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Author: Chioma Obiefuna Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1456787705 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 70
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The book is about the many facets of the life of the single woman in the West African country, Nigeria. Using real life (but fictionalized) tales of some of these single women's experiences to add colour, it paints a picture of the many stereotypes, general perceptions and attitudes towards the mature single woman in a more conservative society. It also highlights some of the every day challenges these women face as they remain unattached. The book adopts a humorous, yet story telling, approach to an issue that has become a major conversation header in the Nigerian society. It ends with advice on how woman can live their single lives fearlessly and without apologies.
Author: Chioma Obiefuna Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1456787705 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 70
Book Description
The book is about the many facets of the life of the single woman in the West African country, Nigeria. Using real life (but fictionalized) tales of some of these single women's experiences to add colour, it paints a picture of the many stereotypes, general perceptions and attitudes towards the mature single woman in a more conservative society. It also highlights some of the every day challenges these women face as they remain unattached. The book adopts a humorous, yet story telling, approach to an issue that has become a major conversation header in the Nigerian society. It ends with advice on how woman can live their single lives fearlessly and without apologies.
Author: Rebecca Traister Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476716579 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
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"Today, only twenty percent of Americans are wed by age twenty-nine, compared to nearly sixty percent in 1960. The Population Reference Bureau calls it a 'dramatic reversal.' [This book presents a] portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here, through the lens of the single American woman, covering class, race, [and] sexual orientation, and filled with ... anecdotes from ... contemporary and historical figures"--
Author: Chiyo Uno Publisher: Pushkin Press Classics ISBN: 1805332325 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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A piercingly beautiful and candid novel of love, sex and independence in 1920s Japan by a trailblazing Japanese writer “Remarkable . . . [Chiyo] has a hard, unerring eye for the tender detail” — Financial Times She left her home, just a girl, determined to live alone. But wasn’t this the very life her late father had most fervently forbidden? As an older woman, Kazue looks back on her tumultuous younger years with piercing clarity. Growing up in a tiny Japanese mountain village at the start of the 20th century, her life was shadowed by the demands and expectations of her troubled, alcoholic father. When her family arrange for her to marry a cousin when she is still a young teenager, Kazue stays with the boy for only 10 days before returning home alone. This is the beginning of a life of striking independence, one which will see Kazue forced to leave her home at eighteen following a love affair and that will take her first to Korea and then to Tokyo. Driven by her impulses and an indomitable spirit of hope, Kazue moves from one relationship to another, hungry for experience. Ultimately, she takes to writing as a means to live a life on her own terms. Candidly told and full of stunning imagery, The Story of a Single Woman is an autobiographical novel by one of Japan’s most significant 20th-century writers, a trailblazer who lived and wrote like no-one else.
Author: Susan Hartzler Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476684480 Category : Pets Languages : en Pages : 232
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At age 60, Susan Hartzler has learned to accept, even love, the single life, provided she has good friends and a dog or two by her side. Always attracted to the quintessential bad boy with his good looks and charming ways, she was sure she could change "the one" into a devoted partner and loving father, but her compulsive giving and fixing behaviors went hand in hand with her disappointing and disastrous romantic relationships. On a purposeful trip to the pound, she hoped to find a dog to care for, one that would sniff out the bad guys, give her a sense of purpose, and help her find meaning in her crazy world. Thoughtful and funny, this memoir follows Susan's life through the many ups and downs on her way to finding unconditional love. Her journey is a personal one, full of the hard decisions it took to learn to put herself first and stop entering and staying in unhealthy relationships. By saving a dog, she rescues herself, learning to love herself as much as her dog loves her.
Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062132571 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 270
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The perennial New York Times bestselling author returns with an emotionally resonant novel that illuminates the power of friendship in women’s lives, and is filled with her trademark wit, poignant and timely themes, sassy, flesh-and-blood characters, and the steamy Southern atmosphere and beauty of her beloved Carolina Lowcountry. Few writers capture the complexities, pain, and joy of relationships—between friends, family members, husbands and wives, or lovers—as beloved New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank. In this charming, evocative, soul-touching novel, she once again takes us deep into the heart of the magical Lowcountry where three amazing middle-aged women are bonded by another amazing woman’s death. Through their shared loss they forge a deep friendship, asking critical questions. Who was their friend and what did her life mean? Are they living the lives they imagined for themselves? Will they ever be able to afford to retire? How will they maximize their happiness? Security? Health? And ultimately, their own legacies? A plan is conceived and unfurls with each turn of the tide during one sweltering summer on the Isle of Palms. Without ever fully realizing how close they were to the edge, they finally triumph amid laughter and maybe even newfound love.
