Download or read book Daughter Mother Grandmother and Whore written by Gabriela Leite and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s, while living at home with her conservative middle-class family and studying at the University of São Paulo, Gabriela Leite decided to become a sex worker. From her first client in a tiny room in downtown São Paulo to the launch of an exuberant clothing line designed for sex workers in Rio de Janeiro thirty years later, Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore tells the fascinating story of Leite’s bold and unique life in her own words. After helping to organize Brazil’s first protests by sex workers against police brutality, she moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she quickly became ensconced in the city’s storied red-light district. From there, Leite built a national network of politicized sex workers, worked for HIV/AIDS prevention, and participated in Brazil’s robust new civil society after its return to democracy in 1985 following a twenty-one-year military dictatorship. Insistent on advocating for the sex worker’s comprehensive human rights, Leite pioneered an irreverent grassroots Latin American feminism, which critiqued moral hypocrisies and Christian conservatism while affirming pleasure, joy, and agency. Daughter, Mother, Grandmother, and Whore also includes a foreword by artist and activist Carol Leigh.
Download or read book Intersectional Chicana Feminisms written by Aída Hurtado and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicana feminisms are living theory deriving value and purpose by affecting social change. Advocating for and demonstrating the importance of an intersectional, multidisciplinary, activist understanding of Chicanas, Intersectional Chicana Feminisms provides a much-needed overview of the key theories, thinkers, and activists that have contributed to Chicana feminist thought. Aída Hurtado, a leading Chicana feminist and scholar, traces the origins of Chicanas’ efforts to bring attention to the effects of gender in Chicana and Chicano studies. Highlighting the innovative and pathbreaking methodologies developed within the field of Chicana feminisms—such as testimonio, conocimiento, and autohistoria—this book offers an accessible introduction to Chicana theory, methodology, art, and activism. Hurtado also looks at the newest developments in the field and the future of Chicana feminisms. The book includes short biographies of key Chicana feminists, additional suggested readings, and exercises with each chapter to extend opportunities for engagement in classroom and workshop settings.
Download or read book The Mutts Nuts written by Debbie Graham and published by Debbie Graham. This book was released on 2008 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep and sinister. True to life violence with a good strong storey at it's core and characters that are dark but likable at the same time.
Download or read book Psychoanalysis and Cinema written by E. Ann Kaplan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fifteen carefully chosen essays by well-known scholars demonstrate the vitality and variety of psychoanalytic film criticism, as well as the crucial role feminist theory has played in its development. Among the films discussed are Duel in the Sun, The Best Years of Our Lives, Three Faces of Eve, Tender is the Night, Pandora's Box, Secrets of the Soul, and the works of Jacques Tourneur (director of The Cat People and other features).
Download or read book Ragdoll Redeemed written by Dawn D. Novotny and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Not Your Grandmother s Book of Revelation written by Charyl Craddock and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most other commentaries on the Book of Revelation, Not Your Grandmother's Book of Revelation presents Scripture to dispel the many misinterpretations that have been perpetuated for the last one hundred years. Many of those misinterpretations have a foundation from the book Dispensational Truths by Baptist Pastor and Biblical scholar Charles Larkin, which was published in 1918. In addition to the influence of Mr. Larkin's book, many misinterpretations result from the false belief that the Book of Revelation is written in chronological order and that all of the events shown to John will occur during the final seven years, Daniel's seventieth week. In this book, Scripture is presented that positively establishes that the Revelation of Christ as recorded by John is written in the order that the events were shown to John, not chronologically; that the events of the vision, "the events that shall be hereafter" (Revelation 1:19), began occurring during the second and third century after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ; that the first three and a half years after the signing of the peace agreement between Israel and "many" will be a peaceful time during which Israel will build the third Temple; the final three and a half years, the Great Tribulation, is the pouring out of the wrath of Satan, not the wrath of God; and that Jesus told the apostles that the First Resurrection, the "Rapture" does not occur until "immediately after the tribulation" (Matthew 24:29). It will be shown that America is in the Book of Revelation. A detailed description of the Antichrist, False Prophet, one-world government "Beast," and "mark of the Beast" are presented, as is a synopsis of all chapters and the prophecies of Daniel. Finally, a timeline of the events of the vision is presented.
