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Virginia's Remarkable Women

Author : Emilee Hines
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493016067
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Virginia's Remarkable Women written by Emilee Hines and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Virginia become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? Virginia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History recognizes the women who shaped the Old Dominion. The lives of female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies. Discover fifteen extraordinary women from Virginia's past, including Pocahontas, Martha Washington, Dolley Madison, travel writer Anne Newport Royall, pioneering banker Maggie Lena Walker, Civil War spies Belle Boyd and Elizabeth Van Lew, and poet Anne Spencer.

Conversations with Remarkable Women

Author : Joy Brady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972892360
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Remarkable Women written by Joy Brady and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Virginia Women

Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820347418
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Women written by Cynthia A. Kierner and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection of seventeen essays, written by established and emerging scholars, recovers the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the seventeenth century through the Civil War era. Placing their subjects in their larger historical contexts, the authors show how the experiences of Virginia women varied by race, class, age, and marital status, and also across both space and time. Some essays examine the lives of well-known women—such as First Lady Dolley Madison—from a new perspective. Others introduce readers to relatively obscure historical figures: the convicted witch Grace Sherwood; the colonial printer Clementina Rind; Harriet Hemings, the enslaved daughter of Thomas Jefferson. Essays on the frontier heroine Mary Draper Ingles and the Civil War spy Elizabeth Van Lew examine the real women behind the legends. Altogether, the essays in this collection offer readers an engaging and personal window onto the experiences of women in the Old Dominion.

Virginia Women

Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780820342641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Women written by Cynthia A. Kierner and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays written by established and emerging scholars recover the stories and voices of a diverse group of women.

Remarkable Virginia Women

Author : Emilee Hines
Publisher : Falcon Guides
ISBN 13 : 9780762723645
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Remarkable Virginia Women written by Emilee Hines and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover 13 extraordinary women from Virginia's past, including Pocahontas; Martha Washington; Dolley Madison; travel writer Anne Newport Royall; pioneering banker Maggie Lena Walker; Civil War spies Belle Boyd and Elizabeth Van Lew; and poet Anne Spencer.

Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia, The

Author : Brent Tarter, Marianne E. Julienne & Barbara C. Batson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467144193
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia, The written by Brent Tarter, Marianne E. Julienne & Barbara C. Batson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920, Virginia's General Assembly refused to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to grant women the vote. Virginia's suffragists lost. Or did they? When the thirty-sixth state ratified the amendment, women gained voting rights across the nation. Virginia suffragists were a part of that victory, although their role has been nearly forgotten. They marched in parades, rallied at the state capitol, spoke to crowds on street corners, staffed booths at fairs, lobbied legislators, picketed the White House and even went to jail. The Campaign for Woman Suffrage in Virginia reveals how women created two statewide organizations to win the right to vote. At the centenary of the movement, these remarkable women can at last be recognized for their important contributions.

Why So Slow?

Author : Virginia Valian
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262720311
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Why So Slow? written by Virginia Valian and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999-01-07 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of men and women. Why do so few women occupy positions of power and prestige? Virginia Valian uses concepts and data from psychology, sociology, economics, and biology to explain the disparity in the professional advancement of men and women. According to Valian, men and women alike have implicit hypotheses about gender differences—gender schemas—that create small sex differences in characteristics, behaviors, perceptions, and evaluations of men and women. Those small imbalances accumulate to advantage men and disadvantage women. The most important consequence of gender schemas for professional life is that men tend to be overrated and women underrated. Valian's goal is to make the invisible factors that retard women's progress visible, so that fair treatment of men and women will be possible. The book makes its case with experimental and observational data from laboratory and field studies of children and adults, and with statistical documentation on men and women in the professions. The many anecdotal examples throughout provide a lively counterpoint.

Unwise Passions

Author : Alan Pell Crawford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 068483474X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Unwise Passions written by Alan Pell Crawford and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true story of sex, murder, and corruption in 18th century Virginia centers on Nancy Randolph, an attractive woman from a wealthy and socially prominent family, who lived with her sister and brother-in-law, Richard Randolph. After rumors that Nancy bore Richard's child, and that he killed the child, a trial ensued with Patrick Henry defending Richard. Maps and illustrations.

