The author describes life aboard her family's showboat, which travelled along the inland waterways of the Ohio River in the early twentieth century bringing entertainment to residents of isolated rural communities

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.

A historian presents the first full-length biography of the black woman crusader for racial justice and women's rights in the period after Reconstruction, detailing her efforts to eliminate lynching and her complicated relationship with the feminists of the time. UP.

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

Gedichten van Duitse arts die met gezin naar Bergen-Belsen werd getransporteerd en een artsendagboek bijhield met gedichten die in dit boek voor het eerst zijn gepubliceerd.

For a woman, Rahel Levin Varnhagen (1771-1833) occupied a unique place in German intellectual history. Heidi Tewarson gives us a rich account of Varnhagen's intellectual community and her writings which led to her reputation as a leading intellectual of her era--a champion of literary figures and movements, of human rights, and of Enlightenment values. 17 illustrations.

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.

The ideals of the French Revolution inflamed a longing for liberty and equality within courageous, freethinking women of the era—women who played vital roles in the momentous events that reshaped their nation and the world. In Liberty, Lucy Moore paints a vivid portrait of six extraordinary Frenchwomen from vastly different social and economic backgrounds who helped stoke the fervor and idealism of those years, and who risked everything to make their mark on history. Germaine de Staël was a wealthy, passionate Parisian intellectual—as consumed by love affairs as she was by politics—who helped write the 1791 Constitution. Théroigne de Méricourt was an unhappy courtesan who fell in love with revolutionary ideals. Exuberant, decadent Thérésia Tallien was a ruthless manipulator instrumental in engineering Robespierre's downfall. Their stories and others provide a fascinating new perspective on one of history's most turbulent epochs.

50 verhalen van even zovele auteurs van Hella Haase tot Kees van Kooten met illustraties van de beschreven voorwerpen.

Interviews met, toespraken van en essays over de Birmaanse strijdster voor de mensenrechten en democratie.

Dagboeknotities en brieven uit de periode 1992-1995.

Geschiedenis belicht van 25 architectuurprojecten in Europa door de loop der tijd: van Stonehenge tot de Expo 2000 in Hannover, met z-w ill.

Bundeling van bijlages die begin 2003 verschenen in de krant De Standaard. Alles wat u altijd over Belgie wilde weten.

Making use of recent feminist critical theory, Doane considers Gertrude Stein's modernist preoccupation with narrative silence in her early novels. She demonstrates the effects of this preoccupation on Stein's literary development, from the conventionality of her first novel, Q.E.D., through Fernhurst and Three Lives, to the radical transgressions against narrative intelligibility in The Making Of Americans. Doane, contending that Stein's ultimate revolt against traditional modes of discourse is directly attributable to her position as a woman writer, effectively elaborates the possibilities of creating an alternative feminist discourse and explores the ways in which gender may contribute to meaning.

Born in 1911 in the illustrious Sarabhai family of Ahmedabad, Mridula came under the spell of Gandhi and left her palatial home to hoin the Salt Satyagraha. She was involved not only in the freedom struggle but also in the fight for women's equality, for the individual's right in dissent, and for the rights of minorities. This biography represents a page from the social and political history of modern India, over half a century seen through the life of one person.

Interviews met tien beroemde Duitse vrouwen.