Abandoned Women

Author : Suzanne C. Hagedorn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472113491
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abandoned Women written by Suzanne C. Hagedorn and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds light on the complex web of allusions that link medieval authors to their literary predecessors

Author : Judith Kelleher Schafer
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807144355
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women written by Judith Kelleher Schafer and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 Gulf South Historical Association Book Award When a priest suggested to one of the first governors of Louisiana that he banish all disreputable women to raise the colony's moral tone, the governor responded, "If I send away all the loose females, there will be no women left here at all." Primitive, mosquito infested, and disease ridden, early French colonial New Orleans offered few attractions to entice respectable women as residents. King Louis XIV of France solved the population problem in 1721 by emptying Paris's La Salpêtrière prison of many of its most notorious prostitutes and convicts and sending them to Louisiana. Many of these women continued to ply their trade in New Orleans. In Brothels, Depravity, and Abandoned Women, Judith Kelleher Schafer examines case histories from the First District Court of New Orleans and tells the engrossing story of prostitution in the city prior to the Civil War. Louisiana law did not criminalize the selling of sex until the Progressive Era, although the law forbade keeping a brothel. Police arrested individual public women on vague charges, for being "lewd and abandoned" or vagrants. The city's wealthy and influential landlords, some of whom made huge profits by renting their property as brothels, wanted their tenants back on the streets as soon as possible, and they often hired the best criminal attorneys to help release the women from jail. The courts, in turn, often treated these "public women" leniently, exacting small fines or sending them to the city's workhouse for a few months. As a result, prosecutors dropped almost all prostitution cases before trial. Relying on previously unexamined court records and newly available newspaper articles, Schafer ably details the brutal and often harrowing lives of the women and young girls who engaged in prostitution. Some watched as gangs of rowdy men smashed their furniture; some endured beatings by their customers or other public women enraged by fits of jealousy; others were murdered. Schafer discusses the sexual exploitation of children, sex across the color line, violence among and against public women, and the city's feeble attempts to suppress the trade. She also profiles several infamous New Orleans sex workers, including Delia Swift, alias Bridget Fury, a flaming redhead with a fondness for stabbing men, and Emily Eubanks and her daughter Elisabeth, free women of color known for assaulting white women. Although scholars have written much about prostitution in New Orleans' Storyville era, few historical studies on prostitution in antebellum New Orleans exist. Schafer's rich analysis fills this gap and offers insight into an intriguing period in the history of the "oldest profession" in the Crescent City.

Author : Lawrence Lipking
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226484548
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abandoned Women and Poetic Tradition written by Lawrence Lipking and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-09-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control. She appears in writings ancient and modern, in the East and the West, in high art and popular culture produced by women and by men. What accounts for her perennial fascination? What is her function—in poems and for writers? Lawrence Lipking suggests many possibilities. In this figure he finds a partial record of women's experience, an instrument for the expression of religious love and yearning, a voice for psychological fears, and, finally, a model for the poet. Abandoned women inspire new ways of reading poems and poetic tradition.

Author : Lucy Frost
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742695752
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abandoned Women written by Lucy Frost and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Her superb research and sympathetic reconstructions of nineteenth-century Scotland and Australia bring to life a long-forgotten but fascinating group of women.' - Siân Rees, author of The Floating Brothel In the early nineteenth century, crofters and villagers streamed into the burgeoning cities of Scotland, and families splintered. Orphan girls, single mothers and women on their own all struggled to feed and clothe themselves. For some, petty theft became a part of life. Any woman deemed 'habite & repute a thief' might find herself before the High Court of Justiciary, tried for yet another minor theft and sentenced to transportation 'beyond Seas'. Lucy Frost memorably paints the portrait of a boatload of women and their children who arrived in Hobart in 1838. Instead of serving time in prison, the women were sent to work as unpaid servants in the houses of settlers. Feisty Scottish convicts, unaccustomed to bowing and scraping, often irritated their middle-class employers, who charged them with insolence, or refusing to work, or getting drunk. A stint in the female factory became their punishment. Many women survived the convict system and shaped their own lives once they were free. They married, had children and found a place in the community. Others, though, continued to be plagued by errors and disasters until death.

Author : Qiulei Hu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004546456
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abandoned Women and Boudoir Resentment written by Qiulei Hu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the formation of the male-constructed conventional voice of women in Chinese literature from the 3rd to 6th century. It highlights specific moments during which the feminine voice became recognized, accepted, and stabilized, including the shift of focus from the performative to the textual in female representations; the formation of a male literary community; the popularity of romanticized historical narratives; and the emerging sense of literary history. This study emphasizes the historicity of the feminine voice and strives to question and challenge established notions about textual stability, authorship, the literary canon, and literary history.

