Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives
Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives

Author: Karen Rosenbaum

Publisher:

Published: 2015-11-30

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780988323360

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"These stories sink deep and rise high. And along the way, they gleam with love." -Lavina Fielding Anderson The female protagonists of these fourteen short stories are daughters of devout Mormon women. Some choose to leave the family faith; some choose to stay. All hum the hymns of their forebears. They are women of the American West, but some have also journeyed a bit beyond those borders. One swims in a tributary of the Colorado; another dips her elbow into the Ganges. Each finds her own way to ask (not answer) the big questions. They represent four distinct families. They are separated by mountain ranges and deserts. But they share a common birthright. They are sisters. "Rosenbaum probes the feminine soul with deep empathy." -Levi S. Peterson Karen Rosenbaum's published work comprises short stories, personal essays, and newspaper articles, some of which have won awards from Sunstone, Exponent II, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.

Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and Wives
Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and Wives

Author: Schemmer

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578504759

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Three generations of women from the Simmons family deal with farm life and changes to their way of life in the mid 20th century. Mother Ruth deals with a late in life baby, a hysterectomy, post-natal depression, and infidelity. Unknown to Ruth, daughter Cerise is sexually abused by a cousin. This sets off behaviors which Ruth doesn't understand. Beautiful, bold, and brassy Cerise becomes a teenage bride before daughter Emma is born. Will marriage change Cerise? Will she and her mother ever reconcile? What will happen to Emma?

She Is
She Is

Author: Ryan Baidya & Anjali Kanojia

Publisher: California Foundation Press

Published: 2022-02-03

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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Project She-Is is to look into the abuses of women from all walks of life and express their silent voices that are glass-shatteringly loud and heart penetratingly sharp. We present their voices through the book titled: She Is. The mission of this project is to touch individuals' inner emotions through the vivid representation of abuses of women. We have used the works of artist Phauzdar who dedicated his entire life to expressing the soundless voices of women Mr. Phauzdar persistently has been raising his voice for the past four decades through his artworks. With his artworks and their narratives, we present his voice that resonates with the voices of many. The 264-page book contains 103 artworks and multiple other images. Each plate in this book is a story of wrongdoings endured by not one, not two, but thousands of thousands of women. Each plate speaks for them to us to remind us that we have still a long way to go into making our society more just. We must change, and change soon as a whole society. The attitude towards women has to be unambiguous. She forms the foundation of our society. If we destroy the status, education, and dignity of women, we will destroy society. If we want to form a society that stands up to the highest echelon of principles and nobility bestows the highest glory to a woman and lets her possess the knowledge, dignity, and leadership.

Hired Daughters
Hired Daughters

Author: Mary Montgomery

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2019-02-19

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 025304104X

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Hired Daughters examines a fading tradition of domestic service in which rural girls familiar to ordinary Moroccan families were placed in their homes until marriage. In this tradition of "bringing up," the girls are considered "daughters of the house," and part of their role in the family is to help with the housework. Gradually, this tradition is transforming into one in which workers unfamiliar to their host families are paid a wage and may not stay long, but where the Islamic ethics of charity, religious reward, and gratitude still inform expectations on both sides. Mary Montgomery examines why Moroccans so often talk about their domestic workers as daughters, what this means for workers and employers, and how this is changing in contemporary Morocco. Prioritizing the experiences and perspectives of these women, Montgomery charts the tension that has developed between socially embedded, loyal domestic workers who operate within narratives of kinship and obligation and women who seek greater individualization, privacy, and self-empowerment. Hired Daughters offers a nuanced understanding of a world that bridges public and private, morality and money, family and outsiders. In doing so, it provides an intimate consideration of contemporary Moroccan households as economic enterprises and sites of navigation between the traditional and the global.