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UNINA9910967877303321 |
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Autore |
Sicherman Barbara |
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Titolo |
Well-read lives : how books inspired a generation of American women / / Barbara Sicherman |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010 |
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979-88-9313-336-3 |
979-88-908834-0-7 |
1-4696-0415-9 |
0-8078-9824-4 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Women - Books and reading - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century |
Girls - Books and reading - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century |
Women and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Reading Little women -- Women and the new cultural landscape of the Gilded Age -- Young women's ways of reading -- (Reading as) a family affair : the Hamiltons of Fort Wayne -- Reading and ambition : M. Carey Thomas and female heroism -- Working her way through culture : Jane Addams and literature's dual legacy -- Hull-House as a cultural space -- New books, new lives : Jewish immigrant women, reading, and identity -- With pen and voice : Ida B. Wells, race, literature, and politics. |
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In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, the author offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in Americas Gilded Age who lost and found themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them. Some women, like Edith and Alice Hamilton, M. Carey Thomas, and Jane Addams, grew up in households filled with books, while less privileged women found alternative routes to expressive literacy. Jewish immigrants Hilda Satt Polacheck, Rose Cohen, and Mary Antin acquired new identities in the |
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English-language books they found in settlement houses and libraries, while African Americans like Ida B. Wells relied mainly on institutions of their own creation, even as they sought to develop a literature of their own. It is the author's contribution to show that however the skill of reading was acquired, under the right circumstances, adolescent reading was truly transformative in constructing female identity, stirring imaginations, and fostering ambition. With Little Women's Jo March often serving as a youthful model of independence, girls and young women created communities of learning, imagination, and emotional connection around literary activities in ways that helped them imagine, and later attain, public identities. Reading themselves into quest plots and into male as well as female roles, these young women went on to create an unparalleled record of achievement as intellectuals, educators, and social reformers. This study reveals the centrality of the eras culture of reading and sheds new light on these women's Progressive-Era careers. |
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UNINA9910965274403321 |
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Airborne particulates / / Ming Cheng and Wen Liu, editors |
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New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2009 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (361 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ChengMing <1964-> |
LiuWen <1966-> |
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Air - Pollution - Health aspects |
Aerosols |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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A study on bioreactivity and health effect on inhalable particulates in Beijing China / Longyi Shao ... [et al.] -- Saharan dust and the aerosols on the Canary Islands : past and present / Immaculada Menendez ... [et al.] -- Antimony in airborne particulates : a review on environmental monitoring and potential Sources / Akihiro Iijima, Keiichi Sato, and |
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Naoki Furuta -- Airborne particulate matter in urban areas : a study of the role of reactive oxygen species on the toxic and carcinogenic effects and implications to human health / Athanasios Valavanidis, Konstantinos Fiotaki, and Thomais Vlahogianni -- |
Multiple techniques for researching airborne particulates : a comprehensive case study of Fallon, Nevada / Paul R. Sheppard, Gary Ridenour, Mark L. Witten -- Chemical characterization of ambient particle : PAHs and chlorinated PAHs / Takeshi Ohura -- Characteristics of atmospheric particulates and metallic elements composition study in center Taiwan / Guor-Cheng Fang -- Toxicological mechanisms underlying the adverse effects of ambient particulate matter (PM2.5) in the lung : contribution of an in-vitro approach / Guillaume Garc̦on -- Trends in modelling of radionuclides uptake by particulate matter in the marine environment using box models / A. Laissaoui and R. El Mrabet -- |
Correlations between disease-specific mortalities with particulate and gaseous air pollutants : risks for cardiopulmonary disease and female reproductive organ cancers / Kazuro Iwai ... [et al.] -- Photochemical degradation of selected nitro- and oxypolycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on airborne particles under simulated solar UV-irradiation / Takayuki Kameda ... [et al.] -- Genotoxic and ultrastructural evidences of damage induced by fine (PM2.5) and coarse (PM10) air particulate matter on murine macrophages / Anna Poma ... [et al.]. |
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This book presents studies of airborne particulates and their role in human health in various geographical regions. Various methodologies are used to monitor the transport and composition of these particulates. The negative impact of antimony and its compounds on the environment and ecosystem is discussed. Furthermore, this book describes, compares and contrasts airborne particulate techniques, both theoretically and in practice. Potential human health risks related to a myriad of inorganic and organic species, especially the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, requires a detailed understanding of pollutant levels both indoors and outdoors. The photochemical degradation of selected polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which is being done using simulated solar UV-irradiation, is examined. Particularly urban air, in high traffic areas, containing matagenic and carcinogenic pollutants. Finally, this book describes the genotoxic effects of carbon black, fine particulates on the murine macrophages. The ultrastructural evidences of damage induced by fine and coarse air particulate matter are also discussed. |
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