This is an engaging and comprehensive study of property-owning women in the colony of Tidewater, VA during the 17th & 18th centuries. It examines the social restrictions on women's behaviour and speech, opportunities and difficulties these women encountered in the legal system, the economic and discretionary authority they enjoyed, the roles they played in the family business,their roles in the later, trans-Atlantic trading framework, and the imperial context within which these colonial women lived, making this a welcome addition to both colonial and women's history.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Helene Lerner reveals the nine most common self-sabotaging habits that hold women back today, while offering a series of effective exercises, fun quizzes, and uplifting stories to help women meet these hurdles head-on and unleash the greatest confidence, creativity, and intimacy of their lives. In Her Poweroffers effective, proven tools to succeed in non-traditional female roles, balance work and family, and be authentic, empowered, and compassionate in all aspects of life-from work to relationships to sex.

POWER BEGINS ON THE INSIDE AND YOU ARE ABOUT TO TAP INTO YOURS.Too often we feel powerless to address the tug-of-war going on inside us. Many people have heard the whispers from an inner voice saying, "you're not living up to your full potential." Yet when we try to change, we get pulled back into the vortex of our status quo, leaving us feeling isolated, stuck, and like no one understands the "real me."Repeatedly hearing this story from her coaching clients led conscious leadership expert and mindset coach, Dr. Annice E. Fisher to share her ground-breaking 4-step consciousness-raising process for reclaiming your power. For over 15 years she has led organizations through the change process, and discovered that the baseline for creating and sustaining change is the belief that you have power and choice in every situation. It is up to YOU to decide if you want to use them.Your guided path through this book will teach you how to get unstuck. Each power phase: asking, assessing, and accepting uses the 4-step process to bring you back home to live as the highest version of yourself. Let's introduce the real you to the world.

***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION*** NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today ***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION*** Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCH Rage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities of female rage. As women, we’ve been urged for so long to bottle up our anger, letting it corrode our bodies and minds in ways we don’t even realize. Yet there are so, so many legitimate reasons for us to feel angry, ranging from blatant, horrifying acts of misogyny to the subtle drip, drip drip of daily sexism that reinforces the absurdly damaging gender norms of our society. In Rage Becomes Her, Soraya Chemaly argues that our anger is not only justified, it is also an active part of the solution. We are so often encouraged to resist our rage or punished for justifiably expressing it, yet how many remarkable achievements would never have gotten off the ground without the kernel of anger that fueled them? Approached with conscious intention, anger is a vital instrument, a radar for injustice and a catalyst for change. On the flip side, the societal and cultural belittlement of our anger is a cunning way of limiting and controlling our power—one we can no longer abide. “A work of great spirit and verve” (Time), Rage Becomes Her is a validating, energizing read that will change the way you interact with the world around you.

Twenty-six years before the #metoo movement, Anita Hill sparked a national conversation about sexual harassment in the workplace. After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private citizen and became a public figure at the white-hot center of an intense national debate on how men and women relate to each other in the workplace. That debate led to ground-breaking court decisions and major shifts in corporate policies that have had a profound effect on our lives--and on Anita Hill's life. Now, with remarkable insight and total candor, Anita Hill reflects on events before, during, and after the hearings, offering for the first time a complete account that sheds startling new light on this watershed event. Only after reading her moving recollection of her childhood on her family's Oklahoma farm can we fully appreciate the values that enabled her to withstand the harsh scrutiny she endured during the hearings and for years afterward. Only after reading her detailed narrative of the Senate Judiciary proceedings do we reach a new understanding of how Washington--and the media--rush to judgment. And only after discovering the personal toll of this wrenching ordeal, and how Hill copes, do we gain new respect for this extraordinary woman. Here is a vitally important work that allows us to understand why Anita Hill did what she did, and thereby brings resolution to one of the most controversial episodes in our nation's history.