American Women Speak [2 Volumes]
Author | : Mary Ellen Snodgrass |
Publisher | : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1440837848 |
Volume 1. A - H -- Volume 2. I - Z
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Author | : Mary Ellen Snodgrass |
Publisher | : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1440837848 |
Volume 1. A - H -- Volume 2. I - Z
Author | : Mary Ellen Snodgrass |
Publisher | : ABC-CLIO |
Total Pages | : 827 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Speeches, addresses, etc., American |
ISBN | : 9781440847424 |
Volume 1. A - H -- Volume 2. I - Z
Author | : Mary Ellen Snodgrass |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 910 |
Release | : 2016-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1440837856 |
This A-to-Z compendium explores more than 150 American women activists from colonial times to the present, examining their backgrounds and the focus of their activism, and provides examples of their speeches. Throughout history, American women's oratory has crusaded for religious rights, abolitionism, and peace, as well as for Zionism, immigration, and immunization. This text examines more than 150 influential American women activists and their speeches on vital issues. Each entry outlines the speaker's motivation and provides examples of their speeches in context, supplying information about the setting, audience, reception, and lasting historical significance. This collection of women's speeches emphasizes primary sources that underscore the goals of the Common Core Standards. Entries support classroom discussion on a range of topics, from women's suffrage and birth control to civil rights and 20th- and 21st-century labor law. No other reference work compiles examples of female activism and oration across a 400-year span of history along with analysis of the speaker's intent, forum, listeners, and public and media response.
Author | : Cheryl D. Hicks |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807834246 |
With this book, Cheryl Hicks brings to light the voices and viewpoints of black working-class women, especially southern migrants, who were the subjects of urban and penal reform in early twentieth-century New York. Hicks compares the ideals of racial upl
Author | : Melissa V. Harris-Perry |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2011-09-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0300165412 |
DIVFrom a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefs/div
Author | : Robert Macneil |
Publisher | : Nan A. Talese |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0307423573 |
Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference between men and women in how they adapt to linguistic variations? These questions, and more, about our language catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran—the authors (with Robert McCrum) of the language classic The Story of English—across the country in search of the answers. Do You Speak American? is the tale of their discoveries, which provocatively show how the standard for American English—if a standard exists—is changing quickly and dramatically. On a journey that takes them from the Northeast, through Appalachia and the Deep South, and west to California, the authors observe everyday verbal interactions and in a host of interviews with native speakers glean the linguistic quirks and traditions characteristic of each area. While examining the histories and controversies surrounding both written and spoken American English, they address anxieties and assumptions that, when explored, are highly emotional, such as the growing influence of Spanish as a threat to American English and the special treatment of African-American vernacular English. And, challenging the purists who think grammatical standards are in serious deterioration and that media saturation of our culture is homogenizing our speech, they surprise us with unpredictable responses. With insight and wit, MacNeil and Cran bring us a compelling book that is at once a celebration and a potent study of our singular language. Each wave of immigration has brought new words to enrich the American language. Do you recognize the origin of 1. blunderbuss, sleigh, stoop, coleslaw, boss, waffle? Or 2. dumb, ouch, shyster, check, kaput, scram, bummer? Or 3. phooey, pastrami, glitch, kibbitz, schnozzle? Or 4. broccoli, espresso, pizza, pasta, macaroni, radio? Or 5. smithereens, lollapalooza, speakeasy, hooligan? Or 6. vamoose, chaps, stampede, mustang, ranch, corral? 1. Dutch 2. German 3. Yiddish 4. Italian 5. Irish 6. Spanish
Author | : Mary Kelley |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807839183 |
Education was decisive in recasting women's subjectivity and the lived reality of their collective experience in post-Revolutionary and antebellum America. Asking how and why women shaped their lives anew through education, Mary Kelley measures the significant transformation in individual and social identities fostered by female academies and seminaries. Constituted in a curriculum that matched the course of study at male colleges, women's liberal learning, Kelley argues, played a key role in one of the most profound changes in gender relations in the nation's history: the movement of women into public life. By the 1850s, the large majority of women deeply engaged in public life as educators, writers, editors, and reformers had been schooled at female academies and seminaries. Although most women did not enter these professions, many participated in networks of readers, literary societies, or voluntary associations that became the basis for benevolent societies, reform movements, and activism in the antebellum period. Kelley's analysis demonstrates that female academies and seminaries taught women crucial writing, oration, and reasoning skills that prepared them to claim the rights and obligations of citizenship.
Author | : Doris Earnshaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Abby Kaplan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2016-04-21 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 110708492X |
A detailed look at language-related myths that explores both what we know and how we know it.