Book Description
Historians of Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and the United States provide a sweeping view of the scope of women's work and make comparisons across societies and over time.
Author : Seth Koven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1136638768
Historians of Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and the United States provide a sweeping view of the scope of women's work and make comparisons across societies and over time.
Author : Helene Delforge
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782507710
A unique and emotive celebration of the different facets of motherhood with striking portraits by an award-winning illustrator.
Author : Edan Lepucki
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1683358872
Who was your mother before she was a mother? Essays and photos from Brit Bennett, Jennifer Egan, Danzy Senna, Laura Lippman, Jia Tolentino, and many more. In this remarkable collection, New York Times–bestselling novelist Edan Lepucki gathers more than sixty original essays and favorite photographs to explore this question. The daughters in Mothers Before are writers and poets, artists and teachers, and the images and stories they share reveal the lives of women in ways that are vulnerable and true, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always moving. Contributors include: Brit Bennett * Jennine Capó Crucet * Jennifer Egan * Angela Garbes * Annabeth Gish * Alison Roman * Lisa See * Danzy Senna * Dana Spiotta * Lan Samantha Chang * Laura Lippman * Jia Tolentino * Tiffany Nguyen * Charmaine Craig * Maya Ramakrishnan * Eirene Donohue * and many others
Author : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0674659953
Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of engaging and understanding each other. How such singular human capacities evolved, and how they have kept us alive for thousands of generations, is the mystery revealed in this bold and wide-ranging new vision of human emotional evolution. Mothers and Others finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood. If the young were to survive in a world of scarce food, they needed to be cared for, not only by their mothers but also by siblings, aunts, fathers, friends—and, with any luck, grandmothers. Out of this complicated and contingent form of childrearing, Sarah Hrdy argues, came the human capacity for understanding others. Mothers and others teach us who will care, and who will not. From its opening vision of “apes on a plane”; to descriptions of baby care among marmosets, chimpanzees, wolves, and lions; to explanations about why men in hunter-gatherer societies hunt together, Mothers and Others is compellingly readable. But it is also an intricately knit argument that ever since the Pleistocene, it has taken a village to raise children—and how that gave our ancient ancestors the first push on the path toward becoming emotionally modern human beings.
Author : Sheila Heti
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1627790780
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring novel about whether to have children. In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required reading for a generation. In her late thirties, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti’s intimate and urgent novel considers whether she will do so at all. In a narrative spanning several years, casting among the influence of her peers, partner, and her duties to her forbearers, she struggles to make a wise and moral choice. After seeking guidance from philosophy, her body, mysticism, and chance, she discovers her answer much closer to home. Motherhood is a courageous, keenly felt, and starkly original novel that will surely spark lively conversations about womanhood, parenthood, and about how—and for whom—to live.
Author : E. Lane Keller
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2013-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781941117002
Do you want to take blue pill, or do you want to survive? "This is the book that will help you separate the truth from the lies." Sadie Timpson, a holistic therapist, is at a beach house with family members celebrating her daughter's college graduation, when an argument erupts over whether or not a global force known as the NWO, or the Illuminati, controls their lives. The disagreement centers on whether it is best to remain happy and ignorant, or knowledgeable and prepared. Sadie's children insist on the former point of view, leaving her unable to share the things she knows with them. After they've dispersed, Sadie gathers her response in a letter. As her thoughts on how our health, political system, and religions have been tampered with, and what to do about it, pours forth, the letter grows, and becomes not a treatise with footnotes and indexes, but a missive of love from a mother's heart. A Mother's New World Order (NWO) Handbook is a wake-up call to all the world's children and their parents and is to be used as a jumpstart to learning. "Every part of society is filled with lies and deceit and most of us follow without question," reviewer, Luvs2Read Joel MacIntosh, Pre-Market Reviews: "E. Lane Keller has mastered the art of 'faction, ' bending