Female Journeys

Author : Suzanne Byrd
Publisher : Mental Health Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Resilience in the Shadows: Women's Journeys Through PTSD by Suzanne Byrd Pdf

In "Resilience in the Shadows: Women's Journeys Through PTSD," the complex and often hidden struggles of women grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are brought to light in a powerful and empathetic narrative. This groundbreaking book delves deep into the lives of diverse women who have encountered various forms of trauma, from military combat and personal violence to loss and life-altering accidents. The narrative is woven together through a series of intimate portraits, each telling a unique story of struggle, pain, and the hard-won battles for recovery and resilience. The book explores how PTSD manifests differently in women than in men, with a focus on the societal, biological, and psychological factors that compound their trauma. Expert insights from psychologists, therapists, and researchers in the field of PTSD provide a deeper understanding of the challenges these women face. They also offer a glimmer of hope, showcasing the various therapeutic approaches and coping strategies that have helped these women reclaim their lives. Beyond individual stories, "Resilience in the Shadows" also examines the broader societal context. It delves into the stigmas surrounding mental health and trauma, particularly for women, and advocates for more inclusive and effective mental health care systems. This book is not just a collection of stories; it's a beacon of hope and a source of strength. It's an essential read for anyone looking to understand the complex realities of PTSD in women, and a testament to the indomitable spirit of those who continue to fight their way back from the darkest of places. "Resilience in the Shadows" is a tribute to survival, a call for awareness, and a rallying cry for change in the way we talk about and treat PTSD in women. It's a must-read for mental health professionals, feminists, and anyone seeking to understand the profound impacts of trauma and the incredible strength of those who overcome it.

Author : Thomas J. Stanley
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780795314896

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Millionaire Women Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley Pdf

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Millionaire Next Door reveals the spending and saving habits of financially successful women. Millionaire Women Next Door presents a variety of groundbreaking concepts involving the personality, lifestyle, motives, beliefs, and spending habits of economically successful American businesswomen. Most of these women report being raised in nurturing family environments. They were trained not only to succeed financially but also to be generous in giving to noble causes. Stanley asks, “How did these businesswomen become millionaires? They did it by doing more of the key activities and achieving better results than most of their male counterparts.” Praise for Thomas J. Stanley’s The Millionaire Mind “A very good book that deserves to be well read.” —The Wall Street Journal “Worth every cent . . . It’s an inspiration for anyone who has ever been told that he wasn’t smart enough or good enough.” —Associated Press “A high IQ isn’t necessarily an indicator of financial success . . . Stanley tells us that the typical millionaire had an average GPA and frugal spending habits—but good interpersonal skills.” —Entertainment Weekly “Ideas bigger than the next buck.” —Orlando Sentinel

Author : U.S. Olympic Women Cross-Country Skiers 1972-2018
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578963329

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Trail to Gold by U.S. Olympic Women Cross-Country Skiers 1972-2018 Pdf

Fifty-three American women have participated in cross-country skiing in the Winter Olympics between the years of 1972 and 2018. In 2018, forty-six years after the first team competed, Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall won Olympic gold in the Team Sprint, in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the first Olympic medal for U.S. women's cross-country skiing. Five decades of women skiers stood up and cheered, celebrating this long sought after achievement. This book shares the collective journey of these women Olympians, with the skiers themselves telling the story. Part I combines individual stories along a variety of themes, to collectively demonstrate the challenges of competing against the best in the world. In Part II, virtually every one of the fifty-three wrote her own profile to describe her skiing career and post-Olympic life. Photographs throughout put faces with the stories and add vibrancy to the narrative. The anecdotes in Trail to Gold: The Journey of 53 Women Skiers, paint the picture of women's cross-country skiing over 50 years--a fascinating history recorded in personal heartbreak and triumph and in fun vignettes from life on the trail.

Author : Karen Bush Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613745403

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Women Aviators by Karen Bush Gibson Pdf

Profiles the lives and careers of twenty-six women who were pioneers in the field of aviation.

