Book Description
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.
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Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2008-11
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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.
Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2013-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307764168
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.
Author : Mary Zeiss Stange
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 2017 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412976855
This work includes 1000 entries covering the spectrum of defining women in the contemporary world.
Author : Bonnie J. Morris
Publisher : For Beginners (For Beginners)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781934389607
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.
Author : Nancy Brady Cunningham
Publisher : Red Wheel
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1590030117
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.
Author : John Monteleone
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780805058093
Details the differences from men's softball and offers effective strategies.
Author : Mary Ritter Beard
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN :
"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.
Author : Amy Kesselman
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
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.
Author : A Band of Women
Publisher : Nothing But the Truth, LLC
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 2012-10
Category : Diseases
ISBN : 9780988375413
This is a book of essays by women about the role that positive female relationships of all kinds have played in their lives.
Author : Elise Boulding
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
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