Ghostbelly

Ghostbelly
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Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 9781558618459
ISBN-13 : 1558618457
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Ghostbelly by : Elizabeth Heineman

In this courageous memoir, Elizabeth Heineman “illuminates the complex emotional landscape of stillbirth—putting into frank and poetic words the unspeakable experience of simultaneously grieving and mothering a baby who has died” (Deborah L. Davis). Ghostbelly is Elizabeth Heineman’s personal account of a home birth that goes tragically wrong—ending in a stillbirth—and the harrowing process of grief and questioning that follows. It’s also Heineman’s unexpected tale of the loss of a newborn: before burial, she brings the baby home for overnight stays. Does this sound unsettling? Of course. We’re not supposed to hold and caress dead bodies. But then again, babies aren’t supposed to die. Interwoven with her own accounts of mourning, Heineman examines the home-birth and maternal health-care industry, the isolation of midwives, and the scripting of her own grief. With no resolution to sadness, Heineman and her partner learn to live in a new world: a world in which they face each day with the understanding of the fragility of the present.

The Doulas

The Doulas
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Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages : 333
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ISBN-10 : 9781558619494
ISBN-13 : 1558619496
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis The Doulas by : Mary Mahoney

Weaving together how-to manual, activist memoir, and manifesto, The Doulas is an “honest, raw, and charged” treatise on full-spectrum doula care. (Rewire) As more feminist conversation migrates online, the activist providers of the Doula Project remain focused on life’s physically intimate relationships: between caregivers and patients, parents and pregnancy, individuals and their own bodies. They are committed to supporting a pregnancy no matter the outcome—whether it results in birth, abortion, miscarriage, or adoption—and to facing the question of choice head-on. In this eye-opening book, Doula Project founders Mary Mahoney and Lauren Mitchell present the history, philosophy, and practices of these caregivers, contextualizing the doula movement within the larger scope of pregnancy care and reproductive rights. They illustrate how, through their unique hands-on activism, full-spectrum doulas provide tangible support for those confronting life, death, and the sticky in-between.

The Madame Curie Complex

The Madame Curie Complex
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Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages : 329
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ISBN-10 : 9781558616554
ISBN-13 : 1558616551
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis The Madame Curie Complex by : Julie Des Jardins

The historian and author of Lillian Gilbreth examines the “Great Man” myth of science with profiles of women scientists from Marie Curie to Jane Goodall. Why is science still considered to be predominantly male profession? In The Madame Curie Complex, Julie Des Jardin dismantles the myth of the lone male genius, reframing the history of science with revelations about women’s substantial contributions to the field. She explores the lives of some of the most famous female scientists, including Jane Goodall, the eminent primatologist; Rosalind Franklin, the chemist whose work anticipated the discovery of DNA’s structure; Rosalyn Yalow, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist; and, of course, Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning pioneer whose towering, mythical status has both empowered and stigmatized future generations of women considering a life in science. With lively anecdotes and vivid detail, The Madame Curie Complex reveals how women scientists have changed the course of science—and the role of the scientist—throughout the twentieth century. They often asked different questions, used different methods, and came up with different, groundbreaking explanations for phenomena in the natural world.

It's the Little Things

It's the Little Things
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : 0156013487
ISBN-13 : 9780156013482
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis It's the Little Things by : Lena Williams

Examines the small behaviors and habits that create barriers and misunderstandings between blacks and whites, drawing on case studies to reveal the various misconceptions and to explain what they mean and how to avoid them.

What Difference Does a Husband Make?

What Difference Does a Husband Make?
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 9780520239074
ISBN-13 : 0520239075
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis What Difference Does a Husband Make? by : Elizabeth D. Heineman

"A pathbreaking book. Nothing else attempts the broad sweep or comprehensive vision that Heineman offers in this book."—Robert Moeller, author of Protecting Motherhood

Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones

Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 349
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ISBN-10 : 9780812204346
ISBN-13 : 0812204344
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones by : Elizabeth D. Heineman

Since the 1990s, sexual violence in conflict zones has received much media attention. In large part as a result of grassroots feminist organizing in the 1970s and 1980s, mass rapes in the wars in the former Yugoslavia and during the Rwandan genocide received widespread coverage, and international organizations—from courts to NGOs to the UN—have engaged in systematic efforts to hold perpetrators accountable and to ameliorate the effects of wartime sexual violence. Yet many millennia of conflict preceded these developments, and we know little about the longer-term history of conflict-based sexual violence. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones helps to fill in the historical gaps. It provides insight into subjects that are of deep concern to the human rights community, such as the aftermath of conflict-based sexual violence, legal strategies for prosecuting it, the economic functions of sexual violence, and the ways perceived religious or racial difference can create or aggravate settings of sexual danger. Essays in the volume span a broad geographic, chronological, and thematic scope, touching on the ancient world, medieval Europe, the American Revolutionary War, precolonial and colonial Africa, Muslim Central Asia, the two world wars, and the Bangladeshi War of Independence. By considering a wide variety of cases, the contributors analyze the factors making sexual violence in conflict zones more or less likely and the resulting trauma more or less devastating. Topics covered range from the experiences of victims and the motivations of perpetrators, to the relationship between wartime and peacetime sexual violence, to the historical background of the contemporary feminist-inflected human rights moment. In bringing together historical and contemporary perspectives, this wide-ranging collection provides historians and human rights activists with tools for understanding long-term consequences of sexual violence as war-ravaged societies struggle to achieve postconflict stability.

Cassandra

Cassandra
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Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages : 68
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ISBN-10 : 091267055X
ISBN-13 : 9780912670553
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis Cassandra by : Florence Nightingale

The world knows Florence Nightingale as "the lady with the lamp"--the revered founder of nursing as a respectable profession for women. But few people are aware that Nightingale's career began only after years of struggle to free herself from her suffocating Victorian family. In this surprisingly passionate feminist essay (a "brilliant polemic," states Martha Vicinus), Nightingale denounces the lives of idleness she and other women of her class were forced to lead.

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart
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Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 1555913024
ISBN-13 : 9781555913021
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Empty Cradle, Broken Heart by : Deborah L. Davis

Reassurance for parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair after a miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death.

After the Darkest Hour the Sun Will Shine Again

After the Darkest Hour the Sun Will Shine Again
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9780684811703
ISBN-13 : 0684811707
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis After the Darkest Hour the Sun Will Shine Again by : Elizabeth Mehren

After Elizabeth Mehren lost her daughter, she set out to write the book she most needed: one that would offer solace, support, and inspiration. Telling her own story and the stories of other bereaved parents - contemporary and historical - she discovered that this worst grief of all never ends but that if you're open to it, it can transform itself. Above all, it is a journey. After the Darkest Hour is both a guide and a meditation. The author takes us through the process of grieving, from the effects of a child's death on the parents' marriage to what to say when someone asks, "Do you have children?" This book also offers valuable advice for the friends and relatives of bereaved parents.

Beautiful Ghost Su Daji

Beautiful Ghost Su Daji
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Publisher : Funstory
Total Pages : 506
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781649911292
ISBN-13 : 1649911297
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Beautiful Ghost Su Daji by : Xu GuaDan

The chief of the village had a bad family, so I ate the offerings on the grave. At night, a woman came to me and said ...