Author: Lisa DiCaprio
Publisher: Cengage Learning
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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"Anthologizes primary source materials about women's lives and presents an overview of the variety of women's experiences dating from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary Bosnia ... [including] Plato, Christine de Pizan, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Virginia Woolf, as well as sources that have never before been published in English. The collection ... ranges widely in terms of topic, social class, and geography; both male- and female-authored texts are included to present a range of normative, descriptive, and reflective materials"--Back cover
Author: M. A. J. Romme
Publisher: Gwasg y Bwthyn
ISBN: 9781906254223
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Provides the evidence to show it's possible to overcome problems with hearing voices and take back control of one's life.
Author: Grace Cavalieri
Publisher: Santa Fe Writers Project
ISBN: 1942892071
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Other Voices, Other Lives is a selection of poems, plays, and interviews drawn from over 40 years of work by one of America's most beloved and influential women of letters. Grace Cavalieri writes of women's lives, loves, and work in a multitude of voices. The book also includes interview excerpts from her public radio series, The Poet & the Poem. Her incisive interviews with Robert Pinsky, Lucille Clifton, and Josephine Jacobsen offer profound insights into the writing life.
Author: Alyse Nelson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118184777
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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How women around the world are leading powerful change Women's progress is global progress. Where there is an increase in women's university enrollment rates, women's earnings, and maternal health, and a reduction in violence against women, we see more prosperous communities, better educated, healthier families, and the preservation of equal human rights. Yet globally, women remain the most consistently under-utilized resource. Vital Voices calls for and makes possible transformative leadership around the world. In Vital Voices, CEO Alyse Nelson shares the stories of remarkable, world-changing women, as well as the story of how Vital Voices was founded, crossing lines that typically divide. For 15 years, Vital Voices has brought together women who want to enable others to become change agents in their governments, advocates for social justice, and supporters of democracy. They equip women with management and business development skills to expand their enterprises and create jobs in their communities. Their voices, stories, and hard-earned lessons—shared here for the first time—are deeply authentic and truly vital. Features interviews and first-person accounts of global leaders, such as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, and Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Prize-winning Burmese pro-democracy leader, as well as business leaders Draws on the work of the Vital Voices, the organization founded by Hillary Clinton in 1997 as a government initiative that transformed into a leading non-profit, which enables a network of 10,000 emerging women leaders in politics, human rights, and economic development in 127 countries. These women have gone on to mentor and train more than 500,000 Focuses on the key elements of the Vital Voices five-step model of transformational leadership, including how to find a voice, lead with purpose, cross lines that divide, and more Through the firsthand accounts of trail-blazing leaders, Vital Voices introduces unforgettable, inspiring women who are shaping our world.
Author: Brenda Longfellow
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477323589
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Literary evidence is often silent about the lives of women in antiquity, particularly those from the buried cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Even when women are considered, they are often seen through the lens of their male counterparts. In this collection, Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland have gathered an outstanding group of scholars to give voice to both the elite and ordinary women living on the Bay of Naples before the eruption of Vesuvius. Using visual, architectural, archaeological, and epigraphic evidence, each author considers how women in the region interacted with their communities through family relationships, businesses, and religious practices, in ways that could complement or complicate their primary social roles as mothers, daughters, and wives. They explore women-run businesses from weaving and innkeeping to prostitution, consider representations of women in portraits and graffiti, and examine how women expressed their identities in the funerary realm. Providing a new model for studying women in the ancient world, Women’s Lives, Women’s Voices brings to light the day-to-day activities of women of all classes in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Author: Carol Berkin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781555533519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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A collection of writings that discuss how women have dealt with specific issues that have influenced their lives throughout history, including sex, marriage, women's work, religion, politics, and the legal system.
Author: Sophie White
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469654059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
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In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded. Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to understand how the enslaved viewed and experienced their worlds. As they testified, these individuals charted their movement between West African, indigenous, and colonial cultures; they pronounced their moral and religious values; and they registered their responses to labor, to violence, and, above all, to the intimate romantic and familial bonds they sought to create and protect. Their words--punctuated by the cadences of Creole and rich with metaphor--produced riveting autobiographical narratives as they veered from the questions posed by interrogators. Carefully assessing what we can discover, what we might guess, and what has been lost forever, Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive.
Author: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429900350
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author's own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itself In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling and much-admired Memory of Fire trilogy—brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole—Galeano offers a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political. Beginning with blue algae, the earliest of life forms, these 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family's immigration to Uruguay in the early twentieth century, the fate of love letters intercepted by a military dictatorship, abuses by the rich and powerful, the latest military outrages, and the author's own encounters with all manner of living matter, including generals, bums, dissidents, soccer stars, ducks, and trees. Out of these meditations emerges neither anger nor bitterness, but a celebration of a blessed life in a harsh world. Poetic and passionate, scathing and lyrical, delivered with Galeano's inimitable mix of gentle comedy and fierce moral judgment, Voices of Time is a deeply personal statement from a great and beloved writer.
Author: Christopher M. Gerrard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781785708503
Category : Dunbar, Battle of, Dunbar, Scotland, 1650
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Chloe Rachel Gallaway
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947708365
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Every Woman Has a Braving It All Story...She Lived to Tell It. VOICES Braving It All Book Series(TM) is about awakening to the Voice within, through a soul-deep communication, ignited by an intuitive writing experience led by author Chloe Rachel Gallaway. The raw and real story of being human takes countless unique forms--the journey from struggle to triumph, brokenness to empowerment, and lack to abundance. With no maps through these woods, how do we arrive and what experiences shape our path? Gallaway and ten awe-inspiring women share their Braving It All stories, connecting the dots of the soul, illuminating truth from within. With a symphony of whispers from one woman's heart to another, transformational messages are unearthed from inside the unresolved story and brought to light. Finding Voice is the way forward--it is an awakening of the mind, an opening of the heart, a shift in the old narrative from living powerless to embodying authentic power. It is about finding ourselves inside of our story. Featuring stories by: *Chloe Rachel Gallaway, "Becoming a Writer and the Birth of the VOICES Book Series" *Karen Ann Boise, "Blue Skies, Blurry Vision" *Joan Teagle Brumage, LCSW, "My Dance of Life" *Nicole "Nikki" Bruton-Phillips, "Snowflakes Become Water" *Lori Cheramie, "Is It All Black and White?" *Connie C. Cox, LCSW, "She Who Rides The Wind" *Rusanne Jourdan, "Now I Know..." *Karen Dorey Lovelien, TBG, "Soulcraft of a Starseed" *Andrea Roberts Parham, "The Immeasurable Gifts of Sophia" *Shelley A. Rael, MS, RDN, "Transcending the Baby Bump in the Road" *M. Jacquelyn Simpson, "The Lady in Blue: Unveiling Soul Magic" Scroll up, click the buy button & get your copy today!
