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This volume collects the letters written over a thirty-year period by a second generation Chinese American woman, Flora Belle Jan (1906–50). Her writings illuminate the inner life of a sensitive, unconventional, and ambitious woman--an exceptional Chinese American flapper, writer, and journalist. Born in California to immigrant parents, Jan grew ......
Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South
Hearing southern women in the pauses of history Southern women of all classes, races, and walks of life practiced music during and after the Civil War. Candace L. Bailey examines the history of southern women through the lens of these musical pursuits, uncovering the ways that music's transmission, education, circulation, and repertory help us ......
Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South
Hearing southern women in the pauses of history Southern women of all classes, races, and walks of life practiced music during and after the Civil War. Candace L. Bailey examines the history of southern women through the lens of these musical pursuits, uncovering the ways that music's transmission, education, circulation, and repertory help us ......
What would it mean to turn to ugliness rather than turn away from it? Indeed, the idea of ugly often becomes synonymous with non-white, non-male, and non-heterosexual physicality and experience. That same pejorative migrates to become a ......
What would it mean to turn to ugliness rather than turn away from it? Indeed, the idea of ugly often becomes synonymous with non-white, non-male, and non-heterosexual physicality and experience. That same pejorative migrates to become a ......
This collection seeks to define the emerging field of ''ubiquitous learning,'' an educational paradigm made possible in part by the omnipresence of digital media, supporting new modes of knowledge creation, communication, and access. As new media empower practically anyone to produce and disseminate knowledge, learning can now occur at any time ......
This collection seeks to define the emerging field of ''ubiquitous learning,'' an educational paradigm made possible in part by the omnipresence of digital media, supporting new modes of knowledge creation, communication, and access. As new media empower practically anyone to produce and disseminate knowledge, learning can now occur at any time ......
This collection is distinguished first by its focus on women in struggle over the course of U.S. history and second by its source, the pioneering journal Feminist Studies, which has from its inception sought to link scholarship to activism and has made a major contribution to the development of women's history. The editors have selected many of ......
Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality
This landmark book combines the voices of Native Americans and non-Indians, anthropologists and others, in an exploration of gender and sexuality issues as they relate to lesbian, gay, transgendered, and other ''marked'' Native Americans.Focusing on the concept of two-spirit people--individuals not necessarily gay or lesbian, transvestite or ......
