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break down and let it all out
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hampton, Sylvia
- Creator
- Nathan, David
- Creator
- Kelly, Lisa Simone > (forew.)
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6263 - B
- Thesaurus
- zangeressen, musici, zwarte vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, biografie
a life in the theater
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Barranger, Milly S.
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6485 - B
- Thesaurus
- actrices, regisseurs, toneel, muziektheater, Verenigde Staten, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the American pioneering stage and opera director Margaret Webster (1905-1972), whose career challenged not only stage tradition but also mainstream attitudes toward professional women. This book provides glimpses into Webster's personal and family life, and offers a who's-who list of the biggest names in New York and London theater of the time, as well as Hollywood: John Gielgud, Noël Coward, George Bernard Shaw, Uta Hagen, Sybil Thorndike, Eva LeGallienne, and John Barrymore, among others, all of whom crossed paths with Webster.
a memoir
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Pukhraj, Malka
- Creator
- Kidwai, Saleem > (ed. : transl.)
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6469 - B
- Thesaurus
- zangeressen, India, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Account of the life of court singer and performer (1912-2004) Malka Pukhraj.
a twelfth-century holy women
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Fanous, Samuel > (ed.)
- Creator
- Leyser, Henrietta > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Jones, E.A.
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5874 - B
- Thesaurus
- heiligen, christendom, Verenigd Koninkrijk, middeleeuwen, biografie
- Description
- Described is the life of the hermit Christina of Markyate. Papers also discuss female monasticism in the 12th century, female sexuality and the Life of St Alexis, also contained in the Psalter of St Albans.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Petersma, Errit
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6399 - B
- Description
- Levensverhaal van de artsen Maria Adriana Detiger (1906-1949) en Jan Pieter Petersma (1904-1994), de moeder en vader van de auteur.
a life
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- White, Evelyn C.
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6486 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, zwarte vrouwen, romans, biografie
from laundryman's daughter to Hollywood legend
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hodges, Graham Russell
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6483 - B
- Thesaurus
- filmsterren, actrices, Aziatisch, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of Anna May Wong, (1905-1961) the premier Asian actress in the American cinema, whose Hollywood film career was influenced by discrimination of Asians in the American society. With filmography.
a biography
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Greene, Meg
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5582 - B
- Thesaurus
- religieuzen, religieuze bewegingen, rooms-katholicisme, India, biografie
- Description
- In this biography the reader will follow Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu from her humble Albanian birth to worldwide celebrity as Mother Teresa. The nun who attended to the dying and diseased in Calcutta, India, and established her Missionaries of Charity around the world is revealed to have a singular determination from a young age. As a woman in the patriarchal Catholic system, she had to prove to the hierarchy, even the Vatican, that she was capable of handling each project she proposed. Her vision to live and work among the 'poorest of the poor' as one of them led to the founding of a new order that tended to society's outcasts. The narrative chronicles the expansion and success of the order and the eventual attention that was showered on her efforts.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kluvers, Ingrid
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- A939 - A
- Thesaurus
- rouwproces, relaties, homoseksualiteit, biografie
- Description
- (Auto-)biografisch verslag over de laatste jaren van het leven van Dorelies Kraakman, beschreven door haar partner. Tussendoor beschrijft Kluvers herinneringen aan haar moeder die aan dezelfde ziekte overleed.
the story of the first woman rabbi
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Klapheck, Elisa
- Creator
- Axelrod, Toby > (transl.)
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6347 - B
- Thesaurus
- religieuze functionarissen, leidinggevende beroepen, joodse vrouwen, jodendom, pioniers, Duitsland, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of rabbi Regina Jonas (1902-1944), the woman who inspired a new kind of progressive female participation in the Jewish religion. The author shows how Jonas overcame resistance and obstacles from conventional orthodox Jewish institutions to become the first female rabbi in 1935. (Transl. from the German.)
a flesh and blood biography of the virgin mother
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hazleton, Lesley
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6208 - B
- Thesaurus
- heiligen, identiteit, christendom, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the life of the virgin Mary tries to seek the humanity behind the legend and give insight into her wisdom and her role as a spiritual leader.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kristeva, Julia
- Creator
- Todd, Jane Marie > (trans.)
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5702 - B
- Thesaurus
- biografie, schrijvers, biseksualiteit
- Description
- In this final volume of her trilogy on female genius (Hannah Arendt: Malanie Klein), Kristeva employs her psychoanalytic prowess to prove why the French author of Cheri and Gigi deserves such intellectual distinction. A writer, dancer and sexual gourmand, Colette was the sort of woman who took boxing lessons in order to acquire 'the most vicious punch possible.' Seducing both male and female lovers , the thrice married and intensely prolific aesthete ignored the sexual mores of her time and sublimated her lifestyle in a lyrical prose that Kristeva equates with the light-filled palettes of Poussin and Watteau. After breezing through the author’s life, Kristeva launches into a close reading of all seven movements to 1905’s Tendrils of the Vine (even breaking down the title by its vocal vibrations) and proceeds to scrutinize Colette’s strained relationship with her mother, Sido.
das Eigene in der Geschichte
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sassenberg, Marina
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6341 - B
- Thesaurus
- geschiedschrijfsters, wetenschappelijke beroepen, geschiedenis, joodse vrouwen, Duitsland, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Studie über Leben und Werk der Historikerin Selma Stern (1890-1981). Im Mittelpunkt dieses Bandes steht die Frage nach dem Ineinandergreifen der Selbstentwürfe und Geschichtsentwürfe Selma Sterns.
Haydn's last love
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hobday, Peter
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5668 - B
- Thesaurus
- musici, partners van, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 18e eeuw, 19e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of Rebecca Schroeter (1751–1826), musician, pupil and later on, love of the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn (1732-1809).
a biography of Audre Lorde
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Veaux, Alexis de
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6504 - B
- Description
- Biografie van Audre Lorde (1934-1992).
romance with the West
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Browne, Sheri Bartlett
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6525 - B
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, suffragettes, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Browne examines the life and career of Eva Emery Dye (1855–1947), who was, by turns, a wife, mother, writer, suffragist, and cheerleader for the Pacific Northwest, and highlights the significance of family and education in women’s lives at the turn of the twentieth century.
koningin van Zweden
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Buckley, Veronica
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6373 - B
- Thesaurus
- vorstenhuizen, 17e eeuw, Zweden, biografie
twelve profiles
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Holmes, Madelyn
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6277 - B
- Thesaurus
- milieu, duurzame ontwikkeling, Verenigde Staten, biografie
- Description
- This collection of biographies describes twelve women conservationists whospoke out, not only for conservation of the landscape, but for environmentally sound living during the twentieth century. The book covers six pioneers of environmental thought: Mary Austin, Florence Merriam Bailey, Rosalie Edge, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Helen Nearing, and Rachel Carson, as well as post-World War II conservationists Faith McNulty, Ann Zwinger, Sue Hubbell, Anne LaBastille, Mollie Beattie, and Terry Tempest Williams.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ives, Eric
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B5674 - B
- Thesaurus
- vorstenhuizen, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 16e eeuw, Renaissance (eng), biografie
- Description
- The author gives a detailed portrait of the English queen executed in 1536.
herinneringen van de jeugdvriendin van Anne Frank
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Maarsen, Jacqueline van
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6408 - B
- Thesaurus
- biografie
- Description
- Herinneringen van de vriendin van Anne Frank. De vader van Anne, Otto Frank, bleef jarenlang met Jaqueline van Maarsen bevriend.