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Co-wives, Co-widows

Author : Adrienne Yabouza
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1912868857
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Co-wives, Co-widows written by Adrienne Yabouza and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'At 49, Lidou is in his prime, a prosperous builder of houses in the Central African Republic and the proud husband of two beautiful wives, Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou. The only cloud on his horizon is the recent onset of impotence, for which he persuades a pharmacist friend to get him some pills. The day after his first dose, Lidou has a heart attack and drops dead, which gives his opportunistic cousin Zouaboua the chance to accuse the two newly-widowed women of poisoning Lidou, so that he can snatch his cousin’s property out from under their noses. If they’re going to keep what’s rightfully theirs, Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou must fight with all their might against a backdrop of corruption in which bribery oils the wheels of society, eroding decency and loyalty. It’s a weighty topic in many ways, but Adrienne Yabouza writes so lightly and colourfully that this is a delight to read.' Alastair Mabbott in The Herald

The Wife and the Widow

Author : Christian White
Publisher : Affirm Press
ISBN 13 : 1925972402
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book The Wife and the Widow written by Christian White and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and the Widow is a mystery/thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband’s secret life; and Abby, an island local whose world is turned upside down when she’s forced to confront the evidence that her husband is a murderer. But nothing on this island is quite as it seems, and only when these women come together can they discover the whole story about the men in their lives. Brilliant and beguiling, The Wife and the Widow takes you to a cliff edge and asks the question: how well do we really know the people we love?

From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris

Author : Janine M. Lanza
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317131533
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris written by Janine M. Lanza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking especially at widows of master craftsmen in early modern Paris, this study provides analysis of the social and cultural structures that shaped widows' lives as well as their day-to-day experiences. Janine Lanza examines widows in early modern Paris at every social and economic level, beginning with the late sixteenth century when changes in royal law curtailed the movement of property within families up to the time of the French Revolution. The glimpses she gives us of widows running businesses, debating remarriage, and negotiating marriage contracts offer precious insights into the daily lives of women in this period. Lanza shows that understanding widows dramatically alters our understanding of gender, not only in terms of how it was lived in this period but also how historians can use this idea as a category of analysis. Her study also engages the historiographical issue of business and entrepreneurship, particularly women's participation in the world of work; and explicitly examines the place of the law in the lived experience of the early modern period. How did widowed women use their newly acquired legal emancipation? How did they handle their emotional loss? How did their roles in their families and their communities change? How did they remain financially solvent without a man in the house? How did they make decisions that had always been made by the men around them? These questions all touch upon the experience of widows and on the ways women related to prevalent structures and ideologies in this society. Lanza's study of these women, the ways they were represented and how they experienced their widowhood, challenges many historical assumptions about women and their roles with respect to the law, the family, and economic activity.

Roman Wives, Roman Widows

Author : Bruce W. Winter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802849717
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Roman Wives, Roman Widows written by Bruce W. Winter and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late Republic and early Empire, the new woman' made her appearance. This was a wife or widow of means who took part in life outside the walls of her house, including wider society, business and extra-marital affairs.

Coquettes, Wives, and Widows

Author : Marcie Ray
Publisher : Eastman Studies in Music
ISBN 13 : 1580469884
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Coquettes, Wives, and Widows written by Marcie Ray and published by Eastman Studies in Music. This book was released on 2020 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory study of how composers and dramatists of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France criticized and trivialized independent women in their portrayals of them in works of theater and opera.

Daughters, Wives and Widows After the Black Death

Author : Mavis E. Mate
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851155340
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book Daughters, Wives and Widows After the Black Death written by Mavis E. Mate and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been thought that the post Black Death period offered unparallelled opportunities for women. However, through a careful consideration of economic and legal changes affecting women of all social classes and conditions, the author shows that this was not the case, taking issue with orthodox opinion. She argues that marriage at a late age was not customary for women, and that the ability of wives to supplement their income with intermittent paid labour (at harvest time, for example) was not so great as has been supposed: rather, most married women spent more time on unpaid agricultural labour on their own land than their peers had done in the pre-plague economy. Professor Mate also demonstrates that there is little evidence to support the current belief that widowhood was the period in a woman's life when she enjoyed most power, freedom, and independence; moreover, legal changes were a mixed blessing for women, leaving some widows with a larger portion and a more secure title to land, but totally depriving others. Throughout, the book pays much attention to class as well as gender, showing how many things were determined by it, from what a woman wore or ate to the age at which she married, her power within the household, and even her vulnerability to rape.Professor MAVIS E. MATEteaches in the Department of History at the University of Oregon.

