Multicultural and Gender Studies eBooks
The vindication of the rights of women
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe women should have an education. She argues that women ought to have...
The women of the French Salons
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Amelia Ruth Gere MasonA salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace's definition of the aims of poetry, "either to please or to educate" ("aut delectare aut prodesse est"). Salons, commonly associated with French...
The women who came in the Mayflower
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Annie Russell MarbleThis little book is intended as a memorial to the women who came in The Mayflower, and their comrades who came later in The Ann and The Fortune, who maintained the high standards of home life in early Plymouth Colony. There is no attempt to make a genealogical study of any family. The effort is to reveal glimpses of the communal life during 1621-1623. This is supplemented by a few silhouettes...
Woman
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Vance ThompsomVance Thompson (April 17, 1863 - June 5, 1925) was an American literary critic, novelist and poet. The son of a Pittsburgh pastor, he was educated at Princeton University and graduated in 1883. He later studied in Germany, and worked as a dramatic critic in New York City from 1890 to 1897. Like fellow-aesthete and good friend James Huneker, he helped bring fin-de-siècle French authors to the...
Women and the Holocaust. Courage and Compassion
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach ProgrammJEWISH WOMEN PERFORMED TRULY HEROIC DEEDS DURING THE HOLOCAUST. They faced unthinkable peril and upheaval -- traditions upended, spouses sent to the death camps, they themselves torn from their roles as caregivers and pushed into the workforce, there to be humiliated and abused. In the face of danger and atrocity, they bravely joined the resistance, smuggled food into the ghettos and made...
Women in Rome
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Alfred BrittainFreeborn women in ancient Rome were citizens (cives),[2] but could not vote or hold political office.[3] Because of their limited public role, women are named less frequently than men by Roman historians. But while Roman women held no direct political power, those from wealthy or powerful families could and did exert influence through private negotiations.[4] Exceptional women who left an...
Women in Science
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by H.J. MozansWomen In Science with an Introductory Chapter On Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind
Work: A Story of Experience
Multicultural and Gender Studies, by Louisa May AlcottAn autobiographical novel by the author of "Little Women", that tells the story of an American working girl during the mid-19th Century, along with the choices that were available to her as a single woman, and her transformation from being a put-upon maidservant to becoming a champion for the rights of women.
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Multicultural and Gender Studies, by ElvinaThis book is kind of modern encyclopedia.It tells you about unbelievable facts of the world.
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