The Amado Women
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The Amado Women
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Author : Désirée Zamorano
language : en
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Release Date : 2014-06-09
The Amado Women written by Désirée Zamorano and has been published by Cinco Puntos Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-09 with Fiction categories.
Southern California is ground zero for upwardly mobile middle-class Latinas. Matriarchs like Mercy Amado—despite her drunken, philandering (now ex-) husband—could raise three daughters and become a teacher. Now she watches helplessly as her daughters drift apart as adults. The Latino bonds of familia don't seem to hold. Celeste, the oldest daughter who won't speak to the youngest, is fiercely intelligent and proud. She has fled the uncertainty of her growing up in Los Angeles, California, to seek financial independence in San Jose. Her sisters did the same thing but very differently. Sylvia married a rich but abusive Anglo, and, to hide away, she immersed herself in the suburbia of her two young daughters. And Nataly, the baby, went very hip into the free-spirited Latino art world, working on her textile creations during the day and waiting on tables in an upscale restaurant by night. Everything they know comes crashing down in a random tragic moment and Mercy must somehow make what was broken whole again. Désirée Zamorano says that she was taken aback by the negative reaction to Sonia Sotomayor's "wise Latina" remark. And she is appalled by stereotypical rendering of Latinas in mainstream literature, saying that true-to-life middle-class Latinas are invisible in the fabric of American culture. Zamorano is a playwright, Pushcart Prize nominee for fiction, and the director of the Community Literacy Center at Occidental College. She also collaborates with InsideOut Writers, a program that works with formerly incarcerated youth.
Confronting Change Challenging Tradition
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Author : Gertrude M. Yeager
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 1997-08-01
Confronting Change Challenging Tradition written by Gertrude M. Yeager and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-08-01 with History categories.
Understanding the role of women in Latin American history demands a full examination of their activities in the region's political, economic, and domestic spheres. Toward this end, historian Gertrude M. Yeager has assembled the multidisciplinary collection Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which Latin American women have shaped-and have been shaped by-the traditional practices and ideologies of their cultures. The selections are arranged in two sections: Culture and the Status of Women, and Reconstructing the Past.
Jorge Amado
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Author : Earl Fitz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-28
Jorge Amado written by Earl Fitz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Jorge Amado is simultaneously one of Brazil's most prolific and widely read novelists and one of its most controversial. Seeking to offer for his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil, this volume provides an introduction and chronology to Amado's life, followed by a comprehensive survey of his major works by some of the world's leading Latin American Studies scholars. As the case of Jorge Amado is central to the emergence of Brazilian literature in the twentieth century, this volume of original essays will place him in clearer critical perspective for English language readers.
The Killing Fields Harvest Of Women
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Author : Diana Washington Valdez
language : en
Publisher: Peace at the Border
Release Date : 2021-06-02
The Killing Fields Harvest Of Women written by Diana Washington Valdez and has been published by Peace at the Border this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-02 with True Crime categories.
Explosive findings by a journalist's daring investigation into the systematic murders of girls and women in Juarez, Mexico.
Female And Male In Latin America
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Author : Ann M. Pescatello
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 1973-01-15
Female And Male In Latin America written by Ann M. Pescatello and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-01-15 with History categories.
A pioneering study of Latin American women that views contemporary perceptions and realities of women’s lives, women’s roles in modernization versus tradition, the conflicts of class struggles among women, and the future of women's participation in Cuban society.
Women And Work
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Author : Liz Sperling
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-08-26
Women And Work written by Liz Sperling and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-26 with Business & Economics categories.
This title was first published in 2000: The 1990s have been heralded as the 'age of women' based on the facts that, globally, more women are benefiting from formal education and are in paid employment in greater numbers than ever. As such, the possibility that an age of post-feminism has been reached, in which battles for women’s basic rights have largely been won, is implied. This book, based on research across academic disciplines, challenges such claims. Using women and work as the basis analysis, the authors consider whether such things as flexible working, equal opportunities initiatives and even contemporary conceptions of citizenship are universally beneficial to women. The book presents research ranging from issues of immigrant sex-workers in Japan to the implementation of EU equality policies and raises the ironic question that, as the global economy increasingly depends on women, could a growing but uneasy alliance be developing between capitalism and feminism?
The Woman In Latin American And Spanish Literature
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Author : Eva Paulino Bueno
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2012-04-19
The Woman In Latin American And Spanish Literature written by Eva Paulino Bueno and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Noted scholars of Latin American and Spanish literature here explore the literary history of Latin America through the representation of iconic female characters. Focusing both on canonical novels and on works virtually unknown outside their original countries, the essays discuss the important ways in which these characters represent nature, history, race and sex, the effects of globalization, and the unknowable “other.” They examine how both male and female writers portray Latin American women, reinterpreting the dynamics between the genders across boundaries and historical periods. Drawing on recent theories in literary criticism, gender, and Latin American studies, these essays illuminate the women characters as conduits for the appreciation of their countries and cultures.
The Educated Woman
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Author : Katharina Rowold
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-02-09
The Educated Woman written by Katharina Rowold and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-09 with Education categories.
The Educated Woman is a comparative study of the ideas on female nature that informed debates on women’s higher education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in three western European countries. Exploring the multi-layered roles of science and medicine in constructions of sexual difference in these debates, the book also pays attention to the variety of ways in which contemporary feminists negotiated and reconstituted conceptions of the female mind and its relationship to the body. While recognising similarities, Rowold shows how in each country the higher education debates and the underlying conceptions of women’s nature were shaped by distinct historical contexts.
Women In Financial Services
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Author : Giuliana Birindelli
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-02-28
Women In Financial Services written by Giuliana Birindelli and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-28 with Business & Economics categories.
This book explores gender diversity in the financial system, focusing especially on regulations, disclosure standards, theories and literature on the relationship between women in atypical positions and bank performance, female representation in governance bodies of banks and insurance companies, the gender pay gap and the gender balance in Central Banks. The topics are examined highlighting the progress towards gender equality (SDG 5) and the room for improvement in financial services with implications for policymakers, regulators and researchers in both finance and gender studies.
Gender Discourse And Desire In Twentieth Century Brazilian Women S Literature
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Author : Cristina Ferreira Pinto
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2004
Gender Discourse And Desire In Twentieth Century Brazilian Women S Literature written by Cristina Ferreira Pinto and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This work studies the poetic and narrative strategies 20th century Brazilian women writers use to achieve new forms of representation of the female body, sexuality and desire, while deconstructing cultural myths of femininity and female behaviour.