Women's Studies
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-01-24 | Author:Simone de Beauvoir [Beauvoir, Simone de]

Irène Reweliotty comments: To be accepted by men, you have to think and act like them; if you don’t, they treat you like a black sheep, and solitude becomes your ...
( Category: Existentialism March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Freedman, Estelle [Freedman, Estelle]

FEMINISM AND BODY POLITICS Western feminists initially responded to medicalization and commercialization by demanding women’s control over their own bodies, a principle grounded in the political theory of individual rights. ...
( Category: Specific Demographics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2007-04-01 | Author:Jessica Valenti

A whopping $72 billion per year is spent on weddings. Imagine if, for every panic attack over a date outfit or unreturned phone call, we instead stressed about our professional ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-03-01 | Author:Naomi Wolf

Hunger I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving…. —Allen Ginsberg, “Howl” There is a disease spreading. It taps on the shoulder America’s firstborn sons, its ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Geraldine Brooks

Later that year the king’s democratic initiative bore fruit in an election that left Islamic hard-liners dominating the Parliament. Just before the election, a delegation of liberal-minded Jordanians had come ...
( Category: Women in Islam March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

6. Thou shalt not kill. There are a few religious fanatics around who will want to kill me because I have become an atheist, and because—by killing me—they will secure ...
( Category: Political Advocacy March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Nicholas D. Kristof; Sheryl WuDunn

Thabang in front of the shack she dreads in South Africa, where her mother is dying of AIDS (Nicholas D. Kristof) “I’m a virgin, whatever my mother says,” Thabang said, ...
( Category: Women's Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-01 | Author:Jane Rogers

Chapter 14 When Alan and Carolyn had been married for four years, Alan’s grandmother (Lucy’s mother) died, leaving him and Pamela £20,000 each. Everyone was surprised. Lucy and her mother ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Margaret Walters

5. The cover of Ethel Smyth’s 1911 song-sheet for the WSPU proclaims ‘The March of the Women’ towards the vote. She uses the suffragette colours – green, purple, and white ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-13 | Author:Dorothy B. Hughes

Chapter Five PURSUED BY THE F.B.I. Julie saw nothing in the room, not shapes, not shadows in the firelight. Her choked voice alone had function, crying hoarsely, “Please help me. ...
( Category: Women Writers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-20 | Author:Patricia Highsmith

14 IT was Friday, July 28th, before they got back to Hammamet. They had visited the city of Medinine and the island of Djerba. They had roughed it in a ...
( Category: Psychological Thrillers March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-26 | Author:Elin Hilderbrand

JAKE In his shed, even with the door closed and a feather pillow over his head, he could still hear them: “You’re never around… . Always at the newspaper. God, ...
( Category: Small Town & Rural March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2012-01-28 | Author:Paul Bowles

Chapter XXI IT WAS A LONG NIGHT. They came to a bordj built into the side of a cliff. The overhead light was turned on. The young Arab just in ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Emily Giffin

Valerie As the days turn colder and shorter, they both continue to pretend. They pretend that the visits and phone conversations and texts are the normal course of doctor-patient follow-up. ...
( Category: Mothers & Children March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-15 | Author:Marian Keyes

1) He did tai chi 2) He had a 'thing' about prawns — he wasn't allergic, he just didn't like them 3) One of his feet was half a size ...
( Category: Humorous March 25,2014 )