Lion Womans Legacy

Author : Arlene Voski Avakian
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558619364
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lion Woman's Legacy written by Arlene Voski Avakian and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “vivid and engrossing” narrative of one woman’s journey from shame and internal conflict to becoming a liberated, confident, and proud lesbian (Kirkus Reviews). The descendant of survivors of the Armenian genocide, Arlene Avakian was raised in America where she could live free. But even with that freedom, she found herself a prisoner of both her family and society, denying her heritage along with her true sexuality. After marriage and motherhood, Arlene found herself exploring the growing women’s lib movement of the 1970s, coming to embrace the strength of her grandmother—known as the Lion Woman—and realizing her full potential and personhood. Inspired by her passionate feminism and strengthened by a loving lesbian relationship, Avakian recollects and re-examines her personal history and the story of her courageous grandmother, revealing a legacy of radical politics, fierce independence, and a powerful affirmation of ethnic identity in this “extremely readable and often painfully honest book” (Library Journal).

Author : Harry Harootunian
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478007028
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unspoken as Heritage written by Harry Harootunian and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1910s historian Harry Harootunian's parents Ohannes and Vehanush escaped the mass slaughter of the Armenian genocide, making their way to France, where they first met, before settling in suburban Detroit. Although his parents rarely spoke of their families and the horrors they survived, the genocide and their parents' silence about it was a permanent backdrop to the Harootunian children's upbringing. In The Unspoken as Heritage Harootunian—for the first time in his distinguished career—turns to his personal life and family heritage to explore the genocide's multigenerational afterlives that remain at the heart of the Armenian diaspora. Drawing on novels, anecdotes, and reports, Harootunian presents a composite sketch of the everyday life of his parents, from their childhood in East Anatolia to the difficulty of making new lives in the United States. A meditation on loss, inheritance, and survival—in which Harootunian attempts to come to terms with a history that is just beyond his reach—The Unspoken as Heritage demonstrates how the genocidal past never leaves the present, even in its silence.

Author : John Howard Steel
Publisher : Last Leaf Press
ISBN 13 : 9781733430722
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Caged Lion: Joseph Pilates and His Legacy written by John Howard Steel and published by Last Leaf Press. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising story of Pilates-the man and the method.

Author : James Lowry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000644502
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disputed Archival Heritage written by James Lowry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disputed Archival Heritage brings important new perspectives into the discourse on displaced archives. In contrast to shared or joint heritage framings, the book considers the implications of force, violence and loss in the displacement of archival heritage. With chapters from established and emerging scholars in archival studies, Disputed Archival Heritage extends and enriches the conversation that started with the earlier volume, Displaced Archives. Advancing novel theories and methods for understanding disputes and claims over archives, the volume includes chapters that focus on Indigenous records in settler colonial states; literary and community archives; sub-national and private sector displacements; successes in repatriating formerly displaced archives; comparisons with cultural objects seized by colonial powers and the relationship between repatriation and reparations. Analysing key concepts such as joint heritage and provenance, the contributors unsettle Western understandings of records, place and ownership. Disputed Archival Heritage speaks to the growing interest in shared archival heritage, repatriation of cultural artefacts and cultural diasporas. As such, it will be a useful resource for academics, students and practitioners working in the field of archives, records and information management, as well as cultural property and heritage management, peace and conflict studies and international law.

Author : Margaret DiCanio
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595238653
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory Fragments from the Armenian Genocide written by Margaret DiCanio and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory Fragments from the Armenian Genocide: A Mosaic of a Shared Heritage brings together thirty profiles of North Americans of Armenian descent. All exemplify the philosophy that “doing well is doing good,” a credo handed down to them by family members who lost everything when they fled from the Turkish massacres. Family stories of how survivors escaped, survived, and made new lives are filtered through the memories of succeeding generations. The profiles reflect how the actions of the survivors shaped the lives of succeeding generations. Armenian immigrants feared their heritage might be lost in North America. Their fears proved to be unfounded. Children and grandchildren retain the culture passed on to them. At the same time, they hold dear the values of the New World that enabled their families to live free of political repression. While details of their daily lives differ, most of those profiled share a reverence for education. In the New World, they flourish as intellectuals, artists, teachers, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, thereby filling leadership roles decimated by Turks early in their campaign to wipe out the Armenians. By making the most of their talents, they do homage to those who sacrificed so much.

