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Queer parenthood: It's multifaceted. It's complex. And it is
constantly changing, as laws and culture shift around us. What's in
a Name? reflects on this complexity through the voices of
nonbiological/non-gestational queer mothers/parents who explore our
experiences parenting across our different social and familial
locations. The authors have all taken different routes to
parenting, live in different countries, and understand our
relationships to parenting through our own personal experiences.
What we share is a commitment to parenting beyond the limits of
biology, and of building families that are drawn together and
maintained by the love and labour of parenting. The fifteen essays
in this book address three key moments in our parenting journeys.
First, we examine the routes we took to parenting, with many of us
specifically focusing on the experience of being the "other" mother
while our partners were pregnant, and the particular fears,
anxieties, and triumphs that come with it. Second, we locate
ourselves "in the thick of it" as parents, where the experiences
shared among parents are colored by our particular experiences as
nonbiological/non-gestational mothers/parents. Finally, we reflect
on our identities, including the identity of "mother," and how
those grow, shift, and develop throughout our parenting journeys.
A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the
epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech -- for
fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark
Money. Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in
2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just
seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff
Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would buy the Post, marking a sudden
end to control by the venerated family that had presided over the
paper for 80 years. Just over two years later, Donald Trump won the
presidency. Now, the capital's newspaper, owned by one of the
world's richest men, was tasked with reporting on a president who
had campaigned against the press as the "lowest form of humanity."
Pressures on Baron and his colleagues were immense and unrelenting,
having to meet the demands of their new owner while contending with
a president who waged a war of unprecedented vitriol and vengeance
against the media. In the face of Trump's unceasing attacks, Baron
steadfastly managed the Post's newsroom. Their groundbreaking and
award-winning coverage included stories about Trump's purported
charitable giving, misconduct by the Secret Service, and Roy
Moore's troubling sexual history. At the same time, Baron managed a
restive staff during a period of rapidly changing societal dynamics
around gender and race. In Collision of Power, Baron recounts this
with the tenacity of a reporter and the sure hand of an experienced
editor. The result is elegant and revelatory--an urgent exploration
of the nature of power in the 21st century.
Yosef and Maryam is a love story. It is a work of fiction based on
the historical New Testament characters of Joseph and Mary, the
parents of Jesus. Original Aramaic/Hebrew names are given to all
the characters and places, so as to stress their normality. In the
New Testament, Joseph is mentioned in but a few sentences, then
disappears from the account altogether, without as much as a mere
mention of his passing. The novel tries to fill this gap in with a
fictional account that portrays the purely human aspect of these
biblical characters: they weren't born saints, and there wasn't
really any need for them to lead saintly lives. Indeed, it is
because they were merely human that they suffered greatly, as God
keeps expecting more and more of them. This is particularly so in
the case of Joseph, for it is explicit in the New Testament that
Mary had a paranormal vision about her forthcoming conception,
whereas Joseph only had a dream to go by. Mary was pre-informed,
and even asked, whereas Joseph was faced with a fait accompli.
There was also a pain-filled interlude between his hearing that his
betrothed was pregnant by someone else, and his relief-bestowing
dream. Also, he still must have had to live the rest of his life
knowing that his first-born was not really his; and this, in a
small Middle-Eastern village where it can expected one's business
was everybody's business. The novel has a unique form of dramatic
irony to it. Many of its readers would be familiar with the events
of the New Testament, so they would be aware of what is coming next
and of the deeper, symbolic meaning of the scenes events as they
unfold. Yosef and Maryam is a love story also in the sense that it
is a story about different types of Love: Romantic Love, Parental
Love, Love for one's neighbour, and Love for God. It explores how
these different emotions interact, and poses the question which
ought to take precedence, should a choice have to be made. It is a
story about the pain that must necessarily accompany all true love:
the inevitable concomitant pain of jealousy, worry, fear, and loss.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification:
++++ Affaire Du Mois D'avril 1834; Affaire Du Mois D'avril 1834;
Adrien De La Tournelle France. Cour des pairs,
Nicolas-Ferdinand-Marie-Louis-Joseph Martin, Baron Amedee Girod de
l'Ain, Michel Charles Chegaray, Paul Francois Carre Franck-Carre
(known as), Adrien de La Tournelle, Pierre Ambroise Plougoulm
Imprimerie royale, 1835 Law; General; Law / General; Law / Legal
History; Lyon (France); Trials
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