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How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice
Working poor women, feminist activism, and the birth of a new era of grassroots empowerment
Launched in 1964, the War on Poverty quickly took aim at the coalfields of southern Appalachia. There, the federal government found unexpected allies among working-class white women devoted to a local tradition of citizen ......
Europe's working women in film fantasy and sobering reality
From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first-century European cinema. Social realist dramas capture precarious working conditions. ......
Rediscovering the genius of the medieval composer, theologian, and visionary
A Renaissance woman long before the Renaissance, the visionary Hildegard of Bingen (10981179) corresponded with Europe's elite, founded and led a noted women's religious community, and wrote on topics ranging from theology to natural ......
Music played an important role in the social life of nineteenth-century Europe, and music in the home provided a convenient way to entertain and communicate among friends and colleagues. String chamber music, in particular, fostered social interactions that helped build communities within communities. Marie Sumner Lott examines the music ......
White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning
Confronting and undoing the dark side of American identity
Six myths lie at the heart of the American experience. Taken as aspirational, four of those myths remind us of our noblest ideals, challenging us to realize our nation's promise while galvanizing the sense of hope and unity we need to reach our goals. ......
In this intellectually ambitious study, Elizabeth McKillen explores the significance of Wilsonian internationalism for workers and the influence of American labor in both shaping and undermining the foreign policies and war mobilization efforts of Woodrow Wilson's administration. McKillen highlights the major fault lines and conflicts that ......
The creative odyssey of the man who foresaw the futureand the present
Already renowned for his science fiction and scientific nonfiction, Arthur C. Clarke became the world's most famous science fiction writer after the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey. He then produced novels like ......
A classic since its original publication, Women Have Always Worked brought much-needed insight into the ways work has shaped female lives and sensibilities. Beginning in the colonial era, Alice Kessler-Harris looks at the public and private ......
Anthologies, awards, journals, and works in translation have sprung up to reflect science fiction's increasingly international scope. Yet scholars and students alike face a problem: Where does one begin to explore global SF in the absence of an established ......
