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Woman Culture and Society - HOME Woman Culture and Society Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women by Margaret Finnegan, Margaret Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, likable, and modern." Drawing on organization records, suffragists' papers and memoirs, and newspapers and magazines, Finnegan shows how women found it in their political interest to ally themselves with the rise of ...

Health Informatics Medicine - ... to provider communication; privacy and confidentiality; ethical issues; evaluation methods, and more. Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? by Kristine M. Gebbie, X Bioterrorism, drug-resistant disease, transmission of disease by global travel...there's no shortage of challenges facing America's public health officials. Men and women preparing to enter the field require state-of-the-art training to meet these increasing threats to the public health. But are the programs they rely on prepared to provide the high caliber professional training they require? Who Will Keep the Public Healthy? provides an overview of the past, present, and future of public health education, assessing its readiness to provide the training and education needed to prepare men and women to face 21st century challenges. Advocating an ecological approach to public health, the Institute of Medicine examines the role of public health schools and degree-granting programs, medical schools, nursing schools, and government agencies, as well as other institutions that foster public health education and ...

Womens Medieval Renaissance Costume - HOME Womens Medieval Renaissance Costume Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition by Barbara K. Gold, Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century. This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and examines how they represent the feminine and the female body. The authors explore the ideological values explicitly ...

Womens Health Fitness Magazine - HOME Womens Health Fitness Magazine Pregnancy Fitness by Fitness Magazine, Pregnancy Fitness, by the experts at Fitness Magazine, provides expectant mothers with all the information they need to exercise safely and effectively throughout their pregnancy. Whether you're a hard-core triathlete or just starting a fitness program for the first time, proper exercise can ensure a healthier pregnancy, an easier delivery, and a faster recovery. Pregnancy Fitness guides you carefully through every trimester, covering the physical changes and common complaints for each one, from shortness of breath to dizziness to morning sickness. In ... book cover specific concerns: Can I continue running in the second trimester? Can I lift more than ten pounds? And How to Cope sidebars address common conditions from swollen joints and sleep problems to cravings and gestational diabetes. Based on the latest medical research and designed for women of every fitness level, Pregnancy Fitness is the ideal and essential exercise resource for every mother-to-be. Endometriosis: The Complete Reference for Taking Charge of Your Health by Mary Lou Ballweg, The definitive guide to living with endometriosis Some eighty-nine million women worldwide ...

13 Women - HOME 13 Women The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America's first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys' club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. The USSR sent its first woman into space in 1963; the United States did ...

Religion Society Spirituality - HOME Religion Society Spirituality The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism by Hans A. Baer, Spiritual churches in the United States represent one of several religious movements that African Americans have adopted in their efforts to cope with mainstream society. In this groundbreaking work, first published in 1984, Hans A. Baer explores the richness and creativity of Black Spiritualism. It sets forth an illuminating ethnography of the movement that corrects numerous stereotypes of African American religion. Baer shows that the Spiritual churches blend diverse elements, borrowing aspects of African American Protestantism, ...

Living History - HOME Living History Women in African Colonial Histories: An Introduction by Susan Geiger, How did African women negotiate the complex political, economic, and social forces of colonialism in their daily lives? How did they make meaningful lives for themselves in a world that challenged fundamental notions of work, sexuality, marriage, motherhood, and family? By considering the lives of ordinary African women -- farmers, queen mothers, midwives, urban dwellers, migrants, and political leaders -- in the context of particular colonial conditions at specific places and times, Women in African Colonial Histories challenges the notion of a ...

Womens Fashion Accessory - HOME Womens Fashion Accessory Crowns: A Portrait of Black Women in Church Hats by Michael Cunningham, Countless black women would rather attend church naked than hatless. For these women, a church hat, flamboyant as it may be, is no mere fashion accessory; it's a cherished African American custom, one observed with boundless passion by black women of various religious denominations. A woman's hat speaks long before its wearer utters a word. It's what Deirdre Guion calls "hattitude...there's a little more strut in your carriage when you wear a ...

Medieval Womens Costume - HOME Medieval Womens Costume Medieval Costumes Paper Dolls by Tom Tierney, 2 dolls, 16 costumes worn between 1200 61350 AD. Includes tunics, chain-mail armor and fur-trimmed capes for men; gowns, brocaded tunics and a sleeveless chemise for women. Palio - Palio is the name given in Italy to an annual athletic contest, very often of a historical character, pitting the neighbourhoods of a town or the hamlets of a comune against each other. Typically they are fought in costume and commemorate some event or tradition of the Middle Ages, and thus often ...

Personal Womens Care - HOME Personal Womens Care Women's Experiences with HIV/AIDS: An International Perspective by Lynellyn D. Long, X HIV/AIDS affects women worldwide. Elderly women bear a disproportionate burden of caring for those who are afflicted with the disease, while young women increasingly comprise the majority of new HIV cases. Intervention programs often fail to take into account the particular situations and behaviors that make women more vulnerable than men. Though policy debates increasingly include women and gender considerations, funds and resources for women, especially those already suffering with HIV/AIDS, remain inadequate. " ...

