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Black Women in America (3 Vol. Set)
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0195156773 |
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Winner of the Dartmouth Medal for Outstanding Reference Publication of 1994, the first edition of Black Women in America broke ground-pulling together for the first time all of the research in this vast but underrepresented field to provide one of the strongest building blocks of Black Women's Studies. Hailed by Eric Foner of Columbia University (for a Lingua Franca survey) as "one of those publishing events which changes the way we look at a field," it simultaneously filled a void in the literature and sparked new research and concepts regarding African-American women in history. Since the first edition was published, a new generation of American black women has flourished, demanding this landmark reference be brought up to date. Women such as Venus and Serena Williams, Condoleezza Rice, Carol Mosley-Braun, Ruth Simmons, and Ann Fudge have become household names for their remarkable contributions to sports, politics, academia, and business. In three magnificent volumes, Black Women in America, second edition celebrates the remarkable achievements of black women throughout history, highlights their ongoing contributions in America today, and covers the new research the first edition helped to generate. Features: * Includes more than 150 new entries, plus revisions and updates to all previous entries * Contains 500 illustrations, many published here for the first times * Includes over 335 biographies, many newly prepared for this publication * Offers sidebars on interesting aspects of the history and culture of black women * Provides a bibliography for each entry, plus a major bibliographical essay * Features a chronology and a comprehensive index For a complete listing of contents, visit www.oup.com/us/bwiaCustomer Reviews:
Inspiring Resource for Libraries and Living Rooms.......2005-07-29
This is a "must-have" reference source.......1997-10-09
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Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia (3 volume set)
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0253346800 |
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-- 2007 Best in Reference, New York Public Library --Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia records the contribution of women of Latin American birth or heritage to the economic and cultural development of the United States. The encyclopedia, edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez Korrol, is the first comprehensive gathering of scholarship on Latinas. This encyclopedia will serve as an essential reference for decades to come.
In more than 580 entries, the historical and cultural narratives of Latinas come to life. From mestizo settlement, pioneer life, and diasporic communities, the encyclopedia details the contributions of women as settlers, comadres, and landowners, as organizers and nuns. More than 200 scholars explore the experiences of Latinas during and after EuroAmerican colonization and conquest; the early-19th-century migration of Puerto Ricans and Cubans; 20th-century issues of migration, cultural tradition, labor, gender roles, community organization, and politics; and much more. Individual biographical entries profile women who have left their mark on the historical and cultural landscape.
With more than 300 photographs, this three-volume encyclopedia offers a mosaic of historical experiences, detailing how Latinas have shaped their own lives, cultures, and communities through mutual assistance and collective action, while confronting the pressures of colonialism, racism, discrimination, sexism, and poverty.
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Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, Vol. 1: A-L
Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0415919347 |
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The Encyclopedia of Women's History in America
Kathryn Cullen-DuPont Manufacturer: Da Capo Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0306808684 |
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Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia (2 Volumes) (American Family Series)
Manufacturer: ABC-Clio ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding Accessories: ASIN: 1576072061 |
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The first-ever reference work on a scandalously under-researched group. Hundreds of articles, by more than 80 high-profile scholars, cover all aspects of girls’ lives and roles in society, past and present: from babysitting and Barbie dolls through games, gangs, and Girl Scouts to science education, sisters, and slumber parties.Customer Reviews:
Experiences of girls throughout American history.......2001-10-11
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Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (2 Volume Set)
Paula E. Hyman Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0415919363 |
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This encyclopedia provides the first standard reference work on the lives, history and activities of Jewish women in the United States. Covering a period which extends from the arrival of the first Jewish women in North America in 1654 to the present, this two-volume set presents the most comprehensive and detailed portrait of American Jewish women ever published, and brings together for the first time the wealth of recent scholarship on this subject.
Includes:
* Biographical entries on over 800 individual women.
* 128 topical articles on organizations such as Hadassah, the National Council of Jewish Women, Mizrachi, and the Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
* Major essays on Jewish women's participation in the movement for women's suffrage, social reform, civil rights, and the recent women's movement.
