The Littlejohn Libel Suit

The Littlejohn Libel Suit
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Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : OSU:32437121954495
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Synopsis The Littlejohn Libel Suit by : De Witt Clinton Littlejohn

Greenley is accused of having published malicious and wicked libels against the character of Mr. Littlejohn in the New-York Tribune.

A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema

A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 604
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ISBN-10 : 0822329999
ISBN-13 : 9780822329992
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema by : Jennifer M. Bean

A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates over visuality and identification, authorship, stardom, and nationalist ideologies in cinema and media studies. Drawing extensively on archival research, the collection yields startling accounts of women's multiple roles as early producers, directors, writers, stars, and viewers. It also engages urgent questions about cinema's capacity for presenting a stable visual field, often at the expense of racially, sexually, or class-marked bodies. While fostering new ways of thinking about film history, A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema illuminates the many questions that the concept of "early cinema" itself raises about the relation of gender to modernism, representation, and technologies of the body. The contributors bring a number of disciplinary frameworks to bear, including not only film studies but also postcolonial studies, dance scholarship, literary analysis, philosophies of the body, and theories regarding modernism and postmodernism. Reflecting the stimulating diversity of early cinematic styles, technologies, and narrative forms, essays address a range of topics—from the dangerous sexuality of the urban flâneuse to the childlike femininity exemplified by Mary Pickford, from the Shanghai film industry to Italian diva films—looking along the way at birth-control sensation films, French crime serials, "war actualities," and the stylistic influence of art deco. Recurring throughout the volume is the protean figure of the New Woman, alternately garbed as childish tomboy, athletic star, enigmatic vamp, languid diva, working girl, kinetic flapper, and primitive exotic. Contributors. Constance Balides, Jennifer M. Bean, Kristine Butler, Mary Ann Doane, Lucy Fischer, Jane Gaines, Amelie Hastie, Sumiko Higashi, Lori Landay, Anne Morey, Diane Negra, Catherine Russell, Siobhan B. Somerville, Shelley Stamp, Gaylyn Studlar, Angela Dalle Vacche, Radha Vatsal, Kristen Whissel, Patricia White, Zhang Zhen

Legal Executions in New England

Legal Executions in New England
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 453
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ISBN-10 : 9781476608532
ISBN-13 : 1476608539
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Legal Executions in New England by : Daniel Allen Hearn

Between 1623 and 1960 (the date of the last execution as of 1999), Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont legally put to death more than 700 men and women for a wide variety of capital crimes ranging from army desertion to murder. This is a companion volume to Legal Executions in New York State and Legal Executions in New Jersey, both published by McFarland. It is comprised of chronologically arranged biographical entries for the executed persons. Each entry gives personal data on the executed person, including age, ethnicity, and gender, as well as a detailed account of the crime for which he or she was sentenced to death and information on the place and method of execution. Fully indexed.

All that Fits a Woman

All that Fits a Woman
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Publisher : Mercer University Press
Total Pages : 330
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ISBN-10 : 0865546681
ISBN-13 : 9780865546684
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis All that Fits a Woman by : T. Laine Scales

All That Fits a Woman: Training Southern Baptist Women for Charity and Mission, 1907-1926 is a detailed, well-researched and well-written account of the lives of women missionaries and others associated with the Women's Missionary Union Training School in Louisville, Kentucky. It includes case studies of individual women, and careful description and analysis of curriculum and architecture and material culture. The Woman's Missionary Union Training School provided enormous educational opportunities for Southern Baptist women, while ensuring that they would study and serve within limits defined for them by male seminary faculty and by women leaders of the WMU. This history offers a critical view from a feminist theoretical perspective, focusing on the subtle forms of teaching that have been used and are still used today to exclude Southern Baptist women from the preaching ministry and from leadership within the denomination. This timely work resonates with current issues as Southern Baptists continue to draw national attention for their stance on submission of women to male authority. All That Fits a Woman will prove a major resource for students of women's history and religious history, especially Protestantism.

Keylee’s Grand-Slam

Keylee’s Grand-Slam
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Publisher : Boro Publishing, LLC
Total Pages : 175
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Synopsis Keylee’s Grand-Slam by : Joey Dolton

“Kaylee’s Grand Slam”, a story of determination and defiance in the world of professional baseball. Kaylee’s lifelong dream of playing baseball becomes reality when she joins the MLB as the first female player. However, her path is fraught with challenges as she confronts misogyny from teammates and the team owner, Mr. Mock. Facing threats to her career, Kaylee must navigate a dangerous game off the field, including a sinister plot to disrupt her beloved team, the Red Hawkes. With the help of sports reporter Ed Oakley, Kaylee fights back against injustice and fights to reclaim her rightful place in the game. Will she triumph against the odds and hit her own grand slam? Find out for yourself in “Kaylee’s Grand Slam” today!

The Brainerd Journal

The Brainerd Journal
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 632
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ISBN-10 : 0803237189
ISBN-13 : 9780803237186
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The Brainerd Journal by : Joyce B. Phillips

The journal of the Brainerd Mission is an indispensable source for understanding Cherokee culture and history during the early nineteenth century. The interdenominational mission was located in the heart of Cherokee country near present-day Chattanooga. For seven years the Brainerd missionaries kept a journal describing their lives and those of their charges. Although the journal has long been recognized as a significant primary document, it was not fully transcribed or made widely available until now. The journal entries provide a richly textured and sensitive look at Cherokee life and American missionary activities during the early nineteenth century. They shed new light on the daily lives and personalities of individual Cherokees, as well as on poorly understood aspects of Cherokee politics and religion. The journal provides interesting ethnographic details concerning Cherokee council meetings, ceremonial occasions, gender relations, and the internal social and political tensions among families. Of equal interest are the complex and often conflicted attitudes of the missionaries, who were interested in Cherokee traditional culture but simultaneously worked to change it.