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Book Synopsis Needlework and Women’s Identity in Colonial Australia by : Lorinda Cramer
Download or read book Needlework and Women’s Identity in Colonial Australia written by Lorinda Cramer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not buy gentility. Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia explores how the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who migrated to the newly formed colony of Victoria used their needle skills as a powerful claim to social standing. Focusing on one of women's most common daily tasks, the book examines how needlework's practice and products were vital in the contest for social position in the turmoil of the first two decades of the Victorian rush from 1851. Placing women firmly at the center of colonial history, it explores how the needle became a tool for stitching together identity. From decorative needlework to household making and mending, women's sewing was a vehicle for establishing, asserting, and maintaining social status. Interdisciplinary in scope, Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia draws on material culture, written primary sources, and pictorial evidence, to create a rich portrait of the objects and manners that defined genteel goldfields living. Giving voice to women's experiences and positioning them as key players in the fabric of gold-rush society, this volume offers a fresh critical perspective on gender and textile history.
Book Synopsis Free Women Of Petersburg by : Suzanne Lebsock
Download or read book Free Women Of Petersburg written by Suzanne Lebsock and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1985-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, which has important implications for our vision of the female past, Suzanne Lebsock examines the question, Did the position of women in America deteriorate or improve in the first half of the nineteenth century? Focusing on Petersburg, Virginia, Professor Lebsock is able to demonstrate and explain how the status of women could change for the better in an antifeminist environment. She weaves the experiences of individual women together with general social trends, to show, for example, how women's lives were changing in response to the economy and the institutions of property ownership and slavery. By looking at what the Petersburg women did and thought and comparing their behavior with that of men, Lebsock discovers that they placed high value on economic security, on the personal, on the religious, and on the interests of other women. In a society committed to materialism, male dominance, and the maintenance of slavery, their influence was subversive. They operated from an alternative value system, indeed a distinct female culture.
Book Synopsis We Mean to Be Counted by : Elizabeth R. Varon
Download or read book We Mean to Be Counted written by Elizabeth R. Varon and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth Varon effectively challenges such historical assumptions. Using a wide array of sources, she demonstrates that throughout the antebellum period, white Southern women of the slaveholding class were important actors in the public drama of politics. Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions, presence at political meetings and rallies, and published appeals, Virginia's elite white women lent their support to such controversial reform enterprises as the temperance movement and the American Colonization Society, to the electoral campaigns of the Whig and Democratic Parties, to the literary defense of slavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, these women struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both as partisans who boldly expressed their political views and as mediators who infused public life with the "feminine" virtues of compassion and harmony.
Book Synopsis Minutes of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends Held at Richmond, Ind by : Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1828- )
Download or read book Minutes of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends Held at Richmond, Ind written by Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1828- ) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Jewish Year Book by : Cyrus Adler
Download or read book American Jewish Year Book written by Cyrus Adler and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for 1900/1901- include report of the 12th- year of the Jewish Publication Society of America, 1890-1900- (issued also separately in some years); issues for 1908/1909- include Report of the American Jewish Committee for 1906/1908- (issued also separately in some years); issues for include American Jewish Committee. Proceedings of the annual meeting.
Book Synopsis Burying the Dead but Not the Past by : Caroline E. Janney
Download or read book Burying the Dead but Not the Past written by Caroline E. Janney and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were peripheral to the Lost Cause movement until the 1890s, Caroline Janney restores these women as the earliest creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition. Long before national groups such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the United Daughters of the Confederacy were established, Janney shows, local LMAs were earning sympathy for defeated Confederates. Her exploration introduces new ways in which gender played a vital role in shaping the politics, culture, and society of the late nineteenth-century South.
Book Synopsis Clothing, Society and Culture in Nineteenth-Century England, Volume 3 by : Clare Rose
Download or read book Clothing, Society and Culture in Nineteenth-Century England, Volume 3 written by Clare Rose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent times clothing has come to be seen as a topic worthy of study, yet there has been little source material available. This three-volume edition presents previously unpublished documents which illuminate key developments and issues in clothing in nineteenth-century England.
