American history is teeming with unconventional, trailblazing Lone Star women with big, unprecedented achievements-outstanding, outrageous, outré women who know all about being "Texas Big" and being first. Texas's own Bessie Coleman was the first black person in the world to earn a pilot's license.
See offerGenerations of women have traveled to Martha's Vineyard to find solace in its calming waves and varied shoreline. Many prominent and capable women set down roots, contributing to the fabric of the community on the island.
See offerWhat is jealousy, and how does it undermine our closest relationships? Renowned journalist and author Nancy Friday tackles this difficult topic with compelling honesty and depth of insight.
See offerIt has long been argued that women, especially black women, have been relegated to a second-class status in American society, and despite modern advances remain subject to a debilitating discrimination in many areas of life.
See offerVibrant, dynamic, spirited and forceful. The contemporary women's movement in India, which began in the late 1970s protested against the dark times, the violence and the misogyny.
See offerWhat accounts for the oft-noted 'gap' between well-designed policies for women and their inadequate implementation? Why do such policies often fail to benefit the poorest women?
See offerFocusing on three important interrelated issues, Women and Civil Society in Turkey challenges the classical definition, developed in the West, of civil society as an equivalent of the public sphere in which women are excluded.
See offerWomen have developed a new self-confidence owing particularly to their involvement in social production and in the different social movements. This has again enhanced public awareness off the struggle for their liberation.
See offerFeminism has sold out, or so argues Andi Zeisler, the founding editor and creative director of Bitch magazine: Today's feminism is a choose-your-own adventure story. Women can choose which aspects of feminist empowerment sound the sexiest, and hype those to the exclusion of more urgent political concerns.
See offerThe Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism provides scholars and students with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of the current research in this subject.
See offerFrom the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminism's most complex conversations.
See offerUsing a rich array of newly available sources and contemporary methodologies from many disciplines, the ten original essays in this volume give a fresh appraisal of Addams as a theorist and practitioner of democracy. In an increasingly interdependent world, Addams's life work offers resources for activists, scholars, policy makers, and theorists alike.
See offerHayati bir yolculuk gibi yasayan, aramaktan vazgeçmeyen kadinlar."Tuluhan Tekelioglu'nun kitabinda, kirk yasindaki kadinlarin hikâyelerinden kesitler bulacaksiniz.
See offerRebecca Solnit, bilip bilmeden her seyi açiklayarak kendini ispatlamak derdindeki adamlari; kadinlarin nasil susturuldugunu ve hayatin her alaninda maruz kaldiklari siddeti anlatiyor.
See offer'Cennet annelerin ayaginin altindadir' sözü her seferinde dile getirilirken, bir yandan da her gün kadinlar öldürülüyor, siddete maruz kaliyor. Yasamimizin devamini saglayan, hayatlarinda hep fedakarlik gösteren analarimiza, kadinlarimiza karsi yapilan cinayetler ve siddet her gün Türkiye'de gerçeklesiyor.
See offerWomen in many Westernized countries encounter a wider variety of career opportunities than afforded in previous decades, and the percentage of women leaders in nearly every sector is on the rise.
See offerOsmanli kadini haremde hapis hayati mi yasiyordu? - Kocasinin izni olmadan disari çikabiliyor muydu?
See offerÜstün Dökmen'le Nehirde adli kitabiyla bizi yolculuga çikaran Bircan Kirlangiç Simsek, bu kez ünlü psikolog Prof. Dr.
See offerTürk kadinin özgürlük ve siyasal haklar konusunda verdigi mücadeler hakkinda bilgimiz genellikle azdir. Zübeyde Terzioglu'nun kitabi bize Cumhuriyet'in baslangiç yillarindaki kadin hareketini ve hareretli tartismalari çok yansitiyor.
See offerMetropol Kadinlarinin idealleri nelerdir?Kendilerine biçilen geleneksel rolleri ve vazgeçilmezleri baglaminda yasamlari ve beklentileri hangi dogrultudadir?
See offerBes çocuk annesi, is kadini, finansal danisman ve ekonomi yazari Margaret Lomas; ev ekonomisinden, finanstan, paradan ve para yönetiminden çok iyi anlayan bir kadin, iyi bir es, iyi bir arkadas, iyi bir yönetici, evinin kadini ve de tam 5 çocuk annesi!Tüm görevlerini en iyi sekilde nasil basardigini anlatirken, sizin de bir Süperkadin olmanizdaki engelleri kaldirmaniza yardimci olacak pratik ögütlerle dolu rehber niteligindeki bu kitabi hazirlamis.
See offerÜlkemiz aydinlarinin bugün sorgulamaya basladigi "sistem", toplumumuzda her geçen gün derin yaralar açmaktadir. Cumhuriyetin kurulmasi ile ümit baglanan 60`li, 70`li yillarin geçtiginden sonra 80`li yillarin gençligi de de adeta bir çikmazin pençesinde kivraniyor.
See offerMary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) : 38 yil süren kisa ömrüne karsin, erkek egemenligindeki felsefe alaninda yazdiklariyla, kendinden sonraki yüzyillari kadin haklari konusunda derinden etkileyen bir 18.Yüzyil düsünürüdür.
See offerMisha Lambert's first book of collected poetry is an intimate dive into the mind of a woman in her early twenties. The poems cover a multitude of topics from body image to mental health to sexuality.
See offerThis book explores the employment of Japanese women born in the 1960s and 1970s who experienced childbirth and raised children in the 1990s and the early 2000s. During this period, the Japanese economy experienced a severe recession.
See offerStill Lifting, Still Climbing is the first volume of its kind to document African American women's activism in the wake of the civil rights movement.
See offerMaking Sense of Women's Lives presents a wide range of writings about women's lives in the United States. Michele Plott and Lauri Umansky have drawn on their experiences as both students and professors to assemble the collection.
See offerMaking Sense of Women's Lives presents a wide range of writings about women's lives in the United States. Michele Plott and Lauri Umansky have drawn on their experiences as both students and professors to assemble the collection.
See offerWomen in Solitary presents the powerful testimony of six women who were confined to solitary confinement in New York State prisons.
See offerWritten over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies.
See offerCitation: Le bourgeois a pensé et pense encore que la femme doit rester à la maison et consacrer son activité à surveiller et diriger le ménage, à soigner le mari, à fabriquer et nourrir les enfants.
See offerHow can women's rights be seen as a universal value rather than a Western value imposed upon the rest of the world?
See offerThis highly original synthesis is the most comprehensive text to date on nineteenth-century British women.
See offerThe complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times.
See offerDoscientos años después de la aparición de los primeros movimientos feministas, asistimos a una mutación sorprendente. Dos discursos aparentemente irrefutables, el de la libre elección y el de la biología, han derivado respectivamente en un nuevo sexismo y un nuevo determinismo que contribuyen a fijar los estereotipos sobre el comportamiento femenino y masculino.
See offerQuesto è un libro misogino, scritto da un misogino in un'epoca misogina e in un luogo ad alto contenuto di misoginia (l'Italia del 1926!).
See offerIn This Common Secret Dr. Susan Wicklund chronicles her emotional and dramatic twenty-year career on the front lines of the abortion war.
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