An African Widow S Journey

Author : Tabitha Manyinyire
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781543491180

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An African Widow’S Journey by Tabitha Manyinyire Pdf

This book was inspired by real-life events experienced by one young widow from Southern Africa, who at the age of thirty lost her husband. She felt as though she had been abandoned by the wayside holding three young children. She had no tangible support from the family she was married into. As she traversed through this lonesome, slippery journey, she encountered a myriad of storms that forced her to totally surrender everything, including herself and her children, to the Lord. Through this simple act of giving up and submitting all her circumstances to the Lord, she was granted wisdomwisdom with which to handle the grim challenges and storms that confronted her. From the very onset she soon learnt that the relentless hate and hurtful situations that she faced were to be responded to with heartfelt forgiveness, love, and humility. The Lord also provided this widow with a measure of faith much bigger than the size of a mustard seed. She did not just see mountains being moved; storms were conquered and oceans were opened for her and her children to go through. She and her sons were raised from the bottom of the lowest dump heap and raised to levels that she could have hardly even ever dreamt or imagined possible. An African Widows Journey drives home the message, Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning (Ps. 30:5).

Author : Mbangiseni Dzivhani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 1991208227

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The Widow's Room by Mbangiseni Dzivhani Pdf

"This book highlights the plight of women who are widows in the African cultures. It is a memoir reflecting on personal experiences of the author. The book exposes ill cultural practices, myths, traditions, beliefs and societal expectations towards women who are widows. The author highlights some of the harmful, cultural practices; physical and psychological trauma, and the disregard for widows' legal and marital rights. It exposes isolation and exclusion of widows from decision making, property grabbing, arranged marriages and gross human rights violations of women who are widows. Furthermore, the book highlights the role of women in gross violation and abuse of other women who are widows in the name of culture and religion. This is a story about a woman who survived the worst experiences as a widow and managed to rebuild her life, succeeded in her career and became a powerful force in society to empower and support other women."--

Author : Gayle Roper
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736959582

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A Widow's Journey by Gayle Roper Pdf

Have you recently lost your husband? Are there days when you feel so terribly alone—and that no one else could possibly understand? Author Gayle Roper understands. As a recent widow herself, Gayle writes: So who am I now that there's only one place at the table...one pillow with a head dent, one damp towel after a shower. There's only one toothbrush in the holder. The seat is never left up anymore. I can still write Mrs. in front of my name, but I'm no longer in a marriage relationship. You need two people for a marriage, and there's only me. Is there only you? Then join Gayle as she draws on her emotions during the loss of her beloved husband, Chuck, and offers you a compassionate devotional to encourage you through your darkest days. Gayle knows a widow's pain is deep. But she also knows God's love is deeper still. And it's in His love you'll find your deepest comfort.

Author : Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554587223

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The Widowed Self by Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard Pdf

How do older women come to terms with widowhood? Are they vulnerable or courageous, predictable or creative in dealing with this life challenge? Most books about widows usually focus on younger women; this book interweaves the voices of older widows their experiences and insights to show how they have come to terms with widowhood and have recreated their lives in new, unsuspected ways. The widows speak about how they relate to their children, their friends, to men. With powerful emotions they describe their husbands’ final illnesses and deaths, and the challenging early days of widowhood. Disputing stereotypes about older women and widows, The Widowed Self allows the reader to visualize the impact of losing one’s life partner and offers a new way of thinking about widowhood. This new book by Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard fills a void in previous work on widowhood. Rather than seeing these women as unfortunate, passive victims of life, the reader will come to appreciate the strength and creativity with which these women face one of life’s greatest challenges, a challenge that affects more than half of all women over the age of sixty-five. Widows and their families, scholars, social workers and other professionals who work with older adults will all be interested in reading The Widowed Self: The Older Woman’s Journey through Widowhood.

Author : Margaret Owen
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1856494209

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A World of Widows by Margaret Owen Pdf

A World of Widows provides a global overview of the status for widowhood. Neglected by social policy researches, international human rights activists and the women's movement, the status of the world's widows - legal, social, cultural, and economic - is an urgent issue given the extent and the severity of the discrimination against them. Margaret Own explores the process of becoming a widow; poverty and social security in the context of widowhood; differing laws and customs regarding widow's inheritance; the situation of widows who remarry and issues of sexuality and health. She also looks at the needs of specific groups of widows - refugees, older widows, child widows - and widowhood in the context of AIDS. Throughout, she shows the prevalence of discrimination against widows in inheritance rights, land ownership, custody of children, security of home and shelter, nutrition and health. The book concludes with a summary of widowhood as a human rights issues and an overview of widows themselves organising for change.

