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Home Girls

Barbara Smith
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Author : Barbara Smith
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0813527538

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The pioneering anthology Home Girls features writings by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and writings. This edition features an updated list of contributor biographies and an all-new preface that provides a fresh assessment of how Black women's lives have changed-or not-since the book was first published. Contributors are Tania Abdulahad, Donna Allegra, Barbara A. Banks, Becky Birtha, Julie Carter, Cenen, Cheryl Clarke, Michelle Cliff, Michelle T. Clinton, Willie M. Coleman, Toi Derricotte, Alexis De Veaux, Jewelle L. Gomez, Akasha (Gloria) Hull, Patricia Jones, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Raymina Y. Mays, Deidre McCalla, Chirlane McCray, Pat Parker, Linda C. Powell, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Spring Redd, Gwendolyn Rogers, Kate Rushin, Ann Allen Shockley, Barbara Smith, Beverly Smith, Shirley O. Steele, Luisah Teish, Jameelah Waheed, Alice Walker, and Renita Weems.

Homegirls

Norma Mendoza-Denton
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Author : Norma Mendoza-Denton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118910870

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Homegirls by Norma Mendoza-Denton Pdf

In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Her engrossing ethnographic and sociolinguistic study reveals the connection of language behavior and other symbolic practices among Latina gang girls in California, and their connections to larger social processes of nationalism, racial/ethnic consciousness, and gender identity. An engrossing account of the Norte and Sur girl gangs - the largest Latino gangs in California Traces how elements of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges are used to signal social affiliation and come together to form youth gang styles Explores the relationship between language and the body: one of the most striking aspects of the tattoos, make-up, and clothing of the gang members Unlike other studies – which focus on violence, fighting and drugs – Mendoza-Denton delves into the commonly-overlooked cultural and linguistic aspects of youth gangs

The Home Girls

Olga Masters
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Author : Olga Masters
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781921961748

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The Home Girls is a collection of candid, witty stories about rural and suburban life. Set in the mid-twentieth century, these are tales of ordinary people and domestic life. Masters' short stories, distinguished by their acute observation of human behaviour, drew comparison with the finest exponents of the form, such as Chekhov.

The Home for Unwanted Girls

Joanna Goodman
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Author : Joanna Goodman
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062684240

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Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit—the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other. In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility—much like Maggie Hughes’ parents. Maggie’s English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don’t include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. But Maggie’s heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life ‘back on track’. Elodie is raised in Quebec’s impoverished orphanage system. It’s a precarious enough existence that takes a tragic turn when Elodie, along with thousands of other orphans in Quebec, is declared mentally ill as the result of a new law that provides more funding to psychiatric hospitals than to orphanages. Bright and determined, Elodie withstands abysmal treatment at the nuns’ hands, finally earning her freedom at seventeen, when she is thrust into an alien, often unnerving world. Maggie, married to a businessman eager to start a family, cannot forget the daughter she was forced to abandon, and a chance reconnection with Gabriel spurs a wrenching choice. As time passes, the stories of Maggie and Elodie intertwine but never touch, until Maggie realizes she must take what she wants from life and go in search of her long-lost daughter, finally reclaiming the truth that has been denied them both.

Home for Erring and Outcast Girls

Julie Kibler
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Author : Julie Kibler
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451499356

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Home for Erring and Outcast Girls by Julie Kibler Pdf

