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On The Transportation Of Material Goods By Enslaved Africans During The Middle Passage: Preliminary Findings From Documentary Sources, Jerome S. Handler
On The Transportation Of Material Goods By Enslaved Africans During The Middle Passage: Preliminary Findings From Documentary Sources, Jerome S. Handler
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
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Gender And Resistance At North Bend Plantation: The Beginnings Of An Interdisciplinary Study Of An Enslaved Community, Kelley Deetz
Gender And Resistance At North Bend Plantation: The Beginnings Of An Interdisciplinary Study Of An Enslaved Community, Kelley Deetz
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
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Writing African History, Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
Writing African History, Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
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When The Girls Came Out To Play: The Birth Of American Sportswear, Patricia Campbell Warner
When The Girls Came Out To Play: The Birth Of American Sportswear, Patricia Campbell Warner
University of Massachusetts Press Books
A study of the evolution of American women’s clothing, When the Girls Came Out to Play traces the history of modern sportswear as a universal style that broke down traditional gender roles. Patricia Warner shows how this profound cultural shift, which did not reach fruition until World War II, originated during the previous century with the gradual expansion of socially acceptable physical activity for women. Behind this development was a growing interest in sports and exercise that was further nurtured by the establishment of schools of higher education for women.The participation of women in athletic pursuits previously reserved for men …
The Needles Eye: Women And Work In The Age Of Revolution, Marla R. Miller
The Needles Eye: Women And Work In The Age Of Revolution, Marla R. Miller
University of Massachusetts Press Books
Among the enduring stereotypes of early American history has been the colonial Goodwife, perpetually spinning, sewing, darning, and quilting, answering all of her family’s textile needs. But the Goodwife of popular historical imagination obscures as much as she reveals; the icon appears to explain early American women’s labor history while at the same time allowing it to go unexplained. Tensions of class and gender recede, and the largest artisanal trade open to early American women is obscured in the guise of domesticity.
In this book, Marla R. Miller illuminates the significance of women’s work in the clothing trades of the …
Cemetery Of The Murdered Daughters: Feminism, History, And Ingeborg Bachmann, Sara Lennox
Cemetery Of The Murdered Daughters: Feminism, History, And Ingeborg Bachmann, Sara Lennox
University of Massachusetts Press Books
Although Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) is widely regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century authors writing in German, her novels and stories have sometimes been viewed narrowly as portraits of women as victims. In this innovative study, Sara Lennox provides a much broader perspective on Bachmann’s work, at the same time undertaking an experiment in feminist methodology.Lennox examines Bachmann’s poetry and prose in historical context, arguing that the varied feminist interpretations of her writings are the result of shifts in theoretical emphases over a period of more than three decades. Lennox then places her own essays on Bachmann …
Index, Patricia Campbell Warner
Index, Patricia Campbell Warner
When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear
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When The Girls Came Out To Play: The Birth Of American Sportswear [Full Book], Patricia Campbell Warner
When The Girls Came Out To Play: The Birth Of American Sportswear [Full Book], Patricia Campbell Warner
When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear
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