Download or read book Stolen Child written by Marie-Claire Vidja and published by Max Milo. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My name is Marie-Claire. I have had nightmares every night from the time I was 11, when I was kidnapped.” From the clutches of a French family who tortured her into the grips of an Algerian family who kidnapped and confined her, Marie-Claire went through hell before making a spectacular escape and reaching France. There are lives whose reality is hard to imagine. Marie-Claire's life is one of those. An unwanted child, born in France, beaten, involved in drug trafficking, she was abandoned, temporarily placed in the care of Social Services, before being returned to her parents—and then she was kidnapped by her stepfather and then by her father’s family that included a radicalized Islamic "tutor." She went through hell for ten years before escaping and starting on a path to recovery in which suffering and hardships kept getting worse, but which eventually led her to the hallowed halls of a French university, from where she continues to fight for the hundreds of children kidnapped by a parent—children who, every year, are victims of their parents' crimes and of institutional abandonment. She also uses her personal experience to look at mixed marriages, parental authority, parental responsibility. She points out with intelligence and accuracy the blind spots in the law, the cowardice of institutions, and the indifference of public opinion in the face of crimes whose victims are, first and foremost, thousands of children. The life of Marie-Claire is not a novel. Marie-Claire Vidja is a teacher-researcher and a doctor in human and social sciences. She has written, Hirak, l'art évolution du sourire, published by Nombre7. Olivier Goujon is a photojournalist, scriptwriter and author of several books, including Femen, histoire d'une trahison, Ces cons de journalistes and Pitcairn, les derniers réfugiés du Bounty vont disparaître, published by Max Milo.
Download or read book Politics of the Female Body written by Ketu H. Katrak and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to simultaneously belong to and be exiled from a community? Arguing that it is possible, the author uncovers the ways that the female body becomes a site of both oppression and resistance. She reveals common political and feminist alliances across geographic boundaries.
Download or read book Paula Rego s Map of Memory written by Maria Manuel Lisboa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. The artist Paula Rego was born in Portugal but has lived in Britain since 1951. In this well-illustrated book, Maria Manuel Lisboa explores the background behind Rego's decision to leave the land of her birth and, in doing so, provides fascinating insights into Rego's persistent portrayal of uneasy and predatory relations between men and women. Looking back over the national, religious and sexual politics of Portugal during Rego's childhood under the shadow of the Salazar dictatorship and subsequently, Lisboa locates the origins of the artist's preoccupation with power and powerlessness, violence and abuse within the political and ideological status quo of Portugal, past and present. The author's clear and thoughtful analysis offers an ambitious contribution to the study of patriarchy, Catholicism and Fascism and their expression in the work of this artist.
Download or read book Unicorn s Blood written by Patricia Finney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-12-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale narrated by a defrocked nun explores the realm-shattering possibility of a stolen journal kept by the young Princess Elizabeth falling into the wrong hands.
Download or read book Kingdom of Wolves written by Juliana Vasiljevic and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingdom of Wolves clears the path to understanding the unconscious drives that motivate if not govern the behaviours of predators, abusers, bullies, their victims and the underlying issues that draw them to each other. The author demystifies the complexities of human behaviour, merging old concepts with new as she guides you through the emotional and psychological landscapes of the abuser’s and victim’s psyche. She provides a simple but profound insight into the adverse causes and outcomes of early childhood and adolescent development, linking it to present-day adult ways of life. Juliana, once a victim of domestic abuse herself, believes that freedom, reclamation, redemption and wholeness of spirit can only be achieved by taking a journey inward. She hopes through this book to provide a way forward for victims who are trapped by their past experiences or present-day abusive circumstances and concludes that the key to recognition, understanding and prevention of violence and abuse can only be gained through acquiring a deeper awareness of human behaviour.
Download or read book Prostitution Power and Freedom written by Julia O'Connell Davidson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prostitution is still the subject of intense controversy among feminists but theoretical and political analyses are often only loosely grounded in empirical research. This book offers new perspectives on prostitution based on wide-ranging research in nine countries and extensive work with prostitute users.
