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The Girls are Coming
ISBN: 9780873513760 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1974, lured by good wages, a 22-year-old African American college student from suburban Minneapolis started work as a pipefitter trainee for Minnegasco, a Minnesota natural-gas utility. Peggie Samples was one of the first four women hired by the company into non-secretarial jobs after the passage of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. On the job, she and her beautiful blond friend Sonny met men who were hostile, men who were helpful, and men who were simply flummoxed to find "girls" in their midst. "S'long as a guy does his job," one told her, "it don't matter ta me if he's a...
In 1974, lured by good wages, a 22-year-old African American college student from suburban Minneapolis started work as a pipefitter trainee for Minneg...
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82,31 |
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Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
ISBN: 9780873513913 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The violence that erupted when the company "replaced" its union workers with strikebreakers tested family loyalty and community stability, and attracted national attention when the governor of Minnesota called in the National Guard, declared martial law, and closed the plant.
Register skillfully interweaves her own memories, historical research, and first-person interviews of participants on both sides of the strike into a narrative that is thoughtful and impassioned about the value of blue-collar work and the dignity of those who do it. Packinghouse Daughter also testifies to the... The violence that erupted when the company "replaced" its union workers with strikebreakers tested family loyalty and community stability, and attract...
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96,15 |
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How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir
ISBN: 9780874172331 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Phyllis Barber grew up in Las Vegas, in the midst of a devout Mormon family. As a small child, she began to feel uneasy with her faith's all-pervasive certainty and righteousness. As she grew, the tensions between her religious beliefs and her desire for a larger, more cultured life also grew. She studied piano and dance, performed with a high school precision dance team, worked as an accompanist in a ballet studio and as a model.
"How I Got Cultured"is a moving, candid, and sometimes hilarious account of an American adolescence, negotiated between the strictures of a demanding faith and... Phyllis Barber grew up in Las Vegas, in the midst of a devout Mormon family. As a small child, she began to feel uneasy with her faith's all-pervasive...
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58,73 |
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Swooning Beauty : A Memoir of Pleasure
ISBN: 9780874176599 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this ornate and intimate memoir of discovery and healing, professor of art history and well-known performance artist Joanna Frueh plots her recovery from tragedy and aging through a profound examination of pleasure: visual, sensual, intellectual, gastronomic, and erotic.
In this ornate and intimate memoir of discovery and healing, professor of art history and well-known performance artist Joanna Frueh plots her recover...
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225,30 |
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Swooning Beauty: A Memoir of Pleasure
ISBN: 9780874176728 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this ornate and intimate memoir of discovery and healing, professor of art history and well-known performance artist Joanna Frueh plots her recovery from tragedy and aging through a profound examination of pleasure: visual, sensual, intellectual, gastronomic, and erotic.
In this ornate and intimate memoir of discovery and healing, professor of art history and well-known performance artist Joanna Frueh plots her recover...
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97,90 |
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The Witch of Kodakery: The Photography of Myra Albert Wiggins, 1869-1956
ISBN: 9780874221480 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Witch of Kodakery is the ground-breaking biography of Myra Albert Wiggins, the successful early 20th-century Oregon photographic artist with connections to Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession. Myra Wiggins (1869-1956) embodied the ideal of the new woman - independent, energetic, and ambitious - as depicted by the Eastman Kodak Company's Kodak Girl and promoted as The Witchery of Kodakery. In Witch of Kodakery, biographer Carole Glauber resurrects Wiggins' pioneering role with a provocative text and fine examples of the artist's work, particularly from Wiggins' most prolific years,...
The Witch of Kodakery is the ground-breaking biography of Myra Albert Wiggins, the successful early 20th-century Oregon photographic artist with conne...
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63,62 |
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The Pull of Moving Water
ISBN: 9780874221800 / Angielski / Miękka / 107 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In this coming-of-age memoir, Alice Koskela captures that peculiar mix of innocence and ruthlessness that is childhood - that time when we know far less than we think we do, and far more than any adult might guess. The Pull of Moving Water describes the cultural simmering of the 1950s and the explosion of the 1960s from the vantage point of a girl growing up inside those years, yet impossibly removed from anything that seems to matter. She's stuck on an irrigated farm in southern Idaho, a state so remote and uncool that Dick Clark mocks it on American Bandstand."--BOOK JACKET. "The Pull of...
