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Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography o...Stuart Nicholson's biography of Ella Fitzgerald is considered a classic in jaz... Stuart Nicholson's biography of Ella Fitzgerald is considered a classic in jazz literature. Drawing on original documents, interviews, and new information, Nicholson draws a complete picture of Fitzgerald's professional and personal life. Fitzgera more
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The Lady Footballers: Struggli...This book tells the story of 'the Lady Footballers'. It covers their 1895 and ... This book tells the story of 'the Lady Footballers'. It covers their 1895 and 1896 tours through the eyes of the largely unsympathetic British press. It explains gender issues of the time, and the financial problems that doomed this experiment. more
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Women in Christianity in the M...Women in Christianity in the Modern Age examines the role of women in Christia... Women in Christianity in the Modern Age examines the role of women in Christianity in the 20th and early 21st Centuries. This edited volume includes eight important contributions from academics in the field.The modern era has been an age o more
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Quaker Women By Sandra Stanley...One nineteenth-century commentator noted the 'public' character of Quaker wome... One nineteenth-century commentator noted the 'public' character of Quaker women as signalling a new era in female history This study examines such claims through the story of middle-class women Friends from among the kinship circle created by the... more
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Food, Feminism, and Women's Ar...This book explores how feminist artists continued to engage with kitchen cultu... This book explores how feminist artists continued to engage with kitchen culture and food practices in their work as women's art moved from the margins to the mainstream.In particular, this book examines the use of food in the art practice more
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Old Women and Art in the Early...Though portraits of old women mediate cultural preoccupations just as effectiv... Though portraits of old women mediate cultural preoccupations just as effectively as those of younger women, the scant published research on images of older women belies their significance within early modern Italy. This study examines the remarka more
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Women's Ritual Competence in t...Contributions in this volume demonstrate how, across the ancient Mediterranean... Contributions in this volume demonstrate how, across the ancient Mediterranean and over hundreds of years, women's rituals intersected with the political, economic, cultural, or religious spheres of their communities in a way that has only recentl more
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Policing Women: Histories in t...Policing Women examines for the first time the changing historical landscape o... Policing Women examines for the first time the changing historical landscape of women's experiences of their contact with the official state police between 1800 and 1950 in the Western world.Drawing on and going beyond existing kn more
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Women Architects in the Modern...Heroines of Space looks at four groundbreaking women architects: Eileen Gray, ... Heroines of Space looks at four groundbreaking women architects: Eileen Gray, Lilly Reich, Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky, and Charlotte Perriand. You'll see the parts they played in the history of modern architecture and get a clearer view of the re more
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Archaeology and Women: Ancient...Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently b... Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology. One section of this collection of original articles addresses the historical and contemporary roles of more
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Women in Nazi GermanyFrom images of jubilant mothers offering the Nazi salute, to Eva Braun and Mag... From images of jubilant mothers offering the Nazi salute, to Eva Braun and Magda Goebbels, women in Hitler's Germany and their role as supporters and guarantors of the Third Reich continue to exert a particular fascination. This account moves away more
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Australian Women's Justice: Se...This book explores how women spearheaded the democratic suffrage campaign in c... This book explores how women spearheaded the democratic suffrage campaign in colonial Queensland engaging with international debates on women's activism, leadership, advocacy, print culture, and social movements.Australian Women's Justice more
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Biographical Dictionary of Chi...The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Ch... The first biographical dictionary in any Western language devoted solely to Chinese women, this reference is the product of years of research, translation, and writing by a team of over 60 China scholars from around the world. Compiled from a wide more
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Witness in Palestine: A Jewish...Anna Baltzer, a young Jewish American, went to the West Bank to discover the r... Anna Baltzer, a young Jewish American, went to the West Bank to discover the realities of daily life for Palestinians under the occupation. What she found would change her outlook on the conflict forever. She wrote this book to give voice to the s more
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Stitching the World: Embroider...From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British ... From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map samplers and even silk globes. Hundreds of British maps were made and although American examples are more rare, they more
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Women in Eighteenth Century Eu...Was the century of Voltaire also the century of women? In the eighteenth centu... Was the century of Voltaire also the century of women? In the eighteenth century changes in the nature of work, family life, sexuality, education, law, religion, politics and warfare radically altered the lives of women. Some of these developments more
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Japanese Women Poets: An Antho...Throughout history, Japanese women have excelled in poetry - from the folk son... Throughout history, Japanese women have excelled in poetry - from the folk songs of the Kojiki (Record of Ancient Matters) compiled in 712 and the court poetry of the 9th to the 14th centuries, on through the age of haikai and kanshi to the 19th c more
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Women Speak Nation: Gender, Cu...Women Speak Nation underlines the centrality of gender within the ideological ... Women Speak Nation underlines the centrality of gender within the ideological construction of nationalism. The volume locates itself in a rich scholarship of feminist critique of the relationship between political, economic, cultural, and more
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Earthcare: Women and the Envir...Written by one of the leading thinkers in environmentalism, Earthcare brings t... Written by one of the leading thinkers in environmentalism, Earthcare brings together Merchant's existing work on the topic of women and the environment as well as updated and new essays. Earthcare looks at age-old historical ass more
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Ideological Equals: Women Arch...Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989 presents an... Ideological Equals: Women Architects in Socialist Europe 1945-1989 presents an alternative narrative of women in architecture. A topic often considered from the perspective of difference, this edited collection conversely focuses on the w more
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