Author : Kyle Keiderling
Publisher : Morning Star Books
ISBN 13 : 9780977899685
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heart of a Lion written by Kyle Keiderling and published by Morning Star Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 4th, 1990 Hank Gathers, the leading candidate for college basketball's player of the year award, fell to the court at Gersten Pavilion on the campus of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Within minutes the man who had led the nation in s

Author : Hülya Adak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429665660
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Approaches to Genocide written by Hülya Adak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of genocide has been appropriate in emphasizing the centrality of the Holocaust; yet, other preceding episodes of mass violence are of great significance. Taking a transnational and transhistorical approach, this volume redresses and replaces the silencing of the Armenian Genocide. Scholarship relating to the history of denial, comparative approaches in the deportations and killings of Greeks and Armenians during the First World War, and women’s histories during the genocide and post-genocide proliferated during the centennial of the Armenian Genocide in 2015. Collectively, however, these studies have not been enough to offer a comprehensive account of the historical record, documentation, and interpretation of events during 1915-1916. This study seeks to bridge the gap, by unsettling nationalist narratives and addressing areas such as aesthetics, gender, and sexuality. By bringing forward various dimensions of the human experience, including the political, socioeconomic, cultural, social, gendered, and legal contexts within which such silencing occurred, the essays address the methodological silences and processes of selectivity and exclusion in scholarship on the Armenian Genocide. The interdisciplinary approach makes Critical Approaches to Genocide a useful resource for all students and scholars interested in the Armenian Genocide and memory studies.

Author : Maxine S. Seller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438419414
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Women written by Maxine S. Seller and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrant Women combines memoirs, diaries, oral history, and fiction to present an authentic and emotionally compelling record of women's struggles to build new lives in a new land. This new edition has been expanded to include additional material on recent Asian and Hispanic immigration and an updated bibliography.

Author : Ayşe Gül Altınay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317129679
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories written by Ayşe Gül Altınay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century has been a century of wars, genocides and violent political conflict; a century of militarization and massive destruction. It has simultaneously been a century of feminist creativity and struggle worldwide, witnessing fundamental changes in the conceptions and everyday practices of gender and sexuality. What are some of the connections between these two seemingly disparate characteristics of the past century? And how do collective memories figure into these connections? Exploring the ways in which wars and their memories are gendered, this book contributes to the feminist search for new words and new methods in understanding the intricacies of war and memory. From the Italian and Spanish Civil Wars to military regimes in Turkey and Greece, from the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust to the wars in Abhazia, East Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan, former Yugoslavia, Israel and Palestine, the chapters in this book address a rare selection of contexts and geographies from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. In recent years, feminist scholarship has fundamentally changed the ways in which pasts, particularly violent pasts, have been conceptualized and narrated. Discussing the participation of women in war, sexual violence in times of conflict, the use of visual and dramatic representations in memory research, and the creative challenges to research and writing posed by feminist scholarship, Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories will appeal to scholars working at the intersection of military/war, memory, and gender studies, seeking to chart this emerging territory with ’feminist curiosity’.

Author : Suzanne Barclay
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459275179
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lion's Legacy written by Suzanne Barclay and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revenge Ran Hot In Kieran Sutherland's Veins For the betrayal of his clan had driven him to denounce love for war—until he met the Lady Laurel. A Highland witch in chain mail who had the power to inflame him with a need more urgent than any cry to battle! Her Visions Had Foretold The Coming Of A Proud And Powerful Knight And Laurel knew that Kieran Sutherland was indeed a warrior to be feared. Yet she also knew of the loneliness that scarred his soul and that Destiny had called on her to heal his wounded heart. "Lion's Legacy is absolutely captivating." —The Medieval Chronicle