Download or read book Perfect Women written by Colette Dowling and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are many women today so driven, engaged in a relentless pursuit of perfection and achievement? Colette Dowling, whose international bestseller The Cinderella Complex gave a name to the fear of independence that haunted millions of women, now explores this phenomenon common to women everywhere.
Download or read book Letting Go of Perfect written by Amy E. Spiegel and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With fun and depth, an everyday Christian wife and mother thought fully challenges some of the self-imposed expectations of modern biblical womanhood, pointing women toward true freedom in Christ.
Download or read book Ghost written by Iona Holloway and published by Lioncrest Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am going to show you why your pain is invisible to everyone else, and why, in the struggle to be seen, your body became your battlefield. From the outside, your life looks polished. You're talented, successful, strong. Your perfection safeguards you against suffering. Everyone assumes you're fine, and you hide in plain sight. But the truth is that, inside, you feel like a fraud. From childhood, you've been gaslighted by your own gifts. "Good enough" is impossible. But being perfect leaves no space to be human. You suffer in silence. You use your body as a canvas to scream your pain, shrinking in a desperate bid to be visible. This book is my story and the story of women I have worked with. It is the story of how vulnerability will unlock your truth and set you free. Iona Holloway woke up one day and knew she could never go on another diet. She was willing to sacrifice her "perfect body" if it meant she felt whole-not lost, ashamed, and hopeless. She became her own guide on the hard journey of coming home to herself. Haunting, vulnerable, blunt, and stunning, Ghost is a story that reveals why strong women go to war with their bodies. In her debut memoir, Iona Holloway explores lost childhood, identity webs, hot shame, emotional freeze, love, and lineage to tell the story of how to change not just behaviours, but beliefs. How to ask for help. How to let go of perfect. Now is not the time to shrink. This book won't heal you, but it will help you find the heart to heal.
Download or read book The Perfect Women A Fairy Tale written by Josephine deBois and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I cannot make sense of this data from Sine," said John Djerassi, the genomic profiling expert. He looked at Samuel, slightly puzzled. "I have never seen so much woman in any sample before." He gave a lopsided smile and continued, "Looks like the perfect woman."*****It should have been an easy case for Samuel, a New York traffic police officer. His boss told him to just get rapid closure with a perfect report, something to bolster his résumé for a transfer to a better post. But when Sine died a violent death, Samuel suddenly finds himself embroiled in a scheme far beyond anything he ever dreamed—murder, human trafficking, and more, a sinister use of modern biological sciences to unleash a viral war leading to the extinction of all people. Except those of a certain kind.
Download or read book Perfect Wives Other Women written by Georgina Dopico Black and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVClose readings of canonical Spanish “Golden Age” and Latin American “colonial” texts, drawing heavily on the findings and strategies of psychoanalytic criticism, gender studies and Marxism, and offering an understanding of a repres/div
Download or read book Women s Health Perfect Body Diet written by Cassandra Forsythe, PhD, RD and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's face it—women simply do not shed pounds or build muscle as easily as men do. Drawing on fascinating recent research that has shed new light on the gender differences in food metabolism and the effect of exercise, the editors of Women's Health, the healthy lifestyle magazine for today's active woman on the go, have devised a weight-loss plan that works especially well for women who would like to lose 5-25 pounds. Key features of the Women's Health Perfect Body Plan include: • Glucomannan, a soluble fiber that helps dieters feel full faster—and therefore eat less throughout the day • Meal plans that contain at least 40 grams of fiber per day • An adjustment for the impact of female hormones on weight loss (women need a higher protein diet than men to increase lean body tissue and decrease body fat) • Dieting techniques that revolve around psychological needs and personal goals and lifestyle • Two diet plans to choose from—one higher in fats and lower in carbs; the other higher in carbs and lower in fats (simple food tests help women choose the type they need) In addition to the customized eating plan—complete with 75 easy-to-prepare recipes—there is a vigorous customized fitness program consisting of 50 exercises that brings results in just three weeks.
Download or read book Less Than Perfect written by Ann Spangler and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can the Bible’s most flawed men and women reveal about who God is and how he reaches out to less-than-perfect people? In Less Than Perfect, bestselling author Ann Spangler takes us beyond cardboard cutouts of 38 biblical characters to show us how these were real individuals who had dreams, temptations, and weaknesses just like us. Whether considering the murderous Herodias, the scheming Jacob, or the doubting Sarah, Spangler approaches both familiar and lesser known characters with fresh eyes. We meet each of these individuals again as if for the first time as Spangler offers a dramatic retelling of their lives, insight into the historical and cultural context of their time, and key takeaway points for our lives today. Each chapter includes questions for discussion or reflection, making Less Than Perfect ideal for individual or group Bible study. Entertaining, informative, and inspirational, Less Than Perfect gives you a big picture view of the Bible even as it takes you into the hearts and minds of people with struggles just like yours. As you learn more about the individuals who are part of your spiritual family tree, you’ll discover why God loves to use imperfect people to tell his perfect story of redemption.
