Download or read book Unspoken Heroines They Walk Amongst Us written by Hema Srinivas and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do: - If you are thrown out of your house with three young daughters in the middle of the night? - If the light of your life is extinguished in a freak moment? Does one give up? What helps you cope? 14 Women, 14 Lives. They are all ordinary women who walk amongst us. These heroines are from different states, income classes, age and social status levels. What struck us in our face-to-face interviews with these protagonists is their fortitude when faced with extreme challenges. We, as authors, were drawn to this conviction. We had to chronicle their battles. 14 ordinary women, 14 unique footprints. What would you do?
Download or read book Unspoken Heroines written by Aparna Shekar, Hema Srinivas and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do: – If you are thrown out of your house with three young daughters in the middle of the night? – If the light of your life is extinguished in a freak moment? Does one give up? What helps you cope? 14 Women, 14 Lives. They are all ordinary women who walk amongst us. These heroines are from different states, income classes, age and social status levels. What struck us in our face-to-face interviews with these protagonists is their fortitude when faced with extreme challenges. We, as authors, were drawn to this conviction. We had to chronicle their battles. 14 ordinary women, 14 unique footprints. What would you do?
Download or read book The Unspoken written by Heather Graham and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paranormal investigator Katya Sokolov is called in to save a documentary film after divers are inexplicably dying while working on the film.
Download or read book Ordinary Heroines written by Nadya Aisenberg and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unspoken The Lynburn Legacy Book 1 written by Sarah Rees Brennan and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern, magical twist on the Gothic Romance and Girl Detective genres, this book will appeal to fans of both Beautiful Creatures and the Mortal Instruments series. Reviewers have praised the take-charge heroine and the spellbinding romance. Bound together. Worlds apart. Kami Glass is in love with someone she's never met—a boy she's talked to in her head since she was born. This has made her an outsider in the sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale, but she has learned ways to turn that to her advantage. Her life seems to be in order, until disturbing events begin to occur. There has been screaming in the woods and the manor overlooking the town has lit up for the first time in 10 years. . . . The Lynburn family, who ruled the town a generation ago and who all left without warning, have returned. Now Kami can see that the town she has known and loved all her life is hiding a multitude of secrets—and a murderer. The key to it all just might be the boy in her head. The boy she thought was imaginary is real, and definitely and deliciously dangerous. "A sparkling fantasy that will make you laugh and break your heart." --Cassandra Clare, New York Times bestselling author "A darkly funny, deliciously thrilling Gothic." --Kelley Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author "Readers will laugh, shiver, and maybe even swoon over this modern Gothic novel." --Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author "Breathtaking--a compulsive, rocketing read."--Tamora Pierce, New York Times bestselling author "Captures the reader with true magic."--Esther Friesner, author of Nobody's Princess "A laugh-out-loud delight." --Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Unspoken Heroines Depictions of the Maternal in the Works of Frank O Connor Frank McCourt and Edna O Brien written by Caitlin M. Farmer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reading Frank O'Connor's "Man of the House" and "My Oedipus Complex," Frank McCourt's "Angela's Ashes" and Edna O'Brien's "The Country Girls" side-by-side, one sees a vivid illustration of the changing depictions of the mother character within Irish literature. The portrayal of mother characters in these works is significant to the literary representation of the social development of several generations of women within the Republic of Ireland. The depictions of the mother as see in the works of O'Connor, McCourt and O'Brien are also vital to the development of the female presence in literature bot as completely developed characters and as narrators, beginning with the see-but-rarely-heard mother, transitioning to the mother as family-advocate-and-constant, and ending with the sexually-driven-but-repressed mother teaching her daughter to evolve beyond tradition." from abstract
Download or read book The New Heroines written by Katheryn Wright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the next generation of teen and young adult heroines in popular culture are creating a new feminist ideal for the 21st century. Representations of a teenage girl who is unique or special occur again and again in coming-of-age stories. It's an irresistible concept: the heroine who seems just like every other, but under the surface, she has the potential to change the world. This book examines the cultural significance of teen and young adult female characters—the New Heroines—in popular culture. The book addresses a wide range of examples primarily from the past two decades, with several chapters focusing on a specific heroic figure in popular culture. In addition, the author offers a comparative analysis between the "New Woman" figure from the late 19th and early 20th century and the New Heroine in the 21st century. Readers will understand how representations of teenage girls in fiction and nonfiction are positioned as heroic because of their ability to find out about themselves by connecting with other people, their environment, and technology.
Download or read book The Unspoken Name written by A. K. Larkwood and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. K. Larkwood's The Unspoken Name is a stunning debut fantasy about a young priestess sentenced to die, who at the last minute escapes her fate; only to become an assassin for the wizard who saved her. What if you knew how and when you will die? Csorwe does—she will climb the mountain, enter the Shrine of the Unspoken, and gain the most honored title: sacrifice. But on the day of her foretold death, a powerful mage offers her a new fate. Leave with him, and live. Turn away from her destiny and her god to become a thief, a spy, an assassin—the wizard's loyal sword. Topple an empire, and help him reclaim his seat of power. But Csorwe will soon learn—gods remember, and if you live long enough, all debts come due. “In the vein of Le Guin's magnificent Tombs of Atuan—if Arha the Eaten One got to grow up to be a swordswoman mercenary in thrall to her dubious wizard mentor. I love this book so much."—Arkady Martine, author of A Memory Called Empire "I cannot recommend it enough." -- Tamsyn Muir, author of Gideon the Ninth At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Male Domination Female Revolt written by Ishaq Tijani and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Marxist-feminist theory, this book examines women’s resistance to, and subversion of, patriarchal authority, as respresented in Kuwaiti women’s fiction. It demonstrates that Kuwaiti/Arabian Gulf women are not as submissive as commonly (mis)represented in academia and the media.
