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21) Mary Lyon
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This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Mary Lyon, an American educationalist born in 1797. She is best known for pioneering women's education and founding Mount Holyoke and Wheaton Colleges. These were the first all women seminaries devoted to the empowerment of young women and the creation of female leaders in a male-dominated world. In her words, When you choose your fields of labor, go where nobody else is willing...
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During its first two years of publication, Philosophy & Public Affairs contributed to the public debate on abortion a set of remarkable and brilliant articles which examine the basic philosophical issues posed by this controversial subject: whether the fetus is a person, whether it has a right to life, whether a woman has a right to decide what happens in and to her body, whether there is an ethical connection between abortion and infanticide, whether...
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Alice Munro's Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings. The volume covers the entirety of Munro's career, from the first stories she published in the early 1950s as an undergraduate at the University of Western Ontario to her final books. It offers an enlightening range of approaches and interpretive strategies, and provides many new perspectives, reconsidered positions and analyses that will...
26) Madame Jumel
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This book is part of a series on historical female figures. It features Madame Jumel, born Eliza Bowen in 1775, the daughter of a Rhode Island prostitute. Upon her marriage to a rich French wine merchant, she acquired a life of luxury that was beset by scandal.
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This volume series on Women Society and Culture is an attempt to collate information from various sources on different themes strata it could serge a-s a repository not only to the masses but also to students, researchers. administrators and planners. An attempt has been made to include, systematically, whatever Little information is available in literature in this series. It has also been argued that the caste factor has coexisted with different...
28) I Am Nala
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These seven stories narrate powerful and empowering journeys of becoming and overcoming. The women in this anthology are deeply attuned to the challenges and hardships faced by women and girls on the African continent and in the Diaspora. They do not shy away from speaking about these hardships, offering up vulnerable stories that are emblematic of the ongoing disregard of women and girls in Africa and elsewhere. Triumphantly, these hardships fuel...
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Feminist icon CALYX Press has dedicated forty years to publishing the work of women writers, amplifying diverse voices, and creating a dynamic and inclusive literary space. Memories Flow in Our Veins commemorates the CALYX legacy and their contribution to the landscape of literature, while exploring the perennial themes of place and politics, aging and caregiving, and discovery and self-reckoning.
Featuring poetry and fiction by some of the most...
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Anne Aly, Liz Byrski, Sarah Drummond, Mehreen Faruqi, Goldie Goldbloom, Krissy Kneen, Jeanine Leane, Brigid Lowry and Pat Torres are among fifteen voices recounting what it is like to be a woman on the other side of 40. These are stories of identity and survival, and a celebration of getting older and wiser, and becoming more certain of who you are and where you want to be.
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Comment se vit le travail professionnel de femmes cubaines et canadiennes ?
Quels sont leurs défis et leurs obstacles ?
Femmes en situations professionnelles : expériences cubaines et canadiennes (Mujeres en situaciones profesionales : experiencias cubanas y canadienses) propose des textes qui mettent à l'honneur la grande diversité d'expériences professionnelles vécues par des femmes aux parcours différents et aux origines diversifiées qui...
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Third- and fourth-wave feminists write about their experiences with Catholicism and their visions for the future of women in the Church.
A collection of creative pieces, Unruly Catholic Feminists explores how women are coming to terms with their feminism and Catholicism in the twenty-first century. Through short stories, poems, and personal essays, third- and fourth-wave feminists write about the issues, reforms, and potential for progress. Giving...
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Inclusive businesses are commercially viable business models that provide in-scale innovative and systemic solutions to problems relevant to the lives of low-income people. Inclusive business companies often involve women in their value chain and provide specific services that help low-income women. This report assesses the extent to which inclusive business models promote women's economic empowerment. Examples come from the inclusive business portfolios...
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Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753—1784) was an American freed slave and poet who wrote the first book of poetry by an African-American. Sold into slavery in West Africa at the age of around seven, she was taken to North America, where she served the Wheatley family of Boston. Phillis was tutored in reading and writing by Mary, the Wheatleys' 18-year-old daughter, and was reading Latin and Greek classics from the age of twelve. Encouraged by the progressive...
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Twenty-one women writers consider the impacts of concussion on their personal and professional lives. Their stories reveal the work that goes into redefining identity and regaining creative practice after concussion, conveying the magnitude of a disability that is often doubted, overlooked, and trivialized, in part because of its invisibility. These stories offer compassion and empathy to all readers and families healing from concussion and other...
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While it is generally agreed amongst criminologists that the world of crime is predominantly the domain of men, women played a much larger role than they do today before the twentieth century. Even then, women tended to commit property offences like theft, shoplifting, fraud, and forgery, as well as prostitution or soliciting. However, there have been those throughout history who have also committed some of the most brutal murders the world has ever...
37) Think Pink
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Experience the Power of Sisterhood stories written by Us and For Us
Celebrate the Power of Sisterhood with real-life short stories, poetry, and business advice from ten extraordinary women who share their incredible journeys to entrepreneurship and becoming successful. Discover how they overcame fear, divorce, rape, racism, betrayal, and serving in a militarized war zone, fighting for their lives. From trials, tragedies, and obstacles, they...
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This Bible study guide leads women through the spiritual practice of Celebration. It includes 4 separate Bible studies on this topic, and each study includes the following:
• Meditation on selected scripture focusing on a facet of the practice
• Sidebars that feature quotes, insights, or challenges
• Discussion questions
• Points to Ponder
• Prayer
• Exercise for the week
• Takeaway Treasure
• Leader's GuideThis Bible study is standalone...
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Jewish Women's History from Antiquity to the Present is broad in geographical scope exploring Jewish women's lives in what is now Eastern and Western Europe, Britain, Israel, Turkey, North Africa, and North America. Editors Federica Francesconi and Rebecca Lynn Winer focus the volume on reconstructing the experiences of ordinary women and situating those of the extraordinary and famous within the gender systems of their times and places.
The twenty-one...
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The Long Devotion is a collection of poems, essays, and writing prompts that celebrates motherhood and creates a space, as poet Molly Spencer has written, to "tell an unlovely truth about family life and not have to take it back."
The poets in this book represent and describe a wide range of experiences. They write about encountering the world anew through their children; intersections of parenting and race; single parenting; adoptive, foster,...
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