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  • Female Friendship

    Literary and Artistic Explorations

    This volume focuses on the literary and artistic exploration of female friendship in various geographical contexts, spanning the centuries from the medieval period until the present. The essays address the intense female bonding in world literature as a universal human need for intimacy, sense of belonging, and purpose. The main focus is on the reevaluation of friendships between women, which have ... Leer más

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  • Seeking Our Eden

    The Dreams and Migrations of Sarah Jameson Craig

    de Joanne Findon ...
    Although few nineteenth-century rural Canadian women could read and write well, Sarah Jameson Craig (1840-1919) was not only literate but eloquent. Unlike many women writers of her time, Craig lived at the bottom of the economic ladder. Nevertheless, she dared to dream the utopian dreams more commonly associated with educated women from the middle and upper classes. Craig vividly documented her ... Leer más

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    400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines

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    Rich in detail, filled with fascinating characters, and panoramic in its sweep, this magnificent work of women's history tells for the first time the complete story of the American woman from the Pilgrims to the 21st-century.In this sweeping cultural history, Gail Collins explores the transformations, victories, and tragedies of women in America over four hundred years. As she traces the role of ... Leer más

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  • Oneida

    From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table

    A fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion---only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century, into a successful silverware company and a model of buttoned-down corporate propriety.In the early nineteenth century, many Americans were looking for an alternative to the Puritanism that ... Leer más

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  • Women Who Kill

    de Ann Jones ...
    This landmark study offers a rogues' gallery of women—from the Colonial Era to the 20th century—who answered abuse and oppression with murder: "A classic" ( Gloria Steinem).Women rarely resort to murder. But when they do, they are likely to kill their intimates: husbands, lovers, or children. In Women Who Kill, journalist Ann Jones explores these homicidal patters and what they reflect about women ... Leer más

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  • Bad Bridget

    Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women

    THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERThe untold true stories of the generations of Irish women who saw their American dream become a nightmare – a masterpiece of social history and true crime for readers of Hallie Rubenhold’s The Five.SOON TO BE ADAPTED INTO A NETFLIX FILM STARRING ALISON OLIVER, EMILIA JONES, COLIN FARRELL, DOMHNALL GLEESON AND STEVE COOGAN**!*** * *Ireland in the nineteenth and early ... Leer más

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  • Good Wives

    Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750

    This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden--and not always stoic--face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In these pages we encounter the awesome burdens--and the considerable power--of a New England housewife's domestic life and witness her occasional forays into the world of men. We see her borrowing from her neighbors, loving her husband, raising- ... Leer más

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  • Courting

    An Intimate History of Love and the Law

    Award-winning author Alecia Simmonds uncovers a hidden history of love and heartbreak in the archives of lawUntil well into the twentieth century, heartbroken men and women in Australia had a legal redress for their suffering: jilted lovers could claim compensation for ‘breach of promise to marry’. Hundreds of people, mostly from the working classes, came before the courts, and their stories give ... Leer más

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  • Mother Is a Verb

    An Unconventional History

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    Welcome to a work of history unlike any other.Mothering is as old as human existence. But how has this most essential experience changed over time and cultures? What is the history of maternity—the history of pregnancy, birth, the encounter with an infant? Can one capture the historical trail of mothers? How?In Mother Is a Verb, the historian Sarah Knott creates a genre all her own in order to ... Leer más

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  • The Age of Homespun

    Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth

    They began their existence as everyday objects, but in the hands of award-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, fourteen domestic items from preindustrial America–ranging from a linen tablecloth to an unfinished sock–relinquish their stories and offer profound insights into our history.In an age when even meals are rarely made from scratch, homespun easily acquires the glow of nostalgia. The ... Leer más

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  • A House Full of Females

    Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

    From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History,and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination.A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two ... Leer más

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  • A Better Place

    Death and Burial in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

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    A Better Place describes the practices around death and burial in 19th-century Ontario. Funeral rituals, strong religious beliefs, and a firm conviction that death was a beginning not an end helped the bereaved through their times of loss in a century where death was always close at hand.The book describes the pioneer funeral in detail as well as the factors that changed this simple funeral into ... Leer más

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