An engaging contribution to Canadian women's history. --BC Books for BC Schools
A fascinating collection of concise stories about seventeen courageous, independent, and diverse women who shaped the history of Vancouver Island.
From the lush rainforest of Clayoquot Sound to the bustling city streets of Victoria, Vancouver Island has been home to an astounding number of inspiring women. On Their Own Terms: True Stories of Trailblazing Women of Vancouver Island celebrates the achievements of seventeen amazing heroines working in multiple fields, from world-famous artists to social activists to groundbreaking scientists and quietly defiant labourers. The diverse women in this engaging new collection include:
pioneer and midwife Tuwa 'hwiye Tusium Gollelim, Mary Ann Gyves;
world-renowned algae botanist Josephine Tilden;
undiscovered aviatrix Lilian Bland;
Vancouver Island's first African-Canadian teacher, Emma Stark; and
entrepreneur and bounty hunter Ada Annie Rae-Arthur, better known as Cougar Annie.
On Their Own Terms will delight and empower anyone looking for true stories of nineteenth- and twentieth-century women who confronted uncertainty, challenged gender norms, and excelled in their respective vocations. Whether you are an entrepreneur, an educator, a rebellious spirit, or an armchair adventurer, these incredible women who thrived on Vancouver Island will captivate you.
Автор: Pryor Alton Название: Trailblazing Women: The Trek to the California Gold Rush ISBN: 0692554270 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692554272 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2578.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Women in the California Gold Rush were scarce but played a vital role. Alton Pryor captures the plights, the disappointments and the joys of the women who first arrived in California. The author maintains that it wasn't the men who settled California. It was the women, who showed their strengths against formidable odds they faced in the trek to the gold fields.It was Jenny Wimmer who determined if that gold nugget James Marshall found was true gold or not. She did it by cooking it in the kettle of lye soap she was making.
Описание: Impressive Innovative Influential Discover and celebrate the amazing stories and achievements of 120 of America's most inspiring women Women have accomplished incredible things throughout American history. They've made and changed history. They've contributed revolutionary new ideas and moved science forward. Their inventions, businesses, literature, art, and activism helped build the nation. They've succeeded in a whole host of professions, including media, medicine, politics, government, education, sports, and the military. Trailblazing Women Amazing Americans Who Made History shines a welcome light on some of America's most remarkable women and their enduring stories and amazing accomplishments.
This fun and fascinating read covers the long history of America's heroic women. It brings you the biographies of some of America's boldest and bravest. Read about obstacles they overcame and how they flourished. It covers the lasting legacies of well-known and lesser-known stars, including ...
As a young child, she sang solos and duets with her Aunt Mary at the Union Baptist Church and by the age of 6 was earning money singing at local functions throughout her hometown of Philadelphia. (Marian Anderson (1897-1993), Singer)
She made headlines when she became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in the science of geology from the elite Baltimore research university, Johns Hopkins. (Florence Bascom (1862-1945), Geologist)
She said about the "me too" movement she founded: "When one person says, 'Yeah, me, too, ' it gives permission for others to open up." (Tarana Burke (1973-), Civil Rights Activist)
The nation's first four-star woman general has a long family history of U.S. military service--going back five generations. (Ann E. Dunwoody (1953-), Army Officer)
When this celebrated U.S. Supreme Court justice served on the high court with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as one of only two women justices, she and O'Connor decided to wear special collars on decision days to carve out their visual space in a sea of black robes and ties. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020), Attorney, U.S. Supreme Court Justice)
She made many discoveries in physics, but the most important was identifying the "magic numbers" that make protons or neutrons stable within an atomic nucleus. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work. (Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972), Physicist)
A soccer icon who was the first woman inducted into the World Football Hall of Fame, she started playing the sport at the age of two, while her family was living in Italy. (Mia Hamm (1972-), Soccer Player)
Her first name means "lotus" in the Sanskrit language, and her name, Devi, means "goddess." (Kamala Harris (1964-), Vice President of the United States of America)
She coined the term "bug" to describe computer errors after she found a moth inside one of her team's computers. (Grace Hopper (1906-1992), Computer Scientist, Navy Rear Admiral)
An acclaimed architect and artist best known for designing Washington, D.C.'s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Lin once said, "I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me." (Maya Lin (1959-), Architect)
When this former first lady was growing up, she was a great athlete, but she didn't like playing competitive sports. The reason, her big brother said, was that "she hated losing." (Michelle Obama (1964-), Attorney, First Lady)
A Cuban American and the first Latinx elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, she delivered a Spanish version of the Republican rebuttal to President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address in 2014. (Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (1952-), Congresswoman)
This acclaimed prima ballerina was the daughter of an Osage Indian father and a white mother. The Osage people gave her the name Wa-Xthe-Thomba, meaning
Автор: Abbs Annabel Название: Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women ISBN: 1951142705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781951142704 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3717.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Annabel Abbs's Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women is a beautifully written meditation on connecting with the outdoors through the simple act of walking. In captivating and elegant prose, Abbs follows in the footsteps of women who boldly reclaimed wild landscapes for themselves, including Georgia O'Keeffe in the empty plains of Texas and New Mexico, Nan Shepherd in the mountains of Scotland, Gwen John following the French River Garonne, Daphne du Maurier along the River Rhфne, and Simone de Beauvoir--who walked as much as twenty-five miles a day in a dress and espadrilles--through the mountains and forests of France.
