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Where Men are Wives and Mothers Rule

Author : Mary Ann Clark (Ph. D.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813028347
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Where Men are Wives and Mothers Rule written by Mary Ann Clark (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much theological thinking assumes a normative male perspective, this study demonstrates how our ideas of religious beliefs and practices change in the light of gender awareness. Exploring the philosophy and practices of the Orisha traditions (principally the Afro-Cuban religious complex known as Santería) as they have developed in the Americas, Clark suggests that, unlike many mainstream religions, these traditions exist within a female-normative system in which all practitioners are expected to take up female gender roles. Examining the practices of divination, initiation, possession trance, sacrifice, and witchcraft in successive chapters, Clark explores the ways in which Santería beliefs and practices deviate from the historical assumptions about and the conceptual implications of these basic concepts. After tracing the standard definition of each term and describing its place within the worldview of Santería, Clark teases out its gender implications to argue for the female-normative nature of the religion. By arguing that gender is a fluid concept within Santería, Clark suggests that the qualities of being female form the ideal of Santeria religious practice for both men and women. In addition, she asserts that the Ifa cult organized around the male-only priesthood of the babalawo is an independent tradition that has been incompletely assimilated into the larger Santería complex. Based on field research done in several Santería communities, Clark's study provides a detailed overview of the Santería and Yoruba traditional beliefs and practices. By clarifying a wide range of feminist- and gender-related themes in Cuban Santería, she challenges the traditional gendering of the religion and provides an account that will be of significant interest to students of Caribbean studies and African religions, as well as to scholars in anthropology, sociology, and gender studies.

Women Shall Not Rule

Author : Keith McMahon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442222905
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Women Shall Not Rule written by Keith McMahon and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese emperors guaranteed male successors by taking multiple wives, in some cases hundreds and even thousands. Women Shall Not Rule offers a fascinating history of imperial wives and concubines, especially in light of the greatest challenges to polygamous harmony—rivalry between women and their attempts to engage in politics. Besides ambitious empresses and concubines, these vivid stories of the imperial polygamous family are also populated with prolific emperors, wanton women, libertine men, cunning eunuchs, and bizarre cases of intrigue and scandal among rival wives. Keith McMahon, a leading expert on the history of gender in China, draws upon decades of research to describe the values and ideals of imperial polygamy and the ways in which it worked and did not work in real life. His rich sources are both historical and fictional, including poetic accounts and sensational stories told in pornographic detail. Displaying rare historical breadth, his lively and fascinating study will be invaluable as a comprehensive and authoritative resource for all readers interested in the domestic life of royal palaces across the world.

The End of Men

Author : Hanna Rosin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101596929
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The End of Men written by Hanna Rosin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for our times, as women are pulling together to demand their rights— A landmark portrait of women, men, and power in a transformed world. “Anchored by data and aromatized by anecdotes, [Rosin] concludes that women are gaining the upper hand." –The Washington Post Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But Hanna Rosin was the first to notice that this long-held truth is, astonishingly, no longer true. Today, by almost every measure, women are no longer gaining on men: They have pulled decisively ahead. And “the end of men”—the title of Rosin’s Atlantic cover story on the subject—has entered the lexicon as dramatically as Betty Friedan’s “feminine mystique,” Simone de Beauvoir’s “second sex,” Susan Faludi’s “backlash,” and Naomi Wolf’s “beauty myth” once did. In this landmark book, Rosin reveals how our current state of affairs is radically shifting the power dynamics between men and women at every level of society, with profound implications for marriage, sex, children, work, and more. With wide-ranging curiosity and insight unhampered by assumptions or ideology, Rosin shows how the radically different ways men and women today earn, learn, spend, couple up—even kill—has turned the big picture upside down. And in The End of Men she helps us see how, regardless of gender, we can adapt to the new reality and channel it for a better future.

