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Understanding W.S. Merwin
Elucidates the unique voice of a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
Gender and Fascism in Modern France
Discovering the ways gender issues are articulated in the cultures of the extreme right in modern France.
'This Anguish, Like a Kind of Intimate Song'
This literary history explores the reality of European women's roles in fighting Nazism. By comparing the resistance literature of French and German authors, this book links the traditional gender expectations for women and the conventions of their everyday lives with their unique forms of resistance. Theirs was an opposition grounded in the ordinary, beyond the sphere of political violence. Women were long regarded as outsiders to combat and politics, with no stake in upholding resistance myths. Women authors therefore freely rendered the personal and moral landscape of the resister's world in a new vocabulary. They revised standard rhetoric and replaced heroism and bullets with the values of home, human relationships, and candid acknowledgement of the sorrow, fear, and uncertainty of war.
Gender History in Practice
The eight essays collected in this volume examine the practice of gender history and its impact on our understanding of European history. Each essay takes up a major methodological or theoretical issue in feminist history and illustrates the necessity of critiquing and redefining the concepts of body, citizenship, class, and experience through historical case studies. Kathleen Canning opens the book with a new overview of the state of the art in European gender history. She considers how gender history has revised the master narratives in some fields within modern European history (such as the French Revolution) but has had a lesser impact in others (Weimar and Nazi Germany).Gender History i...
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
A Life of Resistance
Chronology -- Early years (1902-1918) -- New life (1918-1920) -- The path of resistance (1920-1926) -- Resisting alone (1926-1939) -- Antifascism for children (1939-1940) -- War (1940-1943) -- The Resistenza (1943-1945) -- Postwar politics (1945-1947) -- Women's rights, human rights (1947-1961) -- Educating resisters (1947-1968) -- Conclusion: The legacy of resistance -- Glossary
From Mourning to Morning
Through her journal we see the author move from grieving a beloved spouse to the stirrings of an independent life in which she discovers her own strengths and vitality. Forging a new life with a sisterhood of friends she then faces another of life’s major challenges. It’s a story of passion, friendship and personal growth told with the rarest openness and sensitivity. Her vivid dreams and poetry strike a universal chord and intensify the reader’s connection to the author and her search for life after loss. Some Jewish ethnicity.
