Women's Studies
78 Articles & Excerpts
Abusive Relationships
 Before It's Too Late
by Robert J. Ackerman, Ph.D., Susan E. Pickering
This book offers straightforward answers to the most frequently asked questions about women in controlling or abusive relationships. Robert Ackerman and Susan Pickering reveal the warning signs of controlling relationships and how women get caught in them
Speaking in Code
 The Girl Code: The Secret Language of Single Women (On Dating, Sex, Shopping, and Honor Among Girlfriends)
by Diane Farr
The ultimate handbook of dating euphemisms, relationship shorthand, and the common wisdom of girlfriends who've been there. All women know that Training Wheels (fake diamond earrings) don't count as a Big-Ticket Item.
Seductress: The Women and the Art
 Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
by Betsy Prioleau, Ph.D.
The seductress. She's a scarlet inkblot, a Rorschach of our deepest sexual fears and fantasies. She's the blond bimbette in a string bikini; the stacked vamp in Spandex; the Chanel-suited nymphobitch of Sullivan & Cromwell; the servile artist's muse
Aphrodite's Gifts of Sexuality and Attraction
 The Shadow King: The Invisible Force That Holds Women Back
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
Aphrodite's gifts of sensual enjoyment, beauty, relationship, and the ability to attract and to connect with others are precious. There are few sights as totally seductive and charming as a little girl who is beginning to feel this power.
Happiness
 How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life
by Melissa Hellstern
A beloved icon who found success as an actress, a mother and an humanitarian, Audrey Hepburn perfected the art of gracious living. More philosophy than biography, How to Be Lovely revisits the many interviews Audrey gave over the years, allowing us to
The Voices of Women
 Love Carried Me Home: Women Surviving Auschwitz
by Joy Erlichman Miller, Ph.D
A powerful, poignant examination of sixteen women's triumphant struggles to survive the Auschwitz Concentration Camp during the Holocaust. Bearing witness to atrocities of genocide during the darkest moment in history, female survivors teach us
Madeleine Albright and Maya Angelou
 What I Know Now
by Ellyn Spragins
'You've got the guts to find your own purpose.' It's odd to think of a former secretary of state as someone who worries about fitting in, but for a long time Madeleine Albright did. In a group, she paid attention rather than interrupt.
Getting Started
 Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
by Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D.
From the outset I want you to know and, even more important, believe that the mistakes impeding you from reaching your career goals or potential don't happen because you're stupid or incompetent (although others might want to make you think so).
Voice Dialogue & the Psychology of Selves
The Shadow King: The Invisible Force That Holds Women Back
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
Let me begin by briefly introducing you to the basic tools I have used in my studies of this Shadow King. We humans are not as simple as we sometimes think. Our psyches are made up of many parts. Some of these parts we know about and others are hidden in
The Shadow King: The Invisible Force That Holds Women Back
The Shadow King: The Invisible Force That Holds Women Back
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
I was winning the game of Anagrams and I loved it! I could feel my mind working like a powerful machine as I easily outdistanced the boy who faced me across the small table. I felt like Atalanta, a Greek heroine I admired at that time.
Prologue
 Bare : The Naked Truth About Stripping (Live Girls)
by Elisabeth Eaves
I was naked. I looked at my reflection in the dressing room mirror. At five minutes to the hour, I noticed faint sweat beads on my forehead. At four minutes to, I patted my face with flesh-colored powder. With three minutes to go, I remembered that I was
Torch Song
 The Friend Who Got Away : Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away
by Jenny Offill, Elissa Schappell
Losing a friend can be as painful and as agonizing as a divorce or the end of a love affair, yet it is rarely written about or even discussed. The Friend Who Got Away is the first book to address this near-universal experience, bringing together the brave
The Subversion of Women's Power
The Shadow King: The Invisible Force That Holds Women Back
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
As I listened to Mara's Inner Patriarch, I could hear that he was the inner spokesman for the outer patriarchy. I realized that he had a great impact upon the way we women viewed ourselves and our role in the world. He divided humankind into women and men
Rachel Ashwell and Barbara Boxer
What I Know Now
by Ellyn Spragins
'Don't leave school just yet.' Deep pillows and feather beds are at hand. Plump armchairs wear slouchy white denim or cream linen slipcovers. Worn tables bear honorable scars and nicks.
Lolita
 Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi, Ph.D.
We all have dreams-things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true. For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women
The Gift is Turned into a Curse
The Shadow King: The Invisible Force That Holds Women Back
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
Until recently, relationship, marriage and childbearing were essentially a woman's only choice in our patriarchal society and the Shadow King still agrees with this point of view. This was a woman's job in the world, whether or not she liked it.
The Shadow King: Background
The Shadow King: The Invisible Force That Holds Women Back
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
I have spent many years studying this elusive ruler. I have had my own personal experiences with him and I have spoken with thousands of women and men about their Inner Patriarchs. The material in this book is drawn from direct experience.
Strange Fruit
 Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl? : The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women
by Jonetta Rose Barras
We faced the Gordon Plaza Apartment complex on St. Ferdinand Street. A rust-colored, four-inch band of wood raced around the middle of the mustard-painted buildings, reminding me of the dirty ring my two sisters and I left inside the silver metal tub when
The Gifts of Life, of Relationship and of Caring for Others
The Shadow King: The Invisible Force That Holds Women Back
by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone
Fundamentally, women are responsible for the continuity of human life on this planet. They are needed to create life. They are also capable of destroying it. If women no longer chose to have children, if they chose not to nurture the children that they di
Four Ancient Queens
 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Women's History
by Constance Jones
Reigning in the tenth century B.C.E., Balkis was the celebrated queen who met with King Solomon of Israel. According to the Bible, which refers to her only as the Queen of Sheba, she traveled to Jerusalem to learn what she could of Solomon's legendary
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