Publication date: 2004-04
Dewey code: 780.92
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Review The Music of American Composer Lejaren Hiller and an Examination of His Early Works Involving Technology (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Creator: Lynn McDonald
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-06-21
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $125.00
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Review Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 1 (Collected Works of Florence Nightingale) / Wilfrid Laurier University Press:Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family introduces the Collected Works by giving an overview of Nightingale’s life and the faith that guided it and by outlining the main social reform concerns on which she worked from her “call to service’’ at age sixteen to old age. This volume reports correspondence (selected from the thousands of surviving letters) with her mother, father and sister and a wide extended family. There is material on Nightingale’s “domestic arrangements,’’ from recipes, cat care and relations with servants to her contributions to charities, church and social reform causes. Much new and original material comes to light, and a remarkably different portrait of Nightingale, one with a more nuanced view of her family relationships, emerges. The Series In the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale all the surviving writing of Florence Nightingale will be published, much of it for the first time. Known as the heroine of the Crimean War and the major founder of the modern profession of nursing, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) will be revealed also as a scholar, theorist and social reformer of enormous scope and importance. Original material has been obtained from over 150 archives and private collections worldwide. This abundance of material will be reflected in the series, revealing a significant amount of new material on her philosophy, theology and personal spiritual journey, as well as on her vision of a public health care system, her activism to achieve the difficult early steps of nursing for the sick poor in workhouse infirmaries and her views on health promotion and women’s control over midwifery. Nightingale’s more than forty years of work for public health in India, particularly in famine prevention and for broader social reform, will be reported in detail. The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale demonstrates Nightingale’s astute use of the political process and reports on her extensive correspondence with royalty, viceroys, cabinet ministers and international leaders, including such notables as Queen Victoria and W. [+]E. Gladstone. Much new material on Nightingale’s family is reported, including some that will challenge her standard portrayal in the secondary literature. Sixteen printed volumes are scheduled and will record her enormous and largely unpublished correspondence, previously published books, articles and pamphlets, many of which have long been out of print. There will be full publication in electronic form, permitting readers to easily pursue their particular interests. Extensive databases, notably a chronology and a names index, will also be published in electronic form, again permitting convenient access to persons interested not only in Nightingale but in other figures of the time.
Creator: Debbie Hippolite Wright
Publication date: 2005-05-30
Dewey code: 305.48899400922
List Price: $119.95
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Review Narratives And Images Of Pacific Island Women (Women's Studies) / Edwin Mellen Press:This book is a collection of interviews and photographs gathered in an extensive women's oral history project funded by Brigham Young University - Hawaii. The stories of these phenomenal Pacific Islander women are provocative and inspirational. Their voices are brought to life, honored, and well portrayed within the covers of this book, making a significant contribution to an extremely limited existing literature on Pacific Islanders, particularly Pacific Islander women. The contents of this book will definitely inform practice, theory, policy, and future research focusing on marginalized women populations. Told in their own voices, the experiences of the island women are ones of challenge, barriers, and struggles as well as ambitions, strengths, and success. They speak of the power of strong individual, family, and community identities, of values, spirituality, supports, and relationships in overcoming prejudice and discrimination and balancing personal and professional ambitions. The women share their personal and professional journeys and how they have learned to stand on steady grounds throughout those journeys. They speak, also, of the ordinary, the daily tasks and responsibilities that make up many women's lives and provide their basic satisfactions. Finally, the women on the pages of this work tell of their connections to culture and tradition and their shared desire to hold fast to values under threat, even as they reach for the new. They wisely suggest that their most common endeavor is to preserve Pacific Island languages, our mother tongues that so ably anchor us to our island homes. [+]Debbie Hippolite Wright, Kathleen Ward, and Rose Ram have done an admirable job in honoring these Pacific Islander women by recognizing the authenticity of their stories told in their own voices. I highly endorse this book and its authors, and hope that it will inspire self-assessment and advocacy for change in the person and the multiple systems in which the person exists. I express best wishes to the authors as they continue a life long commitment to examining the unique experiences of Pacific Islander women in the context of their families, cultures, communities, and the greater dominant society.
