In recent years, public debate has raged over the issue of maternal choice. While personal testimony and political argument have received widespread attention, artistic representations of birth and abortion have been submerged. Judith Wilt offers the first look at how contemporary writers tell and retell the stories that shape our perceptions about abortion. She reveals that the struggle to plot these painful, complex narratives of choice, control, guilt, loss, and liberation has preoccupied an...
The New Woman and the Aesthetic Opening (Sodertons Academic Studies, v. 19)
Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that for ever. It meant independence and the shock of the new, and daily exposure to customs and attitudes that must have seemed completely alien to them. This book will record, in their own voices where possible, the extraordinary diversity of challenges, shocks and responsibilities...
The definitive collection of speeches and writings of one of America's most important social reformersCelebrated as the most famous woman in America at the time of her death in 1898, Frances E. Willard was a leading nineteenth-century American temperance and women's rights reformer and a powerful orator. President of Evanston College for Ladies (before it merged with Northwestern University) and then professor of rhetoric and aesthetics and the first dean of women at Northwestern, Willard is bes...
Workplace spirituality and achievement motivation as predictors of psychological well-being among working women
by Soumya Sharma
Getting to Know about Energy-In School and Society
by McHardy, Marshall, Samantha, and Solomon Joan
Stranger in My Own Land, A: Sofia Casanova, a Spanish Writer in the European Fin de Siecle
by Kirsty Hooper
Explaining how a tendency toward competition and the acquisition of material wealth is compromising human relationships, a cultural study challenges readers to embrace moral responsibility, compassion, and prayerful discernment.
The Women of the British Isles, 1580-1714 (Women And Men In History)
by Anne Laurence