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Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin by Marion Meade
epub |eng | 2004-03-13 | Author:Marion Meade [Meade, Marion]

“OH KING,” Gene wrote in a telegram to Art and Gladys Ficke, “we accept your royal invitation with servile brow in the dust but elated legs in the air. Oh ...
( Category: Women Writers March 14,2016 )
Sunburst by Phyllis Gotlieb
epub |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Phyllis Gotlieb

Sunburst: 9 She had been shoved into a small empty office on the ground floor, and had nothing more to do than wait there, heels hooked on chair rungs, hands ...
( Category: Women Writers March 14,2016 )
Just Life by Mary C. Rawlinson
epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Mary C. Rawlinson

5 Eating at the Heart of Ethics With the destruction of forests, water and land, we are losing our life-support systems. This destruction is taking place in the name of ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 10,2016 )
Where the Stress Falls by Susan Sontag
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Susan Sontag

PRESENCE/ABSENCE. Dance, most present, incarnate of arts, is used by Childs in the service of an aesthetic of absence. This principle was first acknowledged in a Dadaist way, in the ...
( Category: Essays March 8,2016 )
Dreamers of a New Day by Sheila Rowbotham
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Sheila Rowbotham

The Working Women’s Society laid the basis for the New York City Consumers’ League, which was formed in 1891. Consumers were encouraged not only to boycott, but to shop ethically. ...
( Category: Women's Studies February 15,2016 )
Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy by Martha Long
epub |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Martha Long

CHAPTER 15 ‘Come in,’ Sister Eleanor said, smiling and waving me in the door. I crept around the door, putting me head in and bringing me suitcase after me. ‘This ...
( Category: Irish February 15,2016 )
Song of the Hummingbird by Limón Graciela
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-07-16 | Author:Limón, Graciela [Limón, Graciela]

Chapter XI Father Benito was late that morning, and when he entered the cloister he found that Huitzitzilin was not waiting for him in the usual place. He looked around, ...
( Category: Historical February 15,2016 )
The Shipwrecked by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone [Nouraie-Simone, Fereshteh; Farrokh, Faridoun; Khalili, Sara]

I was getting used to monotonous sounds of sanding and hammering. I stopped scratching the wall with the handle of a spoon. On the third day Orange Slippers stopped by ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage February 15,2016 )
The Moths and Other Stories by Helena María Viramontes
epub, mobi |eng | 1985-02-14 | Author:Helena María Viramontes

III He’s got lice. Probably from living in the detainers. Those are the rooms where they round up the children and make them work for their food. I saw them ...
( Category: Feminist Theory February 15,2016 )
Learning to Drive (Movie Tie-In Edition): And Other Life Stories by Katha Pollitt
epub |eng | 2008-09-09 | Author:Katha Pollitt [Pollitt, Katha]

Looking back, I can see that I became depressed. It wasn’t baby blues, or, as we now medicalize it, postpartum depression. It was loneliness. In the way that we prepare ...
( Category: Feminist Theory February 14,2016 )
Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories by Pollitt Katha
mobi |eng | 2008-09-08 | Author:Pollitt, Katha [Pollitt, Katha]

Looking back, I can see that I became depressed. It wasn’t baby blues, or, as we now medicalize it, postpartum depression. It was loneliness. In the way that we prepare ...
( Category: Feminist Theory February 14,2016 )
The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by Janet Todd
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-02-27 | Author:Janet Todd [Todd, Janet]

Literally or figuratively? The earnestness of Mansfield Park is buttressed by a new sense of significance in its episodes, Austen's experimental use of symbolism less to structure the book than ...
( Category: European January 24,2016 )
A Journey with Two Maps by Eavan Boland
epub |eng | 2011-02-09 | Author:Eavan Boland

Charlotte Mew: An Introduction I Charlotte Mew was born in London in 1869. Her family—middle-class, respectable, afflicted— lived at number 30 Doughty Street in the borough of Camden. I lived ...
( Category: Essays January 18,2016 )
Why Feminism? by Segal Lynne
epub |eng | 2015-03-11 | Author:Segal, Lynne

Narratives in Context Disputes over memory and trauma have kept pace with the growth of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), and the separate but increasingly popular psychiatric classification of Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder (PTSD); ...
( Category: Feminist Theory January 11,2016 )
A Very Short Introduction by Ware Susan
mobi |eng | 2014-11-24 | Author:Ware, Susan [Ware, Susan]

Laundry was women’s most onerous chore, an all-day affair (usually on Mondays) for which there was no remotely equivalent task for men. Since only one out of ten farms had ...
( Category: Women in History January 9,2016 )

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