Womens Preference for Penis - HOME Womens Preference for Penis Mountaineering Women: Stories by Early Climbers by David Mazel, Women have known the challenges and triumphs of mountaineering for nearly two centuries, and for nearly as long they have been writing about their accomplishments, creating a fascinating, often thrilling literature of adventure and daring. As with other aspects of women's history, however, the literature of mountaineering women has been scattered and largely forgotten. Sixteen of their stories - sometimes published under the name of a male relative, sometimes under anonymous bylines such as "a Lady" - are here recovered ...

Living History Society - HOME Living History Society Age and Structural Lag: Society's Failure to Provide Meaningful Opportunities in Work, Family, and Leisure by Matilda W. Riley, In twentieth-century industrial societies most of us live longer and healthier lives than ever before in history. Yet the social structures and institutions that provide opportunities for our lives are still marked by age constraints that were appropriate a century ago. Education is still primarily reserved for the young; work and family responsibilities are crowded into the middle years; while leisure and free time are allocated to the ...

Anachronism Creative History Living Society - HOME Anachronism Creative History Living Society The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life by Gene D. Cohen, In a single generation, the view of life after fifty has changed dramatically.Today's society is shaped by unprecedented growth in the number of people living in their "golden years," shifting patterns of work and home life, and advances in health care that offer the promise of longer, more active lives. In this fascinating, life-affirming book, Dr. Gene Cohen debunks harmful myths about aging and illuminates the biological and ...

Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality - HOME Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality History of Japanese Religion by Kazuo Kasahara, Seventeen distinguished experts on Japanese religion provide a fascinating overview of its history and development. Beginning with the origins of religion in primitive Japanese society, they chart the growth of each of Japan's major religious organizations and doctrinal systems. They follow Buddhism, Shintoism, Christianity, and popular religious belief through major periods of change to show how history and religion affected each other -- and discuss the interactions between the different religious traditions. A History of Japanese Religion closes with discussions of ...

Atlanta Womens Health Group - HOME Atlanta Womens Health Group The Politics of Women's Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy by Susan Sherwin, A collaborative exploration of the practical issues of women's empowerment in the health care system and the deep assumptions and values that underlie that system For four years an interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners, including physicians, lawyers, philosophers, and social scientists, collaborated closely on the development of these essays. They also experienced many of the issues of women's health in their personal lives: three gave birth, three entered menopause, and two underwent ...

Haircutting Womens - HOME Haircutting Womens Women Pay More: And How to Put a Stop to It by Frances Cera Whittelsey, What if this book's price were $9.95 for women but $11.95 for men? Would any man buy it? Yet every day, women pay more than men do for haircuts, for clothes, for new and used cars, and for a host of other goods and services. In a whole range of fields, from medicine and weight-loss programs to divorce law and sporting activities, society has come to accept and expect that women ...

Womens Dance Wear - HOME Womens Dance Wear Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City by Sunaina Maira, She sports a nose-ring and duppat (a scarf worn by South Asian women) along with the latest fashion in slinky club wear; he's decked out in Tommy gear. Their moves on the crowded dance floor, blending Indian film dance with break-dancing, attract no particular attention. They are just two of the hundreds of hip young people who flock to the desi (i.e., South Asian) party scene that flourishes in the ...

Womens Fedora Hat - HOME Womens Fedora Hat Red Hat Fedora 4 Unleashed Master Red Hat Fedora 4 with the most comprehensive guide to the latest version of Red Hat's open-community Fedora Linux Distribution available. "Red Hat Fedora 4 Unleashed" will help you gain a greater understanding of intermediate-level Linux networking and system administration issues. Also included is coverage on the new applications, web development, peripherals and programming languages involved with this latest Red Hat Linux distribution. In keeping with the tradition of offering the best and most comprehensive coverage of Red Hat Linux on the market of the previous editions, "Red Hat Fedora 4 Unleashed" will provide you with everything you need to know about the installation, configuration, system administration, server operations and security of Red Hat Fedora 4. Crowns: A Portrait of Black Women in Church Hats by Michael Cunningham, Countless black women would rather attend church naked than hatless. For these women, a church hat, flamboyant as it may be, is no mere fashion accessory; it's a cherished African American custom, one observed with boundless passion by ...

National Womens Health Resource Center - HOME National Womens Health Resource Center The Autoimmune Connection As featured in the "New York Times and recommended by the National Women's Health Resource Center and the Society for Women's Health Research, "The Autoimmune Connection discusses the links between autoimmune diseases and offers up-to-date information on diagnosis, treatments, and risks for women with one or more autoimmune disease, such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, or Crohn's disease. National Social Norms Resource Center - The National Social Norms Resource Center (NSNRC) is an independent organization that promotes the use of the ...

Womens Fashion - HOME Womens Fashion Soul Style: Black Women Redefining the Complexion of Beauty by Duane Thomas, X On these pages you'll find more than 101 reasons why "Black is Beautiful." From the sultry stars of film and television to the sexy divas of fashion and music, this book pays tribute to those women who are changing the way America defines fashion and beauty. Full-color photographs from such top photographers as Steven Meisel, Gilles Bensimon, Paolo Roversi, and George Holz showcase unforgettable Black women at the forefront of style and beauty--woemn who ...

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