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Under Charred Skies

By: Greta Sykes

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Lene is deeply involved in the cultural awakening of the arts and civil rights after WW1 when the fateful Nazi tyranny tears her life apart. Betrayal and desolation almost destroy love and solidarity enjoyed by the women at the time.

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1504990196

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9781504990196

The Shipping News and Other Poems

Poems About Politics, Nature, Love and Ideals.

By: Greta Sykes

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The Shipping News and Other Poems

Poems About Politics, Nature, Love and Ideals.

By: Greta Sykes

In this book are the recent and not-so-recent poems, reflections, and refractions on nature, love, politics, and ideals.

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1524635243

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9781524635244

Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams

By: Greta Heintzelman,Alycia Smith Howard

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Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams

By: Greta Heintzelman,Alycia Smith Howard

One of the greatest American dramatists of the 20th century, Tennessee Williams is known for his sensitive characterizations, poetic yet realistic writing, ironic humor, and depiction, of harsh realties in human relationship. His work is frequently included in high school and college curricula, and his plays are continually produced. Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams includes entries on all of Williams's major and minor works, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Glass Menagerie, a novel, a collection of short stories, two poetry collections, and personal essays; places and events related to his works; major figures in his life; his literary influences; and issues in Williams scholarship and criticism. Appendixes include a complete list of Williams's works; a list of research libraries with significant Williams holdings; and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

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449

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108567

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9781438108568

Ecological Politics

By: Greta Gaard

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Ecological Politics

By: Greta Gaard

An illuminating account of two interconnected social movements from their grassroots origins in the 1970s to the 1996 Green presidential campaign.

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350

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Temple University Press

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1439903980

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9781439903988

The Politics of Weight

Feminist Dichotomies of Power in Dieting

By: Amelia Greta Morris

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The Politics of Weight

Feminist Dichotomies of Power in Dieting

By: Amelia Greta Morris

This book speaks to the politics of weight through an interrogation of dieting, power and the body. In feminist theory, there is no greater site of contestation than that of the body, and Morris explores how these debates often become centred upon a dichotomy between oppression and liberation. Whilst there is a vast diversity of scholarship that challenges this binary including post-colonial, post-structuralist and Marxist feminist work, the dichotomy nevertheless endures. The Politics of Weight argues that the ‘feminine’ body is not simply a site of oppression or liberation by drawing upon the intersections that exist between Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and post-structuralist feminist work on the body. This provides a unique lens for exploring weight. Through in-depth analysis of interviews with women who seemingly sit on either side of the ‘oppression’ and ‘liberation’ debate, members of dieting clubs and fat activists, the book highlights the complexities that surround women’s relationship to weight and the body. Likewise it draws upon the wealth of black feminist scholarship to explore the discourses surrounding Oprah Winfrey’s dieting ‘journey,’ seeking to demonstrate how discipline and race interact and how this plays out in dieting and weight. The Politics of Weight will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, sociology, geography and political science.

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210

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Springer

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3030136701

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9783030136703

The Quack's Daughter

A True Story about the Private Life of a Victorian College Girl, Revised Edition

By: Greta Nettleton

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The Quack's Daughter

A True Story about the Private Life of a Victorian College Girl, Revised Edition

By: Greta Nettleton

Raised in the gritty Mississippi River town of Davenport, Iowa, Cora Keck could have walked straight out of a Susan Glaspell story. When Cora was sent to Vassar College in the fall of 1884, she was a typical unmotivated, newly rich party girl. Her improbable educational opportunity at “the first great educational institution for womankind” turned into an enthralling journey of self-discovery as she struggled to meet the high standards in Vassar’s School of Music while trying to shed her reputation as the daughter of a notorious quack and self-made millionaire: Mrs. Dr. Rebecca J. Keck, second only to Lydia Pinkham as America’s most successful self-made female patent medicine entrepreneur of the time. This lively, stereotype-shattering story might have been lost, had Cora’s great-granddaughter, Greta Nettleton, not decided to go through some old family trunks instead of discarding most of the contents unexamined. Inside she discovered a rich cache of Cora’s college memorabilia—essential complements to her 1885 diary, which Nettleton had already begun to read. The Quack’s Daughter details Cora’s youthful travails and adventures during a time of great social and economic transformation. From her working-class childhood to her gilded youth and her later married life, Cora experienced triumphs and disappointments as a gifted concert pianist that the reader will recognize as tied to the limited opportunities open to women at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as to the dangerous consequences for those who challenged social norms. Set in an era of surging wealth torn by political controversy over inequality and women’s rights and widespread panic about domestic terrorists, The Quack’s Daughter is illustrated with over a hundred original images and photographs that illuminate the life of a spirited and charming heroine who ultimately faced a stark life-and-death crisis that would force her to re-examine her doubts about her mother’s medical integrity.

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420

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University of Iowa Press

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1609382439

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9781609382438

Social Work Practice: Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review

By: Jonathan Parker,Greta Bradley

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Social Work Practice: Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review

By: Jonathan Parker,Greta Bradley

This bestselling and widely recognised textbook is now into its Third Edition and has been fully updated to reflect the recent changes in social work practice. New features and case studies are included throughout, as is a greater emphasis on safeguarding and protection issues. By working through this book, student social workers can ensure that they understand the features of a good assessment, how it is conducted and some of the difficulties that might arise during the process.

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178

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SAGE

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1844458326

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9781844458325

The Conservative Political Tradition in Britain and the United States

By: Arthur Aughey,Greta Jones,William Terence Martin Riches

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The Conservative Political Tradition in Britain and the United States

By: Arthur Aughey,Greta Jones,William Terence Martin Riches

This book seeks to break new ground by providing an original framework within which to understand conservative politics and to compare what has always been thought to be opposite ideal types -- a British conservatism characterized by traditionalism and an American conservatism defined by its optimistic individualism.

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192

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838635008

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9780838635001

Book's by Greta Sykes

Under Charred Skies

Under Charred Skies

The Shipping News and Other Poems

The Shipping News and Other Poems

Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams

Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams

Ecological Politics

Ecological Politics

The Politics of Weight

The Politics of Weight

The Quack's Daughter

The Quack's Daughter

Social Work Practice: Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review

Social Work Practice: Assessment, Planning, Intervention and Review

The Conservative Political Tradition in Britain and the United States

The Conservative Political Tradition in Britain and the United States

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