Author: Margaret CoxePublisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Claims of the Country on American Females
Author: Margaret CoxeClaims of the Country on American Females
Author: Margaret CoxeIn the Country of Women
Author: Susan StraightPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 164622020X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
One of NPR's Best Books of the Year “Straight’s memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emphasis on the women’s stories . . . The aftereffect of all these disparate stories juxtaposed in a single epic is remarkable. Its resonance lingers for days after reading.” —San Francisco Chronicle In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self–proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbecues and fish fries with the large, close–knit Sims family, Straight—and eventually her three daughters—heard for decades the stories of Dwayne’s female ancestors. Some women escaped violence in post–slavery Tennessee, some escaped murder in Jim Crow Mississippi, and some fled abusive men. Straight’s mother–in–law, Alberta Sims, is the descendant at the heart of this memoir. Susan’s family, too, reflects the hardship and resilience of women pushing onward—from Switzerland, Canada, and the Colorado Rockies to California. A Pakistani word, biraderi, is one Straight uses to define a complex system of kinship and clan—those who become your family. An entire community helped raise her daughters. Of her three girls, now grown and working in museums and the entertainment industry, Straight writes, “The daughters of our ancestors carry in their blood at least three continents. We are not about borders. We are about love and survival.” “Certain books give off the sense that you won’t want them to end, so splendid the writing, so lyrical the stories. Such is the case with Southern California novelist Susan Straight’s new memoir, In the Country of Women . . . Her vibrant pages are filled with people of churned–together blood culled from scattered immigrants and native peoples, indomitable women and their babies. Yet they never succumb . . . Straight gives us permission to remember what went before with passion and attachment.” ––Los Angeles Times
The Duty of American Women to Their Country
Author: Catharine Esther BeecherPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Smart Set
Author: George Jean NathanPublisher:
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Life and Light for Heathen Women
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Apprentices' library, N.Y.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Woman's Suffrage
Author: Reclaiming America
Author: Randy ShawPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520217799
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
"Shaw provides the definitive account of the historic national campaign to reform Nike's labor practices. . . . A must read for everyone seeking to achieve greater social and economic fairness in the 21st century."--Medea Benjamin, Co-Director, Global Exchange.
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