“Hindi ko na kaya. Maghiwalay na tayo!” Gulong-gulo na isip mo sa kaka-analyze. Hindi ka na nakakatulog o nakakapagtrabaho. And each time you try talking sense to your husband, hindi naman nagre-register. Kaya argue ulit. Iyak. Worry. Tiis. “Nasisiraan na ako ng bait,” feeling mo. “We have to separate. Wala nang ibang paraan.” Pero wala na nga ba talaga? Is separation or annulment the only way out of your torment? In this honest and comforting book, Malu Ortiz offers guidance and help. No stranger to suffering, Ortiz shows how you can find hope—even in the midst of a crumbling marriage.
Sometimes, you see an attractive woman and you ask, “Anong meron siya?” ’Yung suot niya halos pareho lang ng sa iyo. ’Yung make-up niya, parang blush-on lang (Naka-blush-on nga ba o glowing skin niya iyon?) So, bakit parang sampung paligo ang lamang ng kagandahan niya sa iyo? Ang sikreto? She’s fit and healthy. Toned ang kanyang katawan, confident ang kanyang tindig, at joyful ang kanyang aura. Ang lahat ng ito ay bunga ng pagiging fit and healthy physically, mentally, and spiritually. Dito, sa Book 3 ng best-selling Ikaw na ang Maganda series, ituturo sa iyo ni Malu Tiongson-Ortiz kung paano ka rin maging fit and healthy para ma-achieve ang mala- effortless na beauty.
Although scholars have emphasized the importance of women’s networks for civil society in twentieth-century Japan, Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan is the first book to tackle the subject for the contentious and consequential nineteenth century. The essays traverse the divide when Japan started transforming itself from a decentralized to a centralized government, from legally imposed restrictions on movement to the breakdown of travel barriers, and from ad hoc schooling to compulsory elementary school education. As these essays suggest, such changes had a profound impact on women and their roles in networks. Rather than pursue a common methodology, the authors take diverse approaches to this topic that open up fruitful avenues for further exploration. Most of the essays in this volume are by Japanese scholars; their inclusion here provides either an introduction to their work or the opportunity to explore their scholarship further. Because women are often invisible in historical documentation, the authors use a range of sources (such as diaries, letters, and legal documents) to reconstruct the familial, neighborhood, religious, political, work, and travel networks that women maintained, constructed, or found themselves in, sometimes against their will. In so doing, most but not all of the authors try to decenter historical narratives built on men’s activities and men’s occupational and status-based networks, and instead recover women’s activities in more localized groupings and personal associations.
This interdisciplinary study combines legal, historical and literary approaches to the practice and theory of marriage in Shakespeare's time. It uses the history of English law and the history of the contexts of law to study a wide range of Shakespeare's plays and poems. The authors approach the legal history of marriage as part of cultural history. The household was viewed as the basic unit of Elizabethan society, but many aspects of marriage were controversial, and the law relating to marriage was uncertain and confusing, leading to bitter disagreements over the proper modes for marriage choice and conduct. The authors point out numerous instances within Shakespeare's plays of the conflict over status, gender relations, property, religious belief and individual autonomy versus community control. By achieving a better understanding of these issues, the book illuminates both Shakespeare's work and his age.
Readers and Mistresses: Kept Women in Victorian Literature identifies kept mistresses in British Victorian narrative and offers ways to understand their experiences. The author discusses kept women characters in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton and Ruth, Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, and examines the methods their authors use to encourage reader empathy. This book also usefully demonstrates how to identify kept women when they are less visible in texts, including in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Dickens' Hard Times and Dombey and Son, and George Gissing's The Odd Women.
