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The Voice of Harriet Taylor Mill

By: Jo Ellen Jacobs

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The Voice of Harriet Taylor Mill

By: Jo Ellen Jacobs

The Voice of Harriet Taylor Mill is a work about collaboration: Harriet's life with members of her family, friends, and lover; Harriet's joint work with John Stuart Mill; and the author's interaction with the reader. The Prelude explores the concept of biography using Salman Rushdie's analogy of history as a process of chutnification. The historical "facts," like a pickler's raw vegetables are sensitively selected and combined with spices which aim to alter the flavour in "degree but not in kind." JoEllen Jacobs gives Harriet's life "shape and form-that is to say, meaning" in a way that will "possess the authentic taste of truth." The first chapter recognises the reader's contribution to the reading of any text. The material for the first thirty years of Harriet's life is presented as a first person diary. The text is firmly based on the letters and historical context of HTM's life, but the style invites the intimacy of reading someone's journal. The second chapter continues the chronological account of HTM's life until her death in 1858. In an interlude between the first and second chapter, Jacobs pauses to explore Harriet's life with John Stuart Mill during the twenty years she lived apart from her first husband while travelling and spending much of her time with John. The relationship they developed included some switching of gender roles, passion, anger and a sharing of dreams, laughter, and family. In the final chapter, Jacobs argues persuasively that Harriet and John collaborated extensively on many works, including On Liberty.

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0253340713

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The Voice of Harriet Taylor Mill

By: Jo Ellen Jacobs

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The Voice of Harriet Taylor Mill

By: Jo Ellen Jacobs

The Voice of Harriet Taylor Mill is a work about collaboration: Harriet's life with her lover, friends, and members of her family; Harriet's joint work with John Stuart Mill; and the author's interaction with the reader. Jo Ellen Jacobs explores and expands the concept of biography using Salman Rushdie's analogy of history as a process of "chutnification." She gives Harriet's life "shape and form -- that is to say, meaning" in a way that will "possess the authentic taste of truth." In the first chapter, the first 30 years of Harriet's life are presented in the format of a first-person diary -- one not actually written by HTM herself. The text is based on letters and historical context, but the style suggests the intimate experience of reading someone's journal. The second chapter continues the chronological account of HTM until her death in 1858. In an interlude between the first and second chapters, Jacobs pauses to explore Harriet's life with John Stuart Mill; and in the final chapter, she argues persuasively that Harriet and John collaborated extensively on many works, including On Liberty.

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Indiana University Press

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0253109302

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9780253109309

From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains

250 Years of Women at Sea

By: Jo Stanley

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From Cabin 'Boys' to Captains

250 Years of Women at Sea

By: Jo Stanley

Traditionally, a woman's place was never on stormy seas. But actually thousands of dancers, purserettes, doctors, stewardesses, captains and conductresses have taken to the waves on everything from floating palaces to battered windjammers. Their daring story is barely known, even by today's seawomen. From before the 1750s, women fancying an oceangoing life had either to disguise themselves as cabin 'boys' or acquire a co-operative husband with a ship attached. Early pioneers faced superstition and discrimination in the briny 'monasteries'. Today women captain cruise ships as big as towns and work at the highest level in the global maritime industry. This comprehensive exploration looks at the Merchant Navy, comparing it to the Royal Navy in which Wrens only began sailing in 1991. Using interviews and sources never before published, Jo Stanley vividly reveals the incredible journey across time taken by these brave and lively women salts.

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263

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The History Press

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075096877X

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9780750968775

Jews of Florida: Centuries of Stories

By: Marcia Jo Zerivitz

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Jews of Florida: Centuries of Stories

By: Marcia Jo Zerivitz

This first comprehensive history of the Jews of Florida from colonial times to the present is a sweeping tapestry of voices. Despite not being officially allowed to live in Florida until 1763, Jewish immigrants escaping expulsions and exclusions were among the earliest settlers. They have been integral to every facet of Florida's growth, from tilling the land and developing early communities to boosting tourism and ultimately pushing mankind into space. The Sunshine State's Jews, working for the common good, have been Olympians, Nobel Prize winners, computer pioneers, educators, politicians, leaders in business and the arts and more, while maintaining their heritage to help ensure Jewish continuity for future generations. This rich narrative - accompanied by 700 images, most rarely seen - is the result of three-plus decades of grassroots research by author Marcia Jo Zerivitz, giving readers an incomparable look at the long and crucial history of Jews in Florida.

