Sentences with phrase «books about women»

Do you rewrite the history books, inserting the female artists where they belong, or do you write new books about women artists, perhaps reinforcing a marginalized status?

She will make presentations on two recent books about women in aviation — Canadian Women in the Sky: 100 years of flight published by Dundurn Press for teens and adults; and Air - Crazy, fascinating stories about Canadian women in the air published by Another Chapter Publishing for kids 8 +.

The only way (at least in traditional publishing circles) to move towards a world where there is equal gender representation is to purchase books about women and girls.

Known for her provocative books about women, society and sexuality (the film Secretary was based on one of her short stories), Gaitskill is turning her talents this time to the subject of family and surrogate motherhood.

I particularly love books about women — wives, sisters, mothers and daughters, at different stages in their lives.

So many books about women focus on their love lives; we appreciate this look at a complicated relationship based on mutual respect, science and survival.

read graveyard poetry, I read psychology books about women similar to Lucille, without giving away any spoilers.

I'm always caught up by books about women and their work so my bedside is piled with two kinds of books — cookbooks and biographies.

Spiritual struggles became as interesting as politics; women still hardly ever wrote books, but people wrote books about women.»

Reist writes: «Defiant Birth is a book about women who have resisted the present day practice of medical eugenics.

This is a book about women who have resisted the ideology of quality control and the paradigm of perfection.

Pick a book with «Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls», a book about women in science or just a book with a female protagonist and plant the seed of success early on.

So perhaps it is not surprising that an important new book about women in Parliament has been overlooked so far in the pre-election debate.

Carre Otis is authoring a book about women's issues with writer and clinical psychologist, Sarah Spinner, Psy.D.

There were many «how to» books, but there weren't many books about a woman's romantic journey in cyberspace.

I'm featuring a fascinating book about the women of the Bible: Vindicating the Vixens.

When I set out to write S.E.C.R.E.T., a book about a woman named Cassie Robichaud who's on a potent sexual journey, my «what if» had to do with my own reluctance to write erotica.

Before The Secret of Chanel No. 5 you published The Widow Clicquot, a book about the woman behind Veuve Cliquot.

This will still be a club where readers interact with the author, and where you can discover great books about a woman's emotional journey — ands there will still be a giveaway each month!

So I wrote a book about a woman who turns invisible in moonlight.

More than 20 years ago, I wrote a book about women finding their purpose and passion in life.

In this week's edition of AuthorSalon.tv, I interview Anita Finlay who wrote a controversial and important book about women in politics.

Just read this book about a woman who founded an adoption agency specifically for adoptions from China.

Not exact matches

But while male billionaires» reading choices get plenty of press coverage, we hear relatively less about the books that have been most inspirational for super successful, but slightly less high - profile women — the kinds of books that are most likely to provide similar wisdom and mental nourishment for the generation of leaders coming up behind them.

This year, Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, due out in March, is that book, but it's also stirring up controversy about privilege.

I'm reading a book called Breaking Night, about a woman's journey from homelessness to Harvard.

«When I was interviewing couples for my book The Daddy Shift, I found the happiest ones were those who weren't hung up on ideas about what a man should do and what a woman should do.

Every few years, a new book ignites debate about structural and social impediments to women achieving professional parity.

In my 2007 book about Lazard, I tell the story of Mina Gerowin, the first woman banker at Lazard and her arrival at the firm in 1980, fresh from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

We talk about grit all the time here at Spartan Race but Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth is the woman who literally wrote the book about it (or at least she will be when Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance is published May 3 by Scribner).

She's released a series of workout DVDs such as Bodyshred and Body Revolution, authored a handful of bestselling books about weight loss, and in 2014 launched a women's and children's activewear brand called Impact.

Shaq's book report revealed it had been less than transformative: «This is about a young man who has power, wealth, and women (much like me), and gives them all up to pursue a holy life (not so much like me).»

Her new book, «Love Rules,» is about navigating romantic relationships in today's climate, and ahead of a panel on the subject at the Women in the World Summit, we asked how her thoughts on #MeToo apply to the workplace.

In my domain of business, strategy, and leadership I've also noticed a gap in women authors and I thought it was worthwhile to compile a list that was not books targeted at women but books about strategy and leadership that happen to be written by women.

I never anticipated the extramarital affair between David H. Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, the woman I'd worked with for 16 months on a book about Petraeus's year commanding the war in Afghanistan.

An Alberta woman is hoping her contribution to a new book will inspire women to feel more worthy about themselves.

She has authored a dozen books about marketing, branding, social media, copywriting, and technology and is the founder and editor - in - chief of Women on Business, a blog for business wWomen on Business, a blog for business womenwomen.

There were 38 stories in the book, but only seven were about women.

Now, let's look at what each book say about the women at the tomb.

The present book looks at the organizational dimension of the Presbyterian (and mainline) «predicament» in twelve essays, dealing with denominational structures; financial changes; women's, men's, and special - interest groups; and in two provocative concluding essays, some speculative conclusions about where the changes have brought us.

The Book of Relevation also talks about armor - clad locusts with teh face of a man, the hair of a woman, the mouth of a lion and the tail of scorpion wearing tiny little crowns.

There's even a whole sub-category specifically about sex: The Act of Marriage, Intended for Pleasure, Celebration in the Bedroom... Many of these types of books have an almost myopic focus on a woman's obligation to have sex with her husband.

So let's say this movie is about a woman whose life was shaped by love of her father; the making of the film Mary Poppins (as well as the writing of the book) is about her coming to terms with the truth about personal love and death and all that.

But as helpful as these marriage books can be, they tend to work off of generalizations about men and women that may not apply to everyone (I'm a woman, and I certainly crave respect!)

If more women were pastors or preachers, we'd have a lot more sermons and books about the metaphors of birth and pregnancy connecting us to the story of God.

In the Christian publishing world, women do about 70 percent of the book purchasing.

Hill wrote the 2010 book «Washed and Waiting,» about being gay, Christian, and celibate, and told students how he came to his position that sex is between man and a woman in marriage.

Frank Viola and Mary DeMuth have written a fascinating and insightful book about five women from the Gospels.

So I thought that a book in which some of these women told their own stories about Jesus would not only bring the Gospels to life in our minds, but it would also bring Jesus alive in our hearts.

I suspected I'd get a little pushback from fellow Christians who hold a complementarian perspective on gender, (a position that requires women to submit to male leadership in the home and church, and often appeals to «biblical womanhood» for support), but I had hoped — perhaps naively — that the book would generate a vigorous, healthy debate about things like the Greco Roman household codes found in the epistles of Peter and Paul, about the meaning of the Hebrew word ezer or the Greek word for deacon, about the Paul's line of argumentation in 1 Timothy 2 and 1 Corinthians 11, about our hermeneutical presuppositions and how they are influenced by our own culture, and about what we really mean when we talk about «biblical womanhood» — all issues I address quite seriously in the book, but which have yet to be engaged by complementarian critics.