Strong Mothers, Weak Wives

Author : Miriam M. Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520061620
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Strong Mothers, Weak Wives written by Miriam M. Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For years I have been impressed by the originality and insight of Johnson's articles on gender, sexuality, and male dominance. This book continues and expands the excellent quality of the earlier work. . . [It] provides an original argument about the central structural locus of gender inequality, and makes a major advance in its insightful and insistent focus on the role of the father in gender differentiation and sexual dominance. . . . It will surely be recognized as a major work of feminist theory."—Nancy Chodorow, author of The Reproduction of Mothering "This thoughtful and provocative book greatly deepens the debate over the effects of mothers and fathers on their children."—Arlie Hochschild, author of The Second Shift: Inside the Two-Job Marriage

Between a Man and a Woman?

Author : Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231521014
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Between a Man and a Woman? written by Ludger H. Viefhues-Bailey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a probing investigation of conservative Christianity and its response to an issue that, according to the statistics of conservative Christian groups, affects only a small number of Americans, Ludger Viefhues-Bailey alights on a profound theological conundrum: in today's conservative Christian movement, both sexes are called upon to be at once assertive and submissive, masculine and feminine, not only within the home but also within the church, society, and the state. Therefore the arguments of conservative Christians against same-sex marriage involve more than literal readings of the Bible or nostalgia for simple gender roles. Focusing primarily on texts produced by Focus on the Family, a leading media and ministry organization informing conservative Christian culture, Viefhues-Bailey identifies two distinct ideas of male homosexuality: gender-disturbed and passive; and oversexed, strongly masculine, and aggressive. These homosexualities enable a complex ideal of Christian masculinity in which men are encouraged to be assertive toward the world while also being submissive toward God and family. This web of sexual contradiction influences the flow of power between the sexes and within the state. It joins notions of sexual equality to claims of "natural" difference, establishing a fraught basis for respectable romantic marriage. Heterosexual union is then treated as emblematic of, if not essential to, the success of American political life yet far from creating gender stability, these tensions produce an endless striving for balance. Viefhues-Bailey's final, brilliant move is to connect the desire for stability to the conservative Christian movement's strategies of political power.

Women of the Iberian Atlantic

Author : Sarah E. Owens
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807147737
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Women of the Iberian Atlantic written by Sarah E. Owens and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the lives, places, and stories of women in the Iberian Atlantic between 1500 and 1800. Contributors utilize the complexities of gender to understand issues of race, class, family, health, and religious practices in the Atlantic basin. Unlike previous scholarship, which has focused primarily on upper-class and noble women, this book examines the lives of those on the periphery, including free and enslaved Africans, colonized indigenous mothers, and poor Spanish women.

Queens of Jerusalem

Author : Katherine Pangonis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643139258
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Queens of Jerusalem written by Katherine Pangonis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of a trailblazing dynasty of royal women who ruled the Middle East and how they persevered through instability and seize greater power. In 1187 Saladin's armies besieged the holy city of Jerusalem. He had previously annihilated Jerusalem's army at the battle of Hattin, and behind the city's high walls a last-ditch defence was being led by an unlikely trio - including Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. They could not resist Saladin, but, if they were lucky, they could negotiate terms that would save the lives of the city's inhabitants. Queen Sibylla was the last of a line of formidable female rulers in the Crusader States of Outremer. Yet for all the many books written about the Crusades, one aspect is conspicuously absent: the stories of women. Queens and princesses tend to be presented as passive transmitters of land and royal blood. In reality, women ruled, conducted diplomatic negotiations, made military decisions, forged alliances, rebelled, and undertook architectural projects. Sibylla's grandmother Queen Melisende was the first queen to seize real political agency in Jerusalem and rule in her own right. She outmanoeuvred both her husband and son to seize real power in her kingdom, and was a force to be reckoned with in the politics of the medieval Middle East. The lives of her Armenian mother, her three sisters, and their daughters and granddaughters were no less intriguing. Queens of Jerusalem is a stunning debut by a rising historian and a rich revisionist history of Medieval Palestine.