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434

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467142530

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The Structure and Dynamics of Human Ecosystems

Toward a Model for Understanding and Action

By: William R. Burch,Gary E. Machlis,Jo Ellen Force

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The Structure and Dynamics of Human Ecosystems

Toward a Model for Understanding and Action

By: William R. Burch,Gary E. Machlis,Jo Ellen Force

A landmark book that strives to provide both grand theory and practical application, innovatively describing the structure and dynamics of human ecosystems As the world faces ever more complex and demanding environmental and social challenges, the need for interdisciplinary models and practical guidance becomes acute. The Human Ecosystem Model described in this landmark book provides an innovative response. Broad in scope, detailed in method, at once theoretical and applied, this grand study offers an in-depth understanding of human ecosystems and tools for action. The authors draw from Goethe’s Faust, classic anthropology and sociology studies, contemporary ecosystem ecology, Buddhist ethics, and more to create a paradigm-shifting model and a major advance in interdisciplinary ecology.

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Yale University Press

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0300231636

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9780300231632

Focus Group Research

By: Martha Ann Carey,Jo-Ellen Asbury

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Focus Group Research

By: Martha Ann Carey,Jo-Ellen Asbury

In this volume, Carey and Asbury provide a brief, systematic introduction to developing, implementing, and analyzing focus groups in research projects.

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Routledge

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1315428369

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Sociology On Culture

By: Marshall Battani,John R. Hall,Mary Jo Neitz

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Sociology On Culture

By: Marshall Battani,John R. Hall,Mary Jo Neitz

Culture has become a touchstone of interdisciplinary conversation. For readers interested in sociology, the social sciences and the humanities, this book maps major classical and contemporary analyses and cultural controversies in relation to social processes, everyday life, and axes of ordering and difference - such as race, class and gender. Hall, Neitz, and Battani discuss: self and identity stratification the Other the cultural histories of modernity and postmodernity production of culture the problem of the audience action, social movements, and change. The authors advocate cultivating the sociological imagination by engaging myriad languages and perspectives of the social sciences and humanities, while cultivating cultural studies by developing the sociological imagination. Paying little respect to boundaries, and incorporating fascinating examples, this book draws on diverse intellectual perspectives and a variety of topics from various historical periods and regions of the world.

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1134452373

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Madame le Professeur

Women Educators in the Third Republic

By: Jo Burr Margadant

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Madame le Professeur

Women Educators in the Third Republic

By: Jo Burr Margadant

A collective biography of France's first generation of female secondary schoolteachers, this book examines the conflict between their public and private lives and places their new professional standing wtihin the political culture of the Third Republic. Jo Burr Margadant charts the responses of women who attended the nornmal school of Sevres during the 1880s to their roles as teachers and subordinates in the public school system, their plight as outsiders in the social community, and their gains toward educational reforms. These women emerge as pioneers struggling to forge careers in an elite profession, which was separate and inferior to its male equivalent and also controlled by men. Margadant explains that the first women teacher in girls' colleges and lycees were expected to project an intellectually assertive presence in the classroom while maintaining a maternal solicitude toward students and a modest, self-effacing style with superiors. Many who succeeded progressed to administrative jobs and, in some cases, filled official posts left vacant by men during the First World War. The author shows how these achievements led to the transformations of girls' secondary schools into replicas of those for boys and to equal treatment for women and men in the teaching profession. Jo Burr Margadant is Lecturer in History at Santa Clara University. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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0691656789

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9780691656786

Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography

By: Mary K. Mannix,Fred Burchsted,Jo Bell Whitlatch

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Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography

By: Mary K. Mannix,Fred Burchsted,Jo Bell Whitlatch

An excellent starting point for both reference librarians and for library users seeking information about family history and the lives of others, this resource is drawn from the authoritative database of Guide to Reference, voted Best Professional Resource Database by Library Journal readers in 2012. Biographical resources have long been of interest to researchers and general readers, and this title directs readers to the best biographical sources for all regions of the world. For interest in the lives of those not found in biographical resources, this title also serves as a guide to the most useful genealogical resources. Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.

