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The Women is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press in 2024. The book tells the story of Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a young nurse who serves in the United States Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. [1] [2] The novel debuted at number one on The New York Times fiction best-seller list.
The African Goose is one of two domestic goose breeds that derive from the wild species Anser cygnoides, the other being the Chinese, to which it is closely related. [9]: 364 [3] Domestication took place in north Asia, and birds of this type were later brought to Europe, possibly via Madagascar; [10] they were present in Britain before the end of the seventeenth century.
At times, park rangers have killed entire flocks of aggressive geese. [5] Canada geese in Cincinnati parks have been responsible for knocking people down and breaking their bones, and called "spitting, hissing, biting attack missiles". [6] The same aggressive, territorial behavior can be utilized in the guard capacity.
In the 2000 reprint of their anthology, editors Hull, Bell-Scott, and Smith described how in 1992 black feminists mobilized "a remarkable national response" - African American Women in Defense of Ourselves - to the controversy [5]: xvi surrounding the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court of the United States against the backdrop of allegations by law professor Anita Hill, about ...
Africana womanism is a term coined in the late 1980s by Clenora Hudson-Weems, [1] intended as an ideology applicable to all women of African descent. It is grounded in African culture and Afrocentrism and focuses on the experiences, struggles, needs, and desires of Africana women of the African diaspora.
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender and the New Racism by Patricia Hill Collins is a work of critical theory that discusses the way that race, class and gender intersect to affect the lives of African American men and women in many different ways, but with similar results.
Inez Hogan (August 5, 1895 – February 1973) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books, particularly animal stories. She was born in Washington, D.C., and attended the Cape Cod School of Art. She lived in Provincetown and New York City. Hogan wrote 63 books, including many about her character Nicodemus.
Jeanne Goosen was born in Parow, Cape Town. [1] She studied at the University of Cape Town. Goosen was a controversial writer in Afrikaans. [2] She debuted in 1971 as a poet with Owl fly away, followed by Orrelpunte. Especially as a writer of prose she attained a prominent place in African literature.