Traces the lives of four generations of one family scattered over New York, England, and India, whose involvement with a mysterious spiritual leader tests their ties to each other

De geschiedenis van vijf families in Rotterdam.

another true war story, Germany 1939-1945

Met opdracht van de auteur tegenover het voorwoord, met z-w en kleurenfoto's.

This volume describes and assesses the development of the African Training and Research Centre for Women (ATRCW) in the context of the issues African women have had to contend with. Statistical information on health, education and employment are combined with interview material to create an understanding of the realities they face.

The publication of West's book marks an important literary event: the rescue from oblivion of a daring and provocative work by a major 20th century writer. This is West's exhilarating exploration of Mexican history, religion, and culture. Illustrations.

Based on letters written by England's "Lost Queen," this revealing portrait describes the niece to Mary Queen of Scots and cousin to Elizabeth I who became a pawn in the power struggles of her age and tried unsuccessfully to flee her fate, dying a tragic death in the tower of London. 15,000 first printing.

Childbirth is a quintessential family event that simultaneously holds great promise and runs the risk of danger. By the late nineteenth century, the birthing room had become a place where the goals of the new scientific professional could be demonstrated, but where traditional female knowledge was in conflict with the new ways. Here the choice of attendants and their practices defined gender, ethnicity, class, and the role of the professional. Using the methodology of social science theory, particularly quantitative statistical analysis and historical demography, Charlotte Borst examines the effect of gender, culture, and class on the transition to physician-attended childbirth. Earlier studies have focused on physician opposition to midwifery, devoting little attention to the training for and actual practice of midwifery. As a result, until now we knew little about the actual conditions of the midwife's education and practice. Catching Babies is the first study to examine the move to physician-attended birth within the context of a particular community. It focuses on four representative counties in Wisconsin to study both midwives and physicians within the context of their community. Borst finds that midwives were not pushed out of practice by elitist or misogynist obstetricians. Instead, their traditional, artisanal skills ceased to be valued by a society that had come to embrace the model of disinterested, professional science. The community that had previously hired midwives turned to physicians who shared ethnic and cultural values with the very midwives they replaced.

This collection of articles and extracts from books and periodicalsdescribes in detail the opportunities in Western Canada for Britishwomen emigrants. By 1900 there was a great demand both for wives andfor workers in a variety of occupations. 'Women Wanted' was themessage conveyed by Canadian officials, journalists, andpublic-spirited women who travelled across Canada and reported on theirfindings.

Describes the immigrant experiences of rural German, Irish, Swedish, and Polish women settling in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century, and the effects of gender and culture of origin on the growth of ethnic communities.

Nineteenth-century middle-class Protestant women were fervent in their efforts to “do good.” Rhetoric - especially in the antebellum years - proclaimed that virtue was more pronounced in women than in men and praised women for their benevolent influence, moral excellence, and religious faith. In this book, Lori D. Ginzberg examines a broad spectrum of benevolent work performed by middle-and upper-middle-class women from the 1820s to 1885 and offers a new interpretation of the shifting political contexts and meanings of this long tradition of women’s reform activism. During the antebellum period, says Ginzberg, the idea of female moral superiority and the benevolent work it supported contained both radical and conservative possibilities, encouraging an analysis of femininity that could undermine male dominance as well as guard against impropriety. At the same time, benevolent work and rhetoric were vehicles for the emergence of a new middle-class identity, one which asserted that virtue - not wealth - determined status. Ginzberg shows how a new generation that came of age during the 1850s and the Civil War developed new analyses of benevolence and reform. By the postbellum decades, the heirs of antebellum benevolence referred less to a mission of moral regeneration and far more to a responsibility to control the poor and 'vagrant,' signaling the refashioning of the ideology of benevolence from one of gender to one of class. According to Ginzberg, these changing interpretations of benevolent work throughout the century not only signal an important transformation in women activists’ culture and politics but also illuminate the historical development of American class identity and of women’s role in constructing social and political authority.

Essays discuss housewives, shoemakers, labor movements, slavery, farmers, strikes, domestic workers, and changes in women's work over the past two centuries.

The author presents the case of surgeon Dr. Mary Dixon-Jones, who in 1889 Boston was the subject in two court cases -- one for manslaughter and the other for libel -- which became a 19th century sensation.

Calame, Marie-Anne (Erzieherin).