"In this coming-of-age memoir, Alice Koskela captures that peculiar mix of innocence and ruthlessness that is childhood - that time when we know far l...
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39,13 |
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Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls: Ritual Sponsorship in Anglo-Saxon England
ISBN: 9780875461298 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,39 |
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Hazel Vaughn Leigh and the Fort Worth Boys' Club
ISBN: 9780875652061 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This biography documents the story of an amazing woman who devoted her life to the foundation and growth of a boys' club in north Fort Worth.
Beginning with her childhood in Fort Worth at the turn of the century, J'Nell Pate chronicles Hazel's troubled marriage to Grover Leigh, her bitter rivalry with Panther Boys' Club director Martha Justice, the Great Depression, World War II, her college days at TCU, and her intense commitment to boys' club work. Though she had no children of her own, Hazel became a strict yet caring "mother" to thousands of young men through her involvement in... This biography documents the story of an amazing woman who devoted her life to the foundation and growth of a boys' club in north Fort Worth.
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57,61 |
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Grace and Gumption: Stories of Fort Worth Women
ISBN: 9780875653525 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women's stories often get lost because so much of women's history resides in private places such as diaries, family scrapbooks, family letters, or papers stored in boxes in family attics. Women often are hard to find, and once found, can be hard to track over time as they change their names when they get married. And sometimes they marry more than once, which increases the challenge. This was what fourteen Fort Worth women took on when they agreed to write a chapter each on the history of women in their city.
From pioneer women to the movers and shakers of the mid-twentieth century,... Women's stories often get lost because so much of women's history resides in private places such as diaries, family scrapbooks, family letters, or pap...
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132,18 |
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Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy
ISBN: 9780875805849 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men in the Union army, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir recounting her experiences. As Franklin Thompson she joined the 2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment in 1861, then fought in and witnessed some of the bloodiest struggles of the Civil War - from Blackburn's Ford and First Bull Run, through the Peninsula campaign with McClellan's Army of the Potomac, the battle of Fredericksburg, and then to the Kentucky campaign in 1863.
Among the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men in the Union army, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir recount...
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77,07 |
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Women in Early Texas: Volume 13
ISBN: 9780876111420 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This engaging study of women in early Texas fills an important gap in the history of the state. First published by John Jenkins in 1975 and long out of print, Women in Early Texas is now available again with a new scholarly introduction by award-winning Texas historian Debbie Cottrell. The volume contains biographies of fifty notable women, representing a wide variety of ethnic groups and classes, whose lives deeply influenced the way Texas developed. Many of the biographies were written by descendants of the women and have been extensively researched and supplemented by heretofore unused...
This engaging study of women in early Texas fills an important gap in the history of the state. First published by John Jenkins in 1975 and long out o...
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78,32 |
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Texas, Her Texas, 6: The Life and Times of Frances Goff
ISBN: 9780876111598 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Texas, Her Texas" is the fascinating story of Frances Goff and her three remarkable careers: in Texas government as legislative aide and State Budget Director; at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center; and as Director of the Bluebonnet Girls State Program of the American Legion Auxiliary. Based on Goff's personal papers and interviews with those who knew her, including former Texas Governor Ann Richards, the book provides inside glimpses of such leaders in state politics as Coke Stevenson, Allan Shivers, and Richards herself. The fast-paced narrative also describes the...
"Texas, Her Texas" is the fascinating story of Frances Goff and her three remarkable careers: in Texas government as legislative aide and State Budget...
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122,40 |
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Northern Nurse
ISBN: 9780881502992 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By turns lyrical, comic, and genuinely moving, Northern Nurse tells the story of Australian nurse Kate Austen and her adventures at Labrador's Grenfell Mission. Written by her husband, Elliott Merrick, it celebrates not only the unspoiled realm of the North, but also a woman's self-fulfillment there.
