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Author | : David R. Gillham |
Publisher | : G.P. Putnam's Sons |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Berlin (Germany) |
ISBN | : 9780399161520 |
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Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family.
Author | : Christine Pizan |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1999-06-09 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0141907584 |
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Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France's first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering Book of the City of Ladies begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer's tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtues - Reason, Rectitude and Justice - appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors, inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. Christine de Pizan's spirited defence of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of the misogyny of her day, and offers a telling insight into the position of women in medieval culture. THE CITY OF LADIES provides positive images of women, ranging from warriors and inventors, scholars to prophetesses, and artists to saints. The book also offers a fascinating insight into the debates and controversies about the position of women in medieval culture.
Author | : Ruth Landes |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826315564 |
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This book is the landmark study of candomblé, the Afro-Brazilian religion of Bahia, Brazil.
Author | : Christine Stansell |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2012-12-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307826503 |
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In this brilliant and vivid study of life in New York City during the years between the creation of the republic and the Civil War, a distinguished historian explores the position of men and women in both the poor and middle classes, the conflict between women of the laboring poor and those of the genteel classes who tried to help them and the ways in which laboring women traced out unforeseen possibilities for themselves in work and in politics. Christine Stansell shows how a new concept of womanhood took shape in America as middle-class women constituted themselves the moral guardians of their families and of the nation, while poor workingwomen, cut adrift from the family ties that both sustained and oppressed them, were subverting—through their sudden entry into the working and political worlds outside the home—the strict notions of female domesticity and propriety, of “woman’s place” and “woman’s nature,” that were central to the flowering and the image of bourgeois life in America. Here we have a passionate and enlightening portrait of New York during the years in which it was becoming a center of world capitalist development, years in which it was evolving in dramatic ways, becoming the city it fundamentally is. And we have, as well, a radically illuminating depiction of a class conflict in which the dialectic of female vice and virtue was a central issue. City of Women is a prime work of scholarship, the first full-scale work by a major new voice in the fields of American and urban history.
Author | : Christine de Pizan |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2003-10-30 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0141961015 |
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Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizan’s book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a woman’s position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.
Author | : Rebecca Solnit |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2016-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520285956 |
Download Nonstop Metropolis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This set explores the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York City. With many contributors, each atlas addresses the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by numerous categories of inhabitants.
Author | : Nazan Maksudyan |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2014-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 178238412X |
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An attempt to reveal, recover and reconsider the roles, positions, and actions of Ottoman women, this volume reconsiders the negotiations, alliances, and agency of women in asserting themselves in the public domain in late- and post-Ottoman cities. Drawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds and a variety of source materials, from court records to memoirs to interviews, the contributors to the volume reconstruct the lives of these women within the urban sphere. With a fairly wide geographical span, from Aleppo to Sofia, from Jeddah to Istanbul, the chapters offer a wide panorama of the Ottoman urban geography, with a specific concern for gender roles.
Author | : Christine de Pisan |
Publisher | : New York : Persea Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : 9780892550661 |
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Written in 1405. The story opens with Christine wondering why so many great philosophers, orators, and poets consistently malign women in their works. She wonders how their claims could be true when compared to the natural behavior and character of women. Three celestial ladies appear before her. They explain that they have come to explain the causes of anti-feminism and to reveal womankind's true nature. They will also help her build a fortified city, an ideal city, in which all noble women of the past, present, and future can live undisturbed.
Author | : Christine De Pizan |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2018-09-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1624667317 |
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"Fresh, accurate, and engaging, this new translation of the Book of the City of Ladies helps us to understand what made Christine de Pizan so popular with her fifteenth-century contemporaries. The editors provide a rich historical and philosophical context that will be very useful to both students and scholars of the history of political ideas. The translations themselves gracefully navigate the fine line between accuracy and readability with considerable charm. Rounding out this portrait of the turmoil of fifteenth-century France, the volume is enriched by excerpts from other works, Christine's Vision, the Book of the Body Politic, and the Lamentation on France’s Ills." —Kate Forhan, Emeritus, Siena College CONTENTS:IntroductionA Note on Translating the Book of the City of LadiesChristine de Pizan: Her works, Her TimesSuggestions for Further ReadingFrom Christine's Vision (1405)The Book of the City of Ladies (1404–1405)From The Book of the Body Politic (1404–1407)From Lamentation on France's Ills (1410)Index
Author | : Denise Kiernan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2014-03-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451617534 |
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Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.