Author: Rashid Mahmood LangrialPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Story of the Fair Sex
Author: Rashid Mahmood LangrialPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Sketches of the Fair Sex in All Parts of the World
Author: AnonymousPublisher:
ISBN: 9781672906913
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Excerpt from the Introduction--"It is our design to present a pleasing and interesting miscellany, which will serve to beguile the leisure hour, and will at the same time couple instruction with amusement. We have used but little method in the arrangement: Choosing rather to furnish the reader with a rich profusion of narratives and anecdotes, all tending to illustrate theFEMALE CHARACTER, to display its delicacy, its sweetness, its gentle or sometimes heroic virtues, its amiable weaknesses, and strange defects-than to attempt an accurate analysis of the hardest subject man ever attempted to master, viz-WOMAN.It will be seen that we do not set down Woman as a cipher in the account of human beings. We accord to her her full share of importance in the world, and we have not attempted to relieve her from a sense of her responsibility as an accountable being. Above all, we have not failed to impress upon her the obligations she is under to Christianity, whose benign influences have raised her to be the companion and bosom-friend of man, instead of his mere handmaid and dependant. It is religion that must form such a character as the following, which though applied by Pope to one of the most accomplished women of his time, is that of a Christian Wife in every age and station.
Woman
Author: John AdamsSketches of the Fair Sex
Author: Taylor AndersonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781974653188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World is the 1841 treatise on women published anonymously. The book samples many cultures around the world, at the time, to give advice on etiquette, marriage, love, and dating. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Wise Gals
Author: Nathalia HoltPublisher: Icon Books
ISBN: 1785789597
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
** TO BE READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK FROM 30 JAN 2023 ** 'As much le Carré as it is Hidden Figures.' AMARYLLIS FOX, author of Life Undercover 'A sweeping epic of a book [which] rescues five remarkable women from obscurity and finally gives them their rightful place in world history ... A book you won't regret reading. Five women you won't forget.' KATE MOORE, author of The Radium Girls 'As entertaining as it is instructive.' GENERAL STANLEY MCCRYSTAL The never-before-told story of a small cadre of influential female spies in the precarious early days of the CIA - women who helped create the template for cutting-edge espionage (and blazed new paths for equality in the workplace). In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organisation now known as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the 'wise gals' by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humour and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels. They were smart, courageous, and groundbreaking agents at the top of their class, instrumental in both developing innovative tools for intelligence gathering - and insisting (in their own unique ways) that they receive the credit and pay their expertise deserved. Adelaide rose through the ranks, developing new cryptosystems that advanced how spies communicate with each other. Mary worked overseas in Europe and Asia, building partnerships and allegiances that would last decades. Elizabeth would risk her life in the Middle East in order to gain intelligence on deadly Soviet weaponry. Eloise would wield influence on scientific and technical operations worldwide, ultimately exposing global terrorism threats. Meticulously researched and beautifully told, Holt uses firsthand interviews with past and present officials and declassified government documents to uncover the stories of these four inspirational women. Wise Gals sheds a light on the untold history of the women whose daring foreign intrigues, domestic persistence, and fighting spirit have been and continue to be instrumental to the world's security.
Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Trieste Publishing
ISBN: 9781760579845
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
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Sketches of the History, Genius, Disposition, Accomplishments, Employments, Customs and Importance of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781391008875
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Excerpt from Sketches of the History, Genius, Disposition, Accomplishments, Employments, Customs and Importance of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World: Interspersed With Many Singular and Entertaining Anecdotes XVI. Of the African women XVII. Of the effefis of chivalry on the cha raé'ters and manners of women XVIII. The Opinion of two modern authors concerning chivalry XIX. Of the great interprifes of women in the times of chivalry XX. Other curious particulars concerning females In thofe ages I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Illustrious History of Women, Or, A Compendium of the Many Virtues that Adorn the Fair Sex Represented Not Only in Lively and Pathetical Discourses Grounded Upon Reason, But in Sundry Rare Examples of Virtuous Love, Piety, Prudence, Modesty
Author: Sketches of the History, Genius, Disposition, Accomplishments, Employments, Customs and Importance of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
Author: Friend to the sexPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Fair Sex, Savage Dreams
Author: Jean WaltonPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822380935
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In Fair Sex, Savage Dreams Jean Walton examines the work of early feminist psychoanalytic writing to decipher in it the unacknowledged yet foundational role of race. Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s, a time when white women were actively refashioning Freud’s problematic accounts of sexual subjectivity, Walton rereads in particular the writing of British analysts Joan Riviere and Melanie Klein, modernist poet H.D., the eccentric French analyst Marie Bonaparte, and anthropologist Margaret Mead. Charting the fantasies of racial difference in these women’s writings, Walton establishes that race—particularly during this period—was inseparable from accounts of gender and sexuality. While arguing that these women remained notably oblivious to the racial meanings embedded in their own attempts to rearticulate feminine sexuality, Walton uses these very blindspots to understand how race and sex are deeply imbricated in the constitution of subjectivity. Challenging the notion that subjects acquire gender identities in isolation from racial ones, she thus demonstrates how white-centered psychoanalytic theories have formed the basis for more contemporary feminist and queer explorations of fantasy, desire, power, and subjectivity. Fair Sex, Savage Dreams will appeal to scholars of psychoanalysis, literary and cinematic modernism, race studies, queer theory, feminist theory, and anthropology.