Best Women's Studies History
The author describes growing up in an Africa that no longer exists, training and breeding race horses, flying mail to Sudan, and being the first woman to fly the Atlantic from east to west. Markham's West with the Night was originally published in the early 1940s and disappeared, only to be rediscovered and reprinted in the 1980s when it became a smash hit.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My book club choose this for a month I was unable to attend, so I'm just now catching up with it."
"I thought that the people she interacted with were all pretty flat characters and I didn't feel like I even got to know Beryl herself."
"I did have to skip ahead in some places, when her amazing descriptions of the African savannah and its beautiful wildlife ended with the inevitable hunting scene."
"This book was recommended to me by a friend who was raised in Africa because I am traveling there soon."
"Despite viewing colonial Africa more critically through the lens of history, this book remains a wonderful adventure tale of a woman far ahead of her time."
"The descriptions of African life and extremely unusual situations, the knowledge of horses and a racing and finally the pioneering of flight are all so well written they draw one in as If you were a participant."
"A life few of us could imagine, full of adventure, danger, daring."
"Best book I've read in a while, great adventure story, descriptions like poetry."
It provides verification that a better future is possible—and is in fact firmly rooted in the haunting dramas of what happened in our past. Women played leading roles in the first Christian communities; Jesus' teachings had a feminist bent; ancient Hebrews worshipped the prehistoric goddess-mother well into monarchic times; and Nazis, with their system of male dominance, were a direct throwback to the Indo-European or Aryan invaders whom they crudely imitated.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"An amazingly informative book that has answered many of my questions as a student of history, politics and life."
"A classic in my library & now I'm glad to change over to a hard-bound copy for durability over the years."
"This was one of the most enlightening books I've ever read!"
"Good."
"Knowledge none can live without."
"This book was very enlightening."
"Great book."
In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade. What is astonishing is that Fessler, a photographer and video installation artist writing her debut book, manages to tell this compelling story with a perfectly honed sense of restraint and respect.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Ready this book to hear stories from many women."
"I happened upon this book after I read the book The Baby Thief."
"This was very interesting reading about the unwed mothers who gave up their babies for adoption."
"She has passed away, so I never met her, but I did find and actually meet my younger brother and sister and their spouses and kids last November. My brother's wife read it and said it was good, but it didn't have the same impact as it did on my sister and I. I only wish I could have met my mother to let her know what she did was ok, she was not to blame and that it all turned out good."
"I remember my parents telling me and my sister that if we ever got pregnant don't bother coming home."
"It was great to read the individual accounts of the impact it made on so many lives and that the recovery continues to haunt so many today."
"This book is the product of many interviews that the author (an adoptee) conducted with birth mothers from the "Baby Scoop Era" -- Post WWII to 1973 and the passage of Roe v. Wade. The stories of other women who found themselves single and pregnant in an era where single motherhood wasn't accepted gave me insight into what my birth mother experienced when she became pregnant at 19. The birth mother's stories told in this book speak honestly and openly to the secrecy and the shame that they experienced when they became pregnant."
"The way these young women were treated by their families as well as the "homes" is unforgiveable and they are all owed an apology by our various state and federal governments for their inhumane treatment."
Best Men's Gender Studies
And every little has dreams, big dreams, dreams of being the hero, of beating the bad guys, of doing daring feats and rescuing the damsel in distress. John Eldredge revises and updates his best-selling, renowned Christian classic, Wild at Heart , and in it invites men to recover their masculine heart, defined in the image of a passionate God. John and his wife, Stasi, live near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It's been sad to read "christians" tear down this message, trying to hyper-critique the ways John shares stories from the Bible or how he speaks to men. If you're the type that feels it's your god-given duty to scour the texts of books to find all "the errors" and expose "heresy", I'm sure you can (or already have) gleefully torn away at John's message. Stop hiding behind your computer or your pulpit or your religious duties or your secret addictions and find the wide open spaces of life!"
"for them (late teens, early 20s) and for me (40, married, father of 5) WAH is loaded with good stuff, that not many people are saying."
"Quite the contrary, the book addresses both of these mentalities as the farce they are and seeks rather to understand the true driving force of a mans heart, and what God intended for him to be. I would encourage any woman to take the time to read this book, as it will not only illuminate much of the heart of the men in your life, it will also directly deal with some of the impacts they (especially Fathers) have had on you, whether positive or negative. As a man, it has opened my eyes to the driving desires of my own heart, helped me recognize the lies I tell myself and have been told, and helped me understand the importance of what it really means to be a Man."
"Eldredge does a good job of addressing how it "feels" to be a man, and the way childhood trauma affects our masculinity into adulthood."
"He actually helped me to understand better God's desire for His own glory (Jonathan Edwards, John Piper)."
"I expected to be reading more about man connecting with God than man connecting with nature- or with God through nature."
"I'm a city slicker and I spend lots of time in the Australian bush on multi day solo hikes but I don't mystify the great outdoors as Eldredge does."
Best General Gender Studies
Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype.
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"My friend who is healing from trauma finds this book to be a wonderful read."
"LOVE THIS BOOK!"
"I read it years ago and gave it to a young friend of mine."
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"One of my favorite reads ever."
"This is the best book I've ever read."