Wives, Widows, and Concubines

Author : Mytheli Sreenivas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253351189
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Wives, Widows, and Concubines written by Mytheli Sreenivas and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates about family, property, and nation in Tamil India

Maids, Wives, Widows

Author : Dr. Sara Read
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473823404
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Maids, Wives, Widows written by Dr. Sara Read and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maids, Wives, Widows is a lively exploration of the everyday lives of women in early modern England, from 1540-1740. The book uncovers details of how women filled their days, what they liked to eat and drink, what jobs they held, and how they raised their children. With chapters devoted to beauty regimes, fashion, and literature, the book also examines the cultural as well as the domestic aspect of early modern women's lives. Further, the book answers questions such as how women understood and dealt with their monthly periods and what it was like to give birth in a time before modern obstetric care was available.?The book also highlights key moments in women's history such as the publication in 1671, of the first midwifery guide by an English woman, Jane Sharp. The turmoil caused by the Civil Wars of the 1640s gave rise to a number of religious sects in which women participated to a surprising extent and some of their stories are included in this book. Also scrutinised are cases of notorious criminals such as murderer Sarah Malcolm and confidence trickster Mary Toft who pretended to give birth to rabbits.??Overall the book describes the experiences of women over a two hundred year period noting the changes and continuities of daily life during this fascinating era.

Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows

Author : F. Scott Spencer
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467436844
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows written by F. Scott Spencer and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging feminist hermeneutics and philosophy in addition to more traditional methods of biblical study, Salty Wives, Spirited Mothers, and Savvy Widows demonstrates and celebrates the remarkable capability and ingenuity of several women in the Gospel of Luke. While recent studies have exposed women's limited opportunities for ministry in Luke, Scott Spencer pulls the pendulum back from a negative feminist-critical pole toward a more constructive center. Granting that Luke sends somewhat "mixed messages" about women's work and status as Jesus' disciples, Spencer analyzes such women as Mary, Elizabeth, Joanna, Martha and Mary, and the infamous yet intriguing wife of Lot -- whom Jesus exhorts his followers to "remember" -- as well as the unrelentingly persistent women characters in Jesus' parables.

Widows, Wives and Other Heroines

Author : Premacanda
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195653205
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Widows, Wives and Other Heroines written by Premacanda and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stories Present A Wide Variety Of Feminine Portraits-Mothers, Daughters, Wives, Widows And Prostitutes-Both Realistic And Idealized, Sometimes Tragic, Sometimes Tinged With Satire, But Always Compassionate.

Daughters, Wives, and Widows

Author : Joan Larsen Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Daughters, Wives, and Widows written by Joan Larsen Klein and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wife and Widow in Medieval England

Author : Sue Sheridan Walker
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472104154
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Wife and Widow in Medieval England by : Sue Sheridan Walker

Download or read book Wife and Widow in Medieval England written by Sue Sheridan Walker and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the role of women in medieval law and society

Wife to Widow

Author : Bettina Bradbury
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774819527
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Wife to Widow written by Bettina Bradbury and published by University of British Columbia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Wife to Widow, award-winning historian Bettina Bradbury explores the little studied phenomenon of the transition from wife to widowhood to offer new insights into the law, politics, demography, religion, and domestic life of early nineteenth-century Montreal. Bradbury's unique history spans the lives of two generations of Montreal women who married either before or after the Patriote rebellions of 1837-38 to reveal a picture of a city and its inhabitants across a period of profound change. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, from church and court records, censuses, and tax documents, to newspapers and pamphlets, Bradbury shows how women – Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish, wealthy and working-class – interacted with and shaped the city's culture, customs, and institutions, even as they laboured under the shifting conditions of patriarchy. Weaving together the individual biographies of twenty women against the backdrop of the collective genealogy of over 500, Bradbury tells the stories of these women through the traces their actions left in documents and archives. In doing so, she makes an invaluable contribution to the writing on the histories of women, families, cities, law, religion and politics. A truly monumental study, Wife to Widow is an immensely readable, rigorous, and compelling work.

Black Widows

Author : Cate Quinn
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1728220475
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Black Widows written by Cate Quinn and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While Quinn writes with spirit on weighty subjects like domestic abuse, polygamy and religious cults, her primary and most poignant theme seems to be female friendship." —New York Times Book Review "An absolutely thrilling novel. I devoured it over a weekend, unable to put it down. It's a clever and completely original take on a domestic thriller." —Alex Michaelides, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Silent Patient Blake's dead. They say his wife killed him. If so... which one? Polygamist Blake Nelson built a homestead on a hidden stretch of land—a raw paradise in the wilds of Utah—where he lived with his three wives: Rachel, the first wife, obedient and doting to a fault, with a past she'd prefer to keep quiet. Tina, the rebel wife, everything Rachel isn't, straight from rehab and the Vegas strip. And Emily, the young wife, naïve and scared, estranged from her Catholic family. The only thing that they had in common was Blake. Until all three are accused of his murder. When Blake is found dead under the desert sun, all three wives become suspect—not only to the police, but to each other. As the investigation draws them closer, each wife must decide who can be trusted. With stories surfacing of a notorious cult tucked away in the hills, whispers flying about a fourth wife, and evidence that can't quite explain what had been keeping Blake busy, the three widows face a reckoning that might shatter all they know to be true. For fans of The Wife Between Us and The Dry comes a chilling murder mystery that takes a domestic thriller's classic question—"Did his wife kill him?"—and twists it into an completely new type of suspense.

