Other Women

Author : Cathy Kelly
Publisher : Orion
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781409179290

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Other Women by Cathy Kelly Pdf

Don't miss the stunning new novel from Cathy Kelly about sisterhood, love & friendship - The Wedding Party is available to pre-order now! 'A burst of warmth and wit, twists and turns' MARIAN KEYES 'This is Cathy Kelly on top form writing about warm, believable women with real, messy lives' RACHEL HORE 'Other Women captures the stories of three modern women... A real feel-good read' HEAT 'The brilliant storyteller is back with another perfectly concocted tale' OK! --- Three women. Three secrets. Three tangled lives... Sid wears her independence like armour. So when she strikes up a rare connection with unlucky-in-love Finn, they are both determined to prove that men and women can just be friends. Can't they? Marin has the perfect home, attentive husband, two beloved children - and a secret addiction to designer clothes. She knows she has it all, so why can't she stop comparing herself to other women? Bea believes that we all have one love story - and she's had hers. Now her life centres around her son, Luke, and her support group of fierce single women. But there's something that she can't tell anyone... With her inimitable warmth and wisdom, Cathy Kelly shows us that in the messy reality of marriage, family, and romance, sometimes it's the women in our lives who hold us together. --------------------------- Praise for Cathy Kelly's irresistibly comforting storytelling: 'Honest, funny, clever, it sparkles with witty, wry observations on modern life. I loved it' - Marian Keyes 'This book is full of joy - and I devoured every page of it gladly' - Milly Johnson 'Filled with nuggets of wisdom, compassion and humour, Cathy Kelly proves, yet again, that she knows everything there is to know about women' - Patricia Scanlan 'Packed with Cathy's usual magical warmth' - Sheila O'Flanagan 'Comforting and feel-good, the perfect treat read' - Good Housekeeping 'With nuanced and believable characters, each grappling with complex, messy lives, the drama explodes from the first two pages of Other Women and doesn't let up until the final chapter' - Carmel Harrington

Author : Bernardine Evaristo
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802156990

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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE “A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood . . . An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves . . . Her style is passionate, razor-sharp, brimming with energy and humor. There is never a single moment of dullness in this book and the pace does not allow you to turn away from its momentum.” —Booker Prize Judges Bernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the English language. Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and looks back to the legacy of Britain’s colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London’s funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley’s former students, is a successful investment banker; Carole’s mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughter’s lack of rootedness despite her obvious achievements. From a nonbinary social media influencer to a 93-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class. Sparklingly witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see othered, and written in an innovative fast-moving form that borrows technique from poetry, Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel that shows a side of Britain we rarely see, one that reminds us of all that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart.

Author : Evelyn Lau
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307363909

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Other Women by Evelyn Lau Pdf

Fiona, an accomplished young artist, falls in love with Raymond. An older married man. Their haunted relationship evolves in a floating melange of restaurants and hotel rooms against the looming backdrop of their separate, anonymous cities. Although erotically charged, the affair is never consummated - yet the love Fiona feels intensifies into an obsession that continues to possess her long after Raymond leaves her. Along the way, at receptions and restaurant tables, at dinner parties and on trips, Fiona meets other men and women in relationships that are coming together or falling apart-friendships, marriages, love affairs - each offering their own version of love's nature. And, throughout, Raymond's wife Helen holds a central place. For Fiona, Helen herself is "the other woman" - mysterious, enviable and untouchable.

Author : Nicola Maye Goldberg
Publisher : Witch Craft Magazine
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1732192006

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Other Women by Nicola Maye Goldberg Pdf

After dropping out of college, a young woman wanders through New York both invisible and vulnerable, studying the city's strong magic and longing for a man she knows will never love her back. She thinks she finds salvation when Charlotte Herzfeld, the young wife of a successful businessman, hires her as a live-in nanny to accompany the family on their trip to Berlin. As the Herzfelds begin to crack under the weight of their secrets, she finds herself in a more precarious position than ever before.

Author : Nicola Moriarty
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062657190

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Those Other Women by Nicola Moriarty Pdf

"A firecracker of a novel..." -Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies The author of The Fifth Letter takes a laser look at the uneasy relationships between women and the real-world ramifications of online conflicts and social media hostilities in this stunning domestic drama. A story of privilege, unspoken rivalries, and small acts of vengeance with huge repercussions sure to please fans of Sarah Jio and Ruth Ware. Overwhelmed at the office and reeling from betrayals involving the people she loves, Poppy feels as if her world has tipped sideways. Maybe her colleague, Annalise, is right—Poppy needs to let loose and blow off some steam. What better way to vent than social media? With Annalise, she creates an invitation-only Facebook group that quickly takes off. Suddenly, Poppy feels like she’s back in control—until someone begins leaking the group’s private posts and stirring up a nasty backlash, shattering her confidence. Feeling judged by disapproving female colleagues and her own disappointed children, Frankie, too, is careening towards the breaking point. She also knows something shocking about her boss—sensitive knowledge that is tearing her apart. As things begin to slide disastrously, dangerously out of control, carefully concealed secrets and lies are exposed with devastating consequences—forcing these women to face painful truths about their lives and the things they do to survive.

