These letters give a personal and intimate insight into the lives of two sisters living in Madras (now Chennai) in the time of Jane Austen. Both describe day-to-day life, occupations and relationships in the earliest days of British settlement, providing a rare glimpse into the social history of a place in India, far from home. Both women were accomplished artists, the older one, Elizabeth, deserving significant recognition for her extraordinary bird paintings. She also had a strong fascination for all things Indian: the people; their history; religions and languages, which she relates with enthusiasm, and then widens this with evident talent for botany and horticulture.
Her younger sister, Mary, contented herself with descriptions of places, people and surroundings, not always complimentary to her peers. Behind all this was an undercurrent of anxiety about news from home, correspondence difficulties, war with France and a terrifying sepoy mutiny in Vellore. There was also a background of tension arising from the broken relationships between Elizabeth’s husband, judge Sir Henry Gwillim, and both his Chief Justice and the Governor of Madras.
Автор: M. Mauthner Название: Sistering ISBN: 1403941254 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403941251 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27940.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Sister stories are rare compared with images of celebrity sisters and `sisterhood`. Sisters talk passionately about how their closeness and distance affects the power-balance between them. Sistering was nominated for the British Sociological Association`s 2003 Philip Abrams Prize.
Автор: Baernstein, P. Renee Название: A Convent Tale ISBN: 041592717X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415927178 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 44910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Crang, Jeremy A. (university Of Edinburgh) Название: Sisters in arms ISBN: 110701347X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107013476 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 40120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: During the Second World War many thousands of women joined the women`s auxiliary services to perform important military tasks for the RAF, army and Royal Navy. This book traces the wartime history of these auxiliary services and the integration of women into the British armed forces.
Автор: Brown Pauline a. Название: Where is my Sister? ISBN: 0998223352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780998223353 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Polly Brown and her husband Ralph lived, worked, and raised their children in Pakistan for 35 years. During that time she forged deep friendships with Muslim, Christian and Hindu women who became sisters to her. In this book she tells their stories.
"What a wonderful book Pauline Brown invites us into her home and the homes of her Pakistani friends - "sisters" - and as we become familiar with their lives and culture and customs, we also get a glimpse into their hearts. Pauline opens her heart through the stories of individual women, from many walks of life and faith, who first became friends and then, over time, true sisters of the heart. She relates how these women taught and touched her heart and life even as she shared with them her life - and the light and life and love of Jesus. These stories leave an indelible impression of her dear "sisters," each with individual plots and some with uncertain conclusions, but all who have impacted the author and now the reader. This book does not stop with these stories. One is left with the challenge to look around, to step out of ones comfort zone, and to ask the question: "Who is my sister?"
Miriam Rockness, author of A Passion for the Impossible: The Life of Lilias Trotter
Автор: DuBois Caroline Название: The Sisterhood: A Novella of True Sisterhood ISBN: 1790895146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781790895144 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 27580.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: ¢ Are you member of either the management team or the board and do you see the need to adapt your organization to Agile? Do you intend to make the organization more agile? ¢ Are you a coach helping organizations in the transformation to becoming more agile? And are you planning to support this transition using a bottom-up or top-down approach?In this pocket guide you will find a practical approach on how to handle this. Governing an organization in a fast-changing world. And all this although the issues of the day require a lot of your attention and can distract you from the results you want to achieve. The authors consider how to operationalize the organization`s strategic goals and consequently the governance of the entire organization.The authors start from the position of: ¢ Clarifying what has to be achieved in the next quarter in order to achieve the strategic goals. ¢ Introducing a system of short cyclical adjustments, with which you can respond to changing demand from customers or emerging laws and regulations. ¢ Working closely together as management team or board towards the long-term strategic goals and preventing everyone within the organization from following their own goals. ¢ Bringing more focus on the operationalization of the strategy, less `fire-fighting` and greater emphasis on fire prevention. ¢ Getting a clear picture of what prevents your employees from doing their jobs effectively. Will you succeed in removing the barriers holding back your organization? The core message of this pocket guide is application of the FOCUS board. This is a visual approach to management and a strong tool for governing the organization. When this is applied, it will result in collaboration between all layers of the organization, enable short cyclical adjustment and provide a clear focus on achieving the strategic goals.
