It S A Woman S World A Memoir
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It S A Woman S World A Memoir
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Author : Marie Fenton Griffing
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2013-04-10
It S A Woman S World A Memoir written by Marie Fenton Griffing and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"It's a Woman's World" describes Marie's intriguing experiences as a professional woman in a man's world while a working woman and a widow. As described in the book there are many successes and tragedies in her long life. Those who never met Marie will learn how this woman not only endured but triumphed throughout her 87 years. Marie felt a sisterhood with other women from the time she was a child. She organized each chapter of her book with the name of an important woman in her life. She requested that her memoir be published posthumously by Lila Lizabeth Weisberger, the woman friend she had planned to write about in her final chapter. Sadly, Marie never saw her memoir in print but Lila Weisberger is fulfilling her wish with this publication. Although Marie's life ended before she wrote the last chapters one unexpected writing is added to this book. When she and her husband Bill, were driving home from what turned out to be her last appointment with her oncologist, Marie wrote on a yellow pad which Bill later found on the floor of the car. This writing is included as her final words
Repossessing The World
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Author : Helen M. Buss
language : en
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Repossessing The World written by Helen M. Buss and has been published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Psychology categories.
Why does it seem as if everyone is writing memoirs, and particularly women? The current popularity of memoir verifies the common belief that we each have a story to tell. And we do...especially women. Memoirs are not only representations of women’s personal lives but also of their desire to repossess important parts of our culture, in which women’s stories have not mattered. Beginning with her own motivations for writing memoirs, Helen M. Buss examines the many kinds of memoir written by contemporary women: memoirs about growing up, memoirs about traumatic events, about relationships, about work. In writing memoirs, these women publicly assert that their lives have mattered. They reshape the memoir, a form as old as the middle ages and as young as today, into a social discourse that blends the personal with the political, the self with the significant other, literature with history, and fiction with autobiography and essay. Buss urges readers to use their reading experience to help themselves understand and write the significance of their own lives. Repossessing the World is the first book-length critical inquiry into women’s use of a form that has often been dismissed as less important than autobiography, less professional than the novel, and less intellectual than the formal essay. Buss demonstrates that the memoir makes its own art, not only through selective borrowing from these genres but also through the unique way that the tripartite narrative voice of the memoir constructs the personal and public experience of the memorist as significant to our cultural moment.
At Home In The World
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Author : Joyce Maynard
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2010-04-01
At Home In The World written by Joyce Maynard and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
New York Times bestselling author of Labor Day With a New Preface When it was first published in 1998, At Home in the World set off a furor in the literary world and beyond. Joyce Maynard's memoir broke a silence concerning her relationship—at age eighteen—with J.D. Salinger, the famously reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye, then age fifty-three, who had read a story she wrote for The New York Times in her freshman year of college and sent her a letter that changed her life. Reviewers called her book "shameless" and "powerful" and its author was simultaneously reviled and cheered. With what some have viewed as shocking honesty, Maynard explores her coming of age in an alcoholic family, her mother's dream to mold her into a writer, her self-imposed exile from the world of her peers when she left Yale to live with Salinger, and her struggle to reclaim her sense of self in the crushing aftermath of his dismissal of her not long after her nineteenth birthday. A quarter of a century later—having become a writer, survived the end of her marriage and the deaths of her parents, and with an eighteen-year-old daughter of her own—Maynard pays a visit to the man who broke her heart. The story she tells—of the girl she was and the woman she became—is at once devastating, inspiring, and triumphant.
Ask Me About My Uterus
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Author : Abby Norman
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-03-06
Ask Me About My Uterus written by Abby Norman and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women's health issues In the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly hospitalized in excruciating pain, but the doctors insisted it was a urinary tract infection and sent her home with antibiotics. Unable to get out of bed, much less attend class, Norman dropped out of college and embarked on what would become a years-long journey to discover what was wrong with her. It wasn't until she took matters into her own hands -- securing a job in a hospital and educating herself over lunchtime reading in the medical library -- that she found an accurate diagnosis of endometriosis. In Ask Me About My Uterus, Norman describes what it was like to have her pain dismissed, to be told it was all in her head, only to be taken seriously when she was accompanied by a boyfriend who confirmed that her sexual performance was, indeed, compromised. Putting her own trials into a broader historical, sociocultural, and political context, Norman shows that women's bodies have long been the battleground of a never-ending war for power, control, medical knowledge, and truth. It's time to refute the belief that being a woman is a preexisting condition.
