Women category: 49097 books
Facing the Mirror
Older Women and Beauty Shop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This innovative, ethnographic study of a neighborhood beauty salon investigates how customers constitute a lively, affirming community of peers during their weekly visits. Facing the Mirror gives voice to older women, who, in a sexist and ageist society, are frequently devalued and rendered invisible....
by Sally Roesch Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2001
Intrepid historian Sally Roesch Wagner recounts the compelling struggle for freedom and equality waged by women in the United States with this fascinating account of how Iroquois women fired the revolutionary vision of early feminists by providing a model of freedom for women at a time when Euro American...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
A History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry explores the genealogy of modern American verse by women from the early twentieth century to the millennium. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts important theoretical contributions to the field, this History includes wide-ranging...
Bare
On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
It began when she was a teenager with an awareness of her body and the reaction other people had to it. It continued with the realization that women’s bodies often gave them a strange power over men. As an adult, it became a fascination with professional sex workers, leading to a plunge into their...
Aesthetics of Sorrow
The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
The term “wailing culture” includes an array of women’s behaviors and beliefs following the death of a member of their ethnic group and is typical of Jewish life in Yemeni culture. Central to the practice is wailing itself—a special artistic genre that combines speech with sobbing into moving...
Native Speakers
Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez, and the Poetics of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from South Dakota, Zora Neale Hurston, an African American woman from Florida, and Jovita González, a Mexican American woman from the Texas borderlands, achieved...
Army at Home
Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Introducing readers to women whose Civil War experiences have long been ignored, Judith Giesberg examines the lives of working-class women in the North, for whom the home front was a battlefield of its own.
Black and white working-class women managed farms that had been left without a male...
The Declaration of the Rights of Women
The Originial Manifesto for Justice, Equality and Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Olympe de Gouges was the most important fighter for women's rights you've never heard of.
An activist and writer in revolutionary Paris, she published 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women' in 1791, and was beheaded two years later, her articulate demands for equality proving too much for their...
by Ursula Graetz
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2019
Ursula Wessels is not only an author, but a strong advocate for women. Her book, "Self Discovery & Self Control" helps women who truly wish to find themselves develop their own self love. Her belief is that we should each learn to enjoy life in every moment of every day- who could disagree?
One...
Chained in Silence
Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
In 1868, the state of Georgia began to make its rapidly growing population of prisoners available for hire. The resulting convict leasing system ensnared not only men but also African American women, who were forced to labor in camps and factories to make profits for private investors. In this vivid...
Women's Quick Facts
Compelling Data on Why Women Matter
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Women’s Quick Facts is the indispensable resource on the status and contribution of women. The only resource of its kind, it is a book that will be highly sought after for multiple uses, both in the US and globally. It is unique with more than 310 sources and resources cited. It is about the game...
Votes for Women
Cheltenham and the Cotswolds
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
IN 1918, after years of campaigning, many British women over the age of 30 gained a parliamentary vote. Cheltenham was the hub of activity in the Cotswolds, and before the First World War it had a number of vigorous societies and individuals. From being imprisoned for trying to approach the prime...
A Chance for Change
Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) in 1965, a Head Start program that not only gave poor black children access to early childhood education but also...
Women Trailblazers of California
Pioneers to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Throughout California's history, remarkable women have been at the core of change and innovation. In this unparalleled collection, Gloria Harris and Hannah Cohen relate the stories of forty women whose struggles and achievements have paved the way for generations. These women were strong and determined,...