Download or read book The Daughter s Return written by Caroline Rody and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Daughter's Return offers a close analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction produced by women writers who make imaginative returns to their ancestral pasts. Considering some of the defining texts of contemporary fiction--Toni Morrison's Beloved, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven--Rody discusses their common inclusion of a daughter who returns to the site of her people's founding trauma of slavery through memory or magic. Rody treats these texts as allegorical expressions of the desire of writers newly emerging into cultural authority to reclaim their difficult inheritance, and finds a counter plot of heroines' encounters with women of other racial and ethnic groups running through these works.
Download or read book Family Man written by John Burbridge and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fred has a penchant for coming into families' lives just when they need him the most. With his gentle and soothing nature, Fred helps them recover and move on from devastating tragedies while often filling the role of the since-departed patriarch. But even while adjusting to the new normal with Fred, some of these families still harbor dark secrets. And the intrigue only increases with the inclusion of Fred, who brings to the table some dark secrets himself.
Download or read book The Baby The Boy The Man written by John J.T. Hiner and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about my life. I was told I was born a large child with long black curly hair and a full mustache. Today, as an adult, I can't grow a full mustache. At four months old, I pulled a pot of boiling water off a table onto myself, burning 3⁄4 of my body. The Dr walked away and stated it wasn't anything he could do for me. At four years old, I was run over by a car, breaking every bone in my body. Again, the Dr walked away and stated I would not live until morning. At eleven years old, I drowned and was brought back to life. I have two legal names from 16, Sept 1939. I was "John Hiner" from 17 Oct, 1957. After seeing my birth certificate, I became "J.T. Hiner". Growing up, I had eleven siblings. Never wanted to be married or have children. I have married three times and I am a great, great, great father. The title speaks for itself. So much happened to me during all phases of my life seen in The Baby, the Boy, the Man.
Download or read book The Rebel Nun written by Marj Charlier and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marj Charlier’s The Rebel Nun is based on the true story of Clotild, the daughter of a sixth-century king and his concubine, who leads a rebellion of nuns against the rising misogyny and patriarchy of the medieval church. At that time, women are afforded few choices in life: prostitution, motherhood, or the cloister. Only the latter offers them any kind of independence. By the end of the sixth century, even this is eroding as the church begins to eject women from the clergy and declares them too unclean to touch sacramental objects or even their priest-husbands. Craving the legitimacy thwarted by her bastard status, Clotild seeks to become the next abbess of the female Monastery of the Holy Cross, the most famous of the women’s cloisters of the early Middle Ages. When the bishop of Poitiers blocks her appointment and seeks to control the nunnery himself, Clotild masterminds an escape, leading a group of nuns on a dangerous pilgrimage to beg her royal relatives to intercede on their behalf. But the bishop refuses to back down, and a bloody battle ensues. Will Clotild and her sisters succeed with their quest, or will they face excommunication, possibly even death? In the only historical novel written about the incident, The Rebel Nun is a richly imagined story about a truly remarkable heroine.
Download or read book Time and Time Again written by Dennis Danvers and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of Circuit of Heaven and End of Days Some dream the unimaginable. Others dare to live it… When love begins to border on objection. Marion Mead is researching her new novel when the wealthy and mysterious Raymond Lord invites her to his restored plantation in rural Virginia. Marion's book is based on a true story about an 18th-century woman who deserted her husband to run off with a charming yet murderous thief, and Raymond possesses a journal written by the heroine's great-granddaughter. But when Marion arrives at Greenville plantation, she is thunderstruck by her sudden attraction to her host. Not since her husband's tragic death four years before has she felt such passion; Raymond is the most beautiful man she has ever met, and he fully returns her ardor. She knows instantly that they will...they must...become lovers.... But, as they collaborate on her novel, an unquiet chill stirs in her heart. Events that happened centuries ago begin to echo in Marion's own life, and her lover is suddenly a stranger. “I would know you anywhere, anytime,” he whispers to her darkly. “I am not who you think I am,” he warns. Haunting threads of the past seem to be weaving their way into the present...and Marion must try desperately to alter fate before she loses her love...or her very life. “Danvers is a polished writer…. Time and Time Again is a love story…[that] says volumes about the power of love and the limits of imagination.”—Teresa Ducato, Booklist “Dennis Danvers is fast becoming one of the great suspense writers of today….If you enjoyed Ghost, you will delight in this fast-paced tale.” —Harriet Klausner, The Talisman “Ingenious…original…I was reminded of Laura, Rebecca, and Wuthering Heights….” —Tom De Haven, author of Funny Papers
