If You Love: The Story of Anna Dengel
ISBN: 9781524622817 / Angielski / Miękka / 498 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Anna Dengel, founder of the Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries, known worldwide as the Medical Mission Sisters, reads like a novel as this twentieth century pioneer time and again challenges the stereotypes restricting women in religion and society. She was determined to make professional medical care available to women and children in areas of the world where access to such services from men was forbidden; and she was equally determined that the institutional Roman Catholic Church would help facilitate such a mission. She not only lived to see that day. She helped to... The story of Anna Dengel, founder of the Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries, known worldwide as the Medical Mission Sisters, reads like a nov... |
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137,73 zł |
English Benedictine Nuns in Exile in the Seventeenth Century: Living Spirituality
ISBN: 9781526110022 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the Catholic women who became Benedictines in the seventeenth century, choosing exile in order to pursue their vocation for an enclosed life, within England or across the Continent. It uncovers previously unknown details about English conventual life and highlights the tensions between the contemplative ideal and the nuns' personal experiences. The study makes use of a wide variety of original manuscripts, including chronicles, death notices, clerical instructions and texts of spiritual guidance, but also the nuns' own collections of notes. This book focuses on the Catholic women who became Benedictines in the seventeenth century, choosing exile in order to pursue their vocation for an... |
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455,18 zł |
Hi, Anxiety: Life with a Bad Case of Nerves
ISBN: 9780062369697 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Brain on Fire, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes painful look at anxiety and its impact from writer and commentator Kat Kinsman. Feeling anxious? Can't sleep because your brain won't stop recycling thoughts? Unable to make a decision because you're too afraid you'll make the wrong one? You're not alone. In Hi, Anxiety, beloved food writer, editor, and commentator Kat Kinsman expands on the high profile pieces she wrote for CNN.com about depression, and its wicked cousin,... Joining the ranks of such acclaimed accounts as Manic, Brain on Fire, and Monkey Mind, a deeply personal, funny, and sometimes p... |
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81,55 zł |
Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism, and Militarism
ISBN: 9781138144781 / Angielski / Twarda / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A nuanced understanding of state violence and gender (in)equalities must consider the varied and contradictory experiences of armed civilian women, female soldiers, and opponents of gun possession. How is 'feminism' and 'femininity' negotiated in the early 21st century by civilian and military women in a nation that fetishizes guns? This book addresses this social problem by offering a comparative analysis of the particular dilemmas that gender inequality, class inequality, race/racism and U.S. nationalism generate for women of diverse backgrounds who are struggling to balance conventional... A nuanced understanding of state violence and gender (in)equalities must consider the varied and contradictory experiences of armed civilian women,... |
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813,96 zł |
Il potenziale infinito delle donne
ISBN: 9781680376197 / Włoski / Miękka / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Book Is In Italian. Published By The Disciples Of Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Affectionately Known As Mother, Or Amma The Hugging Saint.
This Book Is In Italian. Published By The Disciples Of Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Affectionately Known As Mother, Or Amma The Hugging Saint.
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48,10 zł |
Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck
ISBN: 9780198754657 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The high society of Stuart, England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating woman. She lived at a time when women were expected to be obedient, silent, and chaste, but Frances displayed none of these qualities. Her determination to ignore convention contributed in no small measure to a life of high drama, one which encompassed kidnappings, secret rendezvous, an illegitimate child, accusations of black magic, imprisonments, disappearances, and exile, not to mention court appearances, high-speed chases, a jail-break, deadly disease, royal fury, and - by...
The high society of Stuart, England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating woman. She lived at a time when women...
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105,77 zł |
Gender in English Society 1650-1850: The Emergence of Separate Spheres?
ISBN: 9781138157071 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lively social history of the roles of men and women - from workplace to household, from parish church to alehouse, from market square to marriage bed. Robert Shoemaker investigates such varied topics as crime, leisure, the theatre, religious observance, notions of morality and even changing patterns of sexual activity itself.
A lively social history of the roles of men and women - from workplace to household, from parish church to alehouse, from market square to marriage be...
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661,34 zł |
Women, Portraiture and the Crisis of Identity in Victorian England: My Lady Scandalous Reconsidered
ISBN: 9781138253667 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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203,44 zł |
Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua: Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries
ISBN: 9781138268678 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzing the artistic patronage of famous and lesser known women of Renaissance Mantua, and introducing new patronage paradigms that existed among those women, this study sheds new light the social, cultural and religious impact of the cult of female mystics of that city in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Author Sally Hickson combines primary archival research, contextual analysis of the climate of female mysticism, and a re-examination of a number of visual objects (particularly altarpieces devoted to local beatae, saints and female founders of religious orders) to delineate...
Analyzing the artistic patronage of famous and lesser known women of Renaissance Mantua, and introducing new patronage paradigms that existed among th...
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264,48 zł |
Gender at Work in Victorian Culture: Literature, Art and Masculinity
ISBN: 9781138270930 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Martin A. Danahay's lucidly argued and accessibly written volume offers a solid introduction to important issues surrounding the definition and division of labor in British society and culture. 'Work, ' Danahay argues, was a term rife with ideological contradictions for Victorian males during a period when it was considered synonymous with masculinity. Male writers and artists in particular found their labors troubled by class and gender ideologies that idealized 'man's work' as sweaty, muscled labor and tended to feminize intellectual and artistic pursuits. Though many romanticized...
Martin A. Danahay's lucidly argued and accessibly written volume offers a solid introduction to important issues surrounding the definition and divisi...
