Category: Women In History

By Alice Sheppard

ISBN-10: 0826314589

ISBN-13: 9780826314581

Tough traditional stereotypes of the political cartoonist, dozens of yankee ladies made cartoons advocating women's suffrage within the early 20th century. Their compelling and imaginitive cartoons, reinforced by means of newly confirmed paintings schooling for girls, offer incisive and bright commentaries on suffrage concerns. Sheppard interweaves histories of the political caricature and the suffrage flow with descriptions of the paintings and lives of in demand American ladies cartoonists. She examines the symbolism of the suffrage caricature, the original characteristics of cartoons created through girls, and relatives among those photographs and sleek feminist proposal. Her narrative is enlivened with over 200 examples of comic strip artwork, the results of vast examine in inner most and public collections. Cartooning for Suffrage will supply a vital framework in the event you could discover and combine those notable photographs into their paintings in historical past, artwork, politics, pop culture, and women's reviews.

By Barbara Ehrenreich

ISBN-10: 1400078008

ISBN-13: 9781400078004

A provocative new point of view on lady heritage, the heritage of yank medication and psychology, and the heritage of child-rearing in contrast to the other.

By Chris Enss

ISBN-10: 1493013920

ISBN-13: 9781493013920

 This choice of brief, action-filled tales of the previous West’s so much egregiously badly behaved lady outlaws, gamblers, soiled-doves, and different depraved ladies via  offers a glimpse into Western Women’s event that's much less sunbonnets and extra six-shooters. Pulling jointly tales of girls stuck within the acts of mayhem, distraction, homicide, and road theft, it's going to comprise recognized names like Belle Starr and massive nostril Kate, in addition to lesser recognized characters.

By Carmel Roulston, Celia Davies

ISBN-10: 0312233612

ISBN-13: 9780312233617

ISBN-10: 0333715128

ISBN-13: 9780333715123

ISBN-10: 0333760662

ISBN-13: 9780333760666

ISBN-10: 0333985397

ISBN-13: 9780333985397

Mainstream politics in Northern eire has now not been welcoming to ladies, yet many girls were found in group and voluntary corporations the place their contribution has been notable. This ebook examines 4 businesses (including the recently-formed Northern eire Women's Coalition) the place ladies were lively. It discusses the strategies and buildings created through those teams with a view to paintings democratically throughout modifications and argues that their reports are precious to the improvement of feminist debates on democracy and difference.

By Michael Rice

ISBN-10: 0203443284

ISBN-13: 9780203443286

ISBN-10: 0415154499

ISBN-13: 9780415154499

During this compelling advisor and sourcebook, popular writer and student Michael Rice introduces us to the population of old Egypt, permitting us to come across their global via their very own eyes. listed here are the good and the well-known, from Cleopatra to Tutankhamun, yet the following are also the grave-robber Amenwah, Nakht the gardener and Sebaster the hairdresser.The complete area of Egyptian existence is expressed in those pages. not just are there approximately one thousand biographies, there's additionally a bankruptcy on 'Encountering old Egyptians', sections on kingship and on faith, a chronology, a word list and maps. a mixture of erudite scholarship and a transparent and available type, this quantity opens up the realm of the traditional Egyptians to all people with an curiosity within the topic in a fashion that hasn't ever been performed prior to.

By Rebecca Rogers

ISBN-10: 0804784310

ISBN-13: 9780804784313

By Deborah Siegel (auth.)

ISBN-10: 0230605060

ISBN-13: 9780230605060

ISBN-10: 140398204X

ISBN-13: 9781403982049

Contrary to clichés in regards to the finish of feminism, Deborah Siegel argues that young women usually are not leaving behind the circulation yet reinventing it. After 40 years, is feminism this present day a tradition, or a reason? A move for private empowerment, or broad-scale social switch? Have girls completed equality, or will we nonetheless have a ways to go?

