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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.

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

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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.