Women category: 49097 books
Born with Wings
The Spiritual Journey of a Modern Muslim Woman
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The dramatic, spiritual memoir of a prominent Muslim woman working to empower women and girls across the world—for readers of Malala Yousafzai and Azar Nafisi.
Raised in a progressive Muslim family in the shadows of the Himalayan mountains, where she attended a Catholic girls’ school, Daisy...
Investigating Women
Female Detectives by Canadian Writers: An Eclectic Sampler
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1995
Meet some fascinating females:
Jennie Baxer, 1890s journalist and world traveller
Nelvana of the Northern Lights, created for comic book-starved Canadians during the Second World War
the 60s’ Eve Adam, the "Rock Hit of Prague," whose methods violate all the "rules" for detective...
Stalled
The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Following significant increases in women’s electoral representation in the 1980s and '90s, progress has stalled. Today, there are only a few more women in Canada’s parliament and legislatures than a decade ago. What has happened to the representational gains for women and why does gender parity...
Weaving a Malawi Sunrise
A Woman, A School, A People
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
“When you educate a girl, you educate a nation.” —Malawian saying The women of Malawi, like many other women in developing countries, struggle to find their way out of poverty and build a better life for themselves and their families. Weaving a Malawi Sunrise tells the story of Memory Chazeza’s...
A World Without Women
The Christian Clerical Culture of Western Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
In this groundbreaking work of history, David Noble examines the origins and implications of the masculine culture of Western science and technology. He begins by asking why women have figure so little in the development of science, and then proceeds—in a fascinating and radical analysis—to trace...
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume II
The Masculine Mystique from Feudalism to the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
“Filled with fascinating detail . . . this second volume of French’s massive and valuable work is an example of scholarship and clear vision.” —Publishers Weekly
This volume of New York Times–bestselling author Marilyn French’s monumental history analyzes and evaluates the lives...
Playing With the Boys
Why Separate is Not Equal in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Athletic contests help define what we mean in America by "success." By keeping women from "playing with the boys" on the false assumption that they are inherently inferior, society relegates them to second-class citizens. In this forcefully argued book, Eileen McDonagh and Laura...
by Helen Vause
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Walking is one of the most popular fitness and recreational activities for people of all ages, and medical experts have endorsed it as a way of improving health and well-being and prolonging life. Women in particular have taken to it in large numbers, for a variety of reasons: to encourage weight...
Kentucky Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times introduces a history as dynamic and diverse as Kentucky itself. Covering the Appalachian region in the east to the Pennyroyal in the west, the essays highlight women whose aspirations, innovations, activism, and creativity illustrate Kentucky’s role in political...
Necessary Dreams
Ambition in Women's Changing Lives
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
In this groundbreaking book about how women perceive, are prepared for, and cope with ambition and achievement, psychiatrist Anna Fels examines ambition at the deepest psychological level. Cutting to the core of what ambition can provide—the essential elements of a fulfilling life—Fels describes...
by Mukesh Eswaran
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Gender matters in economics—for even with today's technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology, Marxism, and politics,...
Beckoned by the Sea
Women at Work on the Cascadia Coast
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
A rich and diverse tapestry weaving together the many voices, narratives, skills, and talents of women up and down the coastal Pacific Northwest who devote their lives and careers to the sea.
Beckoned by the Sea celebrates coastal women from northern BC to northern California who work on or...
How Inclusive is Inclusive Business for Women?
Examples from Asia and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Inclusive businesses are commercially viable business models that provide in-scale innovative and systemic solutions to problems relevant to the lives of low-income people. Inclusive business companies often involve women in their value chain and provide specific services that help low-income women....
The Hite Report
A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
A reproduction of the classic text, unavailable now for more than a decade, with a new introduction by the author. The Hite Report, first published in 1976, was a sexual revolution in six hundred pages. To answer sensitive questions dealing with the most intimate details of women's sexuality, Hite's...