Author : Sally Zanjani
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803299160
prospectors for the first time. Sally Zanjani depicts more than one hundred women prospectors in often grueling, financially unrewarding, and utterly lonely efforts to strike it rich from the desert Southwest to the frozen rocks of Alaska and the Yukon. She tells their stories with warmth and skill and, in bringing them to life, forever changes our mental picture of the women who helped shape the modern West.
Author : Deborah G. Felder
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806525266
Comprehensive and riveting, this important volume on women's history surveys the revolutionary changes in the social, economic, and political status of women during the twentieth century. From the battles of suffragists and labor activists such as Carrie Chapman Catt and Rose Schneiderman to the provocative ideas of Betty Friedan, here are the women of vision and courage who fought for equality and freedom. But here too are the unexpected medical and technological discoveries that removed a woman's destiny from the restrictions of biology -- the electric washing machine, anesthesia for childbirth, sulfa drugs to stop post-partum deaths, the birth control pill, and more. This lively and provocative history covers groundbreaking legislation and Supreme Court rulings, yet it doesn't neglect the often conflicting cultural forces -- from Emily Post and Barbie to the founding of the La Leche League and Ellen DeGeneres's sitcom -- that have shaped women's lives in today's world. Book jacket.
Author : Angela V. John
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN : 9780415380096
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2008-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1461746817
During the gold rush, women worked alongside men panning and digging for gold and silver in the mountains of Colorado, California, and all the way up to Alaska. While many books have been written about the frontier women who ran brothels and boarding houses in mining towns, none have told the true stories of ladies who labored as hard as men out in the mines. A wonderful collection of true Americana, this book includes archival photographs of lady miners as well as the mines and boomtowns.
Author : Regina Barreca
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1611682134
Bottoms up! This landmark celebration of women and drink chips away at traditional images of gender, one ice-cube at a time.
Author : Suzanne E. Tallichet
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 2006-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271030437
Much has been written over the years about life in the coal mines of Appalachia. Not surprisingly, attention has focused mainly on the experiences of male miners. In Daughters of the Mountain, Suzanne Tallichet introduces us to a cohort of women miners at a large underground coal mine in southern West Virginia, where women entered the workforce in the late 1970s after mining jobs began opening up for women throughout the Appalachian coalfields. Tallichet's work goes beyond anecdotal evidence to provide complex and penetrating analyses of qualitative data. Based on in-depth interviews with female miners, Tallichet explores several key topics, including social relations among men and women, professional advancement, and union participation. She also explores the ways in which women adapt to mining culture, developing strategies for both resistance and accommodation to an overwhelmingly male-dominated world.
Author : Rebecca Marie Messbarger
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802036520
These include an academic debate, a scientific tract, an oration, an Enlightenment journal, and a fashion magazine. Analysis focuses on the specific ways in which the exigencies of the 'new science' and the burgeoning Enlightenment project founded on rational civil law, secular moral philosophy, and utilitarian social ethics forced a transformation in the formal controversy about women."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Michele Goodwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 110703017X
This book tells the real-life horror story of states' abusing laws and infringing on rights to police women and their pregnancies.
Author : Linda Wommack
Publisher : Farcountry Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1560378727
Dig deeper into Colorado history through the stories of these remarkable women. Beginning with the discovery of gold near present-day Denver in 1858, Colorado’s placers and mines promised vast riches of gold, silver, and other precious minerals. That promise lured throngs of treasure seekers, including more than a few strong, savvy women. In Women of the Colorado Mines, author Linda Wommack digs deep into their tribulations and triumphs to reveal the true lives of women prospectors, mine owners, labor advocates, and a handful of mining heiresses who found fabulous wealth in them thar hills.
Author : Glynis Cooper
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1526739224
This dramatic social history follows the struggle for women’s rights in England from the Industrial Revolution to the Suffragist victory after WWI. The 100 years from 1819-1919 saw remarkable change for women in England. From the early nineteenth century, when women were not even considered ‘persons' under the law, they achieved full legal rights and status. The doors of education and employment were thrown open to them, and by 1919, they won universal suffrage. As workers organized in the North-West to demand better conditions in the textile industries, women formed their own groups to support the cause—and fight for their own rights. Blowback came in August of 1819, in the form of the Peterloo Massacre. The brutality of that day brought attention to the women’s cause and encouraged them to continue the fight. Women became involved in reform groups, Chartism, trade unions, politics, education, career opportunities and the right to vote. Though they faced hostility from both men and women, their perseverance paid off for generations of women to come.
