Author: Susan G. Bell
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804711715
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
This is the first book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the period from 1750 to 1880. The central issuesmotherhood, women's legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, the effect on social stability of women's education and laborextended to women the struggle by men for personal and political liberty. These issues were political, economic, and religious dynamite. They exploded in debates of philosophers, political theorists, scientists, novelists, and religious and political leaders. This collection emphasizes the debate by juxtaposing prevailing and dissenting points of view at given historical moments (e.g. Madame de Staël vs. Rousseau, Eleanor Marx vs. Pope Leo XIII, Strindberg vs. Ibsen, Simone de Beauvoir vs. Margaret Mead). Each section is preceded by a contextual headnote pinpointing the documents significance. Many of the documents have been translated into English for the first time.
Women, the Family, and Freedom
Author: Susan G. Bell
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804711715
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
This is the first book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the period from 1750 to 1880. The central issuesmotherhood, women's legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, the effect on social stability of women's education and laborextended to women the struggle by men for personal and political liberty. These issues were political, economic, and religious dynamite. They exploded in debates of philosophers, political theorists, scientists, novelists, and religious and political leaders. This collection emphasizes the debate by juxtaposing prevailing and dissenting points of view at given historical moments (e.g. Madame de Staël vs. Rousseau, Eleanor Marx vs. Pope Leo XIII, Strindberg vs. Ibsen, Simone de Beauvoir vs. Margaret Mead). Each section is preceded by a contextual headnote pinpointing the documents significance. Many of the documents have been translated into English for the first time.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804711715
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
This is the first book in a two-part collection of 264 primary source documents from the Enlightenment to 1950 chronicling the public debate that raged in Europe and America over the role of women in Western society. The present volume looks at the period from 1750 to 1880. The central issuesmotherhood, women's legal position in the family, equality of the sexes, the effect on social stability of women's education and laborextended to women the struggle by men for personal and political liberty. These issues were political, economic, and religious dynamite. They exploded in debates of philosophers, political theorists, scientists, novelists, and religious and political leaders. This collection emphasizes the debate by juxtaposing prevailing and dissenting points of view at given historical moments (e.g. Madame de Staël vs. Rousseau, Eleanor Marx vs. Pope Leo XIII, Strindberg vs. Ibsen, Simone de Beauvoir vs. Margaret Mead). Each section is preceded by a contextual headnote pinpointing the documents significance. Many of the documents have been translated into English for the first time.
Women, the Family, and Freedom
Author: Susan Groag Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804711708
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804711708
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Women, the Family, and Freedom; The Debate in Documents
Author: Susan G. Bell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages :
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Women, the Family, and Freedom: 1880-1950
Author: Susan G. Bell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804711739
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780804711739
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Women, the Family, and Freedom
Author: S. G. Bell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Freedom in the Family
Author: Tananarive Due
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 0307525341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships, its nameless foot soldiers, and its achievements—and an incisive examination of the future of justice in this country. Their mother-daughter journey spanning two generations of struggles is an unforgettable story.
Publisher: One World
ISBN: 0307525341
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships, its nameless foot soldiers, and its achievements—and an incisive examination of the future of justice in this country. Their mother-daughter journey spanning two generations of struggles is an unforgettable story.
Love of Freedom
Author: Catherine Adams
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195389085
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Love of Freedom explores how black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation from slavery but defined freedom more broadly to include spiritual, familial, and economic dimensions.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195389085
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Love of Freedom explores how black women in colonial and revolutionary New England sought not only legal emancipation from slavery but defined freedom more broadly to include spiritual, familial, and economic dimensions.
All the Women in My Family Sing
Author: Deborah Santana
Publisher: Nothing But the Truth So Help
ISBN: 9780997296211
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An anthology [of prose and poetry] documenting the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the twenty-first century ... whose topics range from the pressures of being the vice-president of a Fortune 500 Company, to escaping the killing fields of Cambodia, to the struggles inside immigration, identity, romance, and self-worth"--Amazon.com.
Publisher: Nothing But the Truth So Help
ISBN: 9780997296211
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"An anthology [of prose and poetry] documenting the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the twenty-first century ... whose topics range from the pressures of being the vice-president of a Fortune 500 Company, to escaping the killing fields of Cambodia, to the struggles inside immigration, identity, romance, and self-worth"--Amazon.com.
Women, the Family, and Freedom
Author: Susan G. Bell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
A Glorious Freedom
Author: Lisa Congdon
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452156212
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
“The remarkable women celebrated in [this] vibrantly illustrated collection . . . offer stirring words of encouragement to any woman, of any age” (Booklist). The glory of growing older is the freedom to be more truly ourselves. With age we gain the confidence to pursue bold new endeavors and worry less about what other people think. In this richly illustrated volume, bestselling author and artist Lisa Congdon explores the power of women over the age of forty who are thriving and living life on their own terms. A Glorious Freedom includes profiles, interviews, and essays from women such as Vera Wang, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Julia Child, Cheryl Strayed, and many others who have found creative fulfillment and accomplished great things in the second half of their lives. Each section is lavishly illustrated and hand-lettered in Congdon's signature style.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452156212
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
“The remarkable women celebrated in [this] vibrantly illustrated collection . . . offer stirring words of encouragement to any woman, of any age” (Booklist). The glory of growing older is the freedom to be more truly ourselves. With age we gain the confidence to pursue bold new endeavors and worry less about what other people think. In this richly illustrated volume, bestselling author and artist Lisa Congdon explores the power of women over the age of forty who are thriving and living life on their own terms. A Glorious Freedom includes profiles, interviews, and essays from women such as Vera Wang, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Julia Child, Cheryl Strayed, and many others who have found creative fulfillment and accomplished great things in the second half of their lives. Each section is lavishly illustrated and hand-lettered in Congdon's signature style.