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Author : Mary Lavin
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 : 9780452250482
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (54 download)
Download or read book The Becker Wives written by Mary Lavin and published by Plume. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Lavin
Publisher : London : Michael Joseph
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Becker Wives, & Other Stories written by Mary Lavin and published by London : Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1946 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joanna M. Williams
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399014811
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Great Miss Lydia Becker written by Joanna M. Williams and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years before women were enfranchised, a legal loophole allowed a thousand women to vote in the general election of 1868. This surprising event occurred due to the feisty and single-minded dedication of Lydia Becker, the acknowledged, though unofficial, leader of the women's suffrage movement in the later 19th century. Brought up in a middle-class family as the eldest of fifteen children, she broke away from convention, remaining single and entering the sphere of men by engaging in politics. Although it was considered immoral for a woman to speak in public, Lydia addressed innumerable audiences, not only on women's votes, but also on the position of wives, female education and rights at work. She battled grittily to gain academic education for poor girls, and kept countless supporters all over Britain and beyond abreast of the many campaigns for women's rights through her publication, the Women's Suffrage Journal. Steamrollering her way to Parliament as chief lobbyist for women, she influenced MPs in a way that no woman, and few men, had done before. In the 1860s the idea of women's suffrage was compared in the Commons to persuading dogs to dance; it was dismissed as ridiculous and unnatural. By the time of Lydia's death in 1890 there was an acceptance that the enfranchisement of women would soon happen. The torch was picked up by a woman she had inspired as a teenager, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Lydia's younger colleague on the London committee, Millicent Fawcett. And the rest is history.
Author : James Acheson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349215228
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book The British and Irish Novel Since 1960 written by James Acheson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-09-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection survey the work of some of the most important British and Irish novelists of today. They not only consider afresh the work of novelists who established their reputations before 1960, such as Doris Lessing and William Golding; they also discuss the work of more recent novelists, among them Kazuo Ishiguro, Angela Carter and Graham Swift. The contributors are drawn from various parts of the English-speaking world, and provide a variety of original perspectives on the novelists concerned.
Author : Leah B. Becker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Biographical History of the Becker Family written by Leah B. Becker and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valentine Becker and his three brothers (George, Conrad and Michael) immigrated in 1737 to America. Valentine settled in Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1738, and died after 1795.
Author : Heather Ingman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108654584
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature written by Heather Ingman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comprehensive survey of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. It covers literature in all genres, including poetry, drama, and fiction, as well as life-writing and unpublished writing, and addresses work in both English and Irish. The chapters are authored by leading experts in their field, giving readers an introduction to cutting edge research on each period and topic. Survey chapters give an essential historical overview, and are complemented by a focus on selected topics such as the short story, and key figures whose relationship to the narrative of Irish literary history is analysed and reconsidered. Demonstrating the pioneering achievements of a huge number of many hitherto neglected writers, A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature makes a critical intervention in Irish literary history.
Author : Jo Becker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143127233
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Forcing the Spring written by Jo Becker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year | A Washington Post Best Book of the Year “[A] riveting legal drama, a snapshot in time, when the gay rights movement altered course and public opinion shifted with the speed of a bullet train... Becker’s most remarkable accomplishment is to weave a spellbinder of a tale that, despite a finale reported around the world, manages to keep readers gripped until the very end.” - The Washington Post A groundbreaking work of reportage by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jo Becker, Forcing the Spring is the definitive account of five remarkable years in American civil rights history, when the United States experienced a tectonic shift on the issue of marriage equality. Focusing on the historic legal challenge of California’s ban on same-sex marriage, Becker offers a gripping, behind-the scenes narrative told with the lightning pace of a great legal thriller. Taking the reader from the Oval Office to the Supreme Court ruling, from state-by-state campaigns to an astounding shift in national public opinion, Forcing the Spring is political and legal journalism at its finest.
Author : Hans-Peter Blossfeld
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400710658
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Who Marries Whom? written by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage and social inequality are closely interrelated. Marriage is dependent on the structure of marriage markets, and marriage patterns have consequences for social inequality. This book demonstrates that in most modern societies the educa tional system has become an increasingly important marriage market, particularly for those who are highly qualified. Educational expansion in general and the rising educational participation of women in particular unintentionally have increased the rate of "assortative meeting" and assortative mating across birth cohorts. Rising educational homogamy means that social inequality is further enhanced through marriage because better (and worse) educated single men and women pool their economic and sociocultural advantages (and disadvantages) within couples. In this book we study the changing role of the educational system as a marriage market in modern societies from a cross-national comparative perspective. Using life-history data from a broad range of industrialized countries and longitudinal statistical models, we analyze the process of spouse selection in the life courses of single men and women, step by step. The countries included in this book vary widely in important characteristics such as demographic behavior and institutional characteristics. The life course approach explicitly recognizes the dynamic nature of partner decisions, the importance of educational roles and institutional circum stances as young men and women move through their life paths, and the cumulation of advantages and disadvantages experienced by individuals.
