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Author : Flora Nwapa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Wives at War and Other Stories written by Flora Nwapa and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Berkin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307272931
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Civil War Wives written by Carol Berkin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these moving stories if Angelina Grimké Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day. Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity by adding women's experiences and voices to their male counterparts.
Author : Tamar Cohen
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 1460343212
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)
Download or read book War of the Wives written by Tamar Cohen and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think marriage means happily-ever-after? Think again… Selina and Lottie are complete opposites. Where Selina is poised but prudish, Lottie is quirky and emotional. Selina is the dutiful mother of three children and able manager of their stylish suburban home. Lottie lives with her eccentric teenage daughter in a small city apartment fit to bursting with color and happy chaos. But these women also have one shocking similarity: they're married to the same man…and they've just found out he's dead. Selina has been married to Simon Busfield for twenty-eight years, Lottie for seventeen. Neither knows a thing about the other until the day of Simon's funeral, where the scandalous truth is revealed in front of everyone they know. Another wife, another family… And they've onlyjust scratched the surface of Simon's incredible betrayal. With dark humor and razor-sharp wit, Cohen expertly unravels a story of deception and betrayal, where two very different families will discover they are entwined in ways that will change them all forever. "Witty, ludicrously melodramatic and psychologically perceptive." —Sunday Telegraph "A cracking debut…. Fatal Attraction with a clever twist at the end. Addictive." —The Bookseller on The Mistress's Revenge
Author : Heath Hardage Lee
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 125016110X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The League of Wives written by Heath Hardage Lee and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story — a profile of courage that spotlights 1960s-era military wives who forge secret codes with bravery, chutzpah and style. Honestly, I couldn’t put it down." — Beth Macy, author of Dopesick and Factory Man The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington—and Hanoi—to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton. Months later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and Helene Knapp. These women, who formed The National League of Families, would never have called themselves “feminists,” but they had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands’ freedom—and to account for missing military men—by relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists, and most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands. In a page-turning work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League of Wives is certain to be on everyone’s must-read list.
Author : Chris Coulter
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801457246
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers written by Chris Coulter and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the war in Sierra Leone (1991–2002), members of various rebel movements kidnapped thousands of girls and women, some of whom came to take an active part in the armed conflict alongside the rebels. In a stunning look at the life of women in wartime, Chris Coulter draws on interviews with more than a hundred women to bring us inside the rebel camps in Sierra Leone.When these girls and women returned to their home villages after the cessation of hostilities, their families and peers viewed them with skepticism and fear, while humanitarian organizations saw them primarily as victims. Neither view was particularly helpful in helping them resume normal lives after the war. Offering lessons for policymakers, practitioners, and activists, Coulter shows how prevailing notions of gender, both in home communities and among NGO workers, led, for instance, to women who had taken part in armed conflict being bypassed in the demilitarization and demobilization processes carried out by the international community in the wake of the war. Many of these women found it extremely difficult to return to their families, and, without institutional support, some were forced to turn to prostitution to eke out a living.Coulter weaves several themes through the work, including the nature of gender roles in war, livelihood options in war and peace, and how war and postwar experiences affect social and kinship relations.
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466861525
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Wives at War written by Jessica Stirling and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Glasgow waits for enemy bombers to reach Clydeside and the German invasion to begin, Lizzie Conway's daughters throw themselves wholeheartedly into the war effort and eagerly accept their roles as working wives in Jessica Stirling's enthralling new novel set in the darkest days of the Second World War. With her husband in the army, mother-of-four Babs sends three of her darlings to the country and goes back to work long hours in an office. Her comfortable routine is disrupted, however, when a charming American news photographer insinuates himself into her life, an American who may not be all that he seems. Rosie's job as a skilled factory worker is marred by the taunts of her cruel and snobbish coworkers. Eager to start a family but fearful that she might pass her deafness to her children, she blames her ambitious policeman husband for her desperate unhappiness and risks not only her marriage but her future because of it. Wealthy and self assured, Polly continues to manage her husband's shady empire, trying to forget that her children have been stolen from her and now live with their father in New York. But Dominic explodes back into her life with a plot that involves the Italian resistance, the OSS, and spiriting a fortune out of Scotland. When the bombs begin to fall, Polly is forced to choose between loyalty and betrayal, and to face up to what truly matters.
