Blogs Posts in Women category; 28 blog posts

Book review: Jezebel by Eleanor de Jong

Jezebel – most recognise her as the notorious Biblical figure synonymous with power but forever tainted by her reputation as a treacherous ‘painted lady.’ Is her Old Testament story the truth, partly the truth or just a [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2012 | Comments : 0

UCSC political scientist teams up with Gloria Steinem on new...

Just in time for Women's History Month, a new book about U.S. women's history is appearing in bookstores. The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998) is dedicated to capturing the exp [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Book review: Rival Passions by Zoë Miller

In the teeming market of romantic fiction, a clever, classy page-turner always acts like a breath of fresh air. And they don’t come with more pizazz than Rival Passions, the second glitzy novel from Irish author Zoë Miller who [...]

Posted On : Feb, 07 2012 | Comments : 0

Book Review: Julia's Child

Julia Bailey bet a goodly portion of the family nest egg on the success of Julia’s Child, her start-up company that offered organic, wholesomely, prepared food for toddlers. Using recipes developed for her own two toddlers and marke [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2012 | Comments : 0

Book Review: A woman relies on her dog during a series of pe...

DOGS no doubt evolved to provide an utilitarian role for their human masters, protecting them against lions, tigers, sabre toothed beasties and baddies trying to steal their food, wives and the cave man’s equivalent of electrical go [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Review: Two Old Women

Enchanting retelling--and a 1993 Western States Book Award winner--of a tribal legend about two old women, left behind to die, who instead went on to survive and thrive. Wallis--one of 13 siblings with their roots in the Athabaskan tribe [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

New Book Helps Women Align with Power of Elements

Helping women connect with their feminine essence and consciously apply the creation energy of Nature is the focus of “Nature's Success System: Secrets to Energize Your Health, Wealth, and Passion with the Feminine Power of Crea [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Wanted: Women Who Rock Coloring Book

Who could resist the opportunity to color in our favorite rock ’n’ roll gals while supporting a great cause? The non-profit Girls Rock! Rhode Island recently published a killer coloring book loaded with pictures of women music [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

New Business Book, "The SmartGirls Way," Empowers Women Entr...

SmartGirls Way, LLC today announced the release of its first book for women entrepreneurs. "The SmartGirls Way," written by Founder Jean Brittingham and Co-Founder Tracey Ann Collins, is available online and in bookstores as of [...]

Posted On : Dec, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Great Gifts: Books and DVDs for the Holidays, page 2

Bronstein is associate professor of Media Studies in the College of Communication at DePaul University. When I was in college, from 1980-1984 at Drake University, the nationwide pornography wars were in full swing. As a journalism student [...]

Posted On : Dec, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Women on top

Nancy Friday's international bestsellers My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers revealed that women possess erotic imaginations at least as inventive and powerful as those of men. Women on Top looks at a new generation of women and as [...]

Posted On : Nov, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Facing Beauty: Painted Women & Cosmetic Art by Aileen Ribeir...

"A beautiful woman is a temptation built over a sewer.” From a 14th-century handbook for Dominican preachers, this is one of many startling quotations in Aileen Ribeiro’s absorbing new book. Worth getting just for the lus [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

The Women's Book of Healing

Women are naturally healers. Throughout time, they have performed curative roles as mothers, midwives, caregivers, and wisewomen, but modern medicine has suppressed this important tradition. Ancient women healers knew that the body is mor [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

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Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his po [...]