Author : Kandy Dolor
Publisher : Kandycares
ISBN 13 : 9780993478703
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abandoned Pregnant written by Kandy Dolor and published by Kandycares. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Abandoned Pregnant' is the first self-help book published by 'KandyCares' a new line of self-help books for women written by author Kandy Dolor, who writes self-help books based on her own real life challenges and experiences which she has overcome. Abandoned Pregnant is a guide for women who are going through pregnancy alone and outlines the heartbreak, misery and struggle a woman is faced with when a partner or an ex does not want the child she is carrying. Full of advice, and stories from the authors experiences of being abandoned pregnant twice makes this self-help book for women like no other and helps women learn how to regain their confidence, self- respect/love/worth/esteem after being treated so badly by someone you thought cared about you. Ultimately, the book also helps women to move on and live happier abundant lives, including advice on new relationships. Kandy Dolor has a genuine understanding of the feelings of young women who have been abandoned pregnant and in this self-help book their feelings are being accounted for.

Author : Jessica Yu
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544617061
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garden of the Lost and Abandoned written by Jessica Yu and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating and joyful story of Gladys Kalibbala, a Ugandan "orphan sleuth," who works to connect missing and castaway children to their families

Author : U. Sebastian Amaechi
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1647505828
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Abandoned Woman written by U. Sebastian Amaechi and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anita stared intently at Kofi unconsciously, trying to conceal her affection for him, yet she couldn’t. As he stretched his hands and reached out to her, it was obvious that her inviting and prodding eyes were enough for Kofi. She kissed and moaned under her weakened emotions, kissed him passionately, and sunk into his arms like a defeated wrestler. All she thought to be true was a dream; all she saw was a mirage. Life had not been fateful to her. She has been rejected and left to cater for her kid alone. She is exposed to the naked realities of the world and surely unending suffering. Who is to be blamed for her upbringing? What about her unexpected end?

Author : Kristin S. Seefeldt
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610448626
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abandoned Families written by Kristin S. Seefeldt and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2016-12-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education, employment, and home ownership have long been considered stepping stones to the middle class. But in Abandoned Families, social policy expert Kristin Seefeldt shows how many working families have access only to a separate but unequal set of poor-quality jobs, low-performing schools, and declining housing markets which offer few chances for upward mobility. Through in-depth interviews over a six-year period with women in Detroit, Seefeldt charts the increasing social isolation of many low-income workers, particularly African Americans, and analyzes how economic and residential segregation keep them from achieving the American Dream of upward mobility. Seefeldt explores the economic and political obstacles that have altered the pathways for opportunity. She finds that while many low-income individuals work, enroll in higher education, and attempt to use social safety net benefits in times of crisis, they primarily have access to subpar institutions, which often hamper their efforts to get ahead. Many of these workers hold unstable, low-paying service sector jobs that provide few paths for advancement and exacerbate their social isolation. Those who pursue higher education to gain qualifications for better paying jobs often enroll in for-profit schools and online programs that push them into debt but rarely lead to secure employment or even a degree. And while home ownership was once the best way to establish wealth, Seefeldt finds that in declining cities like Detroit, it can saddle low-income owners with underwater mortgages in depopulated neighborhoods. Finally, she shows that the 1996 federal welfare reform and other retrenchments in the social safety net have made it more difficult for struggling families to access public benefits that could alleviate their economic hardships. When benefits are difficult to access, families often take on debt as a way of managing. Taken together, these factors contribute to what Seefeldt calls the “social abandonment” of vulnerable families. Abandoned Families is a timely, on-the-ground assessment of hardship in contemporary America. Seefeldt exposes the shortcomings of the institutions that once fostered upward mobility and shows how sweeping policy measures—including new labor protections, expansion of the social safety net, increased regulation of for-profit colleges, and reparations—could help lift up those who have fallen behind.

Author : Vikki Stark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781988498010
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Runaway Husbands written by Vikki Stark and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a study of over 400 women worldwide, Runaway Husbands: The Abandoned Wife's Guide to Recovery and Renewal, is the first book to explore and offer healing strategies to women whose lives have been turned upside down by Wife Abandonment Syndrome. This Revised and Updated edition expands on the groundbreaking first edition that led to the development of an amazing global community of women working together to recover from Wife Abandonment Syndrome - when a husband leaves out-of-the-blue from what his wife believed to be a happy, secure marriage. Following his sudden departure, he typically replaces the caring he'd previously shown her with blame and anger, leaving his bewildered wife totally devastated. The Revised and Updated edition includes new chapters that discuss the husband's possible Covert Narcissism, the effect of this kind of divorce on the father/adult child relationship and the challenges of co-parenting with an ex following abandonment. Written by family therapist Vikki Stark, MSW, who herself had a runaway husband, the book helps women understand in full what could motivate a loving husband to morph overnight into an uncaring stranger and provides them with the tools they need to move forward and rebuild their lives.