![]() ![]() Over a five-year period before her death De Gouges wrote scores of pamphlets in which she called for greater equality and social justice, the creation of a welfare state, divorce, and the abolition of the death penalty. She also criticised the denial of equality to black slaves and the denial of voting rights to all women and to men who were unable to pay a poll tax linked to voting rights. She wrote a large number of pamphlets challenging the revolutionary leadership for their selective interpretation of the principles of equality. After the 1789 French revolution she became critical of the way the revolutionaries refused to extend equal rights to one half of the population, namely women. ![]() Today, as part of our On the Shoulders of Giants series, we republish the ‘Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen’ which was written in 1791 by the French playwright and political activist Olympe de Gouges.ĭe Gouges was a republican, a feminist and an anti-slavery campaigner. 'Declaration Of The Rights Of Woman And Of The Female Citizen' - Olympe de Gouges ![]()
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![]() ![]() Central to the work, and to the continuing debate about the occupation, are three intertwined political issues whose resolution would profoundly affect Japan's postwar course: the emperor, the constitution and democratization, and the war crimes tribunals. ![]() Its sweep is ambitious, ranging from political and diplomatic history to innovative attempts to locate the Japanese people in the flow of change, including the first efforts to chart cultural and social dimensions of the era. ![]() occupation, is the summa of his four important studies of twentieth-century Japan and the U.S.-Japan relationship. Reviewed by Mark Selden (Departments of History and Sociology, SUNY-Binghamton.)Įmbracing Defeat, John Dower's magisterial chronicle of Japan under U.S. ![]() ![]() As a form of speculative fiction, it explores alternative futures or pasts but can also address real-world social issues. ![]() Steampunk may also incorporate additional elements from the genres of fantasy, horror, historical fiction, alternate history, or other branches of speculative fiction, making it often a hybrid genre. Other examples of steampunk contain alternative-history-style presentations of such technology as steam cannons, lighter-than-air airships, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine. Such technologies may include fictional machines like those found in the works of H. Steampunk most recognizably features anachronistic technologies or retrofuturistic inventions as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them - distinguishing it from Neo-Victorianism - and is likewise rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and art. Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era or the American "Wild West", where steam power remains in mainstream use, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. ![]() ![]() "Maison tournante aérienne" (aerial rotating house) by Albert Robida for his book Le Vingtième Siècle, a 19th-century conception of life in the 20th century ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Briar u series the risk![]() ![]() Popular throws me for a loop-rather than laughing in my face, he does me a solid by letting me take him upstairs to pretend we’re getting busy.Įven crazier, now he wants to keep pretending. He’s the one you fall for before you learn that guys like him don’t give girls like me a second glance. The dare: seduce the hottest new hockey player in the junior class.Ĭonor Edwards is a regular at Greek Row parties…and in Greek Row sorority beds. ![]() I already have a hard time fitting in, so when my Kappa Chi sisters issue the challenge, I can’t say no. Instead, I wound up in a sorority full of mean girls. ![]() The Dare Briar U, Book 4 Get ready for another binge-worthy romance from New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy!Ĭollege was supposed to be my chance to get over my ugly-duckling complex and spread my wings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is pretty much why i read, to find a book like this amongst all the three-star so-so's. She perseveres past obstacles of every kind and finally confronts the top figures in the family's hierarchy.Īlong the way to a shocking revelation, Ree discovers unexpected depths in herself and in a family network that protects its own at any cost. Sixteen-year-old Ree, who has grown up in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. With two young brothers depending on her and a mother who's entered a kind of second childhood, Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive, or else see her family turned out into the unforgiving cold. But the house is all they have, and Ree's father would never forfeit it to the bond company unless something awful happened. The Dolly clan has worked the shadowy side of the law for generations, and arrests (and attempts to avoid them) are part of life in Rathlin Valley. Her father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. The sheriff's deputy at the front door brings hard news to Ree Dolly. