Download or read book To be a Woman written by Connie Zweig and published by Tarcher. This book was released on 1990 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking collection, psychologists, Jungian analysts, feminists and scholars of Goddess cultures explain for the first time that a new state in women's growth is about to emerge--conscious femininity.
Download or read book A Frozen Woman written by Annie Ernaux and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is 30 years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her. While each of Ernaux's books contain an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, one of Ernaux's early works, concentrates the spotlight piercingly on Annie herself. Mixing affection, rage and bitterness, A Frozen Woman shows us Ernaux's developing art when she still relied on traditional narrative, before the shortened form emerged that has since become her trademark.
Download or read book Development Crises and Alternative Visions written by Gita Sen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half of the world's farmers are women. They are the majority of the poor, the uneducated and are the first to suffer from drought and famine. Yet their subordination is reinforced by well-meaning development policies that perpetuate social inequalities. During the 1975-85 United Nations Decade for the Advancement of Women their position actually worsened. This book analyses three decades of policies towards Third World women. Focusing on global economic and political crises - debt, famine, militarization, fundamentalism - the authors show how women's moves to organize effective strategies for basic survival are central to an understanding of the development process.
Download or read book On Modern Women and Their Rights written by Carmen de Burgos and published by Escribana Books. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Carmen de Burgos elaborates extensive and erudite arguments to counter the anti-feminist assertions that female difference leads of necessity to inferiority. She challenges the phrenological definition of women as intellectually inferior to men by bringing to bear recent findings which point to the fallacy of a direct relationship between the size of the brain and an individual's intelligence. She refutes the notion that women are by nature, due to their nervous system, more volatile and passionate than men by highlighting the numbers of crimes of passion committed by men as opposed to women, and noting that it is men who start wars and abuse their mates. Burgos also provides a historical overview of women's participation in important historical and cultural movements. This volume has been carefully edited and translated by professor Gabriela Pozzi and Keith Watts from Grand Valley State University in Michigan.
Download or read book Releasing Worry and Finding Worth as a Woman written by Charles R. Swindoll and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Education in the United States written by Leo J. Eiden and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Women s Spirituality Book written by Diane Stein and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the basis for all religion, the Goddess is resurfacing and being reclaimed by women in their quest for inner development and wholeness. Here you will learn of the deceptions of history and the hidden secrets of our past. Also learn the techniques of ritual, group structure, individual work, healing, crystals, tarot and I Ching, the discovery and development of power from within, and much more.
Download or read book Women Our History written by DK and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told. Includes evocative images, this gloriously illustrated ebook reveals the key events in women's history - from early matriarchal societies through women's suffrage, the Suffragette movement, 20th-century feminism and gender politics, to recent movements such as #MeToo and International Women's Day - and the key role women have had in shaping our past. Learn about the everyday lives of women through the ages as well as the big names of women's history - powerful, inspirational, and trailblazing women such as Cleopatra, Florence Nightingale, Emmeline Pankhurst, Eva Peron, and Rosa Parks - and discover the unsung contributions of lesser-known women who have changed the world, and the "forgotten" events of women's history. Placing women firmly centre stage, Women - Our History shows women where they have come from, and, in celebrating the achievements of women of the past offers positive role models for women of today
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Woman s Soul written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This shining collection brings you inspiration and comfort in special chapters on marriage, motherhood, aging, bridging the generations, attitude, self-esteem and higher wisdom. Stories honor the strength and reveal the beauty of the feminine spirit. Included are incredible stories from Oprah Winfrey, Leo Buscaglia, Linda Ellerbee, Robert Fulghum, Kathie Lee Gifford and many others.
Download or read book La sociedad que no amaba a las mujeres written by Javier Fenández Aguado and published by Editorial Almuzara. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Qué tienen en común Isabel la Católica, Teresa de Jesús, Clara Campoamor, Frida Khalo y Coco Chanel? Todas fueron mujeres excepcionales y vencieron las trabas de una sociedad que no favorecía el desarrollo de su talento por el mero hecho de ser mujer. Esta obra recoge los perfiles de 60 mujeres que vivieron entre el siglo XIV a. C: y 1978, muchas de ellas grandes desconocidas para el gran público. Todas ellas tenían condición de líderes, pero ejercieron ese liderazgo de manera muy diferente y no siempre de forma positiva. De cada una de ellas se extraen numerosas enseñanzas de completa actualidad para los profesionales de hoy, al margen de su sexo.
Download or read book C mo ser mujer written by Caitlin Moran and published by Anagrama. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No hubo nunca mejor época que ésta para ser mujer: tenemos el voto y la píldora, y desde 1727 ya no nos envían a la hoguera por brujas. Pero, ¿cómo ser mujer? Ésa es precisamente la gran, eterna pregunta a la que Caitlin Moran se propone responder en una obra que aborda a calzón quitado –a veces literalmente–, con inteligencia, desvergüenza e ironía y también una salvaje franqueza, los principales aspectos de la condición femenina. Mezcla de libro de memorias y de divertida vociferación, apoyándose siempre en sus experiencias como mujer, feminista e hija de una familia numerosa y proletaria, Caitlin Moran se describe con una sinceridad y una audacia militantes, y habla con absoluta sinceridad de su relación con su cuerpo. Y con la comida, con los hombres, con el trabajo, la sexualidad, la maternidad, el aborto. Pero también escribe sobre la importancia de Lady Gaga, y los errores y horrores de la depilación más íntima, o el botox. Y sobre mucho más. Así, alternando provocativas observaciones sobre la vida de las mujeres con historias ferozmente divertidas sobre sí misma, desnuda, deconstruye y arroja al fuego la imagen políticamente correcta de la mujer del siglo XXI. Y nos descubre página tras página esos secretos que se cuentan en voz baja las amigas verdaderas, y no esas equívocas colegas que jamás se quitan la máscara de la feminidad perfecta. «El feminismo, sostiene Caitlin Moran, es demasiado importante para que se lo dejemos a los académicos. Y su libro, tan brillante y tan necesario, tan implacablemente cómico y tan serio, es precisamente lo que el feminismo estaba esperando» (Frances Wilson, Times Literary Supplement). «Digámoslo de entrada: este libro es un bombazo. Hay frases que os harán reír a carcajadas, situaciones reales como la vida misma, y en las que os reconoceréis, asombradas. Y es muy, muy divertido... El gran mérito de Cómo ser mujer es que contribuye a la confianza en sí misma de las mujeres. Y nos recuerda que el sexismo, y todo lo que va unido a él, no sólo es represivo, sino aburrido y estúpido» (Miranda Sawyer, The Observer). «Una crónica ocurrente y atrevida de la feminidad contemporánea... Una escritora con talento, verdaderamente original» (Germaine Greer, The Times). «No suele ocurrir que un libro me haga exclamar "¡Exacto, eso es!" cada pocas páginas, y éste es uno de ellos» (The lrish Times). «Ella es esencialmente una comedianta; su cadencia es cómica, su estilo es cómico, sus juegos de palabras son maliciosos, y eso antes de que usted se ponga a reflexionar sobre sus observaciones. Pero este libro es importante por algo que sólo tiene Caitlin Moran; tanto ella como Germaine Greer han combatido la vergüenza ligada al hecho de ser mujer, pero allí donde Greer se enfurecía, Moran muestra su rechazo con ironía y carcajadas. Hay una valentía en este libro auténticamente original, ni prefabricada ni tomada de otros. Un libro vital en todos los sentidos de la palabra» (The Guardian). «Quizá el libro más divertido e inteligente jamás escrito» (Stylist Magazine). «Muestra el lado irónico del feminismo más feroz y provocativo» (Paola Sara Battistioli, Tu Style).
Download or read book Conquistadoras written by Carlos B. Vega and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-10-02 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though women played an integral role in the conquest of the New World, little has been written about their contributions. This Spanish-language work examines the lives and deeds of women who influenced the course of history in the Americas some 500 years ago. Covered in detail are the lives of Maria de Toledo, first woman governor in America; Isabel de Bobadilla, governor of Cuba and instrumental in the Spanish expedition to Florida; Ana Francisca de Borja, governor of Peru and a military leader; Beatriz de la Cueva, governor of Guatemala and a political leader; Maria de Penalosa, governor of Nicaragua and a military strategist; Isabel Barreto y Quiros, first and only woman admiral of the Spanish navy; and mestizo leaders Francisca Pizarro and Leonor de Alvarado. Also covered are more than 40 other women of the same period--Spanish, Indian, and black--who held a wide variety of leadership positions. The book draws its information from the writings of respected early historians as well as historical documents from libraries and archives in Spain, Latin America and the United States. Cortes, Pizarro, Alvarado, todos ellos hombres conocidos y famosos. Pero y las mujeres? Si bien fue el hombre el que mayormente cargo sobre sus hombros la empresa conquistadora, muchas fueron las mujeres que tambien formaron parte de tal epopeya. Sin embargo, la historia les paso por encima y las relego al triste olvido. Esta obra se empena en hacerles justicia historica a estas mujeres, destacando sus vidas y hazanas sobre todo a ocho de ellas, quizas las mas conocidas, pero no las unicas. Fueron mujeres excepcionales, resolutas, integras, juiciosas, prontas a echar un pie adelante cuando las circunstancias asi lo exigieron, pero, vale recalcar, sin renunciar en ningun momento a sus dotes de madres y esposas. De las ocho mujeres, seis fueron espanolas y dos indigenas, incluyendose, ademas, a unas cuarenta mas aunque en menos detalle. La obra rebosa humanidad y sentido historico y esta escrita en un lenguaje pulcro y sencillo, al alcance de todo tipo de lector. Sus fuentes son rigurosamente historicas y fidedignas, fruto de las mas excelsas plumas a ambos lados del Atlantico y pertenecientes a todas las epocas, incluyendo, claro esta, a los primitivos cronistas de Indias.
