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The Last Goldfish by Anita Lahey
epub |eng | 2020-03-10 | Author:Anita Lahey

I planned my evening schedule as follows: History, English, a quick dinner, back to the hospital. Clear CAT scans or not, Louisa was still stuck there till her infection cleared ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement June 28,2020 )
Living My Life, Vol. 2 by Emma Goldman
epub |eng | 2012-10-17 | Author:Emma Goldman [Goldman, Emma]

The methods of the “ clique ” in the politbureau of the party were also pervading the International and poisoning the entire labour movement, Angelica’s friend had told me. Was ...
( Category: Radicalism June 28,2020 )
The St. Louis Woman's Exchange by Jeannette Batz Cooperman
epub |eng | 2018-11-08 | Author:Jeannette Batz Cooperman

( Category: Women in History June 28,2020 )
The First Ladies Fact Book by Bill Harris
epub |eng | 2013-01-31 | Author:Bill Harris

“Princess” Alice was the public’s favorite of all the Roosevelt children, and her marriage to Nicholas Longworth was not just a wedding, but a full-blown media event. The Bull Moose ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 28,2020 )
Self-Portrait by Celia Paul
epub |eng | | Author:Celia Paul [Paul, Celia]

* Lucian was a regular and frequent gambler. Often when he was on the phone, placing more and more extortionate bets on a horse, he would clutch me to him ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers June 28,2020 )
Shutterbabe by Deborah Copaken Kogan
epub |eng | 2019-02-27 | Author:Deborah Copaken Kogan

( Category: Photojournalism June 27,2020 )
Calamity by Karen R. Jones
epub |eng | | Author:Karen R. Jones

CHAPTER SIX “HOW THE WEST WAS SUNG” FEMININITY AND FAKERY ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRONTIER (1935–60) In a press piece entitled “Calamity Jane’s Own Story is Told Again,” the Buffalo Bulletin ...
( Category: Women in History June 27,2020 )
Art is a Tyrant by Catherine Hewitt
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Catherine Hewitt

Rosa was happy to be able to hold Paris and all its foibles at arm’s length. She was among the celebrants when, in 1861, Emperor Napoleon III answered the appeal ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers June 27,2020 )
Labyrinth of Desire by Rosemary Sullivan
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Rosemary Sullivan [Sullivan, Rosemary]

It’s hard to remember that sexuality is a construct, that the idea of the body changes. Before the middle of the eighteenth century (the century variously called the Age of ...
( Category: Women June 25,2020 )
The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives by Diane Johnson
epub |eng | 2020-06-23 | Author:Diane Johnson

The victim had unwittingly revenged herself. He had stabbed her heart again and again, and drained it. He had battered this poor heart till it had become more like leather ...
( Category: Victorian June 24,2020 )
Muslim Women Are Everything by Seema Yasmin
epub |eng | 2020-04-27 | Author:Seema Yasmin

Prove Yourself Sumayyah Dawud, United States IN THE SUMMER of 2015, Sumayyah Dawud went to pray at her local mosque in Arizona, but was banned from entering. At the end ...
( Category: Women June 23,2020 )
Before Trans by Rachel Mesch
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Rachel Mesch

11 DEATH BY MARRIAGE IN 1889, RACHILDE MARRIED Alfred Vallette and gave up pants-wearing for good. “I buried my life as a boy,” she later wrote of this transition.1 That ...
( Category: LGBT June 22,2020 )
The American Women's Almanac by Deborah G. Felder
epub |eng | 2019-06-14 | Author:Deborah G. Felder

In the early years of the American motion picture industry, two directors stand out as auteurs—filmmakers involved in every aspect of production. One was D. W. Griffith, and the other ...
( Category: Women in History June 22,2020 )
The Saigon Sisters by Patricia D. Norland
epub |eng | | Author:Patricia D. Norland

This wonderful man is Father Emmanuel Jacques Houssard, who retired years later as a pastor in a small parish in Brussels. He may be old, but he stays young in ...
( Category: Vietnam War June 22,2020 )
Celia Sánchez Manduley by Tiffany A. Sippial
epub |eng | | Author:Tiffany A. Sippial

Celia in Office Throughout her life, Sánchez held numerous political offices within the revolutionary government, and received countless awards. Garnering positions of influence, as well as many of the country’s ...
( Category: Women in History June 22,2020 )

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