The Whole Woman

Author : Germaine Greer
Publisher : Random House
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446497326

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The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer Pdf

THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE FEMALE EUNUCH, GERMAINE GREER RETURNS TO THE SUBJECT OF FEMINISM, WITH THE BOOK SHE VOWED SHE WOULD NEVER WRITE. Germaine Greer proclaims that the time has come to get angry again! Modern feminism has become the victim of unenlightened complacency, and what started out in the Sixties as a movement for liberation has become one that has sought and settled for equality. With fiery rhetoric, authoritative insight, outrageous humour and broad-ranging debate, Greer shows that, although women have indeed come a very long way in the last thirty years, the notion of our 'having it all' has disguised the persistent discrimination and exploitation that continues to exist for women in the basic areas of health, sex, politics, economics and marketing. Erudite, eccentric, provocative and invigorating, Germaine Greer once again sets the agenda for the future of feminism. Here is all the polemical power that sold over a million copies of The Female Eunuch and kept its author at the heart of controversy ever since. The Whole Woman was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller for five weeks and was hailed by the critics as a 'polemical bomb' (Guardian) and as required reading for thinking adults everywhere.

Author : Christine Ann Kent
Publisher : Bridgeworks Incorporated
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0970144016

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Saving the Whole Woman by Christine Ann Kent Pdf

Heard of acid staining, but still not too sure what it is or how it is used? From the world's leading artistic acid stainer, Gaye Goodman, this introduction to the art of acid staining concrete covers the history of the industry, its most common applications, and some of its more creative uses.

Author : Kristin L. Kellen,Julia B. Higgins
Publisher : B&H Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1087707315

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The Whole Woman by Kristin L. Kellen,Julia B. Higgins Pdf

Do you want to minister to the women around you, but find yourself stuck in a rut? Are you bored with "the way you've always done it" when it comes to serving others in your church, community, friendships, or family? The Whole Woman looks at what it means to care for another woman holistically--heart, soul, mind, and strength--as an extension of loving God. The book explores how we might care for the emotions, motivations, desires, thoughts, and relationships of ourselves and others. It also provides some practical actions that you can immediately put into practice. The contributors of this book come from all sorts of backgrounds (professors, ministry leaders, denominational leaders, and others) but have one thing in common: they love to see women grow in their walks with the Lord. Join the authors of The Whole Woman, and find out how you can best serve the women around you.

Author : Robert D. Jones,Kristin L. Kellen,Rob Green
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781087727479

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The Gospel for Disordered Lives by Robert D. Jones,Kristin L. Kellen,Rob Green Pdf

The gospel of Jesus Christ—the heartbeat of the Bible—brings life-changing hope and power to real people with real problems. Inspired by that conviction, The Gospel for Disordered Lives provides an introductory guide to the theory and practice of Christ-centered biblical counseling. Intended to serve as a foundational textbook for students in Christian colleges, universities, seminaries, and graduate schools, the book also provides a useful overview that working counselors can reference in their ministry contexts. Additionally, it can serve pastors and current counseling practitioners as a helpful refresher and a resource for common counseling problems.

Author : Ezekiel Azonwu,Kiyanna Azonwu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 173341990X

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The Whole Woman by Ezekiel Azonwu,Kiyanna Azonwu Pdf

We are all BROKEN Our brokenness manifests in how we interact with family, friends, and especially lovers. It tears away at our security, forcing us to wall ourselves off for fear of more pain. We sabotage relationships and hinder our growth, unwilling to face the traumas of our past that hold us in bondage. Being a woman comes with its own set of challenges, but why allow your past to rob your joy of singleness and keep you in toxic relationships? Something has to change! Shoving your pile of brokenness together with another in an effort to feel whole will never work. You must end the cycle of brokenness by attacking it at its roots. If you are ready to face your past and craft the bright future God intends for you as his daughter, then it's time to open this book and dig in. Through research and over 17 years of experience in ministry, husband and wife team Ezekiel and Kiyanna Azonwu have uncovered the path to experiencing wholeness by allowing God to perform the surgery that brings us self-actualization. The actionable information in this book has the potential to set you on a path to a better mindset, better relationships, and a better future.

