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The Moral Property of Women
Linda Gordon's classic study,The Moral Property of Women,is the most complete history of birth control ever written. It covers the entire history of the intense controversies about reproductive rights that have raged in the United States for more than 150 years, from the earliest attempts of women to organize for the legal control of their bodies to the effects of second-wave feminism. Gordon defines the role that birth control has played in society's attitudes toward women, sexuality, and gender equality, arguing that reproductive control has always been central to women's status. She shows how opposition to it has long been part of the conservative opposition to gender equality.
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THE MASCULINIZATION OF MEDICINE
Partly because the scientific transformation of medicine that began in the middle of the 19th century coincided with the outlawing of unlicensed medical practitioners (largely women) and midwives, medicine split into two approaches. By the end of the century, ''regular medicine'' - the male medical establishment - emphasized laboratory science and experimentation, so the microorganisms responsible for specific diseases could be identified and attacked. Women doctors, often clinging to some of the traditions of ''irregular medicine,'' emphasized holistic healing and prevention. Mrs. [Regina Markell Morantz-Sanchez] acknowledges these poles but insists on a more complex history. Women in medicine have never been united in their perspectives, she says, and most have used both approaches to healing; they have been less active in medical science partly because of discrimination and harassment. They suffered from male discrimination in their role as Victorian women as well as in their role as Victorian women doctors. . . . They struggled valiantly to become creditable practitioners without either surrendering or denigrating their femininity. They sought as best they could to mesh the commponplace events of their lives as women with the demands of a professional life hitherto based solely on the male model. It was not an easy task at all, and many of them good-naturedly understood that society would continue to view them as a class apart, no matter what they accomplished. . . . Lillian Welsh loved to argue that ''out of the mouths of babes and defectives come often current social opinions.'' In support of her contention, she was fond of telling of an encounter she had with an inmate one Sunday morning when she worked in the Norristown [ Pa. ] Hospital for the Insane. Suddenly, while doing rounds with her friend Dr. Mary Sherwood, she was confronted with a female patient who ''planted herself firmly in our way,'' and, looking at Dr. Sherwood, asked, ''Say are you a doctor or a lady?'' ''You look so young and pleasant,'' the woman continued, ''I thought you might be a lady.'' Though public opinion might stubbornly quesstion women physicians' choices, evidence suggests that they managed often quite successfully to balance two identities with sensitivity and grace. - From ''Sympathy and Science.''
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Seven social movements that changed America
How do social movements arise, wield power and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a ground-breaking work, narrating the stories of many of America's most influential twentieth-century social movements. Beginning with the turn-of-the-century settlement house movement, Gordon then scrutinises the 1920s Ku Klux Klan and its successors, the violent American fascist groups of the 1930s. Profiles of two Depression-era movements follow - the Townsend campaign that brought us Social Security and the creation of unemployment aid. Proceeding then to the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, which inspired the civil rights movement and launched Martin Luther King Jr.'s career, the narrative barrels into the 1960s-70s with Cesar Chavez's farmworkers' union.
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Feminism unfinished : a short, surprising history of American women's movements
\"Three ... scholars of women's history provide ... [a] history of American women's movements over the nearly hundred years since women gained the right to vote ... [and] provides a counterpoint to the contemporary corporate-backed 'lean-in' philosophy; the authors argue that this assumes that gains for a tiny elite will help all women. They demonstrate that, to the contrary, the gains women have made were created by working together for social change rather than by striving individually for personal success\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The color of success
The Color of Successtells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the \"yellow peril\" to \"model minorities\"--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century. As Ellen Wu shows, liberals argued for the acceptance of these immigrant communities into the national fold, charging that the failure of America to live in accordance with its democratic ideals endangered the country's aspirations to world leadership.
Weaving together myriad perspectives, Wu provides an unprecedented view of racial reform and the contradictions of national belonging in the civil rights era. She highlights the contests for power and authority within Japanese and Chinese America alongside the designs of those external to these populations, including government officials, social scientists, journalists, and others. And she demonstrates that the invention of the model minority took place in multiple arenas, such as battles over zoot suiters leaving wartime internment camps, the juvenile delinquency panic of the 1950s, Hawaii statehood, and the African American freedom movement. Together, these illuminate the impact of foreign relations on the domestic racial order and how the nation accepted Asians as legitimate citizens while continuing to perceive them as indelible outsiders.
By charting the emergence of the model minority stereotype,The Color of Successreveals that this far-reaching, politically charged process continues to have profound implications for how Americans understand race, opportunity, and nationhood.
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Summa (Quaestiones ordinariae). Art. LVI-LIX
Articles 56-59 of Henry of Ghent's 'Summa' is devoted to the trinitarian properties. Henry was the most important Christian theological thinker in the last quarter of the 13th century and his works were influential not only in his lifetime, but also in the following century and into the Renaissance. Henry's 'Quaestiones ordinariae' ('Summa'), articles 56-59 deal with the trinitarian properties and relations, topics of Henry's lectures at the university in Paris. In these articles, dated around 1286, Henry treats generation, a property unique to the Father, and being generated, a property unique to the Son. The university in Paris distributed articles 56-59 by means of two successive exemplars divided into 'peciae'. Manuscripts copied from each have survived and the text of the critical edition has been established based upon the reconstructed texts of these two exemplars.
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Reforming the Scottish Church
As Superintendent of Fife, John Winram played a pivotal role in the reform of the Scottish Church. Charting his career within St Andrews priory from canon to subprior, Linda Dunbar examines the ambiguity of Winram's religious stance in the years before 1559 and argues that much of the difficulty in pinning down Winram's views stems from the mis-identification of John Knox's un-named reforming sub-prior with Winram. In fact, as the book shows, this early reformer was probably Winram's own sub-prior, Alexander Young. The various reforming influences on Winram, and the gradual change in his religious stance is charted, together with his robust attempts at Catholic reform with St Andrews and his profound effect upon John Knox during the siege of the castle. In 1559, Winram eventually decided to side with the Protestants. The book concludes with an analysis of the difficulties experienced by Winram and the preponderance of accusations against him which led to his final relinquishing of office in 1577. In his transition from a Catholic to a Protestant reformer, Winram's experience is typical of that of many of his contemporaries in Scotland and in Europe.
Contents: Introduction; St Andrews' Priory before 1560; Changing religious convictions; Superintendency: the theory of the First Book of Discipline; Superintendency: the developments of the General Assembly; The practice of superintendency in Fife; The superintendent's court; Clerical admissions; The problems of superintendency; St Andrews' Priory after 1560; St Andrews University; Friends; Family; Conclusion; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index.
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