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Grandmothers on Guard

Author : Jennifer Johnson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477322752
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Grandmothers on Guard written by Jennifer Johnson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For about a decade, one of the most influential forces in US anti-immigrant politics was the Minuteman Project. The armed volunteers made headlines patrolling the southern border. What drove their ethno-nationalist politics? Jennifer L. Johnson spent hundreds of hours observing and interviewing Minutemen, hoping to answer that question. She reached surprising conclusions. While the public face of border politics is hypermasculine—men in uniforms, fatigues, and suits—older women were central to the Minutemen. Women mobilized support and took part in border missions. These women compel us to look beyond ideological commitments and material benefits in seeking to understand the appeal of right-wing politics. Johnson argues that the women of the Minutemen were motivated in part by the gendered experience of aging in America. In a society that makes old women irrelevant, aging white women found their place through anti-immigrant activism, which wedded native politics to their concern for the safety of their families. Grandmothers on Guard emphasizes another side of nationalism: the yearning for inclusion. The nation the Minutemen imagined was not only a space of exclusion but also one in which these women could belong.

Grandmothers on Guard

Author : Jennifer Johnson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477322779
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Grandmother Power

Author : Paola Gianturco
Publisher : powerHouse Books
ISBN 13 : 1576876276
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Grandmother Power written by Paola Gianturco and published by powerHouse Books. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether fighting for the environment, human rights, education, health, or cultural preservation, a new generation of activist grandmothers across the world are using their strength, wisdom, and hearts to make a difference. An unheralded grandmothers' movement is changing the world. Insurgent grandmothers are using their power to fight for a better future for grandchildren everywhere. And they are succeeding. Grandmother Power profiles activist grandmothers in fifteen countries on five continents who tell their compelling stories in their own words. Grandmothers in Canada, Swaziland, and South Africa collaborate to care for AIDS orphans. Grandmothers in Senegal convince communities to abandon female genital mutilation. Grandmothers in India become solar engineers and bring light to their villages while those in Peru, Thailand, and Laos sustain weaving traditions. Grandmothers in Argentina teach children to love books and reading. Other Argentine grandmothers continue their 40-year search for grandchildren who were kidnapped during the nation's military dictatorship. Irish grandmothers teach children to sow seeds and cook with fresh, local ingredients. Filipino grandmothers demand justice for having been forced into sex slavery during World War II. Guatemalan grandmothers operate a hotline and teach parenting. In the Middle East, Israeli grandmothers monitor checkpoints to prevent abuse and the UAE's most popular television show stars four animated grandmothers who are surprised by contemporary life. Indigenous grandmothers from thirteen countries conduct healing rituals to bring peace to the world. Gianturco's full-color images and her heroines' amazing tales make Grandmother Power an inspiration for everyone, and it cements the power of grandmothers worldwide. Please visit http://globalgrandmotherpower.com/ for additional information. All author royalties will be donated to the Stephen Lewis Foundation's Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign, which provides grants to African grandmothers who are raising AIDS orphans.

The Grandmothers' Movement

Author : May Chazan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773581782
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Grandmothers' Movement written by May Chazan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of the African AIDS crisis older women mobilized across two continents and an ocean of difference to change the lives of innumerable African women confronting insecurity, violence, grief, and illness. In 2006 the Stephen Lewis Foundation launched its Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign, seeking to organize Canadians in solidarity with "Africa's grandmothers" - older caregivers who had lost their children to AIDS and were left to raise their grandchildren. Four years later, some 10,000 Canadians had joined the campaign. May Chazan's The Grandmothers' Movement explores the encounters, ideas, and circumstances that shaped this remarkable story of solidarity and struggle. Based on interviews, family trees, personal journals, and archival materials, Chazan provides the first analysis of the movement. Through personal reflections and powerful vignettes from nearly a decade of participation in grandmothers' lives in South Africa and Canada, she presents untold narratives and brings new humanity to the AIDS crisis in Africa. The Grandmothers' Movement tells a story of hope while challenging conventional understandings of the global AIDS response, solidarity, and old age. It is about the power of older women to alter their own lives through collective action and about the influence of transnational cooperation to effect positive global change.

Grandmothers for God

Author : Lois Ryan
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Grandmothers for God written by Lois Ryan and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is lovingly compiled using the blog written by Grandma Lois. Lois believed that by writing her thoughts and sharing them with other grandparents and their grandchildren as well, she could lead others to know her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Fairly Smooth Operator: My Life Occasionally at the Tip of the Spear

Author : Caroline Walsh
Publisher : Koehler Books
ISBN 13 : 9781646635221
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Fairly Smooth Operator: My Life Occasionally at the Tip of the Spear written by Caroline Walsh and published by Koehler Books. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When people ask why I joined the Coast Guard, I respond that I was twenty-two, blond, and fit. In most military services that is guaranteed sexual harassment. Why not join the one with the ocean breeze?" Caroline's journey from enlisted Coast Guard member to CIA analyst includes boot camp, Hamptons yachters named Gary, meaning making in Guantanamo Bay, and a session with a Veterans Affairs-assigned therapist who has fourteen cats, one of which cures migraines. She takes you from serious topics of sexual harassment and suicide to laughing about how her predator's moment to make her prey was oddly interrupted. You are a fly on the wall during her botched FBI polygraph and will be scratching your head about her CIA classmate who U-turns during their surveillance-detection training like she just saw a sign for a sale at Macy's.

