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“wendy rouse”

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  • Public Faces, Secret Lives

    A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement

    by Wendy L. Rouse ...
    **Honorable Mention for the 2023 Francis Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize2023 Judy Grahn Award-Publishing Triangle FinalistRestores queer suffragists to their rightful place in the history of the struggle for women’s right to vote**The women’s suffrage movement, much like many other civil rights movements, has an important and often unrecognized queer history. In Public Faces, Secret Lives Wendy L. ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

  • Her Own Hero

    The Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement

    by Wendy L Rouse ...
    This innovative history reveals the untold story of the women's self-defense movement and its origins in the Progressive Era.In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women began taking up boxing and jiu-jitsu in record numbers. The new trend was both a reflection of and a response to the broader cultural issues of the time, including the women's rights movement and the campaign for ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Children of Chinatown

    Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920

    by Wendy Rouse ...
    Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation.Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families — and particularly children — played important roles in its daily ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • A Spiritual Handbook for the Modern Era

    by Kate Rouse, Wendy Blake ...
    A Spiritual Handbook for the Modern Era is a handbook for life, providing spiritual sustenance and guidance for anyone searching for meaning or requiring assistance in times of trouble or confusion. It explores life stages and common difficulties that may arise at these times, offering discernment on coping with such diverse areas as bullying, pregnancy termination, depression and ageing.In later ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mya meets Elin or Love meets Light

    by Kate Rouse, Wendy Blake ...
    Mya meets Elin or Love meets Light is a spiritually inspired novel for young people aged 14 and up. Kate Rouse wanted to share ideas from her previous book, A Spiritual Handbook for the Modern Era, in a readable and memorable form which would appeal to a younger audience.Mya is a 14-year-old girl who is experiencing bullying at school. She meets Elin, a lovely, wise woman, in the forest near her ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese American Death Rituals

    Respecting the Ancestors

    by Terry Abraham, Paul G. Chace, Sue Fawn Chung, Linda Sun Crowder, Fred P. Frampton, Roberta S. Greenwood, Timothy W. Murphy, Reiko Neizman, Wendy L. Rouse0 ...
    Death is a topic that has fascinated people for centuries. In the English-speaking world, eulogies in poetic form could be traced back to the 1640s, but gained prominence with the "graveyard school" of poets in the eighteenth century often stressing the finality of death. Chinese American Death Rituals examines Chinese American funerary rituals and cemeteries from the late nineteenth century until ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

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  • To Believe in Women

    What Lesbians Have Done For America - A History

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    A unique and "often quite moving" look at gay women's role in US history ( The Washington Post).In this "essential and impassioned addition to American history," the three-time Lambda Literary Award winner and author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers focuses on a select group of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century lesbians who were in the forefront of the battle to procure the rights and ... Read more

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  • True Sex

    The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

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  • Intimate Matters

    A History of Sexuality in America

    by John D'Emilio, Estelle B. Freedman ...
    "Fascinating . . . chart[s] a gradual but decisive shift in the way Americans have understood sex and its meaning in their lives." — New York Times Book ReviewThe first full length study of the history of sexuality in America , Intimate Matters offers trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans, from colonial times to today. D'Emilio and Freedman give us a deeper understanding of how ... Read more

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  • Women Who Kill

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  • Female Husbands

    A Trans History

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    Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as ... Read more

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