'A cleverly crafted novel and an enthralling story... A triumph.' DINAH JEFFERIES
Excerpts from diaries, letters, newspaper stories, color photographs, and interviews with survivors of the shipwrecked Titanic and their relatives highlight the role and treatment of women and children in the tragedy. 15,000 first printing.
First published in 1992, this book explores the efforts to counteract the high maternal and infant death rates present between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War.
The twelve “meticulously observed” stories of Women and Children First showcase New York Times–bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Francine Prose at her finest—offering a glimpse into the lives of men and women ...
Analyzes the impact of social service cutbacks, changes in the job market, and victim-blaming myths like the Black matriarchy theses of Daniel Patrick Moynihan and George Gilder.
Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to African women around the world about sex for her blog, “Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women.” For this book she spoke to over 30 African women across the globe while ...
An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to ...
... To give money to Hale House, as Smashing Pumpkins did: Hale House 152 West 122nd Street New York, New York 372 Appendix 2: A Young Woman's Guide to Revolution.
Comparing the affluent U.S. of today to the Titanic (which, as a luxury liner, nevertheless lacked lifeboats for steerage women and children), Sidel contends in this realistic appraisal that despite...
Overcoming Racism and Renewing the Promise of America Theodore Roosevelt Johnson III. 141 Apologizing for the Enslavement and ... 143 See Theodore Parker, “Of Justice and Conscience,” in The Collected Works of Theodore Parker, vol.
Francine Prose's first collection of stories displays her gift for revealing the mysteries and contradictions at the heart of contemporary life.