Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness. She also co-authored “Is Women’s Liberation a Lesbian Plot?”. She helped in the presentation to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) which led to the removal of homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). With Abbott, she co-authored the classic book Sappho Was a Right-on Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism, (Stein & Day 1972) which she hoped would lead to greater awareness of society’s oppression of women and lesbians. Her lover and fellow feminist, Sidney Abbott, was the Production Editor. Love was the editor and publisher of Foremost Women in Communications: A Biographical Reference Work on Accomplished Women in Broadcasting, Publishing, Advertising, Public Relations, and Allied Professions (Foremost Americans Publishing Corporation. She helped to found consciousness-raising groups for lesbian feminists and was active in the gay liberation movement. She also worked within the organization to improve the acceptance of lesbian feminists within the organization. With the National Organization for Women, Love organized and participated in demonstrations and marches. Love was a lesbian activist, writer and editor. Author and activist Barbara Joan Love, co-author of the originative work Sappho Was A Right-on Woman, has died.
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This is the story of a Black woman and native Alabaman returning to the region she has always called home and considering it with fresh eyes. In South to America, Imani Perry shows that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South, and that our understanding of its history and culture is the key to understanding the nation as a whole. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. An inspiration.” -Isabel WilkersonĪn essential, surprising journey through the history, rituals, and landscapes of the American South-and a revelatory argument for why you must understand the South in order to understand America “An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South-and thus of America-by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION David Magarshack in his later years Copyrights are owned by the Magarshack family, Courtesy of Emily Morris and Cathy McAteer David Magarshack Crime and Punishment, translated with an introduction by David Magarshack (First edition, 1951, Penguin Classics. He died in London on Wednesday 26 October 1977. In addition to his translation work, Magarshack also made his name as a biographer, publishing works on the lives of Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Turgenev, Gogol, Dostoevsky, and Pushkin. He was commissioned to translate Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment for Penguin in 1949, heralding the start of a fifteen-year relationship with Penguin Classics and resulting in seven publications with them in total. On graduation, he worked as a journalist at Fleet Street and became a British citizen in 1931. He attended an evening course in English Language and Literature at University College London and graduated with a 2:1 four years later on 22 October 1924. He was educated at a Russian secondary school, and emigrated to England in 1920 in the hope of pursuing a higher education. David Magarshack was born in Riga, then Russia, in 1899. Thick with history and packed with Bardugo’s signature twists, Hell Bent brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, she’ll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university’s very walls. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these aren’t just accidents. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies’ most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. But Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory―even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.įorbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can’t call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell in #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo's Hell Bent.įind a gateway to the underworld. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women. Before convenient air travel, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners and never more so than in the glory days of the interwar years. After WW1 a world of opportunity was opening up for women. Migrants and millionairesses, refugees and aristocrats all looking for a way to improve their lives. 'In this riveting slice of social history, Sian Evans does a brilliant job of describing the unexpected textures of life at sea.By deep diving into the archives, Sian Evans has discovered a watery in-between world where the usual rules didn't quite apply and a spirited woman could get further than she ever would on dry land. HOW THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL BETWEEN THE WARS TRANSFORMED WOMEN'S LIVES ACROSS ALL CLASSES - A VIVID CROSS SECTION OF LIFE ON-BOARD THE ICONIC OCEAN LINERS FROM BELOW DECKS TO THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE. 'In this riveting slice of social history, Sian Evans does a brilliant job of describing the unexpected textures of life at sea.By deep diving into the archives, Sian Evans has discovered a watery in-between world where the usual rules didn't quite apply and a sp. Because Susan is passionate about animal welfare, pets play a big role in her books. She's best known for putting nuanced characters into emotionally complex, real-life situations with twists that surprise readers to laughter. #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery writes heartwarming and humorous novels about the relationships that define women's lives-family, friendship, romance. Anyone living or working within 125 miles of the coast should read this book and be familiar with the tsunami evacuation routes in your area. Couple with that will be a huge tsunami, on the order of the one that hit Japan in 2011. The Cascidia subduction zone has the potential to produce an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 or above. This book is a must-read for everyone living in the Pacific Northwest. Written by a journalist who has been following this story for twenty-five years, Cascadia’s Fault tells the tale of this devastating future earthquake and the tsunamis it will spawn. Cascadia’s fault will wreck dozens of smaller towns and coastal villages - and no one in these places will be able to call their neighbours for help. It will send crippling shockwaves across a far wider area than any of the California quakes you’ve ever heard about, slamming five cities at the same time: Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Portland and Sacramento. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is virtually identical to the offshore fault that wrecked Sumatra in 2004, and it will generate the same type of earthquake, a magnitude nine or higher. Without a doubt, the coming quake is one day closer today than it was yesterday. There is roughly a thirty percent chance that it could happen again within the next fifty years. About every 500 years this fault generates a monster earthquake. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a crack in the earth’s crust, roughly fifty kilometres offshore, running 1,100 kilometres from northern Vancouver Island to northern California. He continues visiting her every night in secret, as their interracial relationship is illegal. Shortly after they have sex, Ferdie helps Maddie secure an apartment in a safer neighborhood. She does not, however, expect to fall in love with the young suave African American cop who answers her cries for help. When the man offers her significantly less than the ring is worth, Maddie stages a break-in at her apartment, swearing the ring has been stolen. Desperate to be monetarily independent from Milton, she tries selling her engagement ring to a jeweler. She leaves her husband and young son to begin a life on her own. The first person passages are driven by the voices of more minor characters, while the third person sections follow Maddie Schwartz's consciousness and overarching experiences as she navigates the world outside her marital confines.Īfter years of marriage to her husband Milton, Maddie realizes she has given up her dreams to satisfy the traditional Jewish expectations of her family. In each of the novel's three larger parts, Lippman presents alternating first person and third person accounts. Laura Lippman's Lady in the Lake is written from a network of narrative vantages. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Lippman, Laura. In recent years I’d heard voices in the Austenesque community raving about how much they loved the old Poldark television series, originally broadcast from 1975-1977. With an unforgettable cast of characters that spans loves, lives, and generations, this extraordinary masterwork from Winston Graham is a story you will never forget. Thus begins the Poldark series, a heartwarming, gripping saga set in the windswept landscape of Cornwall. Ross has no choice but to start his life anew. But instead he discovers his father has died, his home is overrun by livestock and drunken servants, and Elizabeth-believing Ross to be dead-is now engaged to his cousin. I n the first novel in Winston Graham’s hit series, a weary Ross Poldark returns to England from war, looking forward to a joyful homecoming with his beloved Elizabeth. Ross Poldark: A Novel of Cornwall by Winston Graham, A ReviewĪ review by Laura Hartness, the Calico Critic. Her best friend at school is named Rachel. She has a best friend named Sunny who attends a different school, but the girls are together most of the time on the weekends. The days she spends at a private school, populated mostly by white students, create a conflict within Reha who embraces her Indian culture but longs to be more like the other girls who attend her school. Reha is enmeshed in this lifestyle every day, especially on the weekends. Reha's parents, known as Amma and Daddy in this novel in verse, hold to many of the traditional beliefs of their Indian culture. Reha's parents moved to America from India before Reha was born, and the three of them make up a small but close-knit family. NOTE: As a novel in verse, Red, White, and Whole employs poems, instead of prose. Harper Collins Publishers, New York, NY 10007. The following version of the novel in verse was used to create this study guide: LaRocca, Rajani. |