Sisters and Wives

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252010040
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Sisters and Wives by : Karen Brodkin

Download or read book Sisters and Wives written by Karen Brodkin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extrait de l'introduction : "The search for women's overall ar fundamental position long ago ar far wawy is an outcome of the confrontation between social darwinist anthropology and the feminist and socialist movements over sexism here and now. ... Women have been fighting for equl rights for well over one hundred years. The center of the struggle lies in changing institutionalized pattterns of behaviors and allocations of social roles. All behavior is informed and shaped by ideas, by way of seeing the world, as well as by standards for what is right and wrong, moral and immoral. A marxist and feminist anthropology can affrim the reality of equality in other times and places and increase our understanding of how to obtain such a social order for ourselves. This book is an attempt to develop such a way of seeing and of informing our actions."

True Sisters

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250005027
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis True Sisters by : Sandra Dallas

Download or read book True Sisters written by Sandra Dallas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four women seeking the promise of salvation and prosperity in a new land.

Sister Wife

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Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1551439271
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (514 download)

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Book Synopsis Sister Wife by : Shelley Hrdlitschka

Download or read book Sister Wife written by Shelley Hrdlitschka and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remote polygamist community, Celeste struggles to accept her destiny while longing to be free to live her life her way.

Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000084124
Total Pages : 191 pages
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Book Synopsis Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters by : Anuja Agrawal

Download or read book Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters written by Anuja Agrawal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an anthropological study of the unusual coincidence of prostitution and patriarchy among an extremely marginalized group in north India, the Bedias, who are also a de-notified community. It is the first detailed account of the implications of a systematic practice of familial prostitution on the kinship structures and marriage practices of a community. This starkly manifests among the Bedias in the clear separation between sisters and daughters who engage in prostitution and wives and daughters-in-law who do not. The Bedias exemplify a situation in which prostitution of young unmarried women is the mainstay of the familial economy of an entire social group. Tracing the recent origins of the practice in the community, the author goes on to explore the manner in which this familial economy manifests itself in the lives of individual women and the kind of family groupings it produces. She then examines the repercussion this economy has on the lives of Bedia men, how the problem of their marriage is resolved, and how the Bedia wives become repositories of female purity which otherwise stands jeopardized by Bedia sisters engaged in prostitution.

Becoming Sister Wives

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451661304
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Becoming Sister Wives by : Kody Brown

Download or read book Becoming Sister Wives written by Kody Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since TLC first launched its popular reality program "Sister Wives, Kody Brown, his four wives--Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn--and their seventeen children have become one of the most famous families in the country.

Italian Popular Tales

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 373402935X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Italian Popular Tales by : Thomas Frederick Crane

Download or read book Italian Popular Tales written by Thomas Frederick Crane and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane

Sisters in Spirit

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062964
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Book Synopsis Sisters in Spirit by : Maureen Ursenbach Beecher

Download or read book Sisters in Spirit written by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of essays about Mormon women, all written and edited by scholars who are themselves Mormon women, is a brave and important work. Readers will fully appreciate just how brave and important it really is, however, if they can see how this work of historical theology fits into the history of historical writing about Mormon women, as well as how it fits into Mormon history itself. "The women who contributed to this book are among the best of the Mormon literati . . . they] hold that there is hope within the church for change, for reform, for expansion of the place of women." -- Women's Review of Books "Historians of women in America have a great deal to learn from the history of Mormon women. This fine set of essays provides an excellent introduction to a subject about which we should all know more." -- Anne Firor Scott, author of Making the Invisible Woman Visible.

Mormon Sisters

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Mormon Sisters by : Claudia L. Bushman

Download or read book Mormon Sisters written by Claudia L. Bushman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last twenty years, an increasing number of books on the history of Utah and Mormon women have appeared. The book that led the way for these varied studies came to be when a group of Boston-area women, connected with the periodical Exponent II (named in honor of its nineteenth century predecessor, The Woman's Exponent), got together to publish a collection of topical essays on Utah women's history titled Mormon Sisters. The book became a minor classic in Mormon women's studies and inspired several imitators. Mormon Sisters has been out of print for a number of years. Now back in print, this new edition adds new illustrations, an updated reading list, information on the subsequent careers of the contributors, and an introduction by prominent historian Anne Firor Scott, author of numerous books, including Southern Lady.

Friends and Sisters

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252013966
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Friends and Sisters by : Lucy Stone

Download or read book Friends and Sisters written by Lucy Stone and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover title: Friends & sisters.

Blood Sisters

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Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465060986
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Blood Sisters by : Sarah Gristwood

Download or read book Blood Sisters written by Sarah Gristwood and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wars of the Roses, which tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England, was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. But as acclaimed historian Sarah Gristwood reveals, while the events of this turbulent time are usually described in terms of the men who fought and died seeking the throne, a handful of powerful women would prove just as decisive as their kinfolks’ clashing armies. A richly drawn, absorbing epic, Blood Sisters reveals how women helped to end the Wars of the Roses, paving the way for the Tudor age—and the creation of modern England.

