Lexington Books - Communicative understandings of women's leadership development: from ceilings of glass to labyrinth paths

Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought

50 Ways to Improve Women's Lives: The Essential Women's Guide for Achieving Equality, Health, and Success

A powerful new call-to-action series was launched with the New York Times bestselling MoveOn's 50 Ways to Love Your Country.

Farming Ashes: Tales of Agony and Resilience

To Be Covered or Not to Be Covered

Writing this book has been an inspiration to me. I must give my dad and mom (founders of Fishers of Men Campaigners), the late Pastor Rudolph Chance and my mom, who is still with us, the credit for the teachings on the covering and the oneness between the man and the women.

Women, State, and Party in Eastern Europe

These essays, by American, Canadian, and East European scholars, provide a comprehensive look at the status of women in Eastern Europe, with particular emphasis on the postwar situation.

Imparare, sbagliare, vivere. Storie di lifelong learning

Secularisms

The Sound of Silence

A compelling story of conflict between the forces of faith and fate. Joy's greatest nightmare became reality when she came face to face with the tragic lies, crime and deceit behind the veil of the empty promises of a better life in Europe.

Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood

Between 1912 and 1919, the Universal Film Manufacturing Company credited eleven women with directing at least 170 films, but by the mid-1920s all of these directors had left Universal and only one still worked in the film industry at all. Two generations of cinema historians have either overlooked or been stymied by the mystery of why Universal first systematically supported and promoted women directors and then abruptly reversed that policy.

New and Improved: The Transformation of American Women's Emotional Culture

As the Victorian era drew to a close, American culture experienced a vast transformation. In many ways, the culture changed even more rapidly and profoundly for women.

Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America

Most people have heard of Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Margaret Sanger, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

To Be Useful to the World

Offering an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center, Joan R. Gundersen provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war as either a "golden age" or a disaster for women.

Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo

One of the most fascinating figures of seventeenth-century music, composer and singer Antonia Padoani Bembo (c.1640 - c.

Vrouwen zijn gelijk aan mannen

Vrouwen zijn gelijk aan mannen - behalve in de directiekamer Het gebrek aan topvrouwen ligt niet alleen aan ambitieloze vrouwen, maar ook aan structureel lagere promotiekansen.

Jiggle: (Re)Shaping American Women

Jiggle: (Re)Shaping American Women explores the relationship between American women and their bodies as mediated by both traditional and contemporary foundation garments.

Home on the Rails

Recognizing the railroad's importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G. Richter follows women travelers onto trains and considers the consequences of their presence there.

I Didn't Work This Hard Just to Get Married: Successful Single Black Women Speak Out

Through lively and revealing interviews with women from various walks of life, this account speaks directly to the single black woman's experience, addressing unique challenges such as income discrepancies between genders, the high rate of male incarceration, and the "Baby Mama Syndrome." Women discuss the false expectations they face from men, from families, and from friends as well as reevaluate dating, single home ownership, career choices, having children or not and caring for aged parents.

Woman In The Ninteenth Century: And Kindred Papers Relating To The Sphere Condition And Duties Of Woman

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The 51% Minority: How Women Still Are Not Equal and What You Can Do About It

""Lis Wiehl tells us where the law protects us, and where it is letting us down. And as a bonus she gives us the tools to make change happen!

Latina Activists across Borders: Women's Grassroots Organizing in Mexico and Texas

Over the past twenty-five years, nongovernment organizations (NGOs) run by women and devoted to advancing women's well-being have proliferated in Mexico and along both sides of the U.S-Mexico border.

Tete-a-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

""Enthralling.

Responsabilités et violences envers les femmes

Des professionnels du terrain et de la recherche mobilisent tous leurs savoirs et leurs compétences afin de lever le voile sur les violences faites aux femmes.

The Last Gift of Time: Life Beyond Sixty

From the author of Writing a Woman's Life comes an inspirational reflection on aging and the gift of life in your 70s and beyond.

A Passion for Friends

This feminist classic explores the many manifestations of friendship between women and examines the ways women have created their own communities and destinies through friendship.

Scarlett's Sisters

Scarlett's Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles and responsibilities as independent women.

Reclaiming the Feminist Vision: Consciousness-Raising and Small Group Practice

It's called consciousness-raising (CR). Asking questions about our experiences and sharing insights and analyses with others can be the basis for informed activism for positive social change.

The Women We Love

A chorus of gay voices rises to sing the praises of women who inspired them - muses, mentors, even mothers who amuse and amaze. Jason Howard, an activist, artist, and writer with many accolades of his own, gathers this stunning homage to those females gay men hold as icons.

Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film

This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Halle Berry. Interpreting each woman's celebrity as predicated on a brand of charismatic authority, Mia Mask shows how these female stars have deftly negotiated the uneven terrain of racial, gender, and class stereotypes.

Maya Market Women

As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly five hundred years of constant challenges to their culture, from colonial oppression to the instability of violent military dictatorships and the advent of new global technologies.

Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and Friendship in Early Modern Britain

In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society.

Reproductive Justice and Women's Voices: Health Communication across the Lifespan

Reproductive rights are human rights.

One Ordinary Woman, One Extraordinary God

An Encouragement for the Heart SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GOD CALLS YOUR NAME You dream of being used by God but think your life has been too rough, you have been through too much, or done too much for yourself. If you want to find out if God could use you, join with Lorene Kimura to see how he used even the most unsuspecting women.

Love Strong as Death: Lucy Peel's Canadian Journal, 1833-1836

A transcription of Lucy Peel's wonderfully readable journal was recently discovered in her descendent's house in Norwich, England.

The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India

In The Sexual Life of English, Shefali Chandra examines how English became an Indian language. She rejects the idea that English was fully formed before its life in India or that it was imposed from without.

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Woman in the Nineteenth Century is a long essay written by American journalist Margaret Fuller in 1843. Fuller was also a woman's rights advocate and this work shows her thoughts on the inequality of women during her time.

African Women's Movements

Women entered the political scene in Africa after the 1990s, claiming more than one third of the parliamentary seats in countries like Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi. Women in Rwanda hold the highest percentage of legislative seats in the world.

Il sonno di Arianna

La rappresentazione della donna nei suoi diversi volti ha radici lontane. Nasce dalle leggende, spesso più vive dei racconti d'attualità.

Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances between Women and Labor

In this timely and detailed examination of the intersections of feminism, labor politics, and global studies, Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow reveal the ways in which women across the world are transforming labor unions in the contemporary era. Situating specific case studies within broad feminist topics, Franzway and Fonow concentrate on union feminists mobilizing at multiple sites, issues of wages and equity, child care campaigns, work-life balance, and queer organizing, demonstrating how unions around the world are broadening their focuses from contractual details to empowerment and family and feminist issues.

The Borderlands of Education: Latinas in Engineering

This innovative work critically studies the contemporary problems of one segment of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The lack of a diverse U.