Women category: 49097 books
by Pinky Toky
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
From 1920s to 1949, many Samsui women came to Singapore in search of jobs. Most of them worked in the construction industry. Construction jobs, considered to be the toughest kind of job, were shunned by both the locals and the other Chinese migrant workers. The Samsui women chose to toil at construction...
An Improper Profession
Women, Gender, and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2001
Journalism has long been a major factor in defining the opinions of Russia’s literate classes. Although women participated in nearly every aspect of the journalistic process during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, female editors, publishers, and writers have been consistently omitted...
by Teresa C. Zackodnik
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
From abolition through the years just before the civil rights struggle began, African American women recognized that a mixed-race woman made for a powerful and, at times, very useful figure in the battle for racial justice.The Mulatta and the Politics of Race traces many key instances in which...
One Kind Word
Women Share their Abortion Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
One Kind Word: Women Share Their Abortion Stories is a groundbreaking collection that helps to end the silence surrounding abortion experiences and to combat the feelings of fear, shame, stigma, and isolation that many women face. By featuring over thirty women’s personal experiences and portraits,...
by Laura E. Ruberto
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
This book considers cultural representations of four different types of labor within Italian and U.S. contexts: stories and songs that chronicle the lives of Italian female rice workers, or mondine; testimonials and other narratives about female domestic servants in Italy in the second half of the...
Managing Hot Flushes and Night Sweats
A cognitive behavioural self-help guide to the menopause
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The menopause is still a taboo topic and a source of uncertainty and embarrassment for many women. In Managing Hot Flushes and Night Sweats Myra Hunter and Melanie Smith aim to provide women with up to date and balanced information about menopause and a self-help guide to reduce the impact of hot...
Coercive Control
How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control breaks through entrenched views of physical abuse that have ultimately failed to protect women. Evan Stark, founder of one of America's first battered women's shelters, shows how "domestic violence" is neither primarily...
What Women Need to Know
From Headaches to Heart Disease and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
After traveling the country and listening to women’s most common health problems, Dr. Marianne Legato, one of the nation’s leading advocates for women’s health, answers these common questions and more in What Women Need to Know. This revolutionary book teaches women how to ask their doctors...
Survive the Unthinkable
A Total Guide to Women's Self-Protection
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Approximately 1.9 million women are physically assaulted annually in the United States alone. In Survive the Unthinkable, Tim Larkin empowers women to understand that surviving a potential attack isn't about being physically bigger, faster, or stronger; it's about knowing how to self-protect, not...
Gender, Work, and Harness Racing
Fast Horses and Strong Women in Southwestern Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
While gender equality has progressed in many sports since the second wave of the feminist movement in terms of women’s inclusion, participation, and success, harness horse racing has been recalcitrant to change. Gender, Work, and Harness Racing: Fast Horses and Strong Women in Southwestern Pennsylvania...
Peace and Security
Implications for Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Offering a broad overview of what is being done in conflict-affected countries to advance women’s participation in peace processes, peace building, and decision making, this record examines the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on “Women, Peace, and Security” and presents...
Creating This Place
Women, Family, and Class in St John's, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The twentieth century witnessed both the formation of Newfoundland as a self-conscious national entity and the construction of distinct and self-aware middle and upper classes in its capital city. This interdisciplinary collection examines the key roles played by women in the creation of this state...
Narrating Love and Violence
Women Contesting Caste, Tribe, and State in Lahaul, India
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Narrating Love and Violence is an ethnographic exploration of women’s stories from the Himalayan valley of Lahaul, in the region of Himachal Pradesh, India, focusing on how both, love and violence emerge (or function) at the intersection of gender, tribe, caste, and the state in India. Himika Bhattacharya...
Embracing the East
White Women and American Orientalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2002
As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, submissive East. Yet, this binary model does not account for the important role of white women in the construction of Orientalism. Mari Yoshihara's...