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The author "draws on her own experiences and interviews with more than a hundred other OSS women to reveal some of the most tantalizing stories and best-kept secrets of the war in Europe and Asia. ... Along with famous names like Julia Child and Marlene Dietrich, readers will discover such intrepid agents as Amy 'Cynthia' Thorpe, who seduced a Vichy official and stole naval codes from the French embassy."--Jacket.
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Free Press
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins' cage are branded whores. So asserts Hirsi Ali's meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western policies toward Islamic countries and immigrant communities. This controversial book is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from religious and cultural oppression...
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Harvard University Art Museums
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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"This book accompanies the first exhibition to explore the lives of Byzantine women through their representation in material and literary culture. It features nearly two hundred works of art gathered from premier collections in North America by the organizers at Harvard University's Arthur M. Sackler Museum."--Jacket.
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Prestel
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Throughout the ages, from Sappho to Mary Wollstonecraft, extraordinary women have exposed other women to the world of letters and the freedom it brings. This unique cross-cultural account highlights the accomplishments of women writers and educated women, and provides beautiful reproductions of renowned artworks that illustrate their achievements and the worlds they inhabited, thereby also tracing the social functions of the portraits of reading women...
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Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1983]
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English
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Do You Know...where the legend of a cat's nine lives comes from? Why "mama" is a word understood in nearly all languages? How the custom of kissing began? Whether there really was a female pope? Why Cinderella's glass slipper was so important to the Prince? The answers to these and countless other intriguing questions are given in this compulsively readable, feminist encyclopedia. Twenty-five years in preparation, this unique, comprehensive sourcebook...
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Studies in Jungian psychology volume 12
Publisher
Inner City Books
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
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