The Stargazer's Sister

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0804197946
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis The Stargazer's Sister by : Carrie Brown

Download or read book The Stargazer's Sister written by Carrie Brown and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of The Last First Day, here is a beautiful new period novel: a nineteenth-century story of female empowerment before its time, based on the life of Caroline Herschel, sister of the great composer and astronomer William Herschel and an astronomer in her own right. This exquisitely imagined novel opens as William rescues Caroline from a life of drudgery in Germany and brings her to England and a world of music making and stargazing. Lina, as Caroline is known, serves as William’s assistant and the captain of his exhilaratingly busy household. William is generous, wise, and charismatic, an obsessive genius whom Lina adores and serves with the fervency of a beloved wife. When William suddenly announces that he will be married, Lina watches her world collapse. With her characteristically elegant prose, Carrie Brown creates from history a compelling story that interweaves familial collaboration and conflict with a haunting exploration of the sublime beauty of astronomy and our small but essential place within a vast and astonishing cosmos. Through Lina’s trials and successes we witness the dawning of an early feminist consciousness—a woman struggling to find her own place among the stars.

Once We Were Sisters

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143129295
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis Once We Were Sisters by : Sheila Kohler

Download or read book Once We Were Sisters written by Sheila Kohler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE’S BEST NEW BOOKS “A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly.” —The BBC “An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss.” —People When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood—one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. In her signature spare and incisive prose, Sheila Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate, Crossways, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls, which led to the family abandoning their house and the girls being raised by their mother, at turns distant and suffocating. We follow them to the cloistered Anglican boarding school where they first learn of separation and later their studies in Rome and Paris where they plan grand lives for themselves—lives that are interrupted when both marry young and discover they have made poor choices. Kohler evokes the bond between sisters and shows how that bond changes but never breaks, even after death. “A beautiful and disturbing memoir of a beloved sister who died at the age of thirty-nine in circumstances that strongly suggest murder. . . . Highly recommended.” —Joyce Carol Oates

Distant Sisters

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Publisher : Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis Distant Sisters by : Yehudit Rotem

Download or read book Distant Sisters written by Yehudit Rotem and published by Jewish Publication Society of America. This book was released on 1997 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing fascination with the hardships of women in other cultures makes this insider's look at the harsh lives of ultra-orthodox women a relevant and intriguing read. Judith Rotem, divorced her religious husband and his way of life, interviewed dozens of women to give this insight to the women she left behind.National Jewish Book Award Winner.

For Time & Eternity

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Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414346859
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Book Synopsis For Time & Eternity by : Allison Pittman

Download or read book For Time & Eternity written by Allison Pittman and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Christy Award finalist! All Camilla Deardon knows of the Mormons camping nearby is the songs she hears floating on the breeze. Then she meets one of them—a young man named Nathan Fox. Never did she imagine he would be so handsome, so charming, especially after Mama and Papa’s warnings to stay away. Though she knows she should obey her parents, Camilla can’t refuse her heart. But even Nathan’s promises cannot prepare her for what she will face in Utah.

The Sister Wife

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062000276
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sister Wife by : Diane Noble

Download or read book The Sister Wife written by Diane Noble and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sister Wife is the first book in a new Brides of Gabriel historical series set during the formation of the Mormon edict of polygamy. Award-winning author Diane Noble explores the inner conflicts, emotions, and decisions of three women married to the same man. A moving tale of faith and doubt, love and commitment for fans of Big Love or those who devoured Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, The Sister Wife follows a budding family living in close community with the controversial Mormon prophet Joseph Smith as they are pulled deeper into the world of polygamy.

The Kingmaker's Sisters

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Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752479903
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Book Synopsis The Kingmaker's Sisters by : David Baldwin

Download or read book The Kingmaker's Sisters written by David Baldwin and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warwick the Kingmaker, the Earl of Warwick & Salisbury whose wealth and power was so great that he could effectively decide who would rule England during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487), had six sisters: Joan, Cecily, Alice, Eleanor, Katherine and Margaret. They all married powerful noblemen who fought on opposing sides during this turbulent period. The Kingmaker's Sisters examines the role that they played in late fifteenth-century England, as wives, mothers and homemakers, but also as deputies for their absent husbands, and how the struggle between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians affected them and their families. Scholarly but accessible, this is the first history of the Wars of the Roses to be written from this perspective, and will appeal to general readers, historians of the period and those with an interest in feminist history.

We Want for Our Sisters what We Want for Ourselves

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Publisher : Black Classic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Book Synopsis We Want for Our Sisters what We Want for Ourselves by : Patricia Dixon

Download or read book We Want for Our Sisters what We Want for Ourselves written by Patricia Dixon and published by Black Classic Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves, Dr. Patricia Dixon debunks myths about monogamy and polygyny and challenges us to rethink our approach to marriage and family. This book reveals that before European domination, polygyny was an accepted marriage and family practice in over eighty percent of the world's cultures. Even in Western societies, polygyny has always been practiced. However, because it is done so under a myth of monogamy, this creates a "peculiar" form of the practice that is demoralizing to women. This peculiar form of polygyny was practiced in early European history in Greece and Rome. It was also practiced during slavery in the U.S. to the detriment of African American women and their families. Even in contemporary America, because closed polygyny is practiced in various forms, under the guise of monogamy, it continues to disempower African American women and undermine their marriages and families. Dr. Dixon offers many reasons to support polygyny, most importantly, the shortage of available African American men. Through extensive interviews, she offers an insider's look at polygynous marriages, showing readers its benefits and disadvantages, inter-personal dynamics, how financial, sexual, and parental responsibilities are determined, and the legal, moral, and cultural challenges that must be overcome in order to make polygynous marriage possible within American society. Finally, she calls for African American women to move toward building marriages and families based on love, truth, community, and ultimately a womanist ethic of care for sisters. Book jacket.