Author: Nazan Maksudyan
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178238412X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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An attempt to reveal, recover and reconsider the roles, positions, and actions of Ottoman women, this volume reconsiders the negotiations, alliances, and agency of women in asserting themselves in the public domain in late- and post-Ottoman cities. Drawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds and a variety of source materials, from court records to memoirs to interviews, the contributors to the volume reconstruct the lives of these women within the urban sphere. With a fairly wide geographical span, from Aleppo to Sofia, from Jeddah to Istanbul, the chapters offer a wide panorama of the Ottoman urban geography, with a specific concern for gender roles.
Author: Ruth Landes
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826315564
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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This book is the landmark study of candomblé, the Afro-Brazilian religion of Bahia, Brazil.
Author: Sarah Deutsch
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195158644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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A penetrating analysis of how women shaped public and private space in Boston - and how space shaped women's lives in turn - during a period of dramatic change in American cities.
Author: David R. Gillham
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN: 9780399161520
Category : Berlin (Germany)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family.
Author: Christine Stansell
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307826503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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In this brilliant and vivid study of life in New York City during the years between the creation of the republic and the Civil War, a distinguished historian explores the position of men and women in both the poor and middle classes, the conflict between women of the laboring poor and those of the genteel classes who tried to help them and the ways in which laboring women traced out unforeseen possibilities for themselves in work and in politics. Christine Stansell shows how a new concept of womanhood took shape in America as middle-class women constituted themselves the moral guardians of their families and of the nation, while poor workingwomen, cut adrift from the family ties that both sustained and oppressed them, were subverting—through their sudden entry into the working and political worlds outside the home—the strict notions of female domesticity and propriety, of “woman’s place” and “woman’s nature,” that were central to the flowering and the image of bourgeois life in America. Here we have a passionate and enlightening portrait of New York during the years in which it was becoming a center of world capitalist development, years in which it was evolving in dramatic ways, becoming the city it fundamentally is. And we have, as well, a radically illuminating depiction of a class conflict in which the dialectic of female vice and virtue was a central issue. City of Women is a prime work of scholarship, the first full-scale work by a major new voice in the fields of American and urban history.
Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520285956
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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This set explores the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York City. With many contributors, each atlas addresses the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by numerous categories of inhabitants.
Author: Delores T. Burger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780825421464
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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Book Description
Looks at the history of city rescue missions, which began in the 1870s, and describes the role of women in helping the cities' poor
Author: Siobhán McIlvanney
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786834340
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
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Book Description
Interdisciplinarity: this book covers a range of media and genres from cinema to journalism to novels and a range of disciplines from feminism, film studies, Francophone studies, history, etc., which allows readers to access a particularly extensive range of disciplines within one volume and to make informed comparisons. Transhistoricism: the chronological range of essays included in this journal from the medieval period through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the present demonstrates that women have always managed to access their own territory within the masculinised urban environment and this encourages readers to rethink previous gendered assumptions about women and the city. Feminism: the essays here form part of the wider movement in academic research to redress the gendered imbalance of perspectives on a range of subjects: here allowing us to look anew at French and Francophone culture and history as part of this feminist rewriting.
Author: Denise Kiernan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451617534
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Book Description
Looks at the contributions of the thousands of women who worked at a secret uranium-enriching facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.
Author: Daphne Spain
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452905419
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Book Description
In the extensive building projects of these associations - boarding houses, vocational schools, settlement houses, public baths, and playgrounds - she finds evidence of a built environment created by women.".
