The Ladies Of Managua

Author : Eleni N. Gage
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466863002

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The Ladies of Managua by Eleni N. Gage Pdf

Lushly evocative of Nicaragua, its tumultuous history, and vibrant present, Eleni N. Gage's The Ladies of Managua brings you into the lives of three strong and magnetic women, as they uncover the ramifications of the choices they made in their pasts and begin to understand the ways in which love can shape their futures. When Maria Vazquez returns to Nicaragua for her beloved grandfather's funeral, she brings with her a mysterious package from her grandmother's past—and a secret of her own. And she also carries the burden of her tense relationship with her mother Ninexin, once a storied revolutionary, now a tireless government employee. Between Maria and Ninexin lies a chasm created by the death of Maria's father, who was killed during the revolution when Maria was an infant, leaving her to be raised by her grandmother Isabela as Ninexin worked to build the new Nicaragua. As Ninexin tries to reach her daughter, and Maria wrestles with her expectations for her romance with an older man, Isabela, the mourning widow, is lost in memories of attending boarding school in 1950's New Orleans, where she loved and lost almost sixty years ago. When the three women come together to bid farewell to the man who anchored their family, they are forced to confront their complicated, passionate relationships with each other and with their country—and to reveal the secrets that each of them have worked to conceal.

Author : Eleni N. Gage
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780525573913

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Lucky in Love by Eleni N. Gage Pdf

Every engaged couple wants two things: a meaningful wedding and a lifetime of happiness. This great gift book is a cross-cultural collection of marriage folklore that will help you achieve both. Create your own lucky traditions with nods to each other’s heritage, customs from places you’ve visited together, and auspicious rituals that just feel special. Whether you are just engaged or you’re days away from tying the knot, you’ll gain insight every step of the way. With this book as your guide, you can make your own luck in love.

Author : Eleni N. Gage
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429941495

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Other Waters by Eleni N. Gage Pdf

"A Jane Austen-ish plot gets a delicious Indian accent in this effervescent novel by former PEOPLE editor Gage . . . in this exotic, mysterious setting, cultures collide, love grows more complicated and Maya finally discovers just whom – and where – she is really meant to be." --People, **** Maya is an accomplished psychiatry resident with a supportive boyfriend, loving family, and bustling New York social life. When her grandmother dies in India, a family squabble over property ignites a curse that drifts across continents and threatens Maya's life. Or so her father says-- Maya (being a modern woman, an American, and a doctor) doesn't believe in curses, Brahman, or otherwise. But then a series of calamities befalls her family, her career and relationship both falter, and Maya starts to worry. She hopes a trip back to India with her best friend, Heidi, will enable her to remove the curse, save her family, and put her own life back in order. Thus begins a journey into Maya's parallel worlds-- New York and an India filled with loving and annoying relatives, vivid colors, and superstitious customs she doesn't, and does, believe in. But her time in India isn't just a visit "home" or a chance to explore the strengthening and suffocating bonds of family, it's also the beginning of a cathartic quest toward forging one identity out of two cultues as Maya learns unexpected lessons about life and love.

Author : Margaret Randall
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0813522145

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Sandino's Daughters by Margaret Randall Pdf

Sandino's Daughters, Margaret Randall's conversations with Nicaraguan women in their struggle against the dictator Somoza in 1979, brought the lives of a group of extraordinary female revolutionaries to the American and world public. The book remains a landmark. Now, a decade later, Randall returns to interview many of the same women and others. In Sandino's Daughters Revisited, they speak of their lives during and since the Sandinista administration, the ways in which the revolution made them strong--and also held them back. Ironically, the 1990 defeat of the Sandinistas at the ballot box has given Sandinista women greater freedom to express their feelings and ideas.

Author : Margaret Randall
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0813520258

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Sandino's Daughters Revisited by Margaret Randall Pdf

Randall interviewed these outspoken women from all walks of life: working-class Diana Espinoza, head bookkeeper of an employee-owned factory; Daisy Zamora, a vice minister of culture under the Sandinistas; and Vidaluz Meneses, daughter of a Somozan official, who ties her revolutionary ideals to her Catholicism. The voices of these women, along with nine others, lead us to recognize both the failed promises and continuing attraction of the Sandinista movement for women.

Author : Eleni Gage
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781448110056

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North Of Ithaka by Eleni Gage Pdf

Eleni Gage, a young journalist living in New York, leaves her Manhattan flat to return to the remote but beautiful Greek village of Lia in northern Greece and rebuild her ruined ancestral home. But this is not just another tale of quaint rustic DIY - the house was the scene of imprisonment and torture, and its ruins are stalked by the ghosts of the Greek Civil War. The story is played out in the stunning mountainous landscape of Epiros, one of the least-visited regions of Europe. As Eleni becomes part of the village, her neighbours and the house come vividly to life while her own disasters, triumphs and self-discoveries are alternately poignant and hilarious. The cast of characters includes Eleni's formidable yet miniscule aunts - the thitsas, who fear that she will be eaten by wolves; her immigrant Albanian builders; and the residents of modern-day Lia, whose feelings about the rebuilding of a house where such terrible events took place are ambivalent at best. Informed by her knowledge of Greece's folklore, literature, language and history, Eleni's story is unfailingly witty and wise. But beneath it all lie the indelible stains of a real-life Greek tragedy.

