A landmark in feminist literature, THE WOMEN'S ROOM is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted blindly and revered so completely. 'Today's desperate housewives" eat your heart out! This ...
This Workbook is part of a complete learning package designed for medical assisting and medical office administration students and professionals. Emphasizing the customer service aspect of the medical office, this workbook includes hundreds of practical, hands-on activities, including numerous critical thinking exercises, forms, and more than 120 ...
Winner of the Text and Academic Authors Association's 2003 Textbook Excellence Award! This completely new full-color worktext presents all aspects of submitting, tracing, appealing, and transmitting claims for today's full range of health plans. Distilled from the comprehensive textbook, Fordney's Insurance Handbook for the Medical Office, this ...
Four half-sisters meet at their father's house after he suffered a heart-attack, and discover the different influences their father, a powerful lawyer and political figure, has had on their lives. The sisters talk of killing him, but finally opt for a trial. By the author of "The Women's Room".
An enthralling narrative about the lives of four generations of women, Her Mother's Daughter is the most honest and moving novel ever written about the primal, inescapable bond between mothers and daughters.
Marilyn French's seven million copy best seller "The Women's Room" crystallised the issues that ignited the women's movement. Now, the acclaimed author updates that classic with a new exploration of the truths and realities behind women's lives. "In the Name of Friendship" illuminates how the women's movement changed the lives of women as well as ...
This is a readable reference guide to the beginnings of women's history, from the best selling author, Marilyn French. Working over two decades with a team of researchers and historians, international best selling author Marilyn French synthesises women's history from our pre-historical roots through the rise of states across the globe to the ...
In 1992, Marilyn French was told she had one year to live. A smoker of 48 years she was diagnosed as having cancer of the oesophagus, a cancer which is almost always fatal. Five years on, having battled with chemotherapy and radiotherapy, a heart attack and her back breaking, she is very much alive. And - astonishingly - her body shows no sign of ...
From Ahmadabad to Washington, women are under attack. Documenting women's political, economic and physical oppression, Marilyn French shows how woman-hatred pervades all of life, from global accounting and development agencies, to our institutions, to our life at home and in public. It is the most serious problem facing women today: one which both ...
Realistic, hands-on exercises prepare students to work effectively in the managed care environment with all types of insurance claims. Self-study review questions and complete, competency-based tests are presented. Easily removable sample practice forms are provided, as well as case study information and practice exercises. Available separately.
Dolores and Victor, similar in so many ways, meet on a train and fall in love, immersing themselves in a relationship which must end in a year. Both know the pain and guilt of failure and how to live in a present haunted by the ghosts of other times. Their passion will mark their lives forever.
This title presents women's history: spanning from Europe to Japan, from the fifth century to the eighteenth. Analysing feudalism in Europe and Japan and European expropriation of lands and peoples across the globe, Marilyn French poses a provocative question: how and why did women, with no power or independence, nourish and preserve the family ...
This is a seminal three-volume work, that covers the history of women throughout the world, from earliest times to the present. Marilyn French, internationally bestselling author of The Women's Room, has spent over two decades with a team of researchers and historians examining women's roles and activities in various civilizations and societies ...
Hermione, a four-times-married romance writer in her 60s, becomes infatuated with a younger man who doesn't return her feeling. Gradually, Hermione comes to terms with his lack of interest and finds an increased appreciation for her life, her accomplishments, her friends, and her own complicated romantic history.
This side-splitting yet dramatic tour-de-force features a dazzling parade of characters immediately familiar to the coast-to-coast Wagner/Tomlin fans. Enhanced with remarkable onstage photographs of Tomlin. 78 halftones. (Poetry/Plays)
William Shakespeare regarded men and women quite differently. In his early plays, the so-called masculine qualities of prowess, bravery, and individualism were accorded more respect than 'feminine' attributes of mercy, compassion, and intuitiveness. Marilyn French offers a feminist perspective on each of Shakespeare's plays. More than a ...
This is a seminal three-volume work, that covers the history of women throughout the world, from earliest times to the present. Marilyn French, internationally bestselling author of The Women's Room, has spent over two decades with a team of researchers and historians examining women's roles and activities in various civilizations and societies ...
Written specifically for a female audience, this inspirational eight-step plan to financial independence guides women through the tricky world of money management. An appointee of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, and the founder of the National Association of Black Women Entrepreneurs, Inc., Hubbard's voice is a trusted authority. ...
In the 20th century, women became a force for change, in part through suffrage, and in part through mass organising. This final volume offers a vibrant history of multiple political revolutions as well as the century's horrors - including genocides and the atom bomb. It ends with a thoughtful investigation into the various indigenous feminist ...
This is a seminal three-volume work, that covers the history of women throughout the world, from earliest times to the present. Marilyn French, internationally bestselling author of The Women's Room, has spent over two decades with a team of researchers and historians examining women's roles and activities in various civilizations and societies ...
Writing about what she calls the 'most cheering period in female history', international best-selling author Marilyn French recounts how nineteenth century women living under imperialism, industrialisation, and capitalism organised for their own education, a more equitable wage, and the vote.
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