America, History and Life
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 656
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKArticle abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
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Feminist Collections
Author: University of Wisconsin System. Women's Studies Librarian
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFighting for Control
Author: Lina-Maria Murillo
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2025-01-07
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1469682605
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez have confronted various interest groups determined to control their reproductive lives, including a heavily funded international population control campaign led by Planned Parenthood Federation of America as well as the Catholic Church and Mexican American activists. Uncovering nearly one hundred years of struggle, Lina-Maria Murillo reveals how Mexican-origin women on both sides of the border fought to reclaim autonomy and care for themselves and their communities. Faced with a family planning movement steeped in eugenic ideology, working-class Mexican-origin women strategically demanded additional health services and then formed their own clinics to provide care on their own terms. Along the way, they developed what Murillo calls reproductive care— quotidian acts of community solidarity—as activists organized for better housing, education, wages, as well as access to birth control, abortion, and more. Centering the agency of these women and communities, Murillo lays bare Mexican-origin women's long battle for human dignity and power in the borderlands as reproductive freedom in Texas once again hangs in the balance.
Wide-Open Town
Author: Nan Alamilla Boyd
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2005-04-13
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0520244745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the history of gay men and lesbians in San Francisco, from the turn of the century, when queer bars emerged in San Francisco's tourist districts, to 1965, when a raid on a drag ball energized the gay community. Includes excerpts from oral histories of lesbians and gay men who have lived in San Francisco since the 1930s.
Presumed Incompetent
Author: Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2012-06-15
Total Pages: 694
ISBN-13: 1457181223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresumed Incompetent is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color. Through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, more than 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of color as they navigate the often hostile terrain of higher education, including hiring, promotion, tenure, and relations with students, colleagues, and administrators. The narratives are filled with wit, wisdom, and concrete recommendations, and provide a window into the struggles of professional women in a racially stratified but increasingly multicultural America.
Telling Identities
Author: Rosaura Sánchez
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780816625598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTestimonios
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2015-08-10
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 0806153709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out to gather oral histories from the pre-statehood gentry of California, he didn’t count on one thing: the women. When the men weren’t available, the interviewers collected the stories of the women of the household—sometimes almost as an afterthought. These interviews were eventually archived at the University of California, though many were all but forgotten. Testimonios presents thirteen women’s firsthand accounts from the days when California was part of Spain and Mexico. Having lived through the gold rush and seen their country change so drastically, these women understood the need to tell the full story of the people and the places that were their California.
When Sonia Met Boris
Author: Anna Shternshis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0190223103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on nearly 500 oral history interviews, When Sonia Met Boris is an innovative study of Jewish daily life in the Soviet Union, giving a long-suppressed voice to the Jewish men and women who survived the sustained violence and everyday hardship of Stalin's Russia. It reveals how postwar Soviet Jews came to view their Jewish identity as an obstacle-a shift in attitude with ramifications for contemporary Russian Jewish culture and the broader Jewish diaspora.
The Life of the Cosmos
Author: Lee Smolin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999-03-04
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0199839360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLee Smolin offers a new theory of the universe that is at once elegant, comprehensive, and radically different from anything proposed before. Smolin posits that a process of self organization like that of biological evolution shapes the universe, as it develops and eventually reproduces through black holes, each of which may result in a new big bang and a new universe. Natural selection may guide the appearance of the laws of physics, favoring those universes which best reproduce. The result would be a cosmology according to which life is a natural consequence of the fundamental principles on which the universe has been built, and a science that would give us a picture of the universe in which, as the author writes, "the occurrence of novelty, indeed the perpetual birth of novelty, can be understood." Smolin is one of the leading cosmologists at work today, and he writes with an expertise and force of argument that will command attention throughout the world of physics. But it is the humanity and sharp clarity of his prose that offers access for the layperson to the mind bending space at the forefront of today's physics.
