Tag: Ladies

Free Download Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, "Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia"
English | ISBN: 0801453836 | 2015 | 328 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In Chariots of Ladies, Nuria Silleras-Fernandez traces the development of devotion and female piety among the Iberian aristocracy from the late Middle Ages into the Golden Age, and from Catalonia to the rest of Iberia and Europe via the rise of the Franciscan Observant movement. A program of piety and morality devised by Francesc Eiximenis, a Franciscan theologian, royal counselor, and writer in Catalonia in the 1390s, came to characterize the feminine ideal in the highest circles of the Iberian aristocracy in the era of the Empire. As Eiximenis’s work was adapted and translated into Castilian over the century and a half that followed, it became a model of devotion and conduct for queens and princesses, including Isabel the Catholic and her descendants, who ruled over Portugal and the Spanish Empire of the Hapsburgs.

Free Download Debbie Z. Harwell, "Wednesdays in Mississippi: Proper Ladies Working for Radical Change, Freedom Summer 1964"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1496807952, 1628460954 | EPUB | pages: 257 | 0.5 mb
As tensions mounted before Freedom Summer, one organization tackled the divide by opening lines of communication at the request of local women: Wednesdays in Mississippi (WIMS). Employing an unusual and deliberately feminine approach, WIMS brought interracial, interfaith teams of northern middle-aged, middle- and upper-class women to Mississippi to meet with their southern counterparts. Sponsored by the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), WIMS operated on the belief that the northern participants’ gender, age, and class would serve as an entrée to southerners who had dismissed other civil rights activists as radicals. The WIMS teams’ respectable appearance and quiet approach enabled them to build understanding across race, region, and religion where other overtures had failed.

Free Download The Ladies Rewrite the Rules by Suzanne Allain
English | January 9, 2024 | ISBN: 0593549643 | True EPUB | 272 pages | 2.5 MB
From the author of Mr. Malcolm’s List comes a delightful romantic comedy set in Regency England about a widow who takes high society by storm.

Free Download The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson
English | 18 July 2024 | ISBN: 1526670232, 1984801317 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 1.3 MB
A timeless comedy of manners-refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside-about a generation of young women facing the seismic changes brought on by war and dreaming of the boundless possibilities of their future, from the bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand

Free Download Tarini Bedi, "The Dashing Ladies of Shiv Sena: Political Matronage in Urbanizing India"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1438460309 | EPUB | pages: 318 | 0.9 mb
Explores the activities and political personas of women activists in Shiv Sena, a militant Indian political party.

Free Download Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure By Amanda Adams
2010 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1553654331 | EPUB | 4 MB
The first women archaeologists were Victorian era adventurers who felt most at home when farthest from it. Canvas tents were their domains, hot Middle Eastern deserts their gardens of inquiry and labor. Thanks to them, prevailing ideas about feminine nature – soft, nurturing, submissive – were upended. Ladies of the Field tells the story of seven remarkable women, each a pioneering archaeologist, each headstrong, smart, and courageous, who burst into what was then a very young science. Amanda Adams takes us with them as they hack away at underbrush under a blazing sun, battle swarms of biting bugs, travel on camelback for weeks on end, and feel the excitement of unearthing history at an archaeological site. Adams also reveals the dreams of these extraordinary women, their love of the field, their passion for holding the past in their hands, their fascination with human origins, and their utter disregard for convention.

Free Download Lesley Poling-Kempes, "Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest"
English | ISBN: 0816524947 | 2015 | 384 pages | AZW3 | 7 MB
WILLA Literary Award, 2016Reading the West Book Award for Nonfiction, MPIBASilver Medal, US History, 2016 IPPY AwardsWestern Writers of America Spur Award finalistLadies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world.

Free Download First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C74WT14W | 2024 | 8 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 244 MB
Author: Nadirah Simmons
Narrator: Nadirah Simmons
This enlightening book reframes the history of hip-hop-and this time, women are given credit for all their trailblazing achievements that have left an undeniable impact on music. FIRST THINGS FIRST, hip-hop is not just the music, and women have played a big role in shaping the way it looks today. FIRST THINGS FIRST takes listeners on a journey through some notable firsts by women in hip-hop history and their importance. Factual firsts like Queen Latifah becoming the first rapper to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Lauryn Hill making history as the first rapper to win the coveted Album of the Year Award at the GRAMMYs, April Walker being the first woman to dominate in the hip-hop fashion game, and Da Brat being the first solo woman rapper to have an album go platinum, and metaphorical firsts like Missy Elliott being the first woman rapper to go to the future. (Trust me, she really did.) There are chapters on music legends like Nicki Minaj, Lil’ Kim and Mary J. Blige, tv and radio hosts like Big Lez and Angie Martinez, and so many more ladies I would name but I don’t want to spoil the book! Altogether, FIRST THINGS FIRST is a celebration of the achievements of women in hip-hop who broke down barriers and broke the mold. So the next time someone doesn’t have their facts straight on the ladies in hip-hop, you can hit them with "first things first"…

Free Download Three Ladies, Three Medals
by Monica Centanni
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9789042948082 | 113 Pages | True PDF | 1.25 MB

Free Download The Book of the City of Ladies By Christine de Pizan, Rosalind Brown-Grant (transl.)
1999 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0140446893 | EPUB | 2 MB
Translated and with an introduction and notes by Rosalind Brown-Grant.Christine de Pizan (c.1364-1430) was France’s first professional woman of letters. Her pioneering ‘Book of the City of Ladies’ begins when, feeling frustrated and miserable after reading a male writer’s tirade against women, Christine has a dreamlike vision where three virtues – Reason, Rectitude and Justice – appear to correct this view. They instruct her to build an allegorical city in which womankind can be defended against slander, its walls and towers constructed from examples of female achievement both from her own day and the past: ranging from warriors, inventors and scholars to prophetesses, artists and saints. Christine de Pizan’s spirited defence of her sex was unique for its direct confrontation of the misogyny of her day, and offers a telling insight into the position of women in medieval culture.