Search Results - "Woman"

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

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Educating the Proper Woman Reader : Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation / by Phegley, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…The scene of women's reading : mid-nineteenth century culture, professional critics, and family literary magazines -- Piracy and the patriotic woman reader : making British literature American in Harper's new monthly magazine, 1850-1855 -- The education and professionalization of the woman reader : consolidating middleclass power in the Cornhill magazine, 1860-1864 -- (Im)proper reading for women : Belgravia magazine and the defense of the sensation novel, 1866-1871 -- Victoria's secret : the woman's movement from reader to writer/critic, 1863-1868.…”
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I Made You to Find Me : The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address / by Hedley, Jane

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Eat My Dust : Early Women Motorists / by Clarsen, Georgine, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Movement in a minor key : dilemmas of the woman motorist -- A war product : the British motoring girl and her garage -- A car made by English ladies for others of their sex : the feminist factory and the lady's car -- Transcontinental travel : the politics of automobile consumption in the United States -- Campaigns on wheels : American automobiles and a suffrage of consumption -- "The woman who does" : a Melbourne women's motor garage -- Driving Australian modernity : conquering Australia by car -- Machines as the measure of women : Cape-to-Cairo by automobile.…”
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Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace : Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism / by Brennan, Mary C.

Table of Contents: “…-- Women beware : the feminine view of foreign communism -- Women arise : the red threat on the domestic scene -- Manly men and the little woman : gender and anticommunism.…”
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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel / by Coleman, Dawn (Dawn Davina), 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Creating the preacher's authority -- The slow rise of novel in America -- The radical Protestant preaching of George Lippard -- Secularizing the sermon in The scarlet letter -- Playing preacher in Moby-Dick -- The unsentimental woman preacher of Uncle Tom's cabin -- The borrowed sermons of Clotel; or, the President's daughter.…”
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Seeing Red : Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians / by Carpenter, Cari M., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Alice Callahan's Wynema -- "A woman to let alone" : E. Pauline Johnson and the performance of anger -- Lost (and gained) in translation : language, anger, and agency in Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Life among the Piutes -- Conclusion : an anger of their own.…”
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Women Poets and the American Sublime / by Diehl, Joanne Feit, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…From Emerson to Whitman : engendering the sublime -- Another way to see : Dickenson and the counter-sublime -- Dickinson, Moore, and the poetics of deflection -- Marianne Moore : toward an engendered sublime -- The "piercing, melting word" : Moore's "Octopus" -- Bishop's sexual poetics -- Plath's bodily ego : restaging the sublime -- "Of woman born" : Adrienne Rich and the feminist sublime.…”
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Staging Desire : Queer Readings of American Theater History /

Table of Contents: “…Clyde Fitch's too wilde love / Kim Marra -- Rachel Crothers: an exceptional woman in a man's world / J.K. Curry -- Say what you will about Mercedes de Acosta / Robert A. …”
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Maternal Bodies : Redefining Motherhood in Early America / by Doyle, Nora

Table of Contents: “…In search of the maternal body -- The tyrannical womb and the disappearing mother: the maternal body in medical literature -- Writing the body: the work of the body in women's childbearing narratives -- The highest pleasure of which woman's nature is capable: breastfeeding and the emergence of the sentimental mother -- Good mothers and wet nurses: breastfeeding and the fracturing of sentimental motherhood -- The fantasy of the transcendent mother: the disembodiment of the mother in popular feminine print culture -- Imagining the slave mother: sentimentalism and embodiment in antislavery print culture -- In search of the maternal body past and present.…”
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Martini, Straight Up : The Classic American Cocktail / by Edmunds, Lowell

Table of Contents: “…The Martini is a man's, not a woman's, drink. Message 5. The Martini is optimistic, not pessimistic. …”
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Any Friend of the Movement : Networking for Birth Control, 1920-1940 / by Meyer, Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson

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The Enduring Legacy : Structured Inequality in America's Public Schools / by Ryan, Mark, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…A struggle between forces -- An ambiguous philosophical root -- Growing democratic values -- The evolution from common school to public school -- American exceptionalism -- What is the profession of a woman? -- A plan for inclusion -- The Committee of Ten and The cardinal principles -- A particular solution for a specific problem -- Social Darwinism as justification -- White superiority via pseudo empiricism -- Assimilation via Americanism in the classroom -- Personification of duality : Cubberley's life and legacy -- Cubberley's hierarchy -- Structured inequality via perceived ability grouping -- Tracking and segregation endure -- The cycle of segregation, desegregation, and resegregation -- Structured inequality : from political strategy to pedagogical practice -- Courts and the persistence of structured inequality -- The court and "race neutral" diversity -- The Southern strategy -- LBJ : integrate and get funding or stay segregated and get nothing -- Political ambiguity on integration -- Nixon's rise bolstered by the Southern strategy -- Nixon's ambiguity on integration and the courts -- Ford continues Nixonian states' rights policies -- Jimmy Carter, a son of the South, disrupts the Southern strategy -- Reagan nullifies LBJ'S integration legacy via the Southern strategy -- Reagan reverses policies against race discrimination -- Reagan : busing to desegregate : waste of time and public money -- George Herbert Walker Bush and an evolving Southern strategy -- Southern ticket of Clinton and Gore wins as resegregation persists -- Bill Clinton's recognition of resegregation in the 1990s -- George W. …”
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Executing Race : Early American Women's Narratives of Race, Society, and the Law / by Harris, Sharon M.

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