Women category: 49097 books
Married To A Daughter Of The Land
Spanish-Mexican Women And Interethnic Marriage In California, 1820-80
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2009
The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California. Until recently, most studies of the colonial period of the American West have focused on the activities and agency of men. Now, historian María Raquél Casas examines the role of Spanish-Mexican women in the development of California....
Our Separate Ways
Women and the Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2006
In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina. In the city long known as "the capital of the black...
by Tiyi M. Morris, Bryant Simon, Jane Dailey
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi, Tiyi M. Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi–based women’s organization Womanpower Unlimited. Founded in 1961 by Clarie Collins Harvey, the organization was created initially to provide...
In Pursuit of Equity
Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2001
In this volume, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the transformation of some of the United States' most significant social policies. Tracing changing ideals of fairness from the 1920s to the 1970s, she shows how a deeply embedded set of beliefs, or "gendered imagination" shaped seemingly neutral social...
He Runs, She Runs
Why Gender Stereotypes Do Not Harm Women Candidates
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
While there are far more women in public office today than in previous eras, women are still vastly underrepresented in this area relative to men. Conventional wisdom suggests that a key reason is because female candidates start out at a disadvantage with the public, compared to male candidates, and...
by Bret Hinsch
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2010
After a long spell of chaos, the Qin and Han dynasties (221 BCE–220 CE) saw the unification of the Chinese Empire under a single ruler, government, and code of law. During this era, changing social and political institutions affected the ways people conceived of womanhood. New ideals were promulgated,...
Questioning the Veil
Open Letters to Muslim Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
Across much of the world today, Muslim women of all ages are increasingly choosing to wear the veil. Is this trend a sign of rising piety or a way of asserting Muslim pride? And does the veil really provide women freedom from sexual harassment? Written in the form of letters addressing all those interested...
Bereavement Care for Childbearing Women and their Families
An Interactive Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
For many bereaved parents, the care provided by health professionals at birth – from midwives to antenatal teachers – has a crucial effect on their response to a loss or death. This interactive workbook is clearly applied to practice and has been designed to help practitioners deliver effective...
Down Girl
The Logic of Misogyny
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public...
Reshaping the Holy
Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008
Through extensive field research, Elora Shehabuddin explores the profound implications of women's political and social mobilization for reshaping Islam. Specifically, she examines the lives of Muslim women in Bangladesh who have become increasingly mobilized by the activities of predominantly secular...
American Muslim Women
Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
African American Muslims and South Asian Muslim immigrants are two of the largest ethnic Muslim groups in the U.S. Yet there are few sites in which African Americans and South Asian immigrants come together, and South Asians are often held up as a “model minority” against African Americans. However,...
Votes For Women!
The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage (from the pages of A History of Britain in 21 Women)
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. For the hundredth anniversary of the historic moment the...
Liberated Threads
Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing, hair, and style not simply as a fashion statement but as a powerful tool of resistance. Whether using stiletto heels as weapons to protect against police...
New Women of the Old Faith
Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, Kathleen Sprows Cummings places Catholic women at the forefront of two defining developments of the Progressive Era: the emergence of the "New Woman" and Catholics' struggle to define...