Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674011304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.
Famous Women
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674011304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674011304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.
500 Great Books by Women
Author: Erica Bauermeister
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140175905
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Often poorly represented in buyers' guides, women's books are now covered in this articulate and intentionally eclectic reader's guide. Covering a wealth of remarkable novels, narratives, biographies, and more, this resource for general readers offers more than 500 entries--capturing the flavor of each book. Includes seven cross-referenced indexes.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140175905
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Often poorly represented in buyers' guides, women's books are now covered in this articulate and intentionally eclectic reader's guide. Covering a wealth of remarkable novels, narratives, biographies, and more, this resource for general readers offers more than 500 entries--capturing the flavor of each book. Includes seven cross-referenced indexes.
Almost Famous Women
Author: Megan Mayhew Bergman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476786569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity, from Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra, to Oscar Wilde's troubled niece, Dolly.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476786569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity, from Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra, to Oscar Wilde's troubled niece, Dolly.
Eminent Buddhist Women
Author: Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438451326
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Eminent Buddhist Women reveals the exemplary legacy of Buddhist women through the centuries. Despite the Buddha's own egalitarian values, Buddhism as a religion has been dominated by men for more than two thousand years. With few exceptions, the achievements of Buddhist women have remained hidden or ignored. The narratives in this book call into question the criteria for "eminence" in the Buddhist tradition and how these criteria are constructed and controlled. Each chapter pays a long-overdue tribute to one woman or a group of women from across the Buddhist world, including the West. Using a variety of sources, from orally transmitted legends to firsthand ethnographic research, contributors examine the key issues women face in their practice of Buddhist ethics, contemplation, and social action. What emerges are Buddhist principles that transcend gender: loving kindness, compassion, wisdom, spiritual attainment, and liberation.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438451326
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Eminent Buddhist Women reveals the exemplary legacy of Buddhist women through the centuries. Despite the Buddha's own egalitarian values, Buddhism as a religion has been dominated by men for more than two thousand years. With few exceptions, the achievements of Buddhist women have remained hidden or ignored. The narratives in this book call into question the criteria for "eminence" in the Buddhist tradition and how these criteria are constructed and controlled. Each chapter pays a long-overdue tribute to one woman or a group of women from across the Buddhist world, including the West. Using a variety of sources, from orally transmitted legends to firsthand ethnographic research, contributors examine the key issues women face in their practice of Buddhist ethics, contemplation, and social action. What emerges are Buddhist principles that transcend gender: loving kindness, compassion, wisdom, spiritual attainment, and liberation.
Great Quotes from Great Women
Author: Peggy Anderson
Publisher: Simple Truths
ISBN: 9781492649588
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Throughout history women have inspired and motivated society towards greater strength, courage, and justice. If you had the opportunity to ask the greatest women of all time for advice, wouldn't you jump at the chance? Drawing from the timeless wisdom of leaders such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, and Michelle Obama, each page of Great Quotes from Great Women offers motivation for your daily challenges, or inspiration to get back on your feet.
Publisher: Simple Truths
ISBN: 9781492649588
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Throughout history women have inspired and motivated society towards greater strength, courage, and justice. If you had the opportunity to ask the greatest women of all time for advice, wouldn't you jump at the chance? Drawing from the timeless wisdom of leaders such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, and Michelle Obama, each page of Great Quotes from Great Women offers motivation for your daily challenges, or inspiration to get back on your feet.
Women in Long Island's Past
Author: Natalie A. Naylor
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614237352
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Women have been part of Long Island's past for thousands of years but are nearly invisible in the records and history books. From pioneering doctors to dazzling aviatrixes, author Natalie A. Naylor brings these larger-than-life but little-known heroines out of the lost pages of island history. Anna Symmes Harrison, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Edith Kermit Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt all served as first lady of the United States, and all had Long Island roots. Beloved children's author Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote The Secret Garden here, and hundreds of local suffragists fought for their right to vote in the early twentieth century. Discover these and other stories of the remarkable women of Long Island.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614237352
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Women have been part of Long Island's past for thousands of years but are nearly invisible in the records and history books. From pioneering doctors to dazzling aviatrixes, author Natalie A. Naylor brings these larger-than-life but little-known heroines out of the lost pages of island history. Anna Symmes Harrison, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Edith Kermit Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt all served as first lady of the United States, and all had Long Island roots. Beloved children's author Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote The Secret Garden here, and hundreds of local suffragists fought for their right to vote in the early twentieth century. Discover these and other stories of the remarkable women of Long Island.
Woman Made
Author: Jane Hall
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN: 9781838662851
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The most comprehensive, fully illustrated book on women designers ever published - a celebration of more than 200 women product designers from the early twentieth century to the present day
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN: 9781838662851
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The most comprehensive, fully illustrated book on women designers ever published - a celebration of more than 200 women product designers from the early twentieth century to the present day
Great Women of Film
Author: Helena Lumme
Publisher: Billboard Books
ISBN: 9780823079568
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Celebrates the achievements of thirty women working in the motion picture industry, including actors, directors, producers, screenwriters, film editors, and production designers.
Publisher: Billboard Books
ISBN: 9780823079568
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Celebrates the achievements of thirty women working in the motion picture industry, including actors, directors, producers, screenwriters, film editors, and production designers.
Models of Achievement
Author: Agnes N. O'Connell
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317785908
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Providing role models of excellence for contemporary women and men and contributing to the understanding of the educational and career development of high achieving women, these autobiographical essays of seventeen women and their achievements generate a deeper appreciation of the vital role of women in the development of contemporary psychology.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1317785908
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Providing role models of excellence for contemporary women and men and contributing to the understanding of the educational and career development of high achieving women, these autobiographical essays of seventeen women and their achievements generate a deeper appreciation of the vital role of women in the development of contemporary psychology.
Great Women of the Christian Faith
Author: Edith Deen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Biographies of over a hundred great Christian women throughout the ages, being a companion volume to the author's previous "All the women of the Bible."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Biographies of over a hundred great Christian women throughout the ages, being a companion volume to the author's previous "All the women of the Bible."