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Book Synopsis The Weave of My Life by : Urmilā Pavāra
Download or read book The Weave of My Life written by Urmilā Pavāra and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That is why there has always been a tendency in our people to shrink within ourselves like a tortoise and proceed at a snail's pace." Pawar eventually left Konkan for Mumbai, where she fought for Dalit rights and became a major figure in the Dalit literary movement. Though she writes in Marathi, she has found fame in all of India.".
Book Synopsis The Weave of My Life by : Urmila Pawar
Download or read book The Weave of My Life written by Urmila Pawar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My mother used to weave aaydans, the Marathi generic term for all things made from bamboo. I find that her act of weaving and my act of writing are organically linked. The weave is similar. It is the weave of pain, suffering, and agony that links us." Activist and award-winning writer Urmila Pawar recounts three generations of Dalit women who struggled to overcome the burden of their caste. Dalits, or untouchables, make up India's poorest class. Forbidden from performing anything but the most undesirable and unsanitary duties, for years Dalits were believed to be racially inferior and polluted by nature and were therefore forced to live in isolated communities. Pawar grew up on the rugged Konkan coast, near Mumbai, where the Mahar Dalits were housed in the center of the village so the upper castes could summon them at any time. As Pawar writes, "the community grew up with a sense of perpetual insecurity, fearing that they could be attacked from all four sides in times of conflict. That is why there has always been a tendency in our people to shrink within ourselves like a tortoise and proceed at a snail's pace." Pawar eventually left Konkan for Mumbai, where she fought for Dalit rights and became a major figure in the Dalit literary movement. Though she writes in Marathi, she has found fame in all of India. In this frank and intimate memoir, Pawar not only shares her tireless effort to surmount hideous personal tragedy but also conveys the excitement of an awakening consciousness during a time of profound political and social change.
Book Synopsis A Tale of Boxes by : Robert T. Latham
Download or read book A Tale of Boxes written by Robert T. Latham and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every one of us lives in a box. This box determines what we see and what we do not see. It tells us who to love and hate. What to fight for. How to live. Who we are. Our boxes -- the collection of stories we tell about ourselves and the world -- create the human drama. Whether you become a pawn in this drama or take control of your destiny depends on the ability to answer two questions: Why is my box the way it is? How can I transform it? By examining the forces that have shaped your most deeply held beliefs, this book challenges you to think outside the box that society has provided for you ... ... and begin writing your own story.
Download or read book Unbeweaveable written by Katrina Spencer and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mariah Stevens doesn't take no for an answer. Her take-charge, tough-as-nails exterior has helped her become Book Review Editor at Spirit Magazine - no small feat considering she's only 29. She lives in a stunning apartment in Manhattan, her clothes are ripped straight from the runways, and her manicured nails are never chipped. Life is good. Her secret weapon? Her long, glorious weave, which she's been wearing since she was 16. It's her power, her strength, and she's completely addicted to it. She can't even remember what her real hair looks like. In a sudden move, Spirit Magazine folds, and for the first time in her life Mariah is left asking, "What's next?" WIth her savings dwindling, she's forced to remove her weave and make the call that she hasn't made in years - the call home. Now Mariah is back home in Houston, living with her bi-racial sister and light-skinned mother, both of whom are blessed with hair long enough to sleep in. Mariah has always stuck out like a sore thumb, and is constantly reminded of such with her dark skin and short, kinky hair. Living in Houston has Mariah facing her old demons, and without the support of her weave she's losing her most important asset: her self-confidence. When she discovers a family secret, it opens doors to her past and threatens to break her already fragile world apart. With her sister by her side, Mariah is determined to learn the truth. Unbeweaveable is about Mariah's quest to confront questions of love, loyalty, and family to find her way back home.
Book Synopsis Tapestries - Weaving My Life by : Craig Childress Johnson
Download or read book Tapestries - Weaving My Life written by Craig Childress Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-14 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've long found writing scratches places just out of reach somewhere in my psyche. Amazingly, I often have friends, acquaintances, even total strangers tell me my words somehow scratch hard to reach places for them as well. Each of our lives is a wondrous tapestry in the making. The most satisfying experience I have is seeing people embrace God's plan for them, to begin to see something beautiful emerge from all the disjointed knots and loose end of their often severely troubled lives. I've collected a number of my own knots and threads here, often frayed ends becoming part of the tapestry of my life. Some dark. Some brilliant. Some fuzzy. Some gold. I trust all will become something beautiful in the end.
