Friday, February 27, 2015

Sawyer Library Book Display

Here is an alphabetical list of the titles currently up in the Sawyer Library Book display. The display features book covers from the Sawyer Library collection related to African American History and Women's History. Click the hyperlink to see if the book is available, or already checked-out. Please be assured that the books in the display case are not the actual books!

  1. Ad women : how they impact what we need, want, and buy / Juliann Sivulka
  2. Alice Paul : claiming power / J. D. Zahniser & Amelia R. Fry
  3. Articulating rights : nineteenth-century American women on race, reform, and the state / Alison M. Parker
  4. Brilliant women : 18th-century bluestockings / Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz
  5. Climbin' Jacob's ladder : the Black freedom movement writings of Jack O'Dell / edited and introduced by Nikhil Pal Singh
  6. Colored people : a memoir / Henry Louis Gates, Jr
  7. Coming through : voices of a South Carolina Gullah community from WPA oral histories / collected by Genevieve W. Chandler ; edited by Kincaid Mills, Genevieve C. Peterkin, and Aaron McCollough ; foreword by Charles W. Joyner
  8. Contagious representation : women's political representation in democracies around the world / Frank C. Thames and Margaret S. Williams
  9. The counter-revolution of 1776 : slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America / Gerald Horne
  10. Different daughters : a history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the lesbian rights movement / Marcia M. Gallo
  11. Enlightened sexism : the seductive message that feminism's work is done / Susan J. Douglas
  12. Fierce angels : the strong black woman in American life and culture / Sheri Parks
  13. Freedom for women : forging the Women's Liberation Movement, 1953-1970 / Carol Giardina
  14. Great women of the Bible in art and literature / preface Herbert Haag ; commentary Dorothée Sölle ; literary development Joe H. Kirchberger ; art history Anne-Marie Schnieper-Müller ; English translation Joe H. Kirchberger ; project editor Emil Bührer
  15. Growth-oriented women entrepreneurs and their businesses : a global research perspective / edited by Candida G. Brush ... [et al.]
  16. Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War : the undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American quest for equality / Jeffrey T. Sammons and John H. Morrow, Jr
  17. The Harlem renaissance in black and white / George Hutchinson
  18. A home elsewhere : reading African American classics in the age of Obama / Robert B. Stepto
  19. I am your sister : collected and unpublished writings of Audre Lorde / edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall
  20. In her own image : women's self-representation in twentieth-century art / Danielle Knafo
  21. I've known rivers : lives of loss and liberation / Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
  22. Let us fight as free men : black soldiers and civil rights / Christine Knauer
  23. Life notes : personal writings by contemporary Black women / [edited by] Patricia Bell-Scott
  24. Mammographies : the cultural discourses of breast cancer narratives / Mary K. DeShazer
  25. Margaret Fuller, wandering pilgrim / Meg McGavran Murray
  26. Mom & me & mom / Maya Angelou
  27. A museum of their own : National Museum of Women in the Arts / Wilhelmina Cole Holladay ; text contributions by Philip Kopper
  28. My soul looks back, 'less I forget : a collection of quotations by people of color / Dorothy Winbush Riley, editor
  29. The myth of Seneca Falls : memory and the women's suffrage movement, 1848-1898 / Lisa Tetrault
  30. Our bodies, our crimes : the policing of women's reproduction in America / Jeanne Flavin
  31. The paradox of gender equality : how American women's groups gained and lost their public voice / Kristin A. Goss
  32. Phillis Wheatley's poetics of liberation : backgrounds and contexts / John C. Shields
  33. The political thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton : women's rights and the American political traditions / Sue Davis
  34. Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics / by Linda Mizejewski
  35. The richer, the poorer : stories, sketches, and reminiscences / Dorothy West
  36. Rocking the babies / Linda Raymond
  37. Seneca Falls and the origins of the women's rights movement / by Sally McMillen
  38. Singin' and swingin' and gettin' merry like Christmas / Maya Angelou
  39. Tell it with pride : the 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial / Sarah Greenough and Nancy K. Anderson ; with Lindsay Harris and Renée Ater ; foreword by Richard J. Powell
  40. That the blood stay pure : African Americans, Native Americans, and the predicament of race and identity in Virginia / Arica L. Coleman
  41. Thirteen ways of looking at a Black man / Henry Louis Gates, Jr
  42. Those good Gertrudes : a social history of women teachers in America / Geraldine J. Clifford
  43. What is veiling? / Sahar Amer
  44. "When I can read my title clear" : literacy, slavery, and religion in the antebellum South / Janet Duitsman Cornelius
  45. Wild embers / by Anita Richmond Bunkley
  46. Women and authorship in revolutionary America / Angela Vietto
  47. Women, feminism and religion in early Enlightenment England / Sarah Apetrei
  48. Women in American history since 1880 : a documentary reader / [edited by] Nancy J. Rosenbloom
  49. Women street hustlers : who they are and how they survive / Barbara A. Rockell
  50. Working the land : the stories of ranch and farm women in the modern American West / Sandra K. Schackel









