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82) Wanted women: faith, lies, and the war on terror : the lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 539 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Highlights the lives of two champions of Muslim women's rights, Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali and neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, to examine the role women have played in the conflict between radical Islam and the West.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The documentary follows a defiant movement of women of color as they transform politics from the ground up. Filmed during the historic 2018 midterm elections, the series follows organizers and candidates (including Rashida Tlaib and Stacey Abrams) as they fight for a truly reflective government, asking whether democracy can be preserved, and made stronger, by those most marginalized.
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kenyon Gradert investigates how the nineteenth-century abolitionist movement - whether iconic figures of it like Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Lloyd Garrison or lesser-known writers and orators - drew on aspects of American Puritanism in shaping its political persona. From this angle, we can see a movement usually identified with liberal Protestantism in a radically new light ; it also recasts our understanding of puritanism, often seen as a conservative...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 281 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"With one eye on Washington and the other on flashpoints across the West, Dangerous Ground tracks squatters from the Mississippi Valley and cotton lands of Texas, to Oregon, Gold Rush-era California, and, finally, Bleeding Kansas. The sweeping narrative reveals how claiming western domains became stubbornly intertwined with partisan politics and fights over the extension of slavery. While previous generations of statesmen had maligned and sought to...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Posing questions about whether America is ready to elect a woman president in spite of democratic values, a chronicle of the current state of women's political leadership on the cusp of historic change draws on more than 125 interviews with major figures in both political parties.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It was the largest civil rights demonstration in US history: the system-wide school boycott in New York City on February 3, 1964, where over 360,000 elementary and secondary school students went on strike and thousands attended freedom schools. Later that month, tens of thousands of children and teenagers participated in the "Freedom Day" boycotts in Boston and Chicago, also demanding "quality integrated education." Franklin shows that it was these...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Benedict Option draws on the wisdom of Christian survivors of Soviet persecution to warn American Christians of approaching dangers. For years, émigrés from the former Soviet bloc have been telling Rod Dreher they see telltale signs of "soft" totalitarianism cropping up in America--something more Brave New World than Nineteen Eighty-Four. Identity politics are beginning to encroach on every aspect of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Alice Paul returns to New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain, determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. Nine states have already granted women voting rights, but only a constitutional amendment will secure the vote for all. She organizes a procession down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, the day before the inauguration of President-elect Woodrow Wilson, a firm...
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