Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went to sea, and participated actively in combat for as long as there have been people. As Hurley realized, the idea of women in combat isn't a part of our normal, everyday narrative, even though...
Courtney Louise Borden, nee Letts (1899 - 1995) was one of a quartet of debutantes in the Chicago social scene during World War I, described as "the four most attractive and socially desirable young women in Chicago". It was while she was married to her 2nd husband, John Borden, that ...
But the film itself is amazing, covering everything from pan-African nationalism and the Cold War, to non-aligned nations, colonialism, and the UN. 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 ...
Someone like Pat Barker, on the other hand, does well because her name is androgynous, she writes about war and the covers of her books are normally quite dark colours and have things like barbed wire across them.'Debbie is the founder and editor of Mslexia, 'the magazine for women who...
While Maya’s mothers are the only same-sex parents in the book, their household is not the only one headed by women. Maya’s close friend Nastia is raised together with her first cousin Nazar by their single mothers—the women are sisters—and grandmother. The doublespread that introduces ...
– had agency to take what they wanted from this education and how they negotiated the tensions implicit in their identities as elite Chinese Christian women in an environment of mounting Chinese nationalism in the early twentieth century. How difficult or easy was it to do this research?
Combat Casey was a comic that took place during the Korean War. Casey was a rough-and-ready fighting machine…. who evidently liked to spank the hell out of women. “She was no more than a baby in his powerful arms…” Notice that so many of these panels illustrate the spank with sta...
Louisa May Alcott, American author known for her children’s books, especially the classic Little Women. Among her other notable works are Little Men, Hospital Sketches, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag, and Jo’s Boys. Learn more about Alcott
So, if you are interested in contemporary American history and would like to hear about it from someone who was involved, this is worth the read. But, go into it knowing that there are descriptions of solitary confinement, homelessness, war crimes, and mentions of suicide. Posted in review...
war. We also learn about the despair of Clytemnestra after the murder of her daughter, and how she strategically plans to kill the man responsible (her husband). This story gives depth to so many voiceless women, including Penelope, whose increasingly bitter and sarcastic letters to Odysseus ...