Call Me A Woman

Author : Ellen Kuzwayo
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN 13 : 1770106189
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call Me Woman written by Ellen Kuzwayo and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like millions of black South Africans made strangers in the land of their birth, Ellen Kuzwayo lost a great deal in her lifetime: the farm in the Orange Free State that had belonged to her family for nearly a hundred years; her hopes for a full and peaceful life for her children; and even her freedom, when, at the age of 63, she found herself detained under the so-called Terrorism Act for an offence never specified. But she never lost her courage. This remarkable autobiography refuses to focus only on the author, for it draws on the unrecorded history of a whole people. In telling her own personal and political story over 70 years. Ellen Kuzwayo speaks for, and with, the women among whom she worked and lived. Their courage and dignity remain a source of wonder and inspiration.

Author : Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher : Millbrook Press TM
ISBN 13 : 1728487692
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call Me Miss Hamilton written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by Millbrook Press TM. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Discover the true story of the woman Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. nicknamed "Red" because of her fiery spirit! Mary Hamilton grew up knowing right from wrong. She was proud to be Black, and when the chance came along to join the Civil Rights Movement and become a Freedom Rider, she was eager to fight for what she believed in. Mary was arrested again and again—and she did not back down when faced with insults or disrespect. In an Alabama court, a white prosecutor called her by her first name, but she refused to answer unless he called her “Miss Hamilton.” The judge charged her with contempt of court, but that wasn’t the end of it. Miss Mary Hamilton fought the contempt charge all the way to the Supreme Court. Powerful free verse from Carole Boston Weatherford and striking scratchboard illustrations by Jeffery Boston Weatherford, accompanied by archival photographs, honor this unsung heroine who took a stand for respect—and won.

Author : Judy Pollard Smith
Publisher : Abbott Press
ISBN 13 : 1458212874
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don’T Call Me Lady written by Judy Pollard Smith and published by Abbott Press. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography tells the true story of one of historys forgotten women, a Englishwoman named Alice Seeley Harris who has also been called the Mother of Human Rights. She has been hidden by her husbands shadow since she started her African journey near the end of the Victorian era, but now her story is brought to light by author Judy Pollard Smith in Dont Call Me Lady: The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris. Armed with her Bible, zeal, and a camera, Harris arrived in the steaming African jungle of Congo and documented the worst atrocities known to humanity. She captured enough evidence on her glass lantern slides to bring down the Belgian King Leopold, who ruled the colony of the Congo Free State. In this biography, Smith uses imagined conversations based on in-depth research to tell Harriss story of her work. She also provides questions that allow her book to be used in classes or discussion groups. The world gave credit to the men in this story, but Smith provides evidence that it was the young, English missionary and photographer whose bravery truly changed history.

Author : Azeenarh Mohammed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911115595
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book She Called Me Woman written by Azeenarh Mohammed and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brave and ground-breaking anthology of queer women's life stories

Author : Colby Cedar Smith
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1524873977
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call Me Athena written by Colby Cedar Smith and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enchanting novel in verse captures one young woman’s struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of Greek and French immigrants in tumultuous 1930s Detroit. Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith’s paternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as the American-born daughter of Greek and French immigrants living in Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots. Mary lives in a tiny apartment with her immigrant parents, her brothers, and her twin sister, and she questions why her parents ever came to America. She yearns for true love, to own her own business, and to be an independent, modern American woman—much to the chagrin of her parents, who want her to be a “good Greek girl.” Mary’s story is peppered with flashbacks to her parents’ childhoods in Greece and northern France; their stories connect with Mary as they address issues of arranged marriage, learning about independence, and yearning to grow beyond one’s own culture. Though Call Me Athena is written from the perspective of three profoundly different narrators, it has a wide-reaching message: It takes courage to fight for tradition and heritage, as well as freedom, love, and equality.

