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A Woman's Odyssey Into Africa

Author : Hanny Lightfoot Klein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131771332X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book A Woman's Odyssey Into Africa written by Hanny Lightfoot Klein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the intriguing story of one woman’s mid-life flight from her stultified, middle-class, psychologically crippling, and unfulfilled existence into a world of high adventure, danger, hardship, and endurance, which ultimately leads her to autonomy and recognition. In her new book, A Woman’s Odyssey Into Africa, Hanny Lightfoot-Klein chronicles three year-long solo backpacking treks through remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa. In the process, she discovers the mainsprings of strength within herself as she follows her own drummer, finding the courage to face the darkest and most secret convolutions of her own mind. She weaves the story of her journey through the men, women, and children she meets, and the dangers and adventures she faces as a lone woman traveler--part and parcel of the path she has chosen to take. She infuses readers at any stage of life, especially women, with the courage to do what their individual drummer dictates, as she did, to find fulfillment in life. Lightfoot-Klein assures readers in her book: “Even a life of quiet desperation is not beyond redemption. Change starts with a reassessment of the distortions in self image one has been programmed to accept. It starts with an inner rebellion, a realization that something has been amiss and a desire to set it right, if only to leave a better heritage for one’s children. And then, most important of all, it begins with a single, wild, breathless moment, where one picks up an unaccustomed load and steps off into the unknown . . . ” Her message is truly for everyone.

A Woman's Odyssey Into Africa

Author : Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315784045
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book A Woman's Odyssey Into Africa written by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the intriguing story of one woman's mid-life flight from her stultified, middle-class, psychologically crippling, and unfulfilled existence into a world of high adventure, danger, hardship, and endurance, which ultimately leads her to autonomy and recognition. In her new book, A Woman's Odyssey Into Africa, Hanny Lightfoot-Klein chronicles three year-long solo backpacking treks through remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa. In the process, she discovers the mainsprings of strength within herself as she follows her own drummer, finding the courage to face the darkest and most secret convolutions of her own mind. She weaves the story of her journey through the men, women, and children she meets, and the dangers and adventures she faces as a lone woman traveler--part and parcel of the path she has chosen to take.She infuses readers at any stage of life, especially women, with the courage to do what their individual drummer dictates, as she did, to find fulfillment in life. Lightfoot-Klein assures readers in her book: "Even a life of quiet desperation is not beyond redemption. Change starts with a reassessment of the distortions in self image one has been programmed to accept. It starts with an inner rebellion, a realization that something has been amiss and a desire to set it right, if only to leave a better heritage for one's children. And then, most important of all, it begins with a single, wild, breathless moment, where one picks up an unaccustomed load and steps off into the unknown . . . " Her message is truly for everyone.

Prisoners of Ritual

Author : Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of Ritual written by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1989 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume focuses on the psychosexual and social effects of female genital mutilation, an ancient, deeply entrenched custom saturating the larger part of Africa. Over a period of six years, Author Hanny Lightfoot-Klein trekked through outlying areas of Sudan, Kenya, and Egypt, where she lived with a number of African families. What she learned by way of in-depth personal interviews and firsthand observation has enabled her to add a previously unknown and often astonishing dimension to our knowledge of ritual practices and human sexuality. This valuable book will be extremely helpful to professionals and scholars in women's studies, social psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatry, gynecology, sexology, as well as cross-cultural and African studies. It should also interest anyone who is concerned with male circumcision in the United States.

There Is No Me Without You

Author : Melissa Fay Greene
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596912936
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book There Is No Me Without You written by Melissa Fay Greene and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of Praying for Sheetrock offers a revealing study of the human cost of the AIDS pandemic in Africa, in an inspirational portrait of Heregwoin Tefera, a widowed recluse in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, who has become the caretaker of sixty children orphaned and abandoned by the AIDS crisis. Reprint.

A Black Woman's Odyssey Through Russia and Jamaica

Author : Nancy Prince
Publisher : Markus Wiener Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Black Woman's Odyssey Through Russia and Jamaica written by Nancy Prince and published by Markus Wiener Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader follows the author's experiences of Russia - experiencing local customs, the St. Petersburg flood and the Decembrist revolt - to her time in Jamaica as a missonary to the newly emancipated blacks.

