Tag: Sisters

Letters For My Sisters Transitional Wisdom In Retrospect


Free Download No authors Only editors, Andrea James, Deanne Thornton, "Letters For My Sisters: Transitional Wisdom In Retrospect"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1499342039 | 146 pages | EPUB | 0.28 MB
LETTERS FOR MY SISTERS is an anthology of collected wisdom by and for transgender women. This groundbreaking collection of letters tells raw, heartfelt stories of childhood, transitioning, and becoming women in a world where acceptance is sometimes elusive and costly. Brave, boldly vulnerable and revealing, this collection adds to a growing body of literature where trans people tell their own stories as they lived them. Each writer addresses one simple question: If you could write just one letter to someone beginning transition, or to your younger pre-transition self, what would you say? Would you reassure or warn them, or lay your life out in vivid detail for them to draw their own conclusions? Would you have a secret to tell, a hard-won truth or an unexpected triumph to share? LETTERS FOR MY SISTERS is an anthology of collected wisdom by and for transgender women. This groundbreaking collection of letters tells raw, heartfelt stories of childhood, transitioning, and becoming women in a world where acceptance is sometimes elusive and costly.

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Negotiating nursing British Army sisters and soldiers in the Second World War


Free Download Jane Brooks, "Negotiating nursing: British Army sisters and soldiers in the Second World War "
English | ISBN: 1526119064 | 2018 | 248 pages | EPUB | 1075 KB
Negotiating Nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged their soldier-patients within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur. The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely female force during the Second World War, were essential to recovering men from the battlefield and for the war, despite concerns about women’s presence on the frontline. Using personal testimony the book maps the developments in nurses’ work as they created a legitimate space for themselves in war zones and established their position as the expert at the bedside. Yet, despite the acknowledgement of nurses’ vital role in the medical service, their position was gendered. As the women of Britain were returned to the home post-war, it was the military nurses’ womanhood that stymied their considerable skills from being transferred to the new welfare state.

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Becoming the Talbot Sisters


Rachel Linden, "Becoming the Talbot Sisters"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0718095766, 168324818X | 336 pages | EPUB | 0.72 MB
Celebrity chef Waverly Ross has built a successful career with her home-entertaining show Simply Perfect. Yet she and her husband, Andrew, have never been able to realize the true desire of Waverly’s heart: to become a mother. Meanwhile Waverly’s twin sister, Charlie Talbot, buries her bitter disappointment and shattered idealism beneath a life spent serving others as an international aid worked in Budapest, Hungary.

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Sisters of Sorcery A Marvel Untold Novel


Marsheila Rockwell, "Sisters of Sorcery: A Marvel: Untold Novel"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1839081651 | 368 pages | EPUB | 2.2 MB
Enter the Dark Dimension to defeat a supernatural tyrant with four extraordinary sorceresses in this exhilarating mystical adventure from Marvel Untold

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Abbott and Costello Appearing with the Andrews Sisters by John Grant, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello


Abbott and Costello: Appearing with the Andrews Sisters by John Grant, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
English | [email protected] kbps | 30 min | 41.3 MB
Abbott and Costello talk about the Andrew Sisters. Bud is going to help Lou sing. An attorney representing the Andrew Sisters appears on show. They are suing Abbott and Costello for slander for having the Andrew Brothers on the show 3 weeks ago. Andrew Sisters appear. They agree to drop the suit if Lou appears in one of their pictures.

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The Olivier Sisters A Biography


Sarah Watling, "The Olivier Sisters: A Biography"
English | ISBN: 0190867396 | 2019 | 416 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
Margery, Brynhild, Daphne, and Noel Olivier were well-educated, socially privileged, precocious, striking, scandalous, engaging, and so closely knit that they were the objects of fascination and admiration both during their lives and long after. Here, Sarah Watling offers a group portrait of the sisters as they lived and negotiated the turbulent changes of the first half of the twentieth century, each one devoted to the other but choosing and pursuing her own extraordinary path. After a childhood spent in colonial Jamaica (where their father was governor), the sisters became members of the Neo-Pagan group that gathered around the poet Rupert Brooke in Cambridge, and helped orchestrate that group’s encounters with Bloomsbury. Drawn first to Brynhild’s oft-remarked-upon beauty, Brooke ultimately fell in love with the schoolgirl Noel, complicating the sisters’ relationships for years to come. Noel would go on to become a medical doctor during World War I, Daphne to set up the first

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Zarathustra’s Sisters Women’s Autobiography and the Shaping of Cultural History


Susan Ingram, "Zarathustra’s Sisters: Women’s Autobiography and the Shaping of Cultural History"
English | ISBN: 0802036902 | 2003 | 224 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Although the names Mandel’shtam and Nijinsky more commonly evoke the Russian poet and the ballet dancer, their wives, Nadezhda and Romola are also beginning to attract attention. Similarly, the lives and works of Simone de Beauvoir, Lou Andreas-Salome, Asja Lacis, and Maitreyi Devi all have been represented as having been dominated by their association with some of the most important men of Western letters, but they too are coming into their own. These six women all wrote the stories of their own lives, creating powerful narratives that channelled cultural forces at the same time as parrying them. Susan Ingram analyzes the literary, cultural, and ethical effects of these writers whose lives were intertwined with the cultural vibrations of their time, and who heralded the postmodern in having to negotiate their subject positions in the form of a relational autonomy, an ethical sense of alterity, and a strong desire to make an intervention in the cultures of their times.

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