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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This innovative text explores the unprecedented changes in the realms of politics, demography, economics, culture, knowledge, and kinship that women have brought about in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Global in reach, the book provides a comparative analysis of developments worldwide to show both progress as well as new tensions and forms of inequality that have emerged out of women's entry into politics, wage employment, education, and...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling historian Dan Jones and the brilliant artist Marina Amaral have combined their talents to create a illuminating visual history of women around the world. Dan Jones and Marina Amaral, the acclaimed team behind The Color of Time, combine their talents again to explore the many roles--domestic, social, cultural and professional--played by women across the world before second-wave feminism took hold. Using Marina Amaral's colorized images...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Macy offers a rare and fascinating glimpse into the journey of women's rights through the lens of women in sports during the pivotal decade of the 1920s. With elegant prose, poignant wit, and fascinating primary sources, Macy explores the many hurdles presented to female athletes as they stormed the field, stepped up to bat, and won the right to compete in sports. Featuring bold and talented heroines, this book documents how the social issues and...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought for more inclusive understandings of Black Power and social justice by developing new ideas about black womanhood. This compelling book shows how the new...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Documents the experiences of women in the U.S. military throughout the past century, drawing on interviews, personal correspondence, and diary entries to trace their struggles with sexual discrimination, contributions in battle, and post-service lives.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Journalist Rachel Cooke goes back in time to offer an entertaining and iconoclastic look at ten women in the 1950s--pioneers whose professional careers and complicated private lives helped to create the opportunities available to today's women. These intrepid and ambitious individuals--among them a film director, a cook, an architect, an editor, an archaeologist, and a race car driver--left the house, discovered the bliss of work, and ushered in the...
9) Double victory: how African American women broke race and gender barriers to help win World War II
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An account of the lesser-known contributions of African-American women during World War II reveals how they helped lay the foundations for the Civil Rights Movement by challenging racial and gender barriers at home and abroad.
Author
Publisher
American Federation of Arts
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This book offers a stunning visual record of the evolution of women's sporting attire in Western fashion over nearly two centuries. With selections from Keds, Pendleton, and Spalding and garments by Coco Chanel, Claire McCardell, and Jean Patou, among many others, it features familiar names in the development of sport, industry, and dress, as well as significant rediscoveries. Standing at the intersection of the history of fashion and feminism, Sporting...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes...
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