Barren Women

Author : Sara Verskin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110596588

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Barren Women by Sara Verskin Pdf

Barren Women is the first scholarly book to explore the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world. Through an examination of legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching, Sara Verskin illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions; legal theories pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance; and scientific theories of reproduction contoured the intellectual and social landscape infertile women had to navigate. In so doing, she highlights underappreciated vulnerabilities and opportunities for women’s autonomy within the system of Islamic family law, and explores the diverse marketplace of medical ideas in the medieval world and the perceived connection between women’s health practices and religious heterodoxy. Featuring copious translations of primary sources and minimal theoretical jargon, Barren Women provides a multidimensional perspective on the experience of infertility, while also enhancing our understanding of institutions and modes of thought which played significant roles in shaping women’s lives more broadly. This monograph has been awarded the annual BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World.

Author : Amanda Hope Haley,InScribed,
Publisher : HarperChristian Resources
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781401679767

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Barren Among the Fruitful by Amanda Hope Haley,InScribed, Pdf

The problem of infertility has reached epidemic levels in our society. It is projected that 40 percent of women currently 25 and younger will have difficulty conceiving a child or reaching a live birth. Amanda Hope Haley had married David, the man of her dreams, and earned a master’s degree from Harvard. She and David purchased their first home and settled down to start a family. All her hopes and dreams were coming true according to plan—until the family didn’t happen. After spending seven years begging God for a child, Amanda discovered that God gives only one hope: Jesus. Amanda having a baby wasn’t to be her happy ending. Finding wholeness by hoping only in God was her happy ending! Using Amanda’s personal stories, and the stories of other women who have struggled to have children, Barren Among the Fruitful surrounds those women struggling with infertility or miscarriage with a sense of community while providing honest facts. It leads women from confusion to understanding. Each chapter is titled with a well-meaning, but sometimes thoughtless comment Amanda was offered during her seven-year struggle with infertility. Features include: Personal stories from women who have struggled with infertility or miscarriage An honest look at the problem of infertility Questions for individual thought or group discussion

Author : C. Celeste Marshall
Publisher : Heavenly Light Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1631831976

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Memoirs of a Barren Woman by C. Celeste Marshall Pdf

Faith and fasting are a combination often overlooked in the Christian world. Memoirs of a Barren Woman takes you on the ten-year faith and fasting journey of a woman waiting on God to fulfill a promise.Celeste¿s desire to be a mother burned in her heart, and despite all the odds, would not go away. Doctors told her she could never conceive a child, and the promise from God seemed impossible. Ten years of annual fasting, preceded a specific three-day fast, regarding a medical procedure and two days prior to surgery, Celeste made a last minute life-changing decision. Her life transformed in an instant, and God¿s promise was fulfilled.Whether you are praying for an unsaved loved one, a dream that seems impossible, a marriage that seems broken beyond repair, or something so personal that only you and God know, Memoirs of a Barren Woman is a story that will build faith as you wait for your own divine miracle from God.

Author : Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Infertility
ISBN : 1439231567

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Silent Sorority by Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos Pdf

In an era of "fertility for all" and dominated by Mom's Clubs and helicopter parents, Silent Sorority reveals the difficult business of rebuilding a life when infertility treatments prove fruitless.

Author : Alexandra Kimball
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770565913

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The Seed by Alexandra Kimball Pdf

Notes on desire, reproduction, and grief, and how feminism doesn't support women struggling to have children In pop culture as much as in policy advocacy, the feminist movement has historically left infertile women out in the cold. This book traverses the chilly landscape of miscarriage, and the particular grief that accompanies the longing to make a family. Framed by her own desire for a child, journalist Alexandra Kimball brilliantly reveals the pain and loneliness of infertility, especially as a lifelong feminist. Her experience of online infertility support groups -- where women gather in forums to discuss IVF, surrogacy, and isolation -- leaves her longing for a real life community of women working to break down the stigma of infertility. In the tradition of Eula Biss’s On Immunity and Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright-sided, Kimball marries perceptive analysis with deep reportage -- her findings show the lie behind the prevailing, and at times paradoxical, cultural attitudes regarding women’s right to actively choose to have children. Braiding together feminist history, memoir, and reporting from the front lines of the battle for reproductive rights and technology, The Seed plants in readers the desire for a world where no woman is made to feel that her biology is her destiny.

Author : Machelle M. Seibel,Ann A. Kiessling,Judith Bernstein,Susan R. Levin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781461392057

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Technology and Infertility by Machelle M. Seibel,Ann A. Kiessling,Judith Bernstein,Susan R. Levin Pdf

Medicine is changing at a speed never witnessed before in history. With each passing year, medical technology achieves the capacity to provide cures and improve treatments that even a short time before were difficult to con ceptualize and impossible to provide. Reproductive technology personifies this concept perhaps better than any other field of medicine. The 1990s have seen an explosion in endoscopic and ambulatory procedures, the application of molecular biology to clinical conditions, and the refinement of assisted reproduction to allow third parties (donors and surrogates) into the process of family building. More than ever before, comprehensive medical care requires a team approach. However, the team comprises not only medical and scientific personnel, but also mental health professionals, lawyers, and ethicists. This integrated and multidisciplinary approach to medical care will become even more necessary as medical capabilities continue to develop faster than society can respond. This book reflects such an approach. It is based on a Harvard Postgraduate Course in June 1990 entitled Infertility in the 1990s: Technological Advances and Their Psychosocial Implications that was sponsored by the Faulkner Centre for Reproductive Medicine. The first half of the course was directed by Drs. M. Seibel, A. Kiessling, and C. Richards. The second half of the course was directed by Dr. M. Seibel, J. Bernstein, R. N. and S. Levin, LICSW.