Virginia Woolf

Author : Gillian Gill
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328683958
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Gillian Gill and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her. How did Adeline Virginia Stephen become the great writer Virginia Woolf? Acclaimed biographer Gillian Gill tells the stories of the women whose legacies--of strength, style, and creativity--shaped Woolf's path to the radical writing that inspires so many today. Gill casts back to Woolf's French-Anglo-Indian maternal great-grandmother Thérèse de L'Etang, an outsider to English culture whose beauty passed powerfully down the female line; and to Woolf's aunt Anne Thackeray Ritchie, who gave Woolf her first vision of a successful female writer. Yet it was the women in her own family circle who had the most complex and lasting effect on Woolf. Her mother, Julia, and sistersStella, Laura, and Vanessa were all, like Woolf herself, but in markedly different ways, warped by the male-dominated household they lived in. Finally, Gill shifts the lens onto the famous Bloomsbury group. This, Gill convinces, is where Woolf called upon the legacy of the women who shaped her to transform a group of men--united in their love for one another and their disregard for women--into a society in which Woolf ultimately found her freedom and her voice.

Top 101 Remarkable Women

Author : Jeanne Nagle
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1622751264
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Top 101 Remarkable Women written by Jeanne Nagle and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 1900-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have faced oppression and gender inequality throughout history. Yet despite overwhelming odds stacked against them, there have always been a brave few who challenged the status quo and wound up making great strides in a wide variety of fields. From ancient times to the present day, women have broken down barriers and emerged as influential and important political leaders, activists, scientists, writers, artists, athletes, performers, and more. This volume chronicles the lives of many ground-breaking individuals—Cleopatra, Marie Curie, Amelia Earhart, Helen Keller, Harriet Tubman, and Oprah Winfrey among them—as well as the challenges they faced as they sought to improve the human condition.

The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail

Author : Karenne Wood
Publisher : Humanities Press International
ISBN 13 : 9780978660437
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Virginia Indian Heritage Trail written by Karenne Wood and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short guide to Virginia Indian tribes, archeology, museums, reservations, events, and historical figures. Includes maps.

Breaking Out

Author : Laura Fairchild Brodie
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307554880
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Out written by Laura Fairchild Brodie and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 26, 1996, the United States Supreme Court nullified the single-sex admissions policy of the Virginia Military Institute, the last all-male military college in America. Capturing the voices of female and male cadets, administrators, faculty, and alumni, Laura Brodie tells the story of the Institute's intense planning for the inclusion of women and the problems and triumphs of the first year of coeducation. Brodie takes us into the meetings where every aspect of life at VMI was analyzed from the per-spective of a woman's presence: housing, clothing, haircuts, dating, and the infamous "Ratline"—the months of physical exertion, minimal sleep, and verbal harassment to which entering cadets are subjected. Throughout the process the administration's aim was to integrate women successfully without making adjustments to VMI's physical standards or giving up its tradition of education under extreme stress. No other military college had done so much to prepare. But would it work? With everyone on the Post, we hold our breath as Brodie takes us through Hell Night, the unrelenting months of the Ratline, the fraternization, hazing, and authority issues that arose, the furtive sexual encounters, the resentments and, for the women, the daily difficulties of maintaining a feminine identity in a predominantly male world. Despite the challenges, we see the women ultimately making a place for themselves. Though new problems continue to arise, Brodie's lively and inspiring account makes it clear that VMI's story is an important and timely one of institutional transformation.

