Download or read book Fearing the Black Body written by Sabrina Strings and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2020 Body and Embodiment Best Publication Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2020 Sociology of Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association How the female body has been racialized for over two hundred years There is an obesity epidemic in this country and poor Black women are particularly stigmatized as “diseased” and a burden on the public health care system. This is only the most recent incarnation of the fear of fat Black women, which Sabrina Strings shows took root more than two hundred years ago. Strings weaves together an eye-opening historical narrative ranging from the Renaissance to the current moment, analyzing important works of art, newspaper and magazine articles, and scientific literature and medical journals—where fat bodies were once praised—showing that fat phobia, as it relates to Black women, did not originate with medical findings, but with the Enlightenment era belief that fatness was evidence of “savagery” and racial inferiority. The author argues that the contemporary ideal of slenderness is, at its very core, racialized and racist. Indeed, it was not until the early twentieth century, when racialized attitudes against fatness were already entrenched in the culture, that the medical establishment began its crusade against obesity. An important and original work, Fearing the Black Body argues convincingly that fat phobia isn’t about health at all, but rather a means of using the body to validate race, class, and gender prejudice.

Download or read book Depression Other Magic Tricks written by Sabrina Benaim and published by Button Poetry. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Runner-Up Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem "Explaining My Depression to My Mother" has become a cultural phenomenon with over 50,000,000 views. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living. Andrea Gibson, author of Lord of the Butterflies writes "I read this book on a day I couldn't get out of bed and it made me feel like I had a friend in the world...Simply put, this book disappears loneliness."

Download or read book Live Right Now written by Sabrina D. Black and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Our Daily Bread VOICES Collection Women who are looking for answers to questions they may be embarrassed to ask about life issues and everyday living can find help in the pages of Dr. Sabrina D. Black's book Live Right Now. Offering hard-hitting answers to tough questions, this insightful book covers a broad range of topics such as spiritual growth, grief and loss, burnout, sexuality, parenting, leadership, and more. Live Right Now speaks honestly to the hearts of readers, reminding them to combine the knowledge of God's Word with their actions and encouraging them to wholeheartedly follow God. Perfect for individuals, pastors, and counselors.

Download or read book The Heat of the Moment written by Sabrina Cohen-Hatton and published by Black Swan. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton has been a firefighter for eighteen years. She decides which of her colleagues rush into a burning building and how they confront the blaze. She makes the call to evacuate when she feels the options have been exhausted, even if it means leaving the injured behind. She has managed emergencies that have shocked us and moved us, and made decisions that seem impossible. Her book takes us to the heart of firefighting, and reveals the skills and qualities that are essential to surviving - and even thriving - in such a fast-paced and emotionally-charged environment. It immerses us in this extraordinary world; from scenes of devastation and crisis, through triumphs of bravery, to the quieter moments when these assumed heroes question themselves, their choices, and decisions made in the most unforgiving circumstances. Ultimately, we are asked to step into their boots. In the face of urgency and uncertainty, would you respond in an analytical manner or trust your instincts? How would you decide who lives and who dies?

Download or read book Body Kindness written by Rebecca Scritchfield and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create a healthier and happier life by treating yourself with compassion rather than shame. Imagine a graph with two lines. One indicates happiness, the other tracks how you feel about your body. If you’re like millions of people, the lines do not intersect. But what if they did? This practical, inspirational, and visually lively book shows you the way to a sense of well-being attained by understanding how to love, connect, and care for yourself—and that includes your mind as well as your body. Body Kindness is based on four principles. WHAT YOU DO: the choices you make about food, exercise, sleep, and more HOW YOU FEEL: befriending your emotions and standing up to the unhelpful voice in your head WHO YOU ARE: goal-setting based on your personal values WHERE YOU BELONG: body-loving support from people and communities that help you create a meaningful life With mind and body exercises to keep your energy spiraling up and prompts to help you identify what YOU really want and care about, Body Kindness helps you let go of things you can't control and embrace the things you can by finding the workable, daily steps that fit you best. It's the anti-diet book that leads to a more joyful and meaningful life.

