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Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo

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by: Margot Mifflin

May 17, 2001
I bought this book having read the other good reviews on Amazon and I have found it very useful. I am currently writing a creative piece concerning women and tattoos and this book is intelligent, thought-provoking and surprising. It is full of personal stories from women that I have found invaluable for my work. It is particularly strong on the history of women-as-tattooists and is full of good photographs. I would recommend this book to anyone who has any kind of interest in the subject.

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The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England (Yale Nota Bene)

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by: A Vickery

November 14, 2003
Many books can be found outlining Georgian political history and more than one biography has been written on Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, but the everyday lives of genteel women have had less attention. In this book, Vickery uses surviving letters, diaries, accounts and pocketbooks of a selection of Georgian women living genteel lives in Northern England. I found the book interesting, but fairly heavy going in places. Any modern woman reading the chapter on childbirth will be glad to live in the current age! This is a good insight into everyday life and the role and functions of women within society. However, the type in my copy I found to be quite small, and so a little hard on the eyes. Chapters are also quite long with few breaks ... Read More:

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Burlesque and the New Bump-n-grind

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by: Michelle Baldwin

June 01, 2004
this book is like a box of expensive chocolates, each page is a delight. i was totally over the moon with this book, as an owner of many many books on the suject i wondered if i needed another one but this is a really beautiful, delightful read, a great exploration of nouveaux burlesque. Its also nice to see so many lovely british performers flying the flag too! great

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Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-45

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by: Margaret Collins Weitz

March 16, 1998
'Sisters in the Resistance...' is by all accounts a wonderful historical documentation. Although, as the previous reviewer commented, the author's conclusions are lacking, the depth and number of different historical accounts makes up for this. Unlike many dry historical tomes, Weitz's work offers a personal perspective allowing the reader to relate to what these women went through, yet at the same time leaving one open to one's own interpretations and emotional connections.

The book documents different aspects of these women's lives through different chapter headings: for example the idea of being in love in the Resistance, Family ties during this time. This splits the narratives into a logical order and makes for easier reading.
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Celia, a Slave: A True Story

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by: Melton McLaurin

December 31, 1998
I Bought this book after seeking to know more about African history,
enslavement and the effects it had on society,
and it is a very sad but also inspiring story about a women who didn't have rights, was expected to please her master at any time he comanded,
and inspiring because her resistance to stand up to her right caused so much controversy and played a part in how the people around newsom farm viewed themselves and slavery.
A must read for all those interested in slavery history, the psychological effect of slavery and societys attitude to cilia's actions.

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A Midwife's Tale: the Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

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from: Vintage Books

1991-06
This is one of the best history books ever written: I first read it about ten years ago when I lived in the States and I've lost count of the times I've dipped back into it since. It's both a wonderful work of scholarship (Ulrich can tell us exactly who's who in Martha's world) and an engaging, well-written story. It also shows, in these days of medicalised childbirth, just how effective a good midwife can be: Martha's stillbirth and neonatal deathrate of about 4% is high by modern standards, but she delivered twins and breeches, had no forceps, no antibiotics, and no recourse to c-section. It's not just about midwifery, though: it's also a social history of a particular society at a particular time, almost an anthropology of the past.

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Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women's History of the World

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by: Rosalind Miles

2001-04
...or at least they didn't teach me this when I was at school way back. I suspect that they still don't. A fascinating account of how women were written out of history, politics, religion - just about everything... Funny, too.

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The British Women's Suffrage Campaign: 1866-1928 (Seminar Studies In History)

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by: Harold Smith

June 14, 2007
The book provides an study of the Women's Suffrage Campaign, which is useful for studying the above topic. However, even though the information provide is useful it is sometimes hard to follow as the order of the book is not chronological but instead by topic. As an historical reference it is good for providing fairly in-depth information. Yet is not that detailed for all readers.

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Penguin Classics)

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by: Mary Wollstonecraft

October 28, 2004
The book provides an study of the Women's Suffrage Campaign, which is useful for studying the above topic. However, even though the information provide is useful it is sometimes hard to follow as the order of the book is not chronological but instead by topic. As an historical reference it is good for providing fairly in-depth information. Yet is not that detailed for all readers.

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The Story of My Life (A Bantam Classic)

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by: Helen. Keller

January 01, 1991
This book is Helen Keller's autobiography and is somewhat unusual because Helen Keller was deafblind. It is beautifully written and although I don't necessary agree with all the conclusions drawn by the author of the introduction, I found the autobiography very moving to read. Much of the time Helen wrote in a way that you would not realise she could neither see nor hear anything around her.

The fact that Miss Keller was not deaf from birth but became deafblind as a very small child following an illness makes her achievements particularly incredible. She had to re-learn her communication skills and this is due in no small part to her teacher and mentor, Annie Sullivan. Miss Keller came from a wealthy family who were prepared to go to endless ... Read More: