Wheels Of Her Own

Author : Carla R. Lesh
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476672776
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wheels of Her Own written by Carla R. Lesh and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-04-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women used automobiles as soon as they had access to them. Black, Indigenous, and White American women utilized the automobile to improve their quality of life and achieve greater freedom. These women shared unique concerns and common aims as they negotiated their way through a time when advocacy for social change was undergoing a resurgence. The years that brought the automobile to the United States, 1893-1929, also brought increased legal and social restrictions based on racism and gender stereotypes. For women the automobile was a useful tool as they worked to improve their quality of life. The automobile provided a means for Black, Indigenous, and White women to pull away from limitations and work toward greater freedom. Exploring these key issues and more, this book is a history and social exploration of women and the automobile during the early automotive era.

Author : Debra Shirley
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807592366
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Friend on Wheels written by Debra Shirley and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In second grade, Mrs. Poole asks our narrator to show the new girl around school. Imagine the surprise when our narrator first meets Sarah—Sarah uses a wheelchair! For a moment, our narrator feels awkward.

Author : Robert Thurston
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425058206
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Set of Wheels written by Robert Thurston and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1983 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sue Macy
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426328559
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wheels of Change written by Sue Macy and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the role the bicycle played in the women's liberation movement.

Author : Shirley Kaufman
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1556593074
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ezekiel's Wheels written by Shirley Kaufman and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Progressive, passionate, and unfailingly feminist, Kaufman is a breathtakingly fine poet."--The Nation "If someone is going to be exalted as a representative voice of Jewish or Israeli life in contemporary American poetry, one couldn't ask for a more insightful or mature writer to assume such an impossible role."--The Jerusalem Post "Kaufman approaches Jerusalem's bitter memories, contested histories and joyous unfoldings with a wary love."--Publishers Weekly Shirley Kaufman utilizes enigmatic symbolism from the Book of Ezekiel as she writes into the themes of exile and emigration that have marked her work since she moved to Israel thirty-six years ago. Her new poems attempt to bring meaning to an irrational world--the unrelenting passage of human life, the risks of artistic endeavoring, and the artist's struggle with the loss of sight and memory. After nearly four decades of writing and publishing, Kaufman maintains a lightness of touch even while her poetry takes on an increased awareness of danger and urgency. . . . I don't want to look back but can't see ahead from where I am now and now is whatever I didn't do yesterday. Not what I live in. Now is the fear there won't be anything after now. Shirley Kaufman was born in Seattle, lived in San Francisco, and immigrated to Jerusalem in 1973. Eight volumes of her award-winning poetry have been published in the United States, three by Copper Canyon Press. She lives in Jerusalem, Israel.

Author : Amy Snyder
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1617495190
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell on Two Wheels written by Amy Snyder and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contestants have died, been maimed, and spiraled down into the nightmarish realm of madness. Half of them don't finish--in fact, only 200 racers have ever made it to the end. "Outside" magazine calls it "the toughest test of endurance in the world." RAAM (the Race Across America) is a bicycle race like no other. This epic race is the most brutal organized sporting event you've never heard of and one of the best-kept secrets in the sports world. Author Amy Snyder follows a handful of athletes before, during, and after the 2009 event, the closest and most controversial in history. "Hell on Two Wheels" is a thrilling and remarkably detailed account of their ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies. By experiencing the race from the perspective of the racers themselves, "Hell on Two Wheels" breaks new ground in helping us appreciate how such a grueling effort can be so cleansing and self-revelatory. This is more than just a race; it's a monster, a crucible, an unforgettable allegory about the human experience of pain and joy and self-discovery.

Author : Robert Jordan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312850093
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eye of the World written by Robert Jordan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990-01-15 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wheel of Times turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, and Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Author : April Jones Prince
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618563074
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Do Wheels Do All Day? written by April Jones Prince and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weels push, race, stroll, fly, whiz, and spin all day long.

Author : Mary Ann Hoberman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780316162708
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wheels on the Bus written by Mary Ann Hoberman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gelya Frank
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520922358
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venus on Wheels written by Gelya Frank and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-05-30 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1976 Gelya Frank began writing about the life of Diane DeVries, a woman born with all the physical and mental equipment she would need to live in our society--except arms and legs. Frank was 28 years old, DeVries 26. This remarkable book--by turns moving, funny, and revelatory--records the relationship that developed between the women over the next twenty years. An empathic listener and participant in DeVries's life, and a scholar of the feminist and disability rights movements, Frank argues that Diane DeVries is a perfect example of an American woman coming of age in the second half of the twentieth century. By addressing the dynamics of power in ethnographic representation, Frank--anthropology's leading expert on life history and life story methods--lays the critical groundwork for a new genre, "cultural biography." Challenged to examine the cultural sources of her initial image of DeVries as limited and flawed, Frank discovers that DeVries is gutsy, buoyant, sexy--and definitely not a victim. While she analyzes the portrayal of women with disabilities in popular culture--from limbless circus performers to suicidal heroines on the TV news--Frank's encounters with DeVries lead her to come to terms with her own "invisible disabilities" motivating the study. Drawing on anthropology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, law, and the history of medicine, Venus on Wheels is an intellectual tour de force.