And I’m certainly not the first writer who has gone looking for the voices of misunderstood women in our most famous histories and mythologies. In fact, there’s been a recent spate of brilliant novels that give these forgotten and reviled women a voice again. Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel...
We hear Malcolm X in Harlem, Andrée Blouin on women’s rights in Africa, Castro in NY, and Nikita Khrushchev’s famous shoe speech (where apparently he didn’t actually say what they said he said) in the general assembly. It’s filled with compelling imagery: Alan Dulles the head of ...
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez Femina is a really interesting book about medieval women and history by Oxford-based historian Janina Ramirez. The title is revealing in itself: ‘FEMINA’ was what Ramirez found scribbled in lib...
故答案为:All kinds of books about famous women pilots. 【3】细节理解题。根据“In 1977 Eileen got a pilot' s license and the following year she graduated (毕业) from university.”可知,第二年,她大学毕业,1999年,她43岁时进入太空。故答案为:In 1999. 【4】细节理解题。根据“...
Mulan is one of the most famous women in Chinese history . The _ 1 _ record ( 记录 ) of Mulan was in the Ballad of Mulan ( 木兰诗 ) . The song was finished in the Northern Wei Dynasty . Over hundreds of years , people then turned her story into operas , books , ...
Clear and reliable information about linings is greatly needed. As Miller (2010, p. 100) rightly points out, ‘linings can sometimes be extremely damaging’. With that in mind, the starting point for my research was the well-known article by Conroy, ‘The Movement of the Book Spine’ (198...
Best Chick Lit Books For Women The Rule Book, by Sarah Adams (2024) Nora Mackenzie's career as a sports agent is on the line, and it all depends on Derek Pender, a famous NFL tight end who is also her ex-boyfriend from college. Their breakup was messy, and now it's coming back ...
Women Light Artists Explore the Intersection of Space, Technology and Community October 03, 2023 Courtesy of Jen Lewin, Photo by Brendan Burkett / The Pool In the world of interior design, light serves as an essential medium, but light can also create immersive public spaces. While James ...
Discovering that her one night of passion with Cesare right before she was sacked had borne its fruit, Mina finds herself in the tough position of having to juggle being a single mother and making ends meet in a world that is frightful for women who do not have the kind of support system...
Pin it You've heard of William Shakespeare, but what about his sister? In this famous and revolutionary book, Virginia Woolf creates a character, Shakespeare's sister, who is equally as talented as her immortalized brother. Yet, she is ultimately forgotten because she never had the means to ...