Women and Water in Global Fiction

Author : Emma Staniland
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000622037
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Women and Water in Global Fiction written by Emma Staniland and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbols and tropes of liquidity have long been connected to notions of the feminine and, therefore, with orthodox constructions of femininity and womanhood. Underpinning these ideas is the vital importance of water as life force, which has given it a central place in cultural vocabularies worldwide. These symbolic economies, in turn, inform the discourses through which positive or negative associations of women with water come to bear impact on the social positioning of female gendered identities. Women and Water in Global Fiction brings together an array of studies of this phenomenon as seen in writing by and about women from around the world. The literature explored in this volume works to make visible, decodify, celebrate, and challenge the cultural associations made between female gendered identities and all kinds of watery tropes, as well as their consequences for key issues connected to women, society, and the environment. The collection investigates the roots of such symbolisms, examines how they inform women’s place in the socio-cultural orders of diverse global cultures, and shows how the female authors in question use these tropes in their work as ways of (re)articulating female identities and their correlative roles.

The Mothers of Great Men and Women; and Some Wives of Great Men

Author : Laura Carter Holloway
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230441252
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book The Mothers of Great Men and Women; and Some Wives of Great Men written by Laura Carter Holloway and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... MOTHERS OF ANTIQUITY. The theory that mothers were the ruling influence on the characteristics of their children is not a new one, having been held by the ancients as an indisputable truth. To the mothers they looked as the source of the improvement or degeneracy of the race. Plutarch, alluding to the training and position of woman under the laws of Lycurgus, remarks: "Hence they were furnished with sentiments and language such as Gergo, the wife of Leonidas, is said to have made use of. When a woman of another country said to her, "You of Lacedemon are the only women in the world that rule the men," she answered, "We are the only women that bring forth men." Of many of the mothers of antiquity, even of those who are known to have moulded the character of their children, very little is known, and for them there is only material for a general classification, not a separate chapter. Volumnia, the mother of Coriolanus, as is finely indicated by Shakespeare, had a powerful influence on the qualities and actions of her son. Thus, when she is urging Coriolanus to adopt a conciliatory policy toward the people, she pleads with him: "I prithee now, sweet son; as thou hast said, My praises made thee first a soldier; so, To have my praise for this, perform a part Thou hast not done before." And, again, when she is lamenting his banishment, Coriolanus cries: "Nay, mother, Resume that spirit, when you were wont to say, If you hail been the wife of Hercules, Six of his labors you'd have done, and saved Your husband so much sweat.' His wife, on the other hand, is little better than a layfigure in the scene where he consents to withdraw his troops, and it is holding his mother by both hands that he exclaims: "O mother, mother! You have a happy victory...

Don'ts for Wives

Author : Blanche Ebbutt
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN 13 : 161640955X
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Don'ts for Wives written by Blanche Ebbutt and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art is a hard mistress, and there is no art quite so hard as that of being a wife. So begins this entertaining and enlightening booklet of Don'ts for Wives. Discussing such categories as "How to Avoid Discord," "Financial Matters," "Food," and "Evenings at Home," Don'ts for Wives is full of advice for ways in a which a proper and loving wife should behave toward her husband. Each chapter is comprised of a list of "don'ts" that wives should follow if they wish to run a successful home and keep their husbands happy. While much of the advice is outdated, a surprising number of her recommendations are still applicable today. A delightful glimpse into turn-of-the-century British life, Don'ts for Wives is for anyone interested in etiquette, sociology, or who is just looking for a laugh. Also part of this series are Don'ts for Husbands and Don'ts for Mothers, available from Cosimo Classics.

Santería

Author : Mary Ann Clark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313081409
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Santería written by Mary Ann Clark and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santería, also known as Yoruba, Lukumi, or Orisha, was originally brought to the Americas from Africa by enslaved peoples destined for the Caribbean and South America. By the late 1980s it was estimated that more than 70 million African and American people participated in, or were familiar with, the various forms of Santeria, including traditional religions in Africa, Vodun in Haiti, Candomble in Brazil, Shango religion in Trinidad, Santeria in Cuba and, of course, variants of all of these in the U.S. Today there are practitioners around the world including Europe and Asia. Because of the secretive nature of the religion, it has been difficult to get accurate and objective information, but here, Clark introduces readers to the religion, explores the basic elements, including the Orisha, and answers the many questions Santeria arouses in observers and practitioners alike. Santería was brought to the United States in two principle waves, one in the early 1960s after the Cuban Revolution and later by the Marielitos who escaped from the island in the 1980s. Since then it has spread to the larger Hispanic community, to the African American community, and to other segments of society as well. Today, practitioners can be found in every state, and interest in Orisha and related traditions has gained popularity. As the number of practitioners has grown so has public awareness. In this compelling introduction, Clark answers such questions as where did this religion come from? What do practioners believe? Is it a cult? What takes place at a ritual event? How does it view death and the afterlife? Is there ritual sacrifice? Clark, a practitioner as well as a scholar of the faith, dispels the myths that surround this religious practice, and brings readers to a better understanding of this growing faith in America.

