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Women Studies

Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 2

David Gabrielle

ISBN: PB: 9781940939995, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, June 2021
877 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones

This continuation of Gabrielle David's odyssey into the lives and careers of 150 brilliant black women from the eighteenth century to the present brings together biographies of women who blazed uncharted paths alongside powerful photographs that illu...

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Women Studies

America

Trailblazers American Firsts / American Icons, Volume 1: Black Women Who Helped Make America Great

David Gabrielle

ISBN: PB: 9781940939797, University of Chicago Press, 2Leaf Press, April 2021
877 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The past four hundred years have seen unprecedented growth in virtually every conceivable realm of life, from medicine to the arts, technology to finance. Far too often, however, when we think of the movers, shakers, and innovators behind these trans...

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America

Women Studies

They Were Her Property White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Jones-Rogers Stephanie E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300251838, Yale University Press, February 2020
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave?...

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Literary Criticism

Women Studies

Tough Enough Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil

Nelson Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780226457802, ISBN: HB: 9780226457772, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories....

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Photography

Women Studies

Through Women's Eyes From Diane Arbus to Letizia Battaglia. Passion and Courage

Miglietti Francesca Alfano

ISBN: HB: 9788831722810, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2016
288 pp., 25.7x20.8 cm, 80 colour illus., 151 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 20th century to today features the most important works of 25 artists. Women have played an important role in the development of photogr...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

That Monstrous Regiment The Birth of Women's Political Emancipation

Stone Harry

ISBN: PB: 9781861513137, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, June 2015
268 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Here, for the first time, are outlined the subterfuges and wiles of the six queens who largely ruled Europe during the second half of the sixteenth century, as well as the complex relationships between them. Up against what was essentially a man's wo...

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General

Women Studies

Traffic in Women's Work East European Migration and the Making of Europe

Parvulescu Anca

ISBN: PB: 9780226118383, ISBN: HB: 9780226118246, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

"Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, Anca Parvulescu analyzes an important nich...

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