Author : Abigail Dodds
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433562723

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(A)Typical Woman by Abigail Dodds Pdf

A Woman Through and Through In a culture that can belittle womanhood on the one hand—making it irrelevant—and glorify it on the other—making it everything—it’s hard to know what it really means to be a woman. But when we understand womanhood through the lens of Scripture, we see that we need a bigger category for what God has called “woman.” This book breathes fresh air into our womanhood, reminding us what life in Christ—as a woman—looks like. When we see that we are women in all we do, we can be at peace with how God has created us, recognizing womanhood as an essential part of Christ’s mission and work.

Author : Germaine Greer
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061972805

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The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer Pdf

The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Today, Greer's searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.

Author : Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781452957173

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The Right to Be Cold by Sheila Watt-Cloutier Pdf

A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate For the first ten years of her life, Sheila Watt-Cloutier traveled only by dog team. Today there are more snow machines than dogs in her native Nunavik, a region that is part of the homeland of the Inuit in Canada. In Inuktitut, the language of Inuit, the elders say that the weather is Uggianaqtuq—behaving in strange and unexpected ways. The Right to Be Cold is Watt-Cloutier’s memoir of growing up in the Arctic reaches of Quebec during these unsettling times. It is the story of an Inuk woman finding her place in the world, only to find her native land giving way to the inexorable warming of the planet. She decides to take a stand against its destruction. The Right to Be Cold is the human story of life on the front lines of climate change, told by a woman who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential Indigenous environmental, cultural, and human rights advocates in the world. Raised by a single mother and grandmother in the small community of Kuujjuaq, Quebec, Watt-Cloutier describes life in the traditional ice-based hunting culture of an Inuit community and reveals how Indigenous life, human rights, and the threat of climate change are inextricably linked. Colonialism intervened in this world and in her life in often violent ways, and she traces her path from Nunavik to Nova Scotia (where she was sent at the age of ten to live with a family that was not her own); to a residential school in Churchill, Manitoba; and back to her hometown to work as an interpreter and student counselor. The Right to Be Cold is at once the intimate coming-of-age story of a remarkable woman, a deeply informed look at the life and culture of an Indigenous community reeling from a colonial history and now threatened by climate change, and a stirring account of an activist’s powerful efforts to safeguard Inuit culture, the Arctic, and the planet.

Author : Germaine Greer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781408886397

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The Change by Germaine Greer Pdf

'A brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, exasperating fury of a book' New York Times 'Germaine Greer has given women just the book they need for this time of their lives. Read it, pass it on, talk about it, disagree with it, keep the circle going' Washington Post The seminal, ground-breaking and controversial feminist text on the menopause, revised and updated When The Change was published in 1991, 'menopause' was a word of fear. Then, as now, expensive magazines advertised even more expensive anti-ageing preparations, none of which worked. Big pharma was pushing replacement hormones, but doctors were dragging their feet. Some women told horror stories of their experiences with replacement hormones; others called them lifesavers. Nobody knew why some women went through this change of life without difficulty. What was working for them, when other women were tormented almost to madness? It seemed that we were close to an answer to that question, but that was before large-scale studies revealed that the protective effects of hormone replacement had been vastly exaggerated; given the perceived increase in the risk of life-threatening disease, the studies had to be called off. Now more than ever, amid the clamour of online chatrooms and promotions for a vast array of alternative therapies, the individual woman has to manage her passage through menopause for herself. In The Change, Germaine Greer provides a common-sense guide to a very interesting and important stage of women's lives.

Author : Germaine Greer
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780795338144

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Daddy, We Hardly Knew You by Germaine Greer Pdf

“Ferocious psychic need and volcanic energy drive this combined memoir, detective story and travelogue” from the author of The Female Eunuch (The New Yorker). After her father died, influential feminist writer and public intellectual Germaine Greer realizes how little she knows about him. She decides to track the life of her father, an Australian intelligence officer during World War II, to uncover the roots of his secrecy and distance. As she painstakingly assembles the jigsaw pieces of the past, Greer discovers surprising secrets about her father, her family, and herself. During her three-year quest, Greer travels from England to Australia, Tasmania, India, and Malta; searches through scores of genealogical, civil, and military archives; and delves into the memories of the men and women who may—or may not—have known Reg Greer. Yet the heart of her “lyrical but brutal elegy” is her own emotional journey, as the startling facts behind her father’s façade force her to painfully examine her own notions of truth and loyalty, family and obligation (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). “Anyone who has done this kind of search will identify with Ms. Greer’s frustration, admire her persistence, laugh at her accuracy and rejoice in her discoveries.” —The New York Times Book Review “The deeply affecting climax is a remarkable feat of family reconstruction.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Germaine Greer
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0871133083

