Download or read book Women s Health written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Womens Health magazine speaks to every aspect of a woman's life including health, fitness, nutrition, emotional well-being, sex and relationships, beauty and style.
Download or read book For Her Own Good written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This women's history classic brilliantly exposed the constraints imposed on women in the name of science and exposes the myths used to control them. Since the the nineteenth century, professionals have been invoking scientific expertise to prescribe what women should do for their own good. Among the experts’ diagnoses and remedies: menstruation was an illness requiring seclusion; pregnancy, a disabling condition; and higher education, a threat to long-term health of the uterus. From clitoridectomies to tame women’s behavior in the nineteenth century to the censure of a generation of mothers as castrators in the 1950s, doctors have not hesitated to intervene in women’s sexual, emotional, and maternal lives. Even domesticity, the most popular prescription for a safe environment for woman, spawned legions of “scientific” experts. Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English has never lost faith in science itself, butinsist that we hold those who interpret it to higher standards. Women are entering the medical and scientific professions in greater numbers but as recent research shows, experts continue to use pseudoscience to tell women how to live. For Her Own Good provides today’s readers with an indispensable dose of informed skepticism.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women in Today s World written by Mary Zeiss Stange and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 2017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work includes 1000 entries covering the spectrum of defining women in the contemporary world.
Download or read book Women s History for Beginners written by Bonnie J. Morris and published by For Beginners (For Beginners). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History books have often ommitted or glossed over the role of women in the past. What exactly is women's history? A feminist viewpoint? The history of sex or gender? A story of queens? For Beginners will demystify these questions to provide a straightforward and accessible guide to women's history in a lively and engaging comic book-style. This series is for those who want to know more about a subject without being bogged down in dry facts.
Download or read book A Book of Women s Altars written by Nancy Brady Cunningham and published by Red Wheel. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any surface can become an altar. Geddes and Cunningham, with beautiful, inspirational photos and text that's both instructive and poetic, show us how. For women, they say, an altar can become a sacred space upon which to place symbols of her true self. Whether indoors or out, permanent or fleeting, an altar helps you to quickly focus on the spirituality inherent in common things -- the flicker of a candle flame, the heady scent of freshly picked lilacs. Part One of A Book of Women's Altars explains the cultural and historical background of the altar and why to create one. Making and using an altar literally clears a path for a woman through the clutter of her world. She creates a place where she is free to make her inner journey, where healing is abundant. Cunningham describes the process of selecting a theme, choosing a place, finding the right objects, and knowing when to change the altar. Part Two focuses on what to do with altars on special occasions. The author and photographer have created and illustrated -- with photographs and stories -- sixteen special altars. There are altars for the seasons of the year and the seasons of our lives -- including loss, remembrance, celebration of new life, and many more. Each has its own purpose, story, and ritual. Nancy Cunningham is an accomplished poet, author of A Book of Women's Altars, and workshop leader in yoga, meditation and ritual for more than 30 years.
Download or read book The Louisville Slugger Complete Book of Women s Fast Pitch Softball written by John Monteleone and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the differences from men's softball and offers effective strategies.
Download or read book Women Images Realities A Multicultural Anthology written by Amy Kesselman and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages. This book was released on 2008 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling anthology is a unique introduction to feminism and women’s studies. It presents a multidisciplinary collection of academic essays and analyses, personal narratives, and fiction and poetry about women’s lives. The selections illustrate the variety of women’s experiences, primarily in the United States, considering both commonalities and differences among women and appreciating women’s diverse approaches to living and fostering change.
Download or read book On Understanding Women written by Mary Ritter Beard and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1968 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The rise of modern feminism, the world-wide political upheavals of the century with their efforts to enlist women as partisans of an old order or a revolution, the new individuals, socialist, fascist, communist and Hitlerite literature on the subject of sex, the avalanche of fiction based on its motif, and the easy habit of generalisation indulged in by psychologists or special pleaders have lured me into an effort to sketch ways that must be traveled before the role of women in the civilising process can be understood at all. My perspective is historical but historians of competence must lay the fundamental basis for a grasp of the subject merely challenged here. If this outline raises question, starts disputes, and draws the kind of criticism which will lead to sounder views, I shall consider my daring justified. -- p. v.
