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: 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: 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: 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: J. Darke
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Using case-studies from Oxford to Beijing and Chicago, Women and the City shows women constructing their lives in the urban environment, sometimes working against a system where needs are marginalized. Women are shown as community activists, homeless women, carers, patients, travellers, rock musicians and workers. The book emphasizes women as active agents, and the contributors include women working in urban management as well as academics from diverse backgrounds.
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: Jessica Ellen Sewell
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816669732
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
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In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender roles and American cities, she shows how changes in the city affected women's ability to negotiate shifting gender norms as well as how women's increasing use of the city played a critical role in the campaign for women's suffrage. Focusing on women's everyday use of streetcars, shops, restaurants, and theaters, Sewell reveals the impact of women on these public places-what women did there, which women went there, and how these places were changed in response to women's presence. Using the diaries of three women in San Francisco-Annie Haskell, Ella Lees Leigh, and Mary Eugenia Pierce, who wrote extensively on their everyday experiences-Sewell studies their accounts of day trips to the city and combines them with memoirs, newspapers, maps, photographs, and her own observations of the buildings that exist today to build a sense of life in San Francisco at this pivotal point in history. Working at the nexus of urban history, architectural history, and cultural geography, Women and the Everyday City offers a revealing portrait of both a major American city during its early years and the women who shaped it-and the country-for generations to come.
Author: Delores T. Burger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780825421464
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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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: 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.".
