Purses and bags have always been much more than a fashion accessory. For generations of Americans, the purse has been an essential and highly adaptable object, used to achieve a host of social, cultural, and political objectives. In the early 1800s, when the slim fit of neoclassical dresses made interior pockets impractical, upper-class women began to carry small purses called reticules, which provided them with a private place in a world where they did not have equal access toÂpublicÂspace. Although many items of apparel have long expressed their wearer's aspirations, only the purse has offered carriers privacy, pride, and pleasure. This privacy has been particularly important for those who have faced discrimination because of their gender, class, race, citizenship, or sexuality. The Things She CarriedÂ reveals how bags, sacks, and purses provided the methods and materials for Americans' activism, allowing carriers to transgress critical boundaries at key moments. It explores how enslaved people used purses and bags when attempting to escape and immigrant factory workers fought to protect their purses in the workplace. It also probes the purse's nuanced functions for Black women in the civil rights movement and explores how LGBTQ people used purses to defend their bodies and make declarations about their sexuality. Kathleen Casey closely examines a variety of sources--from vintage purses found in abandoned buildings and museum collections to advertisements, photograph albums, trade journals, newspaper columns, and trial transcripts. She finds purses in use at fraught historical moments,Âwhere theyÂserved strategic and symbolic functions for their users. The result is a thorough and surprising examination of an object that both ordinary and extraordinary Americans used to influence social, cultural, economic, and political change.

The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America

History

Casey, Kathleen

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Oxford University Press

Recounts the experiences of contemporary women teachers working for social change in three distinct areas: Catholic nuns in social justice ministry, Jewish women in inner-city schools and black women working to promote racial minorities.

I Answer With My Life: Life Histories of Women Teachers Working for Social Change (Critical Social Thought)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Book by Fritz, Mengert, Casey, Kathleen, Liston, Delores, Purpel, David, Shapiro, H. Svi

The Institution of Education

Shapiro, H. Svi

Purpel, David

Fritz, Mengert

Liston, Delores

Pearson Custom Pub.

Meal Stories: The Gospel of Our Lives

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Thomas More Pr

Menu Guide Seattle

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Hablutzel, Mike

Regional & International

Sound Pub

Menu Guide - Seattle

Hohenstein, Julie

Menu Guide - Portlands Best Restaurants

Travel

Food, Lodging & Transportation

I Answer with My Life: Life Histories of Women Teachers Working for Social Change (Routledge Library Editions: Education and Gender)

Originally published in 1993. This book shows, through the oral histories of ordinary women teachers, that effective prescriptions for change do not come simply from policy-makers. The author focuses on the narratives of three groups of teachers in the USA: Catholic nuns; secular Jewish women; and Black women. For each of these the individual teachers’ narratives have been examined for constructions common to the group and these patterns are assembled into a discourse. Teachers’ self-identities are considered, as are their assessments of the institutions in which they have worked, and their relationships with the pupils. The text examines how the social role of the teacher is constructed by the lives of these women. Incorporating this perspective of diversity into the educational debate, this book argues that these less dominant but important voices shouldn’t be ignored.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Originally published in 1993. This book shows, through the oral histories of ordinary women teachers, that effective prescriptions for change do not come simply from policy-makers. The author focuses on the narratives of three groups of teachers in the USA: Catholic nuns; secular Jewish women; and Black women. For each of these the individual teachers’ narratives have been examined for constructions common to the group and these patterns are assembled into a discourse. Teachers’ self-identities are considered, as are their assessments of the institutions in which they have worked, and their relationships with the pupils. The text examines how the social role of the teacher is constructed by the lives of these women. Incorporating this perspective of diversity into the educational debate, this book argues that these less dominant but important voices shouldn’t be ignored.

Sociology

Thirteen reflections, each with scripture, a meditation activity &amp; meditation questions, offer us the chance to explore the gifts of Sabbath.

Sabbath Presence: Appreciating the Gifts of Each Day

Ave Maria Press

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