Author : Susan Scott
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824839811
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call Me Captain written by Susan Scott and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer and marine biologist Susan Scott had an enviable existence—a home in Hawai‘i, a prized 37-foot sailboat and exciting international adventures, all shared with her physician husband Craig in a marriage so intimate they called it the “Twinship.” Yet, when her menopausal hormones raged and Craig grew preoccupied with Ironman triathlon training, this perfect life ended. Once blessed with well-being, love, humor, and sharing, the Twinship exploded with fights, silence, accusations, and failed counseling. Shell-shocked, Susan sought solace in the one thing that always gave her joy: marine wildlife. She overhauled the couple’s neglected boat and, with a male friend nearly half her age, sailed away. Except it wasn’t that easy; Susan had always relied on Craig to make the sailing decisions and Alex, her young first mate, was a sailing novice. Call Me Captain follows Susan as she leaves everything behind—or tries to— and sails to spectacular but isolated Palmyra Atoll to work as a volunteer biologist. Susan helps rescue baby sea turtles, bands seabirds, and corrals ten-pound coconut crabs that look like Godzillas with knife-blade claws. She determinedly repairs her sailboat, skippers it through terrifying storms, and to her surprise, finds she and Craig are falling in love all over again. This time the two rediscover one another via satellite phone—Susan calling from her tiny floating speck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to Craig in his hospital emergency room on Oahu. Susan writes with passion about swimming with manta rays, kayaking with sharks, and sailing with whales and dolphins. In those passages, she shows ways these magnificent animals guided her through the journey of a lifetime. Her memoir of self-discovery is a romance, a rousing sea tale, and a personal account of nature’s power to put life in perspective.

Author : Jen Bryant
Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0802852424
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call Me Marianne written by Jen Bryant and published by Eerdmans Young Readers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy meets an older woman at the zoo, and together they observe the animals while she tells him about the process of writing poetry. Includes an author's note about Marianne Moore.

Author : Laurie Levin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736598818
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Call Me a Woman written by Laurie Levin and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we give women the same respect and opportunities as men, we give the world its best chance for peace, prosperity, and survival. - Angry about sexism and misogyny and what you personally have endured? - Sad for those who suffer because of inequality and greed? - Afraid the world won't get its act together in time to save itself? - Care about human rights and want to be part of the solution? Call Me A Woman begins with a personal story of Levin's early years. She describes how the loss of her mother and multiple sexual assaults, including rape, led to her life's calling. Inside you'll discover: - The most important thing parents can do to change the world - Our unconscious habits that perpetuate inequality - Inspiring stories to shift resentment to empathy, hope, and action - The 7 Habits of Equality to speed our way to gender equality and peace - Inner peace and freedom as you become the solution Personal interviews with: Lynn Povich, first woman senior editor Newsweek magazine; Maxine Clark, founder Build-A-Bear Workshop; Gloria Feldt, former CEO and President Planned Parenthood Federation of America, NY Times Best-Selling Author; Mark Levin, biotech industry leader, founder, and CEO; Zaron Burnett III, investigative journalist and writer. Call Me A Woman: On Our Way to Equality and Peace provides real life experiences, global studies, and insights, and the 7 Habits of Equality that will reshape the world into one where all children have equal opportunities, from the beginning to the end of their lives.

Author : Gina Barreca
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611684463
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Used to Call Me Snow White ... But I Drifted written by Gina Barreca and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by Viking in 1991 and issued as a paperback through Penguin Books in 1992, Snow White became an instant classic for both academic and general audiences interested in how women use humor and what others (men) think about funny women. Barreca, who draws on the work of scholars, writers, and comedians to illuminate a sharp critique of the gender-specific aspects of humor, provides laughs and provokes arguments as she shows how humor helps women break rules and occupy center stage. Barreca's new introduction provides a funny and fierce, up-to-the-minute account of the fate of women's humor over the past twenty years, mapping what has changed in our culture--and questioning what hasn't.

Author : Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
ISBN 13 : 1467795593
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Call Me Grandma written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and published by Carolrhoda Books. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great-grandmother Nell eats fish for breakfast, she doesn't hug or kiss, and she does NOT want to be called grandma. Her great-granddaughter isn't sure what to think about her. As she slowly learns more about Nell's life and experiences, the girl finds ways to connect with her prickly great-grandmother.