Female Voices of the North
Author : Inger M. Olsen
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Kalâtdlisut literature
ISBN :
Author : Inger M. Olsen
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Kalâtdlisut literature
ISBN :
Author : Liv Helene Willumsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1000550567
Women come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women’s voices in these trials in eight countries around the North Sea: Spanish Netherlands, Northern Germany, Denmark, Scotland, England, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. From each country, three trials are chosen for close reading of courtroom discourse and the narratological approach enables various individuals to speak. Throughout the study, a choir of 24 voices of accused women are heard which reveal valuable insight into the field of mentalities and display both the individual experience of witchcraft accusation and the development of the trial. Particular attention is drawn to the accused women’s confessions, which are interpreted as enforced narratives. The analyses of individual trials are also contextualized nationally and internationally by a frame of historical elements, and a systematic comparison between the countries shows strong similarities regarding the impact of specific ideas about witchcraft, use of pressure and torture, the turning point of the trial, and the verdict and sentence. This volume is an essential resource for all students and scholars interested in the history of witchcraft, witchcraft trials, transnationality, cultural exchanges, and gender in early modern Northern Europe.
Author : Lisa Charleyboy
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,12 MB
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1554519594
Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling Dreaming in Indian, #Not Your Princess presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.
Author : Nina B. Lichtenstein
Publisher : Gaon Web
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781935604884
Sephardic women's writings present invaluable information about the marginalization and silencing of the Jewish experience in North Africa and France. These stories offer testaments of human experience that belongs in the diverse and hybrid collection of post-colonial stories of displaced peoples.
Author : Terry Tempest Williams
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250024110
In 54 chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals in a book that keeps turning around the question, "What does it mean to have a voice?"
Author : Sophie White
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1469654059
In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded. Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to understand how the enslaved viewed and experienced their worlds. As they testified, these individuals charted their movement between West African, indigenous, and colonial cultures; they pronounced their moral and religious values; and they registered their responses to labor, to violence, and, above all, to the intimate romantic and familial bonds they sought to create and protect. Their words--punctuated by the cadences of Creole and rich with metaphor--produced riveting autobiographical narratives as they veered from the questions posed by interrogators. Carefully assessing what we can discover, what we might guess, and what has been lost forever, Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive.
Author : Carolyn Johnston
Publisher : Blair
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780895875990
A collection of excerpts, some about Cherokee women and some by them.
Author : Edward Elgar
Publisher :
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Oratorios
ISBN :
Author : Elisa Boxer
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1534166734
In August of 1920, women's suffrage in America came down to the vote in Tennessee. If the Tennessee legislature approved the 19th amendment it would be ratified, giving all American women the right to vote. The historic moment came down to a single vote and the voter who tipped the scale toward equality did so because of a powerful letter his mother, Febb Burn, had written him urging him to "Vote for suffrage and don't forget to be a good boy." The Voice That Won the Vote is the story of Febb, her son Harry, and the letter than gave all American women a voice.
Author : J. K. Chambers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1118335511
Reflecting a multitude of developments in the study of language change and variation over the last ten years, this extensively updated second edition features a number of new chapters and remains the authoritative reference volume on a core research area in linguistics. A fully revised and expanded edition of this acclaimed reference work, which has established its reputation based on its unrivalled scope and depth of analysis in this interdisciplinary field Includes seven new chapters, while the remainder have undergone thorough revision and updating to incorporate the latest research and reflect numerous developments in the field Accessibly structured by theme, covering topics including data collection and evaluation, linguistic structure, language and time, language contact, language domains, and social differentiation Brings together an experienced, international editorial and contributor team to provides an unrivalled learning, teaching and reference tool for researchers and students in sociolinguistics