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Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
"The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her provocative new history, Lisa Tetrault demonstrates that Stanton, Anthony, and their peers gradually created and popularized this origins story during...
3) Menewood
Author
Series
Hild sequence volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hild is no longer the bright child who made a place in Edwin Overking's court with her seemingly supernatural insight. She is eighteen, honed and tested, the formidable Lady of Elmet, now building her personal stronghold in the valley of Menewood. But Edwin needs his most trusted advisor. Old alliances are fraying. Younger rivals are snapping at his heels. War is brewing--bitter war, winter war. Not knowing who to trust he becomes volatile and unpredictable....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As attitudes toward gender have shifted to embrace more fluidity in recent decades, sex continues to be viewed as a static binary that is easily determined: male or female. It is on that very idea of static sex that we have built an entire sporting apparatus. Now that foundation is crumbling as a result of intense culture wars. Many transgender and intersex athletes, from a South African runner, to a New Zealand power lifter, to a wrestler in Texas,...
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
xi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of urban growth, the politics of labour, and the relationships among the many immigrant groups who have come to work on the sewing machines of the women's garment industry over the last century. This book is of interest to a range of scholars, including those engaged in labour, immigrant, and women's history.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This work rethinks the importance of women and religion within U.S. imperial culture from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. In an era when the United States was emerging as a world power to challenge the hegemony of European imperial powers, American women missionaries strove to create a new Kingdom of God. They did much to shape a Protestant empire based on American values and institutions. This book examines American women's activism...
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