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Book The Concept of Woman  Volume 3

Download or read book The Concept of Woman Volume 3 written by Prudence Allen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of a lifetime's scholarly work, this pioneering study by Sister Prudence Allen traces the concept of woman in relation to man in Western thought from ancient times to the present. In her third and final volume Allen covers the years 1500–2015, continuing her chronological approach to individual authors and also offering systematic arguments to defend certain philosophical positions over against others. Building on her work from Volumes I and II, Allen draws on four "communities of discourse"—Academic, Humanist, Religious, and Satirical—as she traces several recurring strands of sex and gender identity from the Renaissance to the present. Now complete, Allen's magisterial study is a valuable resource for scholars and students in the fields of women's studies, philosophy, history, theology, literary studies, and political science.

Book The Concept of Woman

Download or read book The Concept of Woman written by Prudence Allen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of a lifetime's scholarly work, this pioneering study by Sister Prudence Allen traces the concept of woman in relation to man in Western thought from ancient times to the present. Volume I uncovers four general categories of questions asked by philosophers for two thousand years. These are the categories of opposites, of generation, of wisdom, and of virtue. Sister Prudence Allen traces several recurring strands of sexual and gender identity within this period. Ultimately, she shows the paradoxical influence of Aristotle on the question of woman and on a philosophical understanding of sexual coomplemenarity. Supplemented throughout with helpful charts, diagrams, and illustrations, this volume will be an important resource for scholars and students in the fields of women's studies, philosophy, history, theology, literary studies, and political science. In Volume 2, Sister Prudence Allen explores claims about sex and gender identity in the works of over fifty philosophers (both men and women) in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. Touching on the thought of every philosopher who considered sex or gender identity between A.D. 1250 and 1500, The Concept of Woman provides the analytical categories necessary for situating contemporary discussion of women in relation to men. Adding to the accessibility of this fine discussion are informative illustrations, helpful summary charts, and extracts of original source material (some not previously available in English). In her third and final volume Allen covers the years 1500--2015, continuing her chronological approach to individual authors and also offering systematic arguments to defend certain philosophical positions over against others.

Book The Woman Who Rides Like a Man

Download or read book The Woman Who Rides Like a Man written by Tamora Pierce and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her first tour as a knight errant, Alanna assumes a position of influence with a fierce desert tribe, makes some changes in the role of women in the society, and continues her own emotional development.

Book Isle of Woman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Piers Anthony
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1994-09-15
  • ISBN : 9780812533668
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Isle of Woman written by Piers Anthony and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy history of the human race told through the experiences of a single human family reincarnated through the ages.

Book South Carolina Women

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marjorie Julian Spruill
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2010-01-25
  • ISBN : 0820336122
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book South Carolina Women written by Marjorie Julian Spruill and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era. As old rules—including gender conventions that severely constrained southern women—were dramatically bent if not broken, these women carved out new roles for themselves and others. The volume begins with a profile of Laura Towne and Ellen Murray, who founded the Penn School on St. Helena Island for former slaves. Subsequent essays look at such women as the five Rollin sisters, members of a prominent black family who became passionate advocates for women’s rights during Reconstruction; writer Josephine Pinckney, who helped preserve African American spirituals and explored conflicts between the New and Old South in her essays and novels; and Dr. Matilda Evans, the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in the state. Intractable racial attitudes often caused women to follow separate but parallel paths, as with Louisa B. Poppenheim and Marion B. Wilkinson. Poppenheim, who was white, and Wilkinson, who was black, were both driving forces in the women’s club movement. Both saw clubs as a way not only to help women and children but also to showcase these positive changes to the wider nation. Yet the two women worked separately, as did the white and black state federations of women’s clubs. Often mixing deference with daring, these women helped shape their society through such avenues as education, religion, politics, community organizing, history, the arts, science, and medicine. Women in the mid- and late twentieth century would build on their accomplishments.

