The Strong Women's Journal
Title | The Strong Women's Journal PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam E. Nelson |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2003-12-01 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 9780399529283 |
A year-long journal designed to help women reach their individual fitness goals helps readers track their goals, progress, daily eating and exercise patterns, and thoughts and feelings along the way, with a step-by-step plan to shape up, dietary tips, aerobic and strength-training exercises, inspirational quotes, charts, and more. Original.
Book Review Digest
Title | Book Review Digest PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2001-12 |
Genre | Books |
ISBN |
Aspasia
Title | Aspasia PDF eBook |
Author | Krassimira Daskalova |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2008-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781845456344 |
Aspasia is an international peer-reviewed yearbook that brings out the best scholarship in the field of interdisciplinary women's and gender historyfocused on - and produced in - Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. In this region the field of women's and gender history has developed uevenly and has remained only marginally represented in the "international" canon.
Digital Feminist Activism
Title | Digital Feminist Activism PDF eBook |
Author | Kaitlynn Mendes |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2019-01-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0190697873 |
From sites like Hollaback! and Everyday Sexism, which document instances of street harassment and misogyny, to social media-organized movements and communities like #MeToo and #BeenRapedNeverReported, feminists are using participatory digital media as activist tools to speak, network, and organize against sexism, misogyny, and rape culture. As the first book-length study to examine how girls, women, and some men negotiate rape culture through the use of digital platforms, including blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and mobile apps, the authors explore four primary questions: What experiences of harassment, misogyny, and rape culture are being responded to? How are participants using digital media technologies to document experiences of sexual violence, harassment, and sexism? Why are girls, women and some men choosing to mobilize digital media technologies in this way? And finally, what are the various experiences of using digital technologies to engage in activism? In order to capture these diverse experiences of doing digital feminist activism, the authors augment their analysis of this media (blog posts, tweets, and selfies) with in-depth interviews and close-observations of several online communities that operate globally. Ultimately, the book demonstrates the nuances within and between digital feminist activism and highlight that, although it may be technologically easy for many groups to engage in digital feminist activism, there remain emotional, mental, or practical barriers which create different experiences, and legitimate some feminist voices, perspectives, and experiences over others.
Where Are the Women Architects?
Title | Where Are the Women Architects? PDF eBook |
Author | Despina Stratigakos |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 129 |
Release | 2016-04-12 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1400880297 |
A timely and important search for architecture's missing women For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as architects remains stubbornly low, and the higher one looks in the profession, the scarcer women become. Law and medicine, two equally demanding and traditionally male professions, have been much more successful in retaining and integrating women. So why do women still struggle to keep a toehold in architecture? Where Are the Women Architects? tells the story of women's stagnating numbers in a profession that remains a male citadel, and explores how a new generation of activists is fighting back, grabbing headlines, and building coalitions that promise to bring about change. Despina Stratigakos's provocative examination of the past, current, and potential future roles of women in the profession begins with the backstory, revealing how the field has dodged the question of women's absence since the nineteenth century. It then turns to the status of women in architecture today, and the serious, entrenched hurdles they face. But the story isn't without hope, and the book documents the rise of new advocates who are challenging the profession's boys' club, from its male-dominated elite prizes to the erasure of women architects from Wikipedia. These advocates include Stratigakos herself and here she also tells the story of her involvement in the controversial creation of Architect Barbie. Accessible, frank, and lively, Where Are the Women Architects? will be a revelation for readers far beyond the world of architecture.
Gender and Higher Education
Title | Gender and Higher Education PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara J. Bank |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 451 |
Release | 2011-03 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0801897823 |
Encyclopedic review about gender and its impact on American higher education across historical and cultural contexts. The contributors describe the ways in which gender is embedded in the educational practices, curriculum, institutional structures and governance of colleges and universities. Topics included are: institutional diversity; academic majors and programs; extracurricular organizations such as sororities, fraternities and women's centers; affirmative action and other higher educational policies; and theories that have been used to analyze and explain the ways in which gender in academe is constructed.
One Thousand White Women
Title | One Thousand White Women PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Fergus |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2010-04-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1429938846 |
Based on an actual historical event but told through fictional diaries, this is the story of May Dodd—a remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through the American West to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation. One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd’s journey into an unknown world. Having been committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a man beneath her station, May finds that her only hope for freedom and redemption is to participate in a secret government program whereby women from “civilized” society become the brides of Cheyenne warriors. What follows is a series of breathtaking adventures—May’s brief, passionate romance with the gallant young army captain John Bourke; her marriage to the great chief Little Wolf; and her conflict of being caught between loving two men and living two completely different lives. “Fergus portrays the perceptions and emotions of women...with tremendous insight and sensitivity.”—Booklist “A superb tale of sorrow, suspense, exultation, and triumph.” —Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump