(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Catalog Search Results
Description
CBC news magazine "The Hour" brings us captivating stories about people who have made a difference in our world: James Orbinski, the founder of Doctors Without Borders, former UN commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, and the riveting story of Master Corporal Paul Franklin, to name a few. Featuring interviews with Louise Arbour, Master Corporal Paul Franklin, Andrew Young, Julio Montaner, John Bul Dau, James Orbinski, Princess Zulu, Ramin Jahanbegloo,...
Author
Description
""She is one of the most beautiful proofs of that which a woman, without any other aid than her own free will and character, without any other power than that of her purpose and its uprightness...can effect in society." So wrote a contemporary Swedish novelist of Dorothea Dix, one of America's first and foremost women achievers. In an era when "ladies" did not mix in politics she single-handedly paved the way for far-reaching reform in the treatment...
Author
Description
Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher and spellbinding singer who dazzled listeners with her wit and originality. Straight talking and unsentimental, Truth became a national symbol for strong black women - indeed, for all strong women. Like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass, she is regarded as a radical of immense and enduring influence; yet unlike them, what is remembered of her consists...
Author
Description
This reference for scholars, journalists, and the general reader contains short biographies of more than 285 American social leaders and activists from colonial times to the present. The alphabetically arranged entries profile activists such as Oneida commune founder John Humphrey Noyes, Indian rights leader John Echohawk, folk singer Joan Baez, and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.
Author
Description
"This book examines the lives and careers of four American women - Sophonisba Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, Katharine Bement Davis, and Frances Kellor - who played decisive roles in early-twentieth-century reform crusades. Breckinridge and Abbott used their educations in political science and political economy to expose the tragic conditions endured by the urban poor. Davis became the first superintendent of the New York State Reformatory at Bedford...
Author
Description
The Canadian teenager travels to Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Thailand to investigate child labor and abuse.
"In April 1995, twelve-year-old Craig Kielburger opened the daily paper and began to search for the comics page, as usual. But that day, his morning ritual was interrupted when an article about a boy his own age caught his eye." "It was the story of a Pakistani child who, at the age of four, was sold into slavery by his parents....
Author
Description
"Regionally distinct yet influenced by national trends, women's progressive culture in Texas offers a valuable opportunity to analyze the evolution of women's voluntary associations, their challenges to southern conventions of race and class, and their quest for social change and political power."--BOOK JACKET. "Judith McArthur makes an important and accessible contribution to the study of women's activism by tracing in detail how general concerns...
Author
Description
A work of biography and social history, this book illuminates a lost chapter in American and women's history: how Jessie Daniel Ames and the campaign against lynching that she led, fused the causes of social feminism and racial justice in the south during the 1920s and 1930s. Many southern suffragists shared the dominant prejudices of their time: many white suffragists gained support by claiming that the women's vote would help maintain social control...
Author
Description
Man's Better Angels explores the ideas that influenced antebellum reform efforts in the United States, especially after the social, political, and economic shocks the country suffered after the Panic of 1837 ... Gura uses seven individuals--George Ripley, Horace Greeley, William B. Greene, Orson Squire Fowler, Mary Gove Nichols, Henry David Thoreau, and John Brown--to explore the finally futile efforts of antebellum reformers to apply their solutions...
Author
Description
Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This biography, covering the first half of Addams's life, reveals in detail her development as a political activist and social philosopher--we observe the powerful mind of a woman encountering the radical ideas of her age. Addams, a child of a wealthy family, longed for a life of larger purpose. After receiving an inheritance, she moved to Chicago in 1889 to co-found Hull House,...
Author
Description
In her long life, Annie Besant embraced political, religious, and social causes with equal conviction and sincerity, courting ridicule and controversy by actively promoting unpopular ideas. At 26 she fled the shelter of marriage to an Anglican clergyman and renounced her religious upbringing by joining the National Secular Society. Under the influence of its president, Charles Bradlaugh, she wrote and lectured for the cause of Freethought, and in...
19) The progressives
Author
Description
Margaret Sanger went to jail in 1917 for distributing contraceptives to immigrant women in a makeshift clinic in Brooklyn. She died a half-century later, just after the Supreme Court guaranteed constitutional protection for the use of contraceptives. Now, Ellen Chesler provides the first authoritative biography of this great emancipator, whose lifelong struggle helped women gain control over their own bodies. An idealist who mastered practical politics,...
In ILL
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by San Antonio College Library can be requested from other ILL libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request