Womens Movement

Eleanor Roosevelt, Fighter for Justice shows young listeners how the former First Lady evolved from a poor little rich girl to a protector and advocate for those without a voice. Although now seen as a cultural icon, she was a woman deeply insecure about her looks and her role in the world. But by recognizing her fears and constantly striving to overcome her prejudices, she used her proximity to presidents and her own power to aid in the fight for Civil Rights and other important causes. This biography gives listeners a fresh perspective on her extraordinary life.

Between this world and the other is a choice. Love or fear. The therapy relationship between Melanie Lutz and Vanessa Bland using the ocean as a metaphor for the unconscious. With wisdom, wit and insight Melanie Lutz's memoir reveals the inner mechanisms of healing from a near death experience, grief, loss and heartbreak

On the morning of January 10, 1917, thirteen determined women stood at the gates of the White House and held banners reading “HOW LONG MUST WOMEN WAIT FOR LIBERTY?” They were there to force President Woodrow Wilson to take notice of their demand for the right to vote.

Are you tired of feeling sluggish, bloated, and uncomfortable after meals? Do you struggle with irregular bowel movements and low energy levels? If so, it's time to take control of your gut health and experience a vibrant, energetic life. The Women's Healthy Gut: Use These Nine Easy Steps to Increase Stamina, Energy and Bowel Movements is the ultimate guide to improving your gut health and boosting your overall well-being.

Why You Should Read This Book? Struggling with weight despite doing everything “right”? Has each stage of life—puberty, motherhood, midlife—brought unwanted weight and confusion? Do you feel like your body is no longer your own? Breaking Free from Obesity: A Woman’s Journey to Health and Freedom is a practical, compassionate guide for every woman who has felt trapped in a cycle of weight gain and self-doubt. This book breaks down the unique challenges women face—from hormonal changes to emotional eating, from stress to sleep, and from mental health to medical help. With real-...

IT’S A WORLD RULED BY WOMEN. MEN ARE ALL BUT EXTRANEOUS AND VIOLENT CRIME IS ALMOST ERADICATED. WHAT COULD BE BETTER? Severed Roots (recipient of Literary Titan Gold Book Award) depicts a future where family, long considered a patriarchal construct, has finally been outlawed. Children are birthed by select female "manufacturers" and raised in Children's Centres, where girls are groomed for leadership and boys are taught subservience. Male adolescents willingly receive mandatory chemical injections to prevent sexual hunger--although some opt for gender reassignment surgery instead, which ...

She Gets It! is a fresh, bold challenge to the negative messages from today’s culture. It’s about a woman’s happiness and sharing what it truly means to live a genuine, authentic life. She Gets It! gives you a greater understanding of what has happened to so many people (male and female) and the journey to find the real you. Joan Hunter, author/evangelist Author Drenda Keesee’s “no apologies” style is exciting and compelling. You’ll find answers to your search for meaning, answers that have largely been discarded or lost in our current culture, and even in the church world—...

Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her high school teachers who think the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes, hallway harassment and gross comments from guys during class. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules. Viv's mum was a tough-as-nails, punk rock Riot Grrrl in the '90s and now Viv takes a page from her mother's past and creates Moxie, a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates.

Women are drawn to yoga for its physical benefits, its ability to induce calm and presence, and its offering of spiritual depth. Whole Mama Yoga offers a way to extend yoga’s gifts into the motherhood experience and offers guidance that eases not just physical discomforts but existential ones. Many moms and birth parents balance boundless love and boredom, overwhelming joy and moments of isolation, self-confidence and self-doubt. Yoga provides an opportunity to practice the much needed body love and self-connection many parents need.

Do you want to take control of your anger and find freedom from stress and anxiety? Here’s a 6-step guide that will help you. You can learn how to control and manage your anger in the right way so that you can avoid any form of adverse consequences. You can either let anger take control of you and damage your life, or you can learn the techniques and strategies to take control of your anger and completely avoid all its bad effects on your body and your life.

What if we lived in a world where every woman with an unplanned pregnancy always felt empowered to choose life for her unborn baby? To create that kind of change, it will take all of us. As the church, we can play a powerful role in making abortion unthinkable. With Help Her Be Brave, you can discover your part in saving lives and find your pro-life passion.

Between the third centuries BC and AD were written thousands of verses in Tamil that have collectively come to be known as Sangam literature. The expressions of love between a man and a woman in these love poems gave way to passionate expressions of devotional love, where the heroine became the devotee and the hero became God. Through the centuries of patriarchy, women negotiated varied levels of existence and largely went unnoticed until they found a path for self-expression through bhakti or devotion.

Too often, the public abortion debate depicts the experience of ending a pregnancy in falsely simplistic terms. Anti-abortion activists falsely contend that abortion is always emotionally damaging for the pregnant person, while pro-choice activists focus on honoring bodily autonomy and personal conscience. In particular, the pro-choice movement fails to acknowledge that some people experience abortion as a kind of loss. A Complicated Choice addresses the fact that abortion stigma is ubiquitous, even among those who identify as pro-choice.

Susan is an activist. And yet, though her political ideals form the center of her life, she questions her convictions. At the heart of this string of interconnected stories are tensions among ideas, feelings, and action. Miner deftly interweaves Susan's story with the tales of women whom Susan will never meet. The result is a textured and enveloping book that creates a sense of universality.

Accomplished feminist activist and executive Latanya Mapp Frett delivers a powerful and practical exploration of the factors that make a feminist social movement impactful in its place and time. In the book, you'll discover popular and not-so-popular social movements and the leaders, art, research, and narratives that drove them. The author explains what made these social movements so effective and explains the steps that organizations, nonprofits, and social impact professionals can take to replicate that success on the ground and in the present.

The Lifespan Movement is a book that explores the concept of lifespan development and how it can be applied to our lives. The author, Nayana Williams, argues that our development doesn't stop in childhood or adolescence but continues throughout our lives and that we have the power to shape our development by intentionally engaging in activities that promote growth and change.

Experience true liberation by seeing your beauty, femininity, and freedom from heaven's point of view. Has Christianity kept women trapped in the Stone Age? In many ways, yes; but this is not by God's design. As society offers women opportunities to explore outer-space and govern nations, the church often stifles and limits them.

Tired of bros and do-nothing daddys, sick of misogynistic behavior in the boardroom, and frankly dreading yet another bachelorette party with a stripper, Dalal Khajah and Josephine Wai Lin founded the service company ManServants Inc. What is a ManServant, you ask? The ManServants are “chivalrous gentlemen for nonsexual service,” who treat women like queens for a day. The ManServant Guide to Modern Chivalry is the gift that every woman with a well-intentioned but clueless husband, boyfriend, guy friend, or son should buy for all the women in their life.

62 million girls are not in school around the world. Educate Girls Around the World celebrates the progress being made in the global movement for girls’ education. Millions more are fighting for the right to stay in school. Educate Girls Around the World provides a profile of the organizations that are making a difference in the field of global education - especially for girls. The author shows us how education positively impacts a number of major issues that girls and women face in the developing world. Girls are being educated at greater numbers than ever before - but there is still ...

From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the 21st century, the Me Too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words and how she brought empathy back to an entire generation.