amongst the pioneers of third-level education for women in the north of Ireland were Eliza and Isabella Riddel. Never themselves having had the opportunity of university education, in 1913 they...
Montana Women Homesteaders
A Field of One's Own
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
In Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One's Own, Sarah Carter introduces the voices and images of women who filed on 160- or 320-acre homestead plots in Montana. Single, widowed, divorced, or deserted, women varied in ages, educational levels, and ethnic backgrounds, but all "proved up" on their...
That's What She Said
Wise Words from Influential Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
An artist and activist committed to the empowerment of women and girls has created a gorgeous illustrated volume, blending watercolor and short biography to showcase the contributions of more than fifty influential female leaders whose words and actions are a passionate call to arms.
Distraught...
Broad Influence
How Women Are Changing the Way Washington Works
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
2016 will be one of the most historic years in politics: It marks the potential for the first female President of the United States, and the 100th anniversary of the first woman elected to Congress. Additionally, in 2016, single women will be one of the most pivotal voting groups heading into the...
The Friendship Crisis
Finding, Making, and Keeping Friends When You're Not a Kid Anymore
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
As seen in Self, Fitness, Real Simple, Health, Ladies' Home Journal, and Redbook, this much-praised celebration of women's friendships-now in paperback-explores the keys to forming emotionally supportive and sustaining connections at every stage in life.
Embraced by some of the most popular...
by Varla Ventura
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
The latest addition to the best-selling Wild Women series, Wild Women Talk About Love is like having a heart-to-heart with 200 of your closest friends. Loquacious ladies of every stripe unleash their wicked wit in this humorous and enlightening compilation and tell it like it is. Chapters include "Love...