Download or read book Brave Not Perfect written by Reshma Saujani and published by Currency. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Inspired by her popular TED Talk, the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code urges women to embrace imperfection and live a bolder, more authentic life. “A timely message for women of all ages: Perfection isn’t just impossible but, worse, insidious.”—Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit Imagine if you lived without the fear of not being good enough. If you didn’t care how your life looked on Instagram. If you could let go of the guilt and stop beating yourself up for making human mistakes. Imagine if, in every decision you faced, you took the bolder path? As women, too many of us feel crushed under the weight of our own expectations. We run ourselves ragged trying to please everyone, pass up opportunities that scare us, and avoid rejection at all costs. There’s a reason we act this way, Saujani says. As girls, we were taught to play it safe. Well-meaning parents and teachers praised us for being quiet and polite, urged us to be careful so we didn’t get hurt, and steered us to activities at which we could shine. As a result, we grew up to be women who are afraid to fail. It’s time to stop letting our fears drown out our dreams and narrow our world, along with our chance at happiness. By choosing bravery over perfection, we can find the power to claim our voice, to leave behind what makes us unhappy, and to go for the things we genuinely, passionately want. Perfection may set us on a path that feels safe, but bravery leads us to the one we’re authentically meant to follow. In Brave, Not Perfect,Saujani shares powerful insights and practices to help us let go of our need for perfection and make bravery a lifelong habit. By being brave, not perfect, we can all become the authors of our best and most joyful life.
Download or read book Skinny Women Are Perfect written by T. Richard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-05-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rory Carter grew up obsessed with her looks. Teased relentlessly about her weight, Rory was happy to leave her past behind when she enrolled in a Washington, DC, college and met her new best friends, Sierra, BJ, and Neekoo. Now a loving wife, devoted mother, and the owner of an image-branding agency, Rory is the one who keeps it all together. Years later, it is obvious she is perfect. But what about the other three? Fast-talking and unfiltered, Sierra finds solace as a therapist who helps people overcome their hardships. BJ is a brilliant and beautiful fashionista who proudly showcases her culinary prowess at her well-known restaurant. The notoriously shy Neekoo has made her mark in Washington, DC, as a renowned journalist. On the surface, it appears that the girlfriends have the world in the palm of their hands. But what no one knows is that deadly secrets lurk in the midst of the seemingly perfect lives of these womensecrets that could cause each of their worlds to crumble. In this compelling tale, an unanticipated intervention forces four long-time friends to face their personal demons and decide if preserving their picture-perfect images is worth the hefty price they have already paid.
Download or read book Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes written by Virginia Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes' reconstructs the real 1950s, through the eyes of the women who lived it. Step back in time to where our grandmothers scrubbed their doorsteps, cared for their families, lived, laughed, loved and struggled. This is their story.
Download or read book Poems of William Wordsworth written by William Wordsworth and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perfect Me written by Heather Widdows and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more dominant, more demanding, and more global than ever before.Heather Widdows argues that our perception of the self is changing. More and more, we locate the self in the body--not just our actual, flawed bodies but our transforming and imagined ones. As this happens, we further embrace the beauty ideal. Nobody is firm enough, thin enough, smooth enough, or buff enough-not without significant effort and cosmetic intervention. And as more demanding practices become the norm, more will be required of us, and the beauty ideal will be harder and harder to resist.If you have ever felt the urge to "make the best of yourself" or worried that you were "letting yourself go," this book explains why. Perfect Me examines how the beauty ideal has come to define how we see ourselves and others and how we structure our daily practices-and how it enthralls us with promises of the good life that are dubious at best. Perfect Me demonstrates that we must first recognize the ethical nature of the beauty ideal if we are ever to address its harms.
Download or read book Invisible Women written by Caroline Criado Perez and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 International Bestseller Winner of the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Winner of the 2019 Royal Society Science Book Prize A landmark, prize-winning, international bestselling examination of how a gender gap in data perpetuates bias and disadvantages women, now in paperback Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development to health care to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this insidious bias, in time, in money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates this shocking root cause of gender inequality in the award-winning, #1 international bestseller Invisible Women. Examining the home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more, Criado Perez unearths a dangerous pattern in data and its consequences on women’s lives. Product designers use a “one-size-fits-all” approach to everything from pianos to cell phones to voice recognition software, when in fact this approach is designed to fit men. Cities prioritize men’s needs when designing public transportation, roads, and even snow removal, neglecting to consider women’s safety or unique responsibilities and travel patterns. And in medical research, women have largely been excluded from studies and textbooks, leaving them chronically misunderstood, mistreated, and misdiagnosed. Built on hundreds of studies in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, highly readable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.
