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Book Seeress of the Northland

Download or read book Seeress of the Northland written by Signe Alice Rooth and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Swedish Historical Foundation  The Chronicle  Autumn   Winter 1955

Download or read book American Swedish Historical Foundation The Chronicle Autumn Winter 1955 written by and published by American Swedish Hist Museum. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seeress of the Northland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Signe Alice Roth
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-04
  • ISBN : 9781422365410
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book Seeress of the Northland written by Signe Alice Roth and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredrika Bremer came to the U.S. in 1849 & remained for two years, during which she traveled about extensively. This volume sheds new light on the literary & social contacts she had with Americans. While journeying in 27 states she wrote letters to her sister in Sweden. They later appeared in her book 'Hemmen i den nya verlden¿ (1853-1854), which was translated into English as ¿Homes of the New World¿ (1853). She also contributed a number of articles, stories, & poems to ¿Sartain¿s Union Mag.,¿ a Phila. literary periodical. Her social impressions of America had a profound effect upon her later writings. For ex., the novel ¿Hertha¿ (1856), whose theme is women¿s rights, was inspired by her observations on the status of women in the U.S. Illustrations.

Book Seeress of the Northland

Download or read book Seeress of the Northland written by Signe Alice Rooth and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth Century Latin America

Download or read book Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth Century Latin America written by Adriana Méndez Rodenas and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims retraces the steps of five intrepid “lady travelers” who ventured into the geography of the New World—Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean—at a crucial historical juncture, the period of political anarchy following the break from Spain and the rise of modernity at the turn of the twentieth century. Traveling as historians, social critics, ethnographers, and artists, Frances Erskine Inglis (1806–82), Maria Graham (1785–1842), Flora Tristan (1803–44), Fredrika Bremer (1801–65), and Adela Breton (1849–1923) reshaped the map of nineteenth-century Latin America. Organized by themes rather than by individual authors, this book examines European women’s travels as a spectrum of narrative discourses, ranging from natural history, history, and ethnography. Women’s social condition becomes a focal point of their travels. By combining diverse genres and perspectives, women’s travel writing ushers a new vision of post-independence societies. The trope of pilgrimage conditions the female travel experience, which suggests both the meta-end of the journey as well as the broader cultural frame shaping their individual itineraries.

Book Joyous Greetings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bonnie S. Anderson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2000-03-16
  • ISBN : 0198029179
  • Pages : 303 pages

Download or read book Joyous Greetings written by Bonnie S. Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over one hundred fifty years ago, champions of women's rights in the United States, Britain, France, and Germany formed the world's earliest international feminist movement. Joyous Greetings is the first book to tell their story. From Seneca Falls in upstate New York to the barricades of revolutionary Paris, from the Crystal Palace in London to small towns in the German Rhineland, early feminists united to fight for the cause of women. At the height of the Victorian period, they insisted their sex deserved full political equality, called for a new kind of marriage based on companionship, claimed the right to divorce and to get custody of their children, and argued that an unjust economic system forced women into poorly paid jobs. They rejected the traditional view that women's subordination was preordained, natural, and universal. In restoring these daring activists' achievements to history, Joyous Greetings passes on their inspiring and empowering message to today's new generation of feminists.

Book Golden Cables of Sympathy

Download or read book Golden Cables of Sympathy written by Margaret H. McFadden and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intricate network of contacts developed among women in Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth century. These women created virtual communities through communication, support, and a shared ideology. Forged across boundaries of nationality, language, ethnic origin, and even class, these connections laid the foundation for the 1888 International Council of Women and formed the beginnings of an international women's movement. This matrix extended throughout England and the Continent and included Scandinavia and Finland. In a remarkable display of investigative research, Margaret McFadden describes the burgeoning avenues of communication in the nineteenth century that led to an explosion in the number of international contacts among women. This network blossomed because of increased travel opportunities; advances in women's literacy and education; increased activity in the temperance, abolitionist, and peace reform movements; and the emergence of female evangelicals, political revolutionaries, and expatriates. Particular attention is paid to five women whose decades of work helped give birth to the women's movement by century's end. These ""mothers of the matrix"" include Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton of the United States, Anna Doyle Wheeler of Ireland, Fredrika Bremer of Sweden, and Frances Power Cobbe of England. Despite their philosophic differences, these leaders recognized the value of friendship and advocacy among women and shared an affinity for bringing together people from different cultural settings. McFadden demonstrates without question that the traditions of transatlantic female communication are far older than most historians realize and that the women's movement was inherently international. No other scholar has painted so complete a picture of the golden cables that linked the women who saw the Atlantic and the borders within Europe as bridges rather than barriers to improving their status.

Book American Swedish Historical Foundation  The Chronicle  Winter 19541955

Download or read book American Swedish Historical Foundation The Chronicle Winter 19541955 written by and published by American Swedish Hist Museum. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History

Download or read book The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History written by Bonnie G. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 2710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Women in World History captures the experiences of women throughout world history in a comprehensive, 4-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. The past thirty years have seen an explosion of research and effort to present the experiences and contributions of women not only in the Western world but across the globe. Historians have investigated womens daily lives in virtually every region and have researched the leadership roles women have filled across time and region. They have found and demonstrated that there is virtually no historical, social, or demographic change in which women have not been involved and by which their lives have not been affected. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History benefits greatly from these efforts and experiences, and illuminates how women worldwide have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes. The Encyclopedia contains over 1,250 signed articles arranged in an A-Z format for ease of use. The entries cover six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society, including adoption, abortion, performing arts; organizations and movements, such as the Egyptian Uprising, and the Paris Commune; womens and gender studies; and topics in world history that include slave trade, globalization, and disease. With its rich and insightful entries by leading scholars and experts, this reference work is sure to be a valued, go-to resource for scholars, college and high school students, and general readers alike.