By Henry Sakaida

Osprey's exam of Soviet girls who fought in international conflict II (1939-1945). while the nice Patriotic conflict begun, many ladies volunteered for the militia, yet such a lot of them have been rejected. They have been recommended in the direction of nursing or different supportive roles. Many made up our minds ladies controlled to go into wrestle by way of first volunteering as box medics and nurses, then easily selecting up a gun through the conflict, and charging boldly into the road of fireside. within the zone of aviation, ladies additionally contributed significantly to the struggle attempt. In rickety biplanes, they flew bombing missions at evening, with no parachutes; their merely defense used to be the darkness. This ebook tells the tales of the courageous girls that have been provided the Soviet Union's so much prestigious identify - Hero of the Soviet Union - for his or her bravery in keeping their place of origin.

By Jane Mersky Leder

ISBN-10: 0275988791

ISBN-13: 9780275988791

ISBN-10: 0313056064

ISBN-13: 9780313056062

Thank you for the thoughts destroys the historic fable that younger women and men went concerning the company of warfare and stayed at the directly and slim course. particularly, international warfare II supplied new possibilities for sexual experimentation, for hasty marriages, for flourishing prostitution—and for romance connections that experience stood the attempt of time. younger males within the army, distant from kinfolk and residential, did issues they may by no means have performed. younger women, a lot of whom went to paintings for the 1st time, skilled a freedom and independence most girls had by no means identified. due to the conflict, courtships have been minimize brief, married extra fast than basic, and husbands and better halves have been frequently separated for a number of years. regardless of makes an attempt to come again to common after the warfare and the plain togetherness of the Nineteen Fifties, global warfare II had set swap in movement, heralding the second one wave of the women's liberation movement.The collective awareness of global conflict II revolved round the virtues of bravery, sacrifice, and dedication. contributors of the best new release toed political and social traces in hopes of successful the conflict. They fell into lockstep, asking only a few questions, and breaking few social and sexual mores. Or did they?In truth, global warfare II was—like all wars—a time of sexual experimentation and a normal loosening of morals. It used to be a time of conflicting feelings and conflicting messages, a time of significant sacrifice, and a time of discovery, whilst a few teams, in particular lady, skilled a calming of bonds that had saved them in cost. thank you For The thoughts: Love, intercourse, and international battle II the real tale of the way the realm battle II iteration spoke back to the passions of struggle, and the way these passions replaced their lives-and the relationships among the sexes-forever. yet this publication is greater than that. As Jane Mersky Leder writes, thank you for the thoughts opens the hearts and stories of a new release that's demise, through one estimate, on the expense of greater than 1,000 an afternoon. It exposes the sexual and romantic escapades of the best new release and underscores how these 4 warfare years revolutionized relationships (including these among gays), and the way it helped set the level for the second one wave of the women's liberation circulate. many that by no means idea their tales mattered, Leder writes, now think the pull of restricted time, and the significance of leaving a correct account for his or her teenagers and grandchildren of what it was once prefer to be a tender guy or younger lady in the course of global battle II. this can be their collective tale.

By Linda Greenlaw

ISBN-10: 0786866772

ISBN-13: 9780786866779

Declared a triumph via the hot York occasions ebook assessment, Linda Greenlaws first ebook, The Hungry Ocean, seemed on approximately each significant bestseller record within the nation. Now, taking a holiday from the swordfishing profession that earned her an enormous position within the excellent hurricane, Greenlaw returns to Isle au Hauta tiny Maine island with a inhabitants of 70 year-round citizens, 30 of whom are Greenlaws relatives.With a Clancy-esque expertise for interesting technical element and a Keillor-esque eye for the drama of small-town existence, Greenlaw bargains her tackle every thing from rediscovering domestic, love, and kinfolk to island characters and the right way to prepare dinner and serve a lobster. yet Greenlaw additionally explores the islands darker aspect, together with a sad boating coincidence and a century-old clash with a neighboring group. all through, Greenlaw keeps the straight-shooting, humorous, and a bit of scrappy sort that has received her such a lot of enthusiasts, and proves once more that fishermen are nonetheless the simplest storytellers round.