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Inked in lies giana darling![]() ![]() ![]() A criminal.A psychopath.The Irish enforcer for The Fallen Men MC is everything good girls are taught to stay away from.Only, I found myself inexorably drawn into his dark gravitational pull. Genres: Contemporary Romance, Dark Romanceįrom USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Giana Darling comes a dark MC romance about a broken enforcer and the beautiful, innocent woman who shows him that light can exist even in the dark.Ī killer. Published by Self Published By Author on December 27, 2020 Also in this series: Lessons in Corruption, Welcome to the Dark Side, Good Gone Bad, After the Fall, Inked in Lies ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments War Widow by Peggy Hansen![]() ![]() ![]() There was a terrible flood in Cloverdale in the early 1930s and the water covered the fields south of Cloverdale and came all the way to the railway tracks.ĭora Barker Rogers recalls that her father and other men took rowboats and went into the farmer's fields to rescue families from their homes. Floods and Dyking Clearing Land Small–Scale Logging Milling Poultry Farming The Egg Business Dairy Farming Creamery Operation The Grocery Business Banking Greenhouse Operations Haying Homes and Homemaking Chores Making Doughnuts Harvesting Cascara Children's Games Bicycling Fishing Sledding Dolls Hopscotch Skating Swimming in Local Creeks and Rivers Community Events Tennis and Badminton Local Hunting May Day Cloverdale Rodeo Jaycee Follies Volunteer Fire Departments Social Work and Philanthropy ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Book the pale faced lie![]() ![]() When he finally found the courage to stop helping his father with his criminal activities, he unwittingly triggered a plot of revenge that would force him into a showdown with Thurston Crow. ![]() Through sheer determination, and with the help of a few angels along the way, David managed to get into college and achieve professional success. ![]() Soon he remarried, and David learned that his stepmother was just as vicious and abusive as his father. One day, Thurston packed up the house and took the kids, leaving her with nothing. David’s mom, too mentally ill to care for her children, couldn’t protect him. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies-even murder.Ī shrewd con artist with a genius IQ, Thurston intimidated David with beatings to coerce him into doing his criminal bidding. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his three siblings idolized their dad. ![]() No explicit pornographic sex or excessive profanity. Book Title: The Pale-Faced Lie: A True Story by David CrowĬontent Rating: PG-13 + Mature subject matter of abusive parenting. ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Daughters of sparta![]() Perfect for readers of Circe and Ariadne, Daughters of Sparta is a vivid and illuminating retelling of the Siege of Troy that tells the story of mythology’s most vilified women from their own mouths at long last. Their duty is now to give birth to the heirs society demands and be the meek, submissive queens their men expect.īut when the weight of their husbands’ neglect, cruelty and ambition becomes too heavy to bear, they must push against the constraints of their sex to carve new lives for themselves – and in doing so make waves that will ripple throughout the next three thousand years. While still only girls they are separated and married off to legendary foreign kings Agamemnon and Menelaos, never to meet again. Such privilege comes at a high price, though, and their destinies are not theirs to command. With their high birth and unrivalled beauty, they are the envy of all of Greece. ![]() Īs princesses of Sparta, Helen and Klytemnestra have known nothing but luxury and plenty. ![]() a remarkable, thrilling debut’ – Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenueįor millennia, two women have been blamed for the fall of a mighty civilisation – but now it’s time to hear their side of the story. ![]() ![]() ![]() No longer able or willing to leave her home, where she is cared for by her long-suffering sister Griselda, Agnes has committed her life to the one thing she can do-besides eat. The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow is the story of an unusual woman, Agnes Sparrow. The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow is her first published novel. She currently lives in Havertown, Pennsylvania. She enjoys baseball, football, cream soda, and needle arts but not elevators. Joyce leads a small fiction group called Stor圜rafters. She has three children, Rebekah, Emily, and Adam one grandson, Lemuel Earnest one son-in-law, Joshua, and a neurotic parakeet who can’t seem to keep a name. She is a frequent workshop leader at various writer’s conferences and women’s church groups. Joyce attended Bryn Mawr College and is a member of the Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Fellowship. ![]() She has been published in such magazines as Relief Journal, Parents Express, Sunday Digest, and Highlights for Children. ![]() ![]() She co-authored the book, Linked to Someone in Pain. Joyce Magnin is the author of short fiction and personal experience articles. The Call Of Zulina by Kay Marshall Strom.One Imperfect Christmas by Myra Johnson.The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow by Joyce Magnin. ![]() |