Disposable Girl

Disposable Girl
Author: Kate Moulton
Publisher: 5DeepBooksLLC
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006
Genre: Abused children
ISBN: 9780977807802

Winnie was a troubled adolescent who lived through severe depression and paralyzing panic attacks after suffering unthinkable abuse by her own father.

Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice

Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice
Author:
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2013-11-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1118454286

The new edition of Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice combines cutting-edge research and expanded coverage of girls’ delinquency, including coverage of girls in gangs and the sexual trafficking of girls, to provide students with an accessible, up-to-date, and globally oriented textbook. Including global perspectives and coverage of cutting-edge research, this is the only textbook to deal exclusively with girls and crime Offers expanded coverage of girls in gangs and emerging literature on the sexual trafficking of girls Pulls together and analyzes all existing literature on the subject of female delinquency Brings to light new research on a wide range of issues, including the conditions of confinement for girls incarcerated in juvenile jails and prisons, Latina girls, and gender responsive programming Explores the moral panic around "violent," "bad," and "mean" girls

Corpus

Corpus
Author: M. Casper
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2011-06-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230119530

Corpus begins with the argument that traditional disciplines are unable to fully apprehend the body and embodiment and that critical study of these topics urgently demands interdisciplinary approaches. The collection's 14 previously unpublished essays grapple with the place of bodies in a range of twenty-first century knowledge practices, including trauma, surveillance, aging, fat, food, feminist technoscience, death, disability, biopolitics, and race, among others. The book's projected audience includes teachers and scholars of bodies and embodiment, interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners, and scholars interested in the any of the substantive content covered in the book. The collection could be adopted in courses on the body at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, including: cultural studies; queer, gender and sexuality studies; body and power; biopolitics; intersectional approaches to the body; anthropology of the body; sociology of the body; embodiment and space; digital bodies; anthropology of knowledge production; health, illness, and medicine studies; science, knowledge, and technology studies; and philosophy and social theory.

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
Author: Sady Doyle
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1612197922

Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year This “witty, engaging analysis” of female monsters in pop culture offers “provocative and incisive” commentary on society’s fear of female rage and power (Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her) Women have always been seen as monsters. Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense destruction. Maybe they are. And maybe that’s a good thing. Sady Doyle, hailed as “smart, funny and fearless” by the Boston Globe, takes readers on a tour of the female dark side, from the biblical Lilith to Dracula’s Lucy Westenra, from the T-Rex in Jurassic Park to the teen witches of The Craft. She illuminates the women who have shaped our nightmares: Serial killer Ed Gein’s “domineering” mother Augusta; exorcism casualty Anneliese Michel, who starved herself to death to quell her demons; author Mary Shelley, who dreamed her dead child back to life. These monsters embody patriarchal fear of women, and illustrate the violence with which men enforce traditionally feminine roles. They also speak to the primal threat of a woman who takes back her power. In a dark and dangerous world, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers asks women to look to monsters for the ferocity we all need to survive. “Some people take a scalpel to the heart of media culture; Sady Doyle brings a bone saw, a melon baller, and a machete.” —Andi Zeisler, author of We Were Feminists Once

Dating as a Spiritual Adventure

Dating as a Spiritual Adventure
Author: Jackie Blake
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2016-10-12
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1504367278

Are you totally frustrated by todays disposable dating culture? Wondering how you can get past the third date and tired of being ghosted? Fed up with having your time wasted by men who have no intention to move forward with you? After more than a decade of dating in New York City, I was so worn down and frustrated with the inability to find a partner that I decided to do something radical. I fled New York with the commitment to reclaim the sense of fun, adventure, and wonder that I once had in meeting men. After traveling the world and dating men from Brooklyn to Budapest, Ive uncovered quite a few truths about love and life. Join me as I take you on a journey into my experiences and then overlay them on top of your own to gain intuition into the blocks that may be holding you back from finding love. Learn how to avoid the red flags and pitfalls in the modern-day dating landscape and find peace on the path to The One. By strategically examining your patterns, asking yourself key questions, and using the law of attraction, you too can make your dating life meaningful and exciting again!

Cool Menthol Woman - Haiku and Other Verse

Cool Menthol Woman - Haiku and Other Verse
Author: Howard Hall
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2008-07-12
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1435730275

Haiku and poetry from a lifelong writing junkie on the fringes of Philly.This volume began as a handwritten booklet of poetry given as a gift for a friend. It's now been polished up a bit and made available here as a collection of 80 poems (68 haiku, 12 in other formats) culled from years of scrawl in notebooks, journals and on websites.

Stuff Mom Never Told You

Stuff Mom Never Told You
Author: Anney Reese
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2023-08-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1250268613

The concept of feminism has evolved and changed so much over the last few decades that it can be confusing for people to keep up. Luckily, Anney Reese and Samantha McVey break it all down every week on their popular iHeart podcast, Stuff Mom Never Told You. In this book—their first—they explore the history, strategy, and emotion that went into several milestones and emergent issues of the recent feminist movement. Starting with Billie Jean King’s famous “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, they also talk about the Civil Rights movement and the women who helped shape it; the disturbing prevalence of major backlogs in rape kit testing; how LGBTQ rights and women’s right intersect; and how women have been critical to the advancement of disability rights, and more. Written with a sharp tongue, an infectious curiosity, and a deeply empathetic voice, Reese and McVey show the true breadth of what feminism can stand for, what it can achieve, and whom it can help lift up.

A Soldier Finds His Way

A Soldier Finds His Way
Author: Irene Onorato
Publisher: Lyrical Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1601837917

Sometimes getting lost is the best way home . . . After a painful youth spent in foster homes, Special Forces soldier Edward Giordano has all but given up on love. Returning to New York from a dangerous mission in Costa Rica with no one to welcome him home, he knows he must find a way through his bitterness and embrace faith, or he’s destined for misery and loneliness. But he never expects that saving someone else’s life might help him save his own... Audra Lorenzo is a first-year school teacher with a bright future. All she’s missing is a man to share her happiness. Her father wants her to rekindle her relationship with her ex-boyfriend, but she can’t stop thinking about the handsome, kind, and courageous soldier who rescued her from a near-deadly car accident... Edward too, has not stopped thinking of Audra. After making peace with God and with his difficult past, he’s ready to re-connect with her and reveal his feelings. Edward knows that opening his heart will mean risking pain, but he’s prepared for whatever comes—from a perilous deployment to Audra’s meddling father... “Heartfelt . . . really makes one stop and think about the power of love and exactly what it’s capable of. Tender and sweet.” –RT Book Reviews

Conviction

Conviction
Author: Denise Mina
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 031652848X

A true crime podcast sets a trophy wife's present life on a collision course with her secret past in this "blazingly intense" Reese Witherspoon book club pick and New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year (A. J. Finn). The day Anna McDonald's quiet, respectable life exploded started off like all the days before: Packing up the kids for school, making breakfast, listening to yet another true crime podcast. Then her husband comes downstairs with an announcement, and Anna is suddenly, shockingly alone. Reeling, desperate for distraction, Anna returns to the podcast. Other people's problems are much better than one's own -- a sunken yacht, a murdered family, a hint of international conspiracy. But this case actually is Anna's problem. She knows one of the victims from an earlier life, a life she's taken great pains to leave behind. And she is convinced that she knows what really happened. Then an unexpected visitor arrives on her front stoop, a meddling neighbor intervenes, and life as Anna knows it is well and truly over. The devils of her past are awakened -- and they're in hot pursuit. Convinced she has no other options, Anna goes on the run, and in pursuit of the truth, with a washed-up musician at her side and the podcast as her guide. Conviction is "daredevil storytelling at its finest" (NPR's Fresh Air), a breathtaking thriller from one of the most "superbly talented" writers of our time (Hank Phillippi Ryan, bestselling author of Trust Me).

A Serenity of Darkness

A Serenity of Darkness
Author: Kimberly Cruz
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2024-05-13
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

"Love sucks." If you haven't said it yourself, I'm sure you've heard others say it. But this statement couldn't be more stupid. It is all too far from the truth. This book tells a lot of stories that have nothing in common except for what they will all prove: their message. Love doesn't suck. What sucks is the lack of it, the loss of it. By the end of this book, you'll be sure that if there's anything that doesn't suck, it's love.