History - Women

Discover the untold stories of the bold women who rode harder, roped faster, and stole the spotlight in early Hollywood. Since the famous "first" western movie, The Great Train Robbery, starring Broncho Billy Anderson, made its debut in 1903, cowboy heroes have continued their...

From Palestine to Texas in 100 years, this epic family tale follows five generations of Christian women as their family's intimate dramas--full of hope, fear, grief, and joy-- play out against a backdrop of violence that would rip them from their homeland. Leyla King...

De vrouw en de vredesbeweging in verband met het vrouwenkiesrechtIk kan niet verhelen dat het geen gemakkelijke taak is, die ik heb op mij genomen, om het nauw verband aan te toonen, dat bijna alle strijdsters voor de politieke ontvoogding der vrouw voelen dat...

A fascinating portrait of the progressive female trailblazer and US Secretary for Labor who navigated the foreboding rise of Nazism in her battle to make America a safer place for refugees. She was the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, the longest-serving...

Breaking nearly eight decades of silence, Essie Mae Washington-Williams comes forward with a story of unique historical magnitude and incredible human drama. Her father, the late Strom Thurmond, was once the nation's leading voice for racial segregation (one of his signature political achievements was...

La Declaración de los Derechos de la Mujer y de la Ciudadana, redactada en 1791 por Olympe de Gauges, constituye uno de los primeros documentos históricos que propone la emancipación femenina en cuanto a igualdad de derechos o la equiparación jurídica y legal de...

The sensational biography of Princess Diana, written with her cooperation and now featuring exclusive new material to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death. When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992, it forever changed the way the public viewed the British...

The popular Diary of Saint Maria Faustina is now available in a mass market paperback size in Spanish.Author: St Maria Faustina KowalskaPublisher: Marian PressPublished: 01/01/2005Pages: 697Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.20w x 1.50dISBN: 9781596141070Language: Spanish

Die Frauenfrage im MittelalterDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1910 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und heute nicht mehr gebruchliche Schreibweisen bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert; fremdsprachliche Begriffe wurden nicht korrigiert. Das Beste, was Frauen...

Die Frauenfrage: ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung und wirtschaftliche SeiteAuf Grund vieljhriger Arbeit habe ich den Versuch unternommen, die Frauenfrage in ihrem ganzen Umfang einer Darstellung zu unterziehen. Meinen Ausgangspunkt bezeichnet das fr ihr Verstndnis entscheidende Moment der wirtschaftlichen Lage der Frau. Von welcher Seite man...

Mimi Pond crafts a gorgeous, dazzling biography of the Mitford Sisters Born with pedigrees but without the pocketbooks to match, The Mitfords were certainly no strangers to lies, intrigue, or scandal. Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah. All six sisters were weaned on...

"Here is a voice seldom heard, the voice of Latin America's majority, those who bear the burdens of society. If we are to understand Honduras, Central America, or, for that matter, Latin America, we must listen attentively to this voice. It has much to...

Humans have always loved to fuck! Don't Breed on Me: A Short History of Abortion is a defiant, funny, and unflinching dive into the millennia-long story of abortion--a practice as old as humanity and as contested as ever. From medieval Europe to Ming Dynasty...

From award-winning kids' nonfiction author Susan Goldman Rubin, and radiantly illustrated by Susanna Chapman, the picture book Dragonflies of Glass celebrates the innovation, determination, and ambition of the brilliant woman artist behind the world-famous Tiffany glass In the mid-nineteenth century, most women who weren't...

In a book that "sets a new standard in economic history" (Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist), acclaimed economic historian Victoria Bateman tells the story of how women made the world rich How many female entrepreneurs, economic revolutionaries, merchants, and industrialists can you...

Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897The psychical growth of a child is not influenced by days and years, but by the impressions passing events make on its mind. What may prove a sudden awakening to one, giving an impulse in a certain direction that...

Ein Ehzuchtbüchlein In diesem Bchlein ist der Text zu 12 bis 18 Zeilen je Seite in das Fenster einer Illustration gestellt. Die Textdatei zu diesem Buch ist mit zwei oder mehr Leerzeilen in die entsprechenden Abschnitte eingeteilt. Man kann Ehe bersetzen. Mariage heit's im...

A revelatory story of the woman who made foundational contributions to science and mathematics and persevered in the face of discrimination. Emmy Noether's mathematical genius enabled Einstein to bring his General Theory of Relativity-the basis of our current theory of gravity-to fruition. On a...

The New York Times bestseller from prizewinning author David Michaelis presents a "stunning" (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America's longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world's...

An approachable biography of medieval Europe's most powerful (and enigmatic) queen. Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204), the legendary queen of France and later England, has captivated historians for centuries. Heiress to the Duchy of Aquitaine, wife to King Henry II, and mother to Richard the...