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It Seemed Important at the Time - A Romance Memoir (Paperback): Gloria Vanderbilt It Seemed Important at the Time - A Romance Memoir (Paperback)
Gloria Vanderbilt
R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An elegant, witty, frank, touching, and deeply personal account of the loves both great and fleeting in the life of one of America's most celebrated and fabled women.

Born to great wealth yet kept a virtual prisoner by the custody battle that raged between her proper aunt and her self-absorbed, beautiful mother, Gloria Vanderbilt grew up in a special world. Stunningly beautiful herself, yet insecure and with a touch of wildness, she set out at a very early age to find romance. And find it she did. There were love affairs with Howard Hughes, Bill Paley, and Frank Sinatra, to name a few, and one-night stands, which she writes about with delicacy and humor, including one with the young Marlon Brando. There were marriages to men as diverse as Pat De Cicco, who abused her; the legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski, who kept his innermost secrets from her; film director Sidney Lumet; and finally writer Wyatt Cooper, the love of her life.

Now, in an irresistible memoir that is at once ruthlessly forthright, supremely stylish, full of fascinating details, and deeply touching, Gloria Vanderbilt writes at last about the subject on which she has hitherto been silent: the men in her life, why she loved them, and what each affair or marriage meant to her. This is the candid and captivating account of a life that has kept gossip writers speculating for years, as well as Gloria's own intimate description of growing up, living, marrying, and loving in the glare of the limelight and becoming, despite a family as famous and wealthy as America has ever produced, not only her own person but an artist, a designer, a businesswoman, and a writer of rare distinction.

Raised By A Village - My Story (Hardcover): Imodale Caulker-Burnett Raised By A Village - My Story (Hardcover)
Imodale Caulker-Burnett
R949 Discovery Miles 9 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
1000 Women In Horror, 1895-2018 (hardback) (Hardcover): Alexandra Heller-Nicholas 1000 Women In Horror, 1895-2018 (hardback) (Hardcover)
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
R1,468 Discovery Miles 14 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Men Under Construction - Challenges and Prospects (Hardcover): Murray Stein Men Under Construction - Challenges and Prospects (Hardcover)
Murray Stein
R1,172 Discovery Miles 11 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
I Miss the Rain in Africa - Peace Corps as a Third Act (Hardcover): Nancy Daniel Wesson I Miss the Rain in Africa - Peace Corps as a Third Act (Hardcover)
Nancy Daniel Wesson
R785 Discovery Miles 7 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Won by Love (Paperback): Norma McCorvey Won by Love (Paperback)
Norma McCorvey; As told to Gary Thomas
R438 R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Save R23 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this autobiography by Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade," you have the opportunity to read the behind-the-scenes report of one of this century's most surprising and public confessions of faith.

Crushing It - How I Crushed Diet Culture, Addiction & the Patriarchy (Hardcover): Kortney Olson Crushing It - How I Crushed Diet Culture, Addiction & the Patriarchy (Hardcover)
Kortney Olson; Edited by Nikole Edwards
R1,223 Discovery Miles 12 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
My Brother, the King (Hardcover): Jubilee Lipsey My Brother, the King (Hardcover)
Jubilee Lipsey
R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Gender Equity in the Medical Profession - Emerging Research and Opportunities (Hardcover): Maria Irene Bellini, Vassilios E.... Gender Equity in the Medical Profession - Emerging Research and Opportunities (Hardcover)
Maria Irene Bellini, Vassilios E. Papalois
R7,874 Discovery Miles 78 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The presence of women in the practice of medicine extends back to ancient times; however, up until the last few decades, women have comprised only a small percentage of medical students. The gradual acceptance of women in male-dominated specialties has increased, but a commitment to improving gender equity in the medical community within leadership positions and in the academic world is still being discussed. Gender Equity in the Medical Profession: Emerging Research and Opportunities delivers essential discourse on strategically handling discrimination within medical school, training programs, and consultancy positions in order to eradicate sexism from the workplace. Featuring research on topics such as gender diversity, leadership roles, and imposter syndrome, this book is ideally designed for health professionals, doctors, nurses, hospital staff, hospital directors, board members, activists, instructors, researchers, academicians, and students seeking coverage on strategies that tackle gender equity in medical education.