By turns lyrical, comic, and genuinely moving, Northern Nurse tells the story of Australian nurse Kate Austen and her adventures at Labrador's Grenfel...
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107,86 |
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Johnny's Girl: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up I
ISBN: 9780882405247 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kim Rich was an ordinary girl trapped in an extraordinary childhood, someone who dreamed of going to parties and getting good grades while living in an after-hours hell of pimps and con men. Kim Rich longed for normalcy, yet she was inescapably her father's child, and she had no choice but to grow up fast. Her mother was a stripper and B-girl: her father was a major player in the underworld of Anchorage, Alaska in the sixties, a city flush with newfound oil money. Only after her father was gruesomely murdered and Kim became a journalist was she able to fill in the missing pieces of one...
Kim Rich was an ordinary girl trapped in an extraordinary childhood, someone who dreamed of going to parties and getting good grades while living in a...
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73,17 |
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You Meet Such Interesting People
ISBN: 9780890964040 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It wasn't easy in those days for a woman to get her foot in the city room door. Bess made it because she understood one of the basic principles of the newspaper business--everyone has a story. You have only to discover it and tell it well.
"She will tell you in this book about meeting interesting people. You will learn that there are few more interesting than Bess Scott herself."--William P. Hobby At the age of twenty-five, Bess Whitehead Scott became the first woman reporter for the city desk of the "Houston Post." The year was 1915. The author's memoir of the first... "It wasn't easy in those days for a woman to get her foot in the city room door. Bess made it because she understood one of the basic principles of th...
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78,32 |
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Pauline Periwinkle and Progressive Reform in Dallas
ISBN: 9780890968000 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In turn-of-the-century Texas, newspapers routinely offered only fashion and social news to their women readers. Pauline Periwinkle, the pen name of Isadore Miner Callaway, changed this with her weekly column for the Woman's Century Page of the "Dallas Morning News" which encourage women to take part in the Progressive Era by becoming involved in reform efforts in their cities and towns.
As the first woman editor for "Dallas Morning News, " Pauline Periwinkle was a catalyst for numerous local reforms and was widely read by women across Texas. Viewing women's clubs as an ideal vehicle for... In turn-of-the-century Texas, newspapers routinely offered only fashion and social news to their women readers. Pauline Periwinkle, the pen name of Is...
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122,40 |
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In Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957
ISBN: 9780890968697 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Details the career of Lula B. White, executive secretary of the Houston, Texas, branch of the NAACP. White was a significant force in the struggle against Jim Crow laws during the 1940s and 1950s. Places her in her proper perspectives in Texas, Southern, African American, women's, and general Americ
Details the career of Lula B. White, executive secretary of the Houston, Texas, branch of the NAACP. White was a significant force in the struggle aga...
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122,40 |
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Finding Celia's Place
ISBN: 9780890969632 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For most women who came of age in the 1950s, and particularly for a smart, attractive, and ambitious girl from Houston, life as a single woman was unthinkable. Marriage was a woman's destiny, and everyone expected her to choose well and live happily ever after.
For Celia Morris and many women like her, this set of assumptions proved to be misguided. In this wrenching but ultimately uplifting memoir, she describes how marriage and conformity to received notions of "woman's place" ate away at the selfrespect, dignity, and even sanity of her generation. Busy, bright, and athletic, young... For most women who came of age in the 1950s, and particularly for a smart, attractive, and ambitious girl from Houston, life as a single woman was unt...
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122,40 |
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Brush Country Woman
ISBN: 9780890969786 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a few sandy acres in the middle of the harsh, wild prairie of South Texas, young Helen Sewell grew to adulthood, as hardy and tenacious as the brush that grew around her. This is her story.
In 1908, at the age of eleven, Helen moved with her family to what would later become Jim Hogg County. Shaped by her rugged environment, she worked with her father in the field doing a man's work for three years, without benefit of schools, churches, or medical attention. Then, filled with desire for an education, she began to acquire an unorthodox, haphazard one that eventually led to college. She... On a few sandy acres in the middle of the harsh, wild prairie of South Texas, young Helen Sewell grew to adulthood, as hardy and tenacious as the brus...
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77,28 |
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