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Parkchester by Jeffrey S. Gurock
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey S. Gurock

Figure 8.1. Photo of restored, graffiti-freed Parkchester buildings and Metropolitan Avenue, 2005. Courtesy of Ronald L. Glassman. 8 Renewal Efforts Although Harry Helmsley asserted in 1968 that it was glamorous ...
( Category: Women in History March 22,2020 )
Keep the Days by Stowe Steven M.;
epub |eng | 2018-03-21 | Author:Stowe, Steven M.;

MEN UNDER ORDERS Love seemed to hold its own in war. It was there on the page, not a small thing. If a woman thought that love would bring a ...
( Category: Women in History March 22,2020 )
The Seventies by Bruce J. Schulman
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Bruce J. Schulman

Cultural Feminism and the Reassertion of Difference “After years of trying to explain things to men and to change the outside world,” movement experiences at last “gave birth to sisterhood.” ...
( Category: Women in History March 21,2020 )
Frontier Grit by Marianne Monson
epub |eng | 2016-06-24 | Author:Marianne Monson

The tug-of-war that Zitkala-Sa endured was uniquely born out of the times and culture in which she lived, and the intensity and pain of it echoes to this day. Certainly ...
( Category: Women March 21,2020 )
Do They Hear You When You Cry by Fauziya Kassindja
azw3 |eng | 1997-12-31 | Author:Fauziya Kassindja

is like! I know! I’ve been there! The poHce will be here soon and that’s where they’ll send us.” This spread among the women, language to kinguage, and triggered a ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 21,2020 )
Eight Habits of the Heart by Clifton L. Taulbert
epub |eng | 2018-11-01 | Author:Clifton L. Taulbert

Expecting the best of others and praising their achievements was not just the long-ago practice of a small-town group of visionaries. It must be practiced wherever we live, where we ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 21,2020 )
Mrs Delany by Clarissa Campbell Orr
epub |eng | | Author:Clarissa Campbell Orr

THE METROPOLIS AT MID-CENTURY Although Patrick and Mary were in London because of the lawsuit, it was actually a significant time in its own right, leading towards war that would ...
( Category: Women in History March 21,2020 )
Revolutionary Mothers by Carol Berkin
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Carol Berkin

CHAPTER SIX “A JOURNEY A CROSSE YE WILDERNESS” Loyalist Women in Exile On September 1, 1774, Esther Quincy Sewall looked through her window in horror at the mob gathering outside ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 21,2020 )
Age of Youth in Argentina by Manzano Valeria;
epub |eng | 2014-03-20 | Author:Manzano, Valeria;

Feeling a Third World Argentina In a new introduction to his Sociology of Modernization (1971), Gino Germani challenged those who identified Argentina with the Third World. He argued that, in ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American March 21,2020 )
The Light of Common Day by Diana Cooper
epub |eng | 2018-05-02 | Author:Diana Cooper

Conrad replied: I wonder if you would be happier if you had occupation and spent less time ‘wallowing.’ It’s a problem. I don’t think you’ll ever have men friends who ...
( Category: Women in History March 21,2020 )
Elizabeth I and Her Circle by Doran Susan;
epub |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:Doran, Susan;

The combination of persuasion and veiled threat was sufficient to ensure the wedding took place.95 By contrast, Elizabeth was always unforgiving when her maids engaged in sex outside marriage. She ...
( Category: Women March 21,2020 )
The Nightingale's Sonata by Thomas Wolf
epub |eng | 2019-03-08 | Author:Thomas Wolf

By the beginning of 1924, Lea was working very hard. Concerts for royalty were all well and good, but there were the expenses of maintaining a family, and Lea wanted ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians March 21,2020 )
A Wild and Precious Life by Edie Windsor
epub |eng | | Author:Edie Windsor

* * * I didn’t ask her about Robert. She’d already apologized profusely for her proposal a number of times, but I didn’t press for any details about him. I ...
( Category: LGBT March 20,2020 )
Still Waters by JENNIFER LAUCK
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:JENNIFER LAUCK

Dad lost his job at Sears. Mom says he was screwed by the corporate system. Dad says it was a layoff. Grandma and Grandpa say he was fired only they ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement March 20,2020 )
Our Revolution by Honor Moore
epub |eng | 2020-02-04 | Author:Honor Moore

Laurie, the vicar, was now driving me through the city. “Mrs. Skipper doesn’t go out any more, she was saying, and she insisted you come over. She has stories.” I ...
( Category: United States March 20,2020 )

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