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Author : Nadya Aisenberg
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ordinary Heroines written by Nadya Aisenberg and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nadya Aisenberg
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Ordinary Heroines written by Nadya Aisenberg and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martha Moffitt Peacock
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004432159
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives written by Martha Moffitt Peacock and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel and female empowering interpretive approach to these artistic archetypes in her analysis of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age.
Author : Kevin C. Kearns
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717162702
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Working Class Heroines written by Kevin C. Kearns and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Working Class Heroines acclaimed historian Kevin C. Kearns brings us the voices of the forgotten women of Dublin's tenements. If it weren't for his work the lives of these everyday heroines would be lost forever. Based on 30 years of research spent interviewing and recording the life stories of the working-class women of Dublin, it covers the squalid tenement days of the early 1900s, through the mid-century decades of 'slumland' block flats, and into the 1970s when deadly drugs infiltrated poor neighbourhoods, terrifying mothers and stealing away their children. What emerges is an intimate and poignant celebration of the mammies and grannies who held the fabric of family life in an environment of hardship and, often, cruelty.Through vivid tales of how they coped with grinding poverty, huge families, pitiless landlords, the oppressive Church, dictatorial priests, feckless and often abusive husbands, these remarkable women shine with astonishing dignity, wit, pride and a resilient spirit, despite their struggles.Working Class Heroines gives voice and pays tribute to the long silent, unsung heroines who were the indispensable caretakers of both family and community, and remains one of the most important Irish feminist documents of our times."The ordinary woman has long been absent from our national narrative. I think we should be grateful that Working Class Heroines exists, and we can benefit now from listening to these voices.' Ellen Coyne, The Sunday Times
Author : Antje Ascheid
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592138438
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Hitler's Heroines written by Antje Ascheid and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brightest stars in fascist films.
Author : Tim Brady
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 0806540400
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Three Ordinary Girls written by Tim Brady and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The book's teenage protagonists and their bravery will enthrall young adults, who may find themselves inspired to take up their own causes.” —Washington Post An astonishing World War II story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. It also made them the underground’s most invaluable commodity. May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it’s entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls: Hannie Schaft, and sisters Truus and Freddie Oversteegen who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad. Smart, fiercely political, devoted solely to the cause, and “with nothing to lose but their own lives,” Hannie, Truus, and Freddie took terrifying direct action against Nazi targets. That included sheltering fleeing Jews, political dissidents, and Dutch resisters. They sabotaged bridges and railways, and donned disguises to lead children from probable internment in concentration camps to safehouses. They covertly transported weapons and set military facilities ablaze. And they carried out the assassinations of German soldiers and traitors–on public streets and in private traps–with the courage of veteran guerilla fighters and the cunning of seasoned spies. In telling this true story through the lens of a fearlessly unique trio of freedom fighters, Tim Brady offers a fascinating perspective of the Dutch resistance during the war. Of lives under threat; of how these courageous young women became involved in the underground; and of how their dedication evolved into dangerous, life-threatening missions on behalf of Dutch patriots–regardless of the consequences. Harrowing, emotional, and unforgettable, Three Ordinary Girls finally moves these three icons of resistance into the deserved forefront of world history.
Author : Kriste Lindenmeyer
Publisher : Scholarly Resources, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives written by Kriste Lindenmeyer and published by Scholarly Resources, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the contrasts and continuities of American women's experiences through nearly four centuries. This book includes women's rights, suffrage, education, health, 'women's liberation, ' relations between the sexes, and marriage
Author : Aparna Shekar, Hema Srinivas
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1648506429
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Unspoken Heroines written by Aparna Shekar, Hema Srinivas and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do: – If you are thrown out of your house with three young daughters in the middle of the night? – If the light of your life is extinguished in a freak moment? Does one give up? What helps you cope? 14 Women, 14 Lives. They are all ordinary women who walk amongst us. These heroines are from different states, income classes, age and social status levels. What struck us in our face-to-face interviews with these protagonists is their fortitude when faced with extreme challenges. We, as authors, were drawn to this conviction. We had to chronicle their battles. 14 ordinary women, 14 unique footprints. What would you do?
Author : Pat Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879724092
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Heroines of Popular Culture written by Pat Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From life and literature come the heroines of this volume. The essays demonstrate that women can fit the role of hero as defined by Joseph Campbell: "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder, fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won, the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." Contributors to this volume cover a wide range of heroic women.
