Автор: Brown Leslie, Castledine Jacqueline, Valk Anne Название: U.S. Women`s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood ISBN: 0813575834 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813575834 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5010.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women’s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach-acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally powerful-women’s historians have begun to offer more varied and nuanced narratives. The ten original essays in U.S. Women's History represent a cross-section of current research in the field. Including work from both emerging and established scholars, this collection employs innovative approaches to study both the causes that have united American women and the conflicts that have divided them. Some essays uncover little-known aspects of women’s history, while others offer a fresh take on familiar events and figures, from Rosa Parks to Take Back the Night marches. Spanning the antebellum era to the present day, these essays vividly convey the long histories and ongoing relevance of topics ranging from women’s immigration to incarceration, from acts of cross-dressing to the activism of feminist mothers. This volume thus not only untangles the threads of the sisterhood mythos, it weaves them into a multi-textured and multi-hued tapestry that reflects the breadth and diversity of U.S. women’s history.
Описание: When women were denied a major speaking role at the 1963 March on Washington, Dorothy Height, head of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), organized her own women's conference for the very next day. Defying the March's male organizers, Height helped harness the womanpower waiting in the wings. Height's careful tactics and quiet determination come to the fore in this first history of the NCNW, the largest black women's organization in the United States at the height of the civil rights, Black Power, and feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
Offering a sweeping view of the NCNW's behind-the-scenes efforts to fight racism, poverty, and sexism in the late twentieth century, Rebecca Tuuri examines how the group teamed with U.S. presidents, foundations, and grassroots activists alike to implement a number of important domestic development and international aid projects. Drawing on original interviews, extensive organizational records, and other rich sources, Tuuri's work narrates the achievements of a set of seemingly moderate, elite activists, who were able to use their personal, financial, and social connections to push for change as they facilitated grassroots, cooperative, and radical activism.
These letters give a personal and intimate insight into the lives of two sisters living in Madras (now Chennai) in the time of Jane Austen. Both describe day-to-day life, occupations and relationships in the earliest days of British settlement, providing a rare glimpse into the social history of a place in India, far from home. Both women were accomplished artists, the older one, Elizabeth, deserving significant recognition for her extraordinary bird paintings. She also had a strong fascination for all things Indian: the people; their history; religions and languages, which she relates with enthusiasm, and then widens this with evident talent for botany and horticulture.
Her younger sister, Mary, contented herself with descriptions of places, people and surroundings, not always complimentary to her peers. Behind all this was an undercurrent of anxiety about news from home, correspondence difficulties, war with France and a terrifying sepoy mutiny in Vellore. There was also a background of tension arising from the broken relationships between Elizabeth’s husband, judge Sir Henry Gwillim, and both his Chief Justice and the Governor of Madras.
Автор: M. Mauthner Название: Sistering ISBN: 1403941254 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403941251 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 4191.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Sister stories are rare compared with images of celebrity sisters and `sisterhood`. Sisters talk passionately about how their closeness and distance affects the power-balance between them. Sistering was nominated for the British Sociological Association`s 2003 Philip Abrams Prize.
Автор: Baernstein, P. Renee Название: A Convent Tale ISBN: 041592717X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415927178 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6736.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Crang, Jeremy A. (university Of Edinburgh) Название: Sisters in arms ISBN: 110701347X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107013476 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: During the Second World War many thousands of women joined the women`s auxiliary services to perform important military tasks for the RAF, army and Royal Navy. This book traces the wartime history of these auxiliary services and the integration of women into the British armed forces.
Автор: Brown Pauline a. Название: Where is my Sister? ISBN: 0998223352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780998223353 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1786.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Polly Brown and her husband Ralph lived, worked, and raised their children in Pakistan for 35 years. During that time she forged deep friendships with Muslim, Christian and Hindu women who became sisters to her. In this book she tells their stories.
"What a wonderful book Pauline Brown invites us into her home and the homes of her Pakistani friends - "sisters" - and as we become familiar with their lives and culture and customs, we also get a glimpse into their hearts. Pauline opens her heart through the stories of individual women, from many walks of life and faith, who first became friends and then, over time, true sisters of the heart. She relates how these women taught and touched her heart and life even as she shared with them her life - and the light and life and love of Jesus. These stories leave an indelible impression of her dear "sisters," each with individual plots and some with uncertain conclusions, but all who have impacted the author and now the reader. This book does not stop with these stories. One is left with the challenge to look around, to step out of ones comfort zone, and to ask the question: "Who is my sister?"
Miriam Rockness, author of A Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter
Автор: DuBois Caroline Название: The Sisterhood: A Novella of True Sisterhood ISBN: 1790895146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781790895144 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4137.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: ¢ Are you member of either the management team or the board and do you see the need to adapt your organization to Agile? Do you intend to make the organization more agile? ¢ Are you a coach helping organizations in the transformation to becoming more agile? And are you planning to support this transition using a bottom-up or top-down approach?In this pocket guide you will find a practical approach on how to handle this. Governing an organization in a fast-changing world. And all this although the issues of the day require a lot of your attention and can distract you from the results you want to achieve. The authors consider how to operationalize the organization`s strategic goals and consequently the governance of the entire organization.The authors start from the position of: ¢ Clarifying what has to be achieved in the next quarter in order to achieve the strategic goals. ¢ Introducing a system of short cyclical adjustments, with which you can respond to changing demand from customers or emerging laws and regulations. ¢ Working closely together as management team or board towards the long-term strategic goals and preventing everyone within the organization from following their own goals. ¢ Bringing more focus on the operationalization of the strategy, less `fire-fighting` and greater emphasis on fire prevention. ¢ Getting a clear picture of what prevents your employees from doing their jobs effectively. Will you succeed in removing the barriers holding back your organization? The core message of this pocket guide is application of the FOCUS board. This is a visual approach to management and a strong tool for governing the organization. When this is applied, it will result in collaboration between all layers of the organization, enable short cyclical adjustment and provide a clear focus on achieving the strategic goals.
Автор: Beirne, Mary Helen Название: Ready for any good work ISBN: 0761865845 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780761865841 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20231.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This new history of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, focuses on the growth and evolution of the Congregation through the years 1944-1999. This book attempts to look at the Congregation, an ecclesial group of Catholic women religious, from the perspectives of spirituality, ministry, and governance.
Описание: This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. Rooted in the lived experiences of women religious in Britain, it explores British modernity, the social movements of the long 1960s and the Second Vatican Council, while acknowledging transnational relationships and global interconnectivities within and across national divides. -- .
Автор: Curzon Catherine Название: The Daughters of George III: Sisters and Princesses ISBN: 147389753X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473897533 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5511.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The six daughters of George III were raised in seclusion. Though one would escape, her sisters were destined to remain the prisoners of a turbulent royal household.
