She Rises Like the Sun

She Rises Like the Sun PDF Author: Janine Canan
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ISBN: 9780895943521
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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She Rises Like the Sun

She Rises Like the Sun PDF Author: Janine Canan
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ISBN: 9780895943521
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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She Rises Like the Sun

She Rises Like the Sun PDF Author: Janine Canan
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Women in the Arts

Women in the Arts PDF Author: Diane Touliatos-Miles
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527553922
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Women in the Arts: Eccentric Essays in Music, Visual Arts, and Literature is a multi-disciplined celebration of past and present women creators. It marks a new departure in women’s studies, for it presents an interdisciplinary emphasis on the long-neglected area of women’s contributions to the various genres of the arts. Because of its unique historical approach, this pioneering collection of essays is useful in the areas of humanities and women’s studies as scholarly or pleasure readings. Many “firsts” are included in this anthology. There are chapters by three prominent award-winning living composers that discuss the plight of women in this male-dominated field and the pioneering contemporary innovations to the discipline of musical composition that women have contributed. Another chapter brings to light pioneering research on the names and musical compositions of the earliest women composers. Another gives historical evidence of the earliest documented women’s conservatory and its performers in the United States located in the Moravian Young Ladies’ Seminary in Antebellum Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The chapter on the MacDowell Colony reveals the history of how Marian MacDowell and her network of women’s music clubs helped to build the MacDowell Colony, a haven for artists that has continued through the twenty-first century. In the visual arts, one essay brings forth visual representations of women’s subjugation; another analyzes the photographic innovations and historical work of the woman pioneer, Nellie Ladd; the artistic contributions of two women of color, Josephine Baker and Frida Kahlo, are contrasted in a historical perspective; and a fascinating historical analyses of women and tattoos is presented. In the area of literature, the “Potters” are celebrated for pioneering the first serial hand-made magazine in 1904; another writer, discusses how she represents the role of motherhood in her female characters; and arguments are presented of how women poets give voice to spiritual feminism. The thirteen diverse essays present original contributions to the disciplines of music, visual arts, and literature. By bringing forth this collection, it is hoped that there will be greater appreciation for the great diversity and range of women creators and the obstacles that they had to overcome. It is hoped that the essays will provide a historical documentation of the artistic voice of women that have until now been neglected.

The Illustrated London Almanack

The Illustrated London Almanack PDF Author:
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Category : Almanacs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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The Biography of Goddess Inanna; Indomitable Queen of Heaven, Earth and Almost Everything

The Biography of Goddess Inanna; Indomitable Queen of Heaven, Earth and Almost Everything PDF Author: Sandra Bart Heimann
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504358236
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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When stars were many and people few, a great story was told everywhere. The first storytellers were women. Their story was so large it filled the universe it told of a Great Mother encompassing life, death and return of everything. When Neolithic farming people settled, and depended on plentiful crops and herds, a goddess of fertility stepped into stardom. Inanna is the Sumerian goddess of love, crescent moon, evening star, fertility and renewal. She is the longest lasting supreme goddess of the Ancient Near East. Inannas biography includes her rise to supreme holder of almost all the powers of culture and civilization. 5000 year old poems bring Inanna to life. She sings to her miraculous vulva and to her consort-lover; she struggles to keep her powers and complains of her losses and demotions. Inanna represents lifes powerful contradictions. She changes peace to war and back again; she causes strife and brings love; she turns women into men and men into women. Inanna loves all her people, every one. A biography must have adversity and Inanna has plenty; she must always conquer of the ever-rising tide of patriarchal domination in all its forms. Buried and forgotten for two millennia, she now steps from the dust, ties up her sandals, applies her kohl, adjusts her tiara, summons her lions, and returns. Her story is also womans story. Let me introduce you to Inanna, Queen of Heaven, Earth, and almost everything

Masterpieces of Hebew Literature

Masterpieces of Hebew Literature PDF Author: Curt Leviant
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 082760954X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 591

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The classic anthology of major works, from the Apocrypha to the 18th century

She Who Became the Sun

She Who Became the Sun PDF Author: Shelley Parker-Chan
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 1250621798
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Two-time British Fantasy Award Winner Astounding Award Winner Lambda Literary Award Finalist Hugo Award Finalist Locus Award Finalist Otherwise Award Finalist "Magnificent in every way."—Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree "A dazzling new world of fate, war, love and betrayal."—Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything “I refuse to be nothing...” In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness... In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected. When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate. After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future altogether: her brother's abandoned greatness. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times

Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004267840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441

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This volume brings together articles on the cultural, religious, social and commercial interactions among Jews, Christians and Muslims in the medieval and early modern periods. Written by leading scholars in Jewish studies, Islamic studies, medieval history and social and economic history, the contributions to this volume reflect the profound influence on these fields of the volume’s honoree, Professor Mark R. Cohen.

Spanish Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Literary Tradition

Spanish Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Literary Tradition PDF Author: Arie Schippers
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004624228
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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This work deals extensively with the Arabic themes and literary devices used by Hebrew Andalusian poets in 11th century Muslim (and Christian) Spain. Special interest is devoted to the four main poets of the Hebrew Golden Age in Spain, namely Samuel Ha-Nagid, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Moses Ibn Ezra and Yehuda Ha-Lewi.

From My Back Yard

From My Back Yard PDF Author: St. Clair
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359525407
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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The book contains poetry for the soul, heart and mind. It is a collection of personal and shared experiences as well as ""Wild Imaginations"". It seeks to make you think, feel, love and understand yourself, life and the other person. There is no telling what it can do for you...