Intersectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made by scholars in the field of womens studies that now broadly extends across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Grounded in the rich history of Chicago politics, For the Freedom of Her Race tells a wide-ranging story about black womens involvement in southern, midwestern, and national politics.
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States today.
The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie Marshall Sharp (19071996) broke new ground for women in the legal profession.
Using fathers' first-hand accounts from letters, journals, and personal interviews along with hospital records and medical literature, Judith Walzer Leavitt offers a new perspective on the changing role of expectant fathers from the 1940s to the 1980s.
When Billie Jean King trounced Bobby Riggs in tenniss Battle of the Sexes in 1973, she placed sports squarely at the center of a national debate about gender equity.
Through an analysis of womens reform, domestic worker activism, and cultural values attached to public and private space, Vanessa May explains how and why domestic workers, the largest category of working women before 1940, were excluded from labor protections that formed the foundation of the welfare state.
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha Patsy Jefferson Randolph (17721836) was extremely well educated, traveled in the circles of presidents and aristocrats, and was known on two continents for her particular grace and sincerity.
Adopting a spiritual history approach, this book traces the evolution of the concept of "e;New Women,"e; which first emerged in China during the 1920s and 1930s.
The first woman judge in the state of North Carolina and the first woman in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, Susie Marshall Sharp (19071996) broke new ground for women in the legal profession.
Adopting a spiritual history approach, this book traces the evolution of the concept of "e;New Women,"e; which first emerged in China during the 1920s and 1930s.
Between 1880 and 1920, the New Woman novel outraged "e;ladies,"e; rallied women's rights activists, and inspired women readers and writers to harness an emerging popular literary market to their own political purposes.
What the Bible says about the book of the Revelation which John was commissioned to write:***The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon come to be; and He sent and signified by His messenger to His bond-servant John (Revelation 1:1)Happy is the one who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy and treat as valuable what is written in it, for it is the season.
Analyzes how Taiwan's #MeToo movement emerged from the Netflix series Wave Makers, showing how fictional storytelling mobilized real survivors and then tracing how the movement spread-and met its limits-through Taiwanese social media.
Analyzes how Taiwan's #MeToo movement emerged from the Netflix series Wave Makers, showing how fictional storytelling mobilized real survivors and then tracing how the movement spread-and met its limits-through Taiwanese social media.
After more than a century of New Testament scholarship, it has become clear that the Jesus of the gospels is a fictive amalgam, reflecting the hopes and beliefs of the early Christian community and revealing very little about the historical Jesus.
En este ensayo que es también una novela extraordinaria, el historiador revolucionario Jules Michelet (1798-1874) desentierra de los archivos la historia de la persecución más letal que se haya llevado a cabo en Occidente contra las mujeres: la caza de brujas que entre los siglos XV y XVII condenó a decenas de miles de mujeres a la hoguera y que trató de erradicar una sabiduría pacientemente cultivada por ellas a lo largo de la Edad Media.
Throughout its first three centuries, the growing Christian religion was subjected not only to official persecution but to the attacks of pagan intellectuals, who looked upon the new sect as a band of fanatics bent on worldwide domination even as they professed to despise the things of this world.
