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Author : Sabrina Mervin
Release : 1990
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 160/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women by : Sabrina Mervin
Download or read book Women written by Sabrina Mervin. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the lives of more than one hundred women throughout history, from the myths of creation to famous writers, artists, healers, outlaws, Hollywood stars, and feminists
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Release : 1996
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 109/5 ( reviews)
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Download or read book Heroines written by . This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles notable women from around the world and throughout history, including Joan of Arc, Marie Curie, and Amelia Earhart.
Author : Emil Reich
Release : 1908
Genre :
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Book Synopsis Woman Through the Ages by : Emil Reich
Download or read book Woman Through the Ages written by Emil Reich. This book was released on 1908. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Merry Wiesner Hanks
Release : 2014-06-11
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 80X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ages of Woman, Ages of Man by : Merry Wiesner Hanks
Download or read book Ages of Woman, Ages of Man written by Merry Wiesner Hanks. This book was released on 2014-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection is organized around two main principles, stages of life and gender, and is divided into eight chapters: childhood, youth and sexuality, courtship and weddings, married life, economic life, networks and communities, and widowhood and old age. The sources address the numerous and varied ways in which women and men’s notions of themselves affected their lives, and explore how accepted norms of masculine and feminine behaviour influenced social, economic, and religious change. Guided by a general editors' introduction and then an introduction to each chapter, the user will find this an invaluable reference companion to early modern gender history.
Author : Serinity Young
Release : 2018-01-02
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 70X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women Who Fly by : Serinity Young
Download or read book Women Who Fly written by Serinity Young. This book was released on 2018-01-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She considers supernatural women like the Valkyries of Norse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward, dangerous women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines the modern mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch. Throughout, Young demonstrates that female power has always been inextricably linked with female sexuality and that the desire to control it is a pervasive theme in these stories. This is vividly depicted, for example, in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brünnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into surrendering her virginity. Even in the twentieth-century the same idea is reflected in the exploits of the comic book and film character Wonder Woman who, Young suggests, retains her physical strength only because her love for fellow aviator Steve Trevor goes unrequited. The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly offers a fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions throughout the ages and around the world.
