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Author : Pat Uloaku Okoye
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Widowhood written by Pat Uloaku Okoye and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pat Uloaku Okoye
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Widowhood Practices written by Pat Uloaku Okoye and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pat Uloaku Okoye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Harmful Widowhood Practices in Anambra State written by Pat Uloaku Okoye and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Widows Development Organisation Wido
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Widowhood written by Widows Development Organisation Wido and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of a loved one evokes the universal emotion of grief. In Nigeria, and in particular, in the South-East, the widow not only suffers the grief of her loss but addition she suffers the pain of harmful traditional mourning rites. There is a vast difference between the widow and the widower in the manner in which mourning rites are observed. Certain myths exist which influence the different mourning rites.One of such myths is the fact that a widow is accused of being her husband's killer and part of the punishment is to inflict certain harmful widowhood rites on her. These practices include forceful shaving of the hair, sitting on the floor, confinement, and grabbing of the property, and sometimes taking away of her children.Civil society organizations like the Widows Development Organization (WiDO) have done extensive research on these practices. The research material has been of great use in proving that the varied practices exist and areas where they are prevalent. This study was conducted in 17 local government areas of Enugu State. These included the LGAs mentioned above and five new ones, in addition, Nsukka, Enugu South, Enugu North, Igbo-Eze South, and Isi-Uzo.This book takes an in-depth look at widowhood practices that have been in existence particularly in Enugu State with reference to the 1998 research. It also highlights any significant changes in practice and attitude that have arisen, both as a result of the awareness campaign and the law in 2001 and the 2005 reappraisal/ research update sponsored by the Security Justice and Growth Programme (SJG). The layout of the book has been presented in a reader-friendly manner to enable easy comparison. The book will be of immense benefit to the Government, Civil Society, legislators, and development partners in Enugu State and outside the State
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Widowhood Practices in Imo State written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah S. Carr, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826142451
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Spousal Bereavement in Late Life written by Deborah S. Carr, PhD and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005-11-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides insightful analysis and theoretical interpretation of factors that contribute to a range of adjustment patterns among bereaved persons in late life. It places the experience of widowhood in late life squarely within the context of contemporary society and explores a remarkable range of associated issues. The volume is destined to become a classic; it will set the standard for future empirical investigation of the experience of bereavement among older adults. For Further Information on the CLOC Study, Please Click on CLOC
Author : Katherine Clark Walter
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 0813230195
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Profession of Widowhood written by Katherine Clark Walter and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Profession of Widowhood explores how the idea of ‘true’ widowhood was central to pre-modern ideas concerning marriage and of female identity more generally. The medieval figure of the Christian vere vidua or “good” widow evolved from and reinforced ancient social and religious sensibilities of chastity, loyalty and grief as gendered ‘work.’ The ideal widow was a virtuous woman who mourned her dead husband in chastity, solitude, and most importantly, in perpetuity, marking her as “a widow indeed” (1 Tim 5:5). The widow who failed to display adequate grief fulfilled the stereotype of the ‘merry widow’ who forgot her departed spouse and abused her sexual and social freedom. Stereotypes of widows ‘good’ and ‘bad’ served highly-charged ideological functions in pre-modern culture, and have remained durable even in modern times, even as Western secular society now focuses more on a woman’s recovery from grief and possible re-coupling than the expectation that she remain forever widowed. The widow represented not only the powerful bond created by love and marriage, but also embodied the conventions of grief that ordered the response when those bonds were broken by premature death. This notion of the widow as both a passive memorial to her husband and as an active ‘rememberer’ was rooted in ancient traditions, and appropriated by early Christian and medieval authors who used “good” widowhood to describe the varieties of female celibacy and to define the social and gender order. A tradition of widowhood characterized by chastity, solitude, and permanent bereavement affirmed both the sexual mores and political agenda of the medieval Church. Medieval widows—both holy women recognized as saints and ‘ordinary women’ in medieval daily life—recognized this tradition of professed chastity in widowhood not only as a valuable strategy for avoiding remarriage and protecting their independence, but as a state with inherent dignity that afforded opportunities for spiritual development in this world and eternal merit in the next.
Author : Phyllis R. Silverman
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415947497
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Widow to Widow written by Phyllis R. Silverman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Widow to Widow powerfully links theory and practice perspectives through the extensive use of case illustrations...its comprehensive knowledge base and the challenge to the professional monopoly of bereavement care, makes this an important text for all carers, new or experienced, who are offering support to the widowed." - Linda Machin in BereavementCare Vol.25, No.2.
Author : Sandra Cavallo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317882768
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe written by Sandra Cavallo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays brings together brand new research on widowhood in medieval and early modern Europe. The volume opens with an introductory chapter by the Editors which looks generally at the conditions and constructions of widowhood in this period. This is followed by a range of essays which illuminate different dimensions of widowhood across Europe - in England, Italy, France, Germany and Spain. A particular attraction of the volume is the attention given to widowers, and the comparisons made between the male and female experience of widowhood. It is an exciting reinterpretation of the subject which will do much to undo the traditional stereotype of the widow. Contributing to the volume are: Jodi Bilinkoff, Giulia Calvi, Sandra Cavallo, Isabelle Chabot, Julia Crick, Amy Erikson, Dagmar Freist, Elizabeth Foyster, Margaret Pelling, Pamela Sharpe,Tim Stretton, Barbara Todd, and Lyndan Warner.