Book The Mystery of Woman

Download or read book The Mystery of Woman written by Gabriel Morris and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mystery of Woman is a dynamic, groundbreaking and deeply thought-provoking book that compiles the perspectives of more than 30 different authors, men and women. It tackles everything under the sun when it comes to understanding women and navigating the tricky waters of relationships: from love to romance, dating, masculine and feminine energies, sexuality, spirituality, tantra, communication, emotions, the suppression of women, the power of the masculine and much more. The Mystery of Woman features writings from Gabriel Morris, author of Kundalini and the Art of Being; Alice Grist, author of The High-Heeled Guide to Enlightenment; prominent yoga figure Dashama Konah; an interview with Maya Yonika, main character in the movie Sex Magic: Manifesting Maya; and many other leading figures in the realms of relationships, spirituality and sexuality. ,

Book DC Comics  Detective Comics  The Complete Covers Vol  3  Mini Book

Download or read book DC Comics Detective Comics The Complete Covers Vol 3 Mini Book written by Insight Editions and published by Insight Editions. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate Batman’s 80th Anniversary and explore the origin of Batman through DC Comics’ Detective Comics covers in this third volume of the miniature art book series Hold the comic book history of DC Comics’ Detective Comics in the palm of your hand with DC Comics: Detective Comics: The Complete Covers Vol. 3. Featuring covers from Detective Comics' 600th issue to the New 52 and present day, this mini book is bound together at a readable pocket-book size and is the perfect collector’s item for comic book fans.

Book Wonder Woman Vol  3  The Truth

Download or read book Wonder Woman Vol 3 The Truth written by Various and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WONDER WOMAN VOL. 3: THE TRUTH is the latest chapter of the instant-classic saga from writer Greg Rucka and artist Liam Sharp. They say the truth will set you free. That’s what Princess Diana—the hero known to the world as Wonder Woman—believed. But she discovered a far darker truth, learning that her entire life and history had been transformed…and it has driven her to madness. Even as her life unravels, sinister forces threaten all she holds dear. No matter how great the trauma, she must continue to fight against the evil and lies that have destroyed her life. With the help of her closest allies—and her greatest enemy, the Cheetah—Diana will put the pieces of her broken mind back together and do battle against her fearsome new foes. Will she defy the will of the gods, save her Amazon sisters and solve the mystery of her own existence once and for all? Or is the cost of the truth too steep for even Wonder Woman to bear? Exploding from the pages of the blockbuster DC Rebirth event, this storyline collects odd-numbered issues from WONDER WOMAN #13-25.

Book An Unnecessary Woman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rabih Alameddine
  • Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
  • Release : 2014-02-04
  • ISBN : 0802192874
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book An Unnecessary Woman written by Rabih Alameddine and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A happily misanthropic Middle East divorcee finds refuge in books in a “beautiful and absorbing” novel of late-life crisis (The New York Times). Aaliya is a divorced, childless, and reclusively cranky translator in Beirut nurturing doubts about her latest project: a 900-page avant-garde, linguistically serpentine historiography by a late Chilean existentialist. Honestly, at seventy-two, should she be taking on such a project? Not that Aailiya fears dying. Women in her family live long; her mother is still going crazy. But on this lonely day, hour-by-hour, Aaliya’s musings on literature, philosophy, her career, and her aging body, are suddenly invaded by memories of her volatile past. As she tries in vain to ward off these emotional upwellings, Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left. In this “meditation on, among other things, aging, politics, literature, loneliness, grief and resilience” (The New York Times), Alameddine conjures “a beguiling narrator . . . who is, like her city, hard to read, hard to take, hard to know and, ultimately, passionately complex” (San Francisco Chronicle). A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, An Unnecessary Woman is “a fun, and often funny . . . grave, powerful . . . [and] extraordinary” Washington Independent Review of Books) ode to literature and its power to define who we are. “Read it once, read it twice, read other books for a decade or so, and then pick it up and read it anew. This one’s a keeper” (The Independent)

Book The Feminine Mystique

    Book Details:
  • Author : Betty Friedan
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2001-09-17
  • ISBN : 0393322572
  • Pages : 587 pages

Download or read book The Feminine Mystique written by Betty Friedan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-09-17 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that changed the consciousness of a country—and the world. Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely describe the earthshaking and long-lasting effects of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique. This is the book that defined "the problem that has no name," that launched the Second Wave of the feminist movement, and has been awakening women and men with its insights into social relations, which still remain fresh, ever since. A national bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold.

