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In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction . [ 1 ] It is based on the true story of Polish actress Helena Modjeska (called Maryna Zalewska in the book), her arrival in California in 1876, and her ascendancy to American stardom.
Hit: Essays on Women's Rights, Mary Edwards Walker (1871) On the Progress of Education and Industrial Avocations for Women, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1871) [39] "Put Us In Your Place" from The Revolution, Lillie Blake (1871) [40] On Woman's Right to Suffrage, Susan B. Anthony (1872) [41] "Sentencing of Susan B. Anthony for the Crime of Voting" (1873 ...
Female Advocate or, an Answer to a Late Satyr Against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman. Written by a Lady in Vindication of her Sex, Sarah Fyge Egerton (1686) [14] A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest, Mary Astell (1694) An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex.
Mary Paik Lee (August 17, 1900 [2] – February 14, 1995 [3]) was a Korean American writer most known for her autobiography, Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America. She was born in the Korean Empire and moved to the United States in 1905, eventually settling in Riverside, California , in 1906.
The book sold very well, remaining on The New York Times Best Seller list for more than three months. [6] [8] Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming was published in 2018. She received over $60 million in advance of publication, and the book had sold over 11.5 million copies as of November 2019. [9] [10] Melania Trump published her memoir Melania in 2024
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South is the first book by American author, educator, and activist Anna J. Cooper. First published in 1892, the book is widely viewed as one of the first articulations of Black feminism. [1] The book is divided into two parts, "Soprano Obligato" and "Tutti Ad Libitum".
For example, the nationhood felt with other members of your nation when your "imagined community" participates in a larger event such as the Olympic Games. Finally, a nation is a community because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship.
Alta Gerrey (May 22, 1942 – March 10, 2024) was a British-American poet, prose writer, and publisher, [2] best known as the founder of the feminist press Shameless Hussy Press and editor of the Shameless Hussy Review. [3] Her 1980 collection The Shameless Hussy won the American Book Award in 1981.