An emotionally raw and resonant story of love, loss, and the enduring power of friendship, following the lives of two young women connected by a home for “fallen girls,” and inspired by historical events. “Home for Erring and Outcast Girls deftly reimagines the wounded women who came seeking a second chance and a sustaining hope.”—Lisa Wingate, author of Before We Were Yours In turn-of-the-20th century Texas, the Berachah Home for the Redemption and Protection of Erring Girls is an unprecedented beacon of hope for young women consigned to the dangerous poverty of the streets by birth, circumstance, or personal tragedy. Built in 1903 on the dusty outskirts of Arlington, a remote dot between Dallas and Fort Worth’s red-light districts, the progressive home bucks public opinion by offering faith, training, and rehabilitation to prostitutes, addicts, unwed mothers, and “ruined” girls without forcibly separating mothers from children. When Lizzie Bates and Mattie McBride meet there—one sick and abused, but desperately clinging to her young daughter, the other jilted by the beau who fathered her ailing son—they form a friendship that will see them through unbearable loss, heartbreak, difficult choices, and ultimately, diverging paths. A century later, Cate Sutton, a reclusive university librarian, uncovers the hidden histories of the two troubled women as she stumbles upon the cemetery on the home’s former grounds and begins to comb through its archives in her library. Pulled by an indescribable connection, what Cate discovers about their stories leads her to confront her own heartbreaking past, and to reclaim the life she thought she'd let go forever. With great pathos and powerful emotional resonance, Home for Erring and Outcast Girls explores the dark roads that lead us to ruin, and the paths we take to return to ourselves.

The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls

Claire Legrand
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Author : Claire Legrand
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442442924

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The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand Pdf

Practically-perfect twelve-year-old Victoria Wright must lie, sneak, and break the rules when her investigation of the disappearance of her best--and only--friend, Lawrence, reveals dark secrets about her town and the orphanage run by the reclusive Mrs. Cavendish.

Homegirls in the Public Sphere

Marie "Keta" Miranda
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Author : Marie "Keta" Miranda
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292778573

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Homegirls in the Public Sphere by Marie "Keta" Miranda Pdf

Girls in gangs are usually treated as objects of public criticism and rejection. Seldom are they viewed as objects worthy of understanding and even more rarely are they allowed to be active subjects who craft their own public persona—which is what makes this work unique. In this book, Marie "Keta" Miranda presents the results of an ethnographic collaboration with Chicana gang members, in which they contest popular and academic representations of Chicana/o youth and also construct their own narratives of self identity through a documentary film, It's a Homie Thang! In telling the story of her research in the Fruitvale community of Oakland, California, Miranda honestly reveals how even a sympathetic ethnographer from the same ethnic group can objectify the subjects of her study. She recounts how her project evolved into a study of representation and its effects in the public sphere as the young women spoke out about how public images of their lives rarely come close to the reality. As Miranda describes how she listened to the gang members and collaborated in the production of their documentary, she sheds new light on the politics of representation and ethnography, on how inner city adolescent Chicanas present themselves to various publics, and on how Chicana gangs actually function.

Homegirls & Handgrenades

Sonia Sanchez
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Author : Sonia Sanchez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1560251433

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A collection of poems focusing on the Black experience

Home Girls Make Some Noise

Gwendolyn D. Pough
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Author : Gwendolyn D. Pough
Publisher : Parker Publishing Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African American women
ISBN : 1600430104

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"Includes critical essays, cultural critiques, interviews, personal narratives, fiction, poetry, and artwork."--P. [4] of cover.

I'll Be Seeing You

Suzanne Hayes,Loretta Nyhan
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Author : Suzanne Hayes,Loretta Nyhan
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460313169

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I'll Be Seeing You by Suzanne Hayes,Loretta Nyhan Pdf

"I hope this letter gets to you quickly. We are always waiting, aren't we? Perhaps the greatest gift this war has given us is the anticipation…" It's January 1943 when Rita Vincenzo receives her first letter from Glory Whitehall. Glory is an effervescent young mother, impulsive and free as a bird. Rita is a sensible professor's wife with a love of gardening and a generous, old soul. Glory comes from New England society; Rita lives in Iowa, trying to make ends meet. They have nothing in common except one powerful bond: the men they love are fighting in a war a world away from home. Brought together by an unlikely twist of fate, Glory and Rita begin a remarkable correspondence. The friendship forged by their letters allows them to survive the loneliness and uncertainty of waiting on the home front, and gives them the courage to face the battles raging in their very own backyards. Connected across the country by the lifeline of the written word, each woman finds her life profoundly altered by the other's unwavering support. A collaboration of two authors whose own beautiful story mirrors that on the page, I'll Be Seeing You is a deeply moving union of style and charm. Filled with unforgettable characters and grace, it is a timeless celebration of friendship and the strength and solidarity of women.

