Author: Cynthia A. Bond Hopson
Publisher: Touched by Grace Ministry
ISBN: 9780984731114
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Women of Haywood beautifully chronicles the lives of four amazing women in Haywood County, Tennessee, home of Delta blues, Tina Turner's Nutbush City Limits, tall cotton, and a history so rich you will long for a front porch swing, icy lemonade and an endless afternoon to hear their powerful stories of sacrifice, faith, family, empowerment and great expectations. Susie Ella Taylor Ashworth, Nola Walker Bond, Mayme Dell Rives Bowles Dotson and Eva James Davis Rawls poignantly show us what extraordinary looks and feels like!
The Women of Haywood
Author: Cynthia A. Bond Hopson
Publisher: Touched by Grace Ministry
ISBN: 9780984731114
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Women of Haywood beautifully chronicles the lives of four amazing women in Haywood County, Tennessee, home of Delta blues, Tina Turner's Nutbush City Limits, tall cotton, and a history so rich you will long for a front porch swing, icy lemonade and an endless afternoon to hear their powerful stories of sacrifice, faith, family, empowerment and great expectations. Susie Ella Taylor Ashworth, Nola Walker Bond, Mayme Dell Rives Bowles Dotson and Eva James Davis Rawls poignantly show us what extraordinary looks and feels like!
Publisher: Touched by Grace Ministry
ISBN: 9780984731114
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Women of Haywood beautifully chronicles the lives of four amazing women in Haywood County, Tennessee, home of Delta blues, Tina Turner's Nutbush City Limits, tall cotton, and a history so rich you will long for a front porch swing, icy lemonade and an endless afternoon to hear their powerful stories of sacrifice, faith, family, empowerment and great expectations. Susie Ella Taylor Ashworth, Nola Walker Bond, Mayme Dell Rives Bowles Dotson and Eva James Davis Rawls poignantly show us what extraordinary looks and feels like!
Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood
Author: Eliza Fowler Haywood
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195108477
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This edition provides representative texts from Eliza Haywood's career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding. The six fictions and two plays provided here illustrate the many kinds of writing she produced, and the ways she treated important themes and issues.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195108477
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This edition provides representative texts from Eliza Haywood's career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding. The six fictions and two plays provided here illustrate the many kinds of writing she produced, and the ways she treated important themes and issues.
The Cactus
Author: Sarah Haywood
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488078726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller “Fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine will love The Cactus.” —Red magazine An unforgettable love story that shows sometimes you have to embrace the unexpected. Susan Green is like a cactus: you can't get too close. She likes things perfectly ordered and predictable. No surprises. But suddenly confronted with the loss of her mother and the unexpected news that she is about to become a mother herself, Susan’s greatest fear is realized. She is losing control. Enter Rob, the dubious but well-meaning friend of her lazy brother. As Susan’s due date draws near and her world falls further into a tailspin, Susan finds an unlikely ally in Rob. She might have a chance at finding real love and learning to love herself, if only she can figure out how to let go. "I found myself laughing out loud." —Reese Witherspoon
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488078726
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
A Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller “Fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine will love The Cactus.” —Red magazine An unforgettable love story that shows sometimes you have to embrace the unexpected. Susan Green is like a cactus: you can't get too close. She likes things perfectly ordered and predictable. No surprises. But suddenly confronted with the loss of her mother and the unexpected news that she is about to become a mother herself, Susan’s greatest fear is realized. She is losing control. Enter Rob, the dubious but well-meaning friend of her lazy brother. As Susan’s due date draws near and her world falls further into a tailspin, Susan finds an unlikely ally in Rob. She might have a chance at finding real love and learning to love herself, if only she can figure out how to let go. "I found myself laughing out loud." —Reese Witherspoon
Let Us Make Men
Author: D'Weston Haywood
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469643405
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
During its golden years, the twentieth-century black press was a tool of black men's leadership, public voice, and gender and identity formation. Those at the helm of black newspapers used their platforms to wage a fight for racial justice and black manhood. In a story that stretches from the turn of the twentieth century to the rise of the Black Power movement, D'Weston Haywood argues that black people's ideas, rhetoric, and protest strategies for racial advancement grew out of the quest for manhood led by black newspapers. This history departs from standard narratives of black protest, black men, and the black press by positioning newspapers at the intersections of gender, ideology, race, class, identity, urbanization, the public sphere, and black institutional life. Shedding crucial new light on the deep roots of African Americans' mobilizations around issues of rights and racial justice during the twentieth century, Let Us Make Men reveals the critical, complex role black male publishers played in grounding those issues in a quest to redeem black manhood.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469643405
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
During its golden years, the twentieth-century black press was a tool of black men's leadership, public voice, and gender and identity formation. Those at the helm of black newspapers used their platforms to wage a fight for racial justice and black manhood. In a story that stretches from the turn of the twentieth century to the rise of the Black Power movement, D'Weston Haywood argues that black people's ideas, rhetoric, and protest strategies for racial advancement grew out of the quest for manhood led by black newspapers. This history departs from standard narratives of black protest, black men, and the black press by positioning newspapers at the intersections of gender, ideology, race, class, identity, urbanization, the public sphere, and black institutional life. Shedding crucial new light on the deep roots of African Americans' mobilizations around issues of rights and racial justice during the twentieth century, Let Us Make Men reveals the critical, complex role black male publishers played in grounding those issues in a quest to redeem black manhood.