Download or read book The Baby s Guardian written by Delores Fossen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall in love all over again with USA TODAY bestselling author Delores Fossen’s classic tale of a single mother who needs the help of a Texas lawman to keep them both safe… In the past twenty-four hours Sabrina Carr has been shot at, kidnapped and held hostage. As if being eight months pregnant isn’t stressful enough! Now, after narrowly escaping the clutches of masked gunmen, Sabrina and her baby need a protector. That’s when hot Texas cop Shaw Tolbert comes to her rescue. As the surrogate mother to his child, Sabrina couldn’t help the sizzling attraction to Shaw that the danger stirred up…or the kiss that told her she meant more to him than she ever realized. With her attackers still on the loose, Sabrina’s priority is keeping the baby safe. But how can she keep her cool when things are so hot? Originally published in 2010 Book 1 in Texas Maternity: Hostages

Download or read book When Morning Comes written by Francis Ray and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unforgettable new novel, Ray delivers an emotionally powerful tale about the families we build, the choices we make, and how we find love and family along the way in a story set amid adoption and the medical field.

Download or read book I Married a Sociopath written by Sabrina Brown and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Sabrina's abuse was never validated. As the rape and violence continued, escalating in nature-abusers who are not caught test their limits-she approached puberty with an unstable and insecure sense of self, and a distorted perception of her role in relationships. She had been conditioned to devalue her needs and give without question. At fifteen she meets the man of her dreams, but by nineteen-pregnant and married-her hopes and dreams of love and romance are crushed. She is caught in a web of violence and psychological mind games, being constantly threatened that if she tells anyone or tries to leave she will lose her children, public respect-everything. When Sabrina finally breaks free, she finds herself in a courtroom being served a thirty-five-page motion and an Emergency Protective Order "protecting" her abuser and children from her. Her worst fears are now her reality. After a lifetime of abuse will she be able to bear the burden of this pain, injustice and helplessness?

Download or read book A Twist of Fate written by Linda Lee Rathbun and published by Natural Wanders. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child psychologist, Sabrina Baxter finds her days are full and rewarding, and even the absence of a man in her life is not a problem...except at night when she dreams of a love she’s never had. When Ray Hunter walks into her world with his little girl, a troubled, motherless five year old, an instant attraction flares between Sabrina and Ray. It doesn’t take long before the flare becomes a fire, but misfortune puts one stumbling block after another in their way. The deaths of Ray’s wife and Sabrina’s father are tied together in a way that becomes insurmountable. Has fate brought them together only to tear them asunder, or will they find a way to defeat the overwhelming obstacles that threaten to keep them apart?

Download or read book A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks written by Sabrina Mittermeier and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing is academic, but it is not inaccessible. It will have wide disciplinary appeal within academia, as tourism studies cross into a variety of fields including history, American studies, fandom studies, performance studies and cultural studies. It will be invaluable to those working in the field of theme park scholarship and the study of Disney theme parks, theme parks in general and related areas like world's expositions and spaces of the consumer and lifestyle worlds. It will also be of interest to Disney fans, those who have visited any of the parks or are interested to know more about the parks and their cultural situation and context.

Download or read book Sabrina written by Nick Drnaso and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Rate your overall mood from 1 to 5, 1 being poor. Rate your stress level from 1 to 5, 5 being severe. Are you experiencing depression or thoughts of suicide? Is there anything in your personal life that is affecting your duty? When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. He reports to work every night in a bare, sterile fortress that serves as no protection from a situation that threatens the sanity of Teddy, his childhood friend and boyfriend of the missing woman. Sabrina's grieving sister Sandra struggles to fill her days waiting in purgatory. After a videotape surfaces, we see devastation through a cinematic lens, as true tragedy is distorted when fringe thinkers and conspiracy theorists begin to interpret events to fit their own narratives. The follow-up to Nick Drnaso’s LA Times Book Prize winning Beverly, Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. An indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake news climate. Timely and articulate, Sabrina leaves you gutted, searching for meaning in the aftermath of disaster.

