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Book Bananeras

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  • Author : Dana Frank
  • Publisher : Haymarket Books
  • Release : 2016-03-01
  • ISBN : 1608465357
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book Bananeras written by Dana Frank and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women banana workersbananerasare waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing."

Book Y SIN EMBARGO Magazine  25  Just a Memory

Download or read book Y SIN EMBARGO Magazine 25 Just a Memory written by Y. S. I. N. Embargo magazine and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El tema de esta YSE es la memoria; sus formas, dinámicas, lugares, funciones; sus upgrades; y en consecuencia, sus nuevas formas, dinámicas, lugares y funciones. Avanzando un paso más en la lógica y las lecturas críticas en torno a estas cuestiones la presente edición no tendrá una existencia permanente; por el contrario, desaparecerá, será trabajo enviado directamente al vacío: YSE#25, "sólo un recuerdo", dejará de existir el 5/10/2010.# # #The subject of this Y SIN EMBARGO is memory, its forms, dynamics, places, functions; its upgrades; therefore, its new forms, dynamics, places and functions. And to go beyond in the logic and critical readings around these questions the present issue will not hace a permanent existence; on the contrary, it will be lost, it will be a work sent directly to the void, as a pile of organized energy in a dissipative medium: YSE#25, "just a memory", will cease existing on October 5th, 2010.

Book Cuban Studies 34

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  • Author : Lisandro Perez
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2004-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780822942191
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Cuban Studies 34 written by Lisandro Perez and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.

Book A Frozen Woman

Download or read book A Frozen Woman written by Annie Ernaux and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is 30 years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her. While each of Ernaux's books contain an autobiographical element, A Frozen Woman, one of Ernaux's early works, concentrates the spotlight piercingly on Annie herself. Mixing affection, rage and bitterness, A Frozen Woman shows us Ernaux's developing art when she still relied on traditional narrative, before the shortened form emerged that has since become her trademark.

Book Encuentros

Download or read book Encuentros written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Cuba with Love

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  • Author : Megan D. Daigle
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2015-01-16
  • ISBN : 0520958837
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book From Cuba with Love written by Megan D. Daigle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Cuba with Love deals with love, sexuality, and politics in contemporary Cuba. In this beautiful narrative, Megan Daigle explores the role of women in Cuban political culture by examining the rise of economies of sex, romance, and money since the early 1990s. Daigle draws attention to the violence experienced by young women suspected of involvement with foreigners at the hands of a moralistic state, an opportunistic police force, and even their own families and partners. Investigating the lived realities of the Cuban women (and some men) who date tourists and offering a unique perspective on the surrounding debates, From Cuba with Love raises issues about women’s bodies–what they can or should do and, equally, what can be done to them. Daigle’s provocative perspective will make readers question how race and politics in Cuba are tied to women and sex, and the ways in which political power acts directly on the bodies of individuals through law, policing, institutional programs, and social norms.

Book Making Women Count

Download or read book Making Women Count written by Kylie Stephen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000. Drawn from an international research project, this study provides evidence of efforts to make law and policy-making truly inclusive, and discusses whether success or failure depends on the nature of the procedure, or the legal and social context. The book contains six case studies detailing national practice in promoting equality between the sexes and a series of general chapters which evaluate the effectiveness of individual equality stratgies and the factors which contribute to their success or failure. The contributors analyze the contribution of the European Union in promoting gender equality in Europe, and particular emphasis is placed on gender mainstreaming and how this strategy might be developed.

Book School of the Sun

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  • Author : Ana María Matute
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780231069175
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book School of the Sun written by Ana María Matute and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Spanish writer's approach by the intimist route to the still unassuaged griefs of the Civil War...What happens is that the protected bourgeois world in which it is possible to go on with the pretext of childishness at fourteen is split open by the realities of war, or, rather, the realities of which the war is the expression.

Book Oraciones y Promesas para Mujeres

Download or read book Oraciones y Promesas para Mujeres written by Toni Sortor and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Todos, en un mismo espiritu, se dedicaban a la oracion, junto con las mujeres y con los hermanos de Jesus y su madre Maria". Hechos 1.14 NVI Las mujeres enfrentan muchos desafios especiales en la vida - desafios que demandan oraciones especificas. ?Que mejor que usar la propia y perfecta Palabra de Dios como fundamento? Oraciones y Promesas para Mujeres es una nueva coleccion de doscientas poderosas oraciones, cada una sobre la base de una promesa de la Biblia cuidadosamente seleccionada. Organizado en cincuenta hermosos temas - incluidos los amigos, la maternidad, la autoestima, y otros - Oraciones y Promesas para Mujeres busca la bendicion de Dios en los asuntos comunes y corrientes de la vida. De gran utilidad para la adoracion personal, Oraciones y Promesas para Mujeres puede cambiar la manera en que usted se acerca a la oracion, y servir al mismo tiempo como punto de partida para una oracion mas profunda y especifica.

Book Mujeres sobre mujeres en los albores del siglo XXI

Download or read book Mujeres sobre mujeres en los albores del siglo XXI written by Patricia Walker O'Connor and published by Editorial Fundamentos. This book was released on 2006 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Download or read book Memories of My Melancholy Whores written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! A New York Times Notable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known. Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to the master’s work.

Book Mapping the Women s Movement

Download or read book Mapping the Women s Movement written by Monica Threlfall and published by Verso. This book was released on 1996-05-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second-wave feminism is now in its third decade.