Download or read book Nothing But the Truth So Help Me God written by A Band of Women and published by Nothing But the Truth, LLC. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of essays by women about the role that positive female relationships of all kinds have played in their lives.
Download or read book The Underside of History written by Elise Boulding and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Volume Set Original Line Drawings by Helen Barchilon Redman The Underside of History, now available in a revised, two-volume edition, offers a new generation of scholars and students an alternative to the traditional courtesans/queens/mothers/and mistresses view of women in history. This classic in feminist literature provides an account of women's creativity in every age from pre-history to the present, and attempts to view women's roles in the context of the total time span of human experience. In clear and elegant prose, the author takes us on a breathtaking tour through time: we move through the hundred-thousand-year wanderings of the Paleolithic into the great transition from hunting and gathering to herding and planting; from life inside city walls to the great primary civilizations of the Middle East and Asia, as well as the feudal civilizations on its fringes; and from the sweep of culture generated by the Greco-Romanic-Islamic empires to "European Enlightenment" and, finally, to the last two centuries and the gradual industrialization-urbanization of the planet. New to this volume is a look at the 20th century women's movement--including a chapter on Third World women--as well as a provocative epilogue entitled "Creating Futures for the 21st Century." When we look at the imbalances regarding women in the social record, we are not simply gleaning information about the status of women: we are getting clues about general imbalances within society at large. For this reason, students, professionals, and practitioners alike will find The Underside of History to be an invigorating intellectual exercise and an essential addition to their libraries. "It is a classic, in all meaningsof the word. This book contains a lot of important information and shows us how to re-vision history and historical data. It won't 'scare' men or newcomers to women's studies." --Elizabeth Moen, University of Colorado, Boulder "Its presentation of this 'forgotten' histo
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Women s Writing in the United States written by Linda Wagner-Martin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sumptuous selection of short fiction and poetry. . . . Its invitation to share the passion of women's voices characterizes the entire volume."--"USA Today."
Download or read book A Woman s Thoughts about Women written by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women written by Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Female Imperative written by Faith Evans and published by Evans & Evans. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells how male humans killed large animals with crude spears for nearly 300,000 years; that the best hunters reproduced at a higher rate than poor hunters; that this process over millennia has produced men with a strong propensity for war, even when war is not necessary. In contrast, women tend to show aggression verbally, rather than physically, which, in an age of hypersonic missiles and swarms of bomb-laden drones, is a vital asset. This explains why women must have as much political power as men, especially in foreign relations. To achieve that role, women will need specific kinds of help from society and government.
Download or read book Women s Reality written by Anne Wilson Schaef and published by HarperPrism. This book was released on 1991 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pivotal work, the bestselling author of Co-Dependence provides the understanding women need to enhance self-awareness and clarifies what it means to be a woman living in a male-dominated society, which is often at odds with the way women feel.
Download or read book The Handbook of Women Psychology and the Law written by Andrea Barnes and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2005-05-20 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Women, Psychology, and the Law is a groundbreaking book that presents legal and psychological perspectives on how society has responded to the most vital (and often controversial) contemporary women's issues. The Handbook covers such important topics as abortion, rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, employment discrimination, divorce, poverty, welfare, and mental health. Written by experts in the fields of jurisprudence, clinical psychology, feminist psychology, ethics, and public policy, this essential volume shows how crucial social issues have effected civil and criminal law. This comprehensive resource Describes the evolution of gender-related legal decisions Explores sexual harassment in the workplace from both the individual’s and the organization’s viewpoints Explains the “invisible” aspect of women’s contributions to the workplace Describes the ambivalence of the courts in cases involving pregnant employees Presents an update of the psychological and legal sides of abortion Reports on the gender gap in health insurance coverage Offers a cross-cultural overview of women and depression Explores recent legal interventions for incarcerated women who killed their batterers Gives an analysis of rape from an international perspective and explores the use of rape as a weapon of war Presents particular issues affecting women from places such as southern Africa, Uganda, and China
Download or read book Women the Longest Revolution written by Juliet Mitchell and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1e dr. 1966.
