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Transsexualism is not a new phenomenon, but only in the post-war era has the dream of a complete surgical sex change become a reality. In this book, the author tells the stories of real-life cases, some famous, and explores the motivations and liberations. By the author of Sex is not Compulsory.
Codependents are people who deny their genuine emotions and depend on others for their own sense of self-worth and self-esteem. They often excel at coping and caring, but have an underlying wish to comply and control. Codependency shows how to identify and break away from this condition.
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Discover why and how God is still necessary in the modern secular age in this lively debate-style book
It is now more than 100 years since the first woman became editor of a national newspaper. She lasted in the job only a few weeks... before being replaced by a man. Since then, scores of determined and ambitious women journalists have stormed the newspaper offices of Fleet Street, gradually beating down all the barriers that tried to keep them firmly out. Who were these extraordinary pioneering women? Their stories are all here, from the superstars such as Marje Proops, Claire Rayner, Jean Rook, Anne Robinson, Katharine Whitehorn, Jilly Cooper, Felicity Green, Nancy Banks Smith, Doreen Spooner, Sheila Black and Mary Stott, to the supporting cast who largely toiled without any recognition. Many of these women blasted their way into jobs previously reserved exclusively for men and they dared to write about things that had never been written about before in the public prints, for a large and grateful readership. Here is the story of Fleet Street in its bold, brash, powerful, influential - and often alcohol-soaked - heyday, and of the women who, by their courage, persistence and sheer talent, feminised and humanised national newspaper journalism.
Dadi Janki; the unusual subject of this biography; presides over a unique global spiritual empire run and led by women. Born in 1916 into a traditional Hindu family; she was expected to follow the standard pattern for Indian women of the day; which was to succumb to an arranged marriage at the earliest possible opportunity and then disappear from view. But she had other ideas. Since the age of two; she has only ever wanted to connect to one being; and that is God. She never sought nor desired any other relationship and she managed to escape her unwanted marriage in order to dedicate her life to spiritual study; service and contemplation. She joined the Brahma Kumaris; then in its infancy; in...
A witty memoir about the trials of adolescence, the tribulations of family life and the embarrassment that ensues from having larger-than-life parents
TRUE STORIES. The story of the world's first female-to-male transsexual, revised and reissued...