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Author : Bunny McBride
Release : 2001-09-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 773/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women of the Dawn by : Bunny McBride
Download or read book Women of the Dawn written by Bunny McBride. This book was released on 2001-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Wabanaki women from four centuries of tribal history recall the long, tragic history of initial European contact and subsequent disease, warfare, and displacement.
Author : Wendy Garling
Release : 2016-08-30
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 652/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Stars at Dawn by : Wendy Garling
Download or read book Stars at Dawn written by Wendy Garling. This book was released on 2016-08-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary and provocative examination of the life of the Buddha highlighting the influence of women from his journey to awakening through his teaching career--based on overlooked or neglected stories from ancient source material. In this retelling of the ancient legends of the women in the Buddha’s intimate circle, lesser-known stories from Sanskrit and Pali sources are for the first time woven into an illuminating, coherent narrative that follows his life from his birth to his parinirvana or death. Interspersed with original insights, fresh interpretations, and bold challenges to the status quo, the stories are both entertaining and thought-provoking—some may even appear controversial. Focusing first on laywomen from the time before the Buddha’s enlightenment—his birth mother and stepmother, his co-wives, and members of his harem when he was known as Prince Siddhartha—then moving on to the Buddha’s first female disciples, early nuns, and to female patrons, Wendy Garling invites us to open our minds to a new understanding of their roles.
Author : Bunny McBride
Release : 2021-08-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 879/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women of the Dawn by : Bunny McBride
Download or read book Women of the Dawn written by Bunny McBride. This book was released on 2021-08-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women of the Dawn tells the stories of four remarkable Wabanaki Indian women who lived in northeast America during the four centuries that devastated their traditional world. Their courageous responses to tragedies brought on by European contact make up the heart of the book. The narrative begins with Molly Mathilde (1665-1717), a mother, a peacemaker, and the daughter of a famous chief. Born in the mid-1600s, when Wabanakis first experienced the full effects of colonial warfare, disease, and displacement, she provided a vital link for her people through her marriage to the French baron of St. Castin. The sage continues with the shrewd and legendary healer Molly Ockett (1740-1816) and the reputed witchwoman Molly Molasses (1775-1867). The final chapter belongs to Molly Dellis Nelson (1903-1977) (known as Spotted Elk), a celebrated performer on European stages who lived to see the dawn of Wabanaki cultural renewal in the modern era.
Author : Marilyn French
Release : 2008
Genre : Women
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Book Synopsis From Eve to Dawn: Infernos and paradises, the triumph of capitalism in the 19th century by : Marilyn French
Download or read book From Eve to Dawn: Infernos and paradises, the triumph of capitalism in the 19th century written by Marilyn French. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephanie Coontz
Release : 2011-01-04
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 324/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Strange Stirring by : Stephanie Coontz
Download or read book A Strange Stirring written by Stephanie Coontz. This book was released on 2011-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, Betty Friedan unleashed a storm of controversy with her bestselling book, The Feminine Mystique. Hundreds of women wrote to her to say that the book had transformed, even saved, their lives. Nearly half a century later, many women still recall where they were when they first read it. In A Strange Stirring, historian Stephanie Coontz examines the dawn of the 1960s, when the sexual revolution had barely begun, newspapers advertised for "perky, attractive gal typists," but married women were told to stay home, and husbands controlled almost every aspect of family life. Based on exhaustive research and interviews, and challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Friedan, A Strange Stirring brilliantly illuminates how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn't't reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice.
