Crazy Woman Creek

Crazy Woman Creek
Author: Linda M. Hasselstrom
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2004-05-18
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0547347138
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A “blessedly unromantic” portrait of real women’s lives in the contemporary American West (Kathleen Norris). This wide-ranging collection of essays and poetry reveals the day-to-day lives and experiences of a diverse collection of women in the western United States, from Buddhists in Nebraska to Hutterites in South Dakota to “rodeo moms.” A woman chooses horse work over housework; neighbors pull together to fight a raging wildfire; a woman rides a donkey across Colorado to raise money after the tragedy at Columbine. Women recall harmony found at a drugstore, at a powwow, in a sewing circle. Lively, heartfelt, urgent, enduring, Crazy Woman Creek celebrates community—connections built or strengthened by women that unveil a new West.

Passive Men, Wild Women

Passive Men, Wild Women
Author: Pierre Mornell
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 147
Release: 1987
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780345345233
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Examines the circumstances, incidence, and implications of a problem afflicting more married couples, a problem involving the in-the-home inattentiveness and lethargy of husbands and the resulting frustration and anger of wives

Iron John

Iron John
Author: Robert Bly
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-07-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780306813764
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In this deeply learned book, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man.Bly's vision is based on his ongoing work with men and reflections on his own life. He addresses the devastating effects of remote fathers and mourns the disappearance of male initiation rites in our culture. Finding rich meaning in ancient stories and legends, Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale "Iron John," in which the narrator, or "Wild Man," guides a young man through eight stages of male growth, to remind us of archetypes long forgotten-images of vigorous masculinity, both protective and emotionally centered.Simultaneously poetic and down-to-earth, combining the grandeur of myth with the practical and often painful lessons of our own histories, Iron John is a rare work that will continue to guide and inspire men-and women-for years to come.

The Woman with the Artistic Brush

The Woman with the Artistic Brush
Author: Kim Marie Vaz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2015-04-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317453913
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Nike Davies is one of the few African women known internationally in contemporary art circles. The Woman with the Artistic Brush traces her life history and illustrates the strategies developed by women to mitigate male rule. Presenting a critique of the woman's place in contemporary Yoruba society from the perspective of a woman who lived it, this book covers Nike's life from the time of her mother's death when Nike was six to the culmination of her dream in the creation, against severe societal odds, of a center for arts and culture that has over 120 members. Along the way, The Woman with the Artistic Brush details how Nike ran away from home and joined a traveling theater group after her father tried to arrange her marriage, subsequently married and joined in the polygynous household of a noted artist from the popular Osogbo school, and finally broke clear of that situation after suffering sixteen years of domestic violence. The Woman with the Artistic Brush is another superb contribution to the Foremother Legacies series.

Tales Of A Wild Woman

Tales Of A Wild Woman
Author: Scarlett Victoria
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2009-01-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1438907796
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'Tales of a Wild Woman' is more than an interesting read. It is filled with true-life experiences of pain, passion, and gained knowledge. I share each in explicit detail. It is about my journey through life. I am honest in telling my story and I protect the identities of others

Love on a Farm

Love on a Farm
Author: Carolyn Scanze Giglio
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2009-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1467050377
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Dolores Hanson was born and raised on a farm in Idaho. One day returning from visiting her best friend Emily, she is molested in the woods connecting their farms. Doctor Kenneth Kensey, the new doctor in town, help her to heal her many wounds from her attacker. He then literally holds her hostage under the guise of courting her. Jake Johnson, the roving new ranch hand, whom she took a shine to, gives her little romantic attention. Emily Cooper, her best friend and neighbor is always there to be her confidant. She is there on moments notice when needed. Aunt Helen, her mother’s sister has always been like she was an older sister of Dolores. She helps her through her teen years. A young girl’s tragic assault, in the woods, bordering, her family’s farm. The pathetic young doctor who leads her into believing he is romantically interested in her. The horrendous affair he intimidates her into having with him. After much torment she is released from his grasp. She now tries to start a new life. Her joy of marriage to the man she loves is short lived. Her husband is killed in an accident. His death devastates her, but what happens later is quite unexpected.