Part historical inquiry and part memoir, the stories of these writers and artists are laced together by moments in Abb's own life, beginning with her poet father who raised her in the Welsh countryside as an "experiment," according to the principles of Rousseau. Abbs explores a forgotten legacy of moving on foot and discovers how it has helped women throughout history to find their voices, to reimagine their lives, and to break free from convention.
As Abbs traces the paths of exceptional women, she realizes that she, too, is walking away from her past and into a radically different future. Windswept crosses continents and centuries in a provocative and poignant account of the power of walking in nature.
Автор: Norgren Jill Название: Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers: Lives in the Law ISBN: 1479805998 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479805990 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4013.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession
In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women’s individual experiences. In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would never equal those open to similarly qualified men. Harvard Law School did not even begin to admit women until 1950. At many law schools, well into the 1970s, men told female students that they were taking a place that might be better used by a male student who would have a career, not babies. In 2005 the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession initiated a national oral history project named the Women Trailblazers in the Law initiative: One hundred outstanding senior women lawyers were asked to give their personal and professional histories in interviews conducted by younger colleagues. The interviews, made available to the author, permit these women to be written into history in their words, words that evoke pain as well as celebration, humor, and somber reflection. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.
Автор: Norgren Jill Название: Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers: Lives in the Law ISBN: 1479865966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479865963 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 12289.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession
In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law's glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women's individual experiences.
In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would never equal those open to similarly qualified men. Harvard Law School did not even begin to admit women until 1950. At many law schools, well into the 1970s, men told female students that they were taking a place that might be better used by a male student who would have a career, not babies.
In 2005 the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession initiated a national oral history project named the Women Trailblazers in the Law initiative: One hundred outstanding senior women lawyers were asked to give their personal and professional histories in interviews conducted by younger colleagues. The interviews, made available to the author, permit these women to be written into history intheir words, words that evoke pain as well as celebration, humor, and somber reflection. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.
Women TrailBreakers: An Inspirational and Guided Journal for Girls to Connect with Courageous Women so as to Find Their Own Trailblazing Traits is a unique journal for girls as it presents 30+ trailbreaking women to the reader. Young girls are invited to read about women trailbreakers and then reflect upon them within her journal. A trailbreaker is a person who blazes new trails for others to follow. They are innovative and brave. This journal introduces famous and not-so-famous women trailbreakers from a variety of fields including sports, music, the arts, science, education, and law. Girls will be excited to find full-color illustrations of beloved women such as Katherine Johnson, Jane Goodall, Amelia Earhardt, Malala Yousafzai, Maya Lin, Simone Biles, Greta Thunberg, and Michelle Obama; they will be pleasantly surprised to learn about lesser-known heroes too.
After a brief description of each trailbreaker, your young girl is invited to think about the trailbreaker's attributes and then to look within to make connections to her own experiences, traits, and dreams. This journal includes: question prompts, reflection pages, surveys, coloring pages, and drawing activities. Women Trailbreakers is perfect for birthdays and holidays. This journal is beneficial as it may:
- Teach your child about important women
- Encourage girls to write and reflect for personal enjoyment
- Increase your girl's self-confidence
- Inspire your child to take healthy risks
- Support inquiry building-skills
- Encourage girls to conduct more research on trailbreakers that are special to them
This journal provides an opportunity for a young girl to become an active learner rather than that of a passive reader. And because it is important for every young girl to feel that this is her book, there are blank forms in the back of the book for your young girl to research and add information about other women trailblazers who appeal to her. Additional resources are listed in the back of the book so that girls feel empowered long after the journal is complete.
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