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The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Patricia Bell-Scott [Bell-Scott, Patricia]

PART VII FIGHTING FOR A JUST WORLD, 1956–59 Pauli Murray (right) confers with an unidentified supporter at an Adlai Stevenson campaign event, New York City, 1956. “Civil rights cannot be ...
( Category: Women in History March 2,2020 )
Rage Against the Veil: The Courageous Life and Death of an Islamic Dissident by Parvin Darabi
epub |eng | 2010-07-09 | Author:Parvin Darabi

The next day I called the School of Medicine at USC. I also called UCLA to see if they had any openings. After a few days of calling the medical ...
( Category: African March 2,2020 )
Natural Born Keller by Amanda Keller
epub |eng | 2015-09-25 | Author:Amanda Keller [Keller, Amanda]

14 With Arms Wide Open M y due date was still nine days away when Andrew and I interviewed David Spade, the comedian who was starring in the film Joe ...
( Category: Journalists March 2,2020 )
Sounds and Sweet Airs by Anna Beer
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Anna Beer

She seized upon the spirit of the composition and its innermost fibres, which then radiated out most forcefully into the souls of the singers and audience. A sforzando from her ...
( Category: Classical March 2,2020 )
Mother Is a Verb by Sarah Knott
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Knott

* * * I recount choice pointers from all this bookish advice-giving to the dark-haired woman, Sarah, liking her offhand calm and trading my historian’s know-how for her present-day insights. ...
( Category: Women in History March 2,2020 )
A Woman's Education by Jill Ker Conway
mobi |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Jill Ker Conway [Conway, Jill Ker]

5 SCHOLARS WITH PINES FROM THE DAY I ARRIVED in Northampton, I was on guard against the presidential trap of merging self and institution so completely that there seemed no ...
( Category: Educators March 2,2020 )
A Modern Marriage by Christy & Mark Kidd
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Christy & Mark Kidd

* * * I said a little while ago that Travis and Patricia didn’t teach us with words as much as by example. Not entirely true. There were times when ...
( Category: Human Sexuality March 2,2020 )
Learning to Play With a Lion's Testicles by Melissa Haynes
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Melissa Haynes

15 Tree Planting “Have you ever been tree planting before?” the Drill Sergeant asks. “No but I’m willing to give it a shot.” Sounds like a relatively clean job. It ...
( Category: Volunteer Work March 2,2020 )
Fierce Attachments: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick
epub |eng | 2005-09-14 | Author:Vivian Gornick [Gornick, Vivian]

Mama and Nettie quarreled, and I entered City College. In feeling memory these events carry equal weight. Both inaugurated open conflict, both drove a wedge between me and the unknowing ...
( Category: Authors March 1,2020 )
In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott
epub |eng | 2019-06-07 | Author:Helen Knott

I was seventeen, and after a weekend of drinking, I lay in my basement bedroom trying to calm my body down enough to sleep. Reality cut in and out. I ...
( Category: Native American & Aboriginal March 1,2020 )
When Hungry, Eat by Joanne Fedler
epub |eng | 2010-04-30 | Author:Joanne Fedler

I’m now going to go back in time to a moment that changed my father’s life and which deeply influenced mine in turn. When my sister Carolyn was a baby, ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 1,2020 )
Ninth Street Women by Mary Gabriel
epub |eng | 2018-09-24 | Author:Mary Gabriel

By 1953, John and Tibor’s gallery was still not able to support itself. Tibor considered a good year to be one in which they hadn’t incurred an outright loss.73 The ...
( Category: Women March 1,2020 )
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Audre Lorde

Later If I said this all didn’t matter I would be lying. I see this as a serious break in my work/living, but also as a serious chance to learn ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 1,2020 )
American Queenmaker: How Missy Meloney Brought Women Into Politics by Julie Des Jardins
epub |eng | 2020-01-20 | Author:Julie Des Jardins

THREE MONTHS LATER, in the summer of 1928, Harper’s Weekly editor Norman Hapgood wrote Missy to congratulate her on the fine quality of the Sunday Magazine, and she replied with ...
( Category: Women in History March 1,2020 )
The Life and Visions of Yeshé Tsogyal by Drime Kunga
epub |eng | 2017-08-21 | Author:Drime Kunga

( Category: Chinese March 1,2020 )

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