Cultivating Victory: The Women`s Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement, Gowdy-Wygant Cecilia

Автор: Rebecca Corbett
Название: Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan
ISBN: 082488146X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824881467
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Описание: The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (chanoyu). In Cultivating Femininity, Rebecca Corbett writes women back into this history and shows how tea practice for women was understood, articulated, and promoted in the Edo (1603–1868) and Meiji (1868–1912) periods. Viewing chanoyu from the lens of feminist and gender theory, she sheds new light on tea’s undeniable influence on the formation of modern understandings of femininity in Japan.Corbett overturns the iemoto tea school’s carefully constructed orthodox narrative by employing underused primary sources and closely examining existing tea histories. She incorporates Pierre Bourdieu’s theories of social and cultural capital and Norbert Elias’s “civilizing process” to explore the economic and social incentives for women taking part in chanoyu. Although the iemoto system sought to increase its control over every aspect of tea, including book production, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century popular texts aimed specifically at women evidence the spread of tea culture beyond parameters set by the schools. The expansion of chanoyu to new social groups cascaded from commoner men to elite then commoner women. Shifting the focus away from male tea masters complicates the history of tea in Japan and shows how women of different social backgrounds worked within and without traditionally accepted paradigms of tea practice. The direct socioeconomic impact of the spread of tea is ultimately revealed in subsequent advances in women’s labor opportunities and an increase in female social mobility. Through their participation in chanoyu, commoner women were able to blur and lessen the status gap between themselves and women of aristocratic and samurai status. Cultivating Femininity offers a new perspective on the prevalence of tea practice among women in modern Japan. It presents a fresh, much-needed approach, one that will be appreciated by students and scholars of Japanese history, gender, and culture, as well as by tea practitioners.

Автор: Fawcett
Название: The Women`s Victory - and After
ISBN: 1108026605 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108026604
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) was an influential writer on topics such as female education and women`s suffrage, and leader of the non-violent Suffragists. In this 1920 work she looks back on the history of the struggle, and assesses what had been achieved.

Автор: Willis Sam
Название: In the Hour of Victory: The Royal Navy at War in the Age of Nelson
ISBN: 0393243141 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393243147
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: The greatest victories from the British Navy s golden age, told through never-before-seen letters from the officers themselves."

Автор: Herder Brian Lane
Название: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive 1918: The American Expeditionary Force`s Crowning Victory
ISBN: 1472842774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472842770
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Описание: When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, the tiny US Army did not even have a standing division. A huge national army worthy of the Western Front was quickly enlisted, trained, and then transported to France to fight against the Germans. In September 1918, the American Expeditionary Force, under General John Pershing, began its first full-scale offensive against German forces in Lorraine, in which the US First Army and (eventually) the US Second Army would drive north between the Argonne Forest and the Meuse river towards Sedan.

The Meuse-Argonne was excellent defensive terrain, being hilly, steep, heavily wooded, and fortified by the Germans over a three-year period. The offensive began on 26 September, 1918. A largely inexperienced US First Army, with mid-level officers including Harry S.

Truman, Douglas MacArthur and George Patton, suffered setbacks and heavy casualties during its straight-ahead offensive against a still-potent but fading German Fifth Army. However, by early November, 1.2 million Americans and several hundred thousand French were engaged at the Meuse-Argonne and the Hindenburg Line had been decisively broken. The German withdrawal from Sedan approached a rout and the Americans finally had the Germans on the run until the Armistice ended the offensive on 11 November, 1918.

This engaging title tells the full story of this key offensive, illustrating and explaining the troops, weapons and tactics of both the American Expeditionary Force and the German Fifth Army in stunning detail.

Автор: Hone Thomas C.
Название: The Battle of Midway: The Naval Institute Guide to the U.S. Navy`s Greatest Victory
ISBN: 168247030X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682470305
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Описание: Includes some of the most vibrant and informed accounts by individuals who fought on both sides of the June 1942 battle. The anthology pulls together memoirs, articles, excerpts from other Naval Institute books, and relevant government documents to help readers understand what happened and explain why the battle was so significant to the naval service.

