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Women of the Renaissance
by Margaret L. King
305.4 Kin
Utilizing the perspectives of social, church, and intellectual history,
King looks at women of all classes, in both usual and unusual
settings. She first describes the familial roles filled by women of
the day - as mothers, daughters, wives, widows, and workers. She
turns then to that significant faction of women directly affected by the
church: nuns, cloistered holy women, saints, heretics, reformers, and
witches, devoting special attention to the social and economic
independence monastic life afforded them. The lives of exceptional
women - those warriors, queens, patronesses, scholars, and visionaries who
found some other place in society for their energies and strivings - are
explored. Strong minded women and
other lost voices from 19th century England
by Janet Horowitz Murray
305.4 Mur
A collective portrait of women in 19th century England - of the
stereotypes that bound them, the limits they struggles against, the issues
that absorbed them - in voices so vivid one might almost be reading modern
oral history. Century of Women
by Sheila Rowbotham
305.4209 Row
Charts the remarkable changes and interchanges in the lives of British and
American women over the last 100 years, recording not only the effects of
events but also the varied ways that women themselves have shaped this
century and changed its course. From the nameless women who marched
to vote, stood on picket lines or refused to ride on segregated buses, to
the politicians, poets, and film stars whose faces fill our newspapers and
television screens - all are given their place and their stories told. What
women want
by Patricia Ireland
305.42 Ire
Writing with wry wit, clear-eyed wisdom, and her invincible warrior
spirit, Ireland explores how her own journey mirrors the changes so many
women have made as they have remade the world over the past decades.
She frankly discusses her mistakes as well as her unshaken convictions,
the setbacks of the movement as well as the triumphs, and the reasons for
her high hopes for the future in the face of the conservative backlash. From
out of the shadows: Mexican women in twentieth century America
by Vivki L. Ruiz
305.48 Rui
For centuries, Mexican-American women have been creative, innovative
forces shaping cultural and economic development of what is now the
Southwest. Whether living in a labor camp, a boxcar settlement, or
an urban barrio, Mexican women nurtured families, worked for wages, built
extended networks, and participated in community associations. This
book is an important addition to the largely undocumented history of
Mexican-American women in our century. Outstanding
women athletes: who they are and how they influenced sports in America
by Janet Woolum
796.0194 Woo
A resource combining history, biography, bibliography, and statistics
about women's sporting experiences in America. Girls
of summer: in their own league
by Lois Brown
796.357 Bro
A surprising, true story about some very special women who made history,
but who have been forgotten with the passage of time. Chronicles the
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from the formation in 1943
to its fall from favor in 1954. Having
our say: the Delany sisters' first 100 years
by Sarah Louise and Annie Elizabeth Delany, with Amy Hill Hearth
920 Del
Filled with humorous and poignant anecdotes, this inspiring dual memoir
offers a rare glimpse of the birth of black freedom and the rise of the
black middle class in America. The Delany sisters recall growing up
in turn-of the century North Carolina, confronting the first days of Jim
Crow and segregation, the migration North, and rising to professional
prominence during the heyday of Harlem. Their lifelong insights
provide us with a priceless oral history of our nation's past
century. They show us how far we've been, how far we've come, and
how far we have to go. The warrior
queens
by Antonia Fraser
920 Fra
In this lively and panoramic work of history, Fraser looks at the women
who led armies and empires such as: Boadicea, the Celtic chieftain who led
a bloody uprising against Roman rule in the first century AD; Cleopatra,
who relied less on sexual guile than on political acumen; the grimly
devoted Isabella of Spain; and the majestic and murderous Jinga Mbandi,
who became the bane of Portugese colonists in seventeenth century
Angola. Also included are the modern "iron ladies":
Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, and Golda Meir, who have inherited and
sometimes shrewdly manipulated the myths adhering to thier predecessors. Woman
of valor: Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement in America
by Ellen Chesler
921 San
Drawing on new information from archives and interviews, Chesler
illuminates Sanger's turbulent personal story as well as the birth control
movement. An intimate portrayal of a visionary rebel, this is also
an epic story that extends from the radical movements of pre-World War I
to the family planning initiatives of the Great Society. The
Women's Great Lakes reader
edited by Victoria Brehm
977.03 Wom
Women lighthouse keepers, fur traders, cooks on sailing vessels,
missionaries, and fearless travelers all wrote of their lives on the Great
Lakes. Their narratives, which span the centuries from 1789 to the
present, are now collected in this anthology for the first time.
Some writers such as Frances Trollope and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft are
well known. Others left their quiet testimonies in letters, log
books, and diaries that have never before been published. The
girls are coming
by Peggie Carlson
977.6 Car
In 1974, lured by good wages, a 22-year old college student from suburban
Minneapolis started working as a pipefitter trainee for Minnegasco, a
Minnesota natural gas utility. Peggie Carlson was on the first four
women hired by the company into non-secretarial jobs after the passage of
the Equal Opportunity Act of 1972. On the job, she and Sonny,
another of the pioneering four, met men who were helpful, and men who were
simply flummoxed to find "girls" in thier midst. This is
the sometimes humorous story of how they learned to work together and what
they all learned about stereotypes.
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