Mortar Board: A Century of Scholars, Chosen for Leadership, United to Serve
Virginia N. Gordon, Jane A. Hamblin and Susan R. Komives
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Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society has a unique place in the history of higher...
New England Nation: The Country the Puritans Built: 2012
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Out of European revolutions and social upheaval, an extraordinary society of literate, pious, and...
A Brief History of Misogyny: the World's Oldest Prejudice
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In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to...
Step Aside, Pops
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Wonder Woman! Hunks! Great men and women of history! Step aside - Kate Beaton is coming for you. The...
Secrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection
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Toward the end of the Middle Ages, medical writers and philosophers began to devote increasing...
Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art
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Throughout the history of the Western world, countless attempts have been made to define beauty in...
Don't Hurry Me Down to Hades: Soldiers and Families in America's Civil War
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For four years American families on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line were forced to endure the...
Women and Nature?: Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment
Douglas A. Vakoch and Sam Mickey
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Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment provides a historical context for...
ClareR (5831 KP) rated The Persians in Books
Feb 3, 2025
Both the women in Iran and those in the US are non-conformists, rule breakers - and some more than others. There’s the obvious Shirin, who’s arrested on prostitution charges at the beginning of the book, and Bita, who decides to break away from her family history and wealth, and make her own way. Then there’s the matriarch, Elizabeth, who remains in Iran and uses her age and family name to get away with not following the rules of Islamic law (to some degree), and her granddaughter Niaz, who is arrested and put in a Tehran jail.
A lot of secrets are revealed (there are some big secrets to be revealed!), and when mothers and daughters are honest and truthful with one another, relationships can be repaired. But will they?
A very enjoyable, somewhat escapist read - I mean, the wealth of these people is startling!
Women Vaudeville Stars: Eighty Biographical Profiles
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Here are the stories of 80 women who were among the top vaudeville acts in the late 19th and early...