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Sweet Dreams

One of the most influential and acclaimed female vocalists of the twentieth century, Patsy Cline (1932â€"63) was best known for her rich tone and emotionally expressive voice. Born Virginia Patterson Hensley, she launched her musical career during the early 1950s as a young woman in Winchester, Virginia, and her heartfelt songs reflect her life and times in this community.

Madison Women Remember: Growing Up in Wisconsin's Capital

Madison is Wisconsin s capital city and the land of the four lakes.

Remarkable Women in New York State History

The significant events in New York State history are well known to educators, students and New Yorkers alike. But often, the role that women played in these events has been overlooked.

Bargaining for Women's Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy

Gender relations in Muslim-majority countries have been subject to intense debate in recent decades. In some cases, Muslim women have fought for and won new rights to political participation, reproductive health, and education.

Divalution

A humorous yet poignant take on the issues and attitudes that encumber today's women. "Divalution" is full of quips and short stories based on the author's personal experiences and observations, some are funny, others sad, all will touch you.

Our Lives To Live: Putting A Woman's Face To Change In Singapore

One Night: Realities of Rape

One night, anthropologist Cathy Winkler awoke from a deep sleep to discover a rapist standing by her bed. For the rest of that night, she lived a woman's worst nightmare as she was repeatedly raped and beaten by the stranger.

Female Suffrage

In this extremely thought-provoking work, Cooper has argued against women suffrage. She has drawn on historical, biological as well as religious arguments to contend that women should not have the right to participate in the political sphere.

The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding

Pediatricians say you should but it's okay if you don't. The hospital says, "Breast is best," but sends you home with formula "just in case.

The U.S. Women's Movement in Global Perspective

This ambitious volume brings together original essays on the U.S.

Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and Postwar American Culture

Celebrated as new consumers and condemned for their growing delinquencies, teenage girls emerged as one of the most visible segments of American society during and after World War II. Contrary to the generally accepted view that teenagers grew more alienated from adults during this period, Rachel Devlin argues that postwar culture fostered a father-daughter relationship characterized by new forms of psychological intimacy and tinged with eroticism.

The Misogyny Factor

This provocative examination by a media-savvy writer who remains at the forefront of the political debate surrounding gender equality explores why equality between men and women has failed to be achieved in Australia. In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting more than 120,000 visits to her website.

On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity?

The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America

Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood

Writing is intellectual, solitary work, and mothering too often seen as its antithesis. Marni Jackson's The Mother Zone, published in 1992, gave many readers their first insights into the life of a mother/writer.

Baad Bitches and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films

This lively study unpacks the intersecting racial, sexual, and gender politics underlying the representations of racialized bodies, masculinities, and femininities in early 1970s black action films, with particular focus on the representation of black femininity. Stephane Dunn explores the typical, sexualized, subordinate positioning of women in low-budget blaxploitation action narratives as well as more seriously radical films like Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and The Spook Who Sat by the Door, in which black women are typically portrayed as trifling "bitches" compared to the supermacho black male heroes.

Women of Vision: Their Psychology, Circumstances, and Success

From the reviews:"Women of Vision blends biographical narrative with psychological perspectives on human development, resulting in a moving and passionate book that is suitable for both academic and nonacademic readers.

Standing Together: Women Speak Out About Violence and Abuse

Standing Together is a powerful expression of women's collective and individual strength.

What Is Driving Women to Drug Use And How You Can Help

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.

Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction

A lively exploration of the struggles faced by women in law enforcement and mystery fiction for the past 175 yearsIn 1910, Alice Wells took the oath to join the all-male Los Angeles Police Department.

Women in Late Life

Contemporary old age is fraught with contradiction and complexity-women portrayed either as incompetent and cuddly grandmothers or as young women trapped in old bodies, images that rarely reflect how women actually see themselves. Women in Late Life explores the thorny issues related to gender and aging, including prevailing but problematic cultural expectations, body image, ageism, the experience of chronic illness, threats to Social Security and the very possibility of a secure retirement while challenging a long-term care system that disadvantages women.

Rebels in White Gloves: Coming of Age with Hillary's Class-Wellesley '69

When the women of the Wellesley class of 1969 entered the ivory tower, they were initiated into a rarefied world. Many were daughters of privilege, many were going for their "MRS.

Coroas

Este livro é o resultado do questionamento permanente do que é ser mulher na cultura brasileira. É também uma forma de resistência política, explica a antropóloga Mirian Goldenberg sobre Coroas: corpo, envelhecimento, casamento e infidelidade, uma análise fundamental sobre a relação da mulher com os efeitos do tempo.

The Women, Gender and Development Reader

The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change.

Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths

Communicative Understandings of Women's Leadership Development: From Ceilings of Glass to Labyrinth Paths, edited by Elesha L. Ruminski and Annette M.

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.