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274,66 zł |
Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing
ISBN: 9781138283114 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume combines cutting-edge research on feminist and intersectional writing methodologies with explorations of links between academic and creative writing practices. Contributors discuss what it means for academic writing processes to explore intersectional in-between spaces between monolithic identity markers and power differentials such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nationality. How does such a frame change academic writing? How does it make it pertinent to explore new synergies between academic and creative writing? In answer to these questions, the book... This edited volume combines cutting-edge research on feminist and intersectional writing methodologies with explorations of links between academic ... |
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254,31 zł |
Documentary Media: History, Theory, Practice
ISBN: 9781138677555 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a digital moment where both the democratizing and totalitarian possibilities of media are unprecedented, the need for complex, ethical, and imaginative documentary media--for you, the reader of this book to think, question, and create--is vital. Whether you are an aspiring or seasoned practitioner, an activist or community leader, a student or scholar, or simply a curious audience member, author Broderick Fox opens up documentary media, its changing forms, and diversifying social functions to readers in a manner that is at once rigorous, absorbing, and practical. This new edition... In a digital moment where both the democratizing and totalitarian possibilities of media are unprecedented, the need for complex, ethical, and imag... |
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915,71 zł |
Documentary Media: History, Theory, Practice
ISBN: 9781138677562 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a digital moment where both the democratizing and totalitarian possibilities of media are unprecedented, the need for complex, ethical, and imaginative documentary media--for you, the reader of this book to think, question, and create--is vital. Whether you are an aspiring or seasoned practitioner, an activist or community leader, a student or scholar, or simply a curious audience member, author Broderick Fox opens up documentary media, its changing forms, and diversifying social functions to readers in a manner that is at once rigorous, absorbing, and practical. This new edition... In a digital moment where both the democratizing and totalitarian possibilities of media are unprecedented, the need for complex, ethical, and imag... |
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315,36 zł |
Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780803295865 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dramatic and documentary representations of aggressive and garrulous women, while often casting such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful usurpers of cultural authority, simultaneously highlight, in contending narrative lines, their effective manipulation and even subversion of social and gender hierarchies. Words Like Daggers explores the scolding invectives, malevolent curses, and ecstatic prophesies of early modern women as attested in legal documents, letters, self-narratives, popular pamphlets, ballads, and dramas of the era. By examining the framing and performance of... Dramatic and documentary representations of aggressive and garrulous women, while often casting such women as reckless and ultimately unsuccessful ... |
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111,87 zł |
Beauty Bites Beast: The Missing Conversation About Ending Violence
ISBN: 9780997996401 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BEAUTY BITES BEAST is not a -how-to- book, it is a -how-come- book. As in, -how-come- every woman and girl needs to know how to defend themselves. They, like all females of other species in the world, are capable of defending themselves and their loved ones -- if they learn how. It is not the female's size, it is her culturally induced ignorance that makes her think she is helpless. BEAUTY BITES BEAST is a clarion call to -sleeping beauties, - so they can wake up and take charge of their own self-defense -- emotional, verbal and physical. The book... BEAUTY BITES BEAST is not a -how-to- book, it is a -how-come- book. As in, -how-come- every woman and girl needs to know ho... |
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107,95 zł |
What Women Call 'A Man of Honour'
ISBN: 9781681817835 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What Women Call ‘A Man of Honour’ was written as a guide and inspiration to single men, married couples, widowed, and divorced men who want to remarry on how to conduct themselves within family and love relationships. It will also guide women on what to expect from a man of integrity. The book contains notes from single and married women outlining how they want their men of honour (husband or prospective husband) to carry themselves in terms of affection, passion, interests, and demeanour within a relationship. One woman tells how she would want her... What Women Call ‘A Man of Honour’ was written as a guide and inspiration to single men, married couples, widowed, and divorced... |
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68,50 zł |
Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa
ISBN: 9781501707148 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.
Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.
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76,26 zł |
A Land Fit for Heroines: Stories of Pioneering Women on Soldier Settler Blocks
ISBN: 9781524518547 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book documents the lives of twenty-one women on soldier settler blocks in New South Wales after World War II. Their stories relate how they came to live on virtually virgin land and lived in tents and sheds with no electricity and no running water. They established their homes and worked side by side with their husbands on the farms. At the same time, they brought up their children far from family support and with medical help difficult to access on sometimes impassable roads. They survived floods, drought, and bushfires. Their stories show it was the women who brought the communities... This book documents the lives of twenty-one women on soldier settler blocks in New South Wales after World War II. Their stories relate how they ca... |
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123,63 zł |
Barbara Von CILLI: Die Schwarze Koenigin (1392-1451): Die Lebensgeschichte Einer Ungarischen, Roemisch-Deutschen Und Boehmischen Koenigin
ISBN: 9783631673263 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nur selten erlitt eine mittelalterliche Frauengestalt seitens der Schriftsteller und Historiker soviel Unrecht und ging mit solch schlechtem Ruf wie Konigin Barbara von Cilli in die Geschichte ein. In der Literatur wird Barbara seit mehreren Jahrhunderten systematisch geschmaht. Die ersten Werke, die ein negatives Bild uber sie verbreiteten, entstanden schon in der Zeit ihres Todes oder sogar noch wahrend ihres Lebens, und sie ging als Schwarze Konigin oder Deutsche Messalina ins historische Bewusstsein ein. Die Autorin hat auf uberraschende Weise den Ursprung der negativen Legende... Nur selten erlitt eine mittelalterliche Frauengestalt seitens der Schriftsteller und Historiker soviel Unrecht und ging mit solch schlechtem Ruf wi... |
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449,49 zł |
Gender Bending Detective Fiction: A Critical Analysis of Selected Works
ISBN: 9781476668208 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. This examination of 20th and 21st century crime novels reveals what these narratives say about gender identity and gender expression and how they contributed to the evolution of detective fiction.
Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. This examination of 20th and 21st century crime novels reveals ...
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306,61 zł |