Women category: 49097 books
After the Fire
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
**Five women at critical crossroads in their lives come together in this gem of a novel set on an island off the coast of Vancouver **
After the Fire introduces a quintet of very different women as they struggle with abandonment, loss, and new beginnings—both together and alone.
There...
by A. Maude Royden, R. B. Armitage, Aphra Behn
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Women and Sexuality is the fourth volume in the Sexuality series. The works included in this volume focus on sexual and related advice to women who are either already in, or are preparing for, marital relationships, as seen by a number of women authors throughout a long historical time period. ...
Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping
No Time for Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women’s everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers. Her focus on American popular culture from the 1990s through the present reveals two extremes: narratives about women who cannot...
The Female Complaint
The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant’s groundbreaking “national sentimentality” project charting the emergence of the U.S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural...
Lady Bug, Lady Bug, Fly Away Home
Women's Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In a literary collection unlike any other, Thistledown Press brings together short fiction by women and about women. Readers interested in women’s perspectives will be drawn in by unique takes on the female experience provided in these ten short stories by Canadian women writers. Fiercely independent...
With Ash on Their Faces
Yezidi Women and the Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
ISIS’s genocidal attack on the Yezidi population in northern Iraq in 2014 brought the world’s attention to the small faith that numbers less than one million worldwide. That summer, ISIS massacred Yezidi men and enslaved women and children. More than one hundred thousand Yezidis were besieged...
Shelter in a Storm
Revitalizing Feminism in Neoliberal Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Casey Ready, an academic and the executive director of a non-profit organization, combines the personal and the political to tackle some of the most pressing issues of our time: What is neoliberalism? How does it harm women? And what can be done about it? Her book begins by looking at how three YWCA...
Women in the Civil War
Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
When the Civil War broke out, women answered the call for help. They broke away from their traditional roles and served in many capacities, some of them even going so far as to disguise themselves as men and enlist in the army. Estimates of such women enlistees range from 400 to 700. About 60 women...
House/Garden/Nation
Space, Gender, and Ethnicity in Post-Colonial Latin American Literatures by Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 1994
How ironic, the author thought on learning of the Sandinista’s electoral defeat, that at its death the Revolutionary State left Woman, Violeta Chamorro, located at the center. The election signaled the end of one transition and the beginning of another, with Woman somewhere on the border between...
Unsettling Partition
Literature, Gender, Memory
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2006
The Partition of India in 1947 marked the birth of two modern nation-states and the end of British colonialism in South Asia. The move towards the 'two nation solution' was accompanied by an unprecedented mass migration (over twelve million people) to and from areas that would become India and Pakistan.
Diverse...
No Ocean Here
Stories in Verse about Women from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Brave New Collection Honors Women's Spirit Worldwide
No Ocean Here bears moving accounts of women and girls in certain developing and underdeveloped countries. The book raises concern, and chronicles the socio-cultural conditions of women in parts of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The stories,...
The Rock Where We Stand
An Ethnography of Women's Activism in Newfoundland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Bay St. George in western Newfoundland is a region characterized by a boom and bust economy and shaped by the establishment of the Earnest Harmon American Airforce Base. This ethnography explores how women at the Bay St. George Women's Council deal specifically with the issues of single motherhood,...
Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities
Issues for Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
While forced marriage and 'honour-based' violence attract media attention, little is known about the issues and experiences of South Asian women and children who are affected by gendered violence.
This book explores the key theoretical and empirical issues involved in gendered violence, ethnicity...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Did you know that the World War II was won by women, too? These were the brave women who did more than their parts to help end the war. By reading about them, you will understand how strong females truly are. You will also feel a sense of gratitude for their bravery. Grab a copy of this book today!