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Wrongly Bodied, Two (Cover)
Wrongly Bodied Two. Clarissa Sligh. Women's Studio Workshop, 2004.
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Wrongly Bodied, Two (t.p.)
Wrongly Bodied Two. Clarissa Sligh. Women's Studio Workshop, 2004.
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Wrongly Bodied: Documenting the Transition from Female to Male (Cover)
Wrongly Bodied: Documenting the Transition from Female to Male. Clarissa Sligh. Leeway Foundation, 2009.
Cover. Wrongly Bodied tells the story of a white female's transition to a male body and the story of Ellen Craft, a 19th slave who escaped bondage by dressing as a man. -
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"Speech of Henry Clay, In Defence of the American System."
Lincoln idolized U.S. Senator Henry Clay (Whig Party, Kentucky) and supported his ideas for economic modernization, which Clay called the American System. This system included tariffs to protect American industry and agriculture, sales of public land to provide funding, infrastructure spending to improve transportation, and a national bank to provide a stable currency. Between 1816 and 1828, Congress enacted programs in each of these areas. Southerners objected in particular to the tariffs, which they felt benefited only other regions. In response, Clay delivered his widely lauded Defence of the American System speech over three days to a packed chamber. He attacked the opposing Democrats’ emphasis on limited government and sectional autonomy with a compelling argument for protective tariffs.Tags lincoln-section-1 -
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Dean of the Chapel James T. Cleland writes in support of the decision of the Board of Trustees on desegregation
Dean of the Chapel James T. Cleland writes in support of the decision of the Board of Trustees on desegregation. Bunyan S. Womble papers, 1900-1976. -
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The woman's labour: an epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck, in answer to his late poem The thresher's labour: to which are added, the three wise sentences taken from the first book of Esdras, ch. III and IV
Mary Collier was likely the first of the English poets to identify herself as of the “laboring classes.” Over her lifetime, Collier worked as a field worker, domestic, and brewer. Taught to read as a child by her mother, she hoped to supplement her income by self-publishing and selling her book of poems. Collier included a signed attestation corroborating that the poems were indeed written by her, a strategy later employed in Phillis Wheatley’s Poems (1773). In The Thresher’s Lament, Stephen Duck denigrated women’s labor. Collier responded in witty though scathing verse in The Woman’s Labour. This is the only known copy of the second edition of this work.
When Ev'ning does approach, we homeward hie,
And our domestic Toils incessant ply:
Against your coming Home prepare to get
Our Work all done, our House in order set
Bacon and Dumpling in the Pot we boil,
Our beds we make, our Swine we feed the while
Then wait at Door to see you coming Home,
And set the Table out against you come:
Early next Morning we on you attend
Our Children dress and feed, their Cloaths we mend
And in the Field our daily Task renew,
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Tutte le rime della illustriss. et eccellentiss. signora Vittoria Colonna, marchesana di Pescara: con l'esposition del signor Rinaldo Corso, nuouamente mandate in luce da Girolamo Ruscelli
A member of a powerful Roman family, poet Vittoria Colonna was widowed, wealthy, famous, and childless. Though thirteen editions of her Rime were published before her death, much of her verse circulated in scribal copies. Her published prose reflects her interest in religious reform, an interest that led to her being investigated during the Inquisition. An impeccable stylist with elegant taste, she commissioned a manuscript of her sonnets, now in the Vatican Library, as a gift for her close friend Michelangelo. This edition of her poetry also contains two poems by Veronica Gambara. -
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La Chevalière d’Eon
French aristocrat d’Eon was the first European known to publicly change gender. D’Eon had been a successful soldier and diplomat, fighting in the Seven Years War and helping to negotiate the Peace of Paris (1763). When his lavish spending and insubordination led the king to recall him to France, d’Eon claimed to be a woman and negotiated a return under the king’s protection. The king required the now Chevalière d’Eon to dress as a woman. She was permitted, however, to continue to wear the military Cross of St. Louis she had earned during the Seven Years War. The Chevalière was considered one of the most accomplished women of her time, but she never regained political influence. By 1791, the French monarchy had fallen and the Chevalière had returned to London. She continued to maintain a level of celebrity, enough to make sales of her portrait profitable.Tags 1700s -
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