Author : Leah Campbell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1483911330

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Single Infertile Female by Leah Campbell Pdf

“First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in the baby carriage.”That's how the story goes, right? We all grow up hearing the same fairy tales, and imagining the same futures. But what happens when the future you have always pictured for yourself, is ripped away before you ever even get the chance to pursue it?Single Infertile Female tells the story of a girl, still young and looking for love, who is hit with a medical diagnosis that threatens to destroy the future she always believed she would have. Faced with a choice between now or never, she has to decide if love and marriage should always have to come first. And if they don't, can you still keep looking for them, even while actively pursuing that baby in the baby carriage?

Author : Anna North
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781635575439

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Outlawed by Anna North Pdf

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK * INDIE NEXT SELECTION * LIBRARY READS SELECTION * AMAZON EDITORS' CHOICE * WASHINGTON POST BEST OF THE YEAR The "terrifying, wise, tender, and thrilling" (R.O. Kwon) adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all. Featuring an irresistibly no-nonsense, courageous, and determined heroine, Outlawed dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. Anna North has crafted a pulse-racing, page-turning saga about the search for hope in the wake of death, and for truth in a climate of small-mindedness and fear.

Author : Lois Flowers
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0736911804

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Infertility by Lois Flowers Pdf

From her own experience, Flowers understands the struggle and anguish infertile readers go through, and she gently points out some strategies that will help bring true peace and joy in the midst of the disappointment.

Author : Michael J. Call
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0874138078

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Infertility and the Novels of Sophie Cottin by Michael J. Call Pdf

Caught between the ideological positions she had embraced and the reality of her sterility, she cast about for alternatives. In the early years of her widowhood, she took up writing in a serious way, admitting that she found writing therapeutic. Her story, little known to modern readers on either side of the Atlantic, may nevertheless be a perfect case study of a woman's "coming to writing" in post-revolutionary France. This book explores the crucial connections between her self-perceived "defectiveness" and her literary production."--Jacket.

Author : Allison McDonald Ace,Caroline Starr,Ariel Ng Bourbonnais
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-26
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781459742987

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Through, Not Around by Allison McDonald Ace,Caroline Starr,Ariel Ng Bourbonnais Pdf

Everything doesn't (always) happen for a reason. Infertility and pregnancy loss can be devastating, yet both are often private sorrows for the one in six people who cope with the experience. This collection offers personal stories about what it's like to go through the emotional and physical facets of infertility, miscarriage, and pregnancy loss: the pain, sadness, and desperation, the hope, humour, and frustration. Through, Not Around offers reassurance to those in the midst of their own struggles that they are not alone and that it is possible to find acceptance and strength on the other side of grief. The way forward is by going through the grief, not around it. Allison McDonald Ace, Ariel Ng Bourbonnais, and Caroline Starr are co-founders of The 16 Percent, a website dedicated to sharing stories of pregnancy loss and infertility. To read or share your story, visit the16percent.ca.

Author : Belle Boggs
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555979454

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The Art of Waiting by Belle Boggs Pdf

A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertility When Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in Harper's Magazine, an interview on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, and a spot at the intersection of "highbrow" and "brilliant" in New York magazine's "Approval Matrix." In that heartbreaking essay, Boggs eloquently recounts her realization that she might never be able to conceive. She searches the apparently fertile world around her--the emergence of thirteen-year cicadas, the birth of eaglets near her rural home, and an unusual gorilla pregnancy at a local zoo--for signs that she is not alone. Boggs also explores other aspects of fertility and infertility: the way longing for a child plays out in the classic Coen brothers film Raising Arizona; the depiction of childlessness in literature, from Macbeth to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; the financial and legal complications that accompany alternative means of family making; the private and public expressions of iconic writers grappling with motherhood and fertility. She reports, with great empathy, complex stories of couples who adopted domestically and from overseas, LGBT couples considering assisted reproduction and surrogacy, and women and men reflecting on childless or child-free lives. In The Art of Waiting, Boggs deftly distills her time of waiting into an expansive contemplation of fertility, choice, and the many possible roads to making a life and making a family.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103023545

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Homoeopathic Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dr. Pierre Miron,Mathieu Provençal,Denis Gingras
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781459730083

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Conceiving by Dr. Pierre Miron,Mathieu Provençal,Denis Gingras Pdf

Infertility affects between 10 and 15 percent of couples in western countries, and causes major suffering. This indispensable reference presents current medical approaches that can help prevent and treat infertility. It aims to inform hopeful parents in the clearest possible terms about what they can do to achieve a healthy pregnancy.

Author : Barbara Schuler
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Folk religion
ISBN : 3447058447

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Of Death and Birth by Barbara Schuler Pdf

Scholars of popular Hindu religion in India have always been fascinated by oral texts and rituals, but surprisingly only few attempts have as yet been made to analyse the relationship between rituals and texts systematically. This book contributes to the filling of this gap. Focusing on the dynamics of a local (non-Brahmanical) ritual, its modular organisation and inner logic, the interaction between narrative text and ritual, and the significance of the local versus translocal nature of the text in the ritual context, the study provides a broad range of issues for comparison. It demonstrates that examining texts in their context helps to understand better the complexity of religious traditions and the way in which ritual and text are programmatically employed. The author offers a vivid description of a hitherto unnoticed ritual system, along with the first translation of a text called the Icakkiyamman-Katai (IK). Composed in the Tamil language, the IK represents a substantially longer and embellished form of a core versio which probably goes as far back as the seventh century C.E. Unlike the classical source, this text has been incorporated into a living tradition, and is being constantly refashioned. A range of text versions have been encapsulated in the form of a conspectus, which will shed light on the text's variability or fixity and will add to our knowledge of bardic creativity. Includes a film by the author on DVD.