Download or read book The Heroine written by Eaton Stannard Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heroines of Popular Culture written by Pat Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From life and literature come the heroines of this volume. The essays demonstrate that women can fit the role of hero as defined by Joseph Campbell: "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder, fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won, the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." Contributors to this volume cover a wide range of heroic women.
Download or read book Heroines of Sport written by Jennifer Hargreaves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroines of Sport looks closely at different groups of women whose stories have been excluded from previous accounts of women's sports and female heroism. It focuses on five specific groups of women from different places in the world: Black women in South Africa; Muslim women from the Middle East; Aboriginal women from Australia and Canada; and lesbian and disabled women from different countries worldwide. It also asks searching questions about colonialism and neo-colonialism in the women's international sport movement. The particular groups of women featured in the book reflect the need to look at specific categories of difference relating to class, culture, disability, ethnicity, race, religion and sexual orientation. In her account, Jennifer Hargreaves reveals how the participation of women in sport across the world is tied to their sense of difference and identity. Based on original research each chapter includes material which relates to significant political and cultural developments. Heroines of Sport will be invaluable reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of sport sociology, and will also be relevant for students working in women's studies and other specialized fields, such as development studies or the politics of Aboriginality, disability, Islam, race and sexuality.
Download or read book Unspoken written by Henry Cole and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Civil War–era girl’s courage is tested in this haunting, wordless story. When a farm girl discovers a runaway slave hiding in the barn, she is at once startled and frightened. But the stranger’s fearful eyes weigh upon her conscience, and she must make a difficult choice. Will she have the courage to help him? Unspoken gifts of humanity unite the girl and the runaway as they each face a journey: one following the North Star, the other following her heart. Henry Cole’s unusual and original rendering of the Underground Railroad speaks directly to our deepest sense of compassion. Praise for Unspoken A New York Times Best Illustrated Book “Designed to present youngsters with a moral choice . . . the author, a former teacher, clearly intended Unspoken to be a challenging book, its somber sepia tone drawings establish a mood of foreboding.” —The New York Times Book Review “Moving and emotionally charged.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Gorgeously rendered in soft dark pencils, this wordless book is reminiscent of the naturalistic pencil artistry of Maurice Sendak and Brian Selznick.” —School Library Journal, starred review “Cole’s . . . beautifully detailed pencil drawings on cream-colored paper deftly visualize a family’s ruggedly simple lifestyle on a Civil War–era homestead, while facing stark, ethical choices . . . Cole conjures significant tension and emotional heft . . . in this powerful tale of quiet camaraderie and courage.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Download or read book Better Left Unsaid written by Nora Gilbert and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better Left Unsaid is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife—the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film—this book reveals the varied ways in which censorship, for all its blustery self-righteousness, can actually be good for sex, politics, feminism, and art. As much as Victorianism is equated with such cultural impulses as repression and prudery, few scholars have explored the Victorian novel as a "censored" commodity—thanks, in large part, to the indirectness and intangibility of England's literary censorship process. This indirection stands in sharp contrast to the explicit, detailed formality of Hollywood's infamous Production Code of 1930. In comparing these two versions of censorship, Nora Gilbert explores the paradoxical effects of prohibitive practices. Rather than being ruined by censorship, Victorian novels and Hays Code films were stirred and stimulated by the very forces meant to restrain them.
Download or read book Bravo Anjali written by Sheetal Sheth and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anjali is back for an encore in this follow-up to Always Anjali! And she isn't going to let anyone make her feel bad for being good at something, especially something she loves. For Anjali, playing the tabla is something that comes naturally--she loves feeling the drum beneath her fingers and getting lost in the music. She doesn't care that some people say it's an instrument for boys. But she does care when her skills make others treat her differently. Anjali starts downplaying her talent, and even messes up on purpose. When her teacher announces a music contest, Anjali can’t deny her dreams of playing the tabla. From actor, author, and activist Sheetal Sheth, this second book in the Anjali series is an important message about never dimming your light.
Download or read book Strangers Migrants Exiles written by Frauke Reitemeier and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2012 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unseen Magic A Reluctant Heroine Urban Fantasy written by Sarah Biglow and published by Biglow Fantasy Reads. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this spell-binding series by USA Today Bestselling author Sarah Biglow.... She’s done with the past. Too bad it has one last lesson to teach. Newly-minted FBI Agent Kayla Rogers is eager to take on her first assignment out of the academy until she’s detailed to a taskforce back home in Boston, hurtling her into the heart of the reason her magic turned on her years ago. With a magically inclined bank robbery crew ramping up their attacks, Kayla and her team will have to piece together the clues fast to stop the spree. The more she digs, the more Kayla realizes the crew’s tactics are connected to her own criminal past. Stopping the crew before they reach their ultimate target means becoming the woman she used to be. With time running short, will Kayla be able to keep ahold of her magic and her new identity or will the case drag her back into her past for good? UNSEEN MAGIC is the first novel in the Agents of Magic Urban Fantasy series, a sequel series and part of the Seasons of Magic universe. Get ready to unravel mystery with some old friends. Great for readers who enjoy supernatural law enforcement, magical mystery and strong female leads. f you’re a fan of Kim Richardson, K.N. Banet, BR Kingsolver, McKenzie Hunter, K.F. Breene, Melisa F. Olson, Lisa Edmonds, Linsey Hall and K.M. Shea, you’ll love this enchanting supernatural world. Get UNSEEN MAGIC and disappear into the magic today!
