Connect to this title online

Table of Contents: “…"Flag from a kitchenette window" -- Freedom -- "A young Harriet Tubman" -- The passport -- "I do love you" -- Part IV: Greenwich Village. Camp unity -- "One becomes a woman" -- "I ain't sick" -- "Cindy, oh Cindy" -- The invisible lesbian -- Part V: The great white way. …”

Table of Contents: “…Before Seneca Falls, 1775-1848 -- The struggle for equal education, 1850-1960 -- Women's right to higher education -- Establishing colleges for women -- The argument for coeducation -- Women's struggles for economic equality, 1850-1960 -- Women's economic independence -- Women in the trades -- Women in the professions -- The movement for political equality, 1850-1960 -- From abolition to suffrage -- Working for suffrage -- Organizing men for feminism: the men's league for woman suffrage -- Postsuffrage struggles -- The struggle for social equality, 1850-1960 -- Social equality for women -- Marriage and divorce reforms -- "Sex rights," sexuality, and birth control -- Experimenting with equality: Greenwich Village, 1900-1920 -- Contemporary pro-feminist men -- Standing up for women -- Educational equality -- Economic equality -- Political equality -- Social equality -- Pro-feminist men into the 1990s…”

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Tour 1 The Harbor Islands -- Tour 2 Lower Manhattan: Dutch New Amsterdam, Colonial New York, and the Premier City of the New Nation -- Tour 3 Greenwich Village: At Home in Nineteenth-Century New York -- Tour 4 Northern Manhattan: How the First Archaeologists Uncovered Indian, Colonial, and Revolutionary War New York -- Tour 5 The Bronx Shore with Views of Queens: A Voyage through Thousands of Years of Indian Life along the Cityâ€?…”
Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

Table of Contents: “…-- Star-crossed lovers: The Hudsucker proxy, Intolerable cruelty, and the American tradition of screwball comedy -- Laughing to keep from dying in the suburbs: black comedy in Fargo and A serious man -- From soggy bottom to Greenwich Village: American music in O brother, where art thou? …”

View this video online

View this video online (Access ends September 23, 2023.)

View this video online

Table of Contents: “…Kelly -- Dress and culture in Greenwich Village / Deborah Saville -- The influence of American jazz on fashion / Susan L. …”
ViewTable of contents

Contributor biographical information

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : maxims in the copybook of modernism -- The limited life of a Dorchester girl -- At Radcliffe : a pushy lace-curtain Irish girl from Dorchester -- First husband, Lindesay Marc Parrott : strange moments of tenderness and pretty constant dislike -- Adventures in modern parenting -- Greenwich Village lessons on the path to becoming a self-sufficient, independent, successful manager of her own life -- Hugh O'Connor : high felicity on the road of no rules -- New freedoms in the era of the one night stand : the Ex-wife is born -- Ursula goes to Hollywood -- Second husband, Charles Greenwood : the stupidest thing I ever did in my life -- Extravagant hell -- The business of being a writer -- Third husband, John Wildberg : the faint resemblance of stability -- The monotony and weariness of living -- Fourth husband, Alfred Coster Schermerhorn : two catastrophes should be enough -- Saving Private Bryan : The United States vs. …”

Table of Contents: “…""Escape of the Match-Strikers"": The Samarcand Arson Case of 19316. Padlocking Greenwich Village: Urbanization and Public Nuisance Law; Part III Civil Rights: The Paradigm Shifts, 1956-1980; 7. …”
Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

Table of Contents: “…The Lad, the rebel, the artist -- The O'Neills : cradle Catholics -- Training and education -- Greenwich village, radicals, and the Provincetown theatre -- Dorothy Day -- Catholic memory, classic forms -- Catholic sensibility : a brief definition -- O'Neill the traditionalist -- O'Neill the traditionalist -- O'Neill and the timeless issues of sin and guilt -- "What a modern tragedy would have to be" -- Church authority, artistic freedom, and the search for God -- A note on the climate of opinion -- O'Neill and the Catholic press -- "The substitute-God search" : brief remarks on three plays. …”
Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

View this video online