Download or read book The Menopause Monologues written by Harriet Powell and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-07 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of women's real-life experiences of the menopause: moving, funny and informative. A few male perspectives, too.
Download or read book The Menopause Monologues 2 written by Harriet Powell and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second collection of real-life experiences of the menopause by real women. Inspiring, tender and honest. Aimed at shattering the taboo that still surrounds the menopause and getting us all talking about something that half the population will go through and many of the other half will experience second-hand.
Download or read book The Menopause Monologues written by Harriet Powell and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of real-life experiences of the menopause by real women (and a few men!). Funny, sad, tender and honest. Aimed at shattering the taboo that still surrounds the menopause and getting us all talking about something that half the population will go through and many of the other half will experience second-hand.
Download or read book Mother Daughter Monologues Volume 4 Urgent Maturity written by International Centre for Women Playwrights and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth anthology in a four-volume set of dramatic monologues exploring the Mother/Daughter experience. Each volume reflects a different stage of a woman's life: "Urgent Maturity" reveals the anger, wisdom and transformation of later life. This anthology features the work of playwrights Agnes Szmidel, Barbara H. Macchia, Barrie Cole, Carol Samson, Cass Erickson, Cassie Rush, Claire Braz-Valentine, Ed Friedman, Faye Sholiton, Giovanni Affinito, Jan Watts, Jere Pfister, Karen Jeynes, Karen Kinch , Katherine H. Burkman, Laura Shamas, Lia Romeo, Ludmilla Bollow, Marj O'Neill-Butler, Martha Patterson, Mary Millner McCullough, Monica Raymond, Nancy Gall-Clayton, Nina Solomita, Paddy Gillard-Bentley, Patricia Milton, Patricia Montley, Roberta D'Alois, Sandra Dempsey, Sandra Ostrander, and Terri L. Atkins Febuary. Foreword by Margaret McSeveney.
Download or read book The Breakup Monologues written by Rosie Wilby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'piercingly honest... witty... wonderful' - The Observer 'My favourite way to learn is when a funny, clever, honest person is teaching me – that's why I love Rosie Wilby!' - Sara Pascoe 'Funny, sweet, entertaining, insightful, life-affirming...' – Viv Groskop 'Hilarious, honest and brilliant' – Helen Thorn 'Rosie Wilby unearths the hope and hilarity that can come from heartbreak' – Abigail Tarttelin ____ In 2011, comedian and podcaster Rosie Wilby was dumped by email... though she did feel a little better about it after correcting her ex's spelling and punctuation. Obsessing about breakups ever since, she embarked on a quest to investigate, understand and conquer the psychology of heartbreak. This book is a love letter to her breakups, a celebration of what they have taught her peppered with anecdotes from illustrious friends and interviews with relationship therapists, scientists and sociologists about separating in the modern age of ghosting, breadcrumbing and conscious uncoupling. Mixing humour, memoir and science, she attempts to assimilate their advice and ideas in order to not break up with Girlfriend, her partner of nearly three years. Will this self-confessed serial monogamist, and breakup addict, finally settle down?
Download or read book The Panza Monologues written by Virginia Grise and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Panza Monologues script also features stories contributed by Barbara Renaud Gonzalez, Petra A. Mata, and Maria R. Salazar."
Download or read book Acting Monologues A New Collection Volume I written by Freddie Underwood and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a diverse and exciting new collection of modern and historical pieces for young performers, aged 7 to 17 years. A selection of speeches designed to empower and authenticate young girls, teenagers, and individuals who identify as female, as well as numerous gender-fluid roles. The monologues are suitable for acting examinations, competitions, and auditions – or any situation where a solo scene is required from a published book of monologues. For those learners who study LAMDA examinations, the collection provides options for the learner’s ‘own choice’ category from grades Entry – Grade 5. Vitally, the themes are fresh and relevant to young people in a modern world; giving learners wider opportunities to explore, learn, and grow as actors, inspired by new and original writing, which is fun, challenging, and meaningful to perform.
