Bryn Mawr Authors
Necessary Trouble
A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America.
To grow up in the 1950s was to enter a world of polarized national alliances, nuclear threat, and destabilized social hierarchies. Two world wars and the depression that connected them had unleashed a torrent of expectations and dissatisfactions--not only in global affairs but in American society and Americans' lives. To be a privileged white girl in conservative, segregated Virginia was to be expected to adopt a willful blindness to the inequities of race and the constraints of gender. For young Drew Gilpin Faust, the acceptance of both female subordination and racial privilege proved intolerable and galvanizing. Urged to become "well adjusted" and to fill the role of a poised young lady that her upbringing imposed, she found resistance was the necessary price of survival. During the 1960s, through her love of learning and her active engagement in the civil rights, student, and antiwar movements, Faust forged a path of her own--one that would eventually lead her to become a historian of the very conflicts that were instrumental in shaping the world she grew up in. Culminating in the upheavals of 1968, Necessary Trouble captures a time of rapid change and fierce reaction in one young woman's life, tracing the transformations and aftershocks that we continue to grapple with today. Includes black-and-white imagesNEMLA Italian Studies: The Renaissance Dialogue
Edited by Roberta Ricci, Professor and Chair of Italian on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities
Although this special volume dedicated to the Renaissance includes only one essay on Ariosto, it aims at joining the many celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the first publication (1516) of his epic masterpiece, Orlando Furioso. Following this modern multi-thematic approach enticing micro-narratives with a mixture of “le donne, i cavallier, l’arme, gli amori, / le cortesie, l’audaci imprese,” declared ab principio by Ariosto as poetic theory in the opening lines of the epic (1.1-2), this project embraces such a vision of a multi plot within interdisciplinarity, now more than ever at the center of the intellectual (and pedagogical/didactic) debate in academia. Keeping in mind Ariosto’s modern epistemological approach to reality and knowledge by interlacing, embracing, connecting, and disconnecting themes, characters, levels of narrations, the goal here is to present the Renaissance as a continuous dialogue among many authors from various cultural milieus that includes the arts, language and literature, philosophy, and the sciences.
Offerings to Athena: 125 Years at Bryn Mawr College
A vibrant account of Bryn Mawr’s history, Offerings to Athena, looks back at the last 125 years from the perspective of students. Treating topics as richly diverse as debates about oral examinations, mandatory dress codes, and social protest, this behind-the-scenes account will bring you back to your college days. Revisit the Denbigh back smoker and scale the heights of the Thomas tower with this 400-page, full-color, oversized volume. Hundreds of vintage and contemporary photographs, student profiles of alumnae, The College News clippings, and newly uncovered manuscript material will help you remember Bryn Mawr of yesterday and prepare you for the college of tomorrow.
Parthenon Enigma
A New York Times Notable Book and one of The Daily Beast's Best Books of the Year
Winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
Playgroup
Sarah Holloway is a frustrated painter, sketching on the backs of shopping lists and sharing her studio with a washer and dryer. Abandoned by her mother, she has tried to hide her childhood wounds by healing others through art therapy. During her daughter's first two years, she has faked her way through motherhood with the help of women in her neighborhood playgroup. She hopes she has gotten the hang of it when she learns she is expecting another child. Then, a routine test reveals a mysterious mass in her unborn baby's abdomen. The sonogram awakens an old fear that her children have inherited her damage--and uncovers a secret that could end her marriage.
Poggio Bracciolini and the Re(dis)covery of Antiquity: Textual and Material Traditions
Edited by Roberta Ricci, Professor and Chair of Italian on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities
Proceedings of the Symposium Held at Bryn Mawr College on April 8-9, 2016
This collection draws strength from its cross-disciplinarity, featuring contributions by scholars who investigate Bracciolini's contribution to many fields of knowledge in the Western tradition, spanning across politics and historiography, material and print culture, philology and manuscript studies, calligraphy and palaeography. The essays touch upon intertwined aspects of early Renaissance in its recovery of the classical tradition where the concept of humanitas extends to the manuscript itself. “This distinguished collection of essays adds a wealth of scholarly detail to our understanding of the myriad-minded Renaissance humanist Poggio Bracciolini. And, in doing so, it also managed to capture much of the range and flavour of this extraordinary figure: his learning, his passionate interest in antiquity, his civic pride, and his brilliance in calligraphic design, as well as his ceaseless self-promotion , his enmities, his taste for obscenity, and his penchant for moralizing. Poggio's startling energy and the energy of the whole period course through these pages" (Stephen Greenblatt)
Quakers, Politics, and Economics: Quakers and the Disciplines Volume 5
Rebelwing
by Andrea Tang BMC '12
Research Directions in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology
Edited by Lisa Traynor
This book highlights a number of recent research advances in the field of symplectic and contact geometry and topology, and related areas in low-dimensional topology. This field has experienced significant and exciting growth in the past few decades, and this volume provides an accessible introduction into many active research problems in this area. The papers were written with a broad audience in mind so as to reach a wide range of mathematicians at various levels. Aside from teaching readers about developing research areas, this book will inspire researchers to ask further questions to continue to advance the field.
The volume contains both original results and survey articles, presenting the results of collaborative research on a wide range of topics. These projects began at the Research Collaboration Conference for Women in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology (WiSCon) in July 2019 at ICERM, Brown University. Each group of authors included female and nonbinary mathematicians at different career levels in mathematics and with varying areas of expertise. This paved the way for new connections between mathematicians at all career levels, spanning multiple continents, and resulted in the new collaborations and directions that are featured in this work.
River of No Return
An engrossing adventure, with mystery, romance, humor, and impeccable historical detail. The Boston Globe
Devon, 1815. The charming Lord Nicholas Davenant and the beguiling Julia Percy should make a perfect match.
But before their love has a chance to grow, Nicholas is presumed dead in the Napoleonic war.
Nick, however, is lost in time. Somehow he escaped certain death by leaping two hundred years forward to the present day where he finds himself in the care of a mysterious society the Guild. Questioning the limits of the impossible, Nick is desperate to find a way back to the life he left behind. Yet with the future of time itself hanging in the balance, could it be that the girl who first captured his heart has had the answers all along? Can Nick find a way to return to her?"