Search Results - "Woman"

Self-Made Woman : A Memoir / by DuBois, Denise Chanterelle

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The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldrön : A Woman of Power and Privilege / by Melnick Dyer, Alison

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Louise Blanchard Bethune : Every Woman Her Own Architect / by Hayes McAlonie, Kelly

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Jane Austen among Women / by Kaplan, Deborah, 1950-

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Legendary Ladies of Texas /

Table of Contents: “…EARLY DAYS Maria de Agreda: The lady in blue -- Angelina -- Emily Morgan: Yellow Rose of Texas -- The weeping woman: La Llorona -- SETTLERS Belle Starr: the bandit queen of Dallas -- The ghost of Chipita: the crying woman of San Patricio -- The capitol's lady -- Two sixshooters and a sunbonnet: The story of Sally Skull -- Sophia Porter: Texas' own Scarlett O'Hara -- Elise Waerenskjold: A modern on the prairie -- TEXAS GETS CULTURE Adah Isaacs Menken: From Texas to Paris -- Elisabet Ney: Texas' First lady of sculpture -- Mollie Bailey: Circus entrepreneur -- Martha White McWhirter and the Belton sanctificationists -- Aunt Dicy: Legendary black lady -- El Paso madams -- EARLY 20TH CENTURY Pardon me, Governor Ferguson -- "Tell them I don't smoke cigars": The story of Bonnie Parker -- Glamor girl called Electra -- The babe -- MODERN TIMES Janis and the Austin scene -- Legends in their own time: The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders -- Honky tonk angels -- Woman as victim in modern folklore -- Mrs. …”
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Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation : Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath / by Rahimi Bahmany, Leila

Table of Contents: “…Note continued: The Mirror as the Intersection of Academic and Artistic Talent -- The Mirror as a Weapon of the Femme Fatale -- The Childless Woman: A Narcissist -- The Gigolo: Male Narcissism -- Woman as a Mirror of Male Ego -- Mother in the Mirror -- The Monstrous Degeneration Lurking in the Mirror -- The Promising Mirror -- Child as a Mirror -- The Mirror Image Being Identical with the Self -- The Appalling Otherness of the Specular Self.…”
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Sisters in Science : Conversations with Black Women Scientists on Race, Gender, and Their Passion for Science /

Table of Contents: “…Jordan : an unlikely scientist -- Shelia McClure : a woman's place -- Etheleen McGinnis-Hill : it's a good thing -- Jennie R. …”
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Little Else Than a Memory : Purdue Students Search for the Class of 1904 /

Table of Contents: “…Lyla Vivian Marshall Harcoff: The Pursuits of a Small-Town DreamerThe Eternal Feminine: An Examination of the Life and Times of the Twentieth-Century New University Woman through Cecil Clare Crane -- The Lost Bandsman and His Band -- Just Harry -- Epilogue: Purdue's Past through Purdue's Present -- Biographical Cameos…”
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Let Burn : The Making and Breaking of a Firefighter/Paramedic / by Wentz, Rachel K.

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