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52 pioneers
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cochrane, Kira
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- WER 1A 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- pioniers, sociale bewegingen, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This book is a celebration of some inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, the women included have all paved the way for gender equality in their own way. The women include writer and teacher Maya Angelou, computer scientist Ada Lovelace, abolitionist Harriet Tubman, film star Katharine Hepburn and pioneering musician Björk. Their lives also enable bigger stories to be told: the suffrage movement with Sophia Duleep Singh: the civil rights struggle and Audre Lorde: advances in science made by Rosalind Franklin: and the importance of equality advocated by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
autobiography and the writing of history
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cimbala, Paul A. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Himmelberg, Robert F. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Naison, Mark D.
- Publish Year
- 1996
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 1996 - B
- Thesaurus
- geschiedschrijfsters, zwarte vrouwen, geschiedenis, sociale bewegingen, wit, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, congrespaper, bundel, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Bundel autobiografische verhalen van historici die enige naam hebben, uitgegeven t.g.v. van drie symposia georganiseerd aan Fordham University's Department of History, om jonge studenten te interesseren voor de geschiedenis en de geschiedschrijving van de strijd voor gelijkberechtiging van etnische groepen in de VS. Bijdragen van Darlene Clark Hine, Jacqueline Jones.
extraordinary women who have shaped America's environment
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Musil, Robert K.
- Publish Year
- 2014
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2014 - B
- Thesaurus
- wetenschappelijke beroepen, pioniers, milieu, sociale bewegingen, Verenigde Staten, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Description of the achievements of environmental pioneer and scientist Rachel Carson and other American women activists and writers in the field of American environmentalism, such as Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Terry Tempest Williams, Sandra Steingraber, Devra Davis and Theo Colborn.
in her own words
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Reyburn, Susan
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 PAR 2020
- Thesaurus
- zwarte vrouwen, mensenrechten, racisme, discriminatie, sociale bewegingen, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This book shows through private manuscripts and handwritten notes by Rosa Parks, which are only recently availble for the public, her inner thoughts, her ongoing struggles, and how she came to be the person who stood up by sitting down. Her precise descriptions of her arrest, the segregated South, and her recollections of childhood resistance to white supremacy document a lifetime of battling inequality. Parks expressed her thoughts on paper using whatever was available?meeting agendas, event programs, drugstore bags. The book features one hundred color and black-and-white photographs from the Parks collection, many appearing in print for the first time, along with ephemera from the long life of a private person in the public eye.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Pohl, Nicole > (ed.)
- Creator
- Schellenberg, Betty A. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Rizzo, Betty
- Publish Year
- 2003
- Shelfmark
- B5343 - B
- Thesaurus
- historiografie, saloncultuur, geleerde vrouwen, utopisme, sociale bewegingen, politieke stromingen, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 18e eeuw, biografische gegevens, bibliografieën, opstel, bundel
- Description
- The Bluestockings were learned English women and men who gathered during the second half of the eighteenth century at the London salons hosted by Elizabeth Montagu and her friend Elizabeth Vesey. The ten essays in this volume, explore the Bluestockings' social, economic, and intellectual achievements, including the publication of fiction and criticism, their plans for a utopian community, their charitable enterprises, and the management of a large coal-mining concern.(also published as Huntington Library Quarterly 65:1&2, 2003) .The Huntington's collection is made more useful, by a description of the collection, a set of brief biographies of the principal Bluestocking women, and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary works. Some essays report on solid biographical findings: others are more provocative and critical.
500 years after Columbus : Rigoberta Menchú tells her people's story
- Categories
- Article/Artikel
- Magazine Title
- Spare Rib
- Magazine Year
- 1992
- Magazine Number
- 238
- Thesaurus
- sociale bewegingen, biografische gegevens, Guatemala, indianen, prijzen, mensenrechten, oorlog en vrede
- Description
- Beschrijving van het leven en werk van de Guatemateekse Rigoberta Menchú, strijdster voor de rechten van de indianen in Guatemala, die de Nobelprijs voor de vrede 1992 kreeg.
how we tell the story of Rosa Parks and the Mongomery bus boycott
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kohl, Herbert
- Creator
- Wright Edelman, Marian > (introd.)
- Creator
- Brown, Cynthia > (essay)
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 PAR 2005
- Thesaurus
- sociale bewegingen, mensenrechten, zwarte vrouwen, pioniers, Afro-Amerikaanse vrouwen, acties, discriminatie, racisme, biografische gegevens, historisch, Verenigde Staten, 1950-1959, 20e eeuw, essay, leermiddelen, gids
- Description
- Kohl is retelling the story of Rosa Parks (1913-2005) - a civil rights activist - and the Montgomery bus boycott (1955), in order to prove that Parks was not a poor, uneducated seamstress who acted on impulse and emotion rather than with intelligence and moral conviction. An extensive teachers' resource guide to educational materials about Parks and the civil rights movement is included.
1963-1975
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Love, Barbara J. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Cott, Nancy F. > (forew.)
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- B 09 2006 VS
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, tweede feministische golf, eerste feministische golf, sociale bewegingen, vrouwenbewegingen, pioniers, biografische gegevens, Verenigde Staten, 1960-1969, 1970-1979, 20e eeuw, naslagwerk
- Description
- Many of the founders and leaders (including both well-known and grassroots organizers) of the second wave women's movement are collected in this publication. It tells the stories of more than two thousand individual women and a few men who together reignited the women’s movement and made permanent changes to entrenched customs and laws. The biographical entries on these pioneering feminists represent their many factions, all parts of the country, all races and ethnic groups, and all political ideologies. The author's foreword discusses the movement in relation to the earlier first wave and presents a brief overview of the second wave in the context of other contemporaneous social movements.
personal accounts by women in SNCC
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Holsaert, Faith S. > (ed.)
- Creator
- [et al.]
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 6 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- sociale bewegingen, biografische gegevens, politieke participatie, mensenrechten, etniciteit, studenten, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- In this book fifty-two American women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. The testimonies gathered here present a personal history of SNCC: early sit-ins, voter registration campaigns, and freedom rides: the 1963 March on Washington, the Mississippi Freedom Summer, and the movements in Alabama and Maryland: and Black Power and antiwar activism. Since the women spent time in the Deep South, many also describe risking their lives through beatings and arrests and witnessing unspeakable violence. These stories depict women, many very young, dealing with extreme fear and finding the remarkable strength to survive. The women in SNCC acquired new skills, experienced personal growth, and even had fun in the midst of serious struggle.The contributors revisit central debates of the struggle including the role of nonviolence and self-defense, the role of white people in a black-led movement, and the role of women within the Movement and the society at large.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 KEL 2009
- Thesaurus
- sociale bewegingen, alleenstaande moeders, historisch, biografische gegevens, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, brief
- Description
- This volume collects nearly three hundred of the letters of the American social reformer Florence Kelley (1859–1932), written over the course of more than six decades. These letters also provide an intimate view into the personal life of a dedicated reformer who balanced her career with her responsibilities as a single mother of three children.
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