Prophesying Daughters
Author: Chanta M. Haywood
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826262996
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In nineteenth-century America, many black women left their homes, their husbands, and their children to spread the Word of God. Descendants of slaves or former “slave girls” themselves, they traveled all over the country, even abroad, preaching to audiences composed of various races, denominations, sexes, and classes, offering their own interpretations of the Bible. When they were denied the pulpit because of their sex, they preached in tents, bush clearings, meeting halls, private homes, and other spaces. They dealt with domestic ideologies that positioned them as subservient in the home, and with racist ideologies that positioned them as naturally inferior to whites. They also faced legalities restricting blacks socially and physically and the socioeconomic reality of often being part of a large body of unskilled laborers. Jarena Lee, Julia Foote, Maria Stewart, and Frances Gaudet were four women preachers who endured such hardships because of their religious convictions. Often quoting from the scripture, they insisted that they were indeed prophesying daughters whom God called upon to preach. Significantly, many of these women preachers wrote autobiographies in which they present images of assertive, progressive, pious women—steadfast and unmovable in their religious beliefs and bold in voicing their concerns about the moral standing of their race and society at large. Chanta M. Haywood examines these autobiographies to provide new insight into the nature of prophesying, offering an alternative approach to literature with strong religious imagery. She analyzes how these four women employed rhetorical and political devices in their narratives, using religious discourse to deconstruct race, class, and gender issues of the nineteenth century. By exploring how religious beliefs become an avenue for creating alternative ideologies, Prophesying Daughters will appeal to students and scholars of African American literature, women’s studies, and religious studies.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826262996
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
In nineteenth-century America, many black women left their homes, their husbands, and their children to spread the Word of God. Descendants of slaves or former “slave girls” themselves, they traveled all over the country, even abroad, preaching to audiences composed of various races, denominations, sexes, and classes, offering their own interpretations of the Bible. When they were denied the pulpit because of their sex, they preached in tents, bush clearings, meeting halls, private homes, and other spaces. They dealt with domestic ideologies that positioned them as subservient in the home, and with racist ideologies that positioned them as naturally inferior to whites. They also faced legalities restricting blacks socially and physically and the socioeconomic reality of often being part of a large body of unskilled laborers. Jarena Lee, Julia Foote, Maria Stewart, and Frances Gaudet were four women preachers who endured such hardships because of their religious convictions. Often quoting from the scripture, they insisted that they were indeed prophesying daughters whom God called upon to preach. Significantly, many of these women preachers wrote autobiographies in which they present images of assertive, progressive, pious women—steadfast and unmovable in their religious beliefs and bold in voicing their concerns about the moral standing of their race and society at large. Chanta M. Haywood examines these autobiographies to provide new insight into the nature of prophesying, offering an alternative approach to literature with strong religious imagery. She analyzes how these four women employed rhetorical and political devices in their narratives, using religious discourse to deconstruct race, class, and gender issues of the nineteenth century. By exploring how religious beliefs become an avenue for creating alternative ideologies, Prophesying Daughters will appeal to students and scholars of African American literature, women’s studies, and religious studies.
Ladies of the Lake
Author: Haywood Smith
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 031231695X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Red Hot Club" delivers a delightful story of four sisters who must spend the summer together so they can inherit their grandmother's lake estate.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 031231695X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Red Hot Club" delivers a delightful story of four sisters who must spend the summer together so they can inherit their grandmother's lake estate.
