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The journey to overcome one of the world’s most prevalent taboos is proof that no divide is impossible to bridge. This is the story of one woman’s path to create a grassroots effort that has now helped nearly 3 million women and girls in 145 countries on 6 continents—and isn’t stopping there. Every month, millions of girls and women around the world miss school and work during their periods because they don’t have access to menstrual products such as pads or tampons. In 2008, Celeste Mergens was working with an overcrowded orphanage on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya, when she learned that menstruating girls there sat on cardboard in their rooms for several days each month. This se...
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 You can't sell yourself short if you've got a correct vision of yourself. If you're tired of doing the same things in the same way, you can decide to leave behind the life of mediocrity and pursue a life of greatness. #2 Life passed me by and I found myself questioning whether what I’m doing matters at all. I’m tempted to quit my job and try my luck elsewhere. I was born in 1961 and grew up in a small town in Western Pennsylvania. My family were the first generation in our family to go to college, and I went to college myself, earning a BS in History from the University of Pittsburgh. This was the ...
The Managed Body productively complicates ‘menstrual hygiene management’ (MHM)—a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in the Global South. Bobel offers an invested critique of the complicated discourses of MHM including its conceptual and practical links with the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) development sector, human rights and ‘the girling of development.’ Drawing on analysis of in-depth interviews, participant observations and the digital materials of NGOs and social businesses, Bobel shows how MHM frames problems and solutions to capture attention and direct resources to this highly-tabooed topic. She asserts that MHM organizations often inadvertently re...
For fans of World War II fiction and historical mysteries, the Beatrix Patterson Mysteries are sure to keep readers turning pages. Beatrix has a particularly gifted memory that often gets her into trouble while giving her the means to help others. Follow her through World War II and the following years. The Seer, The Finder, and The Pursuer in one convenient ebook boxed set.
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Beyond his playing days and into adulthood as a budding writer."--Jacket.
"Explores the subject of menstruation, from toxic historic and religious roots to how young activists are challenging the silence and shame that can erode self-esteem and even threaten lives ..."--Page 4 of cover.
"The final book by the internationally bestselling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People."--Jacket.
What if your menstrual cycle was a map for living in flow?The greatest trick the patriarchy ever pulled was separating women from their cycles. It pitted us against each other (and ourselves), turning one of our greatest power sources into something 'gross' and 'unclean' - a 'curse' to be ashamed of.As a result, we've forgotten that our energy levels naturally wax and wane each month. Instead, we live our lives constantly pushing, striving and doing - ending up burnt out and disempowered. And 90% of us will have a hormonal imbalance.This book proposes a revolutionary alternative: one of honoring your natural cycle, and planning your life and business in flow with it. As you journey through these pages, you'll learn how to live, eat and work in beautiful alignment with your individual flow.It's time to reconnect with the power in your period.Are you ready to join the revolution?
The northwestern edge of North America is a final edge to settle on a finite planet. Where does mankind go from here? Where else have we not settled, altered, and consumed? Author Susan Zwinger suspects that we have saved this wild edge for last because its geography is punched, exploded, ground, and drenched. Its forest of enormous trees once created a boundary difficult to penetrate, let alone farm. Yet, today this wildness is under threat, as civilization bores its way into even this remote edge.