Grandmothers

Author : Marguerite Guzman Bouvard
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815605348
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Grandmothers written by Marguerite Guzman Bouvard and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of stories and vignettes-a multicultural anthology of women from diverse ethnic backgrounds—reveals how the mantle of culture and family is passed from woman to woman. As they vividly explode stereotypes, the pieces illustrate not only the courage of older women, but the received wisdom of younger women. Granddaughters remember their grandmothers as extraordinary women at once defiant and tradition bound, loving and stubbornly dogmatic. Some reinvent their grandmothers, others discover them for the first time. For example, Mary Helen Washington unmasks the word "freedpeople" in her grandmother's story to reveal the widespread aggression against supposedly freed slaves. Beryl Minkle's Bubba tells a tale of cultural and religious injustice that includes the oppression of women. Noted Native American writer Paula Gunn Allen reflects on her different cultural threads, as she searches for her Lebanese great-grandmother for whom she was named. Contributors include: Paula Gunn Allen, Marilou Awiakta, Robin Becker, Marguerite Guzman Bouvard, Laurence B. Calver, Christina Chiu, Michelle Cloonan, Martha Collins, Jean Gould, Padma Hejmadi, Anna Kimmage, Florence Ladd, Monty S. Leitch, Aimee Liu, Beryl Minkle, Naomi Shihab Nye, Patricia Traxler, Ana Aloma Velilla, Annelise Wagner, Mary Helen Washington

Fine Time

Author : 牽絲文化ciansih
Publisher : 牽絲文化
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1085 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Fine Time written by 牽絲文化ciansih and published by 牽絲文化. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 1085 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have one chance, you can make the choice of love all over again. You know what? A lot of times, what we think is the truth is actually that's not true. There's an old Chinese saying.

Winter of Despair

Author : Cora Harrison
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 144830346X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (483 download)

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Download or read book Winter of Despair written by Cora Harrison and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilkie Collins must prove his brother is innocent of murder in the second of the compelling new Gaslight mystery series. November, 1853. Inspector Field has summoned his friends Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to examine a body found in an attic studio, its throat cut. Around the body lie the lacerated fragments of canvas of a painting titled A Winter of Despair. On closer examination, Wilkie realizes he recognizes the victim, for he had been due to dine with him that very evening. The dead man is Edwin Milton-Hayes, one of Wilkie's brother Charley's artist friends. But what is the significance of the strange series of faceless paintings Milton-Hayes had been worked on when he died? And why is Charley acting so strangely? With his own brother under suspicion of murder, Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens set out to uncover the truth. What secrets lie among the close-knit group of Pre-Raphaelite painters who were the dead man's friends? And who is the killer in their midst?

Ester and Ruzya

Author : Masha Gessen
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0307484386
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Ester and Ruzya written by Masha Gessen and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “extraordinary family memoir,”* the National Book Award–winning author of The Future Is History reveals the story of her two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and Communism during a time when tyranny reigned. *The New York Times Book Review In the 1930s, as waves of war and persecution were crashing over Europe, two young Jewish women began separate journeys of survival. Ester Goldberg was a rebel from Bialystok, Poland, where virtually the entire Jewish community would be sent to Hitler’s concentration camps. Ruzya Solodovnik was a Russian-born intellectual who would become a high-level censor under Stalin’s regime. At war’s end, both women found themselves in Moscow. Over the years each woman had to find her way in a country that aimed to make every citizen a cog in the wheel of murder and repression. One became a hero in her children’s and grandchildren’s eyes; the other became a collaborator. With grace, candor, and meticulous research, Masha Gessen, one of the most trenchant observers of Russia and its history today, peels back the layers of time to reveal her grandmothers’ lives—and to show that neither story is quite what it seems. Praise for Masha Gessen “One of the most important activists and journalists Russia has known in a generation.”—David Remnick, The New Yorker “Masha Gessen is humbly erudite, deftly unconventional, and courageously honest.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny

Hidden Lives

Author : Carole Garibaldi Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985849559
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Lives written by Carole Garibaldi Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden Lives presents compelling true stories of three New York City immigrant families-one Jewish, one German, and one Italian-set in three tenement neighborhoods-the Lower East Side, the South Bronx, and Hell's Kitchen-during the first decades of the twentieth century. In each of these narratives, the central character is a woman without power and without voice. Their stories, compassionately told, bring to life statistics that record the city's stunning population growth between 1880 and 1910. The three women are Rogers's grandmothers, their stories kept secret for almost a century. She has chosen to break the silence that surrounded their lives and pay tribute to women too long hidden from view. Hidden Lives is also the story of her search for her families' past. Rogers writes, "Minnie, Margaretha, and Catherine could not share recipes or handiwork or wisdom with me. I never knew them. But I have learned to love them and cherish their heritage. I am them-Jewish and Catholic, German and Italian, tougher than I thought, more fragile, too."

Mothers, Grandmothers, and Daughters

Author : Bertram J. Cohler
Publisher : New York : Wiley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mothers, Grandmothers, and Daughters written by Bertram J. Cohler and published by New York : Wiley. This book was released on 1981 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Photographs

Author : Eudora Welty
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496823923
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Photographs written by Eudora Welty and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eudora Welty’s Photographs, originally published in 1989, serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed writer’s photographs. Her camera’s viewfinder captured deep compassion and her artist’s sensibilities. Photographs is a deeply felt documentation of 1930s Mississippi taken by a keenly observant photographer who showed the human side of her subjects. Also included in the book are pictures from Welty’s travels to New York, New Orleans, South Carolina, Mexico, and Europe in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s. The photographs in this edition are new digital scans of Welty’s original negatives and authentic prints, restoring the images to their original glory. It also features sixteen additional images, several of which were selected by Welty for her 1936 photography exhibit in New York City and have never before been reproduced for publication, along with a resonant, new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey.

Grandma's Gift

Author : Eric Velasquez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802735363
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Grandma's Gift written by Eric Velasquez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prequel to Eric Velasquez's biographical picture book Grandma's Records is the story of a Christmas holiday that young Eric spends with his grandmother. After they prepare their traditional Puerto Rican Christmas celebration, Eric and Grandma visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a school project, where he sees a painting by Diego Velasquez and realizes for the first time that he could be an artist when he grows up. Grandma witnesses his fascination, and presents Eric with the perfect Christmas gift-a set of paints-to use in his first steps toward becoming an artist. A heart-warming story of self-discovery, Grandma's Gift is a celebration of the special bond between a grandparent and grandchild.

Almost All Aliens

Author : Paul Spickard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317702069
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Almost All Aliens written by Paul Spickard and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost All Aliens offers a unique reinterpretation of immigration in the history of the United States. Setting aside the European migrant-centered melting-pot model of immigrant assimilation, Paul Spickard, Francisco Beltrán, and Laura Hooton put forward a fresh and provocative reconceptualization that embraces the multicultural, racialized, and colonially inflected reality of immigration that has always existed in the United States. Their astute study illustrates the complex relationship between ethnic identity and race, slavery, and colonial expansion. Examining the lives of those who crossed the Atlantic, as well as those who crossed the Pacific, the Caribbean, and the North American Borderlands, Almost All Aliens provides a distinct, inclusive, and critical analysis of immigration, race, and identity in the United States from 1600 until the present. The second edition updates Almost All Aliens through the first two decades of the twenty-first century, recounting and analyzing the massive changes in immigration policy, the reception of immigrants, and immigrant experiences that whipsawed back and forth throughout the era. It includes a new final chapter that brings the story up to the present day. This book will appeal to students and researchers alike studying the history of immigration, race, and colonialism in the United States, as well as those interested in American identity, especially in the context of the early twenty-first century.

Insect Adventures

Author : Jean-Henri Fabre
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Insect Adventures written by Jean-Henri Fabre and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. Henri Fabre's "Insect Adventures" invites readers into a captivating world of small creatures and their remarkable lives. The narrative explores the lives, behaviors, and intricacies of insects through a series of engaging and insightful tales. Set against the backdrop of the natural world, the stories within the book offer a glimpse into the fascinating behaviors and habits of insects such as ants, bees, and beetles. Through Fabre's detailed observations and storytelling, readers gain a deeper understanding of the complex and often surprising lives of these tiny creatures. The novel delves into themes of curiosity, scientific discovery, and the interconnectedness of all living beings. As Fabre shares his experiences and insights, readers are inspired to view the insect world with new appreciation and to recognize the vital roles insects play in the ecosystem. "Insect Adventures" captures the spirit of exploration and scientific inquiry. J. Henri Fabre's storytelling immerses readers in the wonders of nature, offering a unique perspective on the insect kingdom and the intricate relationships that shape the natural world.

Ageing in Africa

Author : Sinfree Makoni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ageing in Africa written by Sinfree Makoni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting a pan-African slant to issues about ageing, this volume brings together some of the most prolific and skilful researchers working on ageing in Africa today. Based on sociolinguistic and anthropological research conducted in different regions of Southern, West and East Africa and in different types of communities, the data and their interpretation are characterized by the richness, typicity and authenticity of both narratives and ethnographical fieldwork.