Ergebnis für "Shirley" in Geschlechterforschung

Our Voices, Our Histories brings together 35 Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond.

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper brings together, for the first time, Anna Julia Cooper's major collection of essays, A Voice from the South, along with several previously unpublished poems, plays, journalism, and selected correspondences, including more than 30 previously unpublished letters between Anna Julia Cooper and W. E. B. Du Bois. This volume will introduce a new generation to an educator, intellectual, and activist whose prescient insights underlie some of the most important developments in modern American intellectual thought and African American activism.

Pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong made more than 60 films, headlined theater and vaudeville productions, and even starred in her own television show. Her work helped shape racial modernity, as she embodied the dominant image of Chinese, and more generally, “Oriental” women between 1925 and 1940. In Anna May Wong, Shirley Jennifer Lim re-evaluates Wong’s life and work as a consummate artist, and positions the actress as a historical and cultural entrepreneur who rewrote categories of representation.

Ce qui gêne tant les gens, c'est mon poids : 150 kg pour 1,53 m. Après avoir été méprisée pendant des années, j'ai décidé d'écrire pour ne plus m'excuser d'exister. De là est née cette enquête journalistique dans laquelle j'affronte mes tabous et mon passé, et où je décortique le traitement que la société - professionnels adeptes de la chirurgie de l'obésité, magazines féminins, employeurs - réserve aujourd'hui aux grosses.