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Century Girl

Author : Lauren Redniss
Publisher : It Books
ISBN 13 : 9780062104885
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Century Girl written by Lauren Redniss and published by It Books. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ziegfeld Follies, Florenz Ziegfeld's stage spectaculars, promised the best performers, the most lavish sets, and the most ravishing girls. Doris Eaton Travis was one of these prized beauties–and, at 14, was chosen as the youngest chorus girl in the Follies. "Mine eyes are yet dim with the luminous beauty of a girl named Doris," one Chicago reviewer wrote. Doris Eaton Travis was the last living Ziegfeld girl. In her 106 years, she performed for presidents and princesses, entertained Gershwin, Lindbergh, and Astaire, starred in silent and talking pictures, bantered with Babe Ruth, offended Henry Ford, outlived six siblings, written a newspaper column, hosted a television show, earned a Phi Beta Kappa degree in history, raised turkeys, and raced horses. In 2010, she performed on Broadway, returned home to Detroit and two weeks later peacefully passed away. Century Girl is a visual tour of this extraordinary woman's journey through life.

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Margaret Fuller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman in the Nineteenth Century written by Margaret Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Future Girl

Author : Anita Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135938725
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Future Girl written by Anita Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita Harris creates a realistic portrait of the "new girl" that has appeared in the twenty-first century--she may still play with Barbie, but she is also likely to play soccer or basketball, be assertive and may even be sexually aware, if not active. Building on this new definition, Harris explores the many key areas central to the lives of girls from a global perspective, such as girlspace, schools, work, aggression, sexuality and power.

Twentieth-century Girl

Author : Carol Drinkwater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439999410
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Girl written by Carol Drinkwater and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 22 DEcember 1899 Time is marching forward, carrying us over the threshold and pitching us willy nilly, into a new century. The prospect of growing up in that unexplored territory is so thrilling that I fancy, if I close my eyes tight, I can almost see the process taking place! A day slips away like sand in a sand glass and then another day dawns and so we are caught up in this inevitable passage towards 1900. I bought a journal and have begun to transfer all my scribblings of the last few days into it. I shall call it 'Twentieth Century Girl', for that is what I intend to be!

Stuck on Earth

Author : Marilyn Sadler
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307800229
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Stuck on Earth written by Marilyn Sadler and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 21st Century #4 Meet Zenon Kar. She’s your typical elementary school kid, except she lives on a space station in 2049! In book #4, Zenon’s teacher, Mr. Peres, leads her fifth-grade class on a very special field trip off of Space Station 9. But when she gets separated from the group, Zenon finds out what it’s like to be stuck on Earth! The Zenon books are written and illustrated by the award-winning husband and wife team who created P.J. Funnybunny and Alistair.

Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag

Author : Julia S. Jordan-Zachery
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816539537
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag written by Julia S. Jordan-Zachery and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hashtag or trademark, personal or collective expression, #BlackGirlMagic is an articulation of the resolve of Black women and girls to triumph in the face of structural oppressions. The online life of #BlackGirlMagic insists on the visibility of Black women and girls as aspirational figures. But while the notion of Black girl magic spreads in cyberspace, the question remains: how is Black girl magic experienced offline? The essays in this volume move us beyond social media. They offer critical analyses and representations of the multiplicities of Black femmes’, girls’, and women’s lived experiences. Together the chapters demonstrate how Black girl magic is embodied by four elements enacted both on- and offline: building community, challenging dehumanizing representations, increasing visibility, and offering restorative justice for violence. Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag shows how Black girls and women foster community, counter invisibility, engage in restorative acts, and create spaces for freedom. Intersectional and interdisciplinary, the contributions in this volume bridge generations and collectively push the boundaries of Black feminist thought.

Zenon

Author : Marilyn Sadler
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780689805141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Zenon written by Marilyn Sadler and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because Zenon creates trouble at her space station home somewhere in the Milky Way, her parents send her to her grandparent's farm on Earth to work for the summer.

Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Nazera Sadiq Wright
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025209901X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century written by Nazera Sadiq Wright and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. Nazera Sadiq Wright uses heavy archival research on a wide range of texts about African American girls to explore this understudied phenomenon. As Wright shows, the figure of the black girl in African American literature provided a powerful avenue for exploring issues like domesticity, femininity, and proper conduct. The characters' actions, however fictional, became a rubric for African American citizenship and racial progress. At the same time, their seeming dependence and insignificance allegorized the unjust treatment of African Americans. Wright reveals fascinating girls who, possessed of a premature knowing and wisdom beyond their years, projected a courage and resiliency that made them exemplary representations of the project of racial advance and citizenship.

Girl in the Curl

Author : Andrea Gabbard
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580050487
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Girl in the Curl written by Andrea Gabbard and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2000-12-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the achievements of female surfers and the impact they have had on the sport over the last one hundred years.

All-American Girl

Author : Frances B. Cogan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820337943
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book All-American Girl written by Frances B. Cogan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our image of nineteenth-century American women is generally divided into two broad classifications: victims and revolutionaries. This divide has served the purposes of modern feminists well, allowing them to claim feminism as the only viable role model for women of the nineteenth century. In All-American Girl, however, Frances B. Cogan identifies amid these extremes a third ideal of femininity: the “Real Woman.” Cogan's Real Woman exists in advice books and manuals, as well as in magazine short stories whose characters did not dedicate their lives to passivity or demand the vote. Appearing in the popular reading of middle-class America from 1842 to 1880, these women embodied qualities that neither the “True Women”—conventional ladies of leisure—nor the early feminists fully advocated, such as intelligence, physical fitness, self sufficiency, economic self-reliance, judicious marriage, and a balance between self and family. Cogan's All-American Girl reveals a system of feminine values that demanded women be neither idle nor militant.

American Eve

Author : Paula Uruburu
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440629765
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book American Eve written by Paula Uruburu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scandalous story of America’s first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity—Evelyn Nesbit. By the time of her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was known to millions as the most photographed woman of her era, an iconic figure who set the standard for female beauty, and whose innocent sexuality was used to sell everything from chocolates to perfume. Women wanted to be her. Men just wanted her. But when Evelyn’s life of fantasy became all too real and her insanely jealous millionaire husband, Harry K. Thaw, murdered her lover, New York City architect Stanford White, the most famous woman in the world became infamous as she found herself at the center of the “Crime of the Century” and a scandal that signaled the beginning of a national obsession with youth, beauty, celebrity, and sex.

Girls' Education in the Twenty-first Century

Author : Mercy Tembon
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821374753
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Girls' Education in the Twenty-first Century written by Mercy Tembon and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Persuasive evidence demonstrates that gender equality in education is central to economic development. Despite more than two decades of accumulated knowledge and evidence of what works in improving gender equality, progress on the ground remains slow and uneven across countries. What is missing? Given that education is a critical path to accelerate progress toward gender equality and the empowerment of women, what is holding us back? These questions were discussed at the global symposium Education: A Critical Path to Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, which was sponsored by the World Bank in October 2007. Girls' Education in the 21st Century is based on background papers developed for the symposium. The book's chapters reflect the current state of knowledge on education from a gender perspective and highlight the importance of, and challenges to, female education, as well as the interdependence of education and development objectives. The last chapter presents five strategic directions for advancing gender equality in education and their implications for World Bank operations. Girls' Education in the 21st Century will be of particular interest to researchers, educators, school administrators, and policy makers at the global, national, regional, and municipal levels.

