Kappa Alpha Theta Song-book
Author: Kappa Alpha Theta
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
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Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965
Author: Linda Eisenmann
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2006-01-19
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0801888891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOutstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine This history explores the nature of postwar advocacy for women's higher education, acknowledging its unique relationship to the expectations of the era and recognizing its particular type of adaptive activism. Linda Eisenmann illuminates the impact of this advocacy in the postwar era, identifying a link between women's activism during World War II and the women's movement of the late 1960s. Though the postwar period has been portrayed as an era of domestic retreat for women, Eisenmann finds otherwise as she explores areas of institution building and gender awareness. In an era uncomfortable with feminism, this generation advocated individual decision making rather than collective action by professional women, generally conceding their complicated responsibilities as wives and mothers. By redefining our understanding of activism and assessing women's efforts within the context of their milieu, this innovative work reclaims an era often denigrated for its lack of attention to women.
In Search of Sisterhood
Author: Paula J. Giddings
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-06
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0061984442
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Search of Sisterhood is the definitive history of the largest Black women's organization in the United States, and is filled with compelling, fascinating anecdotes told by the Delta Sigma Theta members themselves, illustrated with rare early photographs of the Delta women. This book contains the story of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (DST), and details the increasing involvement of Black women in the political, social, and economic affairs of America. Founded at a time when liberal arts education was widely seen as either futile, dangerous, or impractical for Blacks—and especially Black women—DST is, in Giddings's words, a "compelling reflection of Black women's aspirations for themselves and for society." Giddings notes that unlike other organizations with racial goals, Delta Sigma Theta was created to change and benefit individuals rather than society. As a sorority, it was formed to bring women together as sisters, but at the same time to address the divisive, often class-related issues confronting Black women in our society. There is, in Giddings's eyes, a tension between these goals that makes Delta Sigma Theta a fascinating microcosm of the struggles of Black women and their organizations. DST members have included Mary McLeod Bethune, Mary Church Terrell, Margaret Murray Washington, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and, on the cultural side, Leontyne Price, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Judith Jamison, and Roberta Flack.
Lady Sunshine
Author: Amy Mason Doan
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-06-29
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1488062447
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A delicious daydream of a book.” —Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of 28 Summers “With lyrical writing and a page-turning plot, this sun-dappled book has it all: heart, smarts, and an irresistible musical beat.” —Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book Party ONE ICONIC FAMILY. ONE SUMMER OF SECRETS. THE DAZZLING SPIRIT OF 1970S CALIFORNIA. For Jackie Pierce, everything changed the summer of 1979, when she spent three months of infinite freedom at her bohemian uncle’s sprawling estate on the California coast. As musicians, artists, and free spirits gathered at The Sandcastle for the season in pursuit of inspiration and communal living, Jackie and her cousin Willa fell into a fast friendship, testing their limits along the rocky beach and in the wild woods... until the summer abruptly ended in tragedy, and Willa silently slipped away into the night. Twenty years later, Jackie unexpectedly inherits The Sandcastle and returns to the iconic estate for a short visit to ready it for sale. But she reluctantly extends her stay when she learns that, before her death, her estranged aunt had promised an up-and-coming producer he could record a tribute album to her late uncle at the property’s studio. As her musical guests bring the place to life again with their sun-drenched beach days and late-night bonfires, Jackie begins to notice startling parallels to that summer long ago. And when a piece of the past resurfaces and sparks new questions about Willa’s disappearance, Jackie must discover if the dark secret she’s kept ever since is even the truth at all. “An engrossing tale of secrets, memory, music, and the people and places you can never outrun. A fantastic summer read.” —Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me “This book is gorgeous. A gold-drenched, nostalgic dream with a fierce female friendship at its heart.” —Marisa de los Santos, New York Times bestselling author of I'll Be Your Blue Sky
The Interruption of Everything
Author: Terry McMillan
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2006-08-01
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 110120981X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry McMillan comes a “frank, no-holds-barred, humorous look at African-American midlife” (The Seattle Times). “Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultaneous careers: I've been a chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I've been a painter. A furniture restorer. A personal shopper. A veterinarian's assistant and sometimes the veterinarian. I've been an accountant, a banker, and on occasion, a broker. I've been a beautician. A map. A psychic. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. The T.V. Guide. A movie reviewer. An angel. God. A nurse and a nursemaid. A psychiatrist and psychologist. Evangelist. For a long time I have felt like I inadvertently got my master's in How to Take Care of Everybody Except Yourself and then a PhD in How to Pretend Like You Don't Mind. But I do mind.” Today forty-four year old Marilyn Grimes has decided to be something other than a wife, a mother, a sister, or a daughter: herself. But first, she has to figure out exactly who that is....
