biographies of women
Writing Womens Lives: One Historians Perspective
can women's history.1. Looking at the biographies of American women published by historians over the last forty years provides conclusive proof that. |
Recovery 2.0: Beginning the Collective Biographies of Women Project
Biographies of Women Project. Alison Booth. University of Virginia. I recently came upon an article that Judith Fetterley published fifteen. |
Writing Biographies of Women
Writing Biographies of Women. Nell Irvin Painter. Journal of Women's History Volume 9 |
READING LIENÜZHUAN (BIOGRAPHIES OF WOMEN) THROUGH
produced far more biographies of women than any other culture. Liu Xiang crafted these biographies very carefully. He was not inter- ested in the lives of |
The Lessons of the Medusa: Anna Jameson and Collective
dar Women Who Dare |
Collective Biographies of Women: A Machine Learning Approach to
Abstract - The Collective Biographies of Women Project. (CBW) seeks to annotate a large corpus of nineteenth and twentieth century British and American |
Biographies of Women
Margot peters Biographies of Women. Not long ago I happened to pick up a volume of For in the last two decades gender as a determinant both of women's. |
UGC Major Research Project: “Dhikral-Niswa al-Mutaabidat as
02-Apr-2018 (Biographies of devotional Sufi Women) Translation and Annotation.” Summary. Traditional historiography excluded women from 'Universal' or ... |
Definitions of Feminist and Sexist Biographies of Women.
' Thus the materials analysed include biographies of four nineteenth century women writers Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Biographies of Women
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Biographies of Women
100 Immigrant Women Who hanged the World by Elena Favilli (J õ FAV NEW) Herstory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook Up the World by Katherine Halligan (J õ î HAL) Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World by Vashti Harrison (J HAR) Little Leaders: old Women in lack History by Vashti Harrison (J HAR) |
‘All That She Carried’ by Tiya Miles
Goodreads: 4.08-star average rating from 1,721 reviews Historian Tiya Miles tracks the story of Ashley’s Sack, which was passed down through three generations of Black women and evokes love, loss and resilience. The story starts with Rose, an enslaved woman in 1850s South Carolina, who gave this sack filled with precious items to her daughter, Ashl...
‘All The Frequent Troubles of Our Days’ by Rebecca Donner
Goodreads: 4.37-star average rating from 1,936 reviews During the rise of the Nazi party, Mildred Harnack started holding secret meetings at her apartment, which comprised a small number of political activists — by 1940, the group had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. Harnack, whom historians identify as the only Americ...
‘Come Fly The World’ by Julia Cooke
Goodreads: 3.71-star average rating from 4,980 reviews “Come Fly the World” tells the story of the stewardesses of Pan Am World Airways, who played a major role during the Vietnam War as the airline transported young soldiers from the battlefields in South Vietnam to Hong Kong on R&R flights — these typically lasted for five days before troops were...
‘The Doctors Blackwell’ by Janice P. Nimura
Goodreads: 3.65-star average rating from 2,908 reviews At a time when the world recoiled at the thought of a woman studying medicine, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to earn an M.D. — her sister Emily soon joined her in this achievement. The Blackwell sisters later founded the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children...
‘The Light of Days’ by Judy Batalion
Goodreads: 4.1-star average rating from 4,119 reviews During World War II, a number of Jewish female resistance fighters in Poland transformed Jewish youth into resistance groups to fight against the Nazis after witnessing the brutal murder of their families and the destruction of their communities. In addition to fighting and killing German soldie...
‘The Nine’ by Gwen Strauss
Goodreads: 4.27-star average rating from 1,777 reviews “The Nine” tells the story of author Gwen Strauss’ great aunt, Hélène Podliasky, who led nine female resistance fighters to escape the final death march at a German labor camp in Leipzig. The women, all under 30 years old at the time, embarked on a 10-day journey from Germany back to Paris.
‘On Juneteenth’ by Annette Gordon-Reed
Goodreads: 4.21-star average rating from 4,649 reviews Annette Gordon-Reed combines anecdotes and historical accounts to chart the United States’ long road to Juneteeth and the end of legalized slavery in Texas. Through essays, Gordon-Reed demonstrates how the slave- and race-based economy defined the era of Texas independence from Mexico, the Mexi...
‘The Three Mothers’ by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Goodreads: 4.120-star average rating from 3,079 reviews Celebrating Black motherhood, "The Three Mothers" focuses on the women who raised some of the most influential figures in history: Malcolm X, James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr. It addresses the discrimination and prejudice faced by these Black women during Jim Crow as they taught, cared...
‘The Woman They Could Not Silence’ by Kate Moore
Goodreads: 4.32-star average rating from 8,040 reviews A housewife and a mother of six in Jacksonville, Illinois, Elizabeth Packard was intelligent and independent — qualities that threatened her husband, who committed her to an insane asylum after 21 years of marriage. The story follows Packard as she navigates the horrific conditions of the Illin...
Writing Womens Lives: One Historians Perspective - JSTOR
for, biographies of women shook up the larger genre of biography by introducing a AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY Heilbrun in Writ |
Mara R Rosenberg Collective Biographies of Women - CORE
Collective Biographies of Women Written for Children: A Project to Create a Selection Tool and Annotated Bibliography A Master's Paper for the M S in |
Searching for She-Roes: A Study of Biographies of Historic Women
Amelia Earhart—will show you what I mean Being a woman—a poor child of the 1960s who searched relent- lessly in biographies of women to inspire myself—I |
The Life and Times ofWomen A Bibliography of Womens - ERIC
bibliography a helpful tool for identifying women's biographies Biographies are valuable for building reading skills, background of a 'subject,- or personal |
Reading, Work, and Catholic Womens Biographies
This essay considers biographies of Catholic women written after their deaths, largely by priests who served as their confessors, and the saints' lives which |
Womens Autobiographies: History and Meaning
biographical narratives,20 the cutting edge of today's feminist literary criticism sees women's autobiographical writing as the most promis- ing manifestation of |