Download or read book Perfect Madness written by Judith Warner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about parenting What is wrong with this picture? That's the question Judith Warner asks in this national bestseller after taking a good, hard look at the world of modern parenting--at anxious women at work and at home and in bed with unhappy husbands. When Warner had her first child, she was living in Paris, where parents routinely left their children home, with state-subsidized nannies, to join friends in the evening for dinner or to go on dates with their husbands. When she returned to the States, she was stunned by the cultural differences she found toward how people think about effective parenting--in particular, assumptions about motherhood. None of the mothers she met seemed happy; instead, they worried about the possibility of not having the perfect child, panicking as each developmental benchmark approached. Combining close readings of mainstream magazines, TV shows, and pop culture with a thorough command of dominant ideas in recent psychological, social, and economic theory, Perfect Madness addresses our cultural assumptions, and examines the forces that have shaped them. Working in the tradition of classics like Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism, and with an awareness of a readership that turned recent hits like The Bitch in the House and Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It into bestsellers, Warner offers a context in which to understand parenting culture and the way we live, as well as ways of imagining alternatives--actual concrete changes--that might better our lives.
Download or read book All Women Are Beautiful written by Diana Polska and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Women Are Beautiful is the most comprehensive book ever written on how to improve female attractiveness, with over 1,000 scientific studies referenced. No woman should ever feel inferior because of the way she looks; every single woman is beautiful. A plain woman is like a diamond in the rough that just needs polishing, and with cosmetic surgery, makeup, styling, and training, any woman can be a perfect 10. False statements: 1. You can't make a plain person attractive 2. You can't change bone structure 3. You can't take more than 10 years off a face "I broke all three rules and set a new world record." - Cindy Jackson The book explains how every woman can improve her outer beauty and inner beauty. Although some individuals deem certain women to be unappealing and unapproachable, the book confirms that there are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty. BOOK OUTLINE Introduction: The many advantages of being beautiful and why beauty matters. Chapter 1: Perfect 10 Face Increase the attractiveness of your face with cosmetic procedures, makeup, and other techniques. Chapter 2: Perfect 10 Skin Achieve perfect, flawless, and youthful skin with scientifically proven skin care products, supplements, and other techniques. Chapter 3: Perfect 10 Hair How to get the right color and style, grow your hair faster, and make your hair shiny, and thick. Chapter 4: Perfect 10 Body Achieve a perfect WHR and BMI. How to get a 24 inch waist or smaller, how to naturally increase the projection of your buttocks, how to get thin. Chapter 5: Perfect 10 Breasts How to increase the size and firmness of your breasts naturally without surgery. Chapter 6: Perfect 10 Health How to achieve perfect health, disease resistance, high energy, and a strong immune system with scientifically proven methods. Chapter 7: Perfect 10 Style How to select stylish clothing, accessories, and scent. Chapter 8: Perfect 10 Elegance Achieve elegance by learning proper movement, voice, speech, manners, class, and sophistication. Chapter 9: Perfect 10 Personality How to improve your charm, confidence, sassiness, positivity, and intelligence. Chapter 10: Perfect 10 Character How to improve your inner beauty.
Download or read book Lean In written by Sheryl Sandberg and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-03-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A landmark manifesto" (The New York Times) that's a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential. In her famed TED talk, Sheryl Sandberg described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than eleven million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto. Lean In continues that conversation, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what they can. Sandberg, COO of Meta (previously called Facebook) from 2008-2022, provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career. She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment, and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women both in the workplace and at home.
Download or read book How to Be a Perfect 10 written by Diana Polska and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Be a Perfect 10 is the most comprehensive book ever written on how to improve female attractiveness, with over 1,000 scientific studies referenced. Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder as some have come to believe. The author establishes that there is a template for physical beauty. The book explains in exquisite detail how every woman can improve her outer beauty (face, skin, hair, body, breasts, health, style, elegance) and her inner beauty (personality, character). Although some individuals deem certain women to be unappealing and unapproachable, the book confirms that "there are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty." With the help of this book, any woman can become a "perfect 10" and attract all the love, respect, and admiration she desires. How to Be a Perfect 10 is a must-read for women everywhere!