* The activities of Jewish women in politics, business, education, the arts, and religion.
* A readable, inviting format with over 500 large photographs.
* Bibliographies at theend of each entry which include overviews of major scholarship in the field, complete citations of more general works and citations of additional bibliographical and reference sources.
* The comprehensive index includes citations to every substantive discussion in the entries as well as all proper names appearing in the text, such as organizations, book, song and film titles, schools, and individuals.
The Encyclopedia provides information on American Jewish women in all fields of endeavor, and pays special attention to the work of women in the arts, academics, law, the labor movement, education, science, medicine, journalism and publishing, and on the lives of ordinary Jewish women during all time periods and in all regions of the United States.
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An amazing project.......1999-12-13
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A to Z of Native American Women (Encyclopedia of Women)
Liz Sonneborn Manufacturer: Facts on File ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0816035806 |
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The Abc-Clio Companion to Women's Progress in America (ABC-Clio American History Companions)
Elizabeth Frost-Knappman Manufacturer: ABC-Clio Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0874366674 |
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Encyclopedia of Women in the American West
Gordon Moris Bakken Manufacturer: SAGE Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 076192356X |
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The Encyclopedia of Women in the American West chronicles the work of Native American activists such as Mildred Imach Cleghorn, and Sarah Winnemucca, the champion of rights of indigenous peoples who established Nevada's first school for Native Americans in 1884. The encyclopedia also explores the stories of early ranchers. Among them is Freda Ehmann, who founded the California Ripe Olive Association where, according to her grandson, "science and chemical exactness failed, the experience and care of a skillful and conscientious housewife succeeded." Women in the American West have long thrived in the arts. This is evidenced by the work of authors such as Pulitzer Prize winner Willa Cather, Amy Tan, and Linda Hasselstrom, poets such as Hildegarde Flanner, and journalist Molly Ivins. All are profiled in this comprehensive work. The arts are used to address both aesthetic and serious societal issues such as Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, the story of a woman's struggle with identity as a minority in American culture. Academics will appreciate a study of Ruth Underhill's Autobiography of a Papago Woman, which deals with the role of feminist ideology in changing the discipline of anthropology during the first part of the twentieth century. Women in the American West have also achieved many "firsts" such as Utah's Ivy Baker Priest, the first woman to hold the office of Treasurer of the United States, and Georgia Bullock, the first woman judge in the State of CaliforniaCustomer Reviews:
Great Resource.......2004-06-18
A highly educational and enlightening resource.......2003-08-08
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Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America: Business and Professions (Facts on File Encyclopedia of Black Women in America)
Manufacturer: Facts on File ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0816034273 |
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Zen Judaism: For You, A Little Enlightenment
David M. Bader Manufacturer: Harmony ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 060961021X Release Date: 2002-08-13 |
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Few spiritual practices are more intriguing or elusive than those of Zen Judaism,” says David M. Bader in the foreword to Zen Judaism. “This growing movement offers a unique way to follow in the footsteps of the Buddha, ideally without gaining quite so much weight.” These nearly 100 sacred teachings are capable “of bringing about an enlightenment experience so pure, so elevating, and so intense, you could plotz.”Customer Reviews:
Zen Judaism -- Who knew?.......2007-04-07
Entertaining.......2007-01-23
You Mean Like These?.......2006-10-04
Now I know where the Jewish Zen e-mails come from.......2005-06-08
Excellent, but only in spots........2005-05-28
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Hasidism and the Jewish Enlightenment: Their Confrontation in Galicia and Poland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Raphael Mahler Manufacturer: Jewish Publication Society ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0827602332 |
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Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture
Aamir R. Mufti Manufacturer: Princeton University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 069105732X |
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Enlightenment in the Colony opens up the history of the "Jewish question" for the first time to a broader discussion--one of the social exclusion of religious and cultural minorities in modern times, and in particular the crisis of Muslim identity in modern India.
