Four Women

Author : Nikesha Elise Williams
Publisher : New Reads Publications
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0692962913

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Four Women by Nikesha Elise Williams Pdf

This is the story of four women. Soleil St. James, Dawn Anthony, Ebony Jones, and Dr. Jonelle "Johnnie" Edwards all live, work, and love in Jacksonville, Florida. The women from four different backgrounds don't know each other, but when one tragically triumphant event brings their worlds together, the women's jobs, relationships, and exponentially budding connections get tested in ways they've never imagined. All four question their place as African American women. Is the Black woman still the mule of the world? Can justice be served when the suspect is also the victim, and the victim has a hidden criminal history that's never reported or prosecuted, and whenever faced head on is swept under the rug? In a world where 'stand your ground' is immunity from prosecution for murder, or a license to kill, and domestic violence is scarcely recognized, what options does any one woman have? -- cover.

Author : Oscar Lewis,Ruth M. Lewis,Susan M. Rigdon
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Cuba
ISBN : 0252006399

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Four Women by Oscar Lewis,Ruth M. Lewis,Susan M. Rigdon Pdf

Extended interviews with men, women, and families provide insight into the impact of the Cuban revolution on the island nation's urban slum dwellers, the roles of its women, and home life.

Author : Sam Kieth
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781684050420

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Four Women by Sam Kieth Pdf

A pleasant road trip becomes a harrowing tale of physical survival, one which also tests the bonds of their friendship. Told mainly in the claustrophobic confines of their vehicle, these four women comfort one another and learn more about each other as their ordeal unfolds, drawing ever closer to its inevitable conclusion. Donna, with the help of a counselor, tries to work through the ordeal that traumatized her and her friends Marion, Bev, and Cindy, who she has tried to avoid since the incident occurred. A grim, chilling tale rendered in Sam Kieth's unique style brings this dark graphic novel to life.

Author : Malone, Mary T.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608337057

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Four Women Doctors of the Church by Malone, Mary T. Pdf

This timely and engrossing work brings to life the trials and triumphs of four inspiring women, Hildegard of Bingen, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, and Therese of Lisieux, whose bravery and intellectual prowess opened the door for new discussions on the role of women in the Church.

Author : Elizabeth Martin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781503556102

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Four Women, Four Tales by Elizabeth Martin Pdf

Four women each have a story worth telling about their adventures in life and love and their happy-ever-after guys. —Anna is a modern-day woman with a villain threatening to kill her and must rely on Stephen to save her and love her. —Tess, on the planet Nybain, battles gangsters with the help of Callahan, who proves to be her knight in shining armor. —Katrin. It is 1879 in Scotland, and Katrin is sold to the highest bidder, who turns out to be her ideal man. A little history is involved. —Elizabeth. It is the 1800, and her life is complicated by her mother, Mrs. Bennet, and her youngest sister, Lydia, in this fan fiction of Pride and Prejudice. And of course, Darcy comes through for her.

Author : Carol Houston
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453518304

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Four Women in Need by Carol Houston Pdf

Four Women in Need could best be described as a “literary novel”. The novel is set predominately in the North of England in the middle of the twentieth century. The women, previously unknown to each other, are from diverse socio-economic backgrounds, but are brought together when their lives spiral out of control. They become voluntary residents at The Haven a sanctuary for women, who for one reason or another are no longer able to function in their regular roles in society. The early chapters of the book explore the lives of Avril, Katie, Susan and Justine prior to their breakdowns. Avril and her husband Terry, originally from working class families, have enjoyed a meteoric rise to wealth which dissipates just as suddenly when Terry is arrested on charges of fraud. Terry is subsequently found guilty and sentenced to ten years imprisonment in Walton prison. Gone is the lavish life-style to which Avril had become accustomed; of greater loss however is the fact that their son Adrian has to leave his prestigious boys boarding school in the South of England. Katie is a young happily married veterinary assistant. Apart from her somewhat interfering mother-in law Katie’s life is idyllic. One weekend whilst Katie’s husband Steve, an airline pilot with British Airways, is supposedly flying Katie discovers simultaneously that she is pregnant and that Steve has been cheating on her. Katie loses the baby and makes an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Susan is well on her way to becoming an eminent university academic. Whilst presenting a history paper at a university conference the content of her talk is challenged by someone in the audience. Susan is accused and subsequently found guilty of plagiarism. Her expulsion from the academic circle of the university is both brutal and swift. She retreats from all of her colleagues, even from Philip with whom she was becoming romatically involved. Justine the final main player in the novel is a high achieving young doctor who has recently been given a position on the anaesthetic trainee programme. During an operation a male patient arrests and is unable to be revived. Justine, who seemingly had everything in abundance; brains and beauty cannot function. The surgeons and the anaesthetic staff are completed exonerated from any blame but that does not seem to be enough for Justine. Her previous ambitious obsession with her career now appears to be of no concern. Reluctantly and with a great many misgivings the four women make their way to The Haven. Once in rehabilitation Avril, Katie, Susan and Justine slowly begin to realize that what has happened to them has happened to so many other women. Through support and empathy for each other and the other women at The Haven the four protagonists of Four Women in Need begin their struggle back to and a desire for a resumption of their lives, albeit in a somewhat different formula than previously. I believe the reader becomes involved with the characters in the novel partly because it is a story grounded in the tenable reality of the stresses of life which many women are faced with. The novel offers no “fast fix” or “fairy tale” endings for the four women but the book does strive to depict the way in which women can rise from adversity and resume a semblance of their former lives, sometimes even for the better. What becomes increasingly obvious in the novel is the way in which women are able to turn their lives around and even whilst in the process of doing this are able to offer the hand of friendship and sisterhood to other women in need.

