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Military Women in World Cinema: A 20th Century History and Filmography
ISBN: 9781476684512 / Angielski / Miękka / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From British soldier Flora Sandes to the famed World War II Night Witches of the Soviet Air Force, women across the globe have stepped up to defend their countries during every major and minor conflict of the twentieth century, and filmmakers have long attempted to capture their stories. This book analyzes these military women's portrayals in world cinema, examining movies from multiple countries including Israel, the United Kingdom, Italy, the United States, Japan and more. It includes theatrical releases, direct-to-video productions, and made-for-television films. Chapters organize films by...
From British soldier Flora Sandes to the famed World War II Night Witches of the Soviet Air Force, women across the globe have stepped up to defend th...
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435,17 zł |
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Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba
ISBN: 9781683403739 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Illuminating the activism of Black women during Cuba’s prerevolutionary period In Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba, Takkara Brunson traces how women of African descent battled exclusion on multiple fronts and played an important role in forging a modern democracy. Brunson takes a much-needed intersectional approach to the political history of the era, examining how Black women’s engagement with questions of Cuban citizenship intersected with racial prejudice, gender norms, and sexual politics, incorporating Afro-diasporic and Latin American feminist...
Illuminating the activism of Black women during Cuba’s prerevolutionary period In Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba, Takkara ...
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110,08 zł |
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To the Stars: Women Spacefarers' Legacy
ISBN: 9783031198595 / Angielski / Miękka / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the second edition ofWomen Spacefarersand tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program. Beginning with the orbital flight of USSR cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 and continuing to the present day, it covers the many female players who have had a central role in the greatest adventure of our time.The book includes the biographies of, and in some cases interviews with, the brave women who have flown in space. For each entry, the author contextualizes the spacefarer's accomplishments in light of the political and...
This book is the second edition ofWomen Spacefarersand tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space pr...
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199,83 zł |
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Medieval Women and Urban Justice: Commerce, Crime and Community in England, 1300-1500
ISBN: 9781526171795 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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132,30 zł |
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Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist
ISBN: 9780813068923 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlighting Bethune’s global activism and her connections throughout the African diaspora. This book examines the pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Bethune through her work, which internationalized the scope of Black women’s organizations to create solidarity among Africans throughout the diaspora. Broadening the familiar view of Bethune as an advocate for racial and gender equality within the United States, Ashley Preston argues that Bethune consistently sought to unify African descendants around the world with her writings, through travel, and as an advisor. Preston shows how Bethune’s...
Highlighting Bethune’s global activism and her connections throughout the African diaspora. This book examines the pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Be...
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153,21 zł |
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Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist
ISBN: 9780813069654 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlighting Bethune’s global activism and her connections throughout the African diaspora. This book examines the pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Bethune through her work, which internationalized the scope of Black women’s organizations to create solidarity among Africans throughout the diaspora. Broadening the familiar view of Bethune as an advocate for racial and gender equality within the United States, Ashley Preston argues that Bethune consistently sought to unify African descendants around the world with her writings, through travel, and as an advisor. Preston shows how Bethune’s...
Highlighting Bethune’s global activism and her connections throughout the African diaspora. This book examines the pan-Africanism of Mary McLeod Be...
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365,15 zł |
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The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women\'s Political Culture
ISBN: 9780813080239 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize. Finalist, Hooks National Book Award How Black women used lessons in literacy to crack the foundation of white supremacy. This book details how African American women used lessons in basic literacy to crack the foundation of white supremacy and sow seeds for collective action during the civil rights movement. Deanna Gillespie traces the history of the Citizenship Education Program (CEP), a grassroots initiative that taught people to read and write in preparation for literacy tests required for voter registration—a...
Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize. Finalist, Hooks National Book Award How Black women used lessons in literacy to...
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110,08 zł |
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Slavery, Capitalism, and Women\'s Literature: Economic Insights of American Women Writers, 1852-1869
ISBN: 9780820364599 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature, Kristin Allukian makes an important contribution to slavery and capitalism scholarship by including the voices of some of the best-known nineteenth-century American women writers. Women’s literature offers crucial and previously unconsidered economic insights into the relationship between slavery and capitalism, different from those we typically find in economics and economic histories. Allukian demonstrates that because women’s imaginative and creative texts take the material-historical connection of slavery and capitalism as their...
With Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature, Kristin Allukian makes an important contribution to slavery and capitalism scholarship by includin...
