Women
Showing 1–16 of 123 results
Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Asleep in the DeepNursing Sister Anna Stamers and the First World War |
On 27 June 1918, the Llandovery Castle, a Canadian hospital ship returning to England, was sunk by a German U-boat in contravention of international law. Two hundred and thirty-four crew members … | Dianne Kelly | 223 | 2021 | View |
Holocaust to ResistanceMy Journey |
Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis … | Suzanne Berliner Weiss | 320 | 2019 | View |
Jeannie’s DemiseAbortion on Trial in Victorian Toronto |
August 1, 1875, Toronto: The body of a young woman is discovered in a pine box, half-buried in a ditch along Bloor Street. So begins Jeannie’s Demise, a real-life Victorian melodrama that … | Ian Radforth | 198 | 2020 | View |
No Place For A Woman |
As a young woman, the late Ella Manuel left the busy shipping community of Lewisporte, Newfoundland, for the wider world in the 1920s, but eventually returned to the island, as a single mother, … | Antony Berger | 318 | 2020 | View |
On Love and TyrannyThe Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt |
In an utterly unique approach to biography, On Love and Tyranny traces the life and work of the iconic German Jewish intellectual Hannah Arendt, whose political philosophy and understandings of … | Ann Heberlein | 272 | 2021 | View |
Women and WorkFeminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction |
With #MeToo dominating headlines and an unprecedented number of women running for office, the fight for women’s equality has perhaps never been higher on the political agenda. Around … | Susan Ferguson | 192 | 2020 | View |
From AcknowledgementsFrom: Women and Work |
Author’s acknowledgements. | Susan Ferguson | 2 | 2020 | $0.20 Add |
From In the Mountains of Auvergne France, 2017From: Holocaust to Resistance |
Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis … | Suzanne Berliner Weiss | 3 | 2019 | $0.30 Add |
From IntroductionThat Which Should Never Have Happened From: On Love and Tyranny |
In the introduction, Heberlein exmines the links between Hannah Arendt’s love of the world and her explorations of evil. | Ann Heberlein | 4 | 2021 | $0.40 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: Asleep in the Deep |
The introduction summarizes the events surrounding the German sinking of the Canadian Hospital Ship Llandovery Castle in World War I. Following the war, the actions of the U-boat commander and … | Dianne Kelly | 5 | 2021 | $0.50 Add |
From PrefaceFrom: No Place For A Woman |
The opening sections of the book provide a brief biography of Ella Manuel, describing her Newfoundland upbringing, travels, and relationships throughout her life. | Antony Berger | 2 | 2020 | $0.20 Add |
From PrefaceFrom: Jeannie's Demise |
Ian Radforth | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add | |
From Early LifeFrom: Asleep in the Deep |
The early life of Nursing Sister Anna Irene Stamers is described as well as the history of her family in Saint John, New Brunswick, including the untimely death of her father and the financial … | Dianne Kelly | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: Women and Work |
The author notes that the book is about how feminists have understood women’s work, then provides a short examination of feminist theories of labour: equality, critical equality, and social … | Susan Ferguson | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: Jeannie's Demise |
Ian Radforth | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add | |
From Recovery from Fascism France, 1943-48From: Holocaust to Resistance |
Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis … | Suzanne Berliner Weiss | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |