Lange talks about the suffrage moment. So youve been with thinking about images during 19th century period, and specifically today were going to think about the way that images really constructed gender roles particularly in the 19th century and the ways that activists used images to shape, alter, change gender roles during this time period too. So actually to start off with is to think about the ways that these images are part of our culture today, and one is the way that por chaits like susan portraits like susan anthonys portrait which we see in this parade, shes the closest head to us with the circle glasses. And you see this march down pennsylvania avenue and this emphasis on the very celebrated 19th century womens rights leader. And well talk today about how she became such a famous sufficient is rangist not only sufficient is rangist not only in the 19th century, but also today suffragist. In 1913 we had the same street in washington, d. C. , pennsylvania avenue, and one of the
Report of the stories of the day. Funds from cspan2 come from these companies and more including comcast. You think its a Community Center . Its way more than that. Comcast is partnering so students can be prepared for anything. Comcast along with these Television Companies support cspan2 as a public service. Throughout the seminar youve been thinking about images during this 19th century period and specifically today we are going to think about the ways that image really constructed gender roles, particularly in the 19th century and the way that activists use images to shape, alter, change gender roles during this time period, too. So id like to start off with is just to think about the ways that these images are part of our culture today and one is portraits. Like susan anthonys portrait we see in the student march parade. Shes the closest to us with a circle glasses and we see the march down pennsylvania avenue and this emphasis on this very celebrated 19th century womens rights lea
Youre watching booktv on cspan2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. BookTv Television for serious readers. From my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when ones own interests or even ones own life is in peril. Growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the Second World War and greece that i always kept close to my heart. The first was in 1940 when Benito Mussolini italys Prime Minister asked the greek Prime Minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3 00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. It was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. It prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest figure of the 20th c
Proclaimed, i wish a thousand pins were stuck in his bed and he was strapped down on them. Another woman and her friends were forced to host a group of occupying Union Soldiers in their homes, and speaking for that group wound woman quipped can just the meteor thought of being among the damn yankees are enough to make all prematurely old. Of course there was another craftier side for these women. When they used their southern charges to bewitch the Occupying Soldiers and they called it, quote, buttering those yankees to serve our own ends. So ill talk how i got into this book. I am from philadelphia. I was born and raised in philadelphia. So i moved to atlanta, georgia in 2001, and spent six years there are and it was quite a Culture Shock as you can imagine. I had to get used to seeing the occasionol con fred rat flags on the lawn, the jokes about the war of northern aggression, and just the idea that the civil war seeped into daily life and conversation down south in a way it never d
Published as the president but a lot of stuff i didnt publish. One thing corry told me was the diary and write down the stuff that is interesting to you. So i did and i thought it was so important. When young doctors and aspiring writers asked me how do you get started . I say you have to record your reflections. I had been in school for 19 years. 19 years after graduating from high school. I had that quantum dot detour. So i was just ready to be done, and reap some rewards for all that all those sleepless nights and what i found was that doctors were very unhappy, and when youre in training, the focus is on the physiology and learning about the heart. Its not really about the culture of practice. So i was largely blinded to that. And then i took on my first role and im talking to doctors and i find theyre very unhappy with medical practice today. And it wasnt just about the stresses we all know. It upabout the paperwork and the malpractice fears and so on. It was a deeper problem. The