Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements
ISBN: 9781631490545 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women's movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfinished traces the beginnings of this seminal American social movement to the 1920s, in the process creating an expanded, historical narrative that dramatically rewrites a century of American women's history. Also challenging the contemporary "lean-in," trickle-down feminist philosophy and asserting that women's histories all too often depoliticize politics, labor issues, and divergent economic circumstances, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and...
Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women's movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfinishe...
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74,33 zł |
Girlhood in America: Personal Stories 1910 - 2010
ISBN: 9780990452706 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Collected stories from fifty-six women and young girls around the country reveal the times and tensions of a wider world, from a first ride in a Model T in 1911 to leading a school campaign against bullying in 2011. Girls' lives change in expected--and surprising--ways when indoor plumbing and electricity come into homes in the 1920s. Antibiotics replace mustard plasters, World War II ends, soldiers come home, and there is an explosion of new suburbs followed by the fascination of TV. Girls' lives take a new turn, as culture includes them in new ways. And history keeps... Collected stories from fifty-six women and young girls around the country reveal the times and tensions of a wider world, from a first ride in a Mo... |
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72,44 zł |
A Home for Wayward Boys: The Early History of the Alabama Boys' Industrial School
ISBN: 9781603063456 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When reformer Elizabeth Johnston walked among the convicts in an Alabama prison mining camp, she was stunned to see teenage boys working alongside hardened criminals. She vowed to remove youngsters from such wretched conditions by establishing a home for wayward boys. With the support of women across the state, she persuaded the legislature to establish the Alabama Boys' Industrial School in 1900. After several difficult years, Johnston and her all-female board hired a young Tennessee couple, David and Katherine Weakley, as superintendent and matron. United in their Christian faith, their...
When reformer Elizabeth Johnston walked among the convicts in an Alabama prison mining camp, she was stunned to see teenage boys working alongside har...
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106,63 zł |
Outlaw Women: America's Most Notorious Daughters, Wives, and Mothers
ISBN: 9781442247291 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West s most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws is a great addition to Western author Robert Barr Smith s books on the American frontier. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, it includes famous names like Belle Starr and lesser known characters as well. The book also contains archival illustrations and photographs."
This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West s most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws is a great addition to Western author ...
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69,02 zł |
Early American Women Dramatists, 1780-1860
ISBN: 9781138870475 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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60,52 zł |
Suffer and Grow Strong: The Life of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1834-1907
ISBN: 9780881465327 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas was an intelligent, spirited woman born in 1834 to one of the wealthiest families in Georgia. At the age of fourteen she began and kept a diary for forty-one years. These diaries of her life before, during, and after the Civil War filled thirteen hand-written volumes with 450,000 words. In the early years she described her life of leisure and recorded the books she read. Her father recognized her love of learning and sent her to the first college for women in America, Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia. After college graduation in 1851, she was a gay young...
Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas was an intelligent, spirited woman born in 1834 to one of the wealthiest families in Georgia. At the age of fourteen she ...
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129,23 zł |
The Civilian War: Confederate Women and Union Soldiers During Sherman's March
ISBN: 9780807159965 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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228,85 zł |
Shooting Women
ISBN: 9781783205066 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shooting Women takes readers around the world to explore the lives of camerawomen working in features, TV news, and documentaries. From first-world pioneers like African American camerawoman Jessie Maple Patton who got her job only after suing the union to China s first camerawomen who traveled with Mao, to rural India where poor women have learned camerawork as a means of empowerment, Shooting Women reveals a world of women working with courage and skill in what has long been seen as a male field."
Shooting Women takes readers around the world to explore the lives of camerawomen working in features, TV news, and documentaries. From first-w...
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217,57 zł |
Listening to Rosita: The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930-1955
ISBN: 9780806148526 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be shamed by "Momo" Villarreal. It wasn't about the money, Mary Ann Villarreal's grandmother insisted. It was about the music--more songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks those quarters bought, the money didn't hurt. When as an adult Villarreal began to wonder how the few recordings of women singers made their way into that jukebox, questions about the money seemed inseparable from those about the music. In Listening to Rosita, Villarreal seeks... Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be shamed by "Momo" Villarreal. It wasn't about the money, Mary Ann Villarreal's g... |
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185,49 zł |
Remarkable Women of New England: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers: The War Years 1754 to 1787
ISBN: 9781493016686 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In eighteenth-century America, information about a woman s life and accomplishments was very difficult to discover, but some woman were avid letter writers or devoted journal keepers, and thankfully some of those letters and journals were saved. These women include Mary Gray Bidwell, a quiet country woman who had a front row seat on the war and the formation of the new nation. Elizabeth Edwards Burr whose husband founded Princeton University and her son was the second Vice President of the United States (and tried for treason). Lavinia Deane Fisk, widowed during the Revolutionary War, her...
In eighteenth-century America, information about a woman s life and accomplishments was very difficult to discover, but some woman were avid letter wr...
