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Author : Jessie Carney Smith,Shirelle Phelps
Publisher : VNR AG
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0810391775
Arranged alphabetically from "Alice of Dunk's Ferry" to "Jean Childs Young," this volume profiles 312 Black American women who have achieved national or international prominence.
Author : Frances Smith Foster
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 025320786X
"...substantial contribution to African-American Studies and women's studies." --Mississippi Quarterly "A bravura performance by an accomplished scholar... it strikes a perfect balance between insightful literary analysis and historical investigation." --Eighteenth-Century Studies "... an impressive study of a wide range of writers.... Foster's work is both scholarly and accessible. Her prose is economical and direct, making this book enjoyable as well as instructive." --Belles Lettres "... an impressively wide-ranging discussion of texts and contexts... " --Signs "Foster has written a fine book that provides the reader with a context for understanding the importance of the written word for women who chose to 'set the record straight'." --Journal of American History "... fascinating, meticulously researched... Likely to prove seminal in the field... highly recommended... " --Library Journal " Written by Herself comprises a volume of remarkable female characters whose desires for social change often made them catalysts for spiritual awakening in their own times." --MultiCultural Review "... an outstanding piece of scholarship... Foster's book offers deeply intelligent, provocative, totally accessible analysis of a tradition and of writers still not sufficiently read and taught." --American Literature "Well written and thoroughly researched. Highly recommended... " --Choice The first comprehensive cultural history of literature by African American women prior to the 20th century. From the oral histories of Alice, a slave born in 1686, to the literary tradition that included Jarena Lee and Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert, this literature was argument, designed to correct or to instruct an audience often ignorant about or even hostile to black women.
Author : Sidonie Smith,Julia Watson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299158446
The first comprehensive guide to the burgeoning field of women's autobiography. Essays from 39 prominent critics and writers explore narratives across the centuries and from around the globe. A list of more than 200 women's autobiographies and a comprehensive bibliography provide invaluable information for scholars, teachers, and readers.
Author : Sharon J. Wohlmuth,Carol Saline,Dawn Sheggeby
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0821257064
Fifty photographers chronicle moments in the lives of a wide diversity of American women--their daily lives, challenges, and roles in society--in a compilation accompanied by essay-length personal profiles, narrative captions, and quotations.
Author : Martine Watson Brownley,Allison B. Kimmich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0842027025
An overview of women's autobiography, providing historical background and contemporary criticism along with selections from a range of autobiographies by women. It seeks to provide a broad introduction to the major questions dominating autobiographical scholarship today.
Author : Barbara Sicherman,Carol Hurd Green
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography
ISBN : 0674627334
Modeled on the "Dictionary of American Biography, "this set stands alone but is a good complement to that set which contained only 700 women of 15,000 entries. The preparation of the first set of "Notable American Women" was supported by Radcliffe College. It includes women from 1607 to those who died before the end of 1950; only 5 women included were born after 1900. Arranged throughout the volumes alphabetically, entries are from 400 to 7,000 words and have bibliographies. There is a good introductory essay and a classified lest of entries in volume three.
Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 067401488X
This latest volume brings the project up to date, with entries on almost 500 women whose death dates fall between 1976 and 1999. You will find here stars of the golden ages of radio, film, dance, and television; scientists and scholars; civil rights activists and religious leaders; Native American craftspeople and world-renowned artists. For each subject, the volume offers a biographical essay by a distinguished authority that integrates the woman's personal life with her professional achievements set in the context of larger historical developments.
Author : Margo Culley
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299132943
Focus on the works of Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gertrude Stein, Mary McCarthy, Maxine Hong Kingston, and others.
Author : Susan Neunzig Cahill
Publisher : Perennial
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American prose literature
ISBN : 0060969989
Gathers selections from the autobiographical writings of modern American women authors
Author : Sidonie A. Smith,Julia Watson,Sidonie Smith
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299220532
The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition—some well known, some forgotten over generations—who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in a rapidly changing America. The engaging selections—from captivity narratives to letters, manifestos, criminal confessions, and childhood sketches—span a hundred years in which women increasingly asserted themselves publicly. Some rose to positions of prominence as writers, activists, and artists; some sought education or wrote to support themselves and their families; some transgressed social norms in search of new possibilities. Each woman's story is strikingly individual, yet the brief narratives in this anthology collectively chart bold new visions of women's agency. "This rich new anthology sets in motion an inter-textual conversation of remarkable vitality that will change the ways we understand gender, class, ethnicity, culture, and nation in nineteenth-century America."—Susanna Egan, author of Mirror-Talk
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780787740641
In this packet, your students will find biographical sketches with detailed information, followed by questions for discussion and research. Students will learn interesting and relevant facts about these incredible women, and will walk away with a new appreciation for the women that helped to shape the history of America!
Author : Sara Evans
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780684834986
A history of American women from the Indian woman of the 16th century to the dual-role career woman and mother of the 1980s.
Author : Gail Collins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061739224
Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent, comprehensive work tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-century In this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over the past 300 years. As she traces the role of females from their arrival on the Mayflower through the 19th century to the feminist movement of the 1970s and today, she demonstrates a boomerang pattern of participation and retreat. In some periods, women were expected to work in the fields and behind the barricades—to colonize the nation, pioneer the West, and run the defense industries of World War II. In the decades between, economic forces and cultural attitudes shunted them back into the home, confining them to the role of moral beacon and domestic goddess. Told chronologically through the compelling true stories of individuals whose lives, linked together, provide a complete picture of the American woman’s experience, Untitled is a landmark work and major contribution for us all.
Author : William L. Andrews
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253115249
"Sisters of the Spirit . . . should interest a wider audience. . . . These fascinating accounts can stand on their own. . . . Mr. Andrews has made them even more accessible by providing a comprehensive introduction and helpful footnotes . . . but he does not intrude on the text itself." —New York Times Book Review " . . . informative and inspiring reading." —The Journal of American History Jarena Lee, Zilpha Elaw, and Julia Foote underwent a revolution in their own sense of self that helped to launch a feminist revolution in American religious life and in American society as a whole.
Author : Frances Elizabeth Willard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1330632311
Excerpt from Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman I have been asked by the publishers of this Autobiography to write the Introduction. I am very glad to be asked. There is no woman in the world whose book I would rather introduce than that of my friend and co-worker, Frances E. Willard. From the first hour of my acquaintance with her, now more than sixteen years ago, she has been to me the embodiment of all that is lovely, and good, and womanly, and strong, and noble and tender, in human nature. She has been my queen among women, and I have felt it to be one of the greatest privileges of my life to call her my friend. I have been inspired by her genius, I have been cheered by her sympathy, I have been taught by her wisdom, I have been led onward and upward by her enthusiastic faith. We have met on almost every point of human interest, and have been together in joy and in sorrow, in success and in apparent failure; she has been a member of my household for weeks together, and I have seen her tried by prosperity and flattery, by misunderstanding and evil report; and always and everywhere she has been the same simple-hearted, fair-minded Christian woman, whose one sole aim has been to do the will of God as far as she knew it, and to bear whatever of apparent ill He may have permitted to come upon her, with cheerful submission, as being His loving discipline for the purpose of making her what, above all, she longs to be, a partaker of His holiness. In regard to her public work she has seemed to me one of God's best gifts to the American women of the nineteenth century, for she has done more to enlarge our sympathies, widen our outlook, and develop our gifts, than any man, or any other woman of her time. Every movement for the uplifting of humanity has found in her a cordial friend and active helper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.