 

Friday, February 13, 2015

Frank Wedekind and his play "Spring's Awakening"

In coordination with this year's Pioneer Performance Series production of Spring Awakening, the musical, (based on a 19th century German play by Frank Wedekind), and Professor Jay Rosellini's presentation about the original work and Wedekind’s legacy in drama history, the Sawyer Library is highlighting items in the Library's collection related to the play and its German author.


The contemporary production:
The English translation of Wedekind's play: The original play:


Biography and criticism of Frank Wedekind (1864-1918):
German literature and culture:


Reviews of performances, and articles about the play, from
the New York Times, spanning from 1908 to 2008.


All are available online to Suffolk University students and staff, via
the Historic New York Times database.
  • Isherwood, Charles. "Injecting Real Youth into a Youthful show." New York Times (1923-Current file): 1. Sep 15 2008. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

  • BELLAFANTE, GINIA. "Sex, Repressed and Unleashed." New York Times (1923-Current file): 2. Feb 09 2007. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

  • Isherwood, Charles. "THEATER REVIEW: A Rock 'n' Roll Heartbeat for German Schoolboys of the 19th Century." New York Times (1923-Current file): 1. Jun 16 2006. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

  • SISARIO, BEN. "Duncan Sheik." New York Times (1923-Current file): 1. Feb 26 2006. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

  • Gussow, MEL. "Stage: Juilliard Players do 'Spring Awakening'." New York Times (1923-Current file): 40. Dec 19 1977. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

  • Funke, LEWIS. "Theater: Wedekind's 'the Awakening of Spring': Sex-Education Sermon at Pocket Theater 1891 Play Conveys Air of a Museum Piece." New York Times (1923-Current file): 50. May 13 1964. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

  • Gelb, ARTHUR. "Theatre: Dated Sermon: 'Spring's Awakening'Is an Essay on Sex." New York Times (1923-Current file): 30. Oct 10 1955. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

  • "COURT BARS SEX PLAY: Justice Erlanger Finds "The Awakening of Spring" Unfit for Public." New York Times (1857-1922): 13. May 03 1917. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

  • "THE AWAKENING OF SPRING": A Tragedy of Childhood by the German Playwright, Frank Wedekind." New York Times (1857-1922): 1. Oct 01 1910. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

  • Special Cable to THE NEW,YORK TIMES. "CHILD ACTORS SEEN IN GERMAN SEX PLAY." New York Times (1857-1922): 9. Oct 29 1908. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.


Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Speaker Series Event! Spring's Awakening - Wedekind's Awakening

Sponsored by Mildred F. Sawyer Library and the Performing Arts Office

When: Thursday February 12th, 2015; 1pm-2:15pm
Where: 73 Tremont St, Sawyer Library Poetry Center

Sawyer Library is thrilled to support Suffolk’s Performing Arts Office with a speaker event and hallway display focused on the upcoming 2015 spring musical, Spring Awakening. Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik updated a late nineteenth century German play by Frank Wedekind, Fruhlings Erwachen (Spring’s Awakening), to resonate with a twenty-first century audience, but Wedekind’s main themes of adolescent sexual and emotional exploration remain at the core of the play. Professor Jay Rosellini will delve deeper into the play’s history at the Poetry Center event on Thursday Februrary 12th from 1pm to 2:15pm. Refreshments will be provided!

Spring Awakening’s opening performance is Thursday, February 19th at 7:30pm. Spring Awakening runs on the 19th, 20th and 21st of February 2015 at Suffolk’s C. Walsh Theatre. Get free tickets from the Performing Arts Office, located on the 4th floor of Donahue building.

Next week keep your eyes peeled for a Sawyer Library Blog entry detailing Spring Awakening related resources available here at Mildred F. Sawyer library!