Street Woman

Street Woman
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Publisher : Temple University Press
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 0877225095
ISBN-13 : 9780877225096
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Street Woman by : Eleanor M. Miller

In this rich, well-written study, Eleanor Miller analyzes the social organization of street hustling and the lives of the women involved in it. Miller views hustling as "illegal work": prostitution, fraud, forgery, embezzlement, and larceny. Using information garnered from life histories and interviews with 64 female street hustlers in Milwaukee, she vividly describes a female underclass recruited to the world of the street for a substantial period of their lives.Street Woman offers a challenging alternative to recent sociological studies that view the "women's movement" as directly linked to the increasing participation of women in property crime. Miller shows that this increase in crime is a response to sustained poverty. Thus, many sociologists are out of touch with the typical female criminal in this country on both a demographic and personal level. "Typical" female hustlers, as their own words poignantly reveal, are young, poor minority women who have limited education and skills and who also have several children of their own. They adopt characteristic interpersonal relationships and familial forms that insure their survival but which leave the youngsters at greater risk of being recruited to street life.Street Woman is a work of great importance to sociologists and criminologists alike, both in its ramifications for public policy and its explicit implications for further research. Most important, Miller's desire to render a more personal portrait, to enable us to "at least recognize the individual in the picture painted of the group," leaves the reader with haunting portrayals of the women who struggle to survive in the violent, desperate, drug-ridden world of the street. Author note: Eleanor M. Miller is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

I Loved a Street Woman

I Loved a Street Woman
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Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Total Pages : 124
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ISBN-10 : 9789350835050
ISBN-13 : 9350835053
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis I Loved a Street Woman by : Nitin Vinay Khare

ÿ"How much can one sacrifice for love? Is love just fun and physical pleasures or something much beyond that? Would one chose a street woman over a princess? Do omens and destiny play any role in our relationships and love? About the author: Nitin Vinay Khare belongs to a beautiful sleepy town of Panna, nearby world heritage site Khajuraho,famous for its tiger reserve, waterfalls and diamond mines. A Sainik School alumnus and a post graduate in management, he prefers to live an anonymous and nomadic life in search of creative inspirations for his stories, poetry and paintings. He regularly pens down his blogs upon vibrant social issues. He also runs a mural studio ?De Murals?. Past several years, he has been writing series of novels; the first published work of them is ?I loved a street woman.?

A Woman's Work: Street Chronicles

A Woman's Work: Street Chronicles
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Publisher : One World
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780345526304
ISBN-13 : 0345526309
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis A Woman's Work: Street Chronicles by : Nikki Turner

The heralded Queen of Hip-Hop Lit presents an addictive collection of celebrated urban authors with their fingers on the pulse of the streets. Street lit’s finest female voices—Keisha Starr, Tysha, LaKesa Cox, and Monique S. Hall—deliver searing stories about women who make hard sacrifices to stay on top of their hustle and seize the power, money, and fame they can’t live without. Enterprising and fearless, these players are more than equipped to handle whatever the street throws at them. That’s because they are hellbent on survival—by any means necessary. Once again, Nikki Turner shares ultra-realistic page-turners that will keep fans coming back for more.

CliffsNotes on Cisneros' The House on Mango Street & Woman Hollering Creek

CliffsNotes on Cisneros' The House on Mango Street & Woman Hollering Creek
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 87
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ISBN-10 : 9780544182080
ISBN-13 : 0544182081
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis CliffsNotes on Cisneros' The House on Mango Street & Woman Hollering Creek by : Mary Thornburg

This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.

Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back

Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back
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Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9780071818445
ISBN-13 : 0071818448
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back by : Junheng Li

Powerful methods for global investing from a dual expert on Chinese and U.S. markets Tiger Woman on Wall Street is the remarkable story of how one woman has risen to the top of the traditionally male-dominated world of finance. Raised by “tiger parents” in China in the 1980s, when the Chinese economy was just starting to boom, Junh Li came to the United States to attend college and climbed her way up to the top with a relentless personal drive and a remarkable talent for investing and finance. Tiger Woman on Wall Street is both an autobiographical tell-all and a critical review of Chinese and American comparative cultures and economies. It gives international investors both the insight and the hard advice they need to navigate the increasing complexities of the global economy. Junheng Li runs the independent equity research firm, JL Warren Capital LLC, to advise institutional asset managers on investing in small- to mid-capitalization companies both in the U.S. and China. She was previously senior equity analyst at Aurarian Capital Management.

Ninth Street Women

Ninth Street Women
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Publisher : Little, Brown
Total Pages : 944
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ISBN-10 : 9780316226196
ISBN-13 : 031622619X
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Ninth Street Women by : Mary Gabriel

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times). Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world's first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax. Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. And Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life. Her gamble paid off: At twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting. These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. In Ninth Street Women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future.

The Woman Citizen

The Woman Citizen
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1260
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000098651056
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

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Woman's Work

Woman's Work
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 574
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89077048437
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

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