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79,64 zł |
From She-Wolf to Martyr: The Reign and Disputed Reputation of Johanna I of Naples
ISBN: 9780801453861 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1343 a seventeen-year-old girl named Johanna (1326-1382) ascended the Neapolitan throne, becoming the ruling monarch of one of medieval Europe's most important polities. For nearly forty years, she held her throne and the avid attention of her contemporaries. Their varied responses to her reign created a reputation that made Johanna the most notorious woman in Europe during her lifetime. In From She-Wolf to Martyr, Elizabeth Casteen examines Johanna's evolving, problematic reputation and uses it as a lens through which to analyze often-contradictory late-medieval conceptions of... In 1343 a seventeen-year-old girl named Johanna (1326-1382) ascended the Neapolitan throne, becoming the ruling monarch of one of medieval Europe's... |
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262,46 zł |
Women Who Changed the World: The Journey and the Joy
ISBN: 9781620065976 / Angielski / Twarda / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A group of 8th grade female student authors from the Cranbrook Schools, guided by three editors, collaborated in what they called "The Cranbrook Project," to create a book of brief biographies about important women who have achieved great things in their lives. The girls wrote about the following women: Dr. Sue Carter Mamatha Chamarthi Justice Maura Corrigan Mildred Dresselhaus Katharine Hayhoe Florine Mark Justice Bridget McCormack Lynn Povich Arlyce Siebert Lou Anna K. Simon Kym Worthy Dr. Xiangqun Zeng "An inspiring book for women of all ages. Life is full of meaningful experiences and... A group of 8th grade female student authors from the Cranbrook Schools, guided by three editors, collaborated in what they called "The Cranbrook Pr... |
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119,42 zł |
Others Lord: A Snapshot of the Life and Legacy of Lorine C. McLeod
ISBN: 9780990590439 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spencer L. Duffy offers readers an intimate portrait of Lorine C. McLeod, the distinguished humanitarian. Her endless devotion to helping others primarily through the United Order of the Tents is legendary. In the first biography of McLeod, Duffy organizes a generous overview showing how McLeod believes that the best way to serve God is by helping others. Now in the autumn of her life, she is President Emeritus of her local chapter of the United Order of the Tents. Her biography is a fitting testament to their theme of doing everything to help the sick and console the bereaved, and to instill...
Spencer L. Duffy offers readers an intimate portrait of Lorine C. McLeod, the distinguished humanitarian. Her endless devotion to helping others prima...
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173,52 zł |
That Monstrous Regiment: The Birth of Women's Political Emancipation
ISBN: 9781861513137 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here, for the first time, are outlined the subterfuges and wiles of the six queens who largely ruled Europe during the second half of the sixteenth century, as well as the complex relationships between them. Up against what was essentially a man s world, they proved highly adept at using women s intuition and marriage or more particularly engagement to gain international advantages. They also showed an ambiguity towards Protestantism which was in stark contrast to the tyranny of kings. Above all, these were the women who stormed the cartel of male rulers and were the first to win respected...
Here, for the first time, are outlined the subterfuges and wiles of the six queens who largely ruled Europe during the second half of the sixteenth ce...
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59,45 zł |
Women Prophets and Radical Protestantism in the British Atlantic World, 1640-1730
ISBN: 9781107095519 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the stories of radical Protestant women who prophesied between the British Civil Wars and the Great Awakening. It explores how women prophets shaped religious and civic communities in the British Atlantic world by invoking claims of chosenness. Elizabeth Bouldin interweaves detailed individual studies with analysis that summarizes trends and patterns among women prophets from a variety of backgrounds throughout the British Isles, colonial North America, and continental Europe. Highlighting the ecumenical goals of many early modern dissenters, Women Prophets and Radical...
This book examines the stories of radical Protestant women who prophesied between the British Civil Wars and the Great Awakening. It explores how wome...
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441,39 zł |
American Indian Stories
ISBN: 9781515004660 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Native American history is a unique combination of autobiography and fiction which represents an attempt to merge cultural critique with aesthetic form, especially surrounding such fundamental matters as religion.
This Native American history is a unique combination of autobiography and fiction which represents an attempt to merge cultural critique with aestheti...
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25,80 zł |
The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability
ISBN: 9780822361107 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminism's most complex conversations. Kristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movement's rise and eventual fall, restoring its radical work to public feminist memory. The bookwomen at the heart of this story--mostly lesbians and including women of color--measured their success not by profit, but by developing theories and practices of lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability. At bookstores like BookWoman in Austin, the Toronto Women's Bookstore, and Old...
From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminism's most com...
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515,36 zł |
The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability
ISBN: 9780822361299 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminism's most complex conversations. Kristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movement's rise and eventual fall, restoring its radical work to public feminist memory. The bookwomen at the heart of this story--mostly lesbians and including women of color--measured their success not by profit, but by developing theories and practices of lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability. At bookstores like BookWoman in Austin, the Toronto Women's Bookstore, and Old...
From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminism's most com...
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123,72 zł |
Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany
ISBN: 9781848935549 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first work to look at the full range of three centuries of the early modern period in regards to infanticide and abortion, a period in which both practices were regarded equally as criminal acts. Faced with dire consequences if they were found pregnant or if they bore illegitimate children, many unmarried women were left with little choice. Some of these unfortunate women turned to infanticide and abortion as the way out of their difficult situation. This book explores the legal, social, cultural, and religious causes of infanticide and abortion in the early modern period,... This book is the first work to look at the full range of three centuries of the early modern period in regards to infanticide and abortion, a perio... |
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757,10 zł |
Girls of Liberty: The Struggle for Suffrage in Mandatory Palestine
ISBN: 9781611688856 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish an elected assembly as its representative body. The issue that hindered this aim was whether women would be part of it. A group of feminist Zionist women from all over the country created a political party that participated in the elections, even before women's suffrage was enacted. This unique phenomenon in Mandatory Palestine resulted in the declaration of women's equal rights in all aspects of life by the newly founded Assembly of...
Following the Balfour Declaration and the British conquest of Palestine (1917-1918), the small Jewish community that lived there wanted to establish a...
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361,28 zł |