Author: Mother M. AngelicaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781557940155
Category : Devotional literature
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Catholic pamphlet.
The Promised Woman
Author: Mother M. AngelicaPublisher:
ISBN: 9781557940155
Category : Devotional literature
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Catholic pamphlet.
The Promised Woman
Author: Mother M. AngelicaWomen in the "Promised Land"
Author: Nina Reid-MaroneyPublisher: Women's Press
ISBN: 088961606X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Women in the “Promised Land” reframes Canadian history through the lens of African Canadian women’s lived experiences. This collection of original essays spans the period from slavery and abolition through to women’s activism in the 20th century, focusing on themes of race, migration, gender, community, religion, and the struggle for social justice. Re-examining familiar figures in African Canadian women’s history, including abolitionist and feminist Mary Ann Shadd Cary and civil rights activist Viola Desmond, the volume considers them in the wider context of scholarship on Canada and the African diaspora. Drawing on insights from cultural studies, communications, literary studies, and visual culture, the contributing authors use rich primary sources to ground their analysis in the details of women’s historical experiences. Together, the chapters work to unsettle Canadian history and demonstrate its urgent relevance to the present, encouraging readers to interrogate the concept of Canada as a “promised land.” Edited by leading scholars in the field, this accessible, interdisciplinary collection includes suggested further readings, chapter overviews, and discussion questions, making it an essential read for students in women’s studies, African studies, and history.
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Author: Mother Mary AngelicaWoman on the Edge of Time
Author: Marge PiercyPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 044900094X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy’s landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futures—and what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before. Connie Ramos is a Mexican American woman living on the streets of New York. Once ambitious and proud, she has lost her child, her husband, her dignity—and now they want to take her sanity. After being unjustly committed to a mental institution, Connie is contacted by an envoy from the year 2137, who shows her a time of sexual and racial equality, environmental purity, and unprecedented self-actualization. But Connie also bears witness to another potential outcome: a society of grotesque exploitation in which the barrier between person and commodity has finally been eroded. One will become our world. And Connie herself may strike the decisive blow. Praise for Woman on the Edge of Time “This is one of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than we were at the beginning. Whether you are reading Marge Piercy’s great work again or for the first time, it will remind you that we are creating the future with every choice we make.”—Gloria Steinem “An ambitious, unusual novel about the possibilities for moral courage in contemporary society.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “A stunning, even astonishing novel . . . marvelous and compelling.”—Publishers Weekly “Connie Ramos’s world is cuttingly real.”—Newsweek “Absorbing and exciting.”—The New York Times Book Review
The Promise of Patriarchy
Author: Ula Yvette TaylorPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469633949
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization's men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles. Black women's experience in the NOI, however, has largely remained on the periphery of scholarship. Here, Ula Taylor documents their struggle to escape the devaluation of black womanhood while also clinging to the empowering promises of patriarchy. Taylor shows how, despite being relegated to a lifestyle that did not encourage working outside of the home, NOI women found freedom in being able to bypass the degrading experiences connected to labor performed largely by working-class black women and in raising and educating their children in racially affirming environments. Telling the stories of women like Clara Poole (wife of Elijah Muhammad) and Burnsteen Sharrieff (secretary to W. D. Fard, founder of the Allah Temple of Islam), Taylor offers a compelling narrative that explains how their decision to join a homegrown, male-controlled Islamic movement was a complicated act of self-preservation and self-love in Jim Crow America.
Bound for the Promised Land
Author: Kate Clifford LarsonPublisher: One World
ISBN: 0307514765
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The essential, “richly researched”* biography of Harriet Tubman, revealing a complex woman who “led a remarkable life, one that her race, her sex, and her origins make all the more extraordinary” (*The New York Times Book Review). Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Now, in this magnificent biography, historian Kate Clifford Larson gives us a powerful, intimate, meticulously detailed portrait of Tubman and her times. Drawing from a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical data, Larson presents Harriet Tubman as a complete human being—brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her pursuit of freedom. A true American hero, Tubman was also a woman who loved, suffered, and sacrificed. Praise for Bound for the Promised Land “[Bound for the Promised Land] appropriately reads like fiction, for Tubman’s exploits required such intelligence, physical stamina and pure fearlessness that only a very few would have even contemplated the feats that she actually undertook. . . . Larson captures Tubman’s determination and seeming imperviousness to pain and suffering, coupled with an extraordinary selflessness and caring for others.”—The Seattle Times “Essential for those interested in Tubman and her causes . . . Larson does an especially thorough job of . . . uncovering relevant documents, some of them long hidden by history and neglect.”—The Plain Dealer “Larson has captured Harriet Tubman’s clandestine nature . . . reading Ms. Larson made me wonder if Tubman is not, in fact, the greatest spy this country has ever produced.”—The New York Sun
The Promised Seed
Author: Lloyd A. AtabansiPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 146705982X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Origin of Evil, Mankind and the Godly Seed In thistrue storyAdam and his wife sinned, and brought a terrible consequence on the human race. Godjudges them, including the serpent,the one responsible for the fall of the human race. In His divine judgment, God declared that He will put enmity between the serpent and the woman, and between the serpents seed and her seed. Theserpents head will be crushed by the Seed of the woman, and the serpent will strike the Seeds heel and bruise Him, but that the Seed will strike the final and fatal blow. As a result of Adams sin, generations of men and women born into the world are death bound. Moved by great love, God intervenes, and sends His Son on a special mission. It would be the redemption of mankind through Gods only-begotten Son. To prevent thismission, the serpent movesto destroy the woman, and her Seed. But God never revealed the identity of the woman that would birth the Seed, and so, the serpent is left guessing and frustrated. His frustration forces him to become the unseen destroyer that would cause the deaths of Gods people throughout the ages of time. In his enmity against the woman, he tries all he can to prevent the Seed of God from being born into the world. He fails and the Seed finally comes into the world. Filled with great wrath, he wages fierce and brutal war on the promised Seed of God. Finally, he overcomes the Seed of God. But, did the serpent bruise the heel of the promised Seed, or did the promised Seed strike the final and fatal blow? Who will win the battle of the seeds? Find out in this thrilling and adventurous true story.
Worthy
Author: Elyse FitzpatrickPublisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493422669
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
What does the Bible say about the value of women? Does the Bible teach that women are as valuable as men or does it portray them as somehow more flawed, more suspect, or weak and easily deceived? Beginning from Genesis and working all the way through the storyline of the Bible, Worthy demonstrates the significant and yes, even surprising, ways that God has used women to accomplish His kingdom goals. Because, like men, they are created in His image, their lives reflect and declare His worth. Worthy will enable and encourage both men and women to embrace this true and lofty vision of God's creation, plan, and their value in His eyes. Bestselling author Elyse Fitzpatrick and pastor Eric Schumacher together invite women to embrace a transformative and empowering view of their Maker, themselves, and the church. But this isn't only a book for women. It is also a book for men, especially leaders, who want to grow in their understanding of God's perspective on women, people who normally make up the majority of their congregations; men who might be wondering if they've missed something amid the abuse scandals that are rocking the church. Might the headlines they're reading today about abuse have their roots in a denigration of the value and worth of women? Worthy: Celebrating the Value of Women will help every reader see the value, place, and calling of women through study questions and a "Digging Deeper" section that will help men and women discover how to cherish, value, and honor one another for God's glory.
The Promised Woman
Author: Stanley G. MathewsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Immaculate Conception
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description