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Contested Bodies
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Author : Sasha Turner
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2017-05-05
Contested Bodies written by Sasha Turner and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-05 with History categories.
It is often thought that slaveholders only began to show an interest in female slaves' reproductive health after the British government banned the importation of Africans into its West Indian colonies in 1807. However, as Sasha Turner shows in this illuminating study, for almost thirty years before the slave trade ended, Jamaican slaveholders and doctors adjusted slave women's labor, discipline, and health care to increase birth rates and ensure that infants lived to become adult workers. Although slaves' interests in healthy pregnancies and babies aligned with those of their masters, enslaved mothers, healers, family, and community members distrusted their owners' medicine and benevolence. Turner contends that the social bonds and cultural practices created around reproductive health care and childbirth challenged the economic purposes slaveholders gave to birthing and raising children. Through powerful stories that place the reader on the ground in plantation-era Jamaica, Contested Bodies reveals enslaved women's contrasting ideas about maternity and raising children, which put them at odds not only with their owners but sometimes with abolitionists and enslaved men. Turner argues that, as the source of new labor, these women created rituals, customs, and relationships around pregnancy, childbirth, and childrearing that enabled them at times to dictate the nature and pace of their work as well as their value. Drawing on a wide range of sources—including plantation records, abolitionist treatises, legislative documents, slave narratives, runaway advertisements, proslavery literature, and planter correspondence—Contested Bodies yields a fresh account of how the end of the slave trade changed the bodily experiences of those still enslaved in Jamaica.
Turner S Woman
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Author : Jenna Kernan
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Historicals 90s
Release Date : 2005
Turner S Woman written by Jenna Kernan and has been published by Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Historicals 90s this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Fiction categories.
JAKE TURNER WAS A MAN OF SECRETS And even a woman he'd saved from a Crow massacre couldn't be privy to his true mission. But Emma Lancing was a woman of surprises, blossoming like a cactus rose during their arduous trek through the Western wilderness. Resourceful, brave and beautiful, she alone made him question his solitary life by proving to be the perfect partner for his adventurous soul! Emma Lancing's only escape from an abusive, hopeless future lay in trusting a man who made it clear she was not welcome in his world. Even so, she was drawn to Jake Turner's rugged fearlessness and inde.
Turner S Woman
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Author : Jenna Kernan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-10
Turner S Woman written by Jenna Kernan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10 with categories.
With him, she found the courage to break free.Jake Turner could have left the sole survivor of a Crow massacre to die at the hands of her captors. Instead, he bargained for her life. He can't explain what he feels when he looks at her, but knows it jeopardizes his secret mission. Now he's saddled with an unwanted female companion. But Emma Lancing is full of surprises. As bold and quick-witted as she is beautiful, she soon rouses his admiration and ardor as, day-by-day, she turns from liability to the ideal partner.At first, Emma wants only to escaped a bleak future under her abusive father's boot-heel. She'll risk everything to evade his tyranny and vows to never again be ruled by a man. But journeying with Jake makes her long to join him on his adventures and taste passion in his arms! For a woman determined to keep men out of her life, Emma may just have met her match.
Chaucer
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Author : Marion Turner
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-22
Chaucer written by Marion Turner and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.
Even The Women Must Fight
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Author : Karen Gottschang Turner
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2008-05-02
Even The Women Must Fight written by Karen Gottschang Turner and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-02 with Social Science categories.
Even the Women Must Fight "Karen Turner and Phan Thanh Hao have brought scholarship and compassion to a long-neglected aspect of the Vietnam War--the contributions of Vietnamese women to the independence struggle of their nation and the terrible price they paid for their courage and patriotism."--Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. A searing chronicle of wartime experiences, Even the Women Must Fight probes the cultural legacy of North Vietnam's American War. Unflinching in its portrayal of hardship, valor, and personal sacrifice, this wrenching account is nothing short of a revelation, banishing in one bold stroke the familiar image of Vietnamese women as passive onlookers, war brides, prostitutes, or helpless refugees. "Karen Turner has given us a book that will change our understanding of the Vietnam War--and of Vietnam today. I found it enthralling." --Cynthia Enloe, author of The Morning After: * Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War. "A first-rate book that will add substantially to our understanding of the human tragedy associated with one of the most bloody conflicts in recent history."--Robert Brigham, Professor of History, Vassar College.