Publication date: 1988-01
Dewey code: 299.9340924
List Price: $119.95
Price: $119.95
Review Annie Besant and Progressive Messianism: 1847-1933 (Studies in Women & Religion) / Edwin Mellen Pr:
Authors
- Henry Sager Knapp Bartholomew
Review Pioneer history of Elkhart County, Indiana,: With sketches and stories / Goshen Printery:
Creator: Geoffrey J. Martin
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 910.922
List Price: $180.00
Price: $123.16
Review Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies (Geographers) / Continuum International Publishing Group:Published under the auspices of the International Geographical Union, this is the 24th volume in an annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known: explorers, independent thinkers and scholars. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas, and includes a select bibliography and brief chronology. The work includes a general index and a cumulative index of geographers listed in volumes published to date.
Creator: Galina von Meck
Publication date: 1993-04-08
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $106.50
Price: $145.42
Review "To My Best Friend": Correspondence between Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck, 1876-1878 / Oxford University Press, USA:Tchaikovsky dedicated his original and emotionally vibrant Fourth Symphony to his newly found correspondent Nadezhda von Meck. This correspondence started at the end of 1876, when Tchaikovsky was in need of funds. On the recommendation of Nikoli Rubinstein, Director of the Moscow Conservatoire where Tchaikovsky was a professor, Nadezhda before the other, Nadezhda von Meck sincerely and increasingly gushingly, Tchaikovsky less sincerely to begin with, but much more so before the elapse of many months. Each was determined never to meet the other in the flesh for fear of destroying their very special relationship. The years covered by the present book are by far the most important in the correspondence. They cover the period of Tchaikovsky's tempestuously abortive marriage, about which he is surprisingly candid; in addition to the Fourth Symphony, the compositions of the period include his finest and most sensitive opera, Eugene Onegin, and the ever popular Violin Concerto, as well as numerous other smaller works. Their views on many musical, literary, philosophical, and other matters are stated frankly and, though they are often in accord, they are not afraid to agree to differ either. Not only giving a unique insight into Tchaikovsky the composer, these letters are perhaps as fascinating as any ever printed. Many are published in English for the first time. The translations, by a native-born Russian who lived the latter part of her life in England, and edited by a music scholar who reads Russian and a Slavist who is qualified in music, are as close to the letter and spirit of the original as it is possible to get. [+]The correspondence will be of interest both to musicians and music lovers, and to all who are interested in the arts and culture of the nineteenth century.
Publication date: 1990
Review JANET FRAME THE COMPLETE AUTOBIOGRAPHY / WOMEN'S:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2004-11-01
Dewey code: 271.9
List Price: $120.00
Price: $119.09
Review Christina of Markyate / Routledge:This fascinating and comprehensive collection surveys the life of an extraordinary medieval woman. Christina of Markyate made a vow of chastity at an early age, against the wishes of her parents who intended her to marry. When forced into wedlock, she fled in disguise and went into hiding, receiving refuge in a network of hermitages. Christina became a religious recluse and eventually founded a priory of nuns attached to St. Albans. Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser present a vivid inter-disciplinary study devoted to the life, work, and extant vita of Christina of Markyate, which draws on research from a wide range of disciplines. Key topics have been selected in a balanced and comprehensive approach; they cover timeless themes, such as monasticism and eremiticisim, as well as topical matters in medieval research, such as gender issues. The book begins by introducing readers to Christina's person and life, setting her in a cultural, social and religious context, and presenting the literary background of The Life of Christina of Markyate. Further chapters examine themes such as the two traditions of martyrdom, virgin and ascetic, and Christina's alignment with both, the presentation of sanctity and sexual temptation in the twelfth century, and a survey of the phenomena of hermits and anchorites. The book also includes a close reading of the vita, revealing its markedly hagiographical qualities, and a discussion of the drama of the initials on the St. [+]Alban's Psalter and what this reveals about the relationship between Christina and Abbot Geoffrey. Beautifully illustrated, this book provides students who regularly encounter Christina with a research compendium from which to begin their studies, and introduces Christina to a wider audience.
