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Liberty's Prisoners

Carceral Culture in Early America

by Jen Manion ...

Series series Early American Studies
A look at how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States, reissued with a new preface that connects these early penitentiaries to our present debates over mass incarcerationLiberty’s Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system ... Read more

$21.59 USD

A look at how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States, reissued with a new preface that connects these early penitentiaries to our present debates over mass incarcerationLiberty’s Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system
... Read more
Female Husbands

A Trans History

by Jen Manion ...

Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as ... Read more

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Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as
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U.S. Women's History

Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood

by Jacqueline Castledine, Anne Valk, Nancy A. Hewitt, Danielle Phillips, Rebecca Tuuri, Ariella Rotramel, Danielle L. McGuire0, Christina Greene1, Jen Manion2, Andrea Estepa3, Kirsten Delegard4 ...

In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women’s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach—acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally ... Read more

$23.09 USD

In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women’s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach—acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally
... Read more
Advancing Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Approaches to Multilingual Family-School Partnerships

by Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer, Susan Chambers Cantrell, Eileen Cardona Osieja, Rami Christophi, Nino Dzotsenidze, Wenyu Guo, Michelle Haj-Broussard, Ling Hao, Barbara Hoekje, Kyungjin Hwang, Nicole King0, Melissa Ledesma1, Clara Lee Brown2, Jacqueline Lynch3, Lorena Mancilla4, Brittany Manion5, Jennifer Mirabal6, John Mooneyham7, Liz Murray8, Christine Nganga9, Jael Ovalle0, Sara Saberimoghaddam1, Anu Sachdev2, Lenny Sánchez3, Stephanie Smith Budhai4, Kim Song5, Jen Stacy6, Yang Wang7, Natalia Ward8, Xiaoran Yu9, Xinwei Zhang0, Vera J. Lee2, Kristine S. Lewis Grant4, María Isolina Bravo-Ruiz5, Karena A. Escalante6, Peggy A. Kong7, Kristen H. Perry9, Amanda N. Spalter0 ...

This compilation of research and stories from the field about multilingual family-school partnerships explores where systemic inequities exist at the school, district, or community level, and consider strategies that disrupt normative ways in which multilingual families are included in educational decisions. The authors present family-school partnerships in educational and non-educational settings ... Read more

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This compilation of research and stories from the field about multilingual family-school partnerships explores where systemic inequities exist at the school, district, or community level, and consider strategies that disrupt normative ways in which multilingual families are included in educational decisions. The authors present family-school partnerships in educational and non-educational settings
... Read more
Liberty's Prisoners

Carceral Culture in Early America

by Jen Manion ...

Series series Early American Studies
Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution's wake. Those who were previously dependents with no legal standing—women, enslaved people, and indentured servants ... Read more

$21.59 USD

Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution's wake. Those who were previously dependents with no legal standing—women, enslaved people, and indentured servants
... Read more
Liberty's Prisoners

Carceral Culture in Early America

by Jen Manion ...

Series series Early American Studies
Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution's wake. Those who were previously dependents with no legal standing—women, enslaved people, and indentured servants ... Read more

$28.49 USD

Liberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States. The first penitentiary was founded in Philadelphia in 1790, a period of great optimism and turmoil in the Revolution's wake. Those who were previously dependents with no legal standing—women, enslaved people, and indentured servants
... Read more
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Female Husbands

A Trans History

by Jen Manion ...

Narrated by Kate Harper ...

Unabridged

13 hours 2 min

Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as ... Read more

$19.96 USD

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Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as
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Reclaimed

by Seth Haddon ...

Narrated by Gary Furlong ...

Unabridged

13 hours 34 min

Saba Vasili, a scholar of the astral sea, faces a harrowing accusation: an arcane device he designed has malfunctioned and an entire district of the city has been obliterated and a foreign dignitary has been killed. Charged with murder, Saba is incarcerated on the orders of Byrengrad's ruling council, the Triad.Ambassador Luan Zek of the Rezwyn Empire is dispatched to take custody of the alleged ... Read more

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Saba Vasili, a scholar of the astral sea, faces a harrowing accusation: an arcane device he designed has malfunctioned and an entire district of the city has been obliterated and a foreign dignitary has been killed. Charged with murder, Saba is incarcerated on the orders of Byrengrad's ruling council, the Triad.Ambassador Luan Zek of the Rezwyn Empire is dispatched to take custody of the alleged
... Read more

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Rape and Sexual Power in Early America

by Sharon Block ...

Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based.Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundreds more extralegal commentaries found in ... Read more

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In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based.Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundreds more extralegal commentaries found in
... Read more
Neither Fugitive nor Free

Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel

by Edlie L. Wong ...

Series Book 8 - America and the Long 19th Century
Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesNeither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders ... Read more

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Part of the American Literatures Initiative SeriesNeither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders
... Read more
Over the Threshold

Intimate Violence in Early America

Edited by Christine Daniels, Michael V. Kennedy ...

Over the Threshold is the first in-depth work to explore the topic of intimate violence in the American colonies and the early Republic. The essays examine domestic violence in both urban and frontier environments, between husbands and wives, parents and children, and masters and slaves. This compelling collection puts commonly held notions about intimate violence under strict historical scrutiny, ... Read more

$61.99 USD

Over the Threshold is the first in-depth work to explore the topic of intimate violence in the American colonies and the early Republic. The essays examine domestic violence in both urban and frontier environments, between husbands and wives, parents and children, and masters and slaves. This compelling collection puts commonly held notions about intimate violence under strict historical scrutiny,
... Read more
Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans

Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840-1900

by Ashley Baggett ...

Ashley Baggett uncovers the voices of abused women who utilized the legal system in New Orleans to address their grievances from the antebellum era to the end of the nineteenth century. Poring over 26,000 records, Baggett analyzes 421 criminal cases involving intimate partner violence—physical or emotional abuse of a partner in a romantic relationship—revealing a significant demand among women, ... Read more

$21.59 USD

Ashley Baggett uncovers the voices of abused women who utilized the legal system in New Orleans to address their grievances from the antebellum era to the end of the nineteenth century. Poring over 26,000 records, Baggett analyzes 421 criminal cases involving intimate partner violence—physical or emotional abuse of a partner in a romantic relationship—revealing a significant demand among women,
... Read more

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