The Rules(TM) II

Author : Ellen Fein
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446930121
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book The Rules(TM) II written by Ellen Fein and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 1999-08-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN 1995 THE RULES WAS QUIETLY PUBLISHED...AND DATING HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME SINCE! Women passed it from hand to hand until THE RULES changed women's lives all over the world. Its secret? THE RULES work! NOW THE RULES II ANSWERS ALL YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE RULES! Based on the most commonly asked questions from the thousands of queries to The Rules hotline, this book shows you how to do The Rules in even the most difficult-and tempting!-situations. Here are new Rules tips for: - Long-distance relationships - Turning a friend into a boyfriend - Second chances-getting back an ex - Romance at the office - Dating a man who is separated - Giving him gifts - Getting him to the altar ...and much more, including how The Rules apply to mature women, on-line dating, personal ads and dating services, and same-sex relationships. Now available for the first time in paperback, THE RULES II clarifies and expands your knowledge of the only dating method that makes this dream come true: getting married to the man you love...and keeping him deeply, totally in love with only you.

Subjectivity, Citizenship and Belonging in Law

Author : Anne Griffiths
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317308131
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Subjectivity, Citizenship and Belonging in Law written by Anne Griffiths and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles critically examines legal subjectivity and ideas of citizenship inherent in legal thought. The chapters offer a novel perspective on current debates in this area by exploring the connections between public and political issues as they intersect with more intimate sets of relations and private identities. Covering issues as diverse as autonomy, vulnerability and care, family and work, immigration control, the institution of speech, and the electorate and the right to vote, they provide a broader canvas upon which to comprehend more complex notions of citizenship, personhood, identity and belonging in law, in their various ramifications. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Woman, Church and State

Author : Matilda Joslyn Gage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Woman, Church and State written by Matilda Joslyn Gage and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Mother's Rule of Life

Author : Holly Pierlot
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1928832415
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book A Mother's Rule of Life written by Holly Pierlot and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of your own rule, you can get control of your household, grow closer to God, come to love your husband more, and raise up good Christian children.

Women of the Mafia

Author : Felia Allum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501774808
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Women of the Mafia written by Felia Allum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women of the Mafia dives into the Neapolitan criminal underworld of the Camorra as seen and lived by the women who inhabit it. It tells their life stories and unpacks the gender dynamics by examining their participation as active agents in the organization as leaders, managers, foot soldiers, and enablers. Felia Allum shows that these women are true partners in crime. The author offers an innovative interdisciplinary analysis that demystifies the notion that the Camorra is a sexist, male-centric organization. She links her analysis of Camorra culture within the wider Neapolitan context to show how mothers and women act and are treated in the private sphere of the household and how the family helps explain the power women have found in the Neapolitan Camorra. It is civil society and law enforcement agencies that continue to see the Camorra using traditional gender assumptions which render women irrelevant and lacking independent agency in the criminal underworld. In Women of the Mafia, Allum debunks these assumptions by revealing the power and influence of women in the Camorra.

The Mothers of Great Men and Women, and Some Wives of Great Men (Classic Reprint)

Author : Laura Carter Holloway
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333623814
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book The Mothers of Great Men and Women, and Some Wives of Great Men (Classic Reprint) written by Laura Carter Holloway and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Mothers of Great Men and Women, and Some Wives of Great Men The in uence of the mother has been proclaimed by all races of men in all ages. The Red Cross Knights who sauntered to Sainte Terre, and when they reached the Holy Land fought for the Holy Sepulchre, were inspired to their pilgrimages by zealous mothers and wives. The deeds of heroism in every age have been the indirect, if not the direct, work of women, and most frequently of mothers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."