Remarkable Women of the Twentieth Century
Title | Remarkable Women of the Twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Kristen Golden |
Publisher | Friedman/Fairfax Publishing |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Profiles and photographs of the one hundred most influential women of the twentieth century.
Women in China's Long Twentieth Century
Title | Women in China's Long Twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Hershatter |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 2007-03-29 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0520098560 |
“An important and much-needed introduction to this rich and fast-growing field. Hershatter has handled a daunting task with aplomb.” —Susan L. Glosser, author of Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915–1953
Women of Congress
Title | Women of Congress PDF eBook |
Author | Marcy Kaptur |
Publisher | CQ-Roll Call Group Books |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Traces the history of women legislators in Congress, providing an overview of the achievements and progress of women in the House and Senate during three separate periods in history, and including the personal stories of congresswomen who served in each different era.
Women and War in the Twentieth Century
Title | Women and War in the Twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole A. Dombrowski |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2004-11-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135872848 |
First published in 2005. This volume documents women's 20th century wartime experiences from World War I through the recent conflicts in Bosnia. The articles cross national boundaries including France, China, Peru, Guatemala, Germany, Bosnia, the U.S. and Great Britain.. The contributors of these original essays trace the evolution of women's roles as victims of war while also showing how they have been increasingly incorporated into battle as actors and perpetrators. These comparative studies analyze war's disruptions of daily life, its effects on children, rape as a war crime, access to equal opportunity, and women's resistance to violence.
Everything Is Cinema
Title | Everything Is Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Brody |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 721 |
Release | 2008-05-13 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1429924314 |
From New Yorker film critic Richard Brody, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard presents a "serious-minded and meticulously detailed . . . account of the lifelong artistic journey" of one of the most influential filmmakers of our age (The New York Times). When Jean-Luc Godard wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the nature of cinema. Unlike any earlier films, Godard's work shifts fluidly from fiction to documentary, from criticism to art. The man himself also projects shifting images—cultural hero, fierce loner, shrewd businessman. Hailed by filmmakers as a—if not the—key influence on cinema, Godard has entered the modern canon, a figure as mysterious as he is indispensable. In Everything Is Cinema, critic Richard Brody has amassed hundreds of interviews to demystify the elusive director and his work. Paying as much attention to Godard's technical inventions as to the political forces of the postwar world, Brody traces an arc from the director's early critical writing, through his popular success with Breathless, to the grand vision of his later years. He vividly depicts Godard's wealthy conservative family, his fluid politics, and his tumultuous dealings with women and fellow New Wave filmmakers. Everything Is Cinema confirms Godard's greatness and shows decisively that his films have left their mark on screens everywhere.
Women and Twentieth-century Protestantism
Title | Women and Twentieth-century Protestantism PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Lamberts Bendroth |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780252069987 |
Contributors consider the emergence of Latina Pentecostal clergy in the United States and the success of the Women's Missionary Union of the Southern Baptist Convention in remaining independent of male-dominated denominational structures. Among other topics, the authors discuss Chinese immigrant women who embraced the relative freedom offered by Protestant religion, African American women who assumed religious authority through their historical writing, and the struggles of women faith healers in defining their role amid medical and evangelical professionalism.
Her War Story
Title | Her War Story PDF eBook |
Author | Sayre P. Sheldon |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780809322466 |
This volume contains writings of or about war from the following authors : Nina Macdonald, Rebecca West, Vera Brittain, Edith Wharton, Mary Borden, Ellen La Motte, Colette, Helen Zenna Smith, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Amy Lowell, Willa Cather, Mary Lee, Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, Gertrude Stein, Kathe Kollwitz, Charlotte Mew, Katherine Mansfield, Louise Bogan, Toni Morrison, Jane Addams, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Martha Gellhorn, Frances Davis, Dorothy Parker, Gertrud Kolmar, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Thompson, Ding Ling, Anna Akhmatova, Olivia Manning, Elizabeth Bowen, Bryher, H.D., Mary Lee Settle, Elizabeth Vaughan, Iris Origo, Christabel Bielenberg, Etty Hillesum, Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, Charlotte Delbo, Elsa Morante, Mitsuye Yamada, Hirabayashi Taiko, Kikue Tada, Doris Lessing, Kathryn Hulme, Kay Boyle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marguerite Higgins, Martha Gelhorn, Mary McCarthy, Grace Paley, Huong Tram, Lady Borton, Margaret Atwood, Muriel Rukeyser, Susan Griffin, Karla Ramirez, Margaret Thatcher, Molly Moore, Fadwa Tuqan, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Meena Alexander, Marta Traba, Lina Magaia, and Margaret Drabble.