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The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920-30

Documenting the rise and fall of a feminist reform powerhouse, The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism is the first comprehensive history of the umbrella organization founded in 1920 by former suffrage leaders in order to coordinate organized women's reform. Encompassing nearly every major national women's organization of its time, including the League of Women Voters, the Women's Trade Union League, and the National Consumers' League, the Women's Joint Congressional Committee (WJCC) evolved into a powerful lobbying force for the legislative agendas of more than twelve million women.

The Devil Wants YOU Busy, Bound and Burnt Out

The Devil Wants YOU Busy, Bound and Burnt Out challenges us to dig deep to see if we are burying our emotional pain or are we working for other reasons. God spoke one time and said "You don't like it when your children assume anything and I don't like it when my children assume either.

I'm Just Starting: A Reluctant Criminal's High Road to County Jail

The adventure begins with our protagonist's DUI crimes which lead to a cultural immersion of an unlikely type. As a self-determined non-criminal she fights her self-rightousness and judgments through a renewed relationship with God.

True Confessions: Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School

Twenty-seven pioneering thinkers share their discovery of and commitment to feminism in this essential collection.

Getting Old Sucks If You Let It!

I have heard before that you begin aging the minute you are born. Pretty depressing don't you think?

The Changing Role of Women in Bengal, 1849-1905

Basing her work on Bengali-language sources, such as women's journals, private papers, biographies, and autobiographies, Meredith Borthwick approaches the lives of women in nineteenth-century Bengal from a new standpoint. She moves beyond the record of the heated debates held by men of this period-over matters such as widow burning, child marriage, and female education-to explore the effects of changes in society on the lives of women and to question assumptions about "advances" prompted by British rule.

THE POETRY OF Sunshine

Hello, this is SunShine, coming at you with wisps and wonderings of poems, all written on pages of tablets in a state mental hospital and typed up on my relatively inexpensive laptop, the one I bought while living in a van, by city parks and the river. Here, within these pages, discover the thoughts of a modern-day diagnosed young woman with bipolar disorder, committed and locked up for hearing a sole sentence of a voice from God, and well, painting all the apartment walls.

Well-Read Lives

In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's Gilded Age who lost-and found-themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them. Some women, like Edith and Alice Hamilton, M.

Mein intersexuelles Kind

Ein Kind wird geboren, aber es passt partout nicht in das Schema Hellblau-Rosa oder Junge-Mädchen.

Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.

Le personnage de la femme dans le roman et la nouvelle en Égypte de 1914 à 1960

Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine

There was a time when birth was treated as a natural process rather than a medical condition. Before 1800, women gave birth seated in birth chairs or on stools and were helped along by midwives.

The Voices of Prostitutes

This book is about the true stories revolving five women who are mothers. They tell how they have become prostitutes.

Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth

Safe drinking water counts for nothing. A pollution-free environment counts for nothing.

Women in Atlanta

Although Southern women are often portrayed as belles, the photographic record suggests the true diversity, complexity, and richness of their lives.

Sex, Spirit and the Soul of Therapy

Sex, Spirit, and the Soul of Therapy is a memoir of a woman of passion who learned to take charge of her own life by trusting in the power of spirit, against overwhelming odds.

Prostitution Policy: Revolutionizing Practice through a Gendered Perspective

While widely acknowledged as the world's oldest profession, and often glamorized or demonized in the media, prostitution is a critical part of American culture and its economy, as well as a social problem in need of an updated public policy.

Une vie à soi

Qu'est-ce qu'une femme seule? Une célibattante préoccupée par sa seule carrière professionnelle?

Girl from the Gulches: The Story of Mary Ronan

A covered wagon on a dim road, the promise of a long journey, and the wonder of what lay ahead filled the shadowy spaces of Mary Sheehan Ronan's earliest memories.

Resurrecting Eve

Finding Eve's spirit in the teachings of Jesus, authors Roberta Pughe and Paula Sohl explore her bold, self-directed, and inquisitive nature as a model for women today who have been negatively affected by the oppressive and hierarchical fundamentalist Church. Drawing on personal experiences, Paula and Roberta analyze fundamentalist systems from political, theological, and psychological perspectives to unveil the ways patriarchal religious dogma stifles women's voices and spirits.

Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia

Often referred to as the leader of inspiration in Appalachian studies, Helen Matthews Lewis linked scholarship with activism and encouraged deeper analysis of the region.

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.