Book Spider Woman Vol  3

Download or read book Spider Woman Vol 3 written by Karla Pacheco and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Spider-Woman (2020) #11-16. Jessica Drew is going back to basics! She’s been pushed to places she never wants to go again — but she survived. Now, with a new lease on life, it’s time to show the world who Spider-Woman truly is! She’ll begin with the Brothers of the Sword — but who exactly are these blade-wielding bros? The answer to that is just the beginning. A who’s who of Marvel mercenaries want something that Jess has — and needs! Spider-Woman soon finds herself in the sights of Lady Bullseye and more deadly killers in a battle royal across New York City! But when the fight becomes a family affair, someone in the Drew clan will suit up for the first time! Who could it be?! It’s the fight of Spider-Woman’s life, and you do not want to miss it!

Book Hawkeye Vol  3

Download or read book Hawkeye Vol 3 written by Matt Fraction and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Hawkeye Annual #1, Hawkeye #14, #16, #18, #20.

Book Akata Woman

Download or read book Akata Woman written by Nnedi Okorafor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akata Woman is the New York Times bestselling third book in the series that started with Akata Witch, named one of Time magazine's "100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time" and "100 Best YA Books of All Time," from award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor. "In this series, Okorafor creates a stunningly original world of African magic that draws on Nigerian folk beliefs and rituals instead of relying on the predictable tropes of Western fantasy novels." —Time magazine From the moment Sunny Nwazue discovered she had mystical energy flowing in her blood, she sought to understand and control her powers. Throughout her adventures in Akata Witch and Akata Warrior, she had to navigate the balance between nearly everything in her life—America and Nigeria, the "normal" world and the one infused with juju, human and spirit, good daughter and powerful Leopard Person. Now, those hard lessons and abilities are put to the test in a quest so dangerous and fantastical, it would be madness to go...but may destroy the world if she does not. With the help of her friends, Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object hidden deep in an otherworldly realm. Defeating the guardians of the prize will take more from Sunny than she has to give, and triumph will mean she will be forever changed.

Book Covered Wagon Women  1852  The California Trail

Download or read book Covered Wagon Women 1852 The California Trail written by Kenneth L. Holmes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diaries and letters of six pioneer women describe the rigors en route, trailside celebrations and tragedies, the scourge of cholera, and encounters with the Indians.

Book Spider Woman Masterworks Vol  3

Download or read book Spider Woman Masterworks Vol 3 written by Michael Fleisher and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2023-01-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Spider-Woman (1978) #26-38. Publishing magnate Rupert Dockery wants to expand his media empire. To do so will require putting Spider-Woman in her place, but Jessica Drew is not the kind to surrender easily to the machinations of a corporatist like Dockery! Striking an unlikely alliance with the Enforcer may be Spider-Woman's only way to beat back Dockery and save her best friend's life. The saga winds up with the arrival of Werewolf by Night and the stunning debut of the Hornet! Then, in the midst of his Uncanny X-Men glory, Chris Claremont takes over as writer - and he brings the X-Men with him! Jessica must team with Xavier's mutants to take on the unstoppable Juggernaut! Plus: Siryn's first appearance and another classic team-up with Spider-Man!

Book Wonder Woman Vol  3  Loveless

Download or read book Wonder Woman Vol 3 Loveless written by G. Willow Wilson and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Year of the Villain” arrives for Wonder Woman as Lex Luthor visits the Cheetah and gives her everything she needs to slake her thirst with Diana’s blood once and for all-specifically, the mythological sword called the God Killer! But for Diana, even though her fabled bracelets are shattered, her will broken, is Wonder Woman...defeated? Must a world without love be one without our hero? Wonder Woman is forced to discover a new way to fight in this collection, written by award-winning author G. Willow Wilson! Collects Wonder Woman #74-81.

Book Women in Physics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Wissinger
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-04-06
  • ISBN : 9781938492341
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Women in Physics written by Mary Wissinger and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the wonders of physics! Learn alongside inspirational women physicists whose innovations changed the world. Discover the power of curiosity and resilience through a conversation between a spunky young protagonist, asking questions about the world around her, and a scientifically astute narrator, whose answers are both accurate and understandable to young minds. Women in Physics is the perfect place for children to start their own journeys of discovery and wonder.