Women's Studies
epub |eng | 2015-07-06 | Author:Ross, Fran

That night On her afternoon walk, Oreo had discovered the Seventy-ninth Street Boat Basin, where private yachts, speedboats, and houseboats were moored. She thought it would look pretty at night ...
( Category: African-American Studies October 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Kim Barnes [Barnes, Kim]

WHEN NOT IN THE MOUNTAINS, David and I went to movies, dined on steak and lobster, had drinks at the bars, where my friends saw me and waved. At first ...
( Category: Women October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-09 | Author:Fiona MacCarthy [Fiona MacCarthy]

Not surprisingly these optimistic travel plans very often went awry. One summer evening I thought I had caught a train to Newbury but discovered when I got to Reading that ...
( Category: Great Britain October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-06-06 | Author:Naomi Wolf [Naomi Wolf]

Dead Easy It is dead easy to become an anorexic. When I was twelve I went to visit an older, voluptuous cousin. “I try,” she said, to explain the deep-breathing ...
( Category: General October 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Lyndall Gordon [Gordon, Lyndall]

A week after Godwin had tea with ‘Wolstencraft’, his diary notes that ‘Imlay calls’ on Friday 22 April 1796 and that the following day he, in turn, called on ‘Imlay’. ...
( Category: Great Britain October 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-09 | Author:Dolezal, Luna

Merleau-Ponty suggests that it would be more accurate to characterize alienation as arising from objectification as one example, among perhaps many, that can characterize intersubjective encounters: “This is true: this ...
( Category: Phenomenology September 10,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Jennifer Baumgardner

FROM CENTER TO MARGIN Even if your job won’t exactly mirror your beliefs, it can certainly be influenced by your values. As we’ve discussed before, activism is accessing the resources ...
( Category: General September 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-12 | Author:Nancy Hirschmann & Joanne Wright [Hirschmann, Nancy]

Human Nature, Civil Society, and Freedom To understand the theoretical grounding of Cavendish’s theory of women’s freedom, it is helpful to explicate a few features of her theory of individuals, ...
( Category: Movements & Periods August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 1995-09-16 | Author:Elizabeth Wayland Barber [Barber, Elizabeth Wayland]

1The exact readings of these early cuneiform signs are uncertain but need not concern us here. Many of the splendid artifacts described below are on display in the University Museum ...
( Category: Women in History August 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-14 | Author:Mona Eltahawy [Eltahawy, Mona]

Not only does the medicalization of FGM give legitimacy to a harmful practice but it has also added racism to the mix. The Orchid Project quotes a 2011 BBC report ...
( Category: Gender & Sexuality August 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Simone de Beauvoir [Beauvoir, Simone de]

Irène Reweliotty comments: To be accepted by men, you have to think and act like them; if you don’t, they treat you like a black sheep, and solitude becomes your ...
( Category: Women's Studies July 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 1991-12-31 | Author:Taisha Abelar [Abelar, Taisha]

Chapter 12 After more than eight months of faithfully practicing the recapitulation, I was able to do it all day long without fretting or becoming distracted. One day, while I ...
( Category: Wicca July 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Jennifer Jordan

Weeks later Terry Tullis made his way to Kurt’s hospital bed in Innsbruck, where he was recovering from surgery to remove three frostbitten fingers on his right hand. When Kurt ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing July 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Elizabeth Warnock Fernea [Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock]

PART III 15 Summer Haji Hamid was preparing to leave for his summer vacation in Lebanon. Each year he spent the two hottest months in a small mountain hotel above ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies July 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-02 | Author:Myra MacPherson

The sisters, burning to tell their story of life in prison and the injustice meted out to them through “Moral Cowardice,” set up lectures. Victoria planned to speak first in ...
( Category: Siblings July 12,2015 )