Amy's Children

Olga Masters
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Author : Olga Masters
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Australian fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015048903580

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In 1930 in the Outback village of Diggers Creek, 21-year-old Amy Fowler and her 3 daughters are abandoned by her husband. Leaving the children with her parents, she runs to Sydney to make a fresh start. Ten years later, her eldest daughter comes to live with her, but jealousy and suspicion abound. Pregnant again, Amy returns to Diggers Creek.

The McCloud Home for Wayward Girls

Wendy Delsol
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Author : Wendy Delsol
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101517512

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The McCloud Home for Wayward Girls by Wendy Delsol Pdf

A compelling novel about a bed-and-breakfast that houses three generations of women- and their many secrets. In the early 1960s, Ruby, a spunky unwed teen mother, was wooed and won over by the founder of the McCloud Home. Now, forty years later, the historic property has been converted into an inn that Ruby runs with one of her daughters, Jill. When Jill's fourteen-year-old daughter begins to search for the identity of her father, she sets in motion events that will test the bonds that bind mothers, daughters, and sisters. Jill unwittingly aids the forces of upheaval when she agrees to host the wake of the town matriarch. As the guests-including the matriarch's handsome son and Jill's vivacious, irresponsible sister Jocelyn- return to the small town, the convergence of people and memories uncovers rivalries, sparks romance, recalls heartbreak, and reveals a shocking family secret, one that could separate the McCloud women forever or lead them to the renewal of their powerful, enduring connection.

The Girls Next Door

Kara Dixon Vuic
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Author : Kara Dixon Vuic
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674986381

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To boost soldiers’ morale and remind them of the stakes of victory, the American military formalized a recreation program that sent respectable young women, along with famous entertainers, overseas. This history of the women who talked and listened, danced and sang, adds an intimate chapter to the story of war and its ties to life in peacetime.

Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls

Lynne Jonell
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Author : Lynne Jonell
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466824676

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Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls by Lynne Jonell Pdf

In the irresistible sequel to Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat, Emmy, Joe, and Ratty rescue other children Miss Barmy has preyed upon Emmy Addison is an ordinary girl -- almost. If you don't count the fact that her parents are rich (very), her best friend is a boy (and a soccer star), and she can talk to rodents (and they talk back), she's very ordinary indeed. But she hasn't been that way for long . . . It was only a few weeks ago that Emmy and her friends Ratty and Joe got rid of the evil Miss Barmy, the nanny who had nearly ruined Emmy's life -- and the lives of five other girls who went missing. Miss Barmy is now a rat. How much harm can she do?

The Shipyard Girls on the Home Front

Nancy Revell
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Author : Nancy Revell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473572836

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The Shipyard Girls on the Home Front by Nancy Revell Pdf

THE TENTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING SHIPYARD GIRLS SERIES 'Emotional and gripping' Take a Break December 1943 As the war effort gathers steam in Europe, it's all hands on deck on the home front. Gloria is over the moon to be reunited with her sweetheart Jack. But her sons Bobby and Gordon are away with the Navy and still know nothing of their mother's divorce and new half-sister. Rosie's squad of welders must work gruelling hours in the yard as they prepare for the Allied invasion of Normandy. All the while Rosie herself waits anxiously for news of her husband Peter, who is carrying out dangerous work as an undercover operative in France. Meanwhile welder Dorothy has a feeling that her beau Toby is planning to pop the question when he's next on leave. But it seems that her head is being turned by someone closer to home... It will take great strength and friendship if the shipyard girls are to weather the storms to come. ______________________________ Praise for Nancy Revell 'Nancy Revell knows how to stir the passions and soothe the heart!' Northern Echo 'Stirring and heartfelt storytelling' Peterborough Evening Telegraph