The Rising of the Women
Author: Meredith Tax
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839765747
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
How working-class socialist women changed the course of American history, with a foreword by labor journalist Sarah Jaffe. In this landmark study, Meredith Tax charts the actions of women in working-class, feminist, and socialist movements during the first upsurge of the American labor movement. From the pioneering efforts of Chicago women in the 1880s to the unprecedented New York City shirtwaist strike in 1909 to the 1912 “bread and roses” strike of immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and from the Socialist Party to the Industrial Workers of the World, Tax gives us a rich narrative of women workers’ struggles. Caught between the hostility of male trade unionists, the sexism of male socialist organizers, and the assumptions of middle-class feminists, women workers forged their own demands for economic and political justice. In doing so, Tax argues, a unique form of socialist-feminist class consciousness was created, whose ripples touched the suffrage movement. First published in 1980, The Rising of the Women is a classic of feminist labor history, presented here with a new introduction by the author and a new foreword by Sarah Jaffe.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839765747
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
How working-class socialist women changed the course of American history, with a foreword by labor journalist Sarah Jaffe. In this landmark study, Meredith Tax charts the actions of women in working-class, feminist, and socialist movements during the first upsurge of the American labor movement. From the pioneering efforts of Chicago women in the 1880s to the unprecedented New York City shirtwaist strike in 1909 to the 1912 “bread and roses” strike of immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and from the Socialist Party to the Industrial Workers of the World, Tax gives us a rich narrative of women workers’ struggles. Caught between the hostility of male trade unionists, the sexism of male socialist organizers, and the assumptions of middle-class feminists, women workers forged their own demands for economic and political justice. In doing so, Tax argues, a unique form of socialist-feminist class consciousness was created, whose ripples touched the suffrage movement. First published in 1980, The Rising of the Women is a classic of feminist labor history, presented here with a new introduction by the author and a new foreword by Sarah Jaffe.
Rising of the Women
Author: Meredith Tax
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Women of Bayberry Cove
Author: Cynthia Thomason
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459228855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Louise Duncan has been passed over for a promotion because—according to her boss—she's too intimidating. A useful quality in court, he admits, but she scares her own clients. "Take some time off to work on your people skills" is his advice. Louise heads for Bayberry Cove, North Carolina, and a visit with her best friend. Just as she begins to relax—thanks in part to the intriguing Navy commander who's living in the cottage she wants to rent—she meets a group of women who need her legal expertise and her take-no-prisoners attitude. So Attorney Louise Duncan gets ready to fight for justice. Unfortunately, the commander is on the opposing team. And he's about to see a different side of Louise.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459228855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Louise Duncan has been passed over for a promotion because—according to her boss—she's too intimidating. A useful quality in court, he admits, but she scares her own clients. "Take some time off to work on your people skills" is his advice. Louise heads for Bayberry Cove, North Carolina, and a visit with her best friend. Just as she begins to relax—thanks in part to the intriguing Navy commander who's living in the cottage she wants to rent—she meets a group of women who need her legal expertise and her take-no-prisoners attitude. So Attorney Louise Duncan gets ready to fight for justice. Unfortunately, the commander is on the opposing team. And he's about to see a different side of Louise.
A Voice from the South
Author: Anna Julia Cooper
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A Voice from the South was published in 1892 by Anna Julia Cooper, an educator who was one of the first two African-American women to be awarded a master’s degree. Since then it has been recognized as one of the first works of Black feminist theory. Setting forth a perspective that would be described as “intersectional” in contemporary terms, Cooper explores her own lived experience as an educated African-American woman, and advocates for the education of African-American women as a necessary means of achieving racial equality. However, her marked emphasis on women’s roles in the household has been critiqued by later theorists as a concession to the 19th century “cult of domesticity”—or, alternatively, a strategic engagement with the dominant cultural view towards women in her time. A Voice from the South continues to be read and analyzed today for its pioneering role in African-American female scholarship. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
A Voice from the South was published in 1892 by Anna Julia Cooper, an educator who was one of the first two African-American women to be awarded a master’s degree. Since then it has been recognized as one of the first works of Black feminist theory. Setting forth a perspective that would be described as “intersectional” in contemporary terms, Cooper explores her own lived experience as an educated African-American woman, and advocates for the education of African-American women as a necessary means of achieving racial equality. However, her marked emphasis on women’s roles in the household has been critiqued by later theorists as a concession to the 19th century “cult of domesticity”—or, alternatively, a strategic engagement with the dominant cultural view towards women in her time. A Voice from the South continues to be read and analyzed today for its pioneering role in African-American female scholarship. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.