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Obras de Susan Levine

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1947
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA

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Gilbert is a Sanderling to adore, and combined with migration and bird facts, his adventure offers more than a fun read.

Gilbert is finally strong enough to attempt the migration from the Arctic tundra and head south. His father gives him some words of advice before he and his friends start their journey, and Gilbert will need them. The journey holds many adventures along the way, but Gilbert is determined to make his father proud and reach where he needs to be.

Gilbert's journey is well done and grabs attention as he takes the very long flight south. The situations are based on reality, and thanks to the writing, grab attention the entire way through. The tale makes a lovely read-aloud and flows very smoothly. The illustrations bring across the birds and landscapes naturally and make Gilbert and the other birds come to life. These are enjoyable to gaze at even after the story is done.

The author goes then takes this book a step further. Each two-page spread offers a side section, where the information surrounding each step of Gilbert's journey is revealed. This offers all sorts of facts, spanning from landscapes to food to migration paths and more. These are written with the intended age group in mind but carry enough depth to make this book into an entire theme surrounding bird migration. The extras at the end of the book allow for even more depth.

This is a very well laid out and written book, which cleverly places an engaging tale alongside the facts. I see this as a wonderful edition not only to classroom settings and homeschoolers but for those readers, who are curious about nature and birds. I received a DRC and found this to be a very well done and enjoyable read.
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tdrecker | Aug 30, 2023 |
Susan Levine, "Labor's True Woman: Domesticity and Equal Rights in the Knights of Labor." Journal of American History 70 (1983): 323-39.

Levine is up front with her argument. On the first page of the article she states that she will argue that the experience of working-class women in the Gilded Age labor movement allowed them to use the language of of domesticity to criticize the competitive capitalist system that they saw encroaching upon their traditional rights, dignity, and comforts (p. 323)

Accepted as members of the producing classes by the Knights, women were an essential component of the labor movement. Women Knights organized to form the basis of the Knights' cooperative movement. They also struck alongside their male counterparts.

Within the Knights of Labor organization, women were torn between a commitment to equal rights and a romanticized ideal of dome:3ticity (p. 330). Two women who rose to prominence in the Knights illustrate for Levine these two aspects. Elizabeth Rodgers struggled with the demands of domesticity and labor movement responsibilities in her role as organizer of the largest district assembly in Chicago. As inspector for women's work, Leonora M. Barry dedicated herself totally to the movement and left her children to be cared for by relatives. For both, domesticity was a powerful force for the betterment of working people's lot. Such evils as alcohol threatened the home, and it , as the lady Knights who supported the temperance movement.

Women and men worked together in the Knights to further working class interests (pp. 338-9). By relegating domesticity to the home, the later trade union movement marginalized women as the Knights had never done. The article's modest goal of demonstrating the enabling power of domesticity is achieved. Reading this article allows one to better understand the politics of the producing classes by understanding the lady Knight's role. It does not necessitate a radical break with the historiographical past either
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mdobe | Jul 24, 2011 |
This book was okay - not quite what I was expecting, it was simply a history (mostly unbiased) of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), and how it evolved from its humble beginnings as projects of home economists to get children to eat healthy, Americanized food.

My biggest gripe with the book is that it's clear that nobody edited this book, and it really hinders the reading process. This wasn't just a typo here and there, but sometimes entire sentences were missing verbs or lacked endings. Also, the author tends to repeat herself a lot, which makes for a really boring read at times.

Otherwise, I found the interesting (and totally unsurprising) facts that the book mentions were that the NSLP was originally seen as a way to get immigrants to eat American food; was purposefully chosen to be enacted by individual states and local governments such that segregation and racial issues did not have to be addressed (school districts with Black schools were not given the subsidies); was used at first as an outlet for farm subsidies (which I'm sure only helped factory farms and didn't help small farmers); never adequately provided enough federal money to pay for the expenses; and never adequately addressed nutritional needs for children.
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lemontwist | Dec 28, 2009 |

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