Twee Pools-joodse broertjes nemen hun tinnen soldaatjes mee naar het concentratiekamp Bergen-Belsen.

Over zwanger zijn en moeder worden De geboorte- en moederbundels van Daphne Deckers zijn al jaren verplichte kost voor iedere aanstaande moeder. Geen enkele auteur wist de afgelopen jaren de gevoelens van de aanstaande moeder zo perfect te verwoorden. Honderd¬duizenden vrouwen herkenden in het werk van Daphne veel van hun eigen twijfels, problemen en verwachtingen. In De geboorte van een moeder beschrijft Daphne Deckers op openhartige wijze haar ervaringen met zwanger zijn en moeder worden. De geboorte van een moeder is meer dan een persoonlijk verslag, het bevat ook veel praktische informatie en handige tips voor de zwangerschap en de kraamtijd. 'Het is een persoonlijk, soms humoristisch verhaal waarin je tussendoor ook allerlei medische informatie krijgt.' - V r i e n d i n

Chronicles the remarkable friendship between reclusive, unconventional poet Emily Dickinson and Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a radical abolitionist, reformer, and writer, who became responsible for the publication of her poetry after her death, a relationship that that they carried on through their correspondence for more than twenty years. 20,000 first printing.

In this eclectic collection of essays, distinguished scholars from different and specialized disciplines discuss aspects of sex, gender, and gender and society. In his contribution to this series of essays on Gender and Society, Peter Goodfellow states, 'sex, the biological separation intomale and female, is controlled by DNA and is determined by DNA. Gender, the arbitrary social division between masculine and feminine, is a social construct that involves interaction between an individual and society.' The definition of gender offered by Goodfellow is cogently developed by GermaineGreer in her essay on women as victims of rapeDSone of the newest and most controversial aspects of modern criminology. Susan Watkins suggests that the understanding of gender has influenced the analysis of population change, the efforts by activists to ensure reductions in fertility internationally,and the acceptance of birth control in local communities in Kenya. This analysis is complimented by Michele Le Doeuff in a discussion of the complex interplay between reduced fertility, increased literacy, and the function of work in the 'everyday life of every woman whatever her social class orlevel of education.' The question of how the sexes differ in their perception and processing of information about their external world is tackled by Lucia Jacobs within a biological and evolutionary context. She proposes that sexual selection should be given credit for the rapid evolution of ourunique abilities and complex culture concluding that 'it is the female that is the smaller, the "ecological" sex, best adapted to survive in the ecological niche of the species, and it is the male who carries the heavier burden or handicap of sexual selection, his fitness dependent on arbitrarytraits that reduce his competitive ability as a human being, although they are all too necessary for his competitive ability as a man.' The contribution of the sociobiologist Sarah Hrdy focussed on sexual selection, drawing on a wide range of research on the physiological and behavioural responsesof subhuman primates but, appropriately, drawing her inspiration from Spencer's own writings on physical beauty and its consequences for posterity. The chapters in this book were originally delivered as The Herbert Spencer Lectures in 1995 at Oxford University.

Adelaide Proctor (1825-1864) is one of the most important 19th-century women poets to be assessed by literary critics in recent years. She was a significant figure in the victorian literary landscape. A poet (who outsold most writers bar Tennyson), a philanthropist and a Roman Catholic convert, Procter committed herself to the cause of single, fallen and homeless women.

This innovative, ethnographic study of a neighborhood beauty salon investigates how customers constitute a lively, affirming community of peers during their weekly visits. Facing the Mirror gives voice to older women, who, in a sexist and ageist society, are frequently devalued and rendered invisible. These older, mostly Jewish women articulate their experiences of bodily self-presentation, femininity, aging, and caring pertaining to their lives within and outside Julie's International Salon. This book explores the socio-moral significance of these experiences which reveals as much about society as about older women themselves. Women's narratives expose structures of power, inequality, and resistance in the ways women perceive reality, make choices and live in their worlds.

Duitse editie van Nederlands origineel met z-w en kleurenfoto's van interieurs en exterieurs.

This volume is the catalog to an exhibition to be held at the Staedtische Galerie Dresden, which will feature Penck's works from a large private collection. It features nearly 500 illustrations from the 1950s when Penck first began his artistic career to 1980 when he emigrated from East Germany. Born Ralf Winkler in 1939, Penck witnessed the bombing of his hometown of Dresden in 1945. The shockwaves of that experience can be sensed through his dramatic and bold works. For years Penck practiced his art "underground," away from the intrusive eyes of the Communist regime that were sensitive to the artist's use of symbolism and archetypes. As these restrictions loosened in the 1980s, Penck allowed himself to create larger, more gestural and figurative paintings. This evolution, from the "unspoken" to the overt, becomes evident in this volume, which includes beautifully reproduced images of his paintings, drawings, and prints, and provides audiences with a fuller understanding of the underlying themes of this highly regarded artist.

Anne Frank hield van 12 juni 1942 tot 1 augustus 1944 een dagboek bij. In maart 1945 stierf ze op vijftienjarige leeftijd in het concentratiekamp Bergen-Belsen. De enige overlevende van de familie, Annes vader Otto Frank, zorgde ervoor dat het dagboek gepubliceerd werd. In 1947 verscheen Het Achterhuis. Sindsdien is het een van de meest gelezen boeken ter wereld

In 1910, het laatste jaar van Leo Tolstojs leven, heeft zich op zijn landgoed Jasnaja Polyana een groepje fanatieke navolgers van zijn levensvisie verzameld. Ze leven volgens een paar regels: eenvoud, kuisheid en armoede. Jay Parini vertelt het verhaal van deze groep mensen: hun idealisme, verdeelde loyaliteiten, liefde en haat. Centraal staat de verhouding tussen Tolstoj en zijn vrouw Sofya Andrejevna, met wie hij al jaren in onmin leeft. Hun vete verdeelt het huis in twee kampen en dwingt iedereen tot stellingname