Search Results - "Woman"

Race woman the lives of Shirley Graham Du Bois / by Horne, Gerald

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Egypt as a woman nationalism, gender, and politics / by Baron, Beth

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A woman's place is in the House campaigning for Congress in the feminist era / by Burrell, Barbara C., 1947-

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Pat Schroeder a woman of the house / by Lowy, Joan A., 1956-

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The lonely war : one woman's account of the struggle for modern Iran / by Fathi, Nazila, 1970-

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Militant citizenship rhetorical strategies of the National Woman's Party, 1913-1920 / by Stillion Southard, Belinda A., 1978-

Table of Contents: “…Women, citizenship, and US nationalism -- Mimesis and political ritual : the National Woman Suffrage Parade -- Mimesis and third-party politics : the Woman's Party -- Mimesis and the rhetorical presidency: the Silent Sentinels -- Mimesis and US internationalism : statue protests and the "Watch Fires of Freedom."…”
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All bound up together the woman question in African American public culture, 1830-1900 / by Jones, Martha S.

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My fight for a new Taiwan : one woman's journey from prison to power / by Hsiu-lien, Lu, Esarey, Ashley

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Seeking the beloved community a feminist race reader / by James, Joy, 1958-

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The big house after slavery Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment / by Morsman, Amy Feely, 1972-

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Gendering radicalism : women and communism in twentieth-century California / by Slutsky, Beth

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The sword and the pen women, politics, and poetry in sixteenth-century Siena / by Eisenbichler, Konrad

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- At Petrarch's tomb: the first bloom of a short springtime -- Aurelia Petrucci: admired and mourned -- Laudomia Forteguerri: constructions of a woman -- Virginia Salvi: an indomitable woman -- Epilogue -- Appendix: selected poetry by Sienese women. …”
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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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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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An unfinished republic leading by word and deed in modern China / by Strand, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Republican China -- Slapping Song Jiaoren -- Speaking parts in Chinese history -- A woman's Republic -- Seeing like a citizen -- Losing a speech -- Sun Yat-sen's last words -- Conclusion: Leading and being led.…”
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Feminism, absolutism, and Jansenism Louis XIV and the Port Royal nuns / by Kostroun, Daniella J., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Jansenism as a "woman problem" -- Controversy and reform at Port Royal -- Jansenism's political turn, 1652-1661 -- The limits to obedience, 1661-1664 -- A feminist response to absolutism, 1664-1669 -- The unsettled peace, 1669-1679 -- A royal victory, 1679-1709.…”
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Liaisons dangereuses sex, law, and diplomacy in the age of Frederick the Great / by Lindemann, Mary

Table of Contents: “…-- A most difficult case -- A very diplomatic affair -- Dramatis personae -- Entr'acte -- A brave and upright cavalier? -- A woman of pleasure -- A real Polish prince, a fake Italian count, and an authentic Spanish hidalgo.…”
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The Fair sex white women and racial patriarchy in the early American Republic / by Schloesser, Pauline E.

Table of Contents: “…Race, gender, and woman citizenship in the American founding -- Toward a theory of racial patriarchy -- The ideology of the "fair sex" -- The philosopher queen and the U.S. constitution: Mercy Otis Warren as a reluctant signatory -- From revolution to racial patriarchy: the political pragmatism of Abigail Adams -- Gleaning a self between the lines: Judith Sargent Murray.…”
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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

Table of Contents: “…Archives of conduct : John Gay on London's street level -- Novel conduct : imagined authority in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Bow Street -- Pope, Westminster Bridge, and other imaginative "things of use" -- Interchapter : the print-saturated city -- Agitation and dramatic criticism in Boswell's London Journal -- Frances Burney's "interior monitor" and the self-governing woman.…”
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Elly Peterson "mother" of the moderates / by Fitzgerald, Sara, 1951-

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