Author : Leslie Gray Streeter
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316490726

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Black Widow by Leslie Gray Streeter Pdf

With her signature warmth, hilarity, and tendency to overshare, Leslie Gray Streeter gives us real talk about love, loss, grief, and healing in your own way that "will make you laugh and cry, sometimes on the same page" (James Patterson). Leslie Gray Streeter is not cut out for widowhood. She's not ready for hushed rooms and pitying looks. She is not ready to stand graveside, dabbing her eyes in a classy black hat. If she had her way she'd wear her favorite curve-hugging leopard print dress to Scott's funeral; he loved her in that dress! But, here she is, having lost her soulmate to a sudden heart attack, totally unsure of how to navigate her new widow lifestyle. ("New widow lifestyle." Sounds like something you'd find products for on daytime TV, like comfy track suits and compression socks. Wait, is a widow even allowed to make jokes?) Looking at widowhood through the prism of race, mixed marriage, and aging, Black Widow redefines the stages of grief, from coffin shopping to day-drinking, to being a grown-ass woman crying for your mommy, to breaking up and making up with God, to facing the fact that life goes on even after the death of the person you were supposed to live it with. While she stumbles toward an uncertain future as a single mother raising a baby with her own widowed mother (plot twist!), Leslie looks back on her love story with Scott, recounting their journey through racism, religious differences, and persistent confusion about what kugel is. Will she find the strength to finish the most important thing that she and Scott started? Tender, true, and endearingly hilarious, Black Widow is a story about the power of love, and how the only guide book for recovery is the one you write yourself.

Author : Kenda Mutongi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780226554198

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Worries of the Heart by Kenda Mutongi Pdf

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Author : Willie B. Armstead
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781468506198

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Two Year Journey Through East Africa by Willie B. Armstead Pdf

The reason for writing this book was to let the African-American in America read about my experience in Africa.The excitement in traveling there and what I really experience in living there in the Country.

Author : Susan H. Mcfadden,Mark Brennan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134731107

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New Directions in the Study of Late Life Religiousness and Spirituality by Susan H. Mcfadden,Mark Brennan Pdf

Examine the questions of “how,” “what,” and “why” associated with religiousness and spirituality in the lives of older adults! New Directions in the Study of Late Life Religiousness and Spirituality explores new ways of thinking about a topic that was once taboo but that has now attracted considerable attention from the gerontological community. It examines various approaches to methodology and definition that are used in the study of religion, spirituality, and aging. In addition, it explores the ways that gerontological research can highlight the role of religion and spirituality in the lives of older adults. The first section will introduce you to new ways of thinking about research methodology and data analysis that can be applied to studying the complexity of older adults' religious/spiritual practice and beliefs. You'll learn several approaches to the study of phenomena that are both personal and also deeply embedded in community. The second section addresses issues of definition, exploring important questions that call for critical reflection, such as: “What are we studying?” “What social and psychological influences shape our thinking about definition?” and “Do the definitions used by gerontologists match those held by older people?” The final section moves the study of religion, spirituality, and aging beyond a focus on health and mortality to examine well-being more broadly in the context of the life experiences of older adults. Here is a small sample of what you'll learn about in New Directions in the Study of Late Life Religiousness and Spirituality: structural equation modeling—a statistical method designed to capture the dynamics inherent in the passage of time feminist qualitative methods for studying spiritual resiliency in older women spirituality as a public health issue the differences between groups of older people in the way they define religion and spirituality the psychosocial implications of two types of religious orientation—“dwelling” and “seeking” older women's responses to the experience of widowhood and to the question of whether their religious beliefs were affected by the experience how social context influences our decisions and our interpretations of people's religious beliefs, behaviors, and experiences the ways that people caring for a spouse with dementia rely on religious coping a model that delineates three different ways people relate to God in coping—and a study that asks whether these types of coping produce different outcomes for caregivers how people adjust to bereavement as a function of their beliefs about an afterlife

Author : Eustace Clare Grenville Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UIUC:30112052944284

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Young Widows by Eustace Clare Grenville Murray Pdf

Author : Sir John Barrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1806
Category : Africa, Southern
ISBN : UOM:39015073755707

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A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793 by Sir John Barrow Pdf

Author : Paule Marshall
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1984-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780452267114

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Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall Pdf

From the acclaimed author of Daughters and Brown Girl, Brownstones comes a “work of exceptional wisdom, maturity, and generosity, one in which the palpable humanity of its characters transcends any considerations of race or sex”(Washington Post Book World). Avey Johnson—a black, middle-aged, middle-class widow given to hats, gloves, and pearls—has long since put behind her the Harlem of her childhood. Then on a cruise to the Caribbean with two friends, inspired by a troubling dream, she senses her life beginning to unravel—and in a panic packs her bag in the middle of the night and abandons her friends at the next port of call. The unexpected and beautiful adventure that follows provides Avey with the links to the culture and history she has so long disavowed. “Astonishingly moving.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review

Author : Michael Z. Ngoasong
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800885868

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Women’s Entrepreneurial Journeys in Sub-Saharan Africa by Michael Z. Ngoasong Pdf

This innovative book traces women’s entrepreneurial journeys in Sub-Saharan Africa, examining the linkages between entrepreneurship, gender and development context. With extensive case studies of women’s experiences across the enterprise life-cycle, it gives new insight into how to support and empower Sub-Saharan African female entrepreneurs.

Author : Marvin W. Heyboer
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781434901880

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Journeys Into the Heart and Heartland of Islam by Marvin W. Heyboer Pdf

Author : Kenneth C. Barnes
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807828793

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Journey of Hope by Kenneth C. Barnes Pdf

Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society (ACS) in the 1820s as an African refuge for free blacks and liberated American slaves. While interest in African migration waned after the Civil War, it roared back in the late nineteenth century wi