Tag: Women

Free Download Prodigal Daughters: Catholic Women Come Home to the Church By Donna Steichen
1999 | 353 Pages | ISBN: 0898707323 | EPUB | 1 MB
In this memorable book, seventeen women of the Baby Boom generation tell their poignant personal stories of apostasy and repentance. Each left the Catholic Church to seek autonomy and fulfillment on the major cultural battlegrounds of this era. Each eventually turned homeward to find, like her prodigal brother in the best-loved of Christ’s parables, that her Heavenly Father had been calling her throughout her absence, watching and yearning for her return.Feminists in the bureaucratic networks of Catholic dissent continually predict that women will abandon the Churchen masseunless they are soon admitted to the hierarchy. The women who recount their experiences in this timely and important book prove the dissenters wrong. They are representative of a growing stream of "reverts" who have recognized and repented of their errors when they rediscovered the living heart of Christ at the center of the Church.Today, when virtually all faithful Catholics wait and pray for the return of some family member or friend who has strayed from the Church, these accounts of faith reborn offer hope and direction to lift the heart of every reader.

Free Download I J Azzam, "Gender & Religion: Druze Women"
English | 2007 | pages: 269 | ISBN: 1904850146 | PDF | 46,9 mb
The first anthropological study of gender and religion through the experience of the Druze women in Lebanon come in response to a serious void in this field of knowledge and provides profound insights into gender relations amongst the Druze. Azzram presents the egalitarian principles of the Druze faith of al-Tawhid as a progressive challenge to the patriarchal values at the time of its inception during the early decades of the 11th century as well as the present time. With authentic reflexivity of a concerned insider, Azzam reveals a serious gap between the ideal status of women in al-Tawhid and their actual life experiences. In an attempt to explain this ambiguous reality and detect the sources of the drift, Azzam explores the historical course of al-Tawhid perspective of gender and gender roles and critically examines the transformations of the conceptualizations and practices concerning gender relations among the Druze, and the institutional patterns which gave and continue to five these conceptualizations and practices an appearance of unyielding permanency. Consequently, the study comes forth as a genuine cultural critique aimed at better understanding of gender roles and relations.

Free Download Women, Too, Were Blessed: The Portrayal of Women in Early Christian Armenian Texts by David Zakarian
English | 2021 | ISBN: 9004444416 | 258 pages | PDF | 3.04 Mb
In Women, Too, Were Blessed David Zakarian examines the representation of women in the fifth-century Armenian literature and historiography revealing the church’s vision of the role of women in society as well as some aspects of women’s lived experience.

Free Download Aaron Hunter, "Women and New Hollywood: Gender, Creative Labor, and 1970s American Cinema"
English | ISBN: 1978821794 | 2023 | 260 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The 1970s has often been hailed as a great moment for American film, as a generation of "New Hollywood" directors like Scorsese, Coppola, and Altman offered idiosyncratic visions of what movies could be. Yet the auteurist discourse hailing these directors as the sole authors of their films has obscured the important creative roles women played in the 1970s American film industry.

Free Download Travelers Along the Way: The Men and Women Who Shaped My Life By Benedict J. Groeschel
2010 | 159 Pages | ISBN: 0867169842 | EPUB | 1 MB
In his first-ever memoir, Fr. Benedict Groeschel introduces you to the men and women who have influenced him over the course of his life. Some are unknown, such as Mr. Graff, a Jewish man who tailored the suit the young man would wear to the seminary. His advice: "Look, I don’t understand about monasteries, but I’ll give you a piece of advice. Be a good boy." Some are famous, such as Mother Teresa, Cardinal O’Connor, and Fr. Solanus Casey who once, in Fr. Benedict’s presence, stepped unprotected into a swarm of angry bees, pulled out his harmonica, and played "Mother McCree" to calm them.All of them changed his life in big and small ways. Their stories will not only inspire you, but also help you appreciate those you have met over the years who have enriched and deepened your own life and inspire you to make a difference in someone else’s life.The audio edition of this book can be downloaded via Audible.

Free Download Poonam Barua, "Leadership by Proxy: The Story of Women in Corporate India"
English | ISBN: 938543635X | 2015 | 266 pages | EPUB | 1320 KB
Leadership by Proxy by Poonam Barua is a pioneering book that lays an archival milestone for creating a "brave new mindset" in corporate India and businesses worldwide – that will genuinely embrace "balanced leadership" as a true goal of corporate enterprise, validate and verify equal opportunity with meritocracy, respect inclusive growth for women who form 50% of the world population, and best practices in the workplace that will reject homogenous all-male corporate leadership as a fundamental economic function – to bring optimum rewards of diversity to business growth and societal progress.

Free Download Money, Power, Respect: How Women in Sports Are Shaping the Future of Feminism by Macaela MacKenzie
English | June 27th, 2023 | ISBN: 1541600894 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 3.44 MB
An inside look at how women athletes are leading the fight for equality-on and off the field

Free Download W.O. Maloba, "African Women in Revolution"
English | 2007 | pages: 317 | ISBN: 1592214460 | PDF | 8,4 mb
This book is an ambitious, extensive and detailed analysis of the roles played by African women in seven revolutionary movements in post World War 11 Africa. The revolutionary movements covered in this book occurred in: Algeria, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. The book describes and analyzes the nature and impact of women s participation in these revolutionary movements. How did these revolutionary movements define women s liberation? What is the linkage between feminist theories of liberation and national liberation? Did the national liberation movements betray women? And what has been the fate of the original commitments (and impulses) toward women s liberation and gender equality? At its center, this is a pioneering broad interpretive work. Drawing on the theoretical formulations and advances in economics and economic theory, political science, sociology, anthropology, education, history (of several countries), and feminist studies, this book is a significant contribution to the study of African women s history and struggle in recent African history. For the first time, African women s struggles for liberation in these movements are studied, and analyzed under one roof . By considering seven movements in one book, Maloba provides opportunities for both direct and indirect comparison. Also considered is the destructive impact of globalization on African women. The case studies of Senegal, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe show not only how each country has been affected, but the specific effects on women and their families; how household economy and gender relations are continually adjusting to the challenges posed by globalization. This timely and valuable book is written without jargon. It demonstrates that some social questions, like the status of women in society, are best understood if they are studied in an interdisciplinary manner, and not limited to one discipline.

Free Download Women’s Health UK – July 2023
English | 156 pages | True PDF | 65.8 MB

Free Download The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West (Audiobook)
English | July 16, 2019 | ASIN: B07TVV95WX | MP3@64 kbps | 10h 14m | 266.87 MB
Author: Dee Brown
Narrator: Pam Ward
Popular culture has taught us to picture the Old West as a land of men, whether it’s the lone hero on horseback or crowds of card players in a rough-and-tumble saloon. But the taming of the frontier involved plenty of women, too – and this book tells their stories.