Book Description
Four Wabanaki women from four centuries of tribal history recall the long, tragic history of initial European contact and subsequent disease, warfare, and displacement.
Author : Bunny McBride
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803282773
Four Wabanaki women from four centuries of tribal history recall the long, tragic history of initial European contact and subsequent disease, warfare, and displacement.
Author : Bunny McBride
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 38,79 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803232099
Four Wabanaki women from four centuries of tribal history recall the long, tragic history of initial European contact and subsequent disease, warfare, and displacement.
Author : Wendy Garling
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1611802652
A contemporary and provocative examination of the life of the Buddha highlighting the influence of women from his journey to awakening through his teaching career--based on overlooked or neglected stories from ancient source material. In this retelling of the ancient legends of the women in the Buddha’s intimate circle, lesser-known stories from Sanskrit and Pali sources are for the first time woven into an illuminating, coherent narrative that follows his life from his birth to his parinirvana or death. Interspersed with original insights, fresh interpretations, and bold challenges to the status quo, the stories are both entertaining and thought-provoking—some may even appear controversial. Focusing first on laywomen from the time before the Buddha’s enlightenment—his birth mother and stepmother, his co-wives, and members of his harem when he was known as Prince Siddhartha—then moving on to the Buddha’s first female disciples, early nuns, and to female patrons, Wendy Garling invites us to open our minds to a new understanding of their roles.
Author : Bunny McBride
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1496203879
Women of the Dawn tells the stories of four remarkable Wabanaki Indian women who lived in northeast America during the four centuries that devastated their traditional world. Their courageous responses to tragedies brought on by European contact make up the heart of the book. The narrative begins with Molly Mathilde (1665-1717), a mother, a peacemaker, and the daughter of a famous chief. Born in the mid-1600s, when Wabanakis first experienced the full effects of colonial warfare, disease, and displacement, she provided a vital link for her people through her marriage to the French baron of St. Castin. The sage continues with the shrewd and legendary healer Molly Ockett (1740-1816) and the reputed witchwoman Molly Molasses (1775-1867). The final chapter belongs to Molly Dellis Nelson (1903-1977) (known as Spotted Elk), a celebrated performer on European stages who lived to see the dawn of Wabanaki cultural renewal in the modern era.
Author : Marilyn French
Publisher :
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Women
ISBN :
Author : Stephanie Coontz
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,69 MB
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0465022324
In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it. In A Strange Stirring, historian Stephanie Coontz examines the dawn of the 1960s, when the sexual revolution had barely begun, newspapers advertised for "perky, attractive gal typists," but married women were told to stay home, and husbands controlled almost every aspect of family life. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, and challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Friedan, A Strange Stirring brilliantly illuminates how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn't't reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice.
Author : Mary K. Greer
Publisher : Park Street Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780892816071
These four remarkable women, core members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, left a lasting imprint on the politics, literature, and theater of 19th-century Europe. Less well-known than the famous men in their lives, including Yeats and Shaw, their stories are now told.
Author : Dawn Chipman
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Florence, Mari
ISBN : 9781931497022
To celebrate the launch of The Cool Women Series, Girl Press re-releases an updated version of the award-winning bestseller, Cool Women. With a new foreword by The View's Lisa Ling and updated info on the coolest women in history, the ultimate book of role models for girls is back, and just as smart & sassy as the women who are its subject. Breezy writing and high design make it all fun and accessible -- a girl reading Cool Women will come away thinking that Madame Curie was brilliant, sure, but also that Madame Curie rocked.
Author : Claudia Salazar Jiménez
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1941920438
This novel follows three women whose lives intertwine and are ripped apart during what’s known as “the time of fear” in Peruvian history when the Shining Path militant insurgency was at its peak. The novel rewrites the armed conflict in the voice of women, activating memory through a mixture of politics, desire, and pain in a lucid and brutal prose.
Author : Agnete W. Lassen
Publisher : Yale Babylonian Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781734342000
In the patriarchal world of ancient Mesopotamia, women were often represented in their relation to men - as mothers, daughters, or wives - giving the impression that a woman's place was in the home. But, as we explore in this volume, they were also authors and scholars, astute business-women, sources of expressions of eroticism, priestesses with access to major gods and goddesses, and regents who exercised power on behalf of kingdoms, states, and empires.