Download or read book Bitter Leafing Woman written by King-Aribisala, Karen and published by Malthouse Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Nigeria, Bitter Leafing Woman relates the experiences of Woman as she chews the bitter leaves of patriarchal oppression in a bid to transform them into gender balanced sweetness. Here Woman becomes a symbol of the oppressed; of women and men alike. The style of writing ranges from plain prose as in The Edi Kai Ikong War, magical realism as in World of the Fat/Thin House, the social satire of The Bone Eater, the densely poetic and symbolic Broken Plate and the biblical imbued style of Bitter Leafing Woman who finding herself drowning in the soup of gender oppression for forty years attempts to murder her Deacon fiancé. In this collection we become involved with serious issues of conflicts, which nevertheless we try to treat with sardonic humour and insight.
Download or read book Bitter Leaves written by Tabatha Stirling and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near the west coast of Singapore lies the leafy enclave of Sabre Green – a haven of wealth and luxury in one of the richest countries in the world. But beneath the glamour lies the insidious truth of the country’s maid culture, where a woman’s life is cheap. Here are the voices of the unheard – of maid and employer, of village girl and city dweller. Follow Lucilla, Ma’am Leslie, Shammi and Madame Eunice as they strive, each in their own way, to exist in a country whose pristine exterior belies the dark shadows beneath. In this candid, often brutal narrative, the lives of four women are woven together. What follows is a story of loss, madness, abuse and hope – and the ways in which they can haunt a woman’s life. * ‘A great read; tense, vivid and involving, both heart-breaking and heart-warming’ – Lesley Glaister, author of Jerwood Prize winner Little Egypt
Download or read book South Korean Film written by Hyon Joo Yoo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Korean Film: Critical and Primary Sources is an essential three-volume reference collection representing three distinct phases in the development of South Korean national cinema, foregrounding how epochal characteristics inform the way in which the national cinema represents the penetrating thematic concern of auteur-ship, genre, spectatorship, gender, and nation, as well as the way in which these themes find expression in distinct visual styles and forms.
Download or read book How to Get Rid of Breat Cancer Using Bitter Leaf written by Dr Adel Tundey and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the most common cancer among women around the globe, breast cancer is currently the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. The search for new and effective drugs to treat breast cancer is thus of central importance, given the drawbacks involved in current treatment methods that compromise their effectiveness. In this search for new drugs, medicinal plant extracts may be a potential source for alternative novel treatments of breast cancer. Notably, there has been growing interest in one particular plant as a source for anti-cancer drugs due to its diverse medicinal uses in traditional folk medicines. Vernonia amygdalina (VA) is a woody shrub that can grow up to 5 m tall, belonging to the family of Asteraceae. Native to Nigeria (West Africa) and widely grown in Africa, VA is also found in Asia, and is especially common in Singapore and Malaysia. The leaves exhibit a characteristic odor and bitter taste, explaining its common English name of 'bitter leaf'. Owing to the lack of documentation of this plant, different local names have been used in various countries, such as Etidod or Ewuro in Nigeria, South African leaf in Malaysia and Kenya, as well as Non-tree South in China. The medicinal properties of the plant, however, are widely recognized. As one of the plants that forms a major portion of the naturalist's pharmacopeia in Nigeria, VA has been shown to possess diverse therapeutic effects such as anti-malarial, anti-microbial (anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-plasmodial, etc.), anti-diabetic and anti-cancer effects. The anti-cancer effect of VA was first shown in human carcinoma of nasopharynx and later in leukemia cells P-388 and L-1210 using the chloroform extract of VA.
