At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John WhiteMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1 ago 1990 - 264 páginas In a parish register in Ireland, Akenson discovered a record naming an Eliza McCormack White as John's sister. Employing imaginative reconstruction, he proposes that Eliza McCormack, a transvestite prostitute who was in central Canada at the time John White arrived on the Canadian scene, was actually John's sister. Further, he suggests that John White can be best understood by recognizing that he was in fact Eliza! |
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... society has existed for most of the duration of Western history and that patriarchy has had con- sequences for both the position of women and the nature of the historical record . Evidence about the character and quality of women's ...
... society has existed for most of the duration of Western history and that patriarchy has had con- sequences for both the position of women and the nature of the historical record . Evidence about the character and quality of women's ...
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... society . As historians , we can either go back to stark fact - grinding biographies ( which in their selection and arrangement of facts are fictive , but in an unconscious and unexamined manner ) , or we can try to get inside our ...
... society . As historians , we can either go back to stark fact - grinding biographies ( which in their selection and arrangement of facts are fictive , but in an unconscious and unexamined manner ) , or we can try to get inside our ...
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At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack and John White Donald Harman Akenson,Don Akenson Vista previa restringida - 1992 |
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