My Remarkable Journey

Author : Katherine Johnson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062897691
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book My Remarkable Journey written by Katherine Johnson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a century of turmoil and change. In 2015, at the age of 97, Katherine Johnson became a global celebrity. President Barack Obama awarded her the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom—the nation’s highest civilian honor—for her pioneering work as a mathematician on NASA’s first flights into space. Her contributions to America’s space program were celebrated in a blockbuster and Academy-award nominated movie. In this memoir, Katherine shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer. In her life after retirement, she served as a beacon of light for her family and community alike. Her story is centered around the basic tenets of her life—no one is better than you, education is paramount, and asking questions can break barriers. The memoir captures the many facets of this unique woman: the curious “daddy’s girl,” pioneering professional, and sage elder. This multidimensional portrait is also the record of a century of racial history that reveals the influential role educators at segregated schools and Historically Black Colleges and Universities played in nurturing the dreams of trailblazers like Katherine. The author pays homage to her mentor—the African American professor who inspired her to become a research mathematician despite having his own dream crushed by racism. Infused with the uplifting wisdom of a woman who handled great fame with genuine humility and great tragedy with enduring hope, My Remarkable Journey ultimately brings into focus a determined woman who navigated tough racial terrain with soft-spoken grace—and the unrelenting grit required to make history and inspire future generations.

Racism on Campus

Author : Stephen C. Poulson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000428672
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Racism on Campus written by Stephen C. Poulson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on content from yearbooks published by prominent colleges in Virginia, this book explores changes in race relations that have occurred at universities in the United States since the late 19th century. It juxtaposes the content published in predominantly White university yearbooks to that published by Howard University, a historically Black college. The study is a work of visual sociology, with photographs, line drawings and historical prints that provide a visual account of the institutional racism that existed at these colleges over time. It employs Bonilla-Silva’s concept of structural racism to shed light on how race ordered all aspects of social life on campuses from the period of post-Civil War Reconstruction to the present. It examines the lives of the Black men and women who worked at these schools and the racial attitudes of the White men and women who attended them. As such, Racism on Campus will appeal to scholars of sociology, history and anthropology with interests in race, racism and visual methods.

A Woman of No Importance

Author : Sonia Purnell
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349010153
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book A Woman of No Importance written by Sonia Purnell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A METICULOUS HISTORY THAT READS LIKE A THRILLER' BEN MACINTYRE, TEN BEST BOOKS TO READ ABOUT WORLD WAR II An astounding story of heroism, spycraft, resistance and personal triumph over shocking adversity. 'A rousing tale of derring-do' THE TIMES * 'Riveting' MICK HERRON * 'Superb' IRISH TIMES THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon, Vichy France. Her papers say she is a journalist. Her wooden leg is disguised by a determined gait and a distracting beauty. She is there to spark the resistance. By 1942 Virginia Hall was the Gestapo's most urgent target, having infiltrated Vichy command, trained civilians in guerrilla warfare and sprung soldiers from Nazi prison camps. The first woman to go undercover for British SOE, her intelligence changed the course of the war - but her fight was still not over. This is a spy history like no other, telling the story of the hunting accident that disabled her, the discrimination she fought and the secret life that helped her triumph over shocking adversity. 'A cracking story about an extraordinarily brave woman' TELEGRAPH 'Gripping ... superb ... a rounded portrait of a complicated, resourceful, determined and above all brave woman' IRISH TIMES WINNER of the PLUTARCH AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHY

Nevada's Remarkable Women

Author : Jan Cleere
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493015842
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Nevada's Remarkable Women written by Jan Cleere and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the compelling histories of fifteen pioneer women, all born before 1900, who traveled Nevada Territory in unstable wagons, on temperamental mules, and in early Motel Ts to leave a legacy of courage and celebration as they broke records, hearts, and rules while conquering uncharted ground. Meet Ferminia Sarras, a Nicaraguan immigrant with four young daughters who arrived in Nevada in the early 1800s determined to seek her fortune as a miner . . . and succeeded; Dat so la lee, a Washoe Indian renowned for her basket-weaving artistry whose work is today preserved in museums; and Anne Henrietta Martin, a lifelong suffragette who fought for women's rights and was instrumental in securing the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote.

Library of Luminaries: Jane Austen

Author : Zena Alkayat
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452157944
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Library of Luminaries: Jane Austen written by Zena Alkayat and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the stories behind the stories in this treasurable illustrated biography of Jane Austen. Enchanting illustrations and handwritten text featuring excerpts from Austen's personal letters outline the intimate details of the literary icon's life—her childhood on a farm, the writing of her first novella, her marital woes, the inspiration behind Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, and more. Brimming with delightful details like the objects Austen kept on her desk and how much Emma originally sold for, this beautiful ebook is a lovely new way to celebrate Austen's legacy.