Author : Stephanie Drimmer
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426325576
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Book of Heroines written by Stephanie Drimmer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody needs a role model! Discover true stories of superstars, war heroes, world leaders, gusty gals, and everyday women who changed the world. From Sacagawea to Mother Teresa, Annie Oakley to Malala Yousafzai, these famous women hiked up their pants and petticoats and charged full-speed ahead to prove girls are just as tough as boys...maybe even tougher. Complete with amazing images and a fun design, this is the book that every kid with a goal, hope, or dream will want to own.
Author : Dominique Godineau
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520067196
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (671 download)
Download or read book The Women of Paris and Their French Revolution written by Dominique Godineau and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-02-16 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the French Revolution, hundreds of domestic and working-class women of Paris were interrogated, examined, accused, denounced, arrested, and imprisoned for their rebellious and often hostile behavior. Here, for the first time in English translation, Dominique Godineau offers an illuminating account of these female revolutionaries. As nurturing and tender as they are belligerent and contentious, these are not singular female heroines but the collective common women who struggled for bare subsistence by working in factories, in shops, on the streets, and on the home front while still finding time to participate in national assemblies, activist gatherings, and public demonstrations in their fight for the recognition of women as citizens within a burgeoning democracy. Relying on exhaustive research in historical archives, police accounts, and demographic resources at specific moments of the Revolutionary period, Godineau describes the private and public lives of these women within their precise political, social, historical, and gender-specific contexts. Her insightful and engaging observations shed new light on the importance of women as instigators, activists, militants, and decisive revolutionary individuals in the crafting and rechartering of their political and social roles as female citizens within the New Republic.
Author : Maggie Andrews
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 0719827620
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (198 download)
Download or read book Hidden Heroines written by Maggie Andrews and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the struggle for women's suffrage is not just that of the Pankhursts and Emily Davison. Thousands of others were involved in peaceful protest and sometimes more militant activity and they included women from all walks of life. This book presents the lives of forty-eight less well-known women who tirelessly campaigned for the vote, from all parts of Great Britain and Ireland and from all walks of life. They were the hidden heroines who paved the way for women to gain greater equality in Britain. Fully illustrated with 52 black and white photographs.
Author : Christopher Hart
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0955124433
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Heroines and Heroes: Symbolism, Embodiment, Narratives & Identity written by Christopher Hart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacobus (de Voragine)
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859917711
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Women of the Gilte Legende written by Jacobus (de Voragine) and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a prose translation of a selection of women saints' lives from the Gilte Legende, the Middle English version of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea, one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages. Because of its popularity and subject matter, the Gilte Legende was widely read and used as a model for everyday life, including the education of women through examples set by early Christian martyrs. Many of the women saints spoke passionately about their convictions and defended their faith and their bodies to the death. For over 400 years, these amazing vernacular stories have been inaccessible to a wider audience. This book divides the lives of female saints into: the "ryght hooly virgins", who vocally defend their bodies against Roman persecution; "holy mothers", who give up their traditional role to pursue a life of contemplation; the 'repentant sinners', who convert and voice their defiance against a society that demanded silence in women; and the "holy transvestites", who cast off their gender identity to find absolution and salvation. Their lives reach through the ages to speak to a modern audience, academic and non-academic, forcing a re-examination of women's roles in the medieval period. LARISSA TRACY is Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University and George Mason University. Series editor JANE CHANCE
Author : Yolande Cohen
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780921689102
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Women and Counter-Power written by Yolande Cohen and published by Black Rose Books Ltd.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark collection of essays by scholars and activists compares the experiences of women in various countries, both historically and currently. "These scholarly essays document women's political activity in anti-establishment movements, both historical and recent, in some of the nations peripheral to the powerful Western democracies and the U.S.S.R. Material provides information, as well as insights, not readily available elsewhere."--Small Press
Author : Kevin K. Durand
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786456221
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Universe of Oz written by Kevin K. Durand and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wizard of Oz has captured the imagination of the public since publication of L. Frank Baum's first book of the series in 1900. Oz has shaped the way we read children's literature, view motion pictures and experience musicals. Oz has captured the scholarly imagination as well. The seventeen essays in this book address numerous questions of the boundaries between literature, film, and stage--and these have become essential to Oz scholarship. Together the essays explore the ways in which Oz tells us much about ourselves, our society, and our journeys.
Author : Antje Thiersch
Publisher : Galda & Wilch
ISBN 13 : 9783931397395
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (973 download)
Download or read book The Reality B(ey)ond written by Antje Thiersch and published by Galda & Wilch. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
