Author: Shere Hite
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140104929
Category : Interpersonal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 980

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Author: Miriam Burke
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 1913724824
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147

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‘I couldn’t sleep that night; our conversation was like a trapped bird flying around inside my head. The next morning, I texted to say I wouldn’t be coming back. I lied about having to return to my country to nurse a sick relative. I couldn’t bear to see my story mirrored in his eyes, and to see what we never had. I knew he’d understand.’ Women and Love is a thought-provoking collection of seventeen tightly woven tales about the power of love, all its trials and complications, and the shattered lives it can leave in its wake. The stories explore a huge variety of sorts of love surrounding women in wildly differing settings, and features an unforgettable cast including GPs, burglars, inmates, emigrant cleaners, carers, young professionals, and many more. Navigating heavy themes, with a particular focus on LGBTQ+ experiences, including gender dysphoria and searching for a sperm donor, the stories leave the reader burning with indignation, full of empathy and wonder.

Author: Robin Norwood
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416550216
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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Discusses "loving too much" as a pattern of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors which certain women develop as a reponse to various problems in their family backgrounds.

Author: bell hooks
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063215950
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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“When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.” –Maya Angelou Renowned visionary bell hooks explored the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller All About Love: New Visions. She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love. Now hooks culminates her triumphant trilogy of love with Communion: The Female Search for Love. Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help, and reveals how women of all ages can bring love into every aspect of their lives, for all the years of their lives. Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have.

Author: Max Simon Nordau
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "How Women Love (Soul Analysis)" by Max Simon Nordau. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Francesco Pacifico
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374720886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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A provocative and bracing send-up of modern masculinity, from the author of Class and The Story of My Purity Marcello, an editor and poet, is on the brink of his forties. Like everyone in his life, including his sister-in-law, he’s writing a novel. This novel. This novel will be about women. Love. Growing older. Maybe even taking responsibility. But unfortunately for Marcello, the women in his life resist definition. They flit and flicker constantly between archetype and actuality: sirens and saviors, subordinates and savants, vixens and villains. So Marcello cannot write plainly about love. Instead, he tries to write into the complexities of his many relationships: Eleonora, the junior editor, his former protegeé and sometime lover; Barbara, his claustrophobic girlfriend; his estranged gay sister; his elegant mother. Fresh, frank, and painfully cool, Francesco Pacifico’s The Women I Love dives nakedly into gender, sex, and power. Set in a vivid and alcoholic Italy, it acknowledges and subverts the narrow ways canonical male writers gaze at, and somehow fail to see, women—illuminating the possibility of equity between people in love, in bed, in work, and in life.

Author: Janet Finch
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000633101
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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What are the realities of ‘community care’ – the unpaid care given by hundreds of thousands of women, often in their own homes – for children and adults who are handicapped or chronically sick, or for frail elderly people? Originally published in 1983, this book explores the experiences of such women and the dilemmas which ‘caring’ poses for them. At a time when most women needed to earn money from a paid job, how did ‘carers’ manage to juggle their caring and other domestic responsibilities, and what happened if they had to give up work? Against a background of government policies which favour care ‘by’ the community, the contributors to this book raise crucial issues for social and economic policy. Hilary Graham examines what caring really means and Clare Ungerson asks why women do it. Sally Baldwin and Caroline Glendinning focus on mothers with handicapped children and Fay Wright on single adults with elderly dependants. Alan Walker highlights the dependencies implicit in caring relationships with the elderly. Lesley Rimmer looks at the economic ‘costs’ of care, and Dulcie Groves and Janet Finch examine the invalid care allowance – a carers’ benefit for which married women can never qualify. In exploring the domestic sector of welfare, A Labour of Love was a highly topical contribution to the debate both on welfare provision and on the division of labour between men and women at the time.

Author: Suzanne Venker
Publisher: Post Hill Press
ISBN: 1642931055
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Do you ever ask yourself why dating has become so damn hard? Do you wonder what makes some marriages last and others fall apart? Is your marriage struggling despite your best efforts to keep it together? Women who win at love don’t have a gift you don’t have. What makes them unique, explain author and relationship coach Suzanne Venker and anthropology professor John M. Townsend, Ph.D., is that they aren’t at war with the men in their lives. Women who win at love reject the concept of sexual equality and embrace male and female nature instead. Whether you’re still single and mapping out your life, or you’re divorced or unhappily married, Women Who Win at Love will permanently alter the way you view men and marriage, thus leading to your success in love. But you must be willing to step outside your comfort zone and accept countercultural truths. If you can do that, you’ve found the key. You know how to win at almost everything else. Isn’t it time for you to win at love? In Women Who Win at Love, you will learn: · the eight dating rules that lead to marriage · why super successful women struggle in love · what men want and what women want (hint: they’re not the same) · why love is not a reason to get married · how to avoid the green grass syndrome · why acting like a man lands women in a ditch

Author: Mira Kirshenbaum
Publisher: WmMorrowPB
ISBN: 9780380802227
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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For the first time in history, a generation of women has the power to say no" to mediocre love. It's because we care so much about love that we know nothing less than the best will do. We want love to feel real and strong, to let us be true to ourselves, to be our emotional home. Now Mira Kirshenbaum has identified the make-or-break experiences that lead to just this kind of love. She presents the radical idea that you have to make mistakes before you can find the love of your life. You try on different kinds of love affairs for size, you allow yourself to fall for different kinds of men. These "love adventures" give a sense of freedom and knowledge about yourself and what you want out of life and love. Mira Kirshenbaum describes seven more essential experiences that can mean all the difference between frustrating and fulfilling love. Through a series of diagnostic questions and quizzes that tailor her advice to every woman 's individual situation, she illuminates the path through these eight passages toward a lifetime of love, and illustrates her points with the stories of real women just like you. Rarely has such a wise, inspiring, and comforting voice been available to guide women on the path to a lifetime of real love.

Author: Mona Holmlund
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
ISBN: 9780762400645
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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In 29 essays about extraordinary couples and 40 compelling duotone photos, Holmlumd and Warwick celebrate the profound power of commitment in lesbian relationships.