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The Quiet Rebels By: Barbara Burstein and Vasily Kouskoulas (2018, Paperback, 376 pages)
Author : Barbara Burstein
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,73 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1480978612
The Quiet Rebels By: Barbara Burstein and Vasily Kouskoulas (2018, Paperback, 376 pages)
Author : Mary Jane Mossman
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1771125934
“It’s a girl!” the Ontario press announced, as Canada’s first woman lawyer was called to the Ontario bar in February 1897. Quiet Rebels explores experiences of exclusion among the few women lawyers for the next six decades, and how their experiences continue to shape gender issues in the contemporary legal profession. Mary Jane Mossman tells the stories of all 187 Ontario women lawyers called to the bar from 1897 to 1957, revealing the legal profession’s gendered patterns. Comprising a small handful of students—or even a single student—at the Law School, women were often ignored, and they faced discrimination in obtaining articling positions and legal employment. Most were Protestant, white, and middle-class, and a minority of Jewish, Catholic, Black, and immigrant women lawyers faced even greater challenges. The book also explores some changes, as well as continuities, for the much larger numbers of Ontario women lawyers in recent decades. This longitudinal study of women lawyers’ gendered experiences in the profession during six decades of social, economic, and political change in early twentieth-century Ontario identifies factors that created—or foreclosed on—women lawyers’ professional success. The book’s final section explores how some current women lawyers, despite their increased numbers, must remain “quiet rebels” to succeed.
Author : Margaret Hope Bacon
Publisher : Pendle Hill Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Church and social problems
ISBN : 9780875749358
Lucid and absorbing, The Quiet Rebels tells the moving story of the Religious Society of Friends and its unique contribution to the history of the United States, from the day in 1656 when the first Publishers of the Truth arrived in Boston harbor to the present.
Author : Margaret Hope Bacon
Publisher : Library Company of Philadelphia
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN :
The story of the quakers in America.
Author : Philip Sterling
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
Profiles of four Puerto Ricans who fought for independence and equal rights for their island people.
Author : Philip Sterling
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Puerto Rico
ISBN :
Profiles of four Puerto Ricans who fought for independence and equal rights for their island people.
Author : Glynis M. Breakwell
Publisher : Century
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 1989-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780712612234
Author : Congress
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 23,16 MB
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780160920288
"A compilation of historical essays and short biographies about 91 Hispanic-Americans who served in Congress from 1822 to 2012"--Provided by publisher
Author : Larry Eugene Rivers
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2012-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252094034
This gripping study examines slave resistance and protest in antebellum Florida and its local and national impact from 1821 to 1865. Using a variety of sources such as slaveholders' wills and probate records, ledgers, account books, court records, oral histories, and numerous newspaper accounts, Larry Eugene Rivers discusses the historical significance of Florida as a runaway slave haven dating back to the seventeenth century and explains Florida's unique history of slave resistance and protest. In moving detail, Rivers illustrates what life was like for enslaved blacks whose families were pulled asunder as they relocated from the Upper South to the Lower South to an untamed place such as Florida, and how they fought back any way they could to control small parts of their own lives. Against a smoldering backdrop of violence, this study analyzes the various degrees of slave resistance--from the perspectives of both slave and master--and how they differed in various regions of antebellum Florida. In particular, Rivers demonstrates how the Atlantic world view of some enslaved blacks successfully aided their escape to freedom, a path that did not always lead North but sometimes farther South to the Bahama Islands and Caribbean. Identifying more commonly known slave rebellions such as the Stono, Louisiana, Denmark (Telemaque) Vesey, Gabriel, and the Nat Turner insurrections, Rivers argues persuasively that the size, scope, and intensity of black resistance in the Second Seminole War makes it the largest sustained slave insurrection ever to occur in American history. Meticulously researched, Rebels and Runaways offers a detailed account of resistance, protest, and violence as enslaved blacks fought for freedom.
Author : Margaret Hope Bacon
Publisher : New Society Pub
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780865710580
A history of the Quakers in America from their first arrival in 1656, shows their early tribulations and the vital role they have played in American society