Authors
- Armagh County Museum (Northern Ireland)
- Carole Froude-Durix
- Kathleen Bridle
- Northern Ireland) Fermanagh County Museum (Enniskillen
Publication date: 1998-07
Dewey code: 709
Price: $60.00
Review The Life and Art of Kathleen Bridle / Four Courts Press:
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 230.092
List Price: $119.95
Price: $119.95
Review The Theological and Ethical Writings of Frances Power Cobbe, 1822-1904 (Studies in Women and Religion, 43) / Edwin Mellen Press:Frances Power Cobbe is best-known to scholars of 19th-century Britain for her participation in such causes as workhouse reform, education for poor children, women's rights, and anti-vivisection. Her social activism was founded on strongly-held religious beliefs and she wrote prolifically on religion for 50 years. This volume examines Cobbe's writings on religion, ethics and morality, and traces the development of her thought over the course of her life. Cobbe's theism, critique of Christianity, and her interest in the tension between science and religion moved her from the safe Victorian female realm of devotion and piety to the contentious male realm of philosophical exchange. Her voluminous writings offer a case study for the intersection of women's history, the history of religion, and intellectual history.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-03-07
Dewey code: 944.035092
List Price: $120.00
Price: $119.10
Review Marie Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen / Routledge:Marie-Antoinette is one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in all of French history. Married to the heir to the French throne at age fourteen, Marie-Antoinette was at the center of public attention during the final tumultuous years of the Old Regime and the French Revolution. For a variety of reasons explored in this volume - all of which revolved around her gender - Marie-Antoinette came to represent the monarchy as it came under increasing attack. As both a woman and queen, she became a privileged site of the political contestation and criticism that characterized the end of the eighteenth century in France. Rather than retell the story of her life, the contributors to this volume reveal how crucial political and cultural contests were enacted "on the body of the queen" and on the complex identity of Marie-Antoinette. They explore the difficulties of Marie-Antoinette's position as a woman, a foreigner, and a queen in the final decades of the eighteenth century and help us to understand the waves of pornography and accusations of lesbianism, incest, and treason launched against her. Taken together, these essays suggest that it is precisely because Marie-Antoinette represented the contradictions in the social, political and gender systems of her era that, through her, we can both learn about the French past and shed new light on questions of gender, sexuality, and female power that continue to trouble us today.
Creator: Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Publication date: 1993-01-30
Dewey code: 305.420922
List Price: $119.95
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Review Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1800-1925: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook / Greenwood Press:From the nation's beginnings, efforts have been made to silence U. S. women. Yet they spoke. This biographical dictionary, the first of two companion volumes, gives their voices new recognition. Selecting thirty-seven key orators, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell provides entries on a diverse group of women. All were ground breakers-suffragists, the first lawyers, ministers, physicians, labor organizers, newspaper editors and publishers, historians, educators, even soldiers. The volume opens with Campbell's introduction and then provides extensive essays on each of the women included. Each entry begins with brief biographical information and then focuses on the woman's public life in discourse. Each entry includes an analysis of the subject's rhetoric. [+]Entries conclude with information on primary sources, critical works, key rhetorical documents, and selected sources of historical and biographical information. The work is fully indexed.
Publication date: 2001-04
Dewey code: 868.64099287
List Price: $119.95
Price: $119.95
Review History and Autobiography in Contemporary Spanish Women's Testimonial Writings (Spanish Studies (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 8.) / Edwin Mellen Press:This monograph explores the biographical and autobiographical works of seven 20th-century Spanish women writers: Josefina Aldecoa, Mercedes Formica, Dolores Ibarruri, Pilar Jaraiz Franco, Federica Montseny, Constancia de la Mora, and Isabel Oyarzabal de Palencia. Literary and political figures, these women contest traditional versions of Spanish history through their published works, and offer different perspectives on the role of women within that history. They address the past from diverse ideological standpoints - communism, republicanism, socialism, anarchism and fascism. The text examines the construction of the identity of the female historical subject within a specific sociopolitical context, drawing on relevant critical work from the fields of historicism, feminism and cultural studies.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2007-03-23
Dewey code: 305.42092
List Price: $150.00
Price: $119.21
Review Adele Marion Fielde / Taylor & Francis:Adele Marion Fielde, born in 1839, was a teacher, an evangelist, a social activist, scientist, lexicographer, writer and lecturer. As an American missionary in China she became a local teacher and evangelist, struggling to reconcile her Baptist upbringing with her restless intellect. This book provides an in-depth biographical study of the life of this remarkable woman, exploring her impact on her contemporary society, and her abiding influence on the scientific and academic communities to the present day.
