Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough

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  • Author: Ruth Pennebaker
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 1101478489
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 215

Joanie's ex-husband is having a baby with his new girlfriend. Joanie won't be having more babies, since she's decided never to have sex again. But she still has her teenaged daughter Caroline to care for. And thanks to the recession, her elderly mother Ivy as well. Her daughter can't seem to exist without texting, and her mother brags about "goggling,"-while Joanie, back in the workforce, is still trying to figure out her office computer. And how to fend off the advances of her coworker Bruce. Joanie, Caroline, and Ivy are stuck under the same roof, and it isn't easy. But sometimes they surprise each other-and themselves. And through their differences they learn that it is possible to undo the mistakes of the past.


Women on the Verge of Home

Women on the Verge of Home

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  • Author: Bilinda Straight
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • ISBN: 0791483770
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 214

This book explores the idea of "home." Using feminist scholarship and ethnographically grounded readings of historical, literary, and cultural texts, contributors interrogate the comfortable and stable contours of home and ask what it means to women in different social, class, sexual, ethnic, and racial contexts in different times and places. Giving voice to diverse women's understandings of home, the book includes stories of elite white U.S. and Canadian women, rural poor and peasant white women in the United States and France, a British Caribbean freed slave woman, and others.


Women on the Verge

Women on the Verge

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  • Author: Karen Kelsky
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822328162
  • Category : Business & Economics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 316

DIVExplores issues of gender, race and national identity in Japan, by taking up for critical analysis an emergent national trend, in which some urban Japanese women turn to the West--through study abroad, work abroad, and romance with Westerners-- in order/div


Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

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  • Author: Lorna Martin
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780719524219
  • Category : Dating (Social customs)
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 311

Self Help.


Girl on the Couch

Girl on the Couch

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  • Author: Lorna Martin
  • Publisher: Villard Books
  • ISBN: 0345503600
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 354

Martin pens a warm, funny, and intimate diary of her voyage into the world of therapy, which she calls the strangest journey of my life. Martin's fantastic journey of self-awareness is heartbreaking and hilarious--Julie Klam, author of "Please Excuse My Daughter."


Women on the Verge

Women on the Verge

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  • Author: Rosette C. Lamont
  • Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
  • ISBN: 9781557831484
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 420

(Applause Books). This anthology gathers together recent work by the finest and most controversial contemporary American women dramatists. Collectively, this magnificent seven seeks to break the mold of the well-wrought psychological play and its rigid emphasis on realisticsocio-political drama. Includes: Occupational Hazard (Rosalyn Drexler) * Us (Karen Malpede) * What of the Night? (Maria Irene Forne) * Birth and After Birth (Tina Howe) * and more.


Tales of Power

Tales of Power

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  • Author: Carlos Castaneda
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1476730997
  • Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 303

“We are incredibly fortunate to have Carlos Castaneda’s books. Tales of Power has brought us closer to understanding the teaching behind all the magic.” —The New York Times Book Review Bestselling author Carlos Castaneda’s groundbreaking works exploring the inspirational teachings of Yaqui spiritual leader don Juan Matus have enchanted millions of readers. With each lesson Castaneda gleans from his enigmatic teacher, he perceives a new reality based on the sorcerer’s mystical world. Tales of Power is the dynamic and captivating conclusion to don Juan’s teachings, where he imparts his most powerful and mysterious wisdom with a dazzling series of visions that are at once a spiritual initiation and a deeply moving farewell. Praise for Carlos Castaneda and Tales of Power “It is impossible to view the world in quite the same way.” —Chicago Tribune “Carlos Castaneda is one of the most profound and influential thinkers of this century. His insights are paving the direction for the future evolution of human consciousness.” —Deepak Chopra “The present book takes Carlos to the edge of the abyss itself, on an excursion into the unknown (the nagual) that represents the death of his personal, historical self (his tonal). Don Juan, his patient teacher, and don Genaro, his lively, acrobatic benefactor, must say farewell to him. They cannot help him any longer: he is totally alone, free, a warrior at last . . . Like all art . . . the work resists and transcends conventional categories of labeling.” —Psychology Today “Hypnotic reading.” —Time “One of the important statements of our time.” —Book World


Girls on the Verge

Girls on the Verge

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  • Author: Sharon Biggs Waller
  • Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
  • ISBN: 1250151694
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 240

Best Books of 2019 —Cosmopolitan Camille couldn't be having a better summer—she kills it as Ophelia in her community theater's production of Hamlet, catches the eye of the cutest boy in the play, and nabs a spot in a prestigious theater program. But on the very night she learns she got into the program, she also finds out she’s pregnant. She definitely can’t tell her parents. And her best friend Bea doesn’t agree with the decision Camille has made. Camille is forced to try to solve her problem alone...and the system is very much working against her. At her most vulnerable, Camille reaches out to Annabelle Ponsonby, a girl she only barely knows from the theater. Happily, Annabelle agrees to drive her wherever she needs to go. And in a last minute change of heart, Bea decides to come with. Over the course of more than a thousand miles, friendships will be tested and dreams will be challenged. But ultimately, the girls will realize that friends are the real heroes in every story. Girls on the Verge is an incredibly timely novel about a woman’s right to choose. Sharon Biggs Waller brings to life a narrative that has to continue to fight for its right to be told, and honored. "[C]ompelling... This title offers realistic viewpoints on teenage pregnancy, along with what it is like to have the right to choose, wanting that right, and living knowing that you will be judged for having exercised it." —School Library Journal, Starred Review


Women on the Verge

Women on the Verge

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  • Author: Susan Fox Rogers
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 1466876166
  • Category : Literary Collections
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 259

Veteran editor Susan Fox Rogers brings together a collection of essays centered on the "ecstatic experience" (i.e. non-sexual) in lesbian life. In this lively, eclectic collection, veteran anthologist Susan Fox Rogers explores the passionate experiences of lesbians that exist outside of sex and/or romance. From an essay on "being" Superman as a kid to ones on rafting and sky-diving; from being arrested for political activism to the overwhelming and complicated urge to procreate, these pieces seek to represent the unexplored territory in modern lesbian life. Including work from Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Marcia Munson, Karla Jay, Linnea Due, among many others, these personal essays and memoirs with their sharp insight and complexly rendered moments, pairing humor with serious political thought, make up a wholly original and utterly compelling anthology in Women on the Verge.


Stealing the Show

Stealing the Show

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  • Author: Joy Press
  • Publisher: Atria Books
  • ISBN: 1501137727
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 320

From a leading cultural journalist, the definitive cultural history of female showrunners—including exclusive interviews with such influential figures as Shonda Rhimes, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Mindy Kaling, Amy Schumer, and many more. “An urgent and entertaining history of the transformative powers of women in TV” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). In recent years, women have radically transformed the television industry both behind and in front of the camera. From Murphy Brown to 30 Rock and beyond, these shows and the extraordinary women behind them have shaken up the entertainment landscape, making it look as if equal opportunities abound. But it took decades of determination in the face of outright exclusion to reach this new era. In this “sharp, funny, and gorgeously researched” (Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker) book, veteran journalist Joy Press tells the story of the maverick women who broke through the barricades and the iconic shows that redefined the television landscape starting with Diane English and Roseanne Barr—and even incited controversy that reached as far as the White House. Drawing on a wealth of original interviews with the key players like Amy Sherman-Palladino (Gilmore Girls), Jenji Kohan (Orange is the New Black), and Jill Soloway (Transparent) who created storylines and characters that changed how women are seen and how they see themselves, this is the exhilarating behind-the-scenes story of a cultural revolution.