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a portrait of Harper Lee
- Categories
- 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.
women as spies
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- White, Rosie
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- spionnen, rolgedrag, vrouwelijkheid, detective, roman, film, televisie, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- 'Violent femmes' examines the female spy as a figure in popular discourse which simultaneously conforms to cultural stereotypes and raises questions about women's changing roles in British and American culture, in terms of gender, sexuality and national identity. The book also examines the role of the male spy in popular fiction.
how to embrace change and celebrate life
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Brenner, Abigail
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2007
- Thesaurus
- rites de passage, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Exploration of how women today create their own personal rites of passage.
sex, brotherhood, and privilege on campus
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sanday, Peggy Reeves
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2007
- Thesaurus
- verkrachtingen, slachtoffers, daders, mannen, studenten, seksualiteit, mannelijkheid, androcentrisme, macht, seksisme, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Drawing on interviews with both victims and fraternity members, the author argues how gang rape occurs with regularity in fraternities, athletic dorms, and in other exclusively male enclaves. She reconstructs the daily life in the fraternity, highlighting the role played by pornography, male bonding, and initiation rituals. First ed.: 1992
the painful truth about childbirth and modern maternity care
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Block, Jennifer
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 34 2007
- Thesaurus
- bevallingen, artsen, verloskundigen, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Block was an editor at Ms. magazine. As a reporter her strength is in getting doctors and nurses to confess that obstetric care is very corrup. If we see the interventions of “active management” although these practices may help in critical situations, they are more likely to cause harm than good in a normal birth. For example, active management includes the induction of labor in as many as forty percent of all American births, even though this leads to longer and more painful labors and “ups a woman’s chance of a [cesarean] section by two to three times,” according to Block. The quintessential intervention is the cesarean section, which is how nearly thirty percent of American women delivered their babies last year. As evidence is increasingly showing, the people who best enable normal births are midwives. Midwives and doula's are women who know that one of the best answers to pain is sitting in a warm tub, and who know how to help a woman handle labor in ways that facilitate birth.
jewish narratives on abandoned wives
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Goldstein, Bluma
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 2007
- Thesaurus
- 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.
waarom vrouwen anders zijn dan mannen
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Brizendine, Louann
- Creator
- Campenhout, Laura van > (vert.)
- Creator
- Sitskoorn, Margriet > (voorw.)
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2007
- Thesaurus
- lichamen, man vrouw verschillen, neurologie, seksualiteit, emoties, postnatale depressies, seksuele voorkeur, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- In dit boek beschrijft de auteur (neuroloog en psychiater) hoe de unieke structuur van vrouwelijke hersenen niet alleen bepaalt hoe vrouwen denken en waar ze waarde aan hechten, maar ook hoe ze communiceren en van wie ze zullen houden. Publicatie is gebaseerd op tientallen jaren onderzoek en aangevuld met feiten en casestudies. Oorspr. titel 'The female brain' (2006)
gender, sexuality, and W.E.B. Du Bois
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gillman, Susan > (ed.)
- Creator
- Weinbaum, Alys Eve > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Smith, Shawn Michelle
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2007
- Thesaurus
- gender, etniciteit, seksualiteit, relaties, feminisme, literatuur, Verenigde Staten, bundel
- Description
- The contributors focus on race, gender, sexuality and justice in the work of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963). They investigate political formulations and rhetorical strategies by which Du Bois approached, used and repressed issues of gender and sexuality.
- Categories
- 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.
the hidden assault on our civil rights
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Yoshino, Kenji
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 YOS 2007
- Description
- Yoshino argues that American civil rights law has generally ignored the threat posed by covering demands and that the work of civil rights will not be complete until it attends to the harms of coerced conformity. He focuses on gay, racial and sex-based covering.
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