Tag: Women

March 7, 2024

Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals 36 Great Women Before 1400 [TTC Audio]

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Free Download Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals: 36 Great Women Before 1400 [TTC Audio]
English | June 21, 2019 | ASIN: B07SXB93MZ | M4B@128 kbps | 17h 58m | 1.01 GB
Lecturer: Joyce E. Salisbury
Throughout history, women have played integral roles in family, society, religion, government, war – in short, in all aspects of human civilization. Powerful women have shaped laws, led rebellions, and played key roles in dynastic struggles. Some were caught up in forces beyond their control, while others manipulated and murdered their way to the top. However, unearthing their stories from the historical record has been a challenge, with the ordinary difficulties of preserving information across the generations increased by centuries of historical bias and gendered expectations. Women, when they were mentioned at all, often filled the role of virtuous maiden, self-effacing mother, or seductive villain. Imagine what you are missing when only half the story is being told.

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February 13, 2024

The Women A Novel [Audiobook]

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Free Download The Women: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C4QD5VPB | 2024 | 14 hours and 57 minutes | MP3@128 kbps | 821 MB
Author: Kristin Hannah
Narrator: Kristin Hannah, Julia Whelan
From the celebrated author comes Kristin Hannah’s The Women-at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path. As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war.

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February 4, 2024

Talking Back Native Women and the Making of the Early South [Audiobook]

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Free Download Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CRMD5LHY | 2024 | 8 hours and 53 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 238 MB
Author: Alejandra Dubcovsky
Narrator: Raquel Beattie
A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority. Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives she rewrites early American history, challenging the established male-centered narrative. Dubcovsky reconstructs the lives of Native women-Timucua, Apalachee, Chacato, and Guale-to show how they made claims to protect their livelihoods, bodies, and families. Through the stories of the Native cacica who demanded her authority be recognized; the elite Spanish woman who turned her dowry and household into a source of independent power; the Floridiana who slapped a leading Native man in the town square; and the Black woman who ran a successful business at the heart of a Spanish town, Dubcovsky reveals the formidable women who claimed and used their power, shaping the history of the early South.

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February 4, 2024

Writing Diaspora South Asian Women, Culture and Ethnicity (Studies in Migration and Diaspora)

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Free Download Writing Diaspora: South Asian Women, Culture and Ethnicity (Studies in Migration and Diaspora) By Yasmin Hussain
2005 | 160 Pages | ISBN: 0754641139 | PDF | 10 MB
Issues of cultural hybridity, diaspora and identity are central to debates on ethnicity and race and, over the past decade, have framed many theoretical debates in sociology, cultural studies and literary studies. However, these ideas are all too often considered at a purely theoretical level. In this book Yasmin Hussain uses these ideas to explore cultural production by British South Asian women including Monica Ali, Meera Syal and Gurinder Chadha. Hussain provides a sociological analysis of the contexts and experiences of the British South Asian community, discussing key concerns that emerge within the work of this new generation of women writers and which express more widespread debates within the community. In particular these authors address issues of individual and group identity and the ways in which these are affected by ethnicity and gender. Hussain argues that in exploring the different dimensions of their cultural heritage, the authors she surveys have created changes within the meaning of the diasporic identity, articulating a challenge to the notion of ‘Asianness’ as a homogenous and simple category. In her examination of the process through which a hybridized diasporic culture has come into being, she offers an important contribution to some of the key questions in recent sociological and cultural theory.

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