It's the barrier holding women back from breaking through to the highest echelons of corporate America. A few women are promoted to those power seats, but the realm of leadership in America's top companies remains mostly male--and mostly white.
If striving for success in that reality weren't daunting enough, some women face an additional barrier: the black ceiling.
That's the barricade blocking African Americans from ascending into the top levels of corporate leadership.
Black women who aspire to become senior executives or CEOs face the double obstacle of the glass and the black ceilings, especially in certain industries where the statistics for female and black representation are discouraging.
Think about how difficult and disheartening it might seem as a black woman aspiring to excel and transcend to a corporate leadership position through the glass ceiling and the black ceiling in the historically white male energy industry.
We are five African American female executives who have achieved all of the above.
And by sharing our stories in this book, our objective is to offer our lives and our careers as inspirational blueprints for other women and people of color who aspire to leadership positions in the corporate arena.
We have blazed new trails in the energy industry by shattering ceilings. However, much work remains. The low representation of women and people of color at the helm of corporate leadership requires a strong commitment to persevering past the many obstacles that can delay and derail a career.
That is why we convened on the pages of this book to show that, Yes, it can be done We show it through: our own personal belief systems; networking with other women and people of color in our industry; receiving guidance from mentors; committing long hours to our jobs; relocating when opportunity knocked; pursuing our education and training to propel us on an upward trajectory in our field; and celebrating the successes as they come.
Very importantly, we have demonstrated a commitment throughout our careers--and now into retirement for some of us--to reaching back to mentor others so they can follow the paths that we have blazed into uncharted territory for women and people of color in corporate America.
We hope that by reading The Energy Within Us: An Illuminating Perspective from Five Trailblazers, you will be inspired and informed about how to succeed in business and in life.
Автор: Brown Leslie, Castledine Jacqueline, Valk Anne Название: U.S. Women`s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood ISBN: 0813575834 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813575834 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 33400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women’s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach-acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally powerful-women’s historians have begun to offer more varied and nuanced narratives. The ten original essays in U.S. Women's History represent a cross-section of current research in the field. Including work from both emerging and established scholars, this collection employs innovative approaches to study both the causes that have united American women and the conflicts that have divided them. Some essays uncover little-known aspects of women’s history, while others offer a fresh take on familiar events and figures, from Rosa Parks to Take Back the Night marches. Spanning the antebellum era to the present day, these essays vividly convey the long histories and ongoing relevance of topics ranging from women’s immigration to incarceration, from acts of cross-dressing to the activism of feminist mothers. This volume thus not only untangles the threads of the sisterhood mythos, it weaves them into a multi-textured and multi-hued tapestry that reflects the breadth and diversity of U.S. women’s history.
Автор: Beirne, Mary Helen Название: Ready for any good work ISBN: 0761865845 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780761865841 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 134870.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This new history of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, focuses on the growth and evolution of the Congregation through the years 1944-1999. This book attempts to look at the Congregation, an ecclesial group of Catholic women religious, from the perspectives of spirituality, ministry, and governance.
Автор: Petrash Antonia Название: New York`s Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History ISBN: 1493015818 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493015818 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 18290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: How did New York become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? New York`s Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History recognizes the women who shaped the Empire State. The lives of female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies.
Автор: Mangion Carmen M. Название: Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age: Britain, 1945-90 ISBN: 1526140462 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526140463 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 189290.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. Rooted in the lived experiences of women religious in Britain, it explores British modernity, the social movements of the long 1960s and the Second Vatican Council, while acknowledging transnational relationships and global interconnectivities within and across national divides. -- .
Автор: Barr Una Название: Desisting Sisters: Gender, Power and Desistance in the Criminal (In)Justice System ISBN: 3030142752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030142759 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 74530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Ultimately, Barr contends that women`s desistance can resist neo-liberal, patriarchal constructs, much in the same way that feminist criminology has contended that women`s offending more generally, often does.
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