Author : Allison Levy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351872982
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe written by Allison Levy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas recent studies of early modern widowhood by social, economic and cultural historians have called attention to the often ambiguous, yet also often empowering, experience and position of widows within society, Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe is the first book to consider the distinct and important relationship between ritual and representation. The fifteen new interdisciplinary essays assembled here read widowhood as a catalyst for the production of a significant body of visual material-representations of, for and by widows, whether through traditional media, such as painting, sculpture and architecture, or through the so-called 'minor arts,' including popular print culture, medals, religious and secular furnishings and ornament, costume and gift objects, in early modern Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Arranged thematically, this unique collection allows the reader to recognize and appreciate the complexity and contradiction, iconicity and mutability, and timelessness and timeliness of widowhood and representation.
Author : Azadeh Moaveni
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0399179763
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)
Download or read book Guest House for Young Widows written by Azadeh Moaveni and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of thirteen women who joined, endured, and, in some cases, escaped life in the Islamic State—based on years of immersive reporting by a Pulitzer Prize finalist. FINALIST FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Toronto Star • The Guardian Among the many books trying to understand the terrifying rise of ISIS, none has given voice to the women in the organization; but women were essential to the establishment of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s caliphate. Responding to promises of female empowerment and social justice, and calls to aid the plight of fellow Muslims in Syria, thousands of women emigrated from the United States and Europe, Russia and Central Asia, from across North Africa and the rest of the Middle East to join the Islamic State. These were the educated daughters of diplomats, trainee doctors, teenagers with straight-A averages, as well as working-class drifters and desolate housewives, and they joined forces to set up makeshift clinics and schools for the Islamic homeland they’d envisioned. Guest House for Young Widows charts the different ways women were recruited, inspired, or compelled to join the militants. Emma from Hamburg, Sharmeena and three high school friends from London, and Nour, a religious dropout from Tunis: All found rebellion or community in political Islam and fell prey to sophisticated propaganda that promised them a cosmopolitan adventure and a chance to forge an ideal Islamic community in which they could live devoutly without fear of stigma or repression. It wasn’t long before the militants exposed themselves as little more than violent criminals,more obsessed with power than the tenets of Islam, and the women of ISIS were stripped of any agency, perpetually widowed and remarried, and ultimately trapped in a brutal, lawless society. The fall of the caliphate only brought new challenges to women no state wanted to reclaim. Azadeh Moaveni’s exquisite sensitivity and rigorous reporting make these forgotten women indelible and illuminate the turbulent politics that set them on their paths.
Author : Ukamaka Cecilia Asogwa
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Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Widowhood-- Human Dignity and Social Justice in Nigeria written by Ukamaka Cecilia Asogwa and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew A. Ovienloba
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Woes of the Nigerian Woman written by Andrew A. Ovienloba and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mae Alice Reggy
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497567702
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Widows written by Mae Alice Reggy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the challenges facing widows, including dealing with grief, settling his estate, coping with sexual pressures, and confronting cultural practices that affect the life of a widow in the African context. Dr. Mae Alice Reggy shares her experiences as a widow and describes real incidents and feelings that other widows can identify with. Based on sound biblical teaching, it is the most useful, practical, and compassionate guide to surviving widowhood. This is essential reading not only for widows, but also for pastors and counselors. It can also be used in colleges and universities where courses in cross-cultural ministries are taught.
Author : Genevieve Davis Ginsburg
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 0738211338
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Widow To Widow written by Genevieve Davis Ginsburg and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a widow and therapist, a guide to life after losing a husband, with reflections on grief and practical advice In this remarkably useful guide, widow, author, and therapist Genevieve Davis Ginsburg offers fellow widows -- as well as their family and friends -- sage advice for coping with the loss of a husband. From learning to travel and eat alone to creating new routines to surviving the holidays and anniversaries that reopen emotional wounds, Ginsburg give guidance on: Dealing with anger and guilt Maintaining family relationships Dating after widowhood Handling money Responding to others' support And more Widow to Widow walks readers through the challenges of widowhood and encourages them on their path to building a new life.
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062082639
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book A Widow's Story written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, Oates, whose novels (Blonde, The Gravedigger’s Daughter, Little Bird of Heaven, etc.) rank among the very finest in contemporary American fiction, offers an achingly personal story of love and loss. A Widow’s Story is a literary memoir on a par with The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and Calvin Trillin’s About Alice.
Author : Professor Ifi Amadiume
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783603348
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Male Daughters, Female Husbands written by Professor Ifi Amadiume and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands, to critical acclaim. This compelling and highly original book frees the subject position of 'husband' from its affiliation with men, and goes on to do the same for other masculine attributes, dislocating sex, gender and sexual orientation. Boldly arguing that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference, Male Daughters, Female Husbands examines the structures in African society that enabled people to achieve power, showing that roles were not rigidly masculinized nor feminized. At a time when gender and queer theory are viewed by some as being stuck in an identity-politics rut, this outstanding study not only warns against the danger of projecting a very specific, Western notion of difference onto other cultures, but calls us to question the very concept of gender itself.
