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Author: Veronique le Jeune
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2004-05-04
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780810991644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the changes that occur during puberty and encourages young people to be less self-critical and to accept, be patient with, and care for their changing bodies.
Author: Betty Friedan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780674468856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1976, this modern feminist classic brings back years of struggle for those who were there, and recreates the past for readers who were not yet born during these struggles for opportunity and respect to which women can now feel entitled. In changing women's lives, the women's movement has changed everything.
Author: Katrina Karkazis
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008-11-11
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0822389215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens when a baby is born with “ambiguous” genitalia or a combination of “male” and “female” body parts? Clinicians and parents in these situations are confronted with complicated questions such as whether a girl can have XY chromosomes, or whether some penises are “too small” for a male sex assignment. Since the 1950s, standard treatment has involved determining a sex for these infants and performing surgery to normalize the infant’s genitalia. Over the past decade intersex advocates have mounted unprecedented challenges to treatment, offering alternative perspectives about the meaning and appropriate medical response to intersexuality and driving the field of those who treat intersex conditions into a deep crisis. Katrina Karkazis offers a nuanced, compassionate picture of these charged issues in Fixing Sex, the first book to examine contemporary controversies over the medical management of intersexuality in the United States from the multiple perspectives of those most intimately involved. Drawing extensively on interviews with adults with intersex conditions, parents, and physicians, Karkazis moves beyond the heated rhetoric to reveal the complex reality of how intersexuality is understood, treated, and experienced today. As she unravels the historical, technological, social, and political forces that have culminated in debates surrounding intersexuality, Karkazis exposes the contentious disagreements among theorists, physicians, intersex adults, activists, and parents—and all that those debates imply about gender and the changing landscape of intersex management. She argues that by viewing intersexuality exclusively through a narrow medical lens we avoid much more difficult questions. Do gender atypical bodies require treatment? Should physicians intervene to control the “sex” of the body? As this illuminating book reveals, debates over treatment for intersexuality force reassessment of the seemingly natural connections between gender, biology, and the body.
Author: Thaddeus J. Williams
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2024-09-10
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0310160413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover profound insight into God's attributes and learn practical ways to live a God-centered life that bridges the gap between abstract theology and awe-inspiring devotion. The chief reason we exist is to glorify and enjoy God. But for many, God remains a vague cloud of cosmic kindness, a super-sized projection of ourselves into the sky, or an impossible-to-please killjoy. Who is God, really? Who is this being we should thank for our next breath? Written in the great tradition of classic discipleship works like A. W. Tozer's The Pursuit of God, J.I. Packer's Knowing God, and R.C. Sproul's The Holiness of God, this discipleship guide stands out as our generation's invitation to good theology that yields profound, reverent, God-centered living. Bestselling author of Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth invites you to live a more theologically robust and biblical life as you learn how art, cinema, music, philosophy, psychology, apologetics, church history, and most importantly Scripture, can deepen your understanding and enjoyment of God. This book is perfect for those who: Are looking to deepen their faith and understanding of theology. Feel that their grasp of theology has weakened their pure enjoyment of God. Want to rise to the call of selfless discipleship amid the moral chaos of our world. Throughout the book, you'll find stories from brilliant living theologians and leaders, including Joni Eareckson-Tada, Michael Horton, John Perkins, Fred Sanders, each sharing how a particular divine attribute has impacted their personal lives.
Author: Andrew P. Morrison
Publisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Published: 1998-05-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1461631173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author exposes the many masks of shame and examines the way it paralyzes us, individually and collectively. He draws on powerful case stories to illustrate the language and impact of shame and how it can be overcome.
Author: Max A. Hunter
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2022-09-30
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1666703079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith Speech Is My Hammer, Max Hunter draws on memoir and his own biography to call his readers to reimagine the meaning and power in literacy. Defining literacy as a “spectrum of skills, abilities, attainments, and performances,” Hunter focuses on dispelling “literacy myths” and discussing how Black male artists, entertainers, professors, and writers have described their own “literacy narratives” in self-conscious, ambivalent terms. Beginning with Frederick Douglass’s My Bondage My Freedom, W. E. B. Dubois’s Soul of Black Folks, and Langston Hughes’s Harlem Renaissance–memoir The Big Sea, Hunter conducts a literary inquiry that unearths their double-consciousness and literacy ambivalence. He moves on to reveal that for many contemporary Black men the arc of ambivalence rises even higher and becomes more complex, following the civil rights and the Black Power movements, and then sweeping sharply upward once again during the War on Drugs. Hunter provides rich illustrations and probing theses that complicate our commonsense reflections on their concealed angst regarding Black authenticity, respectability politics, and masculinity. Speech Is My Hammer moves the reader beyond considering literacy in normative terms to perceive its potential to facilitate transformative conversations among Black males.
Author: Stephen Mead
Publisher: StephenMeadBooks
Published: 2008-07-01
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1438209223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe time is 1970, A Day In The Life, and what a difference this day will make in the lives of the Griffin family. They, of course, have no knowledge of this, preoccupied by the past and ambivalent about the future. They are also amazed that, with their innate eccentricities, they have not died out. In "Where Time Goes," a saga for and about Misfits, the richness and mystery of daily life unfolds in unexpected ways, testing dreams, beliefs, bonds. An intricately embroidered cloth, the Griffins watch the unraveling of their lives, feeling its texture leaving their grasp. In the process, the reader is left waiting as well, held in suspense, to see what, if any, new durable fabric will form.
Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2017-06-13
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 0316270768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexie's bond with his mother Lillian was more complex than most. She plunged her family into chaos with a drinking habit, but shed her addiction when it was on the brink of costing her everything. She survived a violent past, but created an elaborate facade to hide the truth. She selflessly cared for strangers, but was often incapable of showering her children with the affection that they so desperately craved. She wanted a better life for her son, but it was only by leaving her behind that he could hope to achieve it. It's these contradictions that made Lillian Alexie a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated, and very human woman. When she passed away, the incongruities that defined his mother shook Sherman and his remembrance of her. Grappling with the haunting ghosts of the past in the wake of loss, he responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is a stunning memoir filled with raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine, much less survive. An unflinching and unforgettable remembrance, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me is a powerful, deeply felt account of a complicated relationship.
Author: H. Mikel Feilen
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2020-11-09
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 1642989622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Monster that Lives Within by H. Mikel Feilen, is an enlightening, informative, and inspirational look at a misunderstood and hideous disease, epilepsy. In the United States alone, more than three million people suffer with some form of a seizure disorder, and that number increases every year. Many epileptics keep their malady a secret until the monster makes an appearance, and their secret is out. Mr. Feilen believes all epileptics should be advocates of their disease, to be proud of who the
Author: Anne Lamott
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-11-10
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0698189744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New York Times bestseller from the author of Help, Thanks, Wow, Hallelujah Anyway, Almost Everything, and Dusk, Night, Dawn. Lamott's long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace. Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It’s an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us—our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives. Lamott writes of forgiveness, restoration, and transformation, how we can turn toward love even in the most hopeless situations, how we find the joy in getting lost and our amazement in finally being found. Profound and hilarious, honest and unexpected, the stories in Small Victories are proof that the human spirit is irrepressible.
