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a portrait of Harper Lee
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Shields, Charles J.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 LEE 2006
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, biografie, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- To Kill a Mockingbird—the twentieth century’s most widely read American novel—has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. Yet despite her book’s perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee, has become a somewhat mysterious figure. At the center of Shields’s book is the story of Lee’s struggle to create her novel, but her life contains many highlights—her girlhood as a tomboy in overalls in tiny Monroeville, Alabama: the murder trial that made her father’s reputation and inspired her great work: her journey to Kansas as Truman Capote’s ally and research assistant to help report the story of In Cold Blood.
jewish narratives on abandoned wives
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Goldstein, Bluma
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2007
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- echtscheidingen, familierecht, joodse vrouwen, 17e eeuw, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, Duitsland, Verenigde Staten, Oost-Europa
- Description
- This study explores a central but neglected aspect of modern Jewish history: the problem of abandoned Jewish wives, or agunes ('chained wives')--women who under Jewish law could not obtain a divorce--and of the men who deserted them. Looking at seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Germany and then late nineteenth-century eastern Europe and twentieth-century United States, Enforced Marginality explores representations of abandoned wives while tracing the demographic movements of Jews in the West. Bluma Goldstein analyzes a range of texts (in Old Yiddish, German, Yiddish, and English) at the intersection of disciplines (history, literature, sociology, and gender studies) to describe the dynamics of power between men and women within traditional communities and to elucidate the full spectrum of experiences abandoned women faced.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Silver, Alain > (text)
- Creator
- Duncan, Paul > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 HEB 2007
- Thesaurus
- actrices, filmsterren, Verenigde Staten, biografische gegevens, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, fotoboek
- Description
- Photobook about the actress Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003). Contains a visual filmography, a chronology, a filmography and a bibliography.
Belle da Costa Greene’s journey from prejudice to privilege
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ardizzone, Heidi
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 GRE 2007
- Thesaurus
- bibliothecarissen, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, identiteit, leidinggevende beroepen, bibliotheken, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Life history of Belle Greener (1883-1950), daughter of a civil rights activist who was the first African-American man to graduate from Harvard College, who was director of the Morgan Library for twenty-five years.
a history of flight attendants
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Barry, Kathleen M.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2007
- Thesaurus
- stewardessen, vrouwbeelden, vrouwelijkheid, etniciteit, leeftijd, discriminatie, emancipatie, vakbonden, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- History of flight attendants: the evolution of their glamorized image as ideal women and their activism as trade unionists and feminists.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Eisenmann, Linda
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 21 2006
- Thesaurus
- hoger onderwijs, feminisme, moederschap, huishoudelijke arbeid, Verenigde Staten, tweede wereldoorlog, 1940-1949, 1950-1959, 1960-1969, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This history explores the nature of postwar advocacy for women's higher education. Eisenmann illuminates the impact of this advocacy in the postwar era, identifying a link between women's activism during World War II and the women's movement of the late 1960s. Though the postwar period has been portrayed as an era of domestic retreat for women, Eisenmann finds otherwise as she explores areas of institution building and gender awareness. In an era uncomfortable with feminism, this generation advocated individual decision making rather than collective action by professional women, generally conceding their complicated responsibilities as wives and mothers. By redefining our understanding of activism and assessing women's efforts within the context of their milieu, this innovative work reclaims an era often denigrated for its lack of attention to women.
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- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- B 054 2007 VS
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- zwarte schrijvers, zwarte literatuur, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, encyclopedie, biografische gegevens
- Description
- The two volumes contain: alphabetically arranged entries on more than 150 African American women novelists, poets, playwrights, short fiction writers, autobiographers, essayists and scholars. Each entry provides a biography, a discussion of major works, a survey of the writer's critical reception and primary and secondary bibliographies.
Ingrid Bergman : een persoonlijk levensverhaal
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Chandler, Charlotte
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 9 BER 2007
- Thesaurus
- filmsterren, Zweden, Verenigde Staten, Italië, wereld, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Ingrid Bergman (1915-1977) was de ster in vele filmklassiekers. Ze was al een filmster in haar geboorteland Zweden voordat ze Hollywood veroverde in de jaren veertig, waarna het schandaal rond de relatie met Roberto Rosselini haar carrière in de jaren vijftig bijna de das om deed. Charlotte Chandler kende Bergman goed. Ze sprak niet alleen met haar over haar leven en carrière, maar interviewde ook haar kinderen, haar tegenspelers en regisserus en haar tweede echtgenoot, Roberto Rosselini. Met filmografie.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Flannery, Denis
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, homostudies, aids, zwarte schrijvers, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Sibling bonds, both literal and figurative, have had a crucial role in American writings of queer desire and identity. Denis Flannery demonstrates the centrality of fraternal and sororal love to queer strands of nineteenth- and twentieth century texts from the elemental wildnesses of Moby-Dick to David Fincher's postmodern cinema: from the brutal and comic decorum of Henry James' major fiction to the elegiac memoir-writing of Jamaica Kincaid. Questions driving Flannery's exploration of sibling relations: How do we characterize the relationship between sibling love, queer possibility and the formal intensities of American writing? Why is brotherhood invoked as a positive value in announcements of the United States national aspirations but used repeatedly and ominously in that nation's texts to herald a fall?
anatomy of a problem film
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Patton, Cindy
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- films, etniciteit, gender, seksualiteit, sociale klasse, receptie, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author examines the production and reception of so called 'problem films', for example movies about race and miscegenation, beginning with 1947’s Gentleman’s Agreement and Pinky (1949). She also describes the arrival of the Method school of acting in Hollywood, which demanded that performers inhabit their characters’ lives. She describes how these developments reflected and helped popularize the concept of the liberal citizen in postwar America. She argues that the reception of projected identities offer new perspectives on contemporary identity politics, from feminism to the gay rights movement.