Bound by a Mighty Vow
Author: Diana B. Turk
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2004-06-21
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0814782825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the meaning of sisterhood for those who belonged to women's fraternities between 1870 and 1920.
The Divine Nine
Author: Lawrence C. Ross
Publisher: Dafina Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9780758203250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKINCLUDES INTERVIEWS WITH FAMOUS MEMBERS OF THE DIVINE NINEJOHN CHANEY Head Basketball Coach, Temple UniversitySPENCER CHRISTIAN Former weather anchorman, ABC-TVs "Good Morning America"KEITH CLINKSCALES President and CEO, Vibe magazineJOHN HOPE FRANKLIN HistorianNIKKI GIOVANNI Poet, author of Blues: For All the ChangesDR. GWENDOLYN GOLDSBY-GRANT Psychologist, Essence magazine columnist, authorJOHN H. JOHNSON Owner of Ebony PublishingSTAR JONES Co-host, ABC-TV's "The View"SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Star center for the Los Angeles LakersTAVIS SMILEY Host, "BET Tonight"PLUS INSPIRING PROFILES OF OTHER FAMOUS MEMBERS -- FROM HISTORICAL FIGURES TO MODERN LEGENDSHANK AARONMARIAN ANDERSONMAYA ANGELOUARTHUR ASHECOUNT BASIETONI BRAXTONGEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERWILT CHAMBERLAINSHIRLEY CHISHOLMBILL COSBYW.E.B. DUBOISDUKE ELLINGTONELLA FITZGERALDLANGSTON HUGHESREVEREND JESSE JACKSONMICHAEL JORDANMARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.THURGOOD MARSHALLHATTIE MCDANIELTONI MORRISONJESSE OWENSCOLIN POWELLPHYLICIA RASHADPAUL ROBESONCORETTA SCOTT KINGBLAIR UNDERWOODDIONNE WARWICK
Rush
Author: Kristin Griffith
Publisher:
Published: 2020-12-19
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781735570709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRush: Memoir of a Gay Sorority Girl is an emotional roller coaster of a story about a shy girl from Texas who, in her quest for love and belonging, struggles with her sexuality and gender identity within the confines of sorority life at a Midwestern university.Growing up in the Bible Belt playing "Smear the Queer," Kristin Griffith had never met a gay person when she left home for university in St. Louis. When her college ex-boyfriend came out to her, she soon realized that she too might be gay. "No one can say I didn't try to be straight," she writes.This memoir offers an exclusive peek into sorority and fraternity culture: rushing, pledging, initiation, partying, drinking, hooking up-and homophobia. Kristin lets us intimately witness her coming-out journey: drama with guys, fumbles with girls, romance with a female teacher; angst from keeping secrets; coming out in the student newspaper; and the confidence of being out, along with the pain of being rejected for it. It's about falling down and standing tall, as we figure out who we are, and who we want to be. It's about the universal desire to be seen, understood, and accepted as our truest self.
Disciplining Women
Author: Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010-09-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1438432747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interdisciplinary look Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), the first historically Black sorority.