Book Aurora Bertrana

Download or read book Aurora Bertrana written by Silvia Roig and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silvia Roig explores the narrative of Aurora Bertrana (1892-1974), an unknown writer today, but a successful and recognized female author in Catalonia and Spain during the 20th century. Aurora Bertrana's works are almost never mentioned in manuals of literature. Her rich, intellectual work has not received the attention it deserves, relegated almost to absolute oblivion. The author reviews and studies twenty-four of Bertrana's novels written in Catalan andSpanish, including: Ariatea (1960), El pomell de les violes (MS), L'inefable Philip (MS), La aldea sin hombres (mn.), La madrecita de los cerdos (MS), Entre dos silencis (1958), La ninfa d'argila (1959), Fracàs (1966) and La ciutat dels joves: reportatge fantasia (1971). She studies her work, published and unpublished, from a feminist approach, taking into account the intellectual history of Spain and Catalonia. Bertana's strong commitment to social issues reveals her association with the Modernist and Noucentists trends of her time. Bertrana's novels reveal a unique interest in non-Western cultures and lifestyles and her work undertakes controversial topics and socio-cultural issues, while she observes and draws special attention to the situation of women in different circumstances and cultural geographies. This book is therefore anchored on interpretive and theoretical parameters that intersect with consideration of gender, such as travel-and-gender and war-and-gender. Roig uses the work of feminists such as Simone De Beauvoir, Shulamith Firestone, Jelke Boesten, Margaret and Patrice Higonnet, Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo and Julia Kristeva to help assess Bertrana's engagement with gender and socio-political issues. This approach is particularly well suited for a writer like Bertrana, a Catalan and Republican intellectual woman forced into self-exile during the Spanish Civil War and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Silvia Roig is a Faculty Member, BMCC Department of Modern Languages, The City University of New York.

Book Al filo del agua

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  • Author : Agustín Yáñez
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Al filo del agua written by Agustín Yáñez and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beyond Repair

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  • Author : Alison Crosby
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2019-05-10
  • ISBN : 0813598982
  • Pages : 283 pages

Download or read book Beyond Repair written by Alison Crosby and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide​ Honorable Mention, 2020 CALACS Book Prize​ Beyond Repair? explores Mayan women’s agency in the search for redress for harm suffered during the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Guatemalan state in the early 1980s at the height of the thirty-six-year armed conflict. The book draws on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q’eqchi’, Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women who are seeking truth, justice, and reparation for the violence they experienced during the war, and the women’s rights activists, lawyers, psychologists, Mayan rights activists, and researchers who have accompanied them as intermediaries for over a decade. Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes use the concept of “protagonism” to deconstruct dominant psychological discursive constructions of women as “victims,” “survivors,” “selves,” “individuals,” and/or “subjects.” They argue that at different moments Mayan women have been actively engaged as protagonists in constructivist and discursive performances through which they have narrated new, mobile meanings of “Mayan woman,” repositioning themselves at the interstices of multiple communities and in their pursuit of redress for harm suffered.

Book Indigenous Development in the Andes

Download or read book Indigenous Development in the Andes written by Robert Andolina and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As indigenous peoples in Latin America have achieved greater prominence and power, international agencies have attempted to incorporate the agendas of indigenous movements into development policymaking and project implementation. Transnational networks and policies centered on ethnically aware development paradigms have emerged with the goal of supporting indigenous cultures while enabling indigenous peoples to access the ostensible benefits of economic globalization and institutionalized participation. Focused on Bolivia and Ecuador, Indigenous Development in the Andes is a nuanced examination of the complexities involved in designing and executing “culturally appropriate” development agendas. Robert Andolina, Nina Laurie, and Sarah A. Radcliffe illuminate a web of relations among indigenous villagers, social movement leaders, government officials, NGO workers, and staff of multilateral agencies such as the World Bank. The authors argue that this reconfiguration of development policy and practice permits Ecuadorian and Bolivian indigenous groups to renegotiate their relationship to development as subjects who contribute and participate. Yet it also recasts indigenous peoples and their cultures as objects of intervention and largely fails to address fundamental concerns of indigenous movements, including racism, national inequalities, and international dependencies. Andean indigenous peoples are less marginalized, but they face ongoing dilemmas of identity and agency as their fields of action cross national boundaries and overlap with powerful institutions. Focusing on the encounters of indigenous peoples with international development as they negotiate issues related to land, water, professionalization, and gender, Indigenous Development in the Andes offers a comprehensive analysis of the diverse consequences of neoliberal development, and it underscores crucial questions about globalization, governance, cultural identity, and social movements.

Book Memory Wall

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Doerr
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2010-07-13
  • ISBN : 143918285X
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Memory Wall written by Anthony Doerr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wise and beautiful second collection from the acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Light We Cannot See, and Cloud Cuckoo Land, "Doerr writes about the big questions, the imponderables, the major metaphysical dreads, and he does it fearlessly" (The New York Times Book Review). Set on four continents, Anthony Doerr's new stories are about memory, the source of meaning and coherence in our lives, the fragile thread that connects us to ourselves and to others. Every hour, says Doerr, all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear. Yet at the same time children, surveying territory that is entirely new to them, push back the darkness, form fresh memories, and remake the world. In the luminous and beautiful title story, a young boy in South Africa comes to possess an old woman's secret, a piece of the past with the power to redeem a life. In "The River Nemunas," a teenage orphan moves from Kansas to Lithuania to live with her grandfather, and discovers a world in which myth becomes real. "Village 113," winner of an O'Henry Prize, is about the building of the Three Gorges Dam and the seed keeper who guards the history of a village soon to be submerged. And in "Afterworld," the radiant, cathartic final story, a woman who escaped the Holocaust is haunted by visions of her childhood friends in Germany, yet finds solace in the tender ministrations of her grandson. Every story in Memory Wall is a reminder of the grandeur of life--of the mysterious beauty of seeds, of fossils, of sturgeon, of clouds, of radios, of leaves, of the breathtaking fortune of living in this universe. Doerr's language, his witness, his imagination, and his humanity are unparalleled in fiction today.