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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Scelfo, Julie
- Creator
- Heald, Hallie > (ill.)
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2016
- Thesaurus
- steden, beroepen, pioniers, witte vrouwen, zwarte vrouwen, lesbische vrouwen, immigranten, biografieën, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, 2000-2009, 2010-2019, biografisch woordenboek
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- A collection of short biographies of women who made a contribution to the making of New York City, United States of America. Many are famous, but others led quieter, private lives, but were just as influential. The research included interviews with people who stuied specific aspects of the City's history (like musical theater, law enforcement, and education), social justice movements (like immigration, labor, abolitionism, suffrage, and LGBTQ concerns), groups that represented varous professions, organizations deoted to individual ethnic groups, museums, architects and city planners and zoning specialists. .Themes in the book are: settlers, revolutionaries, caretakers, builders, liberators, poets, Statue of Liberty, advocates, Wall Street, benefactors, funders, ambassadors, Madison Avenue, actrices, lesbian women, madams, news makers, Harlem renaissance, crooks, authorities, actrices, editors, style setters, artists, soundtrack to the ciry, mythmakers, icons, educators, politicians, preservationists, counterculturists, intellects, loudmouths, nightclub owners, grocers, restaurateurs, tastemakers, immigrants, ushers, entertainers, writers. With quotes and illustrations.
a social history of the debutante
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Richardson, Kristen
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- WER 32 2020
- Thesaurus
- huwelijksgebruiken, riten, huwelijken, dochters, witte vrouwen, zwarte vrouwen, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, vorstenhuizen, adel, hogere klasse, internationaal, historisch, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, 2000-2009, 2010-2019
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- The author researched the history of the debutante ritual, a highly choreographed tribal rite. It begins in England six hundred years ago when wealthy fathers needed an efficient way to find appropriate husbands for their daughters. She traces the social seasons of young women on both sides of the Atlantic (London, Philadelphia, the American South, New York), often through their own words from diaries, letters, and interviews that Richardson conducted at contemporary balls. While exploring why the debutante tradition persists - and spread to Russia, China, and others nations - the author uncovered the cultural influence on the lives of daughters and ideas of women, courtship and marriage.
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