Women's Studies
92 Articles & Excerpts
Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles
by C. W. Saleeby, M.D.
We are often and rightly reminded that woman is half the human race. It is truer even than it appears. Not only is woman half of the present generation, but present woman is half of all the generations of men and women to come.
Jackie's Immortal Godmothers
 The Mona Lisa Stratagem: The Art of Women, Age, and Power
by Harriet Rubin
Around the time a woman reaches 45, there is one enemy with the power to threaten her confidence, steal her beauty, make her feel invisible, and turn even the pleasures of life against her. That enemy is Time.
Studies in Pessimism
 by Arthur Schopenhauer
Women are directly fitted for acting as the nurses and teachers of our early childhood by the fact that they are themselves childish, frivolous and short-sighted; in a word, they are big children all their life long - a kind of intermediate stage
The Nervous Housewife
by Abraham Myerson, M.D.
Did the semi-mythical Cave Man (who is perhaps only a pseudo-scientific creation) on his return from a prehistoric hunt find his leafy spouse all in tears over her staglocythic house-cleaning, or the conduct of the youngest cave child?
Health and Education
by Rev. Charles Kingsley
Ladies, - I have chosen for the title of this lecture a practical and prosaic word, because I intend the lecture itself to be as practical and prosaic as I can make it, without becoming altogether dull.
Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women
by George S. Weaver
If the angels look down upon earth and behold any natural object with especial delight, it must be Girlhood. And yet if they are not gifted with prophetic vision, they must tremble with fearful solicitude while they gaze delighted.
Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
by C. Gasquoine Hartley
The sudden collapse of the war left us in a daze. After the years of inhuman strain it was hard to ease off tension to the almost forgotten conditions of peace. I recall that ever to be remembered day, November 11th, 1918 - Victory Day.
The Girl and Her Religion
by Margaret Slattery
She has certain inalienable rights, regardless of race, color or social state. When it has thought about her at all, society in general has supposed, until recently, that in a free country, a glorious land of opportunity, the girl has her rights
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
 by Mary Wollstonecraft
M. Wollstonecraft was born in 1759. Her father was so great a wanderer, that the place of her birth is uncertain; she supposed, however, it was London, or Epping Forest: at the latter place she spent the first five years of her life. In early youth she
Woman; Man's Equal
by Thomas Webster
The publishers of WOMAN MAN'S EQUAL conscientiously feel that they are placing before the public the discussion of one of the most important topics of the day; and they indulge the strong conviction that the author of this little volume presents
The Birth of the Female Brain
 The Female Brain
by Louann Brizendine, M.D.
Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can't remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts?
The Most Popular Girl
 Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
by Joshua Zeitz
Blithely flinging aside the Victorian manners that kept her disapproving mother corseted, the New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep,
Equal = Equal
 The 51% Minority; How Women Still Are Not Equal and What You Can Do About It
by Lis Wiehl
Women make up 51% of the American population, yet still aren't treated equally to men in areas that matter most. In this provocative new book, Lis Wiehl, one of the country's top federal prosecutors, reveals the legal and social inequalities women
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
Dear Diary
 The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
What was it like to develop breasts or begin your periods a century ago? Did these biological events occur at the same age in the Victorian era? Have American girls always regarded the body as their most important project?
Good Works Versus Good Looks
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
The traditional emphasis on 'good works' as opposed to 'good looks' meant that the lives of young women in the nineteenth century had a very different orientation from those of girls today.
The Body as Evidence
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
At the close of the twentieth century, the female body poses an enormous problem for American girls, and it does so because of the culture in which we live. The process of sexual maturation is more difficult for girls today than it was a century ago
Drawn To What I Feared The Most
 Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World
by Eve Ensler
Insecure at Last is a timely and urgent look at our security-obsessed world, the drastic measures taken to keep us safe, and how we can truly experience freedom by letting go of the deceptive notion of vigilant 'protection.'
Founding Mothers
 A History of Women in America
by Carol Hymowitz, Michaele Weissman
From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women's roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the authors examine the issues that changed
At the Movies
 A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance
by Jane Juska
'Round-heeled' is an old-fashioned label for a woman who is promiscuous - someone who nowadays might be called 'easy.' It's a surprising way for a cultured English teacher with a passion for the novels of Anthony Trollope to describe herself
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