An Afghan Woman's Odyssey

Author : Farooka Gauhari
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803271166
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book An Afghan Woman's Odyssey written by Farooka Gauhari and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Afghan Woman's Odyssey is a first-person account of the tragedy that disrupted daily life in Afghanistan after the Communist coup of April 1978, events that eventually contributed to the volatile Taliban rule. This is the tale of a woman desperate to find her missing husband and her painful decision finally to abandon the search and to leave the country with her three children. Her story typifies the kinds of human-rights violations that became common practice after the Soviet invasion and made way for the later abuses of the Taliban.

Elizabeth of Toro

Author : Elizabeth (Princess of Toro.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth of Toro written by Elizabeth (Princess of Toro.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Foster Care Odyssey: A Black Girl's Story

Author : Theresa Cameron
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604736212
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (362 download)

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Book Synopsis Foster Care Odyssey: A Black Girl's Story by : Theresa Cameron

Download or read book Foster Care Odyssey: A Black Girl's Story written by Theresa Cameron and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned by her teenage mother in 1954 to a overwhelmingly white charity organization so begins Theresa's life as a 'ward of the state' of New York. She shares the heartbreaking struggle to survive in a foster care system where children's welfare often seemed the lowest priority.

Coolie Woman

Author : Gaiutra Bahadur
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022604338X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Coolie Woman written by Gaiutra Bahadur and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize: “[Bahadur] combines her journalistic eye for detail and story-telling gifts with probing questions . . . a haunting portrait.” —The Independent In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a “coolie” —the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. Now, in Coolie Woman, her great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Gaiutra Bahadur excavates not only her great-grandmother’s story but also the repressed history of some quarter of a million other coolie women, shining a light on their complex lives. Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyages—traumatic “middle passages” —only to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions, and, especially, sexual exploitation. As Bahadur explains, however, it is precisely their sexuality that makes coolie women stand out as figures in history. Greatly outnumbered by men, they were able to use sex with their overseers to gain various advantages, an act that often incited fatal retaliations from coolie men and sometimes larger uprisings of laborers against their overlords. Complex and unpredictable, sex was nevertheless a powerful tool. Examining this and many other facets of these remarkable women’s lives, Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival, a gripping story of a double diaspora—from India to the West Indies in one century, Guyana to the United States in the next—that is at once a search for roots and an exploration of gender and power, peril and opportunity.

Atlantic Bonds

Author : Lisa A. Lindsay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146963113X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Bonds written by Lisa A. Lindsay and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828–1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was taken captive, fought in African wars, built and rebuilt a livelihood, and led a revolt against white racism, finally becoming a successful merchant and the founder of a wealthy, educated, and politically active family. Tracing Vaughan's journey from South Carolina to Liberia to several parts of Yorubaland (present-day southwestern Nigeria), Lisa Lindsay documents this "free" man's struggle to find economic and political autonomy in an era when freedom was not clear and unhindered anywhere for people of African descent. In a tour de force of historical investigation on two continents, Lindsay tells a story of Vaughan's survival, prosperity, and activism against a seemingly endless series of obstacles. By following Vaughan's transatlantic journeys and comparing his experiences to those of his parents, contemporaries, and descendants in Nigeria and South Carolina, Lindsay reveals the expansive reach of slavery, the ambiguities of freedom, and the surprising ways that Africa, rather than America, offered new opportunities for people of African descent.

Graveyard for Dreamers

Author : Joan Baxter
Publisher : Porters Lake, N.S. : Pottersfield Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Graveyard for Dreamers written by Joan Baxter and published by Porters Lake, N.S. : Pottersfield Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Odyssey

Author : Nathan Irvin Huggins
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307760243
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Black Odyssey written by Nathan Irvin Huggins and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of North American slavery both on the enslaved and on those who enslaved them. It explores the ways in which a nominally free society perverted its own freedoms and denied the fact that an inhuman institution lies at the heart of the American experience. The authority and eloquence of this work make it essential reading for all who want to understand the American past and present.