We Don't Exactly Get the Welcome Wagon

We Don't Exactly Get the Welcome Wagon
Author: Gerald P. Mallon
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1998
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780231104555
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Drawing on over twenty years of child welfare experience and extensive interviews with 54 gay and lesbian young people who lived in out-of-home-care child welfare settings in three North American cities--Los Angeles, New York, and Toronto--Gerald Mallon presents narratives of marginalized young people trying to find the "right fit." Mallon permits the voices of these young people to guide the research, allowing them to tell their own stories and to suggest what is important in their own words. Their experiences help the reader to begin to understand the discrepancies between the myths and misinformation about gay and lesbian adolescents and their realities in the out-of-home child welfare systems in which they live. The first comprehensive examination of the experiences of gay and lesbian youths in the child welfare system, We Don't Exactly Get the Welcome Wagon makes solid recommendations to social work practitioners as well as to policy makers about how they can provide a competent practice for gay and lesbian adolescents, and offers a methods chapter which will be useful in classroom instruction.

Reading the Fire

Reading the Fire
Author: Jarold Ramsey
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2016-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0295803509
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Reading the Fire engages America’s “first literatures,” traditional Native American tales and legends, as literary art and part of our collective imaginative heritage. This revised edition of a book first published to critical acclaim in 1983 includes four new essays. Drawing on ethnographic data and regional folklore, Jarold Ramsey moves from origin and trickster narratives and Indian ceremonial texts, into interpretations of stories from the Nez Perce, Clackamas Chinook, Coos, Wasco, and Tillamook repertories, concluding with a set of essays on the neglected subject of Native literary responses to contact with Euroamericans. In his finely worked, erudite analyses, he mediates between an author-centered, print-based narrative tradition and one that is oral, anonymous, and tribal, adducing parallels between Native texts and works by Shakespeare, Yeats, Beckett, and Faulkner.

Dear Life

Dear Life
Author: Alice Munro
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2012-11-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307961044
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE© IN LITERATURE 2013 A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction A Best Book of the Year: The Atlantic, NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, AV Club In story after story in this brilliant new collection, Alice Munro pinpoints the moment a person is forever altered by a chance encounter, an action not taken, or a simple twist of fate. Her characters are flawed and fully human: a soldier returning from war and avoiding his fiancée, a wealthy woman deciding whether to confront a blackmailer, an adulterous mother and her neglected children, a guilt-ridden father, a young teacher jilted by her employer. Illumined by Munro’s unflinching insight, these lives draw us in with their quiet depth and surprise us with unexpected turns. And while most are set in her signature territory around Lake Huron, some strike even closer to home: an astonishing suite of four autobiographical tales offers an unprecedented glimpse into Munro’s own childhood. Exalted by her clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, Dear Life shows how strange, perilous, and extraordinary ordinary life can be.

Interpreting the Maternal Organization

Interpreting the Maternal Organization
Author: Heather Höpfl
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2003-08-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134450206
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Over the past ten to fifteen years there has been an increasing interest in emotion in organizations, in diversity, ethics, care and the ubiquitous pursuit of quality. These concerns, however, have consistently been reduced to issues of management and regulation. There is now a growing need to confront issues related to the dehumanization of organizations. This book brings these issues together, presenting an original construction of the organization via an emphasis on the (m)other. This book is not a feminist tract, nor is it primarily about the experiences of women in organizations. It rather argues that conventional representations of the organization are patriarchal, masculine, directed by the animus and that such representations reduce the notion of 'organization' to abstract relationships, rational actions and purposive behaviour. This challenging book will be of essential interest to all critical management theorists. With its innovative approach, it will also appeal to students, teachers, and all those looking for an approach to management that does justice to the complexity, ambivalence and chaos of the world of organizing.