Download or read book The Vagina Monologues written by Eve Ensler and published by Villard Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on conversations with hundreds of women about their genitalia, the author presents a collection of performance pieces from her one-woman show of the same name.
Download or read book Hot Flashes written by Dori Appel and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What previously forbidden subject is now a hot topic for baby boomers and beyond? HOT FLASHES is a fast-paced, highly original comedy about menopause which has been delighting audiences throughout the United States. A main stage hit at the 2004 Senior Theatre Festival in Las Vegas, its nine lively scenes also include a finalist in the Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors competition and a slam poetry winner. Flexible casting possibilities allow from two to twenty actresses to perform nine scenes about the unique challenges and comic adventures of menopause.
Download or read book Alan s Lesswilling Chronicles the monologues of an unhappy man written by Jan Sargeant and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan is trying hard to make sense of his world since his wife left him for Chuck in Morewilling and the local Co-op closed down. 21st century technology is eating into his wallet and his soul, and the price of a night out doesn’t leave change from a tenner anymore. But he is sure about three things: No one in Lesswilling needs a bidet or a hot tub. There’s no place for preserved lemons on British supermarket shelves. His mother was right about hindsight – it is a “wonderful thing to meet your own arse coming back.”
Download or read book Bibliotherapy written by Bijal Shah and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Utterly fascinating. I have long felt that books can be medicine. Now I understand why. Read this book. Feel better.' Beth Kempton, bestselling author of Wabi Sabi: Japanese wisdom for a perfectly imperfect life 'One of the most fascinating books that I have read in years! Beautifully written and full of insights, this book demonstrates the healing power of stories and how you can transform your life through bibliotherapy.' Simon Alexander Ong, bestselling author of Energize, international keynote speaker and award-winning coach. In this unique and transformational guide to healing, bibliotherapist and counsellor Bijal Shah explores the restorative power of reading. Bibliotherapy traces the history of how therapeutic reading evolved - including the important role played by the best writers such as the Stoics, Montaigne, Eliot and Wordsworth. In doing so, Bijal offers first-hand stories from clients who have found solace in great works of literature when struggling with grief, relationships or illness. Full of practical advice and insights into how bibliotherapy really works, Bijal offers an A to Z reading list of books for every mood and need. A much-needed reminder of how comforting and life-changing reading can be, Bibliotherapy is a sumptuous celebration of books that will invite you to see them as more than just an escape, but a legitimate form of self-care.
Download or read book The Vagina Monologues written by Eve Ensler and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2001-03-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark in women’s empowerment—as relevant as ever in the age of #MeToo—that honors female sexuality in all its complexity It’s been more than twenty years since Eve Ensler’s international sensation The Vagina Monologues gave birth to V-Day, the radical, global grassroots movement to end violence against women and girls. This special edition features six never-before-published monologues, a new foreword by National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson, a new introduction by the author, and a new afterword by One Billion Rising director Monique Wilson on the stage phenomenon’s global impact. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, this award-winning masterpiece gives voice to real women’s deepest fantasies, fears, anger, and pleasure, and calls for a world where all women are safe, equal, free, and alive in their bodies. Praise for The Vagina Monologues “Probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade.”—The New York Times “This play changed the world. Seeing it changed my soul. Performing in it changed my life. I am forever indebted to Eve Ensler and the transformative legacy of this play.”—Kerry Washington “Spellbinding, funny, and almost unbearably moving . . . both a work of art and an incisive piece of cultural history, a poem and a polemic, a performance and a balm and a benediction.”—Variety “Often wrenching, frequently riotous. . . . Ensler is an impassioned wit.”—Los Angeles Times “Extraordinary . . . a compelling rhapsody of the female essence.”—Chicago Tribune