Download or read book Do It Like a Woman written by Caroline Criado-Perez and published by Portobello Books. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing anything 'like a woman' used to be an insult. Now, as the women in this book show, it means being brave, speaking out, and taking risks, changing the world one step at a time. Here, campaigner and journalist Caroline Criado-Perez introduces us to a host of pioneers, including a female fighter pilot in Afghanistan; a Chilean revolutionary; the Russian punks who rocked against Putin; and the Iranian journalist who uncovered her hair.
Download or read book Una y otra vez written by Leonel Grimaldo Salazar and published by Editorial San Pablo. This book was released on with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Todos hemos vivido momentos de desasosiego, de tristeza, de soledad, de dolor, así como momentos de alegía, de euforia y de entusiasmo. Esa es la vida, un ir y venir por caminos insospechados, rumbo a un solo fin: la felicidad.
Download or read book Changes Conflicts and Ideologies in Contemporary Hispanic Culture written by Teresa Fernandez Ulloa and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is formed by various chapters studying the manner in which conflicts, changes and ideologies appear in contemporary Hispanic discourses. The contributions analyze a wide variety of topics related to the manner in which ideological and epistemological changes of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries are reflected in, and shape, Spanish language, literature, and other cultural expressions in both Spain and Latin America. The 19th century was conducive to various movements of independence, while, in Europe, radical changes of different types and in all contexts of life and knowledge occurred. Language was certainly affected by these changes resulting in new terminology and discourse strategies. Likewise, new schools of thought such as idealism, dialectic materialism, nihilism, and nationalism, among others, were established, in addition to new literary movements such as romanticism, evocative of (r)evolution, individualism and realism, inspired by the social effects of capitalism. Scientific and technological advances continued throughout the 20th century, when the women’s liberation movement consolidated. The notion of globalization also appears, simultaneously to various crises, despotism, wars, genocide, social exclusion and unemployment. Together, these trends give rise to a vindicating discourse that reaches large audiences via television. The classic rhetoric undergoes some changes given the explicit suasion and the absence of delusion provided by other means of communication. The 21st century is defined by the flood of information and the overpowering presence of mass communication; so much so, that the technological impact is clear in all realms of life. From the linguistic viewpoint, the appearance of anglicisms and technicalities mirrors the impact of post-modernity. There is now a need to give coherence to a national discourse that both grasps the past and adapts itself to the new available resources with the purpose of conveying an effective and attractive message to a very large audience. Discourse is swift, since society does not seem to have time to think, but instead seeks to maintain interest in a world filled with stimuli that, in turn, change constantly. Emphasis has been switched to a search for historical images and moments that presumably explain present and future events. It is also significant that all this restlessness is discussed and explained via new means such as the world-wide-web. The change in communication habits (e-mail, chats, forums, SMS) and tools (computers, mobile phones) that was initiated in the 20th century has had a net effect on the directness and swiftness of language.
Download or read book Blurring organizational issues and social phenomena in the age of technology a multidisciplinary perspective written by Nemesio Castillo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The predominant view in economic theory until the crisis of the '70s, argued the great enterprise was the key player in the innovation process, this was conceived as an activity that unfolded in specific areas, with clear responsibilities and predetermined objectives. This operating structure of the innovative process was functional demand model that favored the standardization of production. The innovative process was developed predominantly by firms that had a domain oligopolistic market from which they made windfall with which financed the research and development activities. In this context, the role of SMEs in the innovation process is limited to covering the portion of the market that big companies left.