Girls, Assassins & Other Bad Ideas (Hardcover): Mae Wagner Girls, Assassins & Other Bad Ideas (Hardcover)
Mae Wagner
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Liminal Spaces - Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Grace Aneiza Ali Liminal Spaces - Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Grace Aneiza Ali
R1,468 Discovery Miles 14 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Samanta's Story - One Story, Many Victims (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Olalekan Ojo... Samanta's Story - One Story, Many Victims (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Olalekan Ojo Ogungbemi, Ali Karim, Hannah Kirsch
R788 Discovery Miles 7 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Finding Me (Hardcover): Inocencia Tupas Malunes Finding Me (Hardcover)
Inocencia Tupas Malunes; Contributions by Sandra Lee, Fermin Rodriguez
R651 Discovery Miles 6 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Queer Euripides - Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy (Hardcover): Sarah Olsen, Mario Telo Queer Euripides - Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy (Hardcover)
Sarah Olsen, Mario Telo
R2,862 Discovery Miles 28 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy have only recently begun to engage with queer theory and its ongoing developments. Queer Euripides represents a vital step in exploring the productive perspectives on classical literature afforded by the critical study of orientations, identities, affects and experiences that unsettle not only prescriptive understandings of gender and sexuality, but also normative social structures and relations more broadly. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by experts in classical studies, English literature, performance and critical theory, this carefully curated collection of incisive and provocative readings of each surviving play draws upon queer models of temporality, subjectivity, feeling, relationality and poetic form to consider "queerness" both as and beyond sexuality. Rather than adhering to a single school of thought, these close readings showcase the multiple ways in which queer theory opens up new vantage points on the politics, aesthetics and performative force of Euripidean drama. They further demonstrate how the analytical frameworks developed by queer theorists in the last thirty years deeply resonate with the ways in which Euripides' plays twist poetic form in order to challenge well-established modes of the social. By establishing how Greek tragedy can itself be a resource for theorizing queerness, the book sets the stage for a new model of engaging with ancient literature, which challenges current interpretive methods, explores experimental paradigms, and reconceptualizes the practice of reading to place it firmly at the center of the interpretive act.

Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Americas - Intersectionality, Power, and Struggles for Rights... Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Americas - Intersectionality, Power, and Struggles for Rights (Hardcover)
Leandra Hinojosa Hernandez, Sarah De Los Santos Upton
R3,586 R2,525 Discovery Miles 25 250 Save R1,061 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Americas: Intersectionality, Power, and Struggles for Rights utilizes an intersectional Chicana feminist approach to analyze reproductive and gendered violence against women in the Americas and the role of feminist activism through case studies including the current state of reproductive justice in Texas, feminicides in Latin America, raising awareness about Ni Una Mas and anti-feminicidal activism in Ciudad Juarez, and reproductive rights in Latin America amidst the Zika virus. Each of these contemporary contexts provides new insights into the relationships between and among feminist activism; reproductive health; the role of the state, local governments, health organizations, and the media; and the women of color who are affected by the interplay of these discourses, mandates, and activist efforts.

Badhai - Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia (Hardcover): Adnan Hossain, Claire Pamment, Jeff Roy Badhai - Hijra-Khwaja Sira-Trans Performance across Borders in South Asia (Hardcover)
Adnan Hossain, Claire Pamment, Jeff Roy; Series edited by Simon. Shepherd
R2,327 Discovery Miles 23 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai's repertoires of songs, dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by socially marginalised hijra, khwaja sira, and trans communities. They commemorate weddings, births and other celebratory heteronormative events. The form is improvisational and responds to particular contexts, but also moves across borders, including those of nation, religion, genre, and identity. This collaboratively authored book draws from anthropology, theatre and performance studies, music and sound studies, ethnomusicology, queer and transgender studies, and sustained ethnographic fieldwork to examine badhai's place-based dynamics, transcultural features, and communications across the hijrascape. This vital study explores the form's changing status and analyses these performances' layered, scalar, and sensorial practices, to extend ways of understanding hijra-khwaja sira-trans performance.

