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A Merciful End
While it may seem that debates over euthanasia began with Jack Kervorkian, the practice of mercy killing extends back to Ancient Greece and beyond. In America, the debate has raged for well over a century. Now, in A Merciful End, Ian Dowbiggin offers the first full-scale historical account of one of the most controversial reform movements in America. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of the Euthanasia Society of America, interviews with important figures in the movement today, and flashpoint cases such as the tragic fate of Karen Ann Quinlan, Dowbiggin tells the dramatic story of the men and women who struggled throughout the twentieth century to change the nation's attitude--a...
My Wife and My Mother
A biography of Frances Elizabeth Merrill Barbour and Naomi Humphrey Barbour. Francis was born 25 May 1824 in Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut. Her parents were Merlin Merrill and Clarissa Newton. She married Heman Humphrey Barbour, son of Henry Barbour and Naomi Humphrey, 23 October 1845 in Barkhamsted, Connecticut. They had ten children. Frances died 17 October 1863. Naomi Humphrey Barbour died 7 January 1863.
God Has Spoken
How hard is it to forgive? After discovering that her boss and mentor is actually the biological mother who had abandoned her as a baby, the Good Samaritan police officer who worked his way into her life is really her birth father, and her best friend is her biological brother, Dupree is left distraught and betrayed. She vows to have nothing to do with her newly discovered family. If Mrs. Eleanor Humphrey, A.K.A Tiny, has anything to say about it, Dupree won’t be able to keep that vow. How does a former teenaged runaway become a wealthy, sophisticated business executive? Tiny’s quest for happiness and independence in Kingston, Jamaica has taken her to hell and back. After a vicious attack and a serious sickness that leaves her fighting for her life in the hospital, Tiny prays for death, but then God speaks. Will she listen to His voice? What exactly is He saying?
Kindred Spirits
Sara realizes she might not the only one with amazing paranormal powers. Sara is used to having visions, but she has no idea why she keeps seeing a cute blonde she’s dubbed “Mystery Boy”…and then she meets him. Mason isn’t all that friendly, yet Sara feels drawn to him, and the two begin spending more and more time together. Sara isn’t sure she even likes him, but she can’t stop thinking about him. And the strangest things seem to happen whenever the two are together... Meanwhile, Sara begins to suspect that she has developed another power: telekenesis. Lady Azura insists she is mistaken, but the more research Sara does, the surer she is that she—or someone close to her—has the rare and awesome ability to move objects with the mind. The question is, who is it?
Woman of Valor
This illuminating biography of Margaret Sanger—the woman who fought for birth control in America—describes her childhood, her private life, her relationships with Emma Goldman and John Reed, her public role, and more. Margaret Sanger went to jail in 1917 for distributing contraceptives to immigrant women in a makeshift clinic in Brooklyn. She died a half-century later, just after the Supreme Court guaranteed constitutional protection for the use of contraceptives. Now, Ellen Chesler provides an authoritative and widely acclaimed biography of this great emancipator, whose lifelong struggle helped women gain control over their own bodies. An idealist who mastered practical politics, Sanger...
A Forward Glance
In June 1923, Edith Wharton, who had not set foot on native soil since before the First World War, came home to accept an honorary degree from Yale University. In April 1995, friends of Wharton again convened at Yale. The essays collected in "A Forward Glance: New Essays on Edith Wharton" represent a portion of the ocmplex and varied scholarly work delivered at that conference. -- From publisher's description.
Coming into Communion
Explores the lives and religious imaginations of colonial women and the contributions they made to colonial religious discourse.
The Moral Property of Women
Now in paperback, The Moral Property of Women is a thoroughly updated and revised version of the award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s classic study, Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right (1976). It is the only book to cover the entire history of the intense controversies about reproductive rights that have raged in the United States for more than 150 years. Arguing that reproduction control has always been central to women’s status, Gordon shows how opposition to it has long been part of the entrenched opposition to gender equality.
Casualties of Indulgence
Since 1972 more than 40 million legal abortions have been performed in the United States. Of these, a vast number of young girls below the age of 19 have been privy to the heart-wrenching circumstances leading to an unwanted pregnancy and its subsequent termination. The author, Pheobe Lee, born the year America legalized abortion, shares the tragic details leading up to her own personal experience with abortion at age fourteen. And, the pain and denial following her many years thereafter. After providing an account of these tragic events, she gives the reader an in-your-face look at the politics and finances revolving around abortion today. Concluding many so-called pro-life proponents are just as guilty of perpetuating the great number of unnecessary abortions as their pro-choice rivals. Casualties of Indulgence not only defines the millions of innocent's lost to abortion as the casualties but also clearly shows how our behavior as a society victimizes our younger generation for the sake of our own indulgences. An easy yet fulfilling read bound to create many questions among all sides of the debate.
Encyclopedia of American Literature
Susan Clair Imbarrato, Carol Berkin, Brett Barney, Lisa Paddock, Matthew J. Bruccoli, George Parker Anderson, Judith S.