Creator: Debra Barrett-Graves
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 942.055092
List Price: $120.00
Price: $119.99
Review Elizabeth I: Always Her Own Free Woman / Ashgate Publishing:This interdisciplinary collection by historians, cultural critics and literary scholars examines a variety of the political, social and cultural forces at work during the English Renaissance and beyond, forces that contributed to creating a wealth of artistic, literary and historical impressions of Elizabeth, her court, and the time period named after her, the Elizabethan age. Articles in the collection discuss Elizabeths' relationships, investigate the advice given her, explore connections between her court and the arts, and consider the role of Elizabeth's court in the political life of the nation. Some of the ways Elizabeth was understood and represented demonstrate society's fears and ambivalence about early modern women in power, while others celebrate her successes as England's first and only unmarried queen regnant.
Publication date: 2001-10
Dewey code: 944.027092
List Price: $120.00
Price: $119.99
Review Queen's Mate: Three Women of Power in France on the Eve of the Renaissance / Ashgate Publishing:The story of three women who shaped and presided over the destiny of France during the last years of the 15th century and early part of the 16th: Anne of France, Anne of Brittany and Louise of Savoy. Although each is worthy of her own individual biography, their lives were so enmeshed by kinship, marriage and circumstances as to be well served by a book that mirrors the complex interweaving of their lives. Their story is rich enough in dramatic incident to provide a narrative of its own, but the book also looks at the wider issues: at the restrictions, particularly in the exercise of power, placed on the three women by society; at their success in ignoring or pushing back those barriers; at what they wanted or expected for their daughters; and at how they saw themselves in relation to men. The study draws largely on contemporary sources, both printed and manuscript, and presents material hitherto unknown or overlooked.
Publication date: 2000-02
Dewey code: 780.92
List Price: $159.95
Price: $159.95
Review George Gershwin: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) / Greenwood Press:American composer George Gershwin, an icon of the American Jazz Age, indelibly marked 20th-century music, with many of his works becoming standards in the popular and jazz music repertory, not to mention his world-famous "classical" works such as "Rhapsody in Blue" (1924) and Porgy and Bess (1935). This major bibliography includes a brief biography, which examines Gershwin's influence and situates him within the cultural context of his time, a complete cross-reference list of all his compositions, a discography of more than 1,150 items, and a descriptive filmography. The extensive bibliography includes writings by both George and his brother Ira, and more than 2,100 entries about George's compositions. As an exhaustive research tool, this up-to-date bibliographic reference compiles information on George Gershwin from numerous, disparate sources and should appeal to music and theater scholars, cultural historians, and Gershwin enthusiasts alike. The work is divided among seven sections that cross-reference one another. A separate appendix lists itineraries for the Paul Whiteman tours of 1924-1925, and the Leo Reisman tour of 1934, at which Gershwin's music figured prominently, and a comprehensive index completes the volume.
Creator: Robin D. S. Higham
Publication date: 2003-04
Dewey code: 355.0082
List Price: $175.00
Price: $120.00
Review Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women / Greenwood Press:In 1942, during the battle of Stalingrad, fighter pilot Liliia Litviak became the first woman to shoot down an enemy aircraft. In the 1850s, Lakshmi Bai, a horsewoman, good shot, and Rani of the Indian principality of Jhansi, rallied her subjects and defended the principality against a British siege. From antiquity to the present, thousands of women have served in the military as soldiers, sailors, physicians, and pilots, yet their stories have been hidden from history. This book tells their stories, with particular focus on women who fought. Entries profile over 300 remarkable women of the military, covering such groups as the Amazons, women in the Spanish Civil War, and Native Americans. The full sweep of their experience is contextualized through an extensive timeline and introductory survey. Additional tidbits-quotations, statistics, information on women and war-appear in sidebars throughout the text. Lists grouping entries by geographical regions, time periods, and branch of service serve as finding aids for researchers, making this a unique resource for students, scholars, and the general reader.
Publication date: 1992
Review Denken unterwegs: Funfzehn metawissenschaftliche Exkursionen (Edition Universitas) / Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft:
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