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11 produkter
Memory, Meaning, and Resistance
Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins
Häftad, 2017
331 kr
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Fran Leeper Buss, a former welfare recipient who earned a PhD in history and became a pioneer in the field of oral history, has for forty years dedicated herself to the goal of collecting the stories of marginal and working-class U.S. women. Memory, Meaning, and Resistance is based on over 100 oral …
Dignity
Lower Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles
Häftad, 1985
302 kr
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Dignity brings together the stories of ten lower income American women whose backgrounds vary, but who share a struggle for survival and a quest for dignity in the face of hardship. Young or old, urban or rural, welfare recipient or union activist, each relates her life story with rich detail, …
Forged under the Sun/Forjada bajo el sol
The Life of Maria Elena Lucas
Häftad, 1993
279 kr
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The compelling oral history of a remarkable woman's life and political struggle
Memory, Meaning, and Resistance
Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins
Inbunden, 2017
1154 kr
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Fran Leeper Buss, a former welfare recipient who earned a PhD in history and became a pioneer in the field of oral history, has for forty years dedicated herself to the goal of collecting the stories of marginal and working-class U.S. women. Memory, Meaning, and Resistance is based on over 100 oral …
Memory, Meaning, and Resistance
Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins
E-bok, 2017
435 kr
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Fran Leeper Buss, a former welfare recipient who earned a PhD in history and became a pioneer in the field of oral history, has for forty years dedicated herself to the goal of collecting the stories of marginal and working-class U.S. women. Memory, Meaning, and Resistance is based on over 100 oral …
La Partera
Story of a Midwife
E-bok, 2026
1390 kr
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Jesusita Aragon earned the title "la partera," or midwife, at the age of fourteen. Apprenticed to her grandmother, she learned the traditional Hispanic methods of assisting childbirth. She won the coveted title by performing her first delivery when an expectant mother went into labor in her …
Moisture of the Earth
Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist
E-bok, 2026
1136 kr
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In Moisture of the Earth, Mary Robinson recounts her journey from picking cotton in rural Alabama to becoming an outspoken community leader and labor activist. The daughter of sharecroppers, Robinson came of age at the peak of the civil rights movement and took a job in J. P. Stevens''s Montgomery …
Redemptive Memory
Women Activists and the Search for Justice
Av Fran Leeper Buss, Miriam Davidson
Inbunden, 2024
1147 kr
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This powerful last work by pioneering oral historian Fran Leeper Buss examines how painful memories of traumatic experiences can be transformed into positive action for social good. In her more than 40 years gathering the life stories of working-class women, Buss found commonalities in the ways in …
Moisture of the Earth
Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist
Häftad, 2009
325 kr
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In Moisture of the Earth, Mary Robinson recounts her journey from picking cotton in rural Alabama to becoming an outspoken community leader and labor activist. The daughter of sharecroppers, Robinson came of age at the peak of the civil rights movement and took a job in J. P. Stevens's Montgomery …
La Partera
Story of a Midwife
Häftad, 2001
224 kr
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Jesusita Aragon earned the title "la partera," or midwife, at the age of fourteen. Apprenticed to her grandmother, she learned the traditional Hispanic methods of assisting childbirth. She won the coveted title by performing her first delivery when an expectant mother went into labor in her …
Moisture of the Earth
Mary Robinson, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist
Inbunden, 2009
972 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In Moisture of the Earth, Mary Robinson recounts her journey from picking cotton in rural Alabama to becoming an outspoken community leader and labor activist. The daughter of sharecroppers, Robinson came of age at the peak of the civil rights movement and took a job in J. P. Stevens's Montgomery …
