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by Margot Mifflin
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
"In this provocative work full of intriguing female characters from tattoo history, Margot Mifflin makes a persuasive case for the tattooed woman as an emblem of female self-expression."
—Susan Faludi
Bodies of Subversion is the first history of women’s tattoo art, providing a...
Love and War
How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Ideas of masculinity and femininity become sharply defined in war-reliant societies, resulting in a presumed enmity between men and women. This so-called "battle of the sexes" is intensified by the use of misogyny to encourage men and boys to conform to the demands of masculinity. These...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The Danish director Lars von Trier is undoubtedly one of the world's most important and controversial filmmakers, and arguably so because of the depiction of women in his films. He has been criticized for subjecting his female characters to unacceptable levels of violence or reducing them to masochistic...
Common Sense and a Little Fire, Second Edition
Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American...
The New Japanese Woman
Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
Presenting a vivid social history of “the new woman” who emerged in Japanese culture between the world wars, The New Japanese Woman shows how images of modern women burst into Japanese life in the midst of the urbanization, growth of the middle class, and explosion of consumerism resulting from...
Men & Women’s Health Book
by Knowledge flow
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
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The Widowed Self
The Older Woman’s Journey through Widowhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
How do older women come to terms with widowhood? Are they vulnerable or courageous, predictable or creative in dealing with this life challenge?
Most books about widows usually focus on younger women; this book interweaves the voices of older widows their experiences and insights to show how...
The Women's Health Big Book of Sex
Your Authoritative, Red-Hot Guide to the Sex of Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The editors of Women's Health magazine bring you scientifically proven expert tips, intensely researched studies, and doctor-approved advice. Step-by-step details elevate every aspect of your sexual life--from the foods you eat to what you say, from amazing foreplay techniques to some mind-blowing...
She-ology
The Definitive Guide to Women's Intimate Health. Period.
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Many women still suffer a long-ingrained dissociation with their own vaginas and a misunderstanding of what goes on “down there.” With expertise and a dose of humor, leading ob-gyn, educator and women’s health advocate Dr. Sherry Ross addresses every urgent, confounding, culturally taboo or...
by Phyllis Chesler
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Drawing on the most important studies in psychology, human aggression, anthropology, and primatology, and on hundreds of original interviews conducted over a period of more than 20 years, this groundbreaking treatise urges women to look within and to consider other women realistically, ethically,...
by Terri Apter
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 1997
"The author of Altered Loves . . . now turns her analytical eye toward middle-aged women. The result is both lively and revealing." --New York Times Book Review
In this groundbreaking and insightful study Terri Apter traces womens midlife course, drawing on detailed interviews with...
A Patient's Guide to PCOS
Understanding--and Reversing--Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2006
A comprehensive guide to polycystic ovary syndrome, from a leading authority on the condition
One in ten American women of childbearing age is affected by polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) to some degree, and many suffer from serious symptoms, such as infertility, early miscarriage, chronic pelvic...
Living the Edges
A Disabled Women's Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This important and ground-breaking collection brings together the diverse voices of women with various disabilities, both physical and mental. Here, Canadian women speak frankly about the societal barriers they encounter in their everyday lives due to social attitudes and physical and systemic inaccessibility....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Traditional midwifery, culture, customs, understandings, and meanings surrounding pregnancy and birth are grounded in distinct epistemologies and worldviews that have sustained Indigenous women and their families since time immemorial. Years of colonization, however, have impacted the degree to which...