Author : Denise Du Pont
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312023218
Essays by women writers discuss the influence of feminism, the portrayal of women, and the differences between science fiction and mainstream literary fiction
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 31,6 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1426212720
"For 125 years, National Geographic has documented the world and all that is in it with stunning photography that captures the soul of a story beyond the words on a page. Some of the most powerful narratives of the past decade have been produced by a forward-thinking generation of women photojournalists as different as the places and the subjects they have covered"--Page [2] of cover.
Author : Eileen A. Gavin, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0826101100
From the reviews: "Women of Vision blends biographical narrative with psychological perspectives on human development, resulting in a moving and passionate book that is suitable for both academic and nonacademic readers. It is a useful tool for teaching purposes or for simple, enjoyable, and informative reading." --Psychology of Women Quarterly "...a fascinating look of preservation and perceptiveness that is differentiated from its predecessors in its range of disciplines and emphasis...This new 'life course' approach to understanding female leaders gives valuable insight into the lives of these imminent women, furnishing insights into how the social-economic-political milieu and the attitudes and values of the time played a significant role in the lives of these women but also in all our lives. Women of Vision will serve as a springboard for exploration of how the psychologies of individual human lives affect their life-course and as a galvanizing step for many more future women of vision and leadership....The accounts in the book should be of substantial significance for readers interested in gender issues. However, the book will appeal to an even wider audience. Persons hoping to move in new directions in their own lives (e.g., women looking wistfully at new academic and occupational paths after years in stereotypic niches) can surely also find inspiration in the various accounts."--SirReadaLot.org We all know of women of great vision; women whose efforts and accomplishments have had a major impact on the arts, politics, women's rights, sports, or science. But often we may not understand how they became such powerful agents of change and what sorts of questions we should ask of their pasts to understand how the trajectories of their lives were formed. In this extraordinary textbook, leading experts cast new light on the role of circumstance, accomplishments, and personality in the development of various twentieth-century women of vision. This is a brand new life-course approach to understanding female leaders and gives valuable insight into the lives of such eminent women as Rachel Carson, Evelyn Gentry Hooker, Georgia O'Keeffe, Eleanor Roosevelt, "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, Ella Fitzgerald, Alice Paul, Lucille Ball, and many others. Study questions and exercises at the end of each chapter further enhance the text. Women of Vision will serve as the springboard for exploration of how the psychologies of individual human lives affect their life-course and a galvanizing step for many more future women of vision and leadership.
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Feminist films
ISBN : 9781452904252
Author : L'areal Lipkins
Publisher : Lareal Lipkins
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780578463124
Have you ever felt frustrated because you had big goals that you just couldn't seem to accomplish? Or, maybe you got overwhelmed and discouraged because God gave you a vision, but it seemed like it was taking too long. This is precisely where L'areal Lipkins found herself! After getting tired of recycling the same goals year-after-year, L'areal set out to discover why 92% of people who set goals never achieve them. During her journey, she learned that the traditional goal setting process was designed to fail. In A Woman With Vision, L'areal gives you a blueprint to reach all the goals and dreams that God has placed in your heart. In this book you will learn: - How to get out the Goal Setting Trap.- Why you struggle to stay motivated and on track. - How to move from creating a plan to executing it.- Why fear and failure are just what you need to succeed. - Four steps to elevate your mindset to align with your goals.A Woman With Vision proves that making your dreams a reality isn't as hard as you think. It's about realizing your power, breaking through mental barriers, and doing the work every single day.
Author : Leah Tinari
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1534418563
In the spirit of She Persisted, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, and Rad American A-Z, acclaimed artist Leah Tinari offers a spectacular collection of portraits, celebrating iconic, inspirational, and groundbreaking American women. Fine artist Leah Tinari’s stunning, spellbinding portraits honor the groundbreaking achievements and indelible impact of twenty-four extraordinary American women. These women’s dreams were without boundaries; their accomplishments limitless in their reach and lasting power. Tinari’s list is comprised of trailblazers, whose vision, grit, and guts paved the way not only for the generations to come, but for Tinari’s own artistic journey. These women include Louisa May Alcott, Rachel Carson, Julia Child, Shirley Chisholm, Ellen Degeneres, Ray Eames, Eve Ensler, Carrie Fisher, Dian Fossey, Aretha Franklin, Betsey Johnson, Carol Kaye, Yuri Kochiyama, Liz Lambert, Lozen, Shirley Muldowney, Tracey Norman, Annie Oakley, Georgia O’Keefe, Dolly Parton, Kimberly Pierce, Gilda Radner, Sojourner Truth, and Abby Wambach. Their contributions to the arts, education, science, politics, civil rights, fashion, design, technology, and sports are enduring and noteworthy. Courage, perseverance, brilliance, and passion were the guiding, groundbreaking principles for these diverse women who span the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
Author : Helen S. Astin
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 1991-08-19
Category : History
ISBN :
A new perspective on leadership / In the spirit of the times : Three generation s of women leaders / Becoming leaders: Key influences and experiences / The com mon thread: a passion for justice and social change / Leadership for change: in itiatives and outcomes / Key skills and strategies of leaders / Strains and cos ts of leadership / Learning from the past and looking toward the future / A lea dership legacy, a leadership resource.
