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The Battle for Algeria offers a new interpretation of the Algerian War (1954-1962) that highlights the social dimensions of the National Liberation Front's winning strategy, specifically its health care and humanitarianism programs, which targeted the local and international arenas and directly contributed to Algerian sovereignty.
Offering an intimate look at the lives of African women trying to reconcile motherhood with new professional roles, the author argues that Beti women delay motherhood as part of a broader attempt to assert a modern form of honor only recently made possible by formal education, Catholicism, and economic change.
Some say the fetus is the "tiniest citizen." If so, then the bodies of women themselves have become political arenas - or, recent cases suggest, battlefields: A cocaine-addicted mother is convicted of drug trafficking through the umbilical cord. Women employees at a battery plant must prove infertility to keep their jobs. A terminally ill woman is forced to undergo a cesarean section. No longer concerned with conception or motherhood, the new politics of fetal rights focuses on fertility and pregnancy itself, on a woman's relationship with the fetus. How exactly, Cynthia Daniels asks, does this affect a woman's rights? Are they different from a man's? And how has the state helped determine t...
No so terribly long ago, Heather McElhatton’s flawed, neurotic, yet lovable average American heroine Jennifer Johnson was sick of being single. Now Jennifer Johnson is Sick of Being Married. The author who brought us the wildly popular Pretty Little Mistakes now favors readers with the next delectably eventful chapter in Jennifer’s life, as her new fairy tale marriage (to the wealthy son of a department store tycoon) hits a serious snag, thanks in no small part to a honeymoon-from-hell in a fundamentalist Christian compound and the prospect of a life of bizarre servitude to her devout mother-in-law’s church committee. This is outrageously funny, wonderfully edgy contemporary women’s fiction in the Helen Fielding and Sophie Kinsella mode that anyone who has ever laughed at the raunchy humor of Sarah Silverman or Chelsea Handler is going to love.
I fondly dedicate this book to all the midnight coffee-campers in coffee shops and diners around the world. "My hands are loosely resting On a large brown steering wheel. There is loud, Sensually rhythmic music Pounding from my speakers. I am alone." - [A Drive In The Dark] "Picking Shards of glass From a Broken picture frame I am reminded Of myself." - [Nervous Laughter] "He said, She said, The wall said nothing In reply to all their Nothing." - [In Reply To Nothing]
Not until the eighteenth century was the image of the tender, full-time mother invented. This image retains its power today. Inventing Maternity demonstrates that, despite its association with an increasingly standardized set of values, motherhood remained contested terrain. Drawing on feminist, cultural, and postcolonial theory, Inventing Maternity surveys a wide range of sources—medical texts, political tracts, religious doctrine, poems, novels, slave narratives, conduct books, and cookbooks. The first half of the volume, covering the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries, considers central debates about fetal development, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and childbearing. The second...
Jennifer Johnson, a powerful witness of the transformative power of God's love in her own life, has written an emotionally-draining, heart-wrenching, touching story, The Kingdom Child, of a family's faith journey as it has to deal with the unexpected, tragic loss of their teenage son. This book will definitely encourage you to carefully examine the foundations of your Christian faith, to make sure it is built on a firm foundation that will not be shaken when the storms of life come, and to encourage you to surrender completely to the Spirit, so the Spirit can conform you to the Image of God's Son, so God's Kingdom purposes can be achieved through you on earth as it is in heaven, so that your light will shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven!
The standards of success, defined by the corporate world often force us to choose between integrity or profitability. How far will we go to please the world, even if it means denying our faith in the process? When we define our importance based on how much money we make and the titles on our business cards, we risk going against the standards of success that God expects us to live by. We will have to choose between living for creation or living for our Creator. The choice we make will determine our true faith and fellowship with Jesus Christ. *Gain valuable insight on how to apply the Christian faith and biblical principles to the corporate world, resulting in a more successful and prosperou...