Author : Giorgia Alù
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429794834

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Journeys Exposed by Giorgia Alù Pdf

Journeys Exposed: Women's Writing, Photography, and Mobility examines contemporary literature written by women that are all in different ways related to Italy. It argues that photography provides women with a means to expose aspects of their nomadic self and of the others’ mobile lives within and beyond the writing process. By resorting to the visual, women individualistically respond to forms of hegemonic power, fragmentation, displacement, loss and marginality, and make these experiences key to their creative production.

Author : Maureen Murdock
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780834842892

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The Heroine's Journey by Maureen Murdock Pdf

This book describes contemporary woman's search for wholeness in a society in which she has been defined according to masculine values. Drawing upon cultural myths and fairy tales, ancient symbols and goddesses, and the dreams of contemporary women, Murdock illustrates the need for—and the reality of—feminine values in Western culture today.

Author : Trudy T. Arriaga,Stacie L. Stanley,Delores B. Lindsey
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781071884546

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My Leading While Female Journey by Trudy T. Arriaga,Stacie L. Stanley,Delores B. Lindsey Pdf

Leading While Female means working with female and male colleagues who are grounded in values for equity to confront and close the gender equity gap. Combining the first-hand experiences of female leaders with research on feminism, intersectionality, and leadership, Arriaga, Stanley, and Lindsey support readers to explore their personal and professional cultural proficiencies. Readers will find: support to identify barriers and formulate methods to overcome them, opportunities to record their experiences following a narrative protocol for their Stormy First Draft (SFD), a writing experience derived from nine chapters of guided reflective journal entries, leadership stories and figures to provide guidance and illustrate the need for gender equity, and opportunities for males who are mentors and allies to dismantle gender bias.

Author : Thérèse Callus,Brigitte Feuillet – Liger,Kristina Orfali
Publisher : Primento
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9782802745372

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The Female Body : A journey through Law, Culture and Medicine by Thérèse Callus,Brigitte Feuillet – Liger,Kristina Orfali Pdf

Object of fascination and fantasy, the female body can be idealized, reified or shrouded. “It is we who make women what they are worth and that is why they are worthless”, proclaimed Mirabeau in the days of the Enlightenment, to which Aragon later replied: “Woman is the future of Man”. The ambiguities of the female body are therein exposed. This work examines the relationship between the female body and biomedicine. Many possibilities are offered to women through biomedical techniques: from assistance to procreate (with assisted reproduction) to refusal to do so (contraception, voluntary sterilization, termination of pregnancy); to be informed of genetic predispositions (through the use of available genetic tests); or to improve their physical appearance with cosmetic surgery. But a recurrent question arises: with its rapid progress and its extreme medicalization of the body, can biomedicine liberate women? Or rather, given the risks of the commodification of the body or its parts, is it not a source of exploitation ? The authors of this work, jurists, anthropologists, philosophers, sociologists and doctors, have explored these questions. The contributions from nineteen countries in this international multidisciplinary study analyse the reality of the amazing developments of biomedicine on the female body. Numerous systems are compared for the first time; European, African, North and South American, but also Chinese and Japanese. Beyond highlighting differences, and identifying similarities in the development of “enhancement medicine”, the objective of this work is ultimately to show the complexity surrounding the question of a woman’s freedom over her body and the extent to which this is limited by the State.

Author : Judith Grant
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0739114786

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Charting Women's Journeys by Judith Grant Pdf

Charting Women's Journeys is about the meaning of addiction and recovery in the lives of twenty-five Appalachian women who have been practicing abstinence from the use of alcohol and/or drugs for eighteen months or more in a small rural community in the United States. The empirical focus is on the ways in which these women's lives have been transformed through the processes of addiction to and abstinence from these substances.

