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Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters is a children's picture book published in 1987 by John Steptoe. The book won many awards for Steptoe's illustrations, and went on to be adapted into many different children's literature curricula. In the late 1980s, Weston Woods made a version of the book, narrated by Terry Alexander.
John Steptoe (September 14, 1950 – August 28, 1989) was an author and illustrator for children’s books dealing with aspects of the African-American experience. He is best known for Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters, which was acknowledged by literary critics as a breakthrough in African history and culture.
Mothers and Daughters: A Three-Generational Study of Health Attitudes and Behaviour is a book by Prof. Mildred Blaxter and Elizabeth Patterson based on Blaxter's study "Mothers and Daughters: Accounts of Health in the Grandmother Generation, 1945–1978".
Mom frequently raged at me too. I can’t count the number of times I heard, “You’re such a slob,” or, “What a stupid thing to say,” or, “You’re lazy,” or, “You don’t have any ...
Wives and Daughters, An Every-Day Story is a novel by English author Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. It was partly written whilst Gaskell was staying with the salon hostess Mary Elizabeth Mohl at her home on the Rue de Bac in Paris. [ 1 ]
Summarizing the role of Grimms' women succinctly, Bottigherimer writes, "Snow-White's mother thinks to herself but never speaks, and when her daughter is born, she dies." T he tales were scrubbed further and the Disney princesses -- frail yet occasionally headstrong , whenever the trait could be framed as appealing — were born.
Sarah Stickney Ellis, born Sarah Stickney (1799 – 16 June 1872), also known as Sarah Ellis, was an English author.She was a Quaker turned Congregationalist.Her numerous books are mostly about women's roles in society. [1]
What does every mother and expecting mother want their daughters to know? When asked, the responses had a surprising powerful theme! This is the most exciting time for women in our history and it ...