Aamir Mufti identifies the Hindu-Muslim conflict in India as a colonial variation of what he calls "the exemplary crisis of minority"--Jewishness in Europe. He shows how the emergence of this conflict in the late nineteenth century represented an early instance of the reinscription of the "Jewish question" in a non-Western society undergoing modernization under colonial rule. In so doing, he charts one particular route by which this European phenomenon linked to nation-states takes on a global significance.
Mufti examines the literary dimensions of this crisis of identity through close readings of canonical texts of modern Western--mostly British-literature, as well as major works of modern Indian literature in Urdu and English. He argues that the one characteristic shared by all emerging national cultures since the nineteenth century is the minoritization of some social and cultural fragment of the population, and that national belonging and minority separatism go hand in hand with modernization.
Enlightenment in the Colony calls for the adoption of secular, minority, and exilic perspectives in criticism and intellectual life as a means to critique the very forms of marginalization that give rise to the uniquely powerful minority voice in world literatures.
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The Jewish Response to German Culture: From the Enlightenment to the Second World War (Tauber Institute)
Jehuda Reinharz Manufacturer: Brandeis ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0874515521 |
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Seventeen scholars explore the interaction between a Jewish culture with its ancient heritage and an expansive German culture in the process of modernization.
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Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)
Jeremy Dauber Manufacturer: Stanford University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0804749019 Release Date: 2004-06-02 |
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The French Enlightenment and the Jews
Arthur Hertzberg Manufacturer: Columbia University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0231073852 |
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The Age of Haskalah: Studies in Hebrew Literature of the Enlightenment in Germany
Moshe Pelli Manufacturer: University Press of America ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 076183351X |
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The Age of Haskalah is a seminal study of the beginnings of the Haskalah (Hebrew Enlightenment) in Germany in the last quarter of the 18th century. With detailed textual and historical evidence, author Moshe Pelli examines the backdrop of the Hebrew Enlightenment and the impact of the European Deism on the pundits of Haskalah.
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A Beacon of Jewish Enlightenment
Manufacturer: King's Road Consulting ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0971958408 |
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For nearly 3/4 of a century, Dropsie College held a preeminent position as the intellectual capital for non-sectarian Judaic studies. This is the story of those who played a role in saving Dropsie from its imminent demise and helped it to become a world-renowned institution
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The Berlin Jewish Community: Enlightenment, Family and Crisis, 1770-1830 (Studies in Jewish History)
Steven M. Lowenstein Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0195083261 |
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The Berlin Jewish community was both the pioneer in intellectual modernization and the first to experience a crisis of modernity. This original and imaginative book connects intellectual and political transformation with the social structures and daily activities of the Jewish community. Steven M. Lowenstein has used extraordinarily rich documentation about the life of Berlin Jewry in the period and assembled a collective biography of the entire community of Berlin Jews. He has examined tax lists, subscription lists, genealogical records, and address lists as well as kosher meat accounts to give us a vivid picture of daily life. On another level in detailing the complexity of Jewish life in Berlin during this period, this book illuminates the connections between the "peaceful stage" of enlightenment and the crisis that followed.
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Crash Course in Jewish History: 5000 Years in 5 Hours
Rabbi Berel Wein Manufacturer: The Destiny Foundation ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette ASIN: B000E0G6CM |
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All of Jewish history in five lectures! Become conversant with the fantastic story of the Jewish people over the ages. Buy Rabbi Berel Wein's "Crash Course in Jewish History" and become knowledgeable in this great story of civilization. The Jewish story is almost 4000 years old. It extends from Abraham leaving Mesopotamia until the return of the Jewish people in our time to the Land of Israel. Rabbi Berel Wein's series of five tapes gives a sense of history to the Jewish story and to the events of all human civilization. The story of biblical Israel, the Babylonian Exile, The Second Temple, the long exile of the Jewish people, the Crusades, the Spanish expulsion, the Renaissance and Reformation, the Enlightenment and Modernism, Zionism, the emigration to North America and the Land of Israel, the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel - all are covered in this informative and educational five-hour tape series. History is our rear view mirror of life. Know the story of your people!Books:
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