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Author: Jill Liddington Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
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One Hand Tied Behind Us creates a vivid portrait of strong women who envisaged freedoms for which we are still fighting today. It is based on interviews with the last surviving suffragists & those who witnessed their work, & on diaries, biographies, etc.
Author: Jill Liddington Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
One Hand Tied Behind Us creates a vivid portrait of strong women who envisaged freedoms for which we are still fighting today. It is based on interviews with the last surviving suffragists & those who witnessed their work, & on diaries, biographies, etc.
Author: Dick Ramsey Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1456832573 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1025
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When you ́re eighteen you don ́t get tired, you don ́t get cold, nothing terrible will ever happen, and you can do anything with one hand tied behind your back. Say hello to Gail Stuart, the protagonist of With One Hand Tied Behind His Back: The Life and Times of Gail Stuart. He ́s an eighteen year old college freshman falsely accused of stealing a midterm Geology test. Presuming they ́re nabbed, test thieves get an F for the test, possible expulsion, and, if the police are involved, arrest for a high misdemeanor. But what if new information makes the case a felony, which it does, despite the fact that the word evidence seems to have disappeared from the language. Gail is then joined by bribable and buyable administrators, dodging and ducking department heads, a cowardly martinet from the board of regents, and a babble of noble, corrupt, and partly corrupt students, fraternity blokes, instructors, proprietary secretaries, anxious editors, sleazy reporter, attorneys, cops, and local citizens, all either hoping Gail is innocent or that he takes the rap. How he overcomes his dilemma is further convoluted by other avocations and unplanned adventures, a full course schedule, a sorority hasher ́s job, a fraternity membership, a couple of physical altercations, and even his own retail business. With One Hand Tied Behind His Back also presents the Stuart family. Roderick Bruce Stuart II, Gail ́s father is a descendant of Charles II of England. His family has lived in Minneapolis since the 1860s. Gail ́s mother, Charlotte Fairfax Stuart, comes from renegade Swiss mercenaries, degenerate French apaches, and more civilized Virginia farmers. Find out what she does with her life and how it influences her son. Finally, With One Hand Tied Behind His Back presents the Midwest college scene of 1954 where the expanding economy of post World War II and the GI Bill have increased the number of students, including women. One of them, the self assured and competent Rebecca Brickerhaus, will share and adventure or two and fall in love with Gail Stuart. Ah, yes. How could it be otherwise.
Author: Mark Thorsell Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781523327355 Category : Languages : en Pages : 46
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This book is primarily about two aspects of my life, my faith in God and Parkinson's disease. My faith makes everything worth while. Parkinson's is an assault on my brain and body. Without faith, it would be impossible to battle the disease. In this book are a collection of thoughts and stories I have written in the last few months. My hope is that what I have written may be entertaining or informative to someone else fighting this war.
Author: Avrel Seale Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 0875657672 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 344
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Most would not expect a book about a stroke to be entertaining, but this memoir will force you to laugh through a tragedy, then cry, then laugh again. Avrel Seale was fifty, did not smoke or drink, had low blood pressure, and had hiked more than two hundred miles the year a stroke nearly ended his life. In an instant, he was teleported into the body of an old man—unbalanced, shaky, spastic, and half-paralyzed. Overnight, he was plunged into a world of brain surgeons, nurses, insurance case managers, and an abundance of therapists. Beginning three weeks before his stroke to set the stage, Seale leads us through the harrowing day of his stroke and emergency brain surgery with minute-by-minute intensity. We then follow him through ICU, a rehab hospital, and a neuro-recovery group-living center, where we meet a memorable cast of other stroke survivors and also those recovering from auto accidents and gunshots. Finally home, Seale leads us through a new life of firsts, including returning to work, to driving, to playing guitar, to camping, and even to writing a book—all with one hand. What emerges from his humor (“elegant but devastating”) is a revealing critique of the hospital experience, the insurance industry, and rehab culture. And his nothing-off-the-table quest for recovery shows both the sobering struggles and inspiring possibilities of life after a stroke in twenty-first century America.
Author: June Hannam Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134766688 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 240
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This fascinating new study examines the experiences of women involved in the socialist movement during its formative years in Britain and the active role they played in campaigning for the vote. By giving full attention to this much-neglected group of women, Socialist Women examines and challenges the orthodox views of labour and suffrage history. Torn between competing loyalties of gender, class and politics, socialist women did not have a fixed identity but a number of contested identities. June Hannam and Karen Hunt probe issues that created divisions between these women, as well as giving them the opportunity to act together. In three fascinating case studies they explore: * women's suffrage * women and internationalism * the politics of consumption. Believing above all that being a woman was vital to their politics, these individuals sought to develop a woman-focused theory of socialism and to put this new politics into practice.
Author: Jill Liddington
Author: Jill Liddington
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Author: Jill Liddington
Author: Jill Liddington
Author: Dick Ramsey
Author: Mark Thorsell
Author: William Cobbett
Author: William Cobbett
Author: Avrel Seale
Author: June Hannam