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"Portraits from the Bible, with paralells to women of today, to help you accept yourself as God made you"--cover.
Author : Margaret Johnston Hess
Publisher : Chariot Victor Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 33,1 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780882073408
"Portraits from the Bible, with paralells to women of today, to help you accept yourself as God made you"--cover.
Author : Marie Therese Gass
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780965181655
Author : Lara Feigel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1635570964
A genre-defying memoir in which Lara Feigel experiments with sexual, intellectual and political freedom while reading and pursuing Doris Lessing How might we live more freely, and will we be happier or lonelier if we do? Re-reading The Golden Notebook in her thirties, shortly after Doris Lessing's death, Lara Feigel discovered that Lessing spoke directly to her as a woman, a writer, and a mother in a way that no other novelist had done. At a time when she was dissatisfied with the conventions of her own life, Feigel was enticed by Lessing's vision of freedom. Free Woman is essential reading for anyone whose life has been changed by books or has questioned the structures by which they live. Feigel tells Lessing's own story, veering between admiration and fury at the choices Lessing made. At the same time, she scrutinises motherhood, marriage and sexual relationships with an unusually acute gaze. And in the process she conducts a dazzling investigation into the joys and costs of sexual, psychological, intellectual and political freedom. This is a genre-defying book: at once a meditation on life and literature and a daring act of self-exposure.
Author : Margaret Hess
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 1985
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Tania Grossinger
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1628738065
When you reach the age where there is more to look back at than forward to, what do you regret, if anything? One woman’s brave memoir about a life well lived. It takes a certain kind of woman to have the courage t
Author : Karen Warren
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742559246
The historical exclusion of women's voices has diminished academic disciplines, including philosophy. In this groundbreaking new account of Western philosophy throughout the past 2,600 years, Karen J. Warren has paired sixteen women philosophers along-side their historical male contemporaries in conversations on philosophy. An overview essay, together with chapter introductions, primary readings, and expert commentaries, offer a rich description and evaluation of each philosopher's vital contributions to Western philosophy. Book jacket.
Author : Jean Tahija
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
This autobiography tells of the author's education in Australia, her work as a dentist, her marriage to a young Indonesian soldier, and her subsequent varied life in Indonesia.
Author : Rabih Alameddine
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0802192874
A happily misanthropic Middle East divorcee finds refuge in books in a “beautiful and absorbing” novel of late-life crisis (The New York Times). Aaliya is a divorced, childless, and reclusively cranky translator in Beirut nurturing doubts about her latest project: a 900-page avant-garde, linguistically serpentine historiography by a late Chilean existentialist. Honestly, at seventy-two, should she be taking on such a project? Not that Aailiya fears dying. Women in her family live long; her mother is still going crazy. But on this lonely day, hour-by-hour, Aaliya’s musings on literature, philosophy, her career, and her aging body, are suddenly invaded by memories of her volatile past. As she tries in vain to ward off these emotional upwellings, Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left. In this “meditation on, among other things, aging, politics, literature, loneliness, grief and resilience” (The New York Times), Alameddine conjures “a beguiling narrator . . . who is, like her city, hard to read, hard to take, hard to know and, ultimately, passionately complex” (San Francisco Chronicle). A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, An Unnecessary Woman is “a fun, and often funny . . . grave, powerful . . . [and] extraordinary” Washington Independent Review of Books) ode to literature and its power to define who we are. “Read it once, read it twice, read other books for a decade or so, and then pick it up and read it anew. This one’s a keeper” (The Independent)
Author : Sandra Lipsitz Bem
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300090925
In 1965, when psychologists Sandra and Daryl Bem met and married, they were determined to function as truly egalitarian partners and to raise their children in accordance with gender-liberated, anti-homophobic, and sex-positive feminist ideals. This book by Sandra Bem, an autobiographical account of the Bems' nearly thirty-year marriage, is both a personal history of the Bems' past and a social history of a key period in feminism's past. It is also a look into feminism's future, because the Bems' children, Emily and Jeremy, now in their early twenties, speak in the book as well.
Author : Dorthe Nors
Publisher :
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1555978088
Sonja's over forty, and she's trying to move in the right direction. She's learning to drive. She's joined a meditation group. And she's attempting to reconnect with her sister. But Sonja would rather eat cake than meditate. Her driving instructor won't let her change gear. And her sister won't return her calls. Sonja's mind keeps wandering back to the dramatic landscapes of her childhood--the singing whooper swans, the endless sky, and getting lost barefoot in the rye fields--but how can she return to a place that she no longer recognises? And how can she escape the alienating streets of Copenhagen?