“... defended Phillis Wheatley, subject of an essay in the Routledge volume, from the racist disdain of Thomas Jefferson (‘Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry’), repeated by Tyler. And she drew attention to figures, such as Anna Julia Cooper and Ida B. Wells, who are increasingly read today for their contributions to political ...”

“... his Catholic uncle, James II, in 1685. Catherine found allies in women like herself: the young Frances Stuart, who resisted Charles’s advances; Mary Villiers, the devout duchess of Buckingham; and, after 1673, Mary of Modena, James’s 15-year-old Italian wife. Like her mother-in-law, Henrietta Maria, Catherine began to host her own popular ...”

“... this lesson or transaction taking place in beer advertisements in all our countries.) The Clarence Thomas hearings, when the public had to watch the all-male Senate Committee browbeating Anita Hall, provided American women with an object lesson in their powerlessness. That that object lesson occurred was a subject of distress to the establishment, which needs ...”

“... from our thoughts, in the early 1970s British farming was in a pretty good state. J.G.S. and Frances Donaldson’s Farming in Britain Today, published around this time, just before Britain’s entry into the Common Market, expressed the view that a beautiful balance had been struck.Today agriculture is one of Britain’s most efficient industries. It has ...”