She Is Weeping

She Is Weeping PDF Author: Dannelle Gutarra Cordero
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316512207
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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A new understanding of the rise, expansion and perpetuation of slavery in the Atlantic World.

She Is Weeping

She Is Weeping PDF Author: Dannelle Gutarra Cordero
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316512207
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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Book Description
A new understanding of the rise, expansion and perpetuation of slavery in the Atlantic World.

She is Weeping

She is Weeping PDF Author: Dannelle Gutarra Cordero
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781009057974
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages :

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"She Is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World explores how discourses about emotion have legitimized the accumulation of power in the history of racialized enslaving regimes. This book argues that scientific theories about emotions have played a vital role in the imperial economies of racialized slavery in the Atlantic world. Scientific intellectual production on race, gender, sexuality, and predisposition to enslavement has been primarily premised on notions of emotional difference. These ideas have simultaneously driven the development of devastating body politics by enslaving structures of power. This book aims to contextualize how the emotional foundations of Atlantic slavery reverberate in the disconcerting normalization of contemporary racialized slavery"--

The Weeping Woman

The Weeping Woman PDF Author: Zoe Valdes
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1628725818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Originally published as La mujer que llora (Barcelona: Planeta, 2013).

The Crying Book

The Crying Book PDF Author: Heather Christle
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1948226456
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.

Death Without Weeping

Death Without Weeping PDF Author: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520911563
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live.

La Llorona

La Llorona PDF Author: Joe Hayes
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN: 0938317865
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : es
Pages : 34

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A retelling, in parallel English and Spanish text, of the traditional tale told in the Southwest and in Mexico of how the beautiful Maria became a ghost.

Weep, Woman, Weep

Weep, Woman, Weep PDF Author: Maria DeBlassie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692926895
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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A compelling gothic fairytale by bruja and award-winning writer Maria DeBlassie.The women of Sueño, New Mexico don't know how to live a life without sorrows. That's La Llorona's doing. She roams the waterways looking for the next generation of girls to baptize, filling them with more tears than any woman should have to hold. And there's not much they can do about the Weeping Woman except to avoid walking along the riverbank at night and to try to keep their sadness in check. That's what attracts her to them: the pain and heartache that gets passed down from one generation of women to the next.Mercy knows this, probably better than anyone. She lost her best friend to La Llorona and almost found a watery grave herself. But she survived. Only she didn't come back quite right and she knows La Llorona won't be satisfied until she drags the one soul that got away back to the bottom of the river.In a battle for her life, Mercy fights to break the chains of generational trauma and reclaim her soul free from ancestral hauntings by turning to the only things that she knows can save her: plant medicine, pulp books, and the promise of a love so strong not even La Llorona can stop it from happening. What unfolds is a stunning tale of one woman's journey into magic, healing, and rebirth.

Tired of Weeping

Tired of Weeping PDF Author: Jonina Einarsdottir
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299201333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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In this comprehensive and provocative study of maternal reactions to child death in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, anthropologist Jónína Einarsdóttir challenges the assumption that mothers in high-poverty societies will neglect their children and fail to mourn their deaths as a survival strategy. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 1993 to 1998 among the matrilineal Papel, who reside in the Biombo region, this work includes theoretical discussion of reproductive practices, conceptions of children, childcare customs, interpretations of diseases and death, and infanticide. Einarsdóttir also brings compelling narratives of life experiences and reflections of Papel women.

Picasso's Weeping Woman

Picasso's Weeping Woman PDF Author: Mary Ann Caws
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
ISBN: 9780821226933
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
A collection of memorabilia brings together the art of the Surrealist photographer and artist while documenting her seven-year affair with Pablo Picasso and considering her role as a friend and sexually unconventional woman.

Weeping Under This Same Moon

Weeping Under This Same Moon PDF Author: Jana Laiz
Publisher: Crow Flies Press
ISBN: 0981491006
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Weeping Under This Same Moon, by Jana Laiz is the three time award winning novel, based on the true story of two teenage girls from different cultures, whose paths intertwine, dramatically altering the course of their lives. Mei is an artist whose life has been disrupted by the Vietnam War. Her anguished parents send her away on a perilous escape during the exodus of thousands of Vietnamese refugees known as "Boat People." In Mei's words we learn of the dangers she faces caring for her two younger siblings on a sea journey fraught with hunger, thirst and deprivation, leaving behind everything she loves, to find refuge for her family. Hannah is an angry seventeen-year-old American high school student. Friendless, neurotic, a social misfit - her passion for writing and the environment only intensify her outcast state. Through Hannah's voice, we get inside her head, there to discover a gentle soul beneath all the anger and turmoil. When Hannah learns of the plight of the "Boat People," she is moved to action. Destiny brings Mei and Hannah together in a celebration of cultures and language, food and friendship, and the ultimate rescue of both young women from their own despair. Weeping Under This Same Moon is a testament to the power of love and the spirit of volunteerism; affirming that doing for others does so much for one's self.. Weeping Under This Same Moon won Gold Medal in ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award for the best in Young Adult Fiction The International Reading Association IRA has named Weeping Under This Same Moon a Notable Book for 2009. Arts Reach Alliance - Valley Reads Selection for 2010