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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 ...
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.
Rosa Parks. Susan B. Anthony. Helen Keller. These are a few of the women whose names spark instant recognition of their contributions to American history. But what about the many, many more women who never made it into most . high school history books?
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.
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. Indeed if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some would say greater.
[28] [29] Ettinger's language, developed slowly from 1985 and until now in poetic writing in artist's books and in academic writing, includes her original concepts like: matrixial time-space, matrixial space, metramorphosis, com-passion, coemergence, cofading, copoiesis, wit(h)nessing, fascinance, carriance, psychic pregnance, distance-in ...
Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist (ISBN 0-19-506071-7) is a book by Hazel Carby that was published in 1987. It documents the history of writing by American black women in the 1800s and early 1900s. It was positively received, being referred to as a landmark study and a groundbreaking work.