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

Elinor Cleghorn
A Woman's Work

Mothers make history . For centuries, motherhood has sparked social and political change. Yet the acts of growing, birthing and nurturing children - and the power they hold - have been pushed to the margi…

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Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, Laura L Sullivan
Three Summers

An epic middle-grade memoir about sisterhood and coming-of-age in the three years leading up to the Bosnian Genocide.Three Summers is the story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic…

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Jennifer Ann Redmond
Too Fast, Too Short

A stunning sketch of the life and career of the little-known American actress and socialite

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Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
The Vice President's Black Wife

Award-winning historian Amrita Chakrabarti Myers has recovered the riveting, troubling, and complicated story of Julia Ann Chinn (ca. 1796-1833), the enslaved mixed-race wife of Richard Mentor Johnson, ow…

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Linda Watson
Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood was a conundrum. Softly spoken yet forthright, she straddled the worlds of fashion, politics, social justice and sartorial observation. Viewed globally as a quintessentially English figu…

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Distant Journey (1948) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)

Made in 1948, just a few short years after the horrors it strives to process, Distant Journey is the first feature film to tackle the subject of the Holocaust, and was the debut film from controversial av…

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Rachel Somerstein
Invisible Labor

An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America---the cesarean section---and an exposé on the disturbing state of maternal medical careWhen Rachel …

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Pamela Galbreath
In the Scent of Horses, Hay, and Old Barns

A narrative retelling of the life of a horse girl who moved west and started one of the nation's longest running equestrian schools.In early autumn, 1958, thirty-two-year-old Eleanor Fracker Smith left he…

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Naomi Baker
Voices of Thunder

The stories of early modern Protestant women, including Rose Thurgood, Anna Trapnel, and Jane Lead, who defied the religious authority of their age.Voices of Thunder illuminates the stories and beliefs of…

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Leyla K King
Daughters of Palestine

From Palestine to Texas in 100 years, this epic family tale follows five generations of Christian women as their family's intimate dramas--full of hope, fear, grief, and joy-- play out against a backdrop …

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Lynn M Somers
Transformative Objects and the Aesthetics of Play

"This book considers the sculptures of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) in light of psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott's (1896-1971) radical ideas regarding transitional objects, potential space, and play, of…

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Kasia Babis
Breadcrumbs

An NPR Best Book of the Year This moving graphic memoir is a coming-of-age story set in Poland as the country transitions from communism to capitalism. Perfect for fans of Persepolis! In the late 1980s, P…

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Karrine Steffans
Confessions of a Video Vixen

This is the post-Me Too update to the ahead-of-its-time emotionally charged memoir from a former hip hop music video vixen many women needed to see. Twenty years after she took us beyond the glitz and gla…

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Lydia Monks
Six Queens

Discover more about the six queens who changed history! Perfect for young history enthusiasts, Lydia Monks brings to life the six queens of Henry VIII in spectacular, fully-illustrated style. Includes a f…

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Emily Callaci
Wages for Housework

*Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize*What would women do with their lives if they had more time?The riveting, untold story of a revolutionary campaign to change the way work is valued'The women of t…

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Karen Babine
The Allure of Elsewhere

"A memoir about camping alone in a Scamp camper and traveling to Nova Scotia to better understand her family's past"--

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Alisa Kessel
Rape Fantasies

In Rape Fantasies, Alisa Kessel makes the case that to prevent sexual violence in the US and elsewhere, we must confront rape as a crime that is not born of natural sexual appetites, simple miscommunicati…

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Laura Swan
The Wisdom of the Beguines

The beguines began to form in various parts of Europe over eight hundred years ago. Beguines were laywomen, not nuns, and they did not live in monasteries. They practiced a remarkable way of living indepe…

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Camille De Peretti,
Portrait of an Unknown Woman

A saga inspired by the incredible but true story of the iconic Klimt paintingPainted in Vienna in 1910, Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of a Lady" was purchased by an anonymous collector in 1916, retou…

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Kasia Babis
Breadcrumbs

An NPR Best Book of the Year This moving graphic memoir is a coming-of-age story set in Poland as the country transitions from communism to capitalism. Perfect for fans of Persepolis! In the late 1980s, P…

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