Wild Women of Michigan - A History of Spunk and Tenacity (Paperback): Norma Lewis Wild Women of Michigan - A History of Spunk and Tenacity (Paperback)
Norma Lewis
R609 R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Save R51 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Daddy Issues (Hardcover): Tammy Campbell Brooks Daddy Issues (Hardcover)
Tammy Campbell Brooks
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sala's Gift - My Mother's Holocaust Story (Paperback, Annotated edition): Ann Kirschner Sala's Gift - My Mother's Holocaust Story (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Ann Kirschner
R497 R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For nearly fifty years, Sala Kirschner kept a secret: She had survived five years as a slave in seven different Nazi work camps. Living in America after the war, she kept hidden from her children any hint of her epic, inhuman odyssey. She held on to more than 350 letters, photographs, and a diary without ever mentioning them. Only in 1991, on the eve of heart surgery, did she suddenly present them to Ann, her daughter, and offer to answer any questions Ann wished to ask.

When Sala first reported to a camp in Geppersdorf, Germany, at the age of sixteen, she thought it would be for six weeks. Five years later, she was still at a labor camp and only she and two of her sisters remained alive of an extended family of fifty.

"Sala's Gift" is a heartbreaking, eye-opening story of survival and love amidst history's worst nightmare.

Crack Baby (Hardcover): Nyree Watkins Crack Baby (Hardcover)
Nyree Watkins
R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome (Hardcover): Sara Elise Phang Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome (Hardcover)
Sara Elise Phang
R2,081 Discovery Miles 20 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides an invaluable introduction to the social, economic, and legal status of women in ancient Rome. Daily Life of Women in Ancient Rome is an invaluable introduction to the lives of women in the late Roman Republic and first three centuries of the Roman Empire. Arranged chronologically and thematically, it examines how Roman women were born, educated, married, and active in economic, social, public, and religious life, as well as how they were commemorated and honored after death. Though they were excluded from formal public and military offices, wealthy Roman women participated in public life as benefactors and in religious life as priestesses. The book also acknowledges the status and occupations of women taking part in public life as textile producers, retail workers, and agricultural laborers, as well as enslaved women. The book provides a thorough introduction to the social history of women in the Roman world and gives students and aspiring scholars references to current scholarship and to primary literary and documentary sources, including collected sources in translation. Provides students of classical or women's history with a chronologically and thematically oriented introduction to the demography, legal and social status, life stages, social and public roles, occupations, and leisure activities of women in Roman society Emphasizes primary literary and documentary sources and provides accessible references to further reading and research Focuses on the diversity of Roman women's experiences across the social hierarchy Discusses both the limitations that women faced (e.g., in Roman law and custom) and how they negotiated or transcended these limitations Includes visually interesting images that enhance the text

Not Simply Broken (Hardcover): Betty Khalili Not Simply Broken (Hardcover)
Betty Khalili
R477 R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Whose Comfort?: Body, Sexuality And Identity Of Korean 'Comfort Women' And Japanese Soldiers During Wwii (Paperback):... Whose Comfort?: Body, Sexuality And Identity Of Korean 'Comfort Women' And Japanese Soldiers During Wwii (Paperback)
Yonson Ahn
R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years, international attention has been recurrently drawn to violence against civilians including sexual violence during war as a means of furthering military or political goals. The ongoing issue of comfort women has been debated not only among Asian countries including Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, and the Philippines but also in numerous international forums.This book examines the system of military comfort women in Asia and the Pacific created and maintained by Japan during World War II. It uses the comfort women system as a lens for exploring the ways in which body, sexuality and identity are deployed in the creation of patriarchal relations, ethnic hierarchies, and colonial/nationalist power. This book analyzes the role and nature of the comfort women system as a mechanism of social control by the colonial state. This requires the examining of sexuality and body politics, the social background of the victims, wartime working conditions, and regulation of soldiers' sexuality.This book aims to contribute to both the academic community and the community of civic groups through a work that spans the dimensions of history, theory and activism.

The Autobiography of a Working Woman (Hardcover): Adelheid Popp The Autobiography of a Working Woman (Hardcover)
Adelheid Popp
R830 Discovery Miles 8 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
She Found His Grace - A True Story Of Hope, Love, And Forgiveness After Abortion (Hardcover): Serena Dyksen She Found His Grace - A True Story Of Hope, Love, And Forgiveness After Abortion (Hardcover)
Serena Dyksen; As told to Julie Klose
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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