Download or read book A Life in Smoke written by Julia Hansen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I accepted the certainty of my untimely death with gallows humor and a calculator. I'd read somewhere that each cigarette you smoke knocks seven minutes off your time on the planet. To amuse myself, I did the math: 153,000 cigarettes = two years of my life, up in smoke." Julia Hansen first lit up at nineteen. Twenty years later, she was editing books about health -- and smoking a pack or two a day. She denied her son fast food, but smoked in the house and car; curtailed his video games, but lit up at his soccer matches. Despite repeated attempts to quit, she always crawled back to her beloved menthol lights. Smoking had become a metaphorical chain around her neck, shackling her to an early death. Haunted by a nightmarish vision of her future -- her son at her deathbed, begging her not to leave him -- Hansen devised a drastic quit method. She bought a 72-foot length of chain that was "unwieldy as a corpse" and locked herself to a radiator in her dining room. What followed: seven days of cold-turkey misery, comic absurdity, and revelation as Hansen stepped from behind her wall of smoke to face her addiction to nicotine -- and some painful truths. Clanking around her house like Marley's ghost, white-knuckling cravings, and struggling to understand tobacco's unyielding grip on her, Hansen confronted her life in smoke: fractured relationships, lifelong battles with alcohol and depression, and a profound sense of emptiness. On day 1, the chain was her addiction to nicotine, each link a story about cigarettes and self-loathing. By day 7, it had revealed its ringing, rattling truth -- that every smoker has a story, and it always centers on clinging to a comfort that can kill you. In the end, Hansen's story was painfully simple: She smoked to survive her life. And then, to save it, she quit. Fierce and funny, honest and utterly absorbing, A Life in Smoke is Julia Hansen's evocative and inspiring account of the extreme measures she took to quit smoking -- decidedly not recommended by the medical profession.
Download or read book From Menstruation to the Menopause written by Maria Kathryn Tomlinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the representation of the female fertility cycle in contemporary Algerian, Mauritian, and French women's writing. It focuses on menstruation, childbirth, and the menopause whilst also incorporating experiences such as miscarriage and abortion. This study frames its analysis of contemporary women's writing by looking back to the pioneering work of the second-wave feminists. Second-wave feminist texts were the first to break the silence on key aspects of female experience which had thus far been largely overlooked or considered taboo. Second-wave feminist works have been criticised for applying their 'universal' theories to all women, regardless of their ethnicity, socio-economic status, or sexuality. This book argues that contemporary women's writing has continued the challenge against normative perceptions of the body that was originally launched by the second-wave feminists, whilst also taking a more nuanced, contextual and intersectional approach to corporeal experience. The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach of this book is informed not only by critics of the second-wave feminist movement but also by sociological studies which consider how women's bodily experiences are shaped by socio-cultural context.
Download or read book Ecocritical Menopause written by Nicole Anae and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-07-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecocritical Menopause: Women, Literature, Environment, “The Change” is the first volume of its kind to bring together cross-sectional ecofeminist voices privileging women’s menopausal positionality within literary works. This collection reexamines menopause across the disciplinary fields of ecofeminism and ecocriticism as clearly the most neglected phase of the menstrual cycle and aims to develop a critical discourse in counterpoint to the persistent cultural and critical legacies that sustain underrating women in midlife. In highlighting selected literary representations of female being in transition, this volume includes: • Exploration of the core motifs mediating the fashioning of menopausal women, including biology, the body, body shaming, climacterium, hysteria, the crone/hag figure, femininity, gender, identity, reproduction, sexlessness and asexuality • Reexamination of histo-cultural biases that continue to perpetuate a devaluation of women after menopause, such as ageism, degeneration, loss of fertility and myths of essentialism, patriarchy and hegemony, social taboos, the medicalization of menopause, and cultural “menophobia” • Analysis of literature genres in which we find portraitures of peri/post/menopause subjectivity, such as autofiction, crime fiction, detective fiction, folktales, frame tale, fiction, mystery, poetry, short story, and the “whodonit.”
Download or read book The Vagina Monologues written by Eve Ensler and published by Villard Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on conversations with hundreds of women about their genitalia, the author presents a collection of performance pieces from her one-woman show of the same name.
Download or read book Sex Meaning and the Menopause written by Sue Brayne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A menopausal woman's search for what matters, and a challenge to the myth that all older women want to remain sexually active.
