Women category: 49097 books
The Core Program
Fifteen Minutes a Day That Can Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Introducing the fitness program designed by a physical therapist exclusively for women — proven to increase strength, tone muscles and reduce aches and pains in just 15 minutes a day!
Few women realize that most popular fitness regimens are designed for men. Yet women have their own unique...
The Bathroom Key
Put an End to Incontinence
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Urinary incontinence is an underdiagnosed and underreported condition with major economic and psychosocial effects on society. Women are more likely to experience it due to issues with the pelvic floor brought on by pregnancy and menopause. The Bathroom Key is a treatment plan for women to cure their...
Realizing Our Place
Real Southern Women in a Mythologized Land
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
What does it mean to be from somewhere? Does place seep into one's very being like roots making their way through rich soil, shaping a sense of self? In particular, what does it mean to be from a place with a storied past, one mythologized as the very best and worst of our nation? Such questions inspired...
Body-for-Life for Women
A Woman's Plan for Physical and Mental Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Drawing from cutting-edge research in gender-based medicine, women's health expert and best-selling author Dr. Pamela Peeke tailors the original Body–for–Life program to the unique obstacles women face. With stunning before-and-after photos and testimonials providing motivation and inspiration,...
Unprotected Labor
Household Workers, Politics, and Middle-Class Reform in New York, 1870-1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Through an analysis of women's reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare...
by Chris G. Rao M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Have you been trying hard, but cant lose or keep off the weight? Is your sex drive stuck in neutral? Energy in the gutter? Whats the truth about bio-identical hormonal replacements in women before and after menopause? The MidLife Health Guide for Women addresses these and many other common concerns...
Women Who Love Sex
Ordinary Women Describe Their Paths to Pleasure, Intimacy, and Ecstasy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Wonderful sex does more than melt both body and soul; it brings power, energy, and deep satisfaction to all aspects of our lives. In this unique book, women who consider themselves highly sexually responsive talk in intimate detail about what gives them the greatest pleasure. They redefine sex—based...
A Woman's Guide to Vitamins, Herbs, and Supplements
How to Improve Your Health - Naturally
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
Take charge of your health with this easy-to-use reference guide to the most common ailments that women face, and the natural remedies you can use to prevent, alleviate and treat them. In A Woman's Guide to Vitamins, Herbs and Supplements, author Deborah Mitchell has compiled:
• Comprehensive...
What Is Driving Women to Drug Use and How You Can Help
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences of Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
What Is Driving Women to Drug Use is about pretreatment relapse triggers among women addicted to street drugs, prescription drugs, and alcohol. Women are affected by different pretreatment relapse triggers, contributing to repeated relapse. Dr. Richard Corker-Caulker provides insight for personal...
Wait Until You're Fifty
A Woman's Journey Into Midlife
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
If you think your forties were challenging—wait until you’re fifty. Just don’t wait until you’re fifty to read this book. It’s easier to handle this momentous change of life if you’re armed with good information, a sense of humor and, perhaps, a stiff drink. Fifty doesn’t happen overnight—the...
The Women's Health Big Book of 15-Minute Workouts
A Leaner, Sexier, Healthier You--In 15 Minutes a Day!
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Time is every woman's most precious commodity—and a lack of it is the number one reason, in survey after survey, that women give for why they don't exercise. But research now shows that as little as 15 minutes of resistance training is just as effective in spiking one's metabolism as a workout lasting...
Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers
Women Transforming Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
From the Women in Black vigils and Dyke marches to the Million Mom March, women have seized a dynamic role in early twenty-first century protest. The varied demonstrations--whether about gender, sexuality, war, or other issues--share significant characteristics as space-claiming performances in and...
Remaking Black Power
How Black Women Transformed an Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought...
Remaking Respectability
African American Women in Interwar Detroit
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration of blacks who left the South seeking improved economic and political conditions in the urban North. The most visible of these migrants have...