Author : Kira Gould
Publisher : Ecotone Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture and energy conservation
ISBN : 9780974903378
Exploring a variety of topics ranging from communities to buildings to product design, this book explains how the sustainable design field is influenced by women and women's ways of working. It explains the often overlooked roles women have played as key catalysts in sustainability.
Author : Elna C. Green
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807861758
The biographies of more than 800 women form the basis for Elna Green's study of the suffrage and the antisuffrage movements in the South. Green's comprehensive analysis highlights the effects that factors such as class background, marital status, educational level, and attitudes about race and gender roles had in inspiring the region's women to work in favor of, or in opposition to, their own enfranchisement. Green sketches the ranks of both movements--which included women and men, black and white--and identifies the ways in which issues of class, race, and gender determined the composition of each side. Coming from a wide array of beliefs and backgrounds, Green argues, southern women approached enfranchisement with an equally varied set of strategies and ideologies. Each camp defined and redefined itself in opposition to the other. But neither was entirely homogeneous: issues such as states' rights and the enfranchisement of black women were so divisive as to give rise to competing organizations within each group. By focusing on the grassroots constituency of each side, Green provides insight into the whole of the suffrage debate.
Author : Diana Kapp
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0593484347
Part biography, part guidebook to the contemporary environmental movement, this book is the perfect gift for future and current activists and changemakers! Girls Who Green the World features the inspiring stories of 34 revolutionaries fighting for our future! An inspired collection of profiles, featuring environmental changemakers, social entrepreneurs, visionaries and activists. Journalist Diana Kapp has crisscrossed this country writing for and about empowered girls, girls who expect to be leaders, founders and inventors. This book takes it a step further. It says to girls: while you’re striving to be CEOs and world leaders, consider solving the biggest challenge of our lifetime, too—because you can do both at the same time, and here are 34 women doing just that.
Author : Marie NDiaye
Publisher : Influx Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1910312908
'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.
Author : Monica H. Green
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0191607355
Making Women's Medicine Masculine challenges the common belief that prior to the eighteenth century men were never involved in any aspect of women's healthcare in Europe. Using sources ranging from the writings of the famous twelfth-century female practitioner, Trota of Salerno, all the way to the great tomes of Renaissance male physicians, and covering both medicine and surgery, this study demonstrates that men slowly established more and more authority in diagnosing and prescribing treatments for women's gynaecological conditions (especially infertility) and even certain obstetrical conditions. Even if their 'hands-on' knowledge of women's bodies was limited by contemporary mores, men were able to establish their increasing authority in this and all branches of medicine due to their greater access to literacy and the knowledge contained in books, whether in Latin or the vernacular. As Monica Green shows, while works written in French, Dutch, English, and Italian were sometimes addressed to women, nevertheless even these were often re-appropriated by men, both by practitioners who treated women and by laymen interested to learn about the 'secrets' of generation. While early in the period women were considered to have authoritative knowledge on women's conditions (hence the widespread influence of the alleged authoress 'Trotula'), by the end of the period to be a woman was no longer an automatic qualification for either understanding or treating the conditions that most commonly afflicted the female sex - with implications of women's exclusion from production of knowledge on their own bodies extending to the present day.
Author : Elana Frankel
Publisher : Centennial Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781951274092
It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the newfound power of buying and using pot. So, first things first - here's a basic look at the plant. What is it? Where has it been? And how do you use it? Even if you consider yourself a pro, a little refresher could not hurt. As cannabis moves towards legalization and declining social stigma, the green rush has ignited an entrepreneurial spark and that means blazing new trails, and inspiring others. Entrepreneurs are known for heading out into uncharted territory with superhuman dedication. Add to that the grey area of working in the cannabis industry and you’ve got possibilities…challenging but feasible. One thing is for certain, women are flocking to the industry and don’t mind working in high-risk, unchartered territory. Women are starting businesses, growing and extracting, working in real estate and the medical community. Today, at least 25% of executive-level roles in the industry are held by women and that is a slight edge over U.S. businesses as a whole (23%). However, when it comes to cannabis, it’s rarely obvious what to do next in the ever-changing political, social and medical scene, and, traditionally a woman would have relied on herself when challenges arise. In this premium book, the power of personal narratives brings a better understanding to these complex issues. When asked to share their own stories within the context of the industry, the women on these pages made connections between their own biographies and the industry, and happily pass on that knowledge. Maybe the reader will see herself in these pages or perhaps she is still learning and unlearning. (Don’t worry, we’ve got a primer for you!) Either way, readers will soon realize that they are not alone and there are resources to get more involved.
Author : Rebecca Harrell Tickell
Publisher : Living Well
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2010-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780615342436
In Hot, Rich & Green!, Rebecca Harrell Tickell inspires women to realize their power, follow their passion, and start the eco-friendly business of their dreams. The lessons in this book come from Rebecca’s personal experiences, as well as through one-on-one interviews with successful women who have thrived by following the simple formulas presented. With an authentic, positive message, Hot, Rich & Green! is a book about women, for women, by women.
Author : Judy Green
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0821843761
"This book is the result of a study in which the authors identified all of the American women who earned PhD's in mathematics before 1940, and collected extensive biographical and bibliographical information about each of them. By reconstructing as complete a picture as possible of this group of women, Green and LaDuke reveal insights into the larger scientific and cultural communities in which they lived and worked." "The book contains an extended introductory essay, as well as biographical entries for each of the 228 women in the study. The authors examine family backgrounds, education, careers, and other professional activities. They show that there were many more women earning PhD's in mathematics before 1940 than is commonly thought." "The material will be of interest to researchers, teachers, and students in mathematics, history of mathematics, history of science, women's studies, and sociology."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Lucy Beeovr
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781788950121
Author : Stephen Bending
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 34,60 MB
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107040027
This lively and beautifully illustrated account follows some remarkable eighteenth-century women in their gardens.
