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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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The Religious Magazine and Family Miscellany
Author: The Microcosm
Author: Woman
Author: Lillian FadermanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300265174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century “An intelligently provocative, vital reading experience. . . . This highly readable, inclusive, and deeply researched book will appeal to scholars of women and gender studies as well as anyone seeking to understand the historical patterns that misogyny has etched across every era of American culture.”—Kirkus Reviews “A comprehensive and lucid overview of the ongoing campaign to free women from ‘the tyranny of old notions.’”—Publishers Weekly What does it mean to be a “woman” in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God’s plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the impact of such recent events as #metoo, the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the election of Kamala Harris as vice president, and the transgender movement. This wide-ranging 400-year history chronicles conflicts, retreats, defeats, and hard-won victories in both the private and the public sectors and shines a light on the often-overlooked battles of enslaved women and women leaders in tribal nations. Noting that every attempt to cement a particular definition of “woman” has been met with resistance, Faderman also shows that successful challenges to the status quo are often short-lived. As she underlines, the idea of womanhood in America continues to be contested.
Living on Other People's Means, Or, The History of Simon Silver
Author: Hannah Farnham Sawyer LeePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A Checklist of American Imprints for 1837
Author: Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810818415
Category : Imprints (Publishers' and printers' statements)
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
Author: Boston Female Anti-slavery SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The Monthly Religious Magazine and Theological Review
Author: Frederic Dan HuntingtonPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson
Author: Martha AckmannPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393609316
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, this engaging, insightful portrayal of Emily Dickinson sheds new light on one of American literature’s most enigmatic figures. On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, “All things are ready” and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely “at home” (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson’s interior world was extraordinary. She loved passionately, was hesitant about publication, embraced seclusion, and created 1,789 poems that she tucked into a dresser drawer. In These Fevered Days, Martha Ackmann unravels the mysteries of Dickinson’s life through ten decisive episodes that distill her evolution as a poet. Ackmann follows Dickinson through her religious crisis while a student at Mount Holyoke, which prefigured her lifelong ambivalence toward organized religion and her deep, private spirituality. We see the poet through her exhilarating frenzy of composition, through which we come to understand her fiercely self-critical eye and her relationship with sister-in-law and first reader, Susan Dickinson. Contrary to her reputation as a recluse, Dickinson makes the startling decision to ask a famous editor for advice, writes anguished letters to an unidentified “Master,” and keeps up a lifelong friendship with writer Helen Hunt Jackson. At the peak of her literary productivity, she is seized with despair in confronting possible blindness. Utilizing thousands of archival letters and poems as well as never-before-seen photos, These Fevered Days constructs a remarkable map of Emily Dickinson’s inner life. Together, these ten days provide new insights into her wildly original poetry and render an “enjoyable and absorbing” (Scott Bradfield, Washington Post) portrait of American literature’s most enigmatic figure.
Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenæum
Author: Boston AthenaeumPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The New-Yorker
Author: Horace GreeleyPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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