The New Female Antihero

Author : Sarah Hagelin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226816362
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The New Female Antihero written by Sarah Hagelin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Female Antihero examines the hard-edged spies, ruthless queens, and entitled slackers of twenty-first-century television. The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Sarah Hagelin and Gillian Silverman zoom in on a key figure in this transformation: the archetype of the female antihero. Far from the sunny, sincere, plucky persona once demanded of female characters, the new female antihero is often selfish and deeply unlikeable. In this entertaining and insightful study, Hagelin and Silverman explore the meanings of this profound change in the role of women characters. In the dramas of the new millennium, they show, the female antihero is ambitious, conniving, even murderous; in comedies, she is self-centered, self-sabotaging, and anti-aspirational. Across genres, these female protagonists eschew the part of good girl or role model. In their rejection of social responsibility, female antiheroes thus represent a more profound threat to the status quo than do their male counterparts. From the devious schemers of Game of Thrones, The Americans, Scandal, and Homeland, to the joyful failures of Girls, Broad City, Insecure, and SMILF, female antiheroes register a deep ambivalence about the promises of liberal feminism. They push back against the myth of the modern-day super-woman—she who “has it all”—and in so doing, they give us new ways of imagining women’s lives in contemporary America.

21st Century Goddess

Author : Jessica Adams
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0552150711
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book 21st Century Goddess written by Jessica Adams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect introduction to mind, body and spirit for a younger female audience. This is the ultimate guide to all the things a girl needs to know to bring out her inner goddess. It spells out the nine key elements of popular spirituality and shows you how to put them to use in your everyday life. Written by the Charlie's Angels of the New Age, this book will help you decide: - What to wear - How to choose the right man - Decorate your bedroom - Mix potions for love, happiness and success - Make sense of your dreams - Boost your luck and lower your stress levels - Harness your psychic energy - And, how to throw a Fabulous Goddess Party. Chapters include Chakras and Auras; Magic and Rituals; Dreams: Crystals and Remedies; Astrology; Numerology; Psychic Power; Angels and Goddesses; and Mind Miracles.

Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman

Author : Matilda Rabinowitz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501712128
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman written by Matilda Rabinowitz and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matilda Rabinowitz’s illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. Rabinowitz devoted her labor and commitment to the notion that women should feel entitled to independence, equal rights, equal pay, and sexual and personal autonomy. Rabinowitz (1887–1963) immigrated to the United States from Ukraine at the age of thirteen. Radicalized by her experience in sweatshops, she became an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917 before choosing single motherhood in 1918. "Big Bill" Haywood once wrote, "a book could be written about Matilda," but her memoir was intended as a private story for her grandchildren, Robbin Légère Henderson among them. Henderson’s black-and white-scratchboard drawings illustrate Rabinowitz’s life in the Pale of Settlement, the journey to America, political awakening and work as an organizer for the IWW, a turbulent romance, and her struggle to support herself and her child.

Vénus Noire

Author : Robin Mitchell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354333
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Vénus Noire written by Robin Mitchell and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country’s postrevolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewelry fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonization of Jeanne Duval, longtime lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France’s need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

Love and Dating in the 21st Century

Author : Rebecca Lynn Pope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998753928
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Love and Dating in the 21st Century written by Rebecca Lynn Pope and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a woman of faith that desires true love and marriage? Are you a bit confused by men and dating in our current times? Or maybe you are frustrated and feel like giving up on love? In Love and Dating in the 21st Century, Matchmaker Rebecca Lynn Pope gets raw and real about why relationships have become so complicated and how you can successfully navigate dating and love. As a Matchmaker and President of the Pope Agency, Rebecca has years of experience matching, coaching, and listening to men from all walks of life. As the founder of Godly Girls, a global organization for women of faith, she knows and understands the struggle that good women have with dating in today's times. Rebecca shares her own love story along with her numerous dating experiences. In these pages, you'll discover:*Why you can't afford to date like your mother and grandmother*Why dating and love have become so complicated*How to be more strategic and intentional about love*How to vet and qualify men for compatibility and marriage*How you can be "Dating and Waiting" at the same timeIf you are ready to learn how to truly position yourself for love, this book is for you.