Download or read book Bitter Fruit written by Maureen Honey and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the participation of African American women in all aspects of home-front activity during World War II, advertisements, recruitment posters, and newsreels portrayed largely white women as army nurses, defense plant workers, concerned mothers, and steadfast wives. This sea of white faces left for posterity images such as Rosie the Riveter, obscuring the contributions that African American women made to the war effort. In Bitter Fruit, Maureen Honey corrects this distorted picture of women's roles in World War II by collecting photos, essays, fiction, and poetry by and about black women from the four leading African American periodicals of the war period: Negro Digest, The Crisis, Opportunity, and Negro Story. Mostly appearing for the first time since their original publication, the materials in Bitter Fruit feature black women operating technical machinery, working in army uniforms, entertaining audiences, and pursuing a college education. The articles praise the women's accomplishments as pioneers working toward racial equality; the fiction and poetry depict female characters in roles other than domestic servants and give voice to the bitterness arising from discrimination that many women felt. With these various images, Honey masterfully presents the roots of the postwar civil rights movement and the leading roles black women played in it. Containing works from eighty writers, this anthology includes forty African American women authors, most of whose work has not been published since the war. Of particular note are poems and short stories anthologized for the first time, including Ann Petry's first story, Octavia Wynbush's last work of fiction, and three poems by Harlem Renaissance writer Georgia Douglas Johnson. Uniting these various writers was their desire to write in the midst of a worldwide military conflict with dramatic potential for ending segregation and opening doors for women at home. Traditional anthologies of African American literature jump from the Harlem Renaissance to the 1960s with little or no reference to the decades between those periods. Bitter Fruit not only illuminates the literature of these decades but also presents an image of black women as community activists that undercuts gender stereotypes of the era. As Honey concludes in her introduction, "African American women found an empowered voice during the war, one that anticipates the fruit of their wartime effort to break silence, to challenge limits, and to change forever the terms of their lives."
Download or read book Flame of Love written by Clarissa Ross and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Crimson Romance celebrates its first anniversary, we honor those pioneers who helped shape the direction of romance novels for all of us. Suspense, mystery, paranormal activity and love - always love - have been the cornerstone of the genre since the early 1970s. Now we have updated the covers to these classics - but not the words - and reissued these timeless reads to let you relive the thrill of discovering a world of romance all over again. One ambition burned in Fanny Hastings’ heart - to be an actress. Possessed of beauty, talent, and determination, she intended to let nothing and no one stand in the way of her career. Though she gave her body willingly, Fanny refused to surrender her freedom. Sought by a Maharaiah as his concubine, pursued by a Viscount, adored by a handsome young actor, she rejected them all in favor of her public’s adulation. But Fanny found that, no matter how hard she tried, she could not control her emotions; just when success was within her grasp, her wayward passions drew her into a sequence of events that threatened to destroy both her career and one man she couldn’t forget. Sensuality Level: Sensual
Download or read book The Essential James Hillman written by James Hillman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990. James Hillman is one of the leading figures in archetypal psychology and one of the most creative minds in psychology. This anthology of his writings presents carefully selected, choice passages from many of his seminal essays and work on archetypal psychology. Fundamental themes in Hillman's thought form the chapters of the book: poetic basis of mind, psychological polytheism, dreams, love, therapy. The book is intended for the reader who wants an overview or introduction to his highly original approach, an approach that draws on mythology, renaissance philosophy, alchemy and critical readings of Jung and Freud.
Download or read book Dictionary of Jamaican English written by Frederic G. Cassidy and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The method and plan of this dictionary of Jamaican English are basically the same as those of the Oxford English Dictionary, but oral sources have been extensively tapped in addition to detailed coverage of literature published in or about Jamaica since 1655. It contains information about the Caribbean and its dialects, and about Creole languages and general linguistic processes. Entries give the pronounciation, part-of-speach and usage of labels, spelling variants, etymologies and dated citations, as well as definitions. Systematic indexing indicates the extent to which the lexis is shared with other Caribbean countries.
Download or read book Revenge When a Woman Is Scorned written by Ivett Douglas Samuel and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bitter Ice written by Barbara Kent Lawrence and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intimate, revealing, and refreshingly frank, Bitter Ice tells of a wife's search for independence and self while living in the shadow of her husband's battle with anorexia.
Download or read book Building a Protestant Left written by Mark Hulsether and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He follows the twists and turns of this story from Niebuhr's Christian realist positions of the 1940s, through Protestant participation in the complex social movements of the 1950s and 1960s, to the emergence of various liberation theologies - African American, feminist, Latin American, and others - that used C&C as a central arena of debate in the 1970s and 1980s.