Author : Hilary Matfess
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1786991489
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book Women and the War on Boko Haram written by Hilary Matfess and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a decade, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of terror across northeastern Nigeria. In 2014, the kidnapping of 276 girls in Chibok shocked the world, giving rise to the #BringBackOurGirls movement. Yet Boko Haram’s campaign of violence against women and girls goes far beyond the Chibok abductions. From its inception, the group has systematically exploited women to advance its aims. Perhaps more disturbing still, some Nigerian women have chosen to become active supporters of the group, even sacrificing their lives as suicide bombers. These events cannot be understood without first acknowledging the long-running marginalisation of women in Nigerian society. Having conducted extensive fieldwork throughout the region, Hilary Matfess provides a vivid and thought-provoking account of Boko Haram’s impact on the lives of Nigerian women, as well as the wider social and political context that fuels the group’s violence.
Author : Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469620812
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Women's Identities at War written by Susan R. Grayzel and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few moments in history when the division between the sexes seems as "natural" as during wartime: men go off to the "war front," while women stay behind on the "home front." But the very notion of the home front was an invention of the First World War, when, for the first time, "home" and "domestic" became adjectives that modified the military term "front." Such an innovation acknowledged the significant and presumably new contributions of civilians, especially women, to the war effort. Yet, as Susan Grayzel argues, throughout the war, traditional notions of masculinity and femininity survived, primarily through the maintenance of--and indeed reemphasis on--soldiering and mothering as the core of gender and national identities. Drawing on sources that range from popular fiction and war memorials to newspapers and legislative debates, Grayzel analyzes the effects of World War I on ideas about civic participation, national service, morality, sexuality, and identity in wartime Britain and France. Despite the appearance of enormous challenges to gender roles due to the upheavals of war, the forces of stability prevailed, she says, demonstrating the Western European gender system's remarkable resilience.
Author : Adrienne Young
Publisher : Adrienne Young Ministries
ISBN 13 : 9781733826402
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Women Who War written by Adrienne Young and published by Adrienne Young Ministries. This book was released on 2019-03-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe God ordained your marriage, and the enemy has done everything he can to destroy it? Have you wanted to give up and walk away from it all? Are you tired of fighting and want to know strategies on how to war? If you answered yes, "Women Who War" is THE book for you! Covering wives from the Bible and stories from modern-day women who war, let's journey to their battlefields where you hear their stories and receive strategies to war such: declarations to speak over your marriage, Scriptures to meditate on, how to uncover the real enemy, and prayers to pray. Get ready to train and become a wife who war for her marriage!
Author : Marshéle Carter Waddell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781439208908
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)
Download or read book When War Comes Home written by Marshéle Carter Waddell and published by . This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When War Comes Home combines spiritual comfort and practical, Christ-centered solutions for wives of combat veterans struggling with the hidden wounds of war including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Author : Julia Brock
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557286701
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Beyond Rosie written by Julia Brock and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of primary source documents, which include photographs, official reports, editorials, executive orders, radio broadcast scripts, letters and oral histories, detailing the experiences and contributions of American women during World War II. The documentary collection is a companion volume to a 2012 traveling exhibition from the Museum of History and Holocaust Education. Chapter 1 documents the mobilization of women into industrial factories and agricultural sectors. Chapter 2 deals with women who found employment in white-collar professions, such as law, journalism, clerical work and medicine. Chapter 3 traces women's service in military auxiliary units. Chapter 4 focuses on women's domestic labor on the home front. Chapter 5 documents the secret war waged by the government including its use of women as spies and saboteurs.
