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Nella Last's Peace: The Post-war Diaries of Housewife 49from: Profile Books Ltd October 02, 2008 Best Selling > Books > General AAS |
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If you enjoyed the original 'Nella Last's War' then you will enjoy this second volume just the same. The end of hostilities doesn't mean the end of either Nella's writing, or her talent with words and observation. It also certainly does not mean the end of hardship and difficulty. I drove to Barrow on the strength of the first diary and was very fortunate to meet the present owners of Nella's old house - they actually bought it off the Last family forty years ago. Just sitting in her old living room, where all those words had poured onto the page, brought Nella and her time tangibly closer. I heartily recommend this book.
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Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife 49'from: Profile Books Ltd November 16, 2006 Best Selling > Books > General AAS |
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I write this in late 2008 as the global financial system goes into meltdown and the credit crunch is really biting into our individual pockets. What Nella Last would make of our sickeningly materialistic, wasteful, 'spend spend spend' times I cannot imagine!
On a domestic level we could all learn a lot from Nella's money-saving, waste-avoiding methods. Her descriptions of the meals she contrives are fascinating, and her make-do-and-mend philosophy would put us all to shame. Aside from the domestic detail, Nella writes movingly about her thoughts and feelings as a wife and mother living through a second war, and especially about the changing role of women and her own sense of liberation through war work. This should be be ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman (Classic Edition)by: Clarissa Pinkola Estes February 07, 2008 Best Selling > Books > General AAS |
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The Wild Woman's archetype manifestation is an endangered aspect in our psyche. The chauvinistic/psychopathic societies we live in, are designed to strangle this feminine aspect as to deprive women from their instinctual nature to resist, to fight back and to overcome. Women are to be kept subservient. But despite the predators from outside, a woman's worst predator is that of her inner landscape, born of the suppression from outside.
And that is why Estes book is of vital importance to each and every woman on this planet: through excellent writing, the use of stories and a profound insight into the feminine realm, she offers us the means and ways to understand the inner and outer restrictions on our instinctual selfs, and a map out to ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Can Any Mother Help Me?by: Jenna Bailey January 31, 2008 Best Selling > Books > General AAS |
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I love reading and frequently devour a book a day on holiday. I've recently had ample time to read after a holiday and recuperation from an operation. This was probably my favourite book out of all the ones I've read in that time. The openness of the women was surprising for the period, for instance how they thought you could conceive a girl rather than a boy. It was an eye opener and I could see how my Grand Parents may have lived. I've lent this book to my Mum and hope she enjoys it as much as I did. A really lovely read and I would recommend to anyone who is interested in people and/or period books.
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A Doll's House (Dover Thrift)by: Henrik Ibsen July 20, 1992 Best Selling > Books > General AAS |
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I read this book not knowing what to expect (my partner is studying Enlish Lit' with the Open University and it is on her reading list). I think it is a masterpiece, so much drama and suspense trapped inside such a small play, it is very clever and also leaves you feeling that you are a better person for having read it. My partner paid £0.99 for this book, I would say this price does the book an injustice. A classic to rival 'The Medea' >>More Details |
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A Woman in Your Own Right: Assertiveness and Youby: Anne Dickson September 01, 1982 Best Selling > Books > General AAS |
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Written in an easy and reader friendly style, Ann Dickson's guide to developing your assertiveness is a seminal work. The first of its kind and still highly relevant and the best. Recognise yourself in its pages and discover how to stand more in your own ground and create your life rather than let others do it for you!
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The Butcher, the Baker, The Candlestick Maker: An Erotic Memoirby: Suzanne Portnoy June 08, 2006 Best Selling > Books > General AAS |
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I stumbled across this book on amazon as its not my usual read (may be now)
I found this book gripping and detailed, i felt i lived many moments with Suzanne, although her life may appear crazy to some she is a woman who knows what she likes and knows how to get it!!! Not a book for the faint hearted can be very graphic and erotic in places but a great insight for anyone with an open mind to sex. >>More Details |
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Gender Trouble (Routledge Classics)by: Judith Butler May 01, 2006 Best Selling > Books > General AAS |
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This book is a powerful argument that overthrows essentialist discourse in favour of gender as a performative entity. Whilst a seminal work, and in my opinion, a very important viewpoint capable of pushing the feminist movement on by lightyears, I feel that Butler's writing style does not suit the message she puts forward. For someone who's aim is to spread a message to the masses, she writes in an overly academic style. Although I appreciate that she may have needed to do this so that bodies under the influence of a partriachy may take her more seriously, it leaves this book only accesible to the highest academics. I am currently referencing this book in an argument put forward in my thesis for my masters degree and i am having great trouble understanding the language she uses. This is a brilliant book, ... Read More:
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"The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift)by: Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1998-02 Best Selling > Books > General AAS |
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This is a spine-tingling (not necessarily in a good way!) long short story with hauntingly gothic imagery that shifts and stirs beneath a prosaic surface.
The female protagonist is confined to her room as a 'rest cure' which might be associated with what we now recognise as post-natal depression, but the enforced 'rest' that is more akin to imprisonment releases something in her psyche that might be madness... The yellow wallpaper of the title is both a kind of fairy-tale mirror and a window to another world that allows the narrator to see the female figures caught beneath it and living out their lives beneath its shadows, an incredibly haunting and indicting imagery for Victorian England. This is only short (more a long short story than a novella) but it will stay with ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Second Sex (Vintage classics)by: Simone de Beauvoir August 07, 1997 Best Selling > Books > General AAS |
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Simone de Beauvoir was scandalised and ridiculed particularly by the church when this first came out in 1949 which must have been a disappointment for her. Perhaps a radical book at the time but very relevant to the present and this is worth reading by all women and any man who agrees that women should have a better time whilst on this planet.
The book covers many aspects of being a woman, begining when humans first roamed the earth as nomads and the tyranny of life as a woman giving birth constantly as unlike many animals humans are always fertile. Infant death and infantacide were a means of survival then and the reason why the human population was realatively small for tens of thousands of years. Then tilling the earth when the male began to domineer and own all land, passing it on to their ... Read More: >>More Details |
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