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Author: Judith B. Geller
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780393046663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes what happened to the Titanic survivors on that awful night and how the experience shaped their future lives.
Author: Gill Paul
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 2018-04-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780008271503
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"It is 1912. Against all odds, the Titanic is sinking. As desperate hands emerge from the icy water, a few lucky row boats float in the darkness. On the boats are four survivors. Reg, a handsome young steward working in the first-class dining room; Annie, an Irishwoman travelling to America with her children; Juliet, a titled English lady who is pregnant and unmarried, and George, a troubled American millionaire. In the wake of the tragedy, each of these people must try to rebuild their lives. But how can life ever be the same again when you've heard over a thousand people dying in the water around you?"--Page [4] of cover.
Author: Marsden Wagner
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-05-21
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780520256330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn in the USA examines issues including midwifery and the safety of out-of-hospital birth, how the process of becoming a doctor can adversely affect both practitioners and their patients, and why there has been a rise in the use of risky but doctor-friendly interventions, including the use of Cytotec, a drug that has not been approved by the FDA for pregnant women. Most importantly, this investigation, supported by many troubling personal stories, explores how women can reclaim the childbirth experience for the betterment of themselves and their children."--Jacket.
Author: Liat Ben-Moshe
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2020-05-19
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1452963509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration Prison abolition and decarceration are increasingly debated, but it is often without taking into account the largest exodus of people from carceral facilities in the twentieth century: the closure of disability institutions and psychiatric hospitals. Decarcerating Disability provides a much-needed corrective, combining a genealogy of deinstitutionalization with critiques of the current prison system. Liat Ben-Moshe provides groundbreaking case studies that show how abolition is not an unattainable goal but rather a reality, and how it plays out in different arenas of incarceration—antipsychiatry, the field of intellectual disabilities, and the fight against the prison-industrial complex. Ben-Moshe discusses a range of topics, including why deinstitutionalization is often wrongly blamed for the rise in incarceration; who resists decarceration and deinstitutionalization, and the coalitions opposing such resistance; and how understanding deinstitutionalization as a form of residential integration makes visible intersections with racial desegregation. By connecting deinstitutionalization with prison abolition, Decarcerating Disability also illuminates some of the limitations of disability rights and inclusion discourses, as well as tactics such as litigation, in securing freedom. Decarcerating Disability’s rich analysis of lived experience, history, and culture helps to chart a way out of a failing system of incarceration.
Author: Karin Stallard
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780896081970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes the impact of social service cutbacks, changes in the job market, and victim-blaming myths like the Black matriarchy theses of Daniel Patrick Moynihan and George Gilder.
Author: Ruth Sidel
Publisher: Penguin Mass Market
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComparing the affluent U.S. of today to the Titanic (which, as a luxury liner, nevertheless lacked lifeboats for steerage women and children), Sidel contends in this realistic appraisal that despite the women's movement, social and economic trends of the last 20 years, especially the divorce rate and mechanization of industry, have reduced to bare survival hundreds of thousands of already impoverished women and children. Many are older women, battered wives or female heads of families, asserts Sidel (who interviewed several of them), and they are often victims of sex and racial discrimination in the workplace or of government cutbacks in human services. Following Sweden's example, the U.S., she argues, should develop policies to strengthen family life through universal entitlements; should pay women better wages, provide family planning, maternity leaves and prenatal care, along with day and after-school care.
Author: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
Publisher: Astra Publishing House
Published: 2022-03-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1662650817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Dazzling... the tone is hopeful, resilient and accepting. Marked by the diversity of experiences shared, the wealth of intimate details, and the total lack of sensationalism, this is an astonishing report on the quest for sexual liberation." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Touching, joyful, defiant -- and honest." —The Economist, a best book of the year Celebrate African women’s unique journeys toward sexual pleasure and liberation in this empowering, subversive collection of intimate stories. In these confessional pages, women control their own bodies and desires, work toward healing their painful pasts, and learn to assert their sexual power. Weaving a rich tapestry of experiences with a sex positive outlook, The Sex Lives of African Women is an empowering, subversive book that celebrates the liberation, individuality, and joy of African women's multifaceted sexuality. From a queer community in Egypt, to polyamorous life in Senegal, and a reflection on the intersection of religion and pleasure in Cameroon, feminist author Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah explores the many layers of love and desire, its expression, and how it defines who we are. Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to African women around the world about sex for her blog, “Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women.” For this book she spoke to over 30 African women across the globe while chronicling her own journey toward sexual freedom.
Author: Alex Poppe
Publisher:
Published: 2017-04-10
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780996490559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGirl, World is a collection of stories about survival: women discovering their untapped strengths and their metamorphoses into becoming whole. Mixing lyricism, stark realism, emotional depth, and vivacious language, Alex Poppe has crafted unforgettable female characters who navigate through places where the big political picture is captured in their personal stories.
Author: Mary Cadogan
Publisher: London : Gollancz
Published: 1978-01-01
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780575024182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOverzicht m.b.t. de invloed van twee Wereldoorlogen op de verhalende lektuur voor kinderen en volwassenen en de beschrijving van de rol van britse vrouwen en kinderen in oude en recente boeken.
Author: Ian Jack
Publisher: Grove Press, Granta
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780964561175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do we cope with the public and private disaster? Jasmina Tesanovic on being bombed in Belgrade -- "The Diary of a Political Idiot"; Ian Jack on good behavior aboard the Titanic; Joy Williams on the necessary death of her dog Hawk; Edward Said on the shame of his body; James Buchan inside Saddam's Iraq. Plus: Edmund White, and the debut of a novelist unknown when this issue was published -- Zadie Smith.