Download or read book Who Wants to Marry a Doctor written by Abigail Sharpe and published by Forever Yours. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doctor Is In . . . As a single mom and pediatrician, Sabrina Bankhead doesn't have time for romance. All that changes when she reluctantly agrees to take part in a dating show fundraiser for a children's hospital. But once she sets eyes on the journalist hired to cover the show, none of the four contestants stand a chance. If she doesn't choose one of the eligible bachelors, the hospital doesn't raise a cent. What's a lovestruck doc to do? Investigative journalist Quinn Donnelly is on the mend after an assignment in Afghanistan left him both physically and emotionally scarred. Though he's itching to return overseas and finish his story, he'll have to be content with this fluff piece assignment to cover a local dating show. One-night stands are Quinn's forte-but after he meets Sabrina, he's ready to say yes for the long haul. After years of chasing the next big story, Quinn is starting to wonder if maybe home really can be where the heart is . . .

Download or read book Church Chick written by Michelle Carey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-27 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sabrina Sloan yearns for more excitement in her dull life. In a shallow attempt to move forward, she marries the older Deacon of the church, but is liberated when he dies on their wedding night. Now free to find love and happiness, Sabrina discovers the dark side of love and lust when she is confronted by her new best friend Blair; when Blair thinks Sabrina has stolen the man she loves.

Download or read book Off Limits written by Darlena Taylor-Bonds and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gail typical housewife that has a best friend, Sabrina. Sabrina want to be like Gail so badly until she will sleep with Gail's husband Gary just to say she has everything that Gail has.....even her man.

Download or read book The Ivory Cane written by Janet Dailey and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times–bestselling author, the story of a woman battling inner demons—and finding love—after a life-changing accident. Sabrina Lane had a life, a home of her own, and a career she loved. But all of that changed the night she drove her car off a dark road in an accident that left her blind, dependent on others, and struggling to find herself. Until Bay Cameron steps into her world, demanding she live again, daring her to feel things she no longer believes possible. If it weren’t for Bay’s arrogance, Sabrina might even take his advice. If weren’t for her belief that no man will ever want her again, she might even fall in love . . . Set in the romantic seaport city of San Francisco, The Ivory Cane is a classic novel about the transformative power of love from Janet Dailey, one of the world’s most popular novelists with over 300 million copies of her books in print in nineteen languages.

Download or read book Country Neighbors written by Alice Brown and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These sixteen short stories are packed full with charming characters and vibrant prose. Each of the tales are based in New England and primarily centered on strong female protagonists who face various hurdles in their relationships. Alice Brown is an American novelist and short-story writer. She is best known for her tales about New England and as a writer of local colour stories. Born in New Hampshire in 1857, Brown's stories often portray a female protagonist in a domestic setting. Her first novel, 'Stratford-by-the-Sea', was published in 1884. It cemented Brown as part of the Boston literary scene, but by the time she died in 1948 (aged 91), many of her stories had been forgotten about and were no longer being published.

Download or read book Trifecta Box Set 3 Novels written by Pamela M. Richter and published by Pamela M. Richter. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRIFECTA - Box Set Midnight Reflections, The Living Image, The Necromancer MIDNIGHT REFLECTIONS - Romantic Suspense Julia's Midnight Reflections actually happened at about four in the morning. She was watching a handsome man sleeping in her bed. She rescued him while Robin was playing a dangerous undercover role to help her solve a murder. She herself is playing her own undercover role, working for the man she suspects of several contract kills. Together they discover information so deadly and inflammatory they are forced to flee a murderous politician.  THE LIVING IMAGE - Thriller What would you do if you found your own double? Sabrina discovers that hers is part human and part something else. Things become harrowing when the CIA, The Russians, and a Japanese business man will do anything to possess the woman she calls Eve. The CIA wants to study it. The KGB wants to abduct it for the technology. The Japanese don't care if they have to tear the woman to pieces--they want to know how she was made. THE NECROMANCER - Paranormal Michelle was brutally attacked in her locked hotel room. The police didn't believe her and thought she had invited a man to her room for a little sexual encounter, which went dangerously out of control. She decides an affair with the devilishly handsome man who moved into her building might cure her of the panic attacks. How can she know she picked the wrong man.