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The Madwoman's Underclothes by Germaine Greer Pdf

Always strong and fearless, Germaine Greer strikes right at the heart of the matter--be it John F. Kennedy and vaginal deodorants, rape and artificial insemination, cosmetic surgery, the death of Jimi Hendrix, or the famine in Ethiopia. This collection represents a mosaic of essays, long and short, some of which are appearing for the first time in print and all of which chafe the conventional and are bristling with argument. From the youthful liveliness of her sixties pieces, which "got up everybody's nose," to the depth and complexity of her later work, The Madwoman's Underclothes is a reflection both of an era and of the changing ideas and styles of Germaine Greer: "The essays on Brazil, Cuba, and Ethiopia represent my coming of age. Something like a coherent system of values is beginning to emerge after my years of wandering, although I have certainly not arrived at a set of articles of faith, and never will, I hope." Greer's opinions on social, political, and sexual trends and mores are tendered in her unique fashion--outspoken, with rapier wit and no tolerance for narrow-mindedness. But as explosive, angry, and often funny as these essays are, they also reveal tenderness and sadness and that emotion that underlies all of Greer's work--passionate commitment.

Author : Sheryl Sandberg
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385349956

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Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg Pdf

The #1 international best seller In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg reignited the conversation around women in the workplace. Sandberg is chief operating officer of Facebook and coauthor of Option B with Adam Grant. In 2010, she gave an electrifying TED talk in which she described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than six million times, encouraged women to “sit at the table,” seek challenges, take risks, and pursue their goals with gusto. Lean In continues that conversation, combining personal anecdotes, hard data, and compelling research to change the conversation from what women can’t do to what they can. Sandberg provides practical advice on negotiation techniques, mentorship, and building a satisfying career. She describes specific steps women can take to combine professional achievement with personal fulfillment, and demonstrates how men can benefit by supporting women both in the workplace and at home. Written with humor and wisdom, Lean In is a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential.

Author : Marabel Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990-09
Category : Marriage
ISBN : 0671732110

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Total Woman by Marabel Morgan Pdf

Author : Kira Cochrane
Publisher : Guardian Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783560363

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All the Rebel Women by Kira Cochrane Pdf

On a bright day at the Epsom Derby, 4 June 1913, Emily Wilding Davison was hit by the king’s horse in one of the defining moments of the fight for women’s suffrage – what became known as feminism’s first wave. The second wave arose in the late-1960s, activists campaigning tirelessly for women’s liberation, organising around a wildly ambitious slate of issues – a struggle their daughters continued in the third wave that blossomed in the early-1990s. Now, a hundred years on from the campaign for the vote, fifty years since the very first murmurs of the second wave movement, a new tide of feminist voices is rising. Scattered across the world, campaigning online as well as marching in the streets, women are making themselves heard in irresistible fashion. They’re demonstrating against media sexism, domestic violence and sexual assault, fighting for equal pay, affordable childcare and abortion rights. Thousands are sharing their experiences through the Everyday Sexism project, marching in Slutwalk protests, joining demonstrations in the wake of the Delhi gang rape, challenging misogynist behaviour and language, online crusaders and ordinary people organising for the freedom of women everywhere. Kira Cochrane’s All the Rebel Women is an irrepressible exploration of today’s feminist landscape, asking how far we have come over the past century – and how far there still is to go. Whether engaging with leading feminists, describing the fight against rape culture or bringing immediate, powerful life to vital theories such as intersectionality, All the Rebel Women binds everything together into one unstoppable idea. This is modern feminism. This is the fourth wave.

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588369246

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The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou Pdf

Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman, her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, her love for writing blazes anew. Her compassion and commitment lead her to respond to the fiery times by becoming the northern coordinator of Martin Luther King's history-making quest. A tempestuous, earthy woman, she promises her heart to one man only to have it stolen, virtually on her weding day, by a passionate African freedom fighter. Filled with unforgettable vignettes of famous characters, from Billie Holiday to Malcolm X, The Heart of a Woman sings with Maya Angelou's eloquent prose -- her fondest dreams, deepest disappointments, and her dramatically tender relationship with her rebellious teenage son. Vulnerable, humorous, tough, Maya speaks with an intimate awareness of the heart within all of us.