The Uncommon Housewife
The Uncommon Housewife

Author: Uboho Bassey

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2015-09-22

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 151440530X

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The author claims not to be a poet, yet she has reached out in a series of heartfelt and thought-provoking poems that takes us through her outlook to life, living, and the world in general. The Uncommon Housewife expresses in the most simplistic of terms her experiences, opinions, and views about life, love, family, and society. If you are reading this, congratulations! You are a victor. A survivor. You made it through several heartbreaks, strings of adversity, series of disappointments, a cocktail of delays and denials, and maybe a couple of failures and losses. Life has happened to you and made you stronger and wiser than you ever thought you could be. In spite of it all, you persevered. Let the collection of poems in this book The Uncommon Housewife accompany you on your reminiscences through life and refresh your perception of daily existence and its complexities.

The Uncommon Woman
The Uncommon Woman

Author: Susie Larson

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2008-07-01

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 1575673975

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Imagine yourself in a pool of strong swimmers, all swimming clockwise. You, a Christian woman, are swimming counter-clockwise...counter-cultural, if you will. This book is for the woman who longs to rise up out of the stereotypical behavior of gossip, insecurity, pettiness, and small dreams. She has an unfulfilled desire to be someone who goes against the grain of the common for the sole purpose of living a life with conviction. The woman who reads this book is ready to believe in her deep value, ready to accept her high calling, and ready to make a difference in a world in need of her influence. Go ahead, swim against the stream to become The Uncommon Woman.

How to Be an American Housewife
How to Be an American Housewife

Author: Margaret Dilloway

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-08-05

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 110118924X

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A mother-daughter story about the strong pull of tradition, and the lure and cost of breaking free of it. When Shoko decided to marry an American GI and leave Japan, she had her parents' blessing, her brother's scorn, and a gift from her husband-a book on how to be a proper American housewife. As she crossed the ocean to America, Shoko also brought with her a secret she would need to keep her entire life... Half a century later, Shoko's plans to finally return to Japan and reconcile with her brother are derailed by illness. In her place, she sends her grown American daughter, Sue, a divorced single mother whose own life isn't what she hoped for. As Sue takes in Japan, with all its beauty and contradictions, she discovers another side to her mother and returns to America unexpectedly changed and irrevocably touched.

Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein

Author: Claudia Barnett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1135660662

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Wendy Wasserstein: A Casebook contains in-depth discussions of the playwright's major works, including her recent play 1 An American Daughter. Wasserstein's plays and essays are explored within diverse traditions, including Jewish storytelling, women's writing, and classical comedy. Critical perspectives include feminist, Bakhtinian, and actor/director. Comparisons with other playwrights, such as Rachel Crothers, Caryl Churchill, and Anton Chekhov, provide context and understanding. An interview with the playwright and an annotated bibliography are included.

Daily Life of Women [3 volumes]
Daily Life of Women [3 volumes]

Author: Colleen Boyett

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2020-12-07

Total Pages: 1309

ISBN-13: 1440846936

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Indispensable for the student or researcher studying women's history, this book draws upon a wide array of cultural settings and time periods in which women displayed agency by carrying out their daily economic, familial, artistic, and religious obligations. Since record keeping began, history has been written by a relatively few elite men. Insights into women's history are left to be gleaned by scholars who undertake careful readings of ancient literature, examine archaeological artifacts, and study popular culture, such as folktales, musical traditions, and art. For some historical periods and geographic regions, this is the only way to develop some sense of what daily life might have been like for women in a particular time and place. This reference explores the daily life of women across civilizations. The work is organized in sections on different civilizations from around the world, arranged chronologically. Within each society, the encyclopedia highlights the roles of women within five broad thematic categories: the arts, economics and work, family and community life, recreation and social customs, and religious life. Included are numerous sidebars containing additional information, document excerpts, images, and suggestions for further reading.

Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World
Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World

Author: Mary Ann Tétreault

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9781570030161

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The contributors use a variety of theoretical approaches to analyze how women as a class have experienced specific twentieth-century revolutions. They identify the issues that prompted women to participate in the struggles, the roles they played, the contributions they made, and their hopes for better lives for themselves as women in the post-revolutionary society.

Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein

Author: Gail Ciociola

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-08-31

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1476607168

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Although Wasserstein calls herself a humanist, her works reflect a political rhetoric, if cloaked in humor, that she herself could not imagine to be anything but feminist. Shaped by literal, cultural, and materialistic feminist theory, Wasserstein illustrates the impact of the women's movement on the lives of her female characters. The five major works, with their near-sequel effect, let us see her characters' college years, mid-twenties, mid-thirties and middle age. Through the use of a newly devised critical context called fem-en(act)ment, or textual or performance drama that is guided by feminist disposition thematically and stylistically, the author here allows for a fresh reading of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture

Author: Sandra Buckley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-03-07

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 1134763530

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Offering extensive coverage, this Encyclopedia is a new reference that reflects the vibrant, diverse and evolving culture of modern Japan, spanning from the end of the Japanese Imperialist period in 1945 to the present day. Entries cover areas such as literature, film, architecture, food, health, political economy, religion and technology and they range from shorter definitions, histories or biographies to longer overview essays giving an in-depth treatment of major issues. With over 700 alphabetically arranged entries, this Encyclopedia will be an invaluable reference tool for students of Japanese and Asian Studies, as well as providing a fascinating insight into Japanese culture for the general reader. Suggestions for further reading, a comprehensive system of cross-referencing, a thematic contents list and an extensive index all help navigate the reader around the Encyclopedia and on to further study.

The Naked Heart: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud)
The Naked Heart: The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud)

Author: Peter Gay

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1996-10-17

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 0393315150

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Renowned historian Peter Gay examines the "inner life" of the middle class, depicting a bourgeoisie far more open and far less hypocritical than its critics have maintained. The figures on these pages include Dickens, Flaubert, Delacroix, Millet, Bocklin, George Eliot, William James and more. Photos.