Author : Carol K. Bleser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195115090
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Intimate Strategies of the Civil War written by Carol K. Bleser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating a frequently neglected but extremely significant side of military history, "Intimate Strategies" is a rare and fascinating look at a critical aspect of Civil War commanders' lives--their marriages.
Author : Donna Moreau
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439118108
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Waiting Wives written by Donna Moreau and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1964, as the first B-52s took flight in what would become America's longest combat mission, an old Air Force base on the plains of Kansas became Schilling Manor -- the only base ever to be set aside for the wives and children of soldiers assigned to Vietnam. Author Donna Moreau was the daughter of one such waiting wife, and here she writes of growing up at a time when The Flintstones were interrupted with news of firefights, fraggings, and protests, when the evening news announced death tolls along with the weather forecasts. The women and children of Schilling Manor fought on the emotional front of the war. It was not a front composed of battle plans and bullets. Their enemies were fear, loneliness, lack of information, and the slow tick of time. Waiting Wives: The Story of Schilling Manor, Home Front to the Vietnam War tells the story of the last generation of hat-and-glove military wives called upon by their country to pack without question, to follow without comment, and to wait quietly with a smile. A heartfelt book that focuses on this other, hidden side of war, Waiting Wives is a narrative investigation of an extraordinary group of women. A compelling memoir and domestic drama, Waiting Wives is also the story of a country in the midst of change, of a country at war with a war.
Author : Flora Nwapa
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Wives at War, and Other Stories written by Flora Nwapa and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories centred around women fighting heroic wars.
Author : Светлана Алексиевич
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0399588728
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Unwomanly Face of War written by Светлана Алексиевич and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in Russian as U voiny--ne zhenskoe lietiso by Mastatskaya Litaratura, Minsk, in 1985. Originally published in English as War's unwomanly face by Progress Publishers, Moscow, in 1988"--Title page verso.
Author : Caroline Scott
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062955314
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book The Poppy Wife written by Caroline Scott and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A beautifully evocative reminder of what it means to come back from war and to face the age-old question of whether it is better to have survived or to have died. Highly recommended.”—Library Journal, starred review In the tradition of Jennifer Robson and Hazel Gaynor, this unforgettable debut novel is a sweeping tale of forbidden love, profound loss, and the startling truth of the broken families left behind in the wake of World War I. 1921. Survivors of the Great War are desperately trying to piece together the fragments of their broken lives. While many have been reunited with their loved ones, Edie’s husband Francis is still missing. Francis is presumed to have been killed in action, but Edie knows he is alive. Harry, Francis’s brother, was there the day Francis went missing in Ypres. And like Edie, he’s hopeful Francis is living somewhere in France, lost and confused. Hired by grieving families in need of closure, Harry returns to the Western Front to photograph soldiers’ graves. As he travels through France gathering news for British wives and mothers, he searches for evidence his own brother is still alive. When Edie receives a mysterious photograph that she believes was taken by Francis, she is more certain than ever he isn’t dead. Edie embarks on her own journey in the hope of finding some trace of her husband. Is he truly gone, or could he still be alive? And if he is, why hasn’t he come home? As Harry and Edie’s paths converge, they get closer to the truth about Francis and, as they do, are soon faced with the life-changing impact of the answers they discover. An incredibly moving account of an often-forgotten moment in history—those years after the war that were filled with the unknown—The Poppy Wife tells the story of the thousands of soldiers who were lost amid the chaos and ruins in battle-scarred France; and the even greater number of men and women hoping to find them again.
Author : Kirsten Holmstedt
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811735664
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Band of Sisters written by Kirsten Holmstedt and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-08-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles twelve women soldiers who have served in the Iraq War, describing their experiences in the war, discussing the pressures of the job, and touching on the difficulties of being a woman in the military.