over one hundred years of America's black female superstars
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bogle, Donald
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- creatieve beroepen, zwarte vrouwen, vrouwbeelden, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Originally published in 1980 this expanded and updated version contains three new chapters on the 1980s, the 1990s and the first half of the 2000s. It describes the lives, careers and images of African American divas of populair culture: the movies, television, music, and theatre.
women transforming American labor
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cobble, Dorothy Sue > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Vosko, Leah F.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 52 2007
- Thesaurus
- arbeid, arbeidsverdeling naar sekse, sociale klasse, sociale ongelijkheid, arbeidersbeweging, discriminatie, vakbonden, etniciteit, immigranten, allochtonen, lesbische en homobewegingen, overheidsbeleid, wetgeving, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- The authors argue how the sex of workers matters in understanding the jobs they do, the problems they face at work and the new labor movements they are creating in the United States and globally.
volume 1 : the woman rebel, 1900-1928
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Katz, Esther > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 SAN 2007
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, verpleegkundigen, geboorteregeling, mensenrechten, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie, brief, dagboek, artikel, lezing
- Description
- This first volume documents the critical phases and influences of the American feminist and reformer Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) and offers glimpses into her working-class childhood, feminism, spiritual and scientific interests, sexual explorations, and diverse roles as wife, mother, nurse, journalist, radical socialist, and activist. Most letters and other writings, including diaries, journals, articles, and speeches, have never before been published before.
Al Parker and the American women's magazine 1940-1960
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 73 2007
- Thesaurus
- illustratoren, mannen, illustraties, vrouwbeelden, rolgedrag, feministische tijdschriften, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, tentoonstellingscatalogus
- Description
- This catalog accompanies an exhibition about artist and illustrator Al Parker (1906-1980), which was organized by The Norman Rockwell Museum (June 9 through October 28, 2007). It explores the themes of family, romance, gender roles, artistic and cultural influences, and the commercial climate that influenced the creative process.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- DeLuzio, Crista
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 2 2007
- Thesaurus
- adolescentie, meisjes, gender, identiteit, psychologie, theorieën, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In this book DeLuzio studies the early formulation of the category of female adolescence in America. The work explanes how adolescence emerged as a 'crisis' in female development. It examines the views of experts from different fields of science, such as psychology, biology, and anthropology. Among the experts whose theories are reviewed we find G. Stanley Hall, Lawrence Frank, Carol Gilligan, and Margaret Mead.
more than the blues
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hayes, Eileen M. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Williams, Linda F. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Schmalenberger, Sarah
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- muziek, zwarte vrouwen, lesbische vrouwen, vrouwenfestivals, biografische gegevens, bundel, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- This collection is an interdisciplinary volume to examine black women’s negotiation of race and gender in African American music. Contributors address black women’s activity in musical arenas that pre- and postdate the emergence of the vaudeville blues singers of the 1920s. Throughout, the authors illustrate black women’s advocacy of themselves as blacks and as women in music. Individual essays concern the experiences of black women in classical music and in contemporary blues, the history of black female gospel-inflected voices in the Broadway musical, and 'hip-hop feminism' and its complications. Focusing on under-examined contexts, authors introduce readers to the work of a prominent gospel announcer, women’s music festivals (predominantly lesbian), and to women’s involvement in an early avant-garde black music collective. In contradistinction to a compilation of biographies, this volume critically illuminates themes of black authenticity, sexual politics, access, racial uplift through music, and the challenges of writing (black) feminist biography. Black Women and Music is a strong reminder that black women have been and are both social actors and artists contributing to African American thought.
teacher of weird abundance
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Salvio, Paula M.
- Creator
- Grumet, Madeleine R. > (forew.)
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 SEX 2007
- Thesaurus
- dichters, schrijvers, leraren, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- The American poet and writer Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was also a dedicated teacher. In this book, the author opens up Sexton's classroom, uncovering a teacher who demonstrated that the personal could also be plural. In doing so, she situates the teaching life of Anne Sexton at the center of some of the key problems and questions in feminist teaching: navigating the appropriate distance between teacher and student, the relationship between writer and poetic subject, and the relationship between emotional life and knowledge.
a biography of the spirit
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Plant, Deborah G.
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 HUR 2007
- Thesaurus
- zwarte schrijvers, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, antropologie, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- This biography of the American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) focuses on her spirituality as a driving force and how it was reflected in her academic career, fiction and nonfiction, sociopolitical activity, and professional career. Plant also discusses her spiritual legacy in institutions, works, curricula, performances, and festivals created in Hurston's honor.
popular music and identity in the 1960s
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Warwick, Jacqueline
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- popmuziek, zangeressen, meisjes, adolescenten, identiteit, vrouwelijkheid, vrouwbeelden, Verenigde Staten, 1960-1969, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The author describes the rise of girl groups, their songs, stage presentation, how they represented an ideal of teen feminity and the place of this repertoire in the emotional development of young girls of the baby boom generation in the US.
African-American women composers and their music
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Walker-Hill, Helen
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2007
- Thesaurus
- componisten, muziek, zwarte vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This book provides an examination of the history and scope of musical composition by African-American women composers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It gives attention to the musical, political and social context in which the music was composed. With individual chapters on Undine Smith Moore (1904-89), Julia Perry (1924-79), Margaret Bonds (1913-1972), Irene Britton Smith (1907-99), Dorothy Rudd Moore (b. 1940), Valerie Capers (b. 1935), Mary Watkins (b. 1939), and Regina Harris Baiocchi (b. 1956)