Author : Jacek Tittenbrun
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351526952
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Concepts of Capital written by Jacek Tittenbrun and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borrowing terminology from the economic discipline?specifically the concept of "capital"?has led to an abundance of new terms in the social sciences: human capital, social capital, and cultural capital, to name the most prominent representatives on an ever-growing list. In this interdisciplinary transaction, the concept is borrowed and the original meaning extended until the new concepts often have nothing left in common with their initial referents.Here Jacek Tittenbrun offers a critical analysis of human, social, and cultural capital on the basis of their uses and misuses across a wide range of social sciences, simultaneously revealing the source of conceptual diffusion in the real world. He presents a two-pronged analysis of an intellectual fashion popular in the social sciences and offers a critical analysis of a range of concepts constructed around the common core of "capital." The analysis is innovative, as it is underpinned by a theoretical framework rooted in economic sociology and the concept of ownership in particular. The approach is one of the sociology of knowledge coupled with a substantive critique-application of the given concepts.The volume reveals a range of processes in the real world that account for the conceptual diffusion. The general reader will be drawn to the discussion in the second half of the book, a study of a variety of relatable real life situations that illuminate privatization and commodification in our lives.
Author : Richard F. Peterson
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mary Lavin written by Richard F. Peterson and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological study of Lavin's major themes and techniques illuminates significant changes in her art as well as her portrayal of the Irish middle class and the devastating effects of loneliness and death.
Author : Liam Harte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191071056
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction written by Liam Harte and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction presents authoritative essays by thirty-five leading scholars of Irish fiction. They provide in-depth assessments of the breadth and achievement of novelists and short story writers whose collective contribution to the evolution and modification of these unique art forms has been far out of proportion to Ireland's small size. The volume brings a variety of critical perspectives to bear on the development of modern Irish fiction, situating authors, texts, and genres in their social, intellectual, and literary historical contexts. The Handbook's coverage encompasses an expansive range of topics, including the recalcitrant atavisms of Irish Gothic fiction; nineteenth-century Irish women's fiction and its influence on emergent modernism and cultural nationalism; the diverse modes of irony, fabulism, and social realism that characterize the fiction of the Irish Literary Revival; the fearless aesthetic radicalism of James Joyce; the jolting narratological experiments of Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien, and Máirtín Ó Cadhain; the fate of the realist and modernist traditions in the work of Elizabeth Bowen, Frank O'Connor, Seán O'Faoláin, and Mary Lavin, and in that of their ambivalent heirs, Edna O'Brien, John McGahern, and John Banville; the subversive treatment of sexuality and gender in Northern Irish women's fiction written during and after the Troubles; the often neglected genres of Irish crime fiction, science fiction, and fiction for children; the many-hued novelistic responses to the experiences of famine, revolution, and emigration; and the variety and vibrancy of post-millennial fiction from both parts of Ireland. Readably written and employing a wealth of original research, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Fiction illuminates a distinguished literary tradition that has altered the shape of world literature.
Author : R. M. Hayley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Biographies of Great and Famous Men and Women of the Present Period ... written by R. M. Hayley and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marvin B. Sussman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475753675
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Marriage and the Family written by Marvin B. Sussman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a thoroughgoing revision of the first edition of this classic text and reference, published by Plenum in 1987, the editors have assembled a distinguished group of contributors to address such topics as past, present, and future perspectives on family diversity; theory and methods of the family; changing family patterns and roles; the family and other institutions; and family dynamics and processes.
Author : Seamus Deane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108840868
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Small World written by Seamus Deane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of 200 years of Irish writing, this book offers analytic accounts of key Irish works and authors.
Author : Mary Lyndon Shanley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691215987
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England, 1850-1895 written by Mary Lyndon Shanley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the fields of political theory and history, this comprehensive study of Victorian reforms in marriage law reshapes our understanding of the feminist movement of that period. As Mary Shanley shows, Victorian feminists argued that justice for women would not follow from public rights alone, but required a fundamental transformation of the marriage relationship.
Author : Patricia Hollis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136247890
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Women in Public, 1850-1900 written by Patricia Hollis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembling a full and comprehensive collection of material which illustrates all aspects of the emergent women’s movement during the years 1850-1900, this fascinating book will prove invaluable to students of nineteenth century social history and women's studies, to those studying the Victorian novel and to sociologists. Women’s pamphlets and speeches, parliamentary debates and popular journalism, letters and memoirs, royal commissions and the leading reviews, are all used to document the conflicting images of women: ‘surplus women’ and the issue of emigration; women’s work and male hostility to it; the opening of education by Emily Davies; the claim to equity at law; the attack on the sexual double standard, led by Josephine Butler; women’s public service from philanthropy – exemplified in a Mary Carpenter or Louisa Twining or Octavia Hill – to local government; and finally women’s entry into politics led by Lydia Becker. The contents range from Caroline Norton on her battle for child custody in the 1830s to Annie Besant’s inspiration of the match-girl’s strike in 1888, and from W. T. Stead on child prostitution to Mrs Humphrey War’s Appeal against female suffrage in 1889. The book was originally published in 1979.
Author : Cheris Kramarae
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415920884
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women written by Cheris Kramarae and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a full list of entries and contributors, sample entries, and more, visit the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women website. Featuring comprehensive global coverage of women's issues and concerns, from violence and sexuality to feminist theory, the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women brings the field into the new millennium. In over 900 signed A-Z entries from US and Europe, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and the Middle East, the women who pioneered the field from its inception collaborate with the new scholars who are shaping the future of women's studies to create the new standard work for anyone who needs information on women-related subjects.
