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A Thousand Sisters

Author : Elizabeth Wein
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062453041
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Sisters written by Elizabeth Wein and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist! The gripping true story of the only women to fly in combat in World War II—from Elizabeth Wein, award-winning author of Code Name Verity In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment—nicknamed the “night witches”—faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. Some of these young women perished in flames. Many of them were in their teens when they went to war. This is the story of Raskova’s three regiments, women who enlisted and were deployed on the front lines of battle as navigators, pilots, and mechanics. It is the story of a thousand young women who wanted to take flight to defend their country, and the woman who brought them together in the sky. Packed with black-and-white photographs, fascinating sidebars, and thoroughly researched details, A Thousand Sisters is the inspiring true story of a group of women who set out to change the world, and the sisterhood they formed even amid the destruction of war.

The Sisters Are Alright

Author : Tamara Winfrey Harris
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1626563535
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Sisters Are Alright written by Tamara Winfrey Harris and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves. When African women arrived on American shores, the three-headed hydra—servile Mammy, angry Sapphire, and lascivious Jezebel—followed close behind. In the '60s, the Matriarch, the willfully unmarried baby machine leeching off the state, joined them. These stereotypes persist to this day through newspaper headlines, Sunday sermons, social media memes, cable punditry, government policies, and hit song lyrics. Emancipation may have happened more than 150 years ago, but America still won't let a sister be free from this coven of caricatures. Tamara Winfrey Harris delves into marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more, taking sharp aim at pervasive stereotypes about black women. She counters warped prejudices with the straight-up truth about being a black woman in America. “We have facets like diamonds,” she writes. “The trouble is the people who refuse to see us sparkling.”

As Equals and as Sisters

Author : Nancy Schrom Dye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book As Equals and as Sisters written by Nancy Schrom Dye and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of the New York Women's Trade Union League's efforts to reach New York City's working women and interest them in unionization, to create an alliance of upper-class and working-class women, and to synthesize unionism and feminism into a viable program for improving the lives of New York City's women wage earners. It is an attempt to delineate the cultural, ideological, and tactical difficulties the WTUL encountered in its efforts to organize the city's working women and its ultimate disillusionment with the strategy of integrating women into male-dominated unions. Finally, this work is concerned with the league's transformation from a self-defined labor organization that downplayed women's special concerns in the work force into a women's reform organization that emphasized specifically female demands, namely, woman suffrage and protective labor legislation.

Sisters in the Brotherhoods

Author : J. LaTour
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230614078
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Sisters in the Brotherhoods written by J. LaTour and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sisters in the Brotherhoods is an oral-history-based study of women who have, against considerable odds, broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in various trades in New York City beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of the fight against deeply ingrained cultural assumptions about what constitutes women's work, the middle-class bias of feminism, the daily grinding sexism of male co-workers, and the institutionalised discrimination of employers and unions. It is also the story of some gutsy women who, seeking the material rewards and personal satisfactions of skilled manual labour, have struggled to make a place for themselves among New York City's construction workers, stationary engineers, firefighters, electronic technicians, plumbers, and transit workers. Each story contributes to an important unifying theme: the way women confronted the enormous sexism embedded in union culture and developed new organisational forms to support their struggles, including and especially the United Tradeswomen.

Hoffmann's Catholic Directory, Almanac and Clergy List

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Hoffmann's Catholic Directory, Almanac and Clergy List written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Metropolitan Catholic Almanac and Laity's Directory for the United States, Canada and the British Provinces

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metropolitan Catholic Almanac and Laity's Directory for the United States, Canada and the British Provinces written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age

Author : Carmen M. Mangion
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526140489
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age written by Carmen M. Mangion and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. It draws on archival materials and a remarkable set of eighty interviews to place Catholic sisters and nuns at the heart of the turbulent 1960s, integrating their story of social change into a larger British and international one. Shedding new light on how religious bodies engaged in modernisation, it addresses themes such as the Modern Girl and youth culture, ‘1968’, generational discourse, post-war modernity, the voluntary sector and the women’s movement. Women religious were at the forefront of the Roman Catholic Church’s movement of adaptation and renewal towards the world. This volume tells their stories in their own words.

Union Power

Author : James Young
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583676198
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Union Power written by James Young and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're lucky enough to be employed today in the United States, there's about a one-in-ten chance that you're in a labor union. And even if you’re part of that unionized 10 percent, chances are your union doesn't carry much economic or political clout. But this was not always the case, as historian and activist James Young shows in this vibrant story of the United Electrical Workers Union. The UE, built by hundreds of rank-and-file worker-activists in the quintessentially industrial town of Erie, Pennsylvania, was able to transform the conditions of the working class largely because it went beyond the standard call for living wages to demand quantum leaps in worker control over workplaces, community institutions, and the policies of the federal government itself. James Young's book is a richly empowering history told from below, showing that the collective efforts of the many can challenge the supremacy of the few. Erie's two UE locals confronted a daunting array of obstacles: the corporate superpower General Electric; ferocious red baiting; and later, the debilitating impact of globalization. Yet, by working through and across ethnic, gender, and racial divides, communities of people built a viable working-class base powered by real democracy. While the union's victories could not be sustained completely, the UE is still alive and fighting in Erie. This book is an exuberant and eloquent testament to this fight, and a reminder to every worker—employed or unemployed; in a union or out—that an injury to one is an injury to all.