Book Synopsis Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia by : Guy Stanton Ford
Download or read book Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia written by Guy Stanton Ford and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Maternal Fictions by : Indrani Karmakar
Download or read book Maternal Fictions written by Indrani Karmakar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a feminist literary analysis of motherhood as presented in selected Indian women’s fictions across a diverse range of geographical, linguistic, class and caste contexts. Situated at the crossroads of motherhood studies and literary studies, this book offers a rigorous examination of the prosody and politics of motherhood in this corpus. In its five thematically focused chapters, the book scrutinises in depth such key concerns as maternal ambivalence; maternal agency and caste; mother–daughter relationships; motherhood and diaspora; and non-biological motherhood. It attempts to understand the literary ramifications of these issues in order to identify the ways in which fiction writers reconceive of the notion of motherhood and maternal identities from and against multiple perspectives. Another pressing concern is whether these Indian women writers’ visions furnish readers with any different understandings of motherhood as compared to dominant Western feminist discourses. Maternal Fictions advances feminist literary criticism in the specific area of Indian women’s writing and the overarching areas of motherhood and literature by acting as a launchpad into a complex constellation of ideas concerning motherhood. The fictional universe is at once ambivalent, diverse, contingent, grounded in a specific location, and yet well placed to converse with discourses emanating from other times and places.
Author :Ann Fields Publisher :Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations ISBN 13 :9781558963702 Total Pages :244 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (637 download)
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Book Synopsis ''Prostitution'' My Living Wound by : Akosua Offeibea Manteaw
Download or read book ''Prostitution'' My Living Wound written by Akosua Offeibea Manteaw and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the real life story of a young lady who falls in love for the first time. The love was so pure, so hot and so tender that within the first few months of her relationship, she gets labeled as a "prostitute", an open stigma that engulfs her entire four year degree course as a university undergraduate. How she coped with the whore stigma and its shame, rejection, intimidation, and all the social stress that comes with such a name, through to the point where she chooses her emotions, and feels totally at peace with herself, is what she desires to share with the readers of this book.
Book Synopsis An Angel Healed Me by : Theresa Cheung
Download or read book An Angel Healed Me written by Theresa Cheung and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theresa Cheung in an expert in the field of angels and divine healing. This, her latest collection of amazing true stories, focuses on the physical and emotional help people have experienced from unexplained or ethereal sources at times when they have been at their most vulnerable. With chapters such as 'Manifest a Miracle' and 'An Angel at My Bedside', the book tells of remarkable incidents where angels have appeared in hospital wards, at difficult births, during near-death experiences, and when someone actually dies, easing their journey from the corporeal to the spirit world. The common thread running through all these miraculous stories of healing from the inside out is that every angelic encounter provided the recipient with a strength, courage and a power they never knew they had.
Book Synopsis Journeys to Professional Excellence by : Frederic P. Bemak
Download or read book Journeys to Professional Excellence written by Frederic P. Bemak and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journeys to Professional Excellence: Stories of Courage, Innovation, and Risk-Taking in the Lives of Noted Psychologists and Counselors edited by Frederic P. Bemak and Robert K. Conyne explores the professional journeys of well-known psychologists and counselors, examining factors that contributed to their successes and struggles in the field. Powerful narratives cover the challenges and joys related to ethnic identity; moving from poverty; finding significance; dealing with immigrant status; exploring public policy; challenging the status quo; experiencing serendipity and exploring one’s way; moving into new professional roles; and taking risks. These stories will ignite passion in future psychologists and counselors by helping them reflect on the relationship between their own personal and professional identities.
Book Synopsis Weave Her Thread with Bones: a Magda Santos Mystery by : Claudia Long
Download or read book Weave Her Thread with Bones: a Magda Santos Mystery written by Claudia Long and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-12-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magda Santos is a lawyer in San Francisco. Of Portuguese and Mexican descent, she's "as American as Taco Bell." Forced out of her law firm and newly on her own, she's found a haven and a cultural outlet as a member of an obscure dance-and-martial-arts cult, the Xuchil Dancers. Sworn to secrecy, she learns erotic dance steps and powerful attack and defense techniques, which are combined in intense initiation rituals and performances. Magda specializes in bank fraud, so when two wealthy, beautiful widows are indicted for bank fraud in Federal Court, Magda is called to defend them. She soon discovers that the women did not become widows by accident, and malevolent Xuchil Masters are controlling their every move. Magda is only supposed to help them take the fall, not win the case. Magda's professional pride battles her loyalty to the Xuchil Dancers. She can't tell which of the Masters can be trusted, and which is waiting to pounce. In the cavernous passageways under an old San Francisco church Magda makes her final decision, facing down the highest of the Masters she has sworn to obey.