Author : Mary Ellen Doherty,Elizabeth Scannell-Desch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781003813385

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Women’s Journeys to Posttraumatic Growth by Mary Ellen Doherty,Elizabeth Scannell-Desch Pdf

This accessible book draws on research around women’s experiences to illustrate and explore the concept of posttraumatic growth, emphasizing practice implications for healthcare professionals and strategies for fostering posttraumatic growth. Including the voices of women, in their own words, Women’s Journeys to Posttraumatic Growth explains the differences between post-traumatic stress disorder and posttraumatic growth and presents the theoretical framework of posttraumatic growth. It synthesizes relevant international research and introduces data from four new qualitative research studies on posttraumatic growth in women who have experienced the death of a spouse or longtime partner, death of a child, a close brush with death, and intimate partner abuse. The book develops clinical and nursing practice implications for healthcare professionals and explores current self-help and professional therapeutic strategies to foster posttraumatic growth. Women’s Journeys to Posttraumatic Growth is an invaluable guide for health and social care practitioners, as well as students and researchers with an interest in trauma, abuse, bereavement and loss, and women’s healthcare.

Author : Bonnie Frederick,Susan H. McLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015032882600

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Women and the Journey by Bonnie Frederick,Susan H. McLeod Pdf

The contributors to Women and the Journey focus on the female travel experience from a variety of perspectives, taking into account how such issues as race, class, and traditions of narrative change when the traveler is a woman rather than a man. The authors, all from Washington State University and the University of Idaho, come from many disciplinary backgrounds - literature, history, foreign languages, fine arts, women's studies.

Author : Euben
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8131714527

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Journeys to the Other Shore by Euben Pdf

Author : Lynn Musslewhite,Suzanne Jones Crawford
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806135638

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One Woman's Political Journey by Lynn Musslewhite,Suzanne Jones Crawford Pdf

Born in Nebraska in 1875, Kate Barnard spent most of her childhood in Kansas, where family dislocation and financial failure darkened her early life. After Barnard and her father moved to Oklahoma Territory in the 1890s, Kate had unsatisfying stints as a schoolteacher and a stenographer before she discovered her life work in politics and social reform. One Woman’s Political Journey: Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875—1930 details the life’s work—including the political successes and failures—of a complex and courageous woman who appreciated that she was on the cutting edge of new and novel opportunities for women. Crusading for the disadvantaged, Barnard became a spokeswoman for child labor laws, a compulsory school attendance law, a juvenile justice system, and a modern penal structure. In 1907, at age thirty-two, she became the first woman in the nation elected to a state post—Commissioner of Charities and Corrections, a post created specifically for her by Oklahoma’s constitutional convention. Her dramatic rhetoric and favorable publicity attracted national attention and the admiration of Oklahomans. Convinced that women could effect positive change, she encouraged them to move into the public arena and embrace social justice reform. She also formed a coalition of farmers and laborers that led to the creation of Oklahoma’s Democratic Party. In her first term, Barnard persuaded Oklahoma’s all-male legislature to pass reforms announcing state responsibility for the welfare of children and forced changes in the state’s humanitarian institutions. In her second term, she sought protection for property rights of American Indian children. But Barnard’s career was not without obstacles. Her lack of control over budgets and personnel, along with her frequent clashing with male politicians limited her effectiveness and fueled her growing discouragement with politics. Named by Oklahoma Today as one of the fifty most influential Oklahomans in the past one hundred years, Kate Barnard is finally the deserved focus of a full-length scholarly biography.

Author : Carole Boyce Davies
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415100879

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Black Women, Writing, and Identity by Carole Boyce Davies Pdf

A superb study of black women's writing, taking our understanding of identity, location and representation to new levels. A major contribution to a range of related fields including feminist, cultural and postcolonial studies.

Author : Donna Summer,Marc Eliot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015059593031

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Ordinary Girl by Donna Summer,Marc Eliot Pdf

Ordinary Girl is legendary singer-songwriter Donna Summer's delightfully candid memoir about her journey from signing in a Boston church to her unexpected reign as the Queen of Disco, and the tragedy and spiritual rebirth that followed.