Marching Together

Author : Melinda Chateauvert
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066368
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book Marching Together written by Melinda Chateauvert and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first book-length history of the women of the BSCP, Melinda Chateauvert brings to life an entire group of women ignored in previous histories of the Brotherhood and of working-class women, situating them in the debates among women's historians over the ways that race and class shape women's roles and gender relations. Chateauvert's work shows how the auxiliary, made up of the wives, daughters, and sisters of Pullman porters, used the Brotherhood to claim respectability and citizenship. Pullman maids, relegated to the auxiliary, found their problems as working women neglected in favor of the rhetoric of racial solidarity.

Manchester Directory and Advertiser Embracing the Names of the Citizens, a Business Directory and an Almanac & Memorandum

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manchester Directory and Advertiser Embracing the Names of the Citizens, a Business Directory and an Almanac & Memorandum written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Distant sisters

Author : James Keating
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526140977
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Distant sisters written by James Keating and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote. Buoyed by their victories, they promised to lead a global struggle for the expansion of women’s electoral rights. Charting the common trajectory of the colonial suffrage campaigns, Distant Sisters uncovers the personal and material networks that transformed feminist organising. Considering intimate and institutional connections, well-connected elites and ordinary women, this book argues developments in Auckland, Sydney, and Adelaide—long considered the peripheries of the feminist world—cannot be separated from its glamourous metropoles. Focusing on Antipodean women, simultaneously insiders and outsiders in the emerging international women’s movement, and documenting the failures of their expansive vision alongside its successes, this book reveals a more contingent history of international organising and challenges celebratory accounts of fin-de-siècle global connection.

Sisters

Author : John J. Fialka
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312325967
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Sisters written by John J. Fialka and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-01-19 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nuns became the nation's first cadre of independent, professional women. Some nursed, some taught, and many created and managed new charitable organizations, including large hospitals and colleges ... [This book] reveals the spiritual wealth that these women invested in America"--Back cover.

Official Proceedings ... Annual Convention

Author : New York State Federation of Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Official Proceedings ... Annual Convention written by New York State Federation of Labor and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Russia's Sisters of Mercy and the Great War

Author : Laurie S. Stoff
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700621253
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Russia's Sisters of Mercy and the Great War written by Laurie S. Stoff and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are war stories, filled with danger and deprivation, excitement and opportunity, sorrow and trauma, scandal and controversy—and because they are the war stories of nurses, they remain largely untold. Laurie Stoff's pioneering work brings the wartime experiences of Russia's "Sisters of Mercy" out of the shadows to show how these nurses of the Great War, far from merely binding wounds, provided vital services that put them squarely in traditionally "masculine" territory, both literally and figuratively While Russian nursing shared many features of women's medical service in other nations, it was in some ways profoundly different. Like soldiers and doctors, the nurses, especially those at the frontlines, experienced extreme cold, constant fatigue, infectious diseases, deadly artillery fire, and aerial bombardment. They also assumed public leadership roles and were often in command of men. The nurses operated in a sphere traditionally considered exclusively masculine and challenged social conventions surrounding gender and war by engaging in activities considered inappropriate for women. Filled with compelling eyewitness accounts of women who stepped outside their assigned roles in Russian society, this book gives us our first clear view of what wartime service was like for these nurses in the Great War. We learn firsthand—from memoirs and diaries, contemporary periodicals and reminiscences—about these women's motivations, the nature and specifics of their work, the cultural stereotypes and conventions that shaped their experiences, and their interactions with the men they cared for and served with. Stoff also explores the cultural and social implications of the Sisters' service—in relation to the government, the military, and the church—both immediate and long-term. The first up-close and in-depth study of Russia's nurses in the Great War, Stoff’s work restores a critical chapter to the historical narrative of the war, and to the larger history of gender and culture in early twentieth-century Russia.

Our Beloved Union

Author : Mary Regina Werntz
Publisher : Christian Classics, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Our Beloved Union written by Mary Regina Werntz and published by Christian Classics, Incorporated. This book was released on 1989 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the ... Convention

Author : Boot and Shoe Workers Union
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Convention written by Boot and Shoe Workers Union and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sisters in the Brotherhoods

Author : J. LaTour
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230614078
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Sisters in the Brotherhoods written by J. LaTour and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sisters in the Brotherhoods is an oral-history-based study of women who have, against considerable odds, broken the gender barrier to blue-collar employment in various trades in New York City beginning in the 1970s. It is a story of the fight against deeply ingrained cultural assumptions about what constitutes women's work, the middle-class bias of feminism, the daily grinding sexism of male co-workers, and the institutionalised discrimination of employers and unions. It is also the story of some gutsy women who, seeking the material rewards and personal satisfactions of skilled manual labour, have struggled to make a place for themselves among New York City's construction workers, stationary engineers, firefighters, electronic technicians, plumbers, and transit workers. Each story contributes to an important unifying theme: the way women confronted the enormous sexism embedded in union culture and developed new organisational forms to support their struggles, including and especially the United Tradeswomen.