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154,14 zł |
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Slavery, Capitalism, and Women\'s Literature: Economic Insights of American Women Writers, 1852-1869
ISBN: 9780820364605 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature, Kristin Allukian makes an important contribution to slavery and capitalism scholarship by including the voices of some of the best-known nineteenth-century American women writers. Women’s literature offers crucial and previously unconsidered economic insights into the relationship between slavery and capitalism, different from those we typically find in economics and economic histories. Allukian demonstrates that because women’s imaginative and creative texts take the material-historical connection of slavery and capitalism as their...
With Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature, Kristin Allukian makes an important contribution to slavery and capitalism scholarship by includin...
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491,89 zł |
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The Women Behind the Few: The Women's Auxiliary Air Force and British Intelligence during the Second World War
ISBN: 9781785907852 / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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124,92 zł |
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Infamous Women of History Anthology: Volume I (Books 1-3)
ISBN: 9798985152531 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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93,90 zł |
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They Run with Surprising Swiftness: The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain
ISBN: 9780813947921 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sports have never been the sole preserve of men; women athletes have always been there. As this book shows, throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain, women of all ages ran, fought, rode, played football, cricket, tennis, and other sports.
Sports have never been the sole preserve of men; women athletes have always been there. As this book shows, throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
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592,70 zł |
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They Run with Surprising Swiftness: The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain
ISBN: 9780813947938 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sports have never been the sole preserve of men; women athletes have always been there. As this book shows, throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain, women of all ages ran, fought, rode, played football, cricket, tennis, and other sports.
Sports have never been the sole preserve of men; women athletes have always been there. As this book shows, throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
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164,05 zł |
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Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
ISBN: 9781514000748 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in the church. But there is ample evidence right in the New Testament that women were actively involved in ministry, at the frontier of the gospel mission, and as respected leaders. Nijay Gupta calls us to bring these women out of the shadows by shining light on their many inspiring contributions to the planting, growth, and health of the first Christian churches. He sets the context by exploring the lives of first-century women and addressing common misconceptions, then focuses on the women...
Women were there. For centuries, discussions of early Christianity have focused on male leaders in the church. But there is ample evidence right in th...
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106,16 zł |
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Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia: A History of Arabian Tribes and Culture from the time of Mohammed
ISBN: 9781789874648 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,96 zł |
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Novel Approaches to Lesbian History
ISBN: 9783031152498 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Novel Approaches to Lesbian Historytells a tale about history and community in our allegedly post-identity era, examining contemporary novels that depict lesbian characters in recognizable historical situations. These imaginative stories provide a politically vital, speculative past in the face of a sketchy, problematic archive. Among the memorable characters in some 200 novels are pirates, cowgirls, and famous artists, ghosts and time travellers, immigrants and lovers. The best lesbian historical novels are conscientious and buoyant as they engage critical historiographical questions,...
Novel Approaches to Lesbian Historytells a tale about history and community in our allegedly post-identity era, examining contemporary novels that dep...
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103,89 zł |
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Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio: Family, Politics, Gender and Reputation in (and Beyond) Renaissance Bologna
ISBN: 9789463726849 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Genevra Sforza (ca. 1441-1507) lived her long life near the apex of Italian Renaissance society as wife of two successive de facto rulers of Bologna: Sante Bentivoglio then Giovanni II Bentivoglio. Placed there twice without a dowry by Duke Francesco Sforza as part of a larger Milanese plan, Genevra served the Bentivoglio by fulfilling the gendered role demanded of her by society, most notably by contributing eighteen children, accepting many illegitimates born to Giovanni II, and helping arrange their futures for the success of the family at large. Based on contemporary archival research...
Genevra Sforza (ca. 1441-1507) lived her long life near the apex of Italian Renaissance society as wife of two successive de facto rulers of Bologna: ...
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643,50 zł |
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Lady Katherine Grey: A Dynastic Tragedy
ISBN: 9780750999700 / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,94 zł |
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Women Empowerment
ISBN: 9781805457756 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,87 zł |
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Historical Studies on Comfort Women Stations in Shanghai
ISBN: 9789811271830 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the history of the military comfort women system in China. It aims to give readers a deeper insight into the origin, establishment, and operations of comfort stations, as well as tell the sufferings of comfort women, many of whom were coerced into service. It does so by providing historical evidence gathered over 25 years of field studies from 172 comfort stations which were operated in Shanghai, which once had the largest number of military comfort stations, during the Japanese occupation.
This book examines the history of the military comfort women system in China. It aims to give readers a deeper insight into the origin, establishment,...
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728,97 zł |