Blood, Land, and Sex

Author : Lyda Favali
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253109841
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Blood, Land, and Sex written by Lyda Favali and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-18 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Eritrea, state, traditional, and religious laws equally prevail, but any of these legal systems may be put into play depending upon the individual or individuals involved in a legal dispute. Because of conflicting laws, it has been difficult for Eritreans to come to a consensus on what constitutes their legal system. In Blood, Land, and Sex, Lyda Favali and Roy Pateman examine the roles of the state, ethnic groups, religious groups, and the international community in several key areas of Eritrean law -- blood feud or murder, land tenure, gender relations (marriage, prostitution, rape), and female genital surgery. Favali and Pateman explore the intersections of the various laws and discuss how change can be brought to communities where legal ambiguity prevails, often to the grave harm of women and other powerless individuals. This significant book focuses on how Eritrea and other newly emerging democracies might build pluralist legal systems that will be acceptable to an ethnically and religiously diverse population.

U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights

Author : Kelly J. Shannon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249674
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights written by Kelly J. Shannon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women's Human Rights explores the integration of American concerns about women's human rights into U.S. policy toward Islamic countries since 1979, reframing U.S.-Islamic relations and challenging assumptions about the drivers of American foreign policy.

Lesbian Step Families

Author : Ellen Cole
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317790510
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Lesbian Step Families written by Ellen Cole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families’definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish parenting tasks, cope with homophobia, and define and interpret their experiences. An intensive feminist qualitative study, the book offers guidelines for counselors and lesbian step families for creating healthy, functioning family structures and environments. It is the first book to concentrate exclusively on lesbian step families rather than on lesbian mothering in general. In Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love, you’ll explore in detail the different kinds of step relationships that are developed and what factors may lead to the different types of step mothering in lesbian step families. The book helps you understand these relationships and parent roles through in-depth discussions of: how a step mother and legal mother who live together negotiate and organize parenting and homemaking tasks how members of lesbian step families define and create the step mother role strategies family members use to define and cope with oppression how sexism is transmitted within the family and how mothering may limit and/or contribute to female liberation the opinions and viewpoints of the children of these families The findings in Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love challenge traditional views of mothering and fathering as gender and biologically based activities; they indicate that lesbian step families model gender flexibility and that the mothers and step mothers share parenting--both traditional mothering and fathering--tasks. This allows the biological mother some freedom from motherhood as well as support in it. With insight such as this, you will be prepared to help a client, a loved one, or yourself develop and maintain healthy family relationships.

Experiencing Abortion

Author : Eve Kushner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113657803X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Experiencing Abortion written by Eve Kushner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’ve had an abortion and are feeling isolated and vulnerable, Experiencing Abortion will remind you that you are not alone and that you must feel your emotions in order to accept your choice and heal. Each woman responds to abortion in her own way, yet, as this sensitive, insightful book shows, there are many similarities among women’s post-abortion emotions. Sharing in the firsthand, personal experiences of other women who speak for themselves in this book will help you come to terms with anguish, stress, grief, anger, or any other overwhelming emotions you might be feeling. Don’t go on ignoring or blocking out your feelings. Learn to incorporate your experience into your sense of self in a healthy way. By reading Experiencing Abortion, you will learn about the multiple feelings and reactions abortion can trigger, the process of accepting an abortion, and the struggle to control fertility without treating your body as an enemy. Offering you a safe, honest, and supportive environment in which to explore your feelings about your abortion, this book discusses many important topics, including: the way moods can overtake you after abortion how avoiding your experience can defer acceptance, which in turn leads to denial and guilt how pregnancy, abortion, and subsequent bleeding can affect your perception of your body the struggle to enjoy sex after your abortion your heightened awareness of gender after an abortion how your intimate relationships may change after an abortion the psychological reasons you may sometimes forgo birth control accepting yourself after a second abortion Experiencing Abortion will help women who have had an abortion understand that it is a complex physical and emotional experience that doesn’t necessarily end after a week or a month or a year. It will also help professionals in abortion facilities and therapists who offer pre- and post-abortion counseling understand how abortion affects each individual differently and how they might help women work through their feelings both before and after abortion. Partners, friends, and families will find this book helpful and informative as they try to help their loved one get through this sometimes difficult, even traumatic, experience.

African-American Odyssey

Author : Albert S. Broussard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book African-American Odyssey written by Albert S. Broussard and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the professional career and private lives of J. McCants Stewart--a Reconstruction-era lawyer, minister, politician, and political activist--and his descendants over three generations, providing an epic account of an African-American family in America. (Adapted from book jacket)