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Courtney M.: A Mother's Loss, A Daughter's Legacy

By: Courtney Elizabeth Michaels,Patricia Brusha

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Courtney M.: A Mother's Loss, A Daughter's Legacy

By: Courtney Elizabeth Michaels,Patricia Brusha

A Powerful and Emotional Read! Courtney M. is a raw, relatable, must-read for anyone trying to understand the inner workings of a brain hijacked by drugs or alcohol. In this compelling and personal dual memoir, a daughter shares her recovery journey while a mother shares her heartbreak over losing a child. If you are an addict, you love one or have lost one, you will see yourself on these heart-wrenching pages. Meet Courtney M., a charismatic young woman with a huge heart, stunning smile, infectious laugh, and a penchant for drinking. At 24, she entered rehab for the first time and documented her journey, allowing a glimpse into the mind of someone trying to shed the skin of a poisonous addiction. After four years of bearing witness to her daughter's battle with alcohol abuse, Patricia, a recovering alcoholic herself, began recording the events that led to every parent's worst nightmare. Tragically, Courtney lost her life to stage four liver cirrhosis after six months of hard-earned sobriety. Patricia is left to face life without her beloved daughter. In the throes of an abysmal depression, she fights the urge to numb her grief with alcohol while trying desperately to manifest Courtney's dream of helping addicts graduate rehab with dignity and determination. Expanding on an idea Courtney had, Patricia discovers that a simple fashion accessory can turn tragedy into triumph and creates Purse-Impressions; a lasting legacy to Courtney...and the ultimate healing balm for her soul.

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Purse-Impressions

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1737998408

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9781737998402

Childfree and Happy

Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices

By: Courtney Adams Wooten

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Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices

By: Courtney Adams Wooten

Childfree and Happy examines how millennia of reproductive beliefs (or doxa) have positioned women who choose not to have children as deviant or outside the norm. Considering affect and emotion alongside the lived experiences of women who have chosen not to have children, Courtney Adams Wooten offers a new theoretical lens to feminist rhetorical scholars’ examinations of reproductive rhetorics and how they circulate through women’s lives by paying attention not just to spoken or written beliefs but also to affectual circulations of reproductive doxa. Through interviews with thirty-four childfree women and analysis of childfree rhetorics circulating in historical and contemporary texts and events, this book demonstrates how childfree women individually and collectively try to speak back to common beliefs about their reproductive experiences, even as they struggle to make their identities legible in a sociocultural context that centers motherhood. Childfree and Happy theorizes how affect and rhetoric work together to circulate reproductive doxa by using Sara Ahmed’s theories of gendered happiness scripts to analyze what reproductive doxa is embedded in those scripts and how they influence rhetoric by, about, and around childfree women. Delving into how childfree women position their decision not to have children and the different types of interactions they have with others about this choice, including family members, friends, colleagues, and medical professionals, Childfree and Happy also explores how communities that make space for alternative happiness scripts form between childfree women and those who support them. It will be of interest to scholars in the fields of the rhetoric of motherhood/mothering, as well as feminist rhetorical studies.

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242

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University Press of Colorado

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1646424395

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9781646424399

Freedom Faith

The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall

By: Courtney Pace

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Freedom Faith

The Womanist Vision of Prathia Hall

By: Courtney Pace

Freedom Faith is the first full-length critical study of Rev. Dr. Prathia Laura Ann Hall (1940-2002), an undersung leader in both the civil rights movement and African American theology. Freedom faith was the central concept of Hall's theology: the belief that God created humans to be free and assists and equips those who work for freedom. Hall rooted her work simultaneously in social justice, Christian practice, and womanist thought. Courtney Pace examines Hall's life and philosophy, particularly through the lens of her civil rights activism, her teaching career, and her ministry as a womanist preacher. Moving along the trajectory of Hall's life and civic service, Freedom Faith focuses on her intellectual and theological development and her radiating influence on such figures as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Marian Wright Edelman, and the early generations of womanist scholars. Hall was one of the first women ordained in the American Baptist Churches, USA, was the pastor of Mt. Sharon Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and in later life joined the faculty at the Boston University School of Theology as the Martin Luther King Chair in Social Ethics. In activism and ministry, Hall was a pioneer, fusing womanist thought with Christian ethics and visions of social justice.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820355062

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9780820355061

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Courtney M.: A Mother's Loss, A Daughter's Legacy

Courtney M.: A Mother's Loss, A Daughter's Legacy

Childfree and Happy

Childfree and Happy

Freedom Faith

Freedom Faith

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