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Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This rigorous, multidisciplinary volume on Arab American women includes contributions from scholars and activists in in a diverse array of fields, including history, sociology, anthropology, literary studies, media studies, women and gender studies, and creative writing"--
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted for the precision with which the task force targeted and removed gang members otherwise entrenched in larger communities. In Operation Fly Trap, Susan A. Phillips questions both the success of this operation...
228) Holocaust literature
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Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Series
Harvard English studies volume 6
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1975
Language
English
230) Edith Wharton
Series
Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to Edith Wharton and the critical discussions surrounding her work.
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This book examines working women in realistic and naturalistic literature. By addressing intersecting issues of race and class and including a study of domestic work, it contributes to the fields of multiculturalism, feminism, and working-class studies and to the increasing research interests in these areas"--
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
"The sixteen essays in The Larder argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper understanding of our overlapping, historically situated, and evolving cultures and societies. The Larder presents some of the most influential scholars...
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Series
Publisher
Gryphon House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
""A solid, well-designed work."-BooklistThere is nothing that children love more than a good story.Story S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-r-s for the Primary Grades, Revised Editionconnects ninety of the best children's books to early learning centers, stretching each story five ways with lively and entertaining activities that heighten reading readiness, sharpen comprehension skills, and expand the excitement of story time. This new edition takes everyone's favorite...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A fascinating collective biography of six female scientists in eighteenth-century France, whose stories were largely written out of history. This book presents the stories of six intrepid Frenchwomen of science in the Enlightenment whose accomplishments--though celebrated in their lifetimes--have been generally omitted from subsequent studies of their period: mathematician and philosopher Elisabeth Ferrand, astronomer Nicole Reine Lepaute, field naturalist...
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Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
By the early nineteenth century, imperial commodities had become commonplace in middle-class English homes. Such Indian goods as tea, textiles, and gemstones led double lives, functioning at once as exotic foreign artifacts and as markers of proper Englishness.This book reveals how Indian imports encapsulated new ideas about both the home and the world in Victorian literature and culture. In novels by Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and Anthony...
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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From Eleanor Roosevelt to feminist icon Gloria Steinem to HIV/AIDS activist Dazon Dixon Diallo, women have assumed leadership roles in struggles for social justice. How did these remarkable women ascend to positions of influence? And once in power, what leadership strategies did they use to deal with various challenges? Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements explores these questions by introducing twelve women who have spearheaded a wide...
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