Author : B.J. Gallagher
Publisher : Mango Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781609251994

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Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Other Women by B.J. Gallagher Pdf

The author of A Peacock in the Land of Penguins shares an inspiring collection of stories, anecdotes and insights by incredible women of all walks of life. The world is full of inspiring women. Some overcome the seemingly impossible. Some follow their dreams into uncharted territory. Some rise to incredible heights of achievement. And some act as mentors to other women, helping them find spiritual fulfillment, creative expression, and personal satisfaction in life. Inspirational lecturer and author B.J. Gallagher has encountered many such women in her life and work—from clients and coworkers to shopkeepers, neighbors, relatives and others. In Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Other Women, she shares their wisdom through short stories, personal anecdotes, inspirational quotes, remembrances, and even comedic one-liners. In this inspiring volume, B.J. helps reveal truths about the topics most women care about: friendship, love, sex, motherhood, food, body image, and happiness and fulfillment.

Author : Jess Zimmerman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807054932

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Women and Other Monsters by Jess Zimmerman Pdf

A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism The folklore that has shaped our dominant culture teems with frightening female creatures. In our language, in our stories (many written by men), we underline the idea that women who step out of bounds—who are angry or greedy or ambitious, who are overtly sexual or not sexy enough—aren’t just outside the norm. They’re unnatural. Monstrous. But maybe, the traits we’ve been told make us dangerous and undesirable are actually our greatest strengths. Through fresh analysis of 11 female monsters, including Medusa, the Harpies, the Furies, and the Sphinx, Jess Zimmerman takes us on an illuminating feminist journey through mythology. She guides women (and others) to reexamine their relationships with traits like hunger, anger, ugliness, and ambition, teaching readers to embrace a new image of the female hero: one that looks a lot like a monster, with the agency and power to match. Often, women try to avoid the feeling of monstrousness, of being grotesquely alien, by tamping down those qualities that we’re told fall outside the bounds of natural femininity. But monsters also get to do what other female characters—damsels, love interests, and even most heroines—do not. Monsters get to be complete, unrestrained, and larger than life. Today, women are becoming increasingly aware of the ways rules and socially constructed expectations have diminished us. After seeing where compliance gets us—harassed, shut out, and ruled by predators—women have never been more ready to become repellent, fearsome, and ravenous.

Author : Dorothy Sue Cobble
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691123684

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The Other Women's Movement by Dorothy Sue Cobble Pdf

American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment under the law. In this book, [the author] retrieves an alternative tradition of women's reform that sought answers to questions increasingly pressing today: how to balance work and family and how to address growing economic inequalities. [This book] trace[s] the history of American social justice feminism from the 1930s into the present and to link that continuous tradition with the leadership of labor women.-Back cover.

Author : Molly Galbraith
Publisher : Harper Horizon
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780785237853

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Strong Women Lift Each Other Up by Molly Galbraith Pdf

Many women have false beliefs about who we are and what we must do to succeed. If you pit yourself against other women because of this, you’re holding yourself back. It’s time for a change. Women are ready to stop the vicious cycle of criticizing, judging, gossiping, and comparing themselves. We want to feel good in our own skin and know we’re enough, just as we are. This book is an evidence-based, actionable guide to creating a better life for yourself and a better world with more opportunity for women and girls. Strong Women Lift Each Other Up is perfect for any woman or girl who has ever: struggled with jealousy or comparing your life or body to other women. wanted to support or believe in women, but felt like they’re catty or tearing you down. felt like you’re competing with other women for opportunities that are scarce, or felt like you were made for more than the life you’re living now. Strong Women Lift Each Other Up will help you radiate confidence from the inside out, chase your dreams without worrying what others think, lift other women up, and live a life filled with a purposeful meaning. You’ll walk in a room feeling like you don’t have to compare yourself to other women. You’ll know exactly who you are and be damn proud of it!