Book American Swedish Historical Museum  Yearbook 1960

Download or read book American Swedish Historical Museum Yearbook 1960 written by and published by American Swedish Hist Museum. This book was released on with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel  Translation and Culture  1830   1870

Download or read book Victorian Women and the Economies of Travel Translation and Culture 1830 1870 written by Judith Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both travel and translation involve a type of journey, one with literal and metaphorical dimensions. Judith Johnston brings together these two richly resonant modes of getting from here to there as she explores their impact on culture with respect to the work of Victorian women. Using the metaphor of the published journey, whether it involves actual travel or translation, Johnston focusses particularly on the relationships of various British women with continental Europe. At the same time, she sheds light on the possibility of appropriation and British imperial enhancement that such contact produces. Johnston's book is in part devoted to case studies of women such as Sarah Austin, Mary Busk, Anna Jameson, Charlotte Guest, Jane Sinnett and Mary Howitt who are representative of women travellers, translators and journalists during a period when women became increasingly robust participants in the publishing industry. Whether they wrote about their own travels or translated the foreign language texts of other writers, Johnston shows, women were establishing themselves as actors in the broad business of culture. In widening our understanding of the ways in which gender and modernity functioned in the early decades of the Victorian age, Johnston's book makes a strong case for a greater appreciation of the contributions nineteenth-century women made to what is termed the knowledge empire.

Book American Swedish Historical Foundation  The Chronicle  Spring 1955

Download or read book American Swedish Historical Foundation The Chronicle Spring 1955 written by and published by American Swedish Hist Museum. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Swedish Historical Foundation  The Chronicle  Spring   Summer 1956

Download or read book American Swedish Historical Foundation The Chronicle Spring Summer 1956 written by and published by American Swedish Hist Museum. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers  2 volumes

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers 2 volumes written by Helen Rappaport and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-12-06 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive guide to women activists from every part of the world, illuminating the broad range of women's struggles to reform society from the 18th century to the present. Despite being marginalized, disenfranchised, impoverished, and oppressed, women have always stepped forward in disproportionate numbers to lead movements for social change. This two-volume encyclopedia documents the visions, struggles, and lives of women who have changed the world. This encyclopedia celebrates the lives and achievements of nearly 300 women from around the globe—women who have bravely insisted that the way things are is not the way they have to be. Nadeshda Krupskaya, the wife of Lenin, spearheaded the drive against illiteracy in post-revolutionary Russia. American Dorothy Day founded the Catholic worker movement. Begum Rokeya Hossain organized a girls' school in Calcutta in 1911. Rachel Carson launched the modern environmental movement with her book Silent Spring. The stories of these women and the hundreds of others collected here will restore missing pages to our history and inspire a new generation of women to change the world.

Book American Swedish Historical Foundation  The Chronicle  Summer 1955

Download or read book American Swedish Historical Foundation The Chronicle Summer 1955 written by and published by American Swedish Hist Museum. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Multicultural Writers from Antiquity to 1945

Download or read book Multicultural Writers from Antiquity to 1945 written by Alba Amoia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final decades of the 20th century have seen an explosion of interest in multiculturalism. But multiculturalism is more than an awareness of the different cultures comprising contemporary societies. For centuries, people from around the world have come in contact with cultures other than their own, and their exposure to multiple cultures has fostered their creativity and ability to make lasting contributions to civilization. The effects of multiculturalism are especially apparent in literature, since writers tend to be particularly aware of their environments and record their experiences. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 100 world writers from antiquity to 1945, who were significantly influenced by cultures other than their own. Included are entries for major canonical Ancient and Modern writers of the Western and Eastern worlds. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a brief biography, a discussion of multicultural themes and contexts, a summary of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. By illuminating the shaping influence of multiculturalism on these writers, the volume points to the lasting value of multiculturalism in the contemporary world.

Book American Swedish    73

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leif Sjoberg
  • Publisher : American Swedish Hist Museum
  • Release : 2008-04
  • ISBN : 9781422365465
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book American Swedish 73 written by Leif Sjoberg and published by American Swedish Hist Museum. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1973 edition of the journal published by the American Swedish Historical Foundation. Contents: The Swedish-American of the Year; Nordstjernan-Svea 100; Gerhard T. Rooth; Thyra Ferre-Bjorn; Bishop Hill, Illinois; Robert Owen & Bishop Hill; Joe Hill & The Emigrants; Sture Lindmark¿s Swedish-America, 1014-1932; Emigration Research at Uppsala: Five Dissertations; Scandinavica at Claremont College; Dialect Hunters in Swedish America; Maryland, My Maryland!; The Other Emigrants; The House of Immigrants: Vaxja; Varmland¿s Emigrant Register; Texas Swedish Pioneers Assoc.; Maine¿s New Sweden Historical Museum; The Erlander Home Museum; Sweden¿s Sexual Code; The Swedish Council of America; & Book Reviews.