Women In History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

Barbara Weisberg
Strong Passions

What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch's country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling times o…

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Sharon Ann Musher
Promised Lands

"Drawing on the records of Hadassah Kaplan, a daughter of Mordecai Kaplan - founder of Reconstructionism -- this work shows how travel to Palestine in the Interwar period shaped a cohort of American …

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Louise Heren,
Scottish History in 15 Violent Crimes

Taking fifteen real-life criminal cases prosecuted at the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland between 1700 and 2000, this book explores developments in social attitudes and legal responses to violence. F…

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Carolyn Day
Remembering Anne Beach

Remembering Anne Beach pulls back the veil on the challenges of research, the problems of gaps in archives, and the long process involved in constructing historical narratives. Through the tragic tale of …

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Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger,
Maria Theresa

"In her time, Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was the most powerful woman in the world. She ruled the Habsburg Empire from 1740-1780, an era when empires dominated Europe. She was the sovereign of a vast e…

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Louise Heren,
Scottish History in 15 Violent Crimes

Taking fifteen real-life criminal cases prosecuted at the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland between 1700 and 2000, this book explores developments in social attitudes and legal responses to violence. F…

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Chris Dubbs
An Unladylike Profession

An eye-opening look at women's war reporting, An Unladylike Profession is a portrait of a sisterhood from the guns of August to the corridors of Versailles.When World War I began, war reporting was a thor…

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Paige Donaghy
Pregnant Women's Sexuality in Early Modern England

Genders and Sexualities in History

Pregnant women in the past had sex, yet we know nearly nothing about their sexual desires, or what people thought about sex during pregnancy. While there is much research on the sexual maternal body, stud…

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Southern Methodist Women and Social Justice

This book tells the stories of nine southern Methodist women, who, inspired by their faith, advocated for progressive reform by fighting for racial equality, challenging white male supremacy, and addressi…

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Tara Mulder
A Womb of One's Own

A bold new history of women's health and midwifery, brought to life through ancient women's stories of pregnancy and birth.In the well-trod history of the Roman Empire, a pivotal moment has long gone unno…

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Felice McDowell
1960s Model Girl: Narrative Identities in Fashion, Time and History

"As the British fashion industry took off in the post-war period, the figure of the photographic fashion model rapidly came to represent a new mode of femininity: independent, successful, and fashion…

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Kathleen B Casey
The Things She Carried

Purses and bags have always been much more than a fashion accessory.For generations of Americans, the purse has been an essential and highly adaptable object, used to achieve a host of social, cultural, a…

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Katherine Crooks
At Home in the Cold

At Home in the Cold brings to light the stories of five white and northern Indigenous women who travelled between the eastern Arctic and America between 1890 and 1940 in connection with exploratory expedi…

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Molly Beer
Angelica

Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton's "saucy" sister-in-law, and th…

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Anna Sulan Masing
Chinese and Any Other Asian

'Chinese' or 'Any other Asian'. The boxes that people of vastly varied East and South East Asian heritage have to tick when declaring their ethnicity on many forms in the UK.This represents a shameful swe…

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Mary I Unger
Reading the Renaissance

From 1932 to 1953, during the Black Chicago Renaissance, numerous literary events were held within and for the city's Black community. In book clubs, public forums, print reviews, little magazines, local …

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Justine de Young
The Art of Parisian Chic

Using artworks by Berthe Morisot, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, The Art of Parisian Chicexplores how women and artists in Impressionist Paris (1855-1885) crafted their pu…

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Coreen Derifield
We Were Still Ladies

Following World War II, women living in small towns and on farms across the Midwest woke every morning and headed out for a long day of work in a nearby factory. This transition into industrial work cause…

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Ruby Oram
Home Work

"How reforms to girlhood education in the Progressive Era cemented inequalities of gender, race, and class in urban school systems. In Home Work, historian Ruby Oram tells the story of how middle-cla…

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Anna Bonnell Freidin
Birthing Romans

How Romans coped with the anxieties and risks of childbirthAcross the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, anxieties about childbirth tied individuals to one another, to the highest levels of imperial politi…

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