Book Synopsis A Time for Gathering by : Hasia R. Diner
Download or read book A Time for Gathering written by Hasia R. Diner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diner describes this "second wave" of Jewish migration and challenges many long-held assumptions--particularly the belief that the immigrants' Judaism erodes in the middle class comfort of Victorian America.
Book Synopsis Minutes of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends by :
Download or read book Minutes of Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Records of the Synod of Virginia, Presbyterian Church in the United States by : Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Synods. Virginia
Download or read book Records of the Synod of Virginia, Presbyterian Church in the United States written by Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Synods. Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women and American Judaism by : Pamela Susan Nadell
Download or read book Women and American Judaism written by Pamela Susan Nadell and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New portrayals of the religious lives of American Jewish women from colonial times to the present.
Book Synopsis Stealing Mona Lisa by : Carson Morton
Download or read book Stealing Mona Lisa written by Carson Morton and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting? Charming Eduardo de Valfierno leads a comfortable life in Argentina, skillfully duping the nouveau riche with his unique brand of fraud. He offers them theft of priceless art, delivering instead impeccable forgeries. When an unexpected encounter with the enchanting Mrs. Hart pushes him into unfamiliar territory, he returns to the city he once loved but had to abandon–Paris. There, he must assemble his team for their greatest and most audacious heist yet: the Mona Lisa. This riveting narrative takes you deep into the heart of early 20th century Paris, its art world, and the legendary Louvre Museum. As the plot thickens with a team member disappearing and Mr. Hart's shadow looming in Paris, the crew must navigate unforeseen challenges and their own vulnerabilities to stay ahead. Inspired by the real-life theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911, Stealing Mona Lisa captures the imagination with a blend of historical truth, mystery, and heart-stopping suspense that will leave you guessing till the very end.
Book Synopsis Women, Culture, and Community by : Elizabeth Hayes Turner
Download or read book Women, Culture, and Community written by Elizabeth Hayes Turner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-11 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries did middle- and upper-class southern women-black and white-advance from the private worlds of home and family into public life, eventually transforming the cultural and political landscape of their community? Using Galveston as a case study, Elizabeth Hayes Turner asks who where the women who became activists and eventually led to progressive reforms and the women sufferage movement. Turner discovers that a majority of them came from particular congregations, but class status had as much to do with reofrm as did religious motivation. The Hurricane of 1900, disfranchisement of black voters, and the creation of city commission government gave white women the leverage they needed to fight for a women's agenda for the city. Meanwhile, African American women, who were excluded from open civic association with whites, created their own organizations, implemented their own goals, and turned their energies to resisting and alleviating the numbing effects of racism. Separately white and black women created their own activist communities. Together, however, they changed the face of this New South city. Based on an exhaustive database of membership in community organizations compiled by the author from local archives, Women, Culture, and Community will appeal to students of race relations in the post-Reconstruction South, women's history, and religious history.
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the Archivist by : University of Virginia. Library
Download or read book Annual Report of the Archivist written by University of Virginia. Library and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Wright's Australian and American Commercial Directory and Gazetteer by :
Download or read book Wright's Australian and American Commercial Directory and Gazetteer written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 2078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Reading Women by : Heidi Brayman Hackel
Download or read book Reading Women written by Heidi Brayman Hackel and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1500, as many as 99 out of 100 English women may have been illiterate, and girls of all social backgrounds were the objects of purposeful efforts to restrict their access to full literacy. Three centuries later, more than half of all English and Anglo-American women could read, and the female reader was emerging as a cultural ideal and a market force. While scholars have written extensively about women's reading in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and about women's writing in the early modern period, they have not attended sufficiently to the critical transformation that took place as female readers and their reading assumed significant cultural and economic power. Reading Women brings into conversation the latest scholarship by early modernists and early Americanists on the role of gender in the production and consumption of texts during this expansion of female readership. Drawing together historians and literary scholars, the essays share a concern with local specificity and material culture. Removing women from the historically inaccurate frame of exclusively solitary, silent reading, the authors collectively return their subjects to the activities that so often coincided with reading: shopping, sewing, talking, writing, performing, and collecting. With chapters on samplers, storytelling, testimony, and translation, the volume expands notions of reading and literacy, and it insists upon a rich and varied narrative that crosses disciplinary boundaries and national borders.