Book Synopsis The Mind of a Conservative Woman by : Senator Marsha Blackburn
Download or read book The Mind of a Conservative Woman written by Senator Marsha Blackburn and published by Worthy Books. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reject our society's liberal bias against conservative women and learn how traditional principles will secure a better future for us all with this inspiring guide from a political powerhouse. The Mind of a Conservative Woman challenges women to improve their place in life and open doors for themselves and the next generation through the courage of their convictions. Senator Blackburn expounds upon why beliefs labeled as "traditional" have common ground and can improve all of society, such as: Protecting the next generation, the family, and the freedom of faith and values, Supporting a free market that rewards women who apply their talents and rise to great heights, Respecting the institutions in our nation to make change from the inside, Securing an effective government that will not overreach, and Honoring and respecting those who hold differing opinions. Though it is politically liberal women who receive the attention of left-leaning media and universities, it is conservatism that guarantees what most women hold dear. Blackburn addresses the frustrations of working women and the false perceptions of women presented by the media in general. Her maxim "Leave Things in Better Shape Than You Found Them" will challenge you to improve your place in life and create opportunities you never dreamed possible for yourself and those around you.
Book Synopsis The Wind's on the Horizon: Just Over the Edge by : Dale Stubbart
Download or read book The Wind's on the Horizon: Just Over the Edge written by Dale Stubbart and published by Dale Stubbart. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another of my mystical poetry books in the series: The Language of the Wind. In this book, we look at things from the horizon. But the horizon is just another way of saying the edge. Sometimes when looking at things from the edge, it's the edge of getting happy or the edge of going crazy. Sometimes you're pulled back from the brink just in time. In this book there are White Water Journeys, the Outer Wondrousness, the Perihelion of Bliss, Dreamscapes and Funnels, Wisdom, Cunning, and Loneliness, Rhythms on the Brink, the Inner Marvel, and Heart Tonic. Then we get really close with Approaching the Edge, perhaps a little too closely. Instilling the Edge, You can't get closer than this. Of course that's only true until you do. Then you're on the Far Edge of the Horizon. I've also included a couple of mystical short stories - Miguelito: The smallest sueno (dream). That Hole Inside You, featuring your favorite striped mammal - Skunk. Mystics try to describe the indescribable with words. They bring you in touch with the spiritual world. Some mystical writing is hard to understand. I'd like to think that mine is easy. And some of it is very humorous. Of course, what could be more spiritual than chocolate? I've included two poems on that. Rating G. Reading Level: Very Easy 4th Grade. Longest Word: Tremendousness
Book Synopsis Life Changing Thoughts by : Gary W. Smith
Download or read book Life Changing Thoughts written by Gary W. Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE CHANGING THOUGHTS is a book difficult to put down. One moment you will find yourself laughing; the next moment, you find yourself in deep meditation. The book contains thousands of inspiring, life changing, worshipful and humorous thoughts. There are nearly 700 pages with almost 500 different topics categorized alphabetically. Some of the book's topics are God and the Bible, character, faith, fullness, the family and home, leadership, patriotic thoughts, prayer and victorious living. The book even contains great seasonal thoughts for thanksgiving, Christmas and the Resurrection. As a young man, the author began collecting life-changing thoughts for his own personal use. It was not long until he was using the thoughts and poems within his own writings and sermons. Over a thirty-five year period, the collection of inspiring thoughts grew from only a few to number into the thousands. As the collection grew so did the author's ability to compose and write his own thoughts and poems. Many of these are included within this book. The book is a great resource for pastors, teachers, speechmakers, communicators and leaders. You will find the life-changing thoughts beneficial for your own edification and enjoyment. In addition, the book provides you with a wealth of inspiring and motivating thoughts to share with other people. The author hopes you are blessed by reading and sharing these thoughts, as he has been from compiling and writing them. "A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good it is!" (KJV, Proverbs 15:23)