Inez
Title | Inez PDF eBook |
Author | Linda J. Lumsden |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2004-07-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780253110961 |
Inez Milholland was the most glamorous suffragist of the 1910s and a fearless crusader for women's rights. Moving in radical circles, she agitated for social change in the prewar years, and she epitomized the independent New Woman of the time. Her death at age 30 while stumping for suffrage in California in 1916 made her the sole martyr of the American suffrage movement. Her death helped inspire two years of militant protests by the National Woman's Party, including the picketing of the White House, which led in 1920 to ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. Lumsden's study of this colorful and influential figure restores to history an important link between the homebound women of the 19th century and the iconoclastic feminists of the 1970s.
Beautiful Inez
Title | Beautiful Inez PDF eBook |
Author | Bart Schneider |
Publisher | Crown |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307419851 |
From critically acclaimed novelist Bart Schneider comes a captivating tale of romantic love and sexual adventure, social change and family upheavals, set against the vibrant backdrop of San Francisco in the 1960s. Inez Roseman has a brilliant career as a violinist with the San Francisco Symphony, a successful husband, and two bright and talented children. But despite her seemingly perfect life, Inez is obsessed with thoughts of suicide. Sylvia Bran also has an obsession. Enraptured with the beautiful violinist, she pretends to be a reporter and arranges to interview Inez. At once seductive and solicitous, she awakens Inez from the suffocating grip of her career, the demands of motherhood, and the tensions caused by her husband’s many affairs. The two women become lovers, embarking on a dance of passion and betrayal that soon spins out of control. Like Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, Beautiful Inez is an unexpected journey into the lives of masterfully drawn, unforgettable women, by one of the literary world’s leading writers.
Inez
Title | Inez PDF eBook |
Author | Augusta Jane Wilson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 1883 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Audacity of Inez Burns
Title | The Audacity of Inez Burns PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen G. Bloom |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 448 |
Release | 2018-02-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1682450104 |
THE VIVID, SCANDAL-FILLED STORY OF A SHREWD, RAGS-TO-RICHES MILLIONAIRESS AND THE RUTHLESS POLITICIAN WHO PURSUED HER, TOLD AGAINST THE EFFERVESCENT BACKDROP OF AMERICA’S GOLDEN CITY—SAN FRANCISCO. San Francisco, until the mid-1940s, was a city that lived by its own rules, fast and loose. Formed by the gold rush and destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, it served as a pleasure palace for the legions of men who sought their fortunes in the California foothills. For the women who followed, their only choice was to support, serve, or submit. Inez Burns was different. She put everyone to shame with her dazzling, calculated, stone-cold ambition. Born in the slums of San Francisco to a cigar-rolling alcoholic, Inez transformed herself into one of California’s richest women, becoming a notorious powerbroker, grand dame, and iconoclast. A stunning beauty with perfumed charm, she rose from manicurist to murderess to millionaire, seducing one man after another, bearing children out of wedlock, and bribing politicians and cops along the way to secure her place in the San Francisco firmament. Inez ruled with incandescent flair. She owned five hundred hats and a closet full of furs, had two small toes surgically removed to fit into stylish high heels, and had two ribs excised to accentuate her hourglass figure. Her presence was defined by couture dresses from Paris, red-carpet strutting at the San Francisco Opera, and a black Pierce-Arrow that delivered her everywhere. She threw outrageous parties on her sprawling, eight-hundred-acre horse ranch, a compound with servants, cooks, horse groomers, and trainers, where politicians, judges, attorneys, Hollywood moguls, and entertainers gamboled over silver fizzes. Inez was adored by the desperate women who sought her out—and loathed by the power-hungry men who plotted to destroy her. During a time when women risked their lives with predatory practitioners lurking in back alleys, Inez and her team of women, clad in crisp, white nurse’s uniforms, worked night and day in her elegantly appointed clinic, performing fifty thousand of the safest, most hygienic abortions available during a time when even the richest wives, Hollywood stars, and mistresses had few options when they found themselves with an unwanted pregnancy. Inez’s illegal business bestowed upon her power and influence—until a determined politician by the name of Edmund G. (Pat) Brown—the father of current California Governor Jerry Brown—used Inez to catapult his nascent career to national prominence. In The Audacity of Inez Burns, Stephen G. Bloom, the author of the bestselling Postville, reveals a jagged slice of lost American history. From Inez’s riveting tale of glamour and tragedy, he has created a brilliant, compulsively readable portrait of an unforgettable woman during a moment when America’s pendulum swung from compassion to criminality by punishing those who permitted women to control their own destinies.
Nomination of Inez M. Tenenbaum to be Chairman and Commissioner for the Consumer Product Safety Commission
Title | Nomination of Inez M. Tenenbaum to be Chairman and Commissioner for the Consumer Product Safety Commission PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 56 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
A Study Guide for Colette Inez's "Far in the Blindness of Time"
Title | A Study Guide for Colette Inez's "Far in the Blindness of Time" PDF eBook |
Author | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | 20 |
Release | |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1410393070 |
A Study Guide for Colette Inez's "Far in the Blindness of Time", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
Inez. A Drama in Three Acts
Title | Inez. A Drama in Three Acts PDF eBook |
Author | Irene Ackerman |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | 66 |
Release | 2024-05-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3385463955 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.