Download or read book THE HISTORY MAKERS Lives Achievements of Women Warriors Leaders Artists Pioneers written by Rupert Sargent Holland and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents to you the meticulously edited and formatted collection of the most famous and influential women in the history. These are the women who inspired generations of people, young and old, to be remembered with reverence and awe till date:_x000D_ Saint Catherine_x000D_ Joan of Arc_x000D_ Vittoria Colonna_x000D_ Catherine de' Medici_x000D_ Mary Queen of Scots_x000D_ Pocahontas_x000D_ Priscilla Alden_x000D_ Catherine the Great_x000D_ Fanny Burney_x000D_ Alcestis_x000D_ Antigone_x000D_ Iphigenia_x000D_ Paula_x000D_ Catherine Douglas_x000D_ Lady Jane Grey_x000D_ Flora Macdonald_x000D_ Madame Roland_x000D_ Grace Darling_x000D_ Sister Dora_x000D_ Florence Nightingale_x000D_ Dorothy Quincy_x000D_ Molly Pitcher_x000D_ Elizabeth Van Lew_x000D_ Ida Lewis_x000D_ Clara Barton_x000D_ Virginia Reed_x000D_ Louisa M. Alcott_x000D_ Clara Morris_x000D_ Anna Dickinson_x000D_ Lucretia_x000D_ Sappho_x000D_ Aspasia of Pericles_x000D_ Xantippe_x000D_ Aspasia of Cyrus_x000D_ Cornelia, the Mother of the Gracchi_x000D_ Portia_x000D_ Octavia_x000D_ Cleopatra_x000D_ Mariamne_x000D_ Julia Domna_x000D_ Zenobia_x000D_ Valeria_x000D_ Eudocia_x000D_ Hypatia_x000D_ The Lady Rowena_x000D_ Laura de Sade_x000D_ Catharine of Arragon_x000D_ Anne Boleyn_x000D_ Margaret Roper_x000D_ Elizabeth Lucas_x000D_ GasparaStampa_x000D_ Anne Askew_x000D_ Queen Elizabeth_x000D_ TarquiniaMolza_x000D_ Noor Mahal…_x000D_ Helen Keller_x000D_ Maria Mitchell_x000D_ Alice Freeman Palmer_x000D_ Maud Powell_x000D_ Ellen H. Richards_x000D_ Elizabeth Cady Stanton_x000D_ Harriet Beecher Stowe_x000D_ Kate Douglas Wiggin…
Download or read book The First One Hundred Noted Men and Women of the Screen written by Carolyn Lowrey and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broken Pieces written by Nikel B'Nai Dixon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broken Pieces is a book written about sporadic life experiences that many of us have experienced or maybe not but it presents another way of thinking about certain situations that we experienced or not during our life journey. I am almost sure that when you read these different experiences you will relate to them if you have not already experienced them and if you have you can see if you handled them the same way the writer did. Make sure you take advantage of the journal in the back of the book . One thing I want you to think about is when these sporadic events happen in your life either they change you or help you understand that the majority of life’s crisis and developments are how you respond to them because your life responds to you.
Download or read book Votes for Women written by Jean H. Baker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new scholarship on the struggle of American women for the suffrage contains eleven essays, each of which illuminates some aspect of the long battle that lasted from the 1850s to the passage of the suffrage amendment in 1920. From the movement's antecedents in the minds of women like Mary Wollstonecraft and Frances Wright, to the historic gathering at Seneca Falls in 1848, to the civil disobedience during World War I orchestrated by the National Woman's Party. Contributors focus on how the suffrage battle was interwoven with constitutional issues at the federal and state level and how the suffrage struggle played out in different regions, especially the West and the South, as well as the activities of opponents to women's voting. Baker's introductory essay sets the stage for revisiting suffrage by making explicit the similarities and differences in interpretations of suffrage and shows how the movement intersected with other events in American history and cannot be studied in isolation from them.
Download or read book You Can Get There from Here written by Shirley MacLaine and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1975 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invited to visit the People's Republic of China, the author and a group of American women were not prepared for what they saw and learned.
Download or read book South Korean Golden Age Melodrama written by Kathleen McHugh and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the theoretical, historical, and contemporary impact of South Korea's Golden Age of cinema.