Author : Erika Bachiochi
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0268200807
Erika Bachiochi offers an original look at the development of feminism in the United States, advancing a vision of rights that rests upon our responsibilities to others. In The Rights of Women, Erika Bachiochi explores the development of feminist thought in the United States. Inspired by the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Bachiochi presents the intellectual history of a lost vision of women’s rights, seamlessly weaving philosophical insight, biographical portraits, and constitutional law to showcase the once predominant view that our rights properly rest upon our concrete responsibilities to God, self, family, and community. Bachiochi proposes a philosophical and legal framework for rights that builds on the communitarian tradition of feminist thought as seen in the work of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Drawing on the insight of prominent figures such as Sarah Grimké, Frances Willard, Florence Kelley, Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Mary Ann Glendon, this book is unique in its treatment of the moral roots of women’s rights in America and its critique of the movement’s current trajectory. The Rights of Women provides a synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern political insight that locates the family’s vital work at the very center of personal and political self-government. Bachiochi demonstrates that when rights are properly understood as a civil and political apparatus born of the natural duties we owe to one another, they make more visible our personal responsibilities and more viable our common life together. This smart and sophisticated application of Wollstonecraft’s thought will serve as a guide for how we might better value the culturally essential work of the home and thereby promote authentic personal and political freedom. The Rights of Women will interest students and scholars of political theory, gender and women’s studies, constitutional law, and all readers interested in women’s rights.
Author : Joanna Rivera Stark
Publisher : Leighton Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,72 MB
Release : 2014-05-17
Category :
ISBN : 9780615794037
A Woman of Vision is the inspiring true story of Betty Clark Mong who lived a rich life full of First Ladies, Hollywood elite, Vegas mobsters, work and romances all with profound vision loss - then the unthinkable happened. "If I have learned nothing else in my ninety-two years on this planet, I have learned that the most powerful tool for survival is the ability to sustain the positive relationships we have developed throughout our lives. We react to, learn from, and imitate behaviors to which we are exposed. Linked together these interactions nurture, guide, and shape how we to travel from birth to death." Betty Clark Mong A Woman of Vision is a poignant look at a woman who has become an inspiration to millions of people, Joanna Rivera Stark's A Woman of Vision tells the true story of Betty Clark Mong. Having overcome unfathomable obstacles from the time she was a little girl, Mong's determination in the face of adversity unequivocally proves that nothing is impossible. Written from Mong's point of view, A Woman of Vision faithfully chronicles her ninety-two years of life, beginning from her childhood when she was stricken with juvenile arthritis as a toddler and later with blindness. Despite these discouraging setbacks, Mong refused to feel sorry for herself and instead managed to succeed at nearly everything she set out to accomplish. Readers will laugh and cry as Mong reminisces over her loves and her losses. From her years as a public speaker and her encounters with the Las Vegas mob to her meetings with Hollywood celebrities and introductions to two First Ladies, one develops the true sense of this extraordinary woman and her remarkable life. An inspiration to all those who hear her story, Mong is a shining example of how to live successfully with blindness and proves that disabilities don't have to stand in the way of achieving one's dreams. Ultimately, Mong's relentless determination to lead a normal life has resulted in her living an outstanding adventure. With a forward by Dr. Ronald E. Smith, a professor and chairman for the University of Southern California and Doheny Eye Institute Department of Ophthalmology, A Woman of Vision is ultimately a heartfelt chronicle of what can happen when giving up is not an option.
Author : Maureen A. Flanagan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 26,18 MB
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0691215960
At the turn of the last century, as industrialists and workers made Chicago the hardworking City of Big Shoulders celebrated by Carl Sandburg, Chicago women articulated an alternative City of Homes in which the welfare of residents would be the municipal government's principal purpose. Seeing With Their Hearts traces the formation of this vision from the relief efforts following the Chicago fire of 1871 through the many political battles of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. In the process, it presses a new understanding of the roles of women in public life and writes a new history of urban America. Heeding the call of activist Louise de Koven Bowen to become third-class passengers on the train of life, thousands of women "put their shoulders to the wheel and their whole hearts into the work" of fighting for better education, worker protections, clean air and water, building safety, health care, and women's suffrage. Though several well-known activists appeared frequently in these initiatives, Maureen Flanagan offers compelling evidence that women established a broad and durable solidarity that spanned differences of race, class, and political experience. She also shows that these women--emphasizing their common identity as women seeking a city amenable to the needs of women, children, families, and homes--pursued a vision and goals distinct from the reform agenda of Progressive male activists. They fought hard and sometimes successfully in a variety of public places and sites of power, winning victories from increased political clout and prenatal care to municipal garbage collection and pasteurized milk. While telling the fascinating and in some cases previously untold stories of women activists during Chicago's formative period, this book fundamentally recasts urban social and political history.
