Ergebnis für "Marilyn" in Politik & Aktivismus

Diese Ausgabe von "CD WISSEN - Biographien des 20. Jahrhunderts" wagt einen Blick hinter die Kulissen dieser beiden herausragenden Persönlichkeiten. Historische Tondokumente und bekannte Zitate, umrahmt von der passenden musikalischen Atmosphäre, machen dieses Hörbuch zu einem Informationserlebnis der besonderen Art. Sie waren die Ikonen ihrer Zeit und sind heute ein Mythos - John F. Kennedy und Marilyn Monroe.

Marilyn Fayre Milos was a nursing student on the obstetrical unit in 1979 when she first witnessed a baby being circumcised. The only person to step forward to comfort the infant as it writhed and screamed in pain during the surgery, she was shocked when the doctor said to her: “There is no medical reason for doing this.” From that moment on, Marilyn became an advocate for ending medically unnecessary circumcision, protecting our children, and educating parents, the public, and medical professionals about this cultural fraud and violation of human rights.

This volume represents more than 25 years of writing about female icons and biography. Rollyson provides the bits and pieces that resulted not only in his biography of Marilyn Monroe but also in much of the work he has subsequently done on Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Rebecca West, Susan Sontag, and on the nature of biography itself.

In the late 1960s, at the age of eighteen and living far from home amidst the thriving counterculture of Ottawa, Marilyn Churley got pregnant. Like thousands of other women of the time she kept the event a secret. Faced with few options, she gave the baby up for adoption. Over twenty years later, as the Ontario NDP government’s minister responsible for all birth, death, and adoption records, including those of her own child, Churley found herself in a surprising and powerful position–fully engaged in the long and difficult battle to reform adoption disclosure laws and find her son.