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Author : Léon Bloy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781890318925
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (189 download)
Download or read book The Woman who was Poor written by Léon Bloy and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Sheed & Ward, 1939.
Author : Ela R. Bhatt
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195169840
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book We Are Poor But So Many written by Ela R. Bhatt and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Léon Bloy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Woman who was Poor written by Léon Bloy and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Rubin Stuart
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807011401
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Poor Richard's Women written by Nancy Rubin Stuart and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An engrossing look at the human side of Benjamin Franklin . . . Using a post-feminist lens that’s critical of gender essentialism, Stuart rescues these women from obscurity . . . This is a terrific read: poignant, provocative, and probing.” —Library Journal, Starred Review A vivid portrait of the women who loved, nurtured, and defended America’s famous scientist and founding father. Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin—the thrifty inventor-statesman of the Revolutionary era—but not about his love life. Poor Richard’s Women reveals the long-neglected voices of the women Ben loved and lost during his lifelong struggle between passion and prudence. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. Long dismissed by historians, she was an independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife who raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England. Weaving detailed historical research with emotional intensity and personal testimony, Nancy Rubin Stuart traces Deborah’s life and those of Ben’s other romantic attachments through their personal correspondence. We are introduced to Margaret Stevenson, the widowed landlady who managed Ben’s life in London; Catherine Ray, the 23-year-old New Englander with whom he traveled overnight and later exchanged passionate letters; Madame Brillon, the beautiful French musician who flirted shamelessly with him, and the witty Madame Helvetius, who befriended the philosophes of pre-Revolutionary France and brought Ben to his knees. What emerges from Stuart’s pen is a colorful and poignant portrait of women in the age of revolution. Set two centuries before the rise of feminism, Poor Richard’s Women depicts the feisty, often-forgotten women dear to Ben’s heart who, despite obstacles, achieved an independence rarely enjoyed by their peers in that era.
Author : Muhammad Yunus
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 9781586481988
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Banker To The Poor written by Muhammad Yunus and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational story of how Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus invented microcredit, founded the Grameen Bank, and transformed the fortunes of millions of poor people around the world. Muhammad Yunus was a professor of economics in Bangladesh, who realized that the most impoverished members of his community were systematically neglected by the banking system -- no one would loan them any money. Yunus conceived of a new form of banking -- microcredit -- that would offer very small loans to the poorest people without collateral, and teach them how to manage and use their loans to create successful small businesses. He founded Grameen Bank based on the belief that credit is a basic human right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, and it now provides $24 billion of micro-loans to more than nine million families. Ninety-seven percent of its clients are women, and repayment rates are over 90 percent. Outside of Bangladesh, micro-lending programs inspired by Grameen have blossomed, and serve hundreds of millions of people around the world. The definitive history of micro-credit direct from the man that conceived of it, Banker to the Poor is the moving story of someone who dreamed of changing the world -- and did.
Author : Catherine M. Mooney
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725219425
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Philippine Duchesne written by Catherine M. Mooney and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philippine Duchesne has a message for today's world in which the rich seem to be growing richer and the poor to be growing poorer. It is a message of justice and love for all people. It was for this conviction that Philippine, a Religious of the Sacred Heart missionary, became the fourth United States saint in 1988. This book is a bold historical biography of a remarkable woman who struggled her entire life to enflesh God's love and care in human situations. It opens with a critical discussion and forthright examination of how class, gender, and race have been influential factors in the selection of saints, and then details Philippine's life with its many failures and many achievements. It shows how this wealthy woman who belonged to a politically prominent French family decided to dedicate her life and gifts to the poor. It examines her difficulties as Sacred Heart's first missionary in the new world and it tells how this courageous pioneer woman provided free education for those who had long been denied the privilege--young women, the poor, and native Americans. This eminently readable biography provides a clear and scholarly assessment of Duchesne's religious and social world that is ideal for students and professors of U.S. church history. It raises important questions about women, the poor, and marginalized groups in Duchesne's time that are still pertinent to ask today.
Author : Renny Golden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Hour of the Furnaces written by Renny Golden and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Too often in revolutionary wars, it is the selfless -- those who defend the powerless, who risk their lives for others, who give up their food, water, and shelter so that others might be fed and sheltered -- who are the first to die. Unfortunately, those who are the first to die are often the first to be forgotten. This book remembers, and, in doing so, takes us to a plac eof such profound risk that everything, everything, must be called into question. 'What did you do,' asks the slain Guatemalan poet, Otto Rene Castillo, 'when the poor burned out like a dying flame?' This collection of poems aspires to be both poetry and social history. The voices in these poems -- clergy, human rights workers, peasants, and guerrillas caught up in the wars that plagued Central America over the last couple of decades -- speak from Salvadoran graves, from Guatemalan highlands, from dank jails, from primitive hide-outs, from ghost towns, from country churches. The poems are divided into two main sections: martyr poems and peasant poems. Each martyr and each peasant is presented first in a brief prose account, then in a poem." -- From the introduction.
Author : Alasdair Gray
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564783073
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Poor Things written by Alasdair Gray and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenstein that replaces the traditional monster with Bella Baxter--a beautiful young erotomaniac brought back to life with the brain of an infant. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of Bella, but his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for Baxter's creation.The hilarious tale of love and scandal that ensues would be "the whole story" in the hands of a lesser author (which in fact it is, for this account is actually written by Dr. McCandless). For Gray, though, this is only half the story, after which Bella (a.k.a. Victoria McCandless) has her own say in the matter.Satirizing the classic Victorian novel, Poor Things is a hilarious political allegory and a thought-provoking duel between the desires of men and the independence of women, from one of Scotland's most accomplished authors.
Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429926643
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Nickel and Dimed written by Barbara Ehrenreich and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.
Author : Kenan Heise
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781936863334
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (633 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Poor written by Kenan Heise and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collecting dozens of interviews conducted over 50 years to give voice to the 16 percent that live below the poverty line, journalist Kenan Heise ... addresses unemployment, prison, nutrition needs and hunger, the lives of impoverished children, panhandling, health-care struggles, the role of race in poverty, and Dumpster diving"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Ione Gamble
Publisher : Dialogue Books
ISBN 13 : 0349702403
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (497 download)
Download or read book Poor Little Sick Girls written by Ione Gamble and published by Dialogue Books. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Incredible insight with a transgressive, witty, spirit.' COURTNEY LOVE 'The most sensational read of 2022!' GEMMA COLLINS 'A breath of fresh air... I want so many people to read this!' TRAVIS ALABANZA 'Visionary' VIV ALBERTINE A STYLIST MUST-READ FOR 2022 Wellness is oppressive, self-love is a trap, hustling is a health risk and it's all the patriarchy's fault. Poor Little Sick Girls is THE book for femmes who are online and want more from activism and life. Ione Gamble never imagined that entering adulthood would mean being diagnosed with an incurable illness. Watching identity politics become social media fodder from the confines of her sickbed Ione began to pick apart our obsession with self-care, personal branding, productivity and #LivingYourBestLife. Using her experience with disability to cast a fresh gaze on the particularly peculiar cultural moment in which young women find themselves, Poor Little Sick Girls explores the pressures faced - as well as the power of existing as - a chronically ill, overweight, and unacceptable woman in our current era of empowerment. Founder of Polyester zine and a host of The Polyester Podcast, Ione has been named one of fifteen coolest young Londoners by The Evening Standard, and a 2019 New Debutante in Tatler Magazine. If you love Trick Mirror, Feminists Don't Wear Pink and Hood Feminism,you don't want to miss this book.
Author : Norah Hoult
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Poor Women! written by Norah Hoult and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mical Raz
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146960888X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book What's Wrong with the Poor? written by Mical Raz and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, physician and historian Mical Raz examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with President Richard Nixon's 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care. She shows that this cooperation between mental health professionals and policymakers was based on an understanding of what poor men, women, and children lacked. This perception was rooted in psychiatric theories of deprivation focused on two overlapping sections of American society: the poor had less, and African Americans, disproportionately represented among America's poor, were seen as having practically nothing. Raz analyzes the political and cultural context that led child mental health experts, educators, and policymakers to embrace this deprivation-based theory and its translation into liberal social policy. Deprivation theory, she shows, continues to haunt social policy today, profoundly shaping how both health professionals and educators view children from low-income and culturally and linguistically diverse homes.
Author : Rachel Ferguson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903155554
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Alas, Poor Lady written by Rachel Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amy McCoy
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449400302
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (494 download)
Download or read book Poor Girl Gourmet written by Amy McCoy and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love eating well but hate paying a lot? Amy McCoy's cookbook, Poor Girl Gourmet (based on her popular blog of the same name), features decadent and delectable recipes for foodies with limited budgets, but sophisticated tastes. In Poor Girl Gourmet, McCoy breaks down the costs for each dish while also offering money-saving strategies, including tips for growing and preserving your own food, as well as ideas for quick and delicious family meals. Each recipe serves at least four people, so it's perfect for families on a budget--because eating well while saving money is something that appeals to all of us. McCoy, knowing that a gourmet meal is enhanced by the proper wine, also reviews more than 25 affordable wine varietals and blends, with pairing suggestions for many of the dishes. And there is a chapter of splurges ($15 to $30 per entree for a family of four) for when you're feeling fancy. Because gourmets, regardless of their budget, appreciate a gorgeous cookbook, Poor Girl Gourmet bucks the pared-down trend in cost-conscious cookbooks, and is illustrated throughout with McCoy's own mouthwatering full-color photography.
Author : MARTHA C. WARD
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367299293
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Poor Women, Powerful Men written by MARTHA C. WARD and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the achievements and failure of the Louisiana Family Health Foundation, the extensive family planning program ever to operate in the United States. It reveals the mechanisms at work in the perpetual controversies surrounding the delivery of health care services to the poor.
Author : Rachel G. Fuchs
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813517797
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Poor and Pregnant in Paris written by Rachel G. Fuchs and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their attempt to cope with the daunting problems of poverty and pregnancy, poor women in nineteenth-century France struggled with their environment and in some respects helped shape it. Rachel Fuchs reveals who these women were and how they survived. With dramatic detail, and drawing on actual hospital records and court testimonies, Fuchs portrays poor women's childbirth experiences, their use of charity and welfare, and their recourse to abortion and infanticide as desperate alternatives to motherhood. Fuchs also provides a comprehensive description of philanthropic and welfare institutions, and outlines the relationship between the developing welfare state and official conceptions of womanhood. She traces the evolution of a new morality among policymakers in which secular views, medical hygiene, and a new focus on the protection of children replaced religious morality as a driving force in policy formation. Combining social, intellectual, and medical history, this study of poor mothers illuminates both class and gender relations in Paris and brings to light the connection between social policy and the way ordinary women lived their lives. Fuchs's book enriches contemporary debates about maternity leave, abortion rights, and national health care initiatives. Book jacket.
