Always Another Country, Sisonke Msimang

Название: It`s my country too
ISBN: 1612348319 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612348315
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This inspiring anthology is the first to convey the rich experiences and contributions of women in the American military in their own words-from the Revolutionary War to the present wars in the Middle East. Serving with the Union Army during the Civil War as a nurse, scout, spy, and soldier, Harriet Tubman tells what it was like to be the first American woman to lead a raid against an enemy, freeing some 750 slaves. Busting gender stereotypes, Josette Dermody Wingo enlisted as a gunner’s mate in the navy in World War II to teach sailors to fire Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns. Marine Barbara Dulinsky recalls serving under fire in Saigon during the Tet Offensive of 1968, and Brooke King describes the aftermath of her experiences outside the wire with the army in Operation Iraqi Freedom. In excerpts from their diaries, letters, oral histories, and pension depositions-as well as from published and unpublished memoirs-generations of women reveal why and how they chose to serve their country, often breaking with social norms, even at great personal peril.    

Автор: Msimang Sisonke
Название: Always Another Country
ISBN: 164286000X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781642860009
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: An intimate story of exile and homecoming by the South African author whose TED Talk touched millions.

Автор: Sisonke Msimang
Название: Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home
ISBN: 1868429369 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781868429363
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Цена: 15710.00 T
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Описание: In her much anticipated memoir, Sisonke Msimang writes about her exile childhood in Zambia and Kenya, young adulthood and college years in North America, and returning to South Africa in the euphoric 1990s. She reflects candidly on her discontent and disappointment with present-day South Africa but also on her experiences of family, romance, and motherhood, with the novelists talent for character and pathos. Militant young comrades dance off the pages of the 1970s Lusaka she invokes, and the heady and naive days of just-democratic South Africa in the 1990s are as vividly painted. Her memoir is at heart a chronicle of a coming-of-age, and while well-known South African political figures appear in these pages, it is an intimate story, a testament to family bonds and sisterhood. Sisonke Msimang is one of the most assured and celebrated voices commenting on the South African present often humorously; sometimes deeply movingly and this book launches her to an even broader audience.

Автор: Catherine Driscoll
Название: The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience
ISBN: 1409446883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409446880
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: In Australia, `country girl` names a field of experiences and life-stories by girls and women who have grown up outside of the demographically dominant urban centres. It also names a set of ideas about Australia that is surprisingly consistent across the long twentieth century despite also working as an index of changing times.

Автор: Casselman, Amy L.
Название: Injustice in indian country
ISBN: 1433131099 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433131097
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: Living at the intersection of multiple identities in the United States can be dangerous. This is especially true for Native women who live on the more than 56 million acres that comprise America’s Indian Country – the legal term for American Indian reservations and other land held in trust for Native people.
Today, due to a complicated system of criminal jurisdiction, non-Native Americans can commit crimes against American Indians in much of Indian Country with virtual impunity. This has created what some call a modern day «hunting ground» in which Native women are specifically targeted by non-Native men for sexual violence.
In this urgent and timely book, author Amy L. Casselman exposes the shameful truth of how the American government has systematically divested Native nations of the basic right to protect the people in their own communities. A problem over 200 years in the making, Casselman highlights race and gender in federal law to challenge the argument that violence against Native women in Indian country is simply collateral damage from a complex but necessary legal structure. Instead, she demonstrates that what’s happening in Indian country is part of a violent colonial legacy – one that has always relied on legal and sexual violence to disempower Native communities as a whole.