A Woman In The Case A Story By Miss Bessie Turner
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Author : Bessie A. Turner
language : en
Publisher: Scholarly Pub Office Univ of
Release Date : 2006-09-01
A Woman In The Case A Story By Miss Bessie Turner written by Bessie A. Turner and has been published by Scholarly Pub Office Univ of this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-01 with History categories.
Turner S Woman
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Author : Jenna Kernan
language : en
Publisher: Snow Raven Publishing
Release Date : 2019-01-21
Turner S Woman written by Jenna Kernan and has been published by Snow Raven Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-21 with Fiction categories.
A full-length, stranded-with-a-stranger, opposites-attract love story. Jake Turner could have left the sole survivor of a Crow massacre to die at the hands of her captors. Instead, he bargains for her life. He can't explain what he feels when he looks at her but knows it jeopardizes his secret mission for President Jackson. Now, he's saddled with unwanted baggage, or so he thinks! But Emma Lancing is full of surprises. Bold and quick-witted, she soon rouses his admiration and ardor as, day-by-day, she turns from a liability to the ideal partner. Emma wants only to escape her abusive father and vows to never again be ruled by a man. But journeying with Jake makes her long to join him on his adventures and taste passion in his arms! For a woman determined to keep men out of her life, Emma may just have met her match.
Elizabeth
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Author : Graham Turner
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan
Release Date : 2002
Elizabeth written by Graham Turner and has been published by MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Great Britain categories.
The incisive, fresh and intimate portrait of the Queen by royal insider Graham Turner.Only those lucky enough to be given access to the famously discreet people around the Queenfamily, friends and courtiershave any chance of understanding her real nature. Graham Turner, one of the Daily Telegraphs leading feature writers, has had access to the Royal Family and their inner circle for almost a decade, giving him some revealing insights into this extraordinary lady. He takes us behind the scenes to describe the sometimes raw reality of her relationship with Prince Philip and Prince Charles and the influence of the Queen Mother. He analyzes how she deals with her own children and asks how good a mother has she been, juggling family and work. He gives us rare glimpses behind the formality, showing the Queen on holiday at Sandringham and Balmoralwhere she might serve dinner and clear the table! As featured in the Daily Telegraph and published to coincide with the Queens Golden Jubilee, this is a handsomely illustrated, intimate and surprising portrait of the monarch. The Queen as head of state is a familiar figure to us allbut for the first time Graham Turner shows us the flesh-and-blood woman.
Three Girls From Bronzeville
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Author : Dawn Turner
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2022-06-07
Three Girls From Bronzeville written by Dawn Turner and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"The three girls formed an indelible bond: roaming their community in search of hidden treasures for their 'Thing Finder box,' and hiding under the dining room table, eavesdropping as three generations of relatives gossiped and played the numbers. The girls spent countless afternoons together, ice skating in the nearby Lake Meadows apartment complex, swimming in the pool at the Ida B. Wells housing project, and daydreaming of their futures: Dawn a writer, Debra a doctor, Kim a teacher. Then they came to a precipice, a fraught rite of passage for all girls when the dangers and the harsh realities of the world burst the innocent bubble of childhood, when the choices they made could--and would--have devastating consequences. There was a razor thin margin of error--especially for brown girls"
Nobody Is Ever Missing
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Author : Catherine Lacey
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2014-09-04
Nobody Is Ever Missing written by Catherine Lacey and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-04 with categories.
Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable life in Manhattan, her home, her career and her loving husband. As the people she has left behind scramble to figure out what has happened to her, Elyria embarks on a hitchhiker's odyssey, testing fate by travelling in the cars of overly kind women and deeply strange men, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks. As she journeys from Wellington to Picton, Takaka, Kaikoura and onwards she asks herself, what is it that I am missing? How can a person be missing? Full of mordant humour and uncanny insights, Nobody Is Ever Missing is a startling tale of love, loss, and the dangers encountered in the search for self-knowledge. It is a novel which goes far beyond the story of a physical journey and asks what it means to be human, to be a woman, and to be at the mercy of forces beyond one's own control.