Author : Julia C. Bullock
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824882518

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The Other Women's Lib by Julia C. Bullock Pdf

The Other Women’s Lib provides the first systematic analysis of Japanese literary feminist discourse of the 1960s—a full decade before the "women’s lib" movement emerged in Japan. It highlights the work of three well-known female fiction writers of this generation (Kono Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Kurahashi Yumiko) for their avant-garde literary challenges to dominant models of femininity. Focusing on four tropes persistently employed by these writers to protest oppressive gender stereotypes—the disciplinary masculine gaze, feminist misogyny, "odd bodies," and female homoeroticism—Julia Bullock brings to the fore their previously unrecognized theoretical contributions to second-wave radical feminist discourse. In all of these narrative strategies, the female body is viewed as both the object and instrument of engendering. Severing the discursive connection between bodily sex and gender is thus a primary objective of the narratives and a necessary first step toward a less restrictive vision of female subjectivity in modern Japan. The Other Women’s Lib further demonstrates that this "gender trouble" was historically embedded in the socioeconomic circumstances of the high-growth economy of the 1960s, when prosperity was underwritten by an increasingly conservative gendered division of labor that sought to confine women within feminine roles. Raised during the war to be "good wives and wise mothers" yet young enough to take advantage of the opportunities presented to them by Occupation-era reforms, the authors who fueled the 1960s boom in women’s literary publication staunchly resisted normative constructions of gender, crafting narratives that exposed or subverted hegemonic discourses of femininity that relegated women to the negative pole of a binary opposition to men. Their fictional heroines are unapologetically bad wives and even worse mothers; they are often wanton, excessive, or selfish and brazenly cynical with regard to traditional love, marriage, and motherhood. The Other Women’s Lib affords a cogent and incisive analysis of these texts as feminist philosophy in fictional form, arguing persuasively for the inclusion of such literary feminist discourse in the broader history of Japanese feminist theoretical development. It will be accessible to undergraduate audiences and deeply stimulating to scholars and others interested in gender and culture in postwar Japan, Japanese women writers, or Japanese feminism.

Author : Rebecca Sharpless
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807899496

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Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens by Rebecca Sharpless Pdf

As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. Rebecca Sharpless argues that, in the face of discrimination, long workdays, and low wages, African American cooks worked to assert measures of control over their own lives. As employment opportunities expanded in the twentieth century, most African American women chose to leave cooking for more lucrative and less oppressive manufacturing, clerical, or professional positions. Through letters, autobiography, and oral history, Sharpless evokes African American women's voices from slavery to the open economy, examining their lives at work and at home.

Author : Rebecca Sharpless
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469611020

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Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens, Enhanced Ebook by Rebecca Sharpless Pdf

As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the primary jobs they performed, feeding generations of white families and, in the process, profoundly shaping southern foodways and culture. In Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960, Rebecca Sharpless argues that, in the face of discrimination, long workdays, and low wages, African American cooks worked to assert measures of control over their own lives. As employment opportunities expanded in the twentieth century, most African American women chose to leave cooking for more lucrative and less oppressive manufacturing, clerical, or professional positions. Through letters, autobiography, and oral history, Sharpless evokes African American women's voices from slavery to the open economy, examining their lives at work and at home. The enhanced electronic version of the book includes twenty letters, photographs, first-person narratives, and other documents, each embedded in the text where it will be most meaningful. Featuring nearly 100 pages of new material, the enhanced e-book offers readers an intimate view into the lives of domestic workers, while also illuminating the journey a historian takes in uncovering these stories.

Author : B.J. Gallagher,B. J. Gallagher Hateley
Publisher : Conari Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1573248592

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Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Other Women by B.J. Gallagher,B. J. Gallagher Hateley Pdf

A collection of short stories, anecdotes, quotes, and one-liners celebrates what women learn from one another and includes the author's reflections on the women who were her teachers. Original.

Author : Tania Modleski
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814755945

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Old Wives' Tales and Other Women's Stories by Tania Modleski Pdf

Alerting readers to a body of recent work that has gone under-examined, Tania Modleski redraws in Old Wives' Tales the perimeter of popular culture. A critical analysis of films such as The Ballad of Little Jo, The Piano and Dogfight, Old Wives' Tales also takes up performance, autobiographical experience, and contemporary social issues to illustrate how women's genres mediate between us and reality. Modelski examines the changes occurring in traditional women's genres, such as romances and melodrama, and explores the phenomenon of female authors and performers who "cross-dress"--women, that is, who are moving into male genres and staking out territory declared off-limits by men and by many feminists.

Author : Hallie Q. Brown,Josephine Turpin Washington
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : African American women
ISBN : 9781387358526

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Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction by Hallie Q. Brown,Josephine Turpin Washington Pdf