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Free Download Marian Jordan, "Wilderness Skills for Women: How to Survive Heartbreak and Other Full-Blown Meltdowns"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0805446702 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.5 mb
From Moses to Jesus, so many heroes of the Bible had to endure some type of wilderness season in their life, a time of testing that was painful to endure but ultimately brought glory to God.

Free Download When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice By Terry Tempest Williams
2012 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0374288976 | EPUB | 1 MB
The beloved author of Refuge returns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebratesTerry Tempest Williams’s mother told her:"I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won’t look at them until after I’m gone."Readers of Williams’s iconic and unconventional memoir, Refuge, well remember that mother.She was one of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah who developed cancer as a result of the nuclear testing in nearby Nevada. It was a shock to Williams to discover thather mother had kept journals.But not as much of a shock as what she found when the time came to read them."They were exactly where she said they would be: three shelves of beautiful cloth-bound books . . . I opened the first journal.It was empty. I opened the second journal.It was empty.I opened the third.It too was empty . . . Shelf after shelf after shelf, all of my mother’s journals were blank." What did Williams’s mother mean by that? Infifty-four chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother’s journals. When Women Were Birds is a kaleidoscope that keeps turning around the question "What does it mean to have avoice?" Note: blank pages are intentional.

Free Download Susan Watkins, "Twentieth-Century Women Novelists: Feminist Theory into Practice"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0333683455, 0333683463 | PDF | pages: 244 | 61.1 mb
This provocative, lively book discusses two of the most significant influences on writing and thinking in the twentieth century: women novelists and feminist theory. It demonstrates, in an accessible but imaginative manner, ways of reading women’s novels alongside work by feminist theorists. Each chapter situates a small number of theoretical texts in their intellectual context and then links them with a widely taught novel to produce fresh interpretations. The novels and theorists represent examples of extremely significant, but also pedagogically useful feminist writing this century.

Free Download The worlds of Russian village women : tradition, transgression, compromise By Laura J. Olson, Svetlana Adonyeva
2012 | 368 Pages | ISBN: 0299290344 | PDF | 2 MB
Russian rural women have been depicted as victims of oppressive patriarchy, celebrated as symbols of inherent female strength, and extolled as the original source of a great world culture. Throughout the years of collectivization, industrialization, and World War II, women played major roles in the evolution of the Russian village. But how do they see themselves? What do their stories, songs, and customs reveal about their values, desires, and motivations? Based upon nearly three decades of fieldwork, from 1983 to 2010, The Worlds of Russian Rural Women follows three generations of Russian women and shows how they alternately preserve, discard, and rework the cultural traditions of their forebears to suit changing needs and self-conceptions. In a major contribution to the study of folklore, Laura J. Olson and Svetlana Adonyeva document the ways that women’s tales of traditional practices associated with marriage, childbirth, and death reflect both upholding and transgression of social norms. Their romance songs, satirical ditties, and healing and harmful magic reveal the complexity of power relations in the Russian villages.Table of Contents:Introduction: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise1 Traditions of Patriarchy and the Missing Female Voice in Russian Folklore Scholarship2 Age and Gender Status and Identity: Structure and History3 Subjectivity and the Relational Self in Russian Village Women’s Stories of Courtship and Marriage4 The Pleasure, Power, and Nostalgia of Melodrama: Twentieth-Century Singing Traditions and Women’s Identity Construction5 Transgression as Communicative Act: Rural Women’s Chastushki6 Magical Forces and the Symbolic Resources of Motherhood7 Magic, Control, and Social Roles8 Constructing Identity in Stories of the Other World9 Death, the Dead, and Memory-KeepersConclusion

Free Download The XX Brain: The Groundbreaking Science Empowering Women to Prevent Dementia by Dr. Lisa Mosconi
English | March 4, 2021 | ISBN: 1911630326 | 383 pages | PDF | 4.34 Mb
Women are far more likely than men to suffer from anxiety, depression, migraines, brain injuries, strokes and Alzheimer’s disease. But, until recently, scientific research has focused on ‘bikini medicine,’ assuming that women are essentially men with different reproductive organs.

Free Download The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan
English | May 10, 2022 | ISBN: 1645036669, 1645036650 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 2.5 MB
This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.

Free Download The Women Who Knew Too Much: Hitchcock and Feminist Theory By Tania Modleski
2015 | 220 Pages | ISBN: 1138920320 | PDF | 3 MB
Originally published in 1988, The Women Who Knew Too Much remains a classic work in film theory and feminist criticism. The book consists of a theoretical introduction and analyses of seven important films by Alfred Hitchcock, each of which provides a basis for an analysis of the female spectator as well as of the male spectator. Modleski considers the emotional and psychic investments of men and women in female characters whose stories often undermine the mastery of the cinematic "master of suspense." The third edition features an interview with the author by David Greven, in which he and Modleski reflect on how feminist and queer approaches to Hitchcock studies may be brought into dialogue. A teaching guide and discussion questions by Ned Schantz help instructors and students to delve into this seminal work of feminist film theory.

Free Download The Sixteenth Century in 100 Women by Amy Licence
English | April 6, 2023 | ISBN: 1399083821 | 288 pages | MOBI | 19 Mb
This retelling of the sixteenth century introduces the reader to a gallery of amazing women, from queens to commoners, who navigated the patriarchal world in memorable and life-changing ways. Amy Licence has scoured the records from Europe and beyond to compile this testament to female lives and achievements, telling the stories of mistresses and martyrs, witches and muses, pirates and jesters, doctors and astronomers, escapees and murderesses, colonists and saints. Read about the wife of astrologer John Dee, the women who inspired Michelangelo, the jester who saved the life of Henry IV of France, the beloved mistress of the Sultan Suleiman the Great, the wife of Ivan the Terrible, whose murder unleashed terror, set against the everyday lives of those women who did not make the history books. Introducing a number of new faces, this book will delight those who are looking to broaden their knowledge on the sixteenth century and celebrate the lost women of the past.

Free Download Mara Paz Lpez Martnez, "The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient Novel "
English | ISBN: 9027214336 | 2023 | 446 pages | PDF | 14 MB
This volume gathers chapters related to the condition of women in the ancient novel. To broaden the perspective, it integrates not only papers dealing with the Greek and Roman novel as a literary genre in its own right, but also as a historical document involving aspects as diverse as history, archaeology, sociology and the history of law. The twenty-six contributions in this volume have been divided into thematic blocks, based on the different approaches that the authors have adopted to tackle the subject. The first block is about realia – the reality in which the fiction has been conceived. The second block focuses on the legal problems that can be deduced from the Descriptions of the novels. The third block encompasses deals with the Greek and Roman novel from the point of view of classical philology, literary criticism and literary theory, with chapters dedicated to the tradition of the ancient novel, both in our most immediate cultural area (Middle Ages, Spanish Golden Age) and in other contexts, whether Indo-European (India, Persia) or of a different origin.

Free Download The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World by Jennifer Higgie
English | January 2, 2024 | ISBN: 1639365435 | 320 pages | MOBI | 39 Mb
The first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, by the author of The Mirror and the Palette.