No Country Woman
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Author : Zoya Patel
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-08-14
No Country Woman written by Zoya Patel and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'An ambitious, nuanced and confident debut: Patel writes with passion, curiosity and purpose.' Maxine Beneba Clarke, bestselling and award winning author of The Hate Race, Foreign Soil, The Patchwork Bike and Carrying The World A fresh and exciting feminist memoir about what it means to never feel at home where you live. 'I was born in a hospital in Suva, Fiji. I can't recall ever seeing the building on my trips back to the city, first as a child or later as an adult. I imagine it in shades of blue and brown, the plastic waiting room chairs covered in the fine film of moisture that creeps over everything there. It is not a place I've thought of often, but I think of it now and wonder how it has shaped me. I am Fijian-Indian, and have lived in Australia since I was three years old. Memories of my early life in Fiji are limited to flashes, like an old film projector running backwards. I remember a blue dress, a trip on a boat where my father handed me a dried, floating starfish that I clutched in my fingers, determined not to lose it back to the ocean.' No Country Woman is the story of never knowing where you belong. It's about not feeling represented in the media you consumed, not being connected to the culture of your forebears, not having the respect of your peers. It's about living in a multicultural society with a monocultural focus but being determined to be heard. It's about challenging society's need to define us and it's a rallying cry for the future. It's a memoir full of heart, fury and intelligence - and the book we need right now.
Leninism Stalinism And The Women S Movement In Britain 1920 1939
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Author : Sue Bruley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-09
Leninism Stalinism And The Women S Movement In Britain 1920 1939 written by Sue Bruley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-09 with History categories.
This book offers a detailed examination of the interaction between socialism and feminism through the lens of one particular socialist organisation, the Communist Party of Great Britain, from its foundation in 1920 until the outbreak of the Second World War. The study of socialism and feminism in the CPGB can be divided into four major areas – the party’s concept of socialism and the role of women in a future society; the party’s relationship to the feminist movement; the work of the party in relation to specific women’s issues; and how the sexual division of labour operated within the party. The author here defines and explains the socialist and feminist traditions in Britain and describes the ways in which they interacted, both at the level of theory and of practice. Sources from party press and reports to interviews with party members and non-party written and oral evidence and accounts feed into this thorough chronological treatment which outlays the changes within the CPGB during the 1920s and 30s in relation to feminism.
Afterglow
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Author : Eileen Myles
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2018-02-01
Afterglow written by Eileen Myles and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Skinny's Book of the Year, 2018 In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly made an indelible impact on the writer's way of being. Over the course of sixteen years together, Myles was devoted to the pit bull and their linked quality of life. And starting from the emptiness following Rosie's death, Afterglow launches a playful and incisive investigation into the mostly mutually beneficial, sometimes reprehensible power dynamics between pet and pet-owner. At the same time, it reimagines Myles's experiences with alcoholism and recovery, intimacy and mourning, celebrity and politics, spirituality and family history, while joyously transcending the parameters of memoir. Moving from an imaginary talk show where Rosie is interviewed by Myles's childhood puppet, to a critical reenactment of the night Rosie mated with another pit bull; from shimmering poetic transcriptions of video footage taken during their walks, to Rosie's final enlightened narration from the afterlife, this totally singular text combines elements of science fiction, screenplay, monologue, and lucid memory to get to the heart of how and why we dedicate our existence to our dogs.
The Woman S World
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Author : Oscar Wilde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
The Woman S World written by Oscar Wilde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with History of women categories.
Encyclopedia Of The Harlem Renaissance A J
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Author : Cary D. Wintz
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2004
Encyclopedia Of The Harlem Renaissance A J written by Cary D. Wintz and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with African American arts categories.
From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments in African-American history in the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, in two-volumes and over 635 entries, is the first comprehensive compilation of information on all aspects of this creative, dynamic period. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of Harlem Renaissance website.
The Woman S World
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
The Woman S World written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with categories.