Автор: Caldwell John D.
Название: Anatomy of Victory: Why the United States Triumphed in World War II, Fought to a Stalemate in Korea, Lost in Vietnam, and Failed in Iraq
ISBN: 1538114771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538114773
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: This groundbreaking book provides the first systematic comparison of America`s modern wars, analyzing how and why the United States has moved from success to failure since WWII. As the United States enters a new period of uncertainty in the world, Caldwell makes the compelling case that leaders must think, plan, and prepare before shooting.

Автор: Keridwen N. Luis
Название: Herlands: Exploring the Women`s Land Movement in the United States
ISBN: 0816698252 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816698257
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Описание: How women-only communities provide spaces for new forms of culture, sociality, gender, and sexuality Women’s lands are intentional, collective communities composed entirely of women. Rooted in 1970s feminist politics, they continue to thrive in a range of ways, from urban households to isolated rural communes, providing spaces where ideas about gender, sexuality, and sociality are challenged in both deliberate and accidental ways. Herlands, a compelling ethnography of women’s land networks in the United States, highlights the ongoing relevance of these communities as vibrant cultural enclaves that also have an impact on broader ideas about gender, women’s bodies, lesbian identity, and right ways of living.As a participant-observer, Keridwen N. Luis brings unique insights to the lives and stories of the women living in these communities. While documenting the experiences of specific spaces in Massachusetts, Tennessee, New Mexico, and Ohio, Herlands also explores the history of women’s lands and breaks new ground exploring culture theory, gender theory, and how lesbian identity is conceived and constructed in North America. Luis also discusses how issues of race and class are addressed, the ways in which nudity and public hygiene challenge dominant constructions of the healthy or aging body, and the pervasive influence of hegemonic thinking on debates about transgender women. Luis finds that although changing dominant thinking can be difficult and incremental, women’s lands provide exciting possibilities for revolutionary transformation in society.

Автор: Calloway Colin G.
Название: The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army
ISBN: 0190614455 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190614454
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A balanced and readable account of the 1791 battle between St. Clair`s US forces and an Indian coalition in the Ohio valley, one of the most important and under-recognized events of its time.

Автор: Calloway Colin G.
Название: The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army
ISBN: 0199387990 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199387991
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: A balanced and readable account of the 1791 battle between St. Clair`s US forces and an Indian coalition in the Ohio valley, one of the most important and under-recognized events of its time.

Автор: Bartsch William H.
Название: Victory Fever on Guadalcanal: Japan`s First Land Defeat of World War II
ISBN: 1623491843 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781623491840
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Описание: Following their rampage through Southeast Asia and the Pacific in the five months after Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces moved into the Solomon Islands, intending to cut off the critical American supply line to Australia. But when they began to construct an airfield on Guadalcanal in July 1942, the Americans captured the almost completed airfield for their own strategic use.The Japanese Army countered by sending to Guadalcanal a reinforced battalion under the command of Col. Kiyonao Ichiki. The attack that followed would prove to be the first of four attempts by the Japanese over six months to retake the airfield, resulting in some of the most vicious fighting of the Pacific War.During one such battle on the night of August 20–21, 1942, Marines wiped out Ichiki’s men, who—imbued with “victory fever”—had expected a quick and easy victory.William H. Bartsch draws on correspondence, interviews, diaries, memoirs, and official war records, including those translated from Japanese sources, to offer an intensely human narrative of the failed attempt to recapture Guadalcanal’s vital airfield.

Автор: E. Sylvia Pankhurst
Название: The Suffragette: The History of the Womens Militant Suffrage Movement 1905-1910
ISBN: 1536155179 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781536155174
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: In 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Womens Social and Political Union, a militant organization dedicated to achieving womens suffrage. Its radical approach, consisting of stone-throwing, window-breaking, arson, and physical confrontation with authorities. The History of the Womens Suffrage was written at a time when it was in the very forefront of British politics and offers an insiders perspective on the motives and ideals that inspired its leaders and followers. When the long struggle for the enfranchisement of women is over, those who read the history of the movement will wonder at the blindness that led the Government of the day to obstinately resist so simple and obvious a measure of justice. A passionate love of freedom, a strong desire to do social service and an intense sympathy for the unfortunate, together, made the movement possible.

Автор: Rebecca Corbett
Название: Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan
ISBN: 082487207X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824872076
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (chanoyu). In Cultivating Femininity, Rebecca Corbett writes women back into this history and shows how tea practice for women was understood, articulated, and promoted in the Edo (1603-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods.