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Author : Astrid Henry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253217134
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Not My Mother's Sister written by Astrid Henry and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebellious generations and the emergence of new feminisms.
Author : Astrid Henry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253111227
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Not My Mother's Sister written by Astrid Henry and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No matter how wise a mother's advice is, we listen to our peers." At least that's writer Naomi Wolf's take on the differences between her generation of feminists -- the third wave -- and the feminists who came before her and developed in the late '60s and '70s -- the second wave. In Not My Mother's Sister, Astrid Henry agrees with Wolf that this has been the case with American feminism, but says there are problems inherent in drawing generational lines. Henry begins by examining texts written by women in the second wave, and illustrates how that generation identified with, yet also disassociated itself from, its feminist "foremothers." Younger feminists now claim the movement as their own by distancing themselves from the past. By focusing on feminism's debates about sexuality, they are able to reject the so-called victim feminism of Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin. Rejecting the orthodoxies of the second wave, younger feminists celebrate a woman's right to pleasure. Henry asserts, however, that by ignoring diverse older voices, the new generation has oversimplified generational conflict and has underestimated the contributions of earlier feminists to women's rights. They have focused on issues relating to personal identity at the expense of collective political action. Just as writers like Wolf, Katie Roiphe, and Rene Denfeld celebrate a "new" feminist (hetero)sexuality posited in generational terms, queer and lesbian feminists of the third wave similarly distance themselves from those who came before. Henry shows how 1970s lesbian feminism is represented in ways that are remarkably similar to the puritanical portrait of feminism offered by straight third-wavers. She concludes by examining the central role played by feminists of color in the development of third-wave feminism. Indeed, the term "third wave" itself was coined by Rebecca Walker, daughter of Alice Walker. Not My Mother's Sister is an important contribution to the exchange of ideas among feminists of all ages and persuasions.
Author : D. R. Bates
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1606474979
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (64 download)
Download or read book My Mother's Sister written by D. R. Bates and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vinson family has always given the appearance of near perfection and met the requirements of a being an example people could look up to. They are a proud and private first family. Yet beneath the surface, behind closed doors something insidious and evil is brewing. Skeletons are rattling in closets demanding to be released...... Exposure comes when an unwanted baby is inserted. Follow this child's life as she unknowingly becomes the catalyst, which sets things in motion and in the end ushers in a time of reckoning and renewal. The elder parents of this clan, JD and Sarah Vinson, are forced to make decisions that will alter lives forever as the landscape of their "perfected" family is drastically altered and exposed....sanity and lives are at stake...who will remain standing once the smoke has cleared....how will God repair and restore this family? Debra Bates is a freelance Christian writer living in Columbus, Ohio who has been writing for over 15 years. Although "My Mother's Sister" represents her first published novel, she has completed 3 books of poetry. She is an advocate for adopted children and blended families and passionate about the concept of families. Debra is the mother of 2 sons, Altora II and Timothy, both are educators and the grandmother of one, Chloe Michelle.
Author : Cokie Roberts
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061872350
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book We Are Our Mothers' Daughters written by Cokie Roberts and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] paean to feminism and the solidarity of womenkind. . . . This book is a celebration of women in their various roles: mother, sister, civil rights advocate, consumer advocate, first-class mechanic, politician—which Roberts’ own mother once was.” —Washington Post “The perfect combination of powerful feelings and a modulated style.” — Los Angeles Times From the much beloved Cokie Roberts comes a revised and expanded tenth-anniversary paperback edition of the #1 New York Times Bestseller We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters—complete with new profiles.
Author : Sheila Heti
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1627790780
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
Download or read book Motherhood written by Sheila Heti and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring novel about whether to have children. In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required reading for a generation. In her late thirties, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti’s intimate and urgent novel considers whether she will do so at all. In a narrative spanning several years, casting among the influence of her peers, partner, and her duties to her forbearers, she struggles to make a wise and moral choice. After seeking guidance from philosophy, her body, mysticism, and chance, she discovers her answer much closer to home. Motherhood is a courageous, keenly felt, and starkly original novel that will surely spark lively conversations about womanhood, parenthood, and about how—and for whom—to live.
Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598536044
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Ursula K. Le Guin: Always Coming Home (LOA #315) written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ursula K. Le Guin's richly-imagined vision of a post-apocalyptic California, in a newly expanded version prepared shortly before her death This fourth volume in the Library of America’s definitive Ursula K. Le Guin edition presents her most ambitious novel and finest achievement, a mid-career masterpiece that showcases her unique genius for world building. Framed as an anthropologist’s report on the Kesh, survivors of ecological catastrophe living in a future Napa Valley, Always Coming Home (1985) is an utterly original tapestry of history and myth, fable and poetry, story- telling and song. Prepared in close consultation with the author, this expanded edition features new material added just before her death, including for the first time two “missing” chapters of the Kesh novel Dangerous People. The volume con- cludes with a selection of Le guin’s essays about the novel’s genesis and larger aims, a note on its editorial and publication history, and an updated chronology of Le guin’s life and career. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Author : Lewis Henry Morgan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803282308
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family written by Lewis Henry Morgan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern anthropology would be radically different without this book. Published in 1871, this first major study of kinship, inventive and wide-ranging, created a new field of inquiry in anthropology. Drawing partly upon his own fieldwork among American Indians, anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan examined the kinship systems of over one hundred cultures, probing for similarities and differences in their organization. In his attempt to discover particular types of marriage and descent systems across the globe, Morgan demonstrated the centrality of kinship relations in many cultures. Kinship, it was revealed, was an important key for understanding cultures and could be studied through systematic, scientific means. ø Anthropologists continue to wrestle with the premises, methodology, and conclusions of Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity. Scholars such as W. H. R. Rivers, Robert Lowie, Meyer Fortes, Fred Eggan, and Claude Lävi-Strauss have acknowledged their intellectual debt to this study; those less sympathetic to Morgan?s treatment of kinship nonetheless do not question its historical significance and impact on the development of modern anthropology.
Author : Lewis Henry Morgan (ethnoloog, anthropoloog)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family written by Lewis Henry Morgan (ethnoloog, anthropoloog) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 660 pages
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Download or read book Introduction written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Smithsonian Institution
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tamara Winfrey Harris
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1626563535
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Sisters Are Alright written by Tamara Winfrey Harris and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves. When African women arrived on American shores, the three-headed hydra—servile Mammy, angry Sapphire, and lascivious Jezebel—followed close behind. In the '60s, the Matriarch, the willfully unmarried baby machine leeching off the state, joined them. These stereotypes persist to this day through newspaper headlines, Sunday sermons, social media memes, cable punditry, government policies, and hit song lyrics. Emancipation may have happened more than 150 years ago, but America still won't let a sister be free from this coven of caricatures. Tamara Winfrey Harris delves into marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more, taking sharp aim at pervasive stereotypes about black women. She counters warped prejudices with the straight-up truth about being a black woman in America. “We have facets like diamonds,” she writes. “The trouble is the people who refuse to see us sparkling.”
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Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 706 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences written by American Academy of Arts and Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raquel G.
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (924 download)
Download or read book This Is Not My Mother written by Raquel G. and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with narcissism is a painful and lonely thing to endure. Most people are aware of narcissism as experienced in romantic relationships, where either party exhibits narcissistic traits of having low empathy, exaggerated sense of entitlement, or has an inability to admit making mistakes. The instinct may be to leave that romantic partner because no one deserves to be in a relationship that lacks mutual love and respect. It's difficult navigating that type of narcissism, but what if the narcissist in your life happens to be your mother. What then? Society insist that mothers are great and tells you that she is your closest confidant. You see things differently. You know that your mother has not shown love for you nor has she treated you very well. This Is Not My Mother is a must-read for the daughter who identifies as the scapegoat of the family. This book will encourage and help you realize you are not alone in this matter. Society says you are crazy for feeling the way you do about your mother. This book exposes the truth that society is not ready to accept. The bottom line is that your mother is not the most important person in your life--you are!
Author : John M. Chernoff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022607479X
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Exchange Is Not Robbery written by John M. Chernoff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While living in West Africa in the 1970s, John Chernoff recorded the stories of "Hawa," a spirited and brilliant but uneducated woman whose insistence on being respected and treated fairly propelled her, ironically, into a life of marginality and luck as an "ashawo," or bar girl. Rejecting traditional marriage options and cut off from family support, she is like many women in Africa who come to depend on the help they receive from one another, from boyfriends, and from the men they meet in bars and nightclubs. Refusing to see herself as a victim, Hawa embraces the freedom her lifestyle permits and seeks the broadest experience available to her. In Exchange Is Not Robbery and its predecessor, Hustling Is Not Stealing, a chronicle of exploitation is transformed by verbal art into an ebullient comedy. In Hustling Is Not Stealing, Hawa is a playful warrior struggling against circumstances in Ghana and Togo. In Exchange Is Not Robbery, Hawa returns to her native Burkina Faso, where she achieves greater control over her life but faces new difficulties. As a woman making sacrifices to live independently, Hawa sees her own situation become more complex as she confronts an atmosphere in Burkina Faso that is in some ways more challenging than the one she left behind, and the moral ambiguities of her life begin to intensify. Combining elements of folklore and memoir, Hawa's stories portray the diverse social landscape of West Africa. Individually the anecdotes can be funny, shocking, or poignant; assembled together they offer a sweeping critical and satirical vision.
Author : Terry Tempest Williams
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250024110
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book When Women Were Birds written by Terry Tempest Williams and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 54 chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals in a book that keeps turning around the question, "What does it mean to have a voice?"