Dating a Widower

Author : Abel Keogh
Publisher : Ben Lomond Press
ISBN 13 : 1712156985
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Dating a Widower written by Abel Keogh and published by Ben Lomond Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dating a widower comes with unique challenges that you won’t encounter when dating a single or divorced man. For the relationship to work, the widower will have to put his feelings for his late wife to the side and focus on you. But how do you know if he’s ready to take this step? Drawing on his own experience as a remarried widower, Abel Keogh provides unique insight and guidance into the hearts and minds of widowers, including: · Why widowers date so soon after their late wife dies · How to know if the widower is ready to make room in his heart for you · Red flags that indicate widowers aren’t ready for commitment · How to set and maintain healthy relationship boundaries with widowers Dating a Widower is your guide to having a successful relationship with a man who’s starting over. It also contains 21 real-life stories from women who have gone down the same road you’re traveling. It’s the perfect book to help you decide if the man you’re seeing is ready for a new relationship—and whether dating a widower is right for you. *** Abel Keogh is the expert on widower relationships. A remarried widower, Abel has successfully helped thousands of women know if the widowers they’re dating are ready for a serious relationship. He also helps widowers understand what it takes to overcome grief and open their heart to another woman. Learn more at http://www.abelkeogh.com.

Finding Love After Loss

Author : Marti Benedetti
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538152142
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Finding Love After Loss written by Marti Benedetti and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guides readers through the emotions and practical concerns of finding love after the death of a partner. Romantic love, in all its permutations, forms one of the most fascinating of human interactions. It also can be one of life’s thorniest challenges, especially in a world where relationships often unfold online and, recently, where a pandemic barred face-to-face contact with people outside one’s immediate household. Among those seeking romance in increasing numbers is a group that stands apart: the women who, slammed by the death of a spouse, bravely pursue new love. Finding Love After Loss: A Relationship Roadmap for Widows goes to the trenches to interview widows who have embarked, nervously but with hope, on this quest. Their frank and revealing interviews, along with wisdom from relationship experts, provide guidance to other women trying to navigate the relationship scene when their last date might have been decades ago. Where do widows find new partners? How much should they share in their online profile? What do they tell their friends and family? What about getting naked for the first time with a new man? Who pays when the bill appears at a restaurant? More than any time in U.S. history, the country’s widows are seeking another chance at romance. The sheer number of widows—11 million, with an average age in the fifties—makes them a formidable force. They are living longer and have broader views on sex and money. Yet it is difficult for them to find their footing. Many of them have been away from the courtship arena for decades. They may make their return to dating with children and in-laws in tow. They are confused by the new rules and unclear on the expectations but convinced that they are capable of loving again. This book, written by a widow and a co-author who dated a widower, details just how powerful, sometimes daunting, and exhilarating the journey to new love can be. It also unveils the extraordinary ways that widows are reshaping the romance landscape: by tossing traditional marriage vows by the roadside, by skipping marriage entirely, or even by committing to a new partner but living apart. This isn’t your grandmother’s widowhood scene, not by a long shot. Finding Love After Loss examines the crazy, sad, and even zany contributions that people left behind by the death of a partner bring to new relationships. At the same time, it reveals both the amazing resilience of women who have lived through great loss and the irresistible pull of human connection.

The Widowed Ones

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493045954
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Widowed Ones written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There weren’t many women in the late 1800s who had the opportunity to accompany their husbands on adventures that were so exciting they seemed fictitious. Such was the case for the women married to the officers in General George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry. There were seven officers’ wives. They were all good friends who traveled from post to post with one another along with their spouses. Of the seven widows, Elizabeth Custer was the most well-known. As the wife of the commanding officer, Libbie felt it was her duty to be present when the officer’s wives at Fort Lincoln were told their husbands had been killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The women were overwhelmed with letters of condolence. Most people were sincere in their expressions of sorrow over the widows’ loss. Others were ghoulish souvenir hunters requesting articles of their husbands’ clothing and personal weapons as keepsakes. The press was preoccupied with how the wives of the deceased officers were handling their grief. During the first year after the tragic event, reporters sought them out to learn how they were coping, what plans they had for the future, and what, if anything, they knew about the battle itself. The widows were able to soldier through the scrutiny because they had one another. They confided in each other, cried without apologizing, and discussed their desperate financial situations. The friendship the bereaved widows had with one another proved to be a critical source of support. The transition from being officers’ wives living at various forts on the wild frontier to being single women with homes of their own was a difficult adjustment. Without one another to depend upon, the time might have been more of a struggle. The Widowed Ones: Beyond the Battle of the Little Bighorn tells the stories of these women and the unique bond they shared through never-before-seen materials from the Elizabeth Custer Library and Museum at Garryowen, Montana, including letters to and from politicians and military leaders to the widows, fellow soldiers and critics of George Custer to the widows, and letters between the widows themselves about when the women first met, the men they married, and their attempts to persevere after the tragedy.