Women category: 49097 books
Abiding Courage
African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the social and economic mobility that was associated with the region's expanding defense industry and its reputation for greater racial tolerance. Drawing on fifty...
Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image
Learning to Love Ourselves as We Are
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
When women are told that what is important about us is how we look, it becomes increasingly difficult for us to feel comfortable with our appearance and how we feel about our bodies. We are told, over and over—if we just lost weight, fit into those old jeans, or into a new smaller pair—we will...
Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000
Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today and considers the topics of boundaries and borders in their writings. This book takes into consideration known,...
Depression and Women
An Integrative Treatment Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2001
In her newest book, Simonds presents "Integrative Relational Therapy," her unique nonpathologizing approach to psychotherapy with depressed women. IRT integrates empirically-supported therapies, feminist theories of depression, creative arts therapies, and mindfulness-based techniques into...
Velvet Jihad
Muslim Women's Quiet Resistance to Islamic Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2009
There are numerous conflicts ensuing in the Middle East, but not all are being fought with rockets and rifles. While the Internet has proven invaluable to those who wish to uphold a patriarchal society and spread the message of Islamic fundamentalism, Muslim women have used the Web to build a transnational...
Women in the Middle East and North Africa
Agents of Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book examines the position of women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Although it is culturally diverse, this region shares many commonalities with relation to women that are strong, deep, and pervasive: a space-based patriarchy, a culturally strong sense of religion,...
by Julie Debra Neuffer
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
In 1961, Helen Andelin, housewife and mother of eight, languished in a lackluster, twenty-year-old marriage. A religious woman, she fasted and prayed for help. As she studied a set of women’s advice booklets from the 1920s, Andelin had an epiphany that not only changed her life but also affected...
The Sisters Are Alright
Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing!
The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves.
When...
by Daniel Marques
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Did you know that, according to several scientific studies, orgasms can relieve pain? Or, that while 75% of men always reach orgasm during sex, only 29% of women report the same? (by National Health and Social Life Survey)
Did you know that, according to the Museum of Sex, the vibrator was...
by Joanna Regulska
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The transformations seen in women's active citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe mirror the social political and economic transformations in the region since the fall of communism at the end of the 1980s. This book challenges the universal notion of 'citizenship' by focusing on the diversity of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Originally published in 1990, this book met the rising interest in the subject of women in pre-industrial England, bringing together a group of scholars with diverse and wide-ranging interests; experts in social and medical history, demography, women’s studies, and the history of the family, whose...
Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand
Making Art and Architecture in Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
With independence, India experienced a dramatic social rupture but also a recuperation of political autonomy and a new sense of optimism that promised opportunities. The country became a crucible for experimentation in modern and utopian architecture with new buildings, cities and museums giving public...
Colored No More
Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. Colored No More traces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made...
Non-Traditional Occupations, Empowerment, and Women
A Case of Togolese Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This study explores the relationship between the nature and context of non-traditional occupations and the empowerment status of women in society. Specifically, it examines the extent to which women in non-traditional occupations have been empowered by their skills, knowledge, and position within...