Author : Alan Cantwell
Publisher : Aries Rising Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0917211332

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Four Women Against Cancer by Alan Cantwell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190460914

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The Confucian Four Books for Women by Anonim Pdf

This volume presents the first English translation of the Confucian classics, Four Books for Women, with extensive commentary by the compiler, Wang Xiang, and introductions and annotations by translator Ann A. Pang-White. Written by women for women's education, the Confucian Four Books for Women spanned the 1st to the 16th centuries, and encompass Ban Zhao's Lessons for Women, Song Ruoxin's and Song Ruozhao's Analects for Women, Empress Renxiaowen's Teachings for the Inner Court, and Madame Liu's (Chaste Widow Wang's) Short Records of Models for Women. A female counterpart to the famous Sishu (Four Books) compiled by Zhu Xi, Wang Xiang's Nü sishu provides an invaluable look at the long-standing history and evolution of Chinese women's writing, education, identity, and philosophical discourse, along with their struggles and triumphs, across the millennia and numerous Chinese dynasties. Pang-White's new translation brings the authors of the Four Books for Women to life as real, living people, and illustrates why they wrote and how their work empowered women.

Author : Clare Mac Cumhaill,Rachael Wiseman
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781984898982

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Metaphysical Animals by Clare Mac Cumhaill,Rachael Wiseman Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vibrant portrait of four college friends—Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley—who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II. The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war’s darkest revelations. Neither the great Enlightenment thinkers of the past, the logical innovators of the early twentieth century, or the new Existentialist philosophy trickling across the Channel, could make sense of this new human reality of limitless depravity and destructive power, the women felt. Their answer was to bring philosophy back to life. We are metaphysical animals, they realized, creatures that can question their very being. Who am I? What is freedom? What is human goodness? The answers we give, they believed, shape what we will become. Written with expertise and flair, Metaphysical Animals is a lively portrait of women who shared ideas, but also apartments, clothes and even lovers. Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman show how from the disorder and despair of the war, four brilliant friends created a way of ethical thinking that is there for us today.

Author : Vanessa Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030833640

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Four Caribbean Women Playwrights by Vanessa Lee Pdf

Four Caribbean Women Playwrights aims to expand Caribbean and postcolonial studies beyond fiction and poetry by bringing to the fore innovative women playwrights from the French Caribbean: Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, Suzanne Dracius. Focussing on the significance of these women writers to the French and French Caribbean cultural scenes, the author illustrates how their work participates in global trends within postcolonial theatre. The playwrights discussed here all address socio-political issues, gender stereotypes, and the traumatic slave and colonial pasts of the Caribbean people. Investigating a range of plays from the 1980s to the early 2010s, including some works that have not yet featured in academic studies of Caribbean theatre, and applying theories of postcolonial theatre and local Caribbean theatre criticism, Four Caribbean Women Playwrights should appeal to scholars and students in the Humanities, and to all those interested in the postcolonial, the Caribbean, and contemporary theatre.

Author : United States. Women's Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Married women
ISBN : UIUC:30112104139875

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Family Status of Breadwinning Women in Four Selected Cities by United States. Women's Bureau Pdf

Author : Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004666504

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A History of the Mishnaic Law of Women, Part Four by Neusner Pdf

Author : Ted McCoy
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774838900

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Four Unruly Women by Ted McCoy Pdf

Bridget Donnelly. Charlotte Reveille. Kate Slattery. Emily Boyle. Until now, these were nothing but names marked down in the admittance registers and punishment reports of Kingston Penitentiary, Canada’s most notorious prison. In this shocking and heartbreaking book, Ted McCoy tells these women’s stories of incarceration and resistance in poignant detail. The four women served sentences at different times over a century, but the inhumanity they suffered was consistent. Locked away in dark basement wards, they experienced starvation and corporal punishment, sexual abuse and neglect – profoundly disturbing evidence of the hidden costs of isolation, punishment, and mass incarceration.

Author : SIHA SIHA
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789970929085

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SIHA Journal: Women in Islam (Issue Four) by SIHA SIHA Pdf

Women in Islam explores the complexities of gender relations in Muslim communities in the Horn of Africa and beyond, engaging critically with the social, political and cultural challenges associated with the intersection of Islam and gender. With an eclectic selection of essays, academic papers, opinion pieces and personal narratives punctuated with poetry and art, the journal seeks to spark creative and forward-looking discussions on how to effectively improve the status of women in Muslim societies. Women in Islam is published annually by SIHA, the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa. The fourth issue of Women in Islam is filled with critical analysis, personal stories, and cultural highlights from the Muslim world. The theme of the dossier is womens sexuality, one of the greatest social taboos: articles in this section uncover the complex web of obsession and repression that surrounds female sexuality in Muslim cultures. Further articles address social injustice and legal reform around the world, while others highlight inspiring stories - a womens cycling club in Sudan, and how a young Somali woman followed her dream of becoming a mechanic. With poetry, reviews, and stunning artwork throughout, Women in Islam 4 is essential reading.

Author : A. R. Bernard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 9781501144653

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Four Things Women Want from a Man by A. R. Bernard Pdf

"As men and women have come to Bernard for spiritual counseling and advice, he's learned patterns of behavior that are repeated time and again. After almost four decades of preaching, teaching, and counseling, he's seen that while every situation is unique, people's behaviors and consequences are amazingly consistent. With this in mind, Bernard has developed a ... system for understanding how couples relate to each other. Maturity, decisiveness, consistency, and strength--these are the four things [Bernard feels that] women want and need most from a man"--