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American Library Association

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083891294X

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9780838912942

Mastering Fashion styling

By: Jo Dingemans

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Mastering Fashion styling

By: Jo Dingemans

Fashion is a very popular subject among young people. Any course with fashion as a prefix attracts lots of students. Despite this, many prospective students and people have little idea what jobs in the fashion industry entail. Fashion Styling is one of the least well researched areas in fashion colleges. The emphasis is put on the end result, i.e. visual imagery, rather than the process of creating it. This 'how to' book provides an insight into the processes you have to follow to work in this area, be it editorial, commercial or show styling. It includes an eight-week introductory programme to the subject and projects whereby students can simulate professional practice and learn the techniques and skills necessary for a career in styling. At the end of the book there is a source directory, a glossary of terms, and a bibliography which provide reference points for further research and study.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349150509

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Women Writing Cloth

Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary

By: Mary Jo Bona

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Women Writing Cloth

Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary

By: Mary Jo Bona

Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary performs a ground-breaking intervention by uncovering the relationship between literary cloth-working women and migration in a range of American novels across centuries. Bona demonstrates how four authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, and Adria Bernardi, innovate on pre-modern stories of weaving women in order to explore the intricate connections between handwork, resourcefulness, and mobility. Refracted through the lens of women’s migratory experiences vis-à-vis cloth-working aesthetics, Women Writing Cloth examines varied aspects of sewing—embroidering, quilting, and rebozo-making—as textual signifiers of mobility and preservation. Through authorial innovation,women’s handwork constitutes a revolt against a devaluation of cultural heritage and a distrust of the self. Women Writing Cloth argues that literary, cloth-working women inspire paradigmatic shifts in social codes due to portable skills that enabled their survival in the new world. Bona paints a complex picture of women whose migratory experiences taught them how to live within a stigmatizing culture and beneath institutional powers to control their artistry. Fabric designs assume fuller multicultural meaning when textiles cross borders and tell unspeakable stories that expose constraints typifying gender, race, and heritage. The authors examined simulate the artistic creativity of cloth-work by interrogating traditional assumptions about representation, chronology, and spatial boundaries. Women Writing Cloth breaks new ground to reveal the elaborate relationship between cloth-work expertise and women’s mobility. Variations of cloth-working women showcase a relationship between subversive artistry and institutional oppressions that compel strategies of resistance, enable survival, and, inspired by migration, construct inventive fabric creations. Women Writing Cloth engages the activity of cloth work as a means of reclamation and subversive expression represented in American literature.

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159

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Lexington Books

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1498525865

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9781498525862

Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture

By: Jo-Ann Morgan

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Uncle Tom's Cabin as Visual Culture

By: Jo-Ann Morgan

Examines the artwork of Hammatt Billings, George Cruikshank, Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Thomas Satterwhite Noble to show how, as Uncle Tom's Cabin gained popularity, visual strategies were used to coax the subversive potential of Stowe's work back within accepted boundaries that reinforced social hierarchies"--Provided by publisher.

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University of Missouri Press

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082621715X

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At Berkeley in the Sixties

The Education of an Activist, 1961-1965

By: Jo Freeman

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At Berkeley in the Sixties

The Education of an Activist, 1961-1965

By: Jo Freeman

This book is a memoir and a history of Berkeley in the early Sixties. As a young undergraduate, Jo Freeman was a key participant in the growth of social activism at the University of California, Berkeley. The story is told with the "you are there" immediacy of Freeman the undergraduate but is put into historical and political context by Freeman the scholar, 35 years later. It draws heavily on documents created at the time--letters, reports, interviews, memos, newspaper stories, FBI files--but is fleshed out with retrospective analysis. As events unfold, the campus conflicts of the Sixties take on a completely different cast, one that may surprise many readers.

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Indiana University Press

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0253216222

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9780253216229

The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill

By: Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill

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The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill

By: Harriet Hardy Taylor Mill

For 170 years, Harriet Taylor Mill has been presented as a footnote in John Stuart Mill's life. This volume gives her a separate voice. Readers may assess for themselves the importance and influence of her ideas on "women's" issues such as marriage and divorce, education, domestic violence, and suffrage. And they will note the overlap of her ideas on ethics, religion, arts, and socialism, written in the 1830s, with her more famous husband's works, published 25 years later.

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Indiana University Press

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0253333938

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9780253333933

The End of Motherhood

New Identities, New Lives

By: Jo Ann Lordahl

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The End of Motherhood

New Identities, New Lives

By: Jo Ann Lordahl

Jo Ann Lordahl examines all aspects of a woman's mid-life and shows how the skills learned in motherhood can now be used to empower women and improve society. The End of Motherhood leads the reader through recovery and beyond to spiritual growth and fulfillment.

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1558741097

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Madame le Professeur

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Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography

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