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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 )
A Most Wicked Conspiracy by Paul Starobin
epub |eng | 2020-06-29 | Author:Paul Starobin [STAROBIN, PAUL]

We have a sub-receiver here, who’s working out our mine In a systematic manner which makes our hearts re-pine. He brought a damned expensive plant, shipped in his boss’s name, ...
( Category: Women in History June 22,2020 )
Not a Gentleman's Work by Gerard Koeppel
epub |eng | 2020-06-16 | Author:Gerard Koeppel [Koeppel, Gerard]

THOUGH THREE PEOPLE were killed, prosecutor Hoar opted, for the trial at hand, to try Bram only for the murder of Captain Nash. Though the indictment was for all three ...
( Category: Women in History June 19,2020 )
Gender and History (Theory and History) by Susan Kingsley Kent
azw3 |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Susan Kingsley Kent [Kent, Susan Kingsley]

Discipline and subjectivity We are ‘disciplined’ and made ‘normal,’ Foucault argued,8 through various techniques, among the most important of which involves surveillance, or the use of the ‘gaze’ to make ...
( Category: Women in History June 19,2020 )
Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life by Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez

The Relentless Desire of Bob Mizer In November 1951, three months after Charles Beach burned J. C. Leyendecker’s private papers after his funeral, a young gay photographer and fitness enthusiast ...
( Category: LGBT June 18,2020 )
Remembering the Darkness by Shapovalov Veronica;
epub |eng | 2001-06-14 | Author:Shapovalov, Veronica;

CHAPTER NINE Irina Zalmanovna Tsurkova 1959– Born in Leningrad, Irina Zalmanovna Tsurkova (b. Lopotukhina) graduated from high school in 1976. She applied to a medical institute but was refused admission ...
( Category: Women in History June 14,2020 )
Superpower Interrupted by Michael Schuman
epub |eng | 2020-06-09 | Author:Michael Schuman [SCHUMAN, MICHAEL]

In Damask City, in the silkworm markets, Hairpins of pearl and emerald fill the street. A hundred thousand rouged faces, jade cicadas and gold peacocks In priceless coiffed hair, earrings ...
( Category: Asian June 13,2020 )
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights by Helen Lewis
epub |eng | 2020-02-27 | Author:Helen Lewis [Lewis, Helen]

7. Love If feminism was reduced to one word, it would be this: no. Lierre Keith When Erin Pizzey rejected feminism, she was tidied away, turned into an obscure footnote ...
( Category: Women in History June 13,2020 )
Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Arthur J. Magida
epub |eng | 2020-06-08 | Author:Arthur J. Magida [Magida, Arthur J.]

CHAPTER 13 “WHEN I SEE YOU AGAIN, IT WILL BE AFTER THE WAR” Occasionally, Noor went back to Suresnes to visit Madame Prenat and her daughter Raymonde. Before, these visits ...
( Category: Women in History June 11,2020 )
When the River Ice Flows, I Will Come Home by Elisa Brodinsky Miller
epub |eng | 2020-04-02 | Author:Elisa Brodinsky Miller

Yet . . . yet . . . It was not that pogrom but one in 1920 that devastated Manya’s family. General Anton Denikin, Commander of the pro-Tsarist counter-revolutionary forces, ...
( Category: Women in History June 10,2020 )
The Laywoman Project by Mary J. Henold
epub |eng | 2020-06-14 | Author:Mary J. Henold

Essentialism Let’s begin with the question of what writers at the time termed “sex-role stereotyping.” The affirmative case in the debate over this question, basically essentialism, has already been outlined, ...
( Category: Women in History June 7,2020 )
Land of a Thousand Hills by Rosamond Halsey Carr
epub |eng | | Author:Rosamond Halsey Carr

I remained at Mugongo throughout those turbulent weeks while the inferno and bloodshed raged all around me. From my front lawn, I could look out over the valley and see ...
( Category: Women June 5,2020 )
The New Socialist Handbook by Dan Tucker
epub |eng | 2020-05-26 | Author:Dan Tucker [TUCKER, DAN]

EARLY AMERICA It will come as a surprise to no one that Native Americans practiced a form of socialism before European settlers arrived. This principally took the form of communal ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism June 1,2020 )
A Woman's War, Too by Virginia Wright-Peterson
epub |eng | 2020-05-14 | Author:Virginia Wright-Peterson

12 BETWEEN “BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY” AND “SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW” On January 31, 1941, Universal Studios released the movie Buck Privates, which included the song “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” ...
( Category: Women in History May 28,2020 )

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