Author : Helen Collinson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Nicaragua
ISBN : UOM:39076001033476

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Women and Revolution in Nicaragua by Helen Collinson Pdf

The dramatic and significant changes that affected Nicaraguan women in the late 1980s are examined in this comprehensive presentation of the realities of women's lives in conditions of war and economic crisis. Written just prior to the February 1990 elections, this book covers things relevant to women in any Third World political climate and throws a new light on some aspects of issues that engage Western women's own concerns. Included are chapters dealing with women's movements; single mothers; reproduction and abortion; machismo and male violence; the "double day"; and survival in the face of the US economic blockade. The role of education, of the church and unions in women's liberation; women workers, rural and urban; women's involvement in defense; and debates around pornography are also explored. The central role of women in the peace and autonomy plans for the Atlantic Coast region is the focus of one chapter. Personal testimonies, case studies, interviews in quotations from Nicaragua newspapers, graphically highlight the viewpoints of the women themselves. How far the political changes consequent upon the 1990 election results will affect the Nicaraguan people remains to be seen, but that the women, who have demonstrated so much courage and initiative, will continue to work for the realization of their aspirations for a better life seems in no doubt.--Back cover.

Author : Tine Destrooper
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004248977

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Come Hell or High Water: Feminism and the Legacy of Armed Conflict in Central America by Tine Destrooper Pdf

In Come Hell or High water: Feminism and the Legacy of Armed Conflict in Central America, Tine Destrooper explores the motivations, strategies and priorities of women’s activists in Guatemala and Nicaragua. She explains how these priorities were shaped by the legacy of armed conflict and the presence of international aid agencies.

Author : United States. Office of Inter-American Affairs,Kathleen B. Tappen,Berenice T. Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Latin America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118471312

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Prominent Women in Latin America by United States. Office of Inter-American Affairs,Kathleen B. Tappen,Berenice T. Morris Pdf

A biographical listing of approximately 90 prominent Latin American women.

Author : Victoria González-Rivera
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271050584

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Before the Revolution by Victoria González-Rivera Pdf

Those who survived the brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family have tended to portray the rise of the women’s movement and feminist activism as part of the overall story of the anti-Somoza resistance. But this depiction of heroic struggle obscures a much more complicated history. As Victoria González-Rivera reveals in this book, some Nicaraguan women expressed early interest in eliminating the tyranny of male domination, and this interest grew into full-fledged campaigns for female suffrage and access to education by the 1880s. By the 1920s a feminist movement had emerged among urban, middle-class women, and it lasted for two more decades until it was eclipsed in the 1950s by a nonfeminist movement of mainly Catholic, urban, middle-class and working-class women who supported the liberal, populist, patron-clientelistic regime of the Somozas in return for the right to vote and various economic, educational, and political opportunities. Counterintuitively, it was actually the Somozas who encouraged women's participation in the public sphere (as long as they remained loyal Somocistas). Their opponents, the Sandinistas and Conservatives, often appealed to women through their maternal identity. What emerges from this fine-grained analysis is a picture of a much more complex political landscape than that portrayed by the simplifying myths of current Nicaraguan historiography, and we can now see why and how the Somoza dictatorship did not endure by dint of fear and compulsion alone.

Author : Helen Collinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Nicaragua
ISBN : 0862329353

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Women and Revolution in Nicaragua by Helen Collinson Pdf

The dramatic and significant changes that affected Nicaraguan women in the late 1980s are examined in this comprehensive presentation of the realities of women's lives in conditions of war and economic crisis. Written just prior to the February 1990 elections, this book covers things relevant to women in any Third World political climate and throws a new light on some aspects of issues that engage Western women's own concerns. Included are chapters dealing with women's movements; single mothers; reproduction and abortion; machismo and male violence; the "double day"; and survival in the face of the US economic blockade. The role of education, of the church and unions in women's liberation; women workers, rural and urban; women's involvement in defense; and debates around pornography are also explored. The central role of women in the peace and autonomy plans for the Atlantic Coast region is the focus of one chapter. Personal testimonies, case studies, interviews in quotations from Nicaragua newspapers, graphically highlight the viewpoints of the women themselves. How far the political changes consequent upon the 1990 election results will affect the Nicaraguan people remains to be seen, but that the women, who have demonstrated so much courage and initiative, will continue to work for the realization of their aspirations for a better life seems in no doubt.--Back cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009854048

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Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : OSU:32435066729872

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Department of State News Letter by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : UVA:X001765736

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Newsletter by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : United States. Dept. of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : UOM:39015047660892

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News Letter by United States. Dept. of State Pdf