Women's Studies
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Nelson [Thomas Nelson]

( Category: Bibles September 8,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Devlin, F. Roger [Devlin, F. Roger]

* * * The present reviewer is entirely in sympathy with a return to feminine modesty and the limiting of sexual relations to marriage. But this allows plenty of room ...
( Category: Sociology September 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-20 | Author:Anne Behnke Kinney

8.11 THE MOTHER OF YAN YANNIAN [The mother of Yan Yannian] was the mother of the Governor of Henan, Yan Yannian of Donghai.58 She had given birth to five sons, ...
( Category: Women in History September 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:Elizabeth Kerri Mahon [Mahon, Elizabeth Kerri]

Carry Nation 1846-1911 Truly does the saloon make a woman bare of all things. —CARRY NATION Both repellent and fascinating, this hatchet-swinging, Bible-thumping, God-appointed vigilante swung through Midwestern saloons, smashing ...
( Category: Women in History September 7,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Evelyn Monahan; Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee

Senator Margaret Chase Smith in her Air Force Reserve uniform. It was VADM Louis E. Denfeld who approached Representative Smith and asked for her help in arguing and shepherding HB ...
( Category: World September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Mara Hvistendahl

They wedded in Nguyen’s village, and Cheng brought Nguyen back to his farm near Taiwan’s western coast, in the rolling hills outside Taichung. When they reached his driveway, she looked ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 5,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Leymah Gbowee

CHAPTER 13 STANDING UP TO CHARLES TAYLOR AND SITTING DOWN FOR PEACE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS were scheduled to take place in Liberia in 2003, but with Taylor under attack from LURD ...
( Category: World September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Judith Herrin

17 Imperial Children, ‘Born in the Purple’ In 1044, the Byzantines protested against Constantine IX’s mistress, Maria Skleraina, and demanded to see the real empresses. ‘We don’t want the Skleraina ...
( Category: Europe September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Laura Sook Duncombe

As the Golden Age was winding down, two fierce pirate women—one famous, one less so—were making names for themselves. Their exploits ensured that the Golden Age went out with a ...
( Category: Specific Groups September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Lynne Segal [Segal, Lynne]

5 Flags of Resistance ‘Old age is not interesting until one gets there,’ May Sarton wrote.1 Well, most of us will get there, indeed, linger there for quite some time ...
( Category: Women's Studies September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Elvira Dones [Dones, Elvira]

Gjergj dies on a sunny May day in 1987. Everything is ready. The house is full of food, considering what little there is up in the mountains. The honor of ...
( Category: Anthropology September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:May Sarton

Friday, September 12th CHARLES BARBER arrived with a huge paper bag containing a melon from his grandfather’s garden in Weston, a squash, peaches, pears, and got off the bus looking ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Nathalie Sarraute

XII During his very well attended lectures at the Collège de France, he amused himself with all that. He enjoyed prying, with the dignity of professional gestures, with relentless, expert ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-23 | Author:Eileen Pollack [Pollack, Eileen]

Still, I took seriously Hersey’s suggestion that I combine my two passions and write about science. A pair of mathematicians had been invited to discuss their solution to something called ...
( Category: History & Philosophy September 4,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Agatha Christie

‘I tried to speak to the vicar yesterday, to confess all, but was not allowed. She would not let me. I can make amends only one way—a life for a ...
( Category: Mystery September 4,2017 )