Author: Katherine Zoepf Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698411471 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 211
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For more than a decade, Katherine Zoepf has lived in or traveled throughout the Arab world, reporting on the lives of women, whose role in the region has never been more in flux. Only a generation ago, female adolescence as we know it in the West did not exist in the Middle East. There were only children and married women. Today, young Arab women outnumber men in universities, and a few are beginning to face down religious and social tradition in order to live independently, to delay marriage, and to pursue professional goals. Hundreds of thousands of devout girls and women are attending Qur’anic schools—and using the training to argue for greater rights and freedoms from an Islamic perspective. And, in 2011, young women helped to lead antigovernment protests in the Arab Spring. But their voices have not been heard. Their stories have not been told. In Syria, before its civil war, she documents a complex society in the midst of soul searching about its place in the world and about the role of women. In Lebanon, she documents a country that on the surface is freer than other Arab nations but whose women must balance extreme standards of self-presentation with Islamic codes of virtue. In Abu Dhabi, Zoepf reports on a generation of Arab women who’ve found freedom in work outside the home. In Saudi Arabia she chronicles driving protests and women entering the retail industry for the first time. In the aftermath of Tahrir Square, she examines the crucial role of women in Egypt's popular uprising. Deeply informed, heartfelt, and urgent, Excellent Daughters brings us a new understanding of the changing Arab societies—from 9/11 to Tahrir Square to the rise of ISIS—and gives voice to the remarkable women at the forefront of this change.
Author: Gregory Coles Publisher: InterVarsity Press ISBN: 0830890939 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 132
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In an age where neither society nor the church knows what to do with gay Christians, Greg Coles shares his story—a story about a boy in love with Jesus who, at the fateful onset of puberty, realized his sexual attractions were persistently and exclusively for other guys. This honest, hopeful account shows life through one man's eyes and assures all people: "You are not a mistake."
Author: Lori Gottlieb Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101185201 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 278
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An eye-opening, funny, painful, and always truthful in-depth examination of modern relationships, and a wake-up call for single women about getting real about Mr. Right, from the New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. You have a fulfilling job, great friends, and the perfect apartment. So what if you haven’t found “The One” just yet. He’ll come along someday, right? But what if he doesn’t? Or what if Mr. Right had been, well, Mr. Right in Front of You—but you passed him by? Nearing forty and still single, journalist Lori Gottlieb started to wonder: What makes for lasting romantic fulfillment, and are we looking for those qualities when we’re dating? Are we too picky about trivial things that don’t matter, and not picky enough about the often overlooked things that do? In Marry Him, Gottlieb explores an all-too-common dilemma—how to reconcile the desire for a happy marriage with a list of must-haves and deal-breakers so long and complicated that many great guys get misguidedly eliminated. On a quest to find the answer, Gottlieb sets out on her own journey in search of love, discovering wisdom and surprising insights from sociologists and neurobiologists, marital researchers and behavioral economists—as well as single and married men and women of all generations.
Author: 宇野千代 Publisher: ISBN: Category : Japan Languages : en Pages : 140
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In this novel based on her own scandalous life in 1920s Japan, Uno Chiyo follows her heroine, Kazue, from birth to her mid-thirties. In search of some intrinsic meaning to her dissolute life, Kazue recounts one amorous escapade after another in a delightful, insouciant tale of female self-discovery.
Author: Chioma Obiefuna
Author: Chioma Obiefuna
Author: Rebecca Traister
Author: Chiyo Uno
Author: Susan Hartzler
Author: Dorothea Benton Frank
Author: Katherine Zoepf
Author: Gregory Coles
Author: Lori Gottlieb
Author: Daria Snadowsky
Author: 宇野千代