the lines of fiction with reality, offering in a 'Mother's Guide to the New World order' a treatise that serves as an enjoyable handbook or informative read." From the Publisher, Truth in 10 Books: "Cutting edge information is offered in clear prose free of dogma and fear, providing direction on how to survive, and flourish, in our current debilitating state." "One of those rarities that seamlessly blend fact and fiction. The result is a deeply seductive read that will drop your jaws," reviewer, Meghan Topics discussed include: What constitutes organic food?; Pharmaceuticals; Protecting ourselves from disease; Vaccinations; Lobbyists; GMO's; The FDA; The Fluoridation of water; Heavy metals; Chemtrails; Whom to believe; Allergens; Environmental Toxins; Sugar; Immune Killers; Fear; Federal Reserve; EMF Protection; Orgonite; The nature of takedowns; Vitamins & Supplements; Sunscreens & Vitamin D; ADD, ADHD & The Drugging of Schoolchildren; Rising use of psychotropics; Disruptive behavior; Modes of learning; Homeopathy; Conforming; Health freedoms; The world's wealth; Duplicitous leaders; Conferring immunity; Mass Hypnosis; The loss of idealism; Division as a form of control; The state of Politics; The IMF; CIA; Illuminati Timeline; Creating War; Non-humans; Consumerism; Television; Crumbling Values; Over-sexualization of Children; Religion as a tool of war; The nature of divinity; Selecting mates "You cannot help but discern the love and care of a mother at heart that just want(s) to offer insight and guidance to those who will receive it," reviewer, K. Pertoci "The author explores topics that are important not only for mothers to explore, but perhaps bigger questions that our society should be asking about our future," reviewer Jacks See more at: http: //brooklynindiepress.com http: //elanekeller.com Learn how to separate truth from lies, and help your family today.
Author : Nancy A. Walker
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Women's periodicals, American
ISBN : 9781617034268
Author : Lynne Haney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317794354
From Prague to Tennessee to Brazil, it's hard to find a consensus on what constitutes an average family. In today's world, the nuclear family is rarely the standard family structure, if it ever was. Families of a New World brings together an important collection of original works to examine our understanding of family around the world and how that understanding is shaped by state policy. Using examples from both historical and modern countries around the world, essays demonstrate not only how state policies shape what the family should look and act like, but also how governments have appropriated and regulated an approved ideal of the family to further their own agendas.
Author : Emily Yellin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1439103585
Our Mothers' War is a stunning and unprecedented portrait of women during World War II, a war that forever transformed the way women participate in American society. Never before has the vast range of women's experiences during this pivotal era been brought together in one book. Now, Our Mothers' War re-creates what American women from all walks of life were doing and thinking, on the home front and abroad. These heartwarming and sometimes heartbreaking accounts of the women we have known as mothers, aunts, and grandmothers reveal facets of their lives that have usually remained unmentioned and unappreciated. Our Mothers' War gives center stage to one of WWII's most essential fighting forces: the women of America, whose extraordinary bravery, strength, and humanity shine through on every page.
Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2017-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1608467201
A collection of feminist essays steeped in “Solnit’s unapologetically observant and truth-speaking voice on toxic, violent masculinity” (The Los Angeles Review). In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more. In characteristic style, “Solnit draw[s] anecdotes of female indignity or male aggression from history, social media, literature, popular culture, and the news . . . The main essay in the book is about the various ways that women are silenced, and Solnit focuses upon the power of storytelling—the way that who gets to speak, and about what, shapes how a society understands itself and what it expects from its members. The Mother of All Questions poses the thesis that telling women’s stories to the world will change the way that the world treats women, and it sets out to tell as many of those stories as possible” (The New Yorker). “There’s a new feminist revolution—open to people of all genders—brewing right now and Rebecca Solnit is one of its most powerful, not to mention beguiling, voices.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times–bestselling author of Natural Causes “Short, incisive essays that pack a powerful punch.” —Publishers Weekly “A keen and timely commentary on gender and feminism. Solnit’s voice is calm, clear, and unapologetic; each essay balances a warm wit with confident, thoughtful analysis, resulting in a collection that is as enjoyable and accessible as it is incisive.” —Booklist