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Women S Barracks
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Author : Tereska Torres
language : en
Publisher: She Winked Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Women S Barracks written by Tereska Torres and has been published by She Winked Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Fiction categories.
First Digital Edition; Grier Rating: A*** This is the true-life story of what happens when scores of young girls live intimately together in a French military barracks. Many of these girls, utterly innocent and inexperienced, meet other women who have lived every type of existence. Their problems, their temptations, their fights and failures are those faced by all women who are forced to live together during dangerous and stressful times. The girls who chose Tereska Torres, the author, as their confidante poured out to her their most intimate feelings, their secret thoughts. With all of its revelations and tenderness, Women’s Barracks is an important book because it tells a story that had never been truly told before--the story of women in war. It also has the special distinction of being the first “lesbian pulp” novel ever published and became a record-breaking bestseller. This autobiographical novel takes place in London, England during World War II. The terror of the V-1 and V-2 rocket bombings, and the resulting fires and destruction, are an unknown experience to most readers. The women enduring these events were not even 20 years old when they first arrived. Many volunteered to be there. They were French, or of French heritage, and wanted to be part of the effort to help protect France from invasion by the Nazis. Throughout it all, passions flare, long-standing taboos are tossed to the wind, and passionate relationships are begun between older, more experienced butch officers and the young, inexperienced femme girls under their charge. In her telling of these women’s stories, Torres remains nonjudgmental of the lesbian relationships these women explored. Perhaps as a result, Women’s Barracks was banned in several states for being obscene. The House Select Committee on Current Pornographic Materials denounced the book in 1952 as an illustration of how the newly emerging paperback industry was breeding and promoting moral depravity. By today’s standards, of course, the book is somewhat tame; however, the eroticism and honesty with which Torres writes immerses the reader in the love, tenderness, loyalty and passion that women share with each other.
Women S Barracks
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Author : Tereska Torrès
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
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Women S Barracks
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Author : Tereska Torrès
language : en
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Release Date : 2005
Women S Barracks written by Tereska Torrès and has been published by Feminist Press at CUNY this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Steamy, sensitive, and skillfully written page-turner was the first lesbian pulp--and a 4-million-copy bestseller.
Women S Barracks
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Author : Tereska Torrès
language : en
Publisher: Feminist Press
Release Date : 2005
Women S Barracks written by Tereska Torrès and has been published by Feminist Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Fiction categories.
Steamy, sensitive, and skillfully written page-turner was the first lesbian pulp--and a 4-million-copy bestseller.
Women S Barracks
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Author : Tereska Torrès
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
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Women S Barracks
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Author : Tereska Torres
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-10
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Women S Barracks
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Author : Tereska Torrès
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
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Women In The Barracks
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Author : Philippa Strum
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2002-04-24
Women In The Barracks written by Philippa Strum and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-24 with Law categories.
In June 2001, there was a decidedly new look to the graduating class at Virginia Military Institute. For the first time ever, the line of graduates who received their degrees at the "West Point of the South" included women who had spent four years at VMI. For 150 years, VMI had operated as a revered, state-funded institution-an amalgam of Southern history, military tradition, and male bonding rituals-and throughout that long history, no one had ever questioned the fact that only males were admitted. Then in 1989 a female applicant complained of discrimination to the Justice Department, which brought suit the following year to integrate women into VMI. In a book that poses serious questions about equal rights in America, Philippa Strum traces the origins of this landmark case back to VMI's founding, its evolution over fifteen decades, and through competing notions about women's proper place. Unlike most works on women in military institutions, this one also provides a complete legal history—from the initial complaint to final resolution in United States v. Virginia—and shows how the Supreme Court's ruling against VMI reflected changing societal ideas about gender roles. At the heart of the VMI case was the "rat line": a ritualized form of hazing geared toward instilling male solidarity. VMI claimed that its system of toughening individuals for leadership was even more stringent than military service and that the system would be destroyed if the Institute were forced to accommodate women. Strum interviewed lawyers from Justice and VMI, heads of concerned women's groups, and VMI administrators, faculty, and cadets to reconstruct the arguments in this important case. She was granted interviews with both Justice Ginsburg, author of the majority opinion, and Justice Scalia, the lone dissenter on the bench, and meticulously analyzes both viewpoints. She shows how Ginsburg's opinion not only articulated a new constitutional standard for institutions accused of gender discrimination but also represented the culmination of gender equality litigation in the twentieth century. Women in the Barracks is a case study that combines both legal and cultural history, reviewing the long history of male elitism in the military as it explores how new ideas about gender equality have developed in the United States. It is an engrossing story of change versus tradition, clear and accessible for general readers yet highly instructive and valuable for students and scholars. Now as questions continue to loom concerning the role of state funding for single-sex education, Strum's book squarely addresses competing notions of women's place and capabilities in American society.
Richmond Barracks 1916
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Author : Mary McAuliffe (Lecturer in women's studies)
language : en
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Release Date : 2016
Richmond Barracks 1916 written by Mary McAuliffe (Lecturer in women's studies) and has been published by Four Courts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Ireland categories.
Women played a vital Role in the Irish Revolutionary movement In the years 1913-23, including The Easter Rising, where women fought Side-by-side with their male counterparts in Most of the risings outposts in Dublin, Enniscorthy & Galway during Easter Week of 1916. After the surrender, 77 of these women were arrested along with their male colleagues and taken to Richmond Barracks in Inchicore, Dublin. This book enriches our knowledge of the Revolutionary period by telling the history of the 1916 rising from a more nuanced and balanced perspective through the lens of these women’s lives and contribution. Containing detailed biographies of the 77 women, this book reveals motivation to take part in the 1916 rising as well as looking at their lives post-rising and post-independence. Narrated from the view of the women’s involvement, the commitment and depth of the contribution of women to the Rising is rediscovered. -- Publisher description
The Ladies Of The Battery Barracks Association Desire That Colored Soldiers Who Can Read And Write Should Be Admitted To This Reading Room
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Author : Ladies' Battery Barracks Relief Association
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1865*
The Ladies Of The Battery Barracks Association Desire That Colored Soldiers Who Can Read And Write Should Be Admitted To This Reading Room written by Ladies' Battery Barracks Relief Association and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1865* with African American soldiers categories.