Through individual stories, essays, and critical analyses, this anthology introduces issues of race, class, and gender within an interdisciplinary framework. Themes of identity, power, and change are examined from many different perspectives and voices.
This collection of reflections from 26 professional women focuses mostly on what it means to be a working woman who does want to have it all. Contributors include, among others, poet Jill Bialosky and novelists Elissa Schappell, Ellen Gilchrist, and Chitra Divakaruni.
Written with radiant style and a wicked sense of humor, Sullivan's debut not only captures the intensity of college friendships and first loves, but also explores with great candor the complicated and contradictory landscape facing young women today.
WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGED begins in 1960 when American women actually had to get their husband's permission to apply for a credit card. In the years since, American women have witnessed exciting changes, expectations about what their lives could be smashed in just a generation. The story ends in the 21st century, with a woman winning a Presidential ...
Designed for the bicultural, bilingual woman, "The Latina's Bible" teaches how to bridge the gap between traditions and expectations at home and modern American life, without giving up roots, values, and traditions.
"The Wisdom Trail" follows the life trajectories of extraordinary women now in their 70s and 80s, who share to a remarkable extent a set of qualities that have produced their successful lives. These women share their triumphs and their tragedies with equal parts generosity and instruction.
Mixing wit with withering criticism, Congresswoman Maloney exposes where progress for women is being stalled, even reversed. Ultimately, she offers actionable steps--large and small--for women to make real progress and support real family values.
The treatment and role of women is one of the most discussed and controversial aspects of Islam. In this volume, three respected scholars of Islam survey the situation of women in Islam, focusing on how Muslim views about and experiences of gender are changing in the Western diaspora. It offers an overview of the teachings of the Qur'an and the ...
The Young Oxford History of Women in the United States (an eleven-volume series) show the variety and importance of American women's experiences in the history of our nation. Written by distinguished American historians, each book is comprehensive, describing women of varying ethnic backgrounds and economic circumstances in the context of a ...
Eleven generations of a founding American family are examined in this sweeping history that traces the Clays of Kentucky, a true Southern dynasty. The Clays of Virginia and the Cecils of Maryland were second sons of the English aristocracy who gambled on the New World. Some of the most well-known members of this clan include Henry Clay, who ran ...
In this smart study, two of the hottest trend-spotters in America show how a united power base among women is reshaping the state of the nation much more than the politics of left and right.
Paternalistic federal laws and regulations thwart initiatives to grant women the same economic liberties as men. Why have federal institutions overseeing employment, employee benefits, childcare, taxation, health care, education, retirement, and social security adopted such a warped and antiquated perspective of traditional family life? And what ...
"Everyday Acts & Small Subversions" explores the rich variety of ways women have found to create and celebrate important relationships, bring up children, mark the cycles of the year, and cope with illness and death as well as day-to-day living. The women whose stories are told here are old, young and in-between, heterosexual and lesbian, single ...
Public debates focus on divorce as a sign of "family decline" and a loss of "family values". While divorce brings hardships for some mothers and their children, many are happy to be free of difficult marriages, particularly the large number of women who experienced domestic violence. Based on interviews with a random sample of divorced mothers, ...
This title is one of series on the status of American women, prepared biannually by the Women's Research and Education Institute (WREI). The purpose of the series is to provide an important, convenient, and timely source of accessible and "user friendly" information on American women to the media, students and scholars, advocates for women's ...
Build a woman-centered social work practice for the new millennium!"How do we take the strengths women have--have always had--and use them to build a world that is validating, liberating, and inclusive?" This is the question at the heart of Building on Women's Strengths. This groundbreaking book explores the ways a woman-centered worldview can ...
"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 ...
A compelling look at the crisis of disadvantaged women This powerful document takes a sobering look at the phenomenon of marginalized women pushed to the edges of society, holding on with the barest of hope and extraordinary bravery. Handicapped by the increasing societal inequality they face as an everyday fact of life, these women (and in many ...
"I can't wait for this book!"-Marilyn Wann, author of "FAT! SO?" A fun, fact-filled guide to living the big girl's life with style, "Fat Chicks Rule!: How To Survive in a Thin-Centric World," tackles the weighty issues that large women face in our thin-obsessed society. This lavishly illustrated book provides information on everything that the ...
At a crucial time in American history, narratives of women in command or imperiled at sea contributed to the construction of a national rhetoric. Robin Miskolcze makes her case by way of careful readings of images of women at sea before the Civil War in her book "Women and Children First". Though the sea has traditionally been interpreted as the ...
"Women, Work and Poverty" presents the latest information on women living at or below the poverty level and the changes that need to be made in public policy to allow them to rise above their economic hardships. Using a wide range of research methods, including in-depth interviews, focus groups, small-scale surveys and analysis of personnel ...
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