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the inside story
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Warner, Judith
- Publish Year
- 1993
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 CLI 1993 - A
- Thesaurus
- regeringsleiders, mannen, partners van, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 1950-1999, biografie
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bennahum, David
- Publish Year
- 1993
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 LAN 1993 - C
- Thesaurus
- zangeressen, lesbisch, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie, fotoboek
four generations of a family
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Boyer, Ruth McDonald
- Creator
- Gayton, Narcissus Duffy
- Publish Year
- 1992
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 1992 - B
- Thesaurus
- indianen, dagelijks leven, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
her life and art
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Kling, Jean L. > (introd.)
- Creator
- Corn, Wanda M.
- Publish Year
- 1994
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 BAR - B
- Thesaurus
- schilders, schrijvers, theater, 20e eeuw, 19e eeuw, Verenigde Staten, biografie
the Margaret Sanger story
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bagge, Peter
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 SAN 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- geboorteregeling, anticonceptie, pil, gezondheidszorg, verpleegkundigen, biografie, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, strip
- Description
- Het leven van Margaret Sanger als verpleegster en voorstander van seksuele voorlichting wordt uitgebeeld in een stripboek.
redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gabler, Neal
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 STR 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- actrices, zangeressen, joodse vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, biografie, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Live and career of the American, Jewish singer and actress Barbra Streisand (1942).
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.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Blue, Adrianne
- Publish Year
- 1994
- Shelfmark
- M EUR 9 NAV 1994 - B
- Thesaurus
- tennis, profsporten, Tsjechoslowakije, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biografie over tenniskampioene Martina Navratilova.
the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Schenkar, Joan
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 HIG 2009
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, detectives, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995). A portrait of the American suspense novelist Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995). Dispensing with the traditional chronological narrative, Schenkar divides her study into themed sections, which crisscross and mirror each other, embodying the themes of doubling and alter egos in Highsmith's work and life.
a life in the theater
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- 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.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Wolf, Naomi
- Creator
- Pol, Lidy > (vert.)
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- VS 39 2006
- Thesaurus
- vader kindrelatie, dochters, vaders, opvoeding, ontwikkeling, biografische gegevens, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Portret van Leonhard Wolf, geschetst door zijn dochter, Naomi Wolf. In een periode van zes maanden voerden vader en dochter gesprekken met elkaar, die gezamenlijk de twaalf basislessen vormden, waarmee deze schrijfster is opgegroeid. Oorspr. titel 'The treehouse' (2005)
Belle da Costa Greene’s journey from prejudice to privilege
- Categories
- 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.
the life and times of Jessica Mitford
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Brody, Leslie
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 9 MIT 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- journalisten, schrijvers, politici, communisme, hogere klasse, mensenrechten, Brits, Amerikaans, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the English author, journalist and political campaigner, Jessica Mitford (1917-1996).
her pictures were her life
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rubin, Susan Goldman
- Publish Year
- 1999
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 BOU 1999 - D
- Thesaurus
- fotografie, fotografen, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biografie van Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971).
the untold story of the woman who discovered how to measure the universe
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Johnson, George
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 LEA 2005
- Thesaurus
- astronomie, biografie, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In the early 1900s the 'computers' at the Harvard University Observatory were women, who pored over photographic plates taken with the university's telescope and to catalogue changes in the sizes and locations of stars. Henrietta Leavitt was an unmarried clergyman's daughter who began working at the observatory soon after graduating from Radcliffe. The director quickly recognized her skill. Johnson relates that Leavitt's singular contribution to astronomy came when she recognized that cyclical changes in the size of Cepheids, giant variable stars, could be correlated with their luminosity. Once luminosity was known, a star's distance from Earth could be calculated. Leavitt wasn't interested in pushing her discovery to its logical conclusion, but other astronomers quickly grasped the ramifications for calculating the size of the Milky Way and the universe. Scant documentation exists for Leavitt's life aside from correspondence with the observatory, so readers shouldn't be surprised to discover that this book is more about the search to measure the universe than about Leavitt's life.
the first coast-to-coast auto trips by women, 1899-1916
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- McConnell, Curt
- Publish Year
- 2000
- Shelfmark
- B1031 - B
- Thesaurus
- verkeer, pioniers, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, reisbeschrijving, biografie
- Description
- Reisbeschrijving van Amerikaanse vrouwen die per auto van kust naar kust reisden begin 20ste eeuw. Het gaat om de volgende reizigers: Louise Hitchcock Davis (1899), Alice Ramsey (1909), Blanche Stuart Scott (1910), Anita King (1915), Amanda Preuss (1916).
a biography
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Rollyson, Carl
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 LOW 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- dichters, lesbische vrouwen, prijzen, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Biography of the American poet, Amy Lowel (1874-1925), member of the Imagist group, who posthumously (1926) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Based on newly discovered letters and papers.
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Earhart, Amelia
- Creator
- Foley, Erin > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 1980
- Shelfmark
- B45 - B
- Thesaurus
- piloten, pioniers, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Amelia Earhart 1898-1937 Flight, its first seventy-five years Reprint of the 1928 ed. published by Putman, New York
the journeys of two Chinese sisters
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Welland, Sasha Su-Ling
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- WER 9 LIN 2006
- Thesaurus
- immigranten, Chinees, zusters, medicijnen, schrijvers, schilders, historisch, Engels, China, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 1900-1949, oral history, biografie
- Description
- The author reconstructs the lives of her elite Cantonese grandmother, Amy Ling Chen, who in 1925 won a scholarship to study medicine in the United States, and of Amy's elder sister, Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter who remained in China until 1945. Welland balances family sources with research and reading of Shuhua's fiction. This biography gives glimpses of 20th-century Chinese women's intellectual history and insights into the Chinese-American and Anglo-Chinese experience.
what my family and career taught me about breaking through
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Strober, Myra
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 STR 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- hoogleraren, economie, vrouwenbewegingen, feminisme, Verenigde Staten, biografie, 20e eeuw
- Description
- It is 1970. Strober has just been told by the chairman of Berkeley's economics department that she can never get tenure. Driving home afterward she realizes the truth: she is being denied a regular faculty position because she is a mother. Angry, she also finds her life's work: to study and fight sexism, in the workplace, in academia, and at home. Strober's memoir captures the spirit of a revolution lived fully, from her Brooklyn childhood to her Stanford seminar on women and work. Strober's interest in women and work began when she saw her mother's frustration at the limitations of her position as a secretary. Her consciousness of the unfairness of the usual distribution of household chores came when she unsuccessfully asked her husband for help with housework. Later, when a group of conservative white male professors sputtered at the idea of government-subsidized child care, Strober made the case for its economic benefits. In the 1970s, the term 'sexual harassment' had not yet been coined. Occupational segregation, quantifying the value of work in the home, and the cost of discrimination were new ideas.