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Unloose My Heart

A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

By: Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens

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Unloose My Heart

A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree

By: Marcia Edwina Herman-Giddens

A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight Marcia Herman's family moved to Birmingham in 1946, when she was five years old, and settled in the steel-making city dense with smog and a rigid apartheid system. Marcia, a shy only child, struggled to fit in and understand this world, shadowed as it was by her mother's proud antebellum heritage. In 1966, weary of Alabama's toxic culture, Marcia and her young family left Birmingham and built a life in North Carolina. Later in life, Herman-Giddens resumed a search to find out what she did not know about her family history. Unloose My Heart interweaves the story of her youth and coming of age in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement together with this quest to understand exactly who and what her maternal ancestors were and her obligations as a white woman within a broader sense of American family. More than a memoir set against the backdrop of Jim Crow and the civil rights struggle, this is the work of a woman of conscience writing in the twenty-first century. Haunted by the past, Unloose My Heart is a journey of exploration and discovery, full of angst, sorrow, and yearning. Unearthing her forebears' centuries-long embrace of plantation slavery, Herman-Giddens dug deeply to parse the arrogance and cruelty necessary to be a slaveholder and the trauma and fear that ripple out in its wake. All this forced her to scrutinize the impact of this legacy in her life, as well as her debt to the enslaved people who suffered and were exploited at her ancestors' hands. But she also discovers lost connections, new cousins and friends, unexpected joys, and, eventually, a measure of peace in the process. With heartbreak, moments of grace, and an enduring sense of love, Unloose My Heart shines a light in the darkness and provides a model for a heartfelt reckoning with American history.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817321454

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9780817321451

She's Leaving Home

By: Edwina Currie

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She's Leaving Home

By: Edwina Currie

Helen Majinsky is sixteen, Jewish and confused. She is also in love - like every Merseyside schoolgirl - with four mop-topped young men, seduced by the Cavern Club and the exciting sound of 1963. In the year The Beatles have the world at their feet, Helen dreams secretly of reaching university and leaving Liverpool. Her Liverpool. Her world. For a grammar school girl to even consider a future outside the city is to break taboos stronger than the Mersey undertow, and as the prospect of a place at Oxbridge shimmers into view, Helen knows she is restrained by the very forces of stability she longs to escape. But when love intervenes - with Michael Levison, a locally stationed US serviceman - Helen finds the means to break the chains of the old life, and her guide through the hidden dangers of the new...

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552

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Biteback Publishing

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1849544379

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9781849544375

This Honourable House

By: Edwina Currie

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This Honourable House

By: Edwina Currie

A skilfully crafted tale of sex, spin and political skulduggery. Frank's rise up the greasy pole has seen his career reach Cabinet status, and the myriad problems that accompany it - a wife, a mistress and a spin-doctor screaming for him to choose between the two... Social Security Secretary Diane has the sort of sexual appetite that would make Bill Clinton blush. And though her newest office recruit, the young and good-looking Edward, is everything she could wish for, he is about to make her life heart-rendingly complicated... The Leader of the New Democrats, meanwhile, is facing pressure from his party to marry his attractive ambitious girlfriend. And far from relieving the accompanying stress, Benedict's pursuit of martial arts is about to turn his life upside down...

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1849544395

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9781849544399

Strayed Homes

Cultural Histories of the Domestic in Public

By: Edwina Attlee

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Strayed Homes

Cultural Histories of the Domestic in Public

By: Edwina Attlee

Poetic and political, Strayed Homes invites architects, interior designers, and urbanists to think again about common concepts in architecture – 'private', 'public' and 'home'. Whereas most writing about the public/private focusses on urban space, this book focusses on the domestic – exploring those overlooked, everyday places where private and intimate activities take place in public. With four chapters set in four small, liminal spaces: the launderette, the greasy spoon, the fire escape, and the sleeper train - the book is part architectural history, part cultural history. It follows a series of allusions and impressions, to explore how films, adverts, books and anecdotes shape experiences of everyday architecture. Making a case for the poetic interpretation of space, the book can be used as a sourcebook for architects, designers, and theorists alike – prompting the reader to rethink the emotional state of leaving home, intimacy in public, and lonely dreaming.

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225

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350213888

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9781350213883

Wealth of Selves

Multiple Identities, Mestiza Consciousness, and the Subject of Politics

By: Edwina Barvosa

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Wealth of Selves

Multiple Identities, Mestiza Consciousness, and the Subject of Politics

By: Edwina Barvosa

Many of us have multiple identities, says Edwina Barvosa. We may view ourselves according to ethnicity, marital or family roles, political affiliation, sexuality, or any of several other “identities” we may use to organize our behavior and self-understanding at any given time. Various domains have offered nuggets of insight regarding the characteristics and political implications of seeing the self as made up of multiple identities, but many questions remain. In Wealth of Selves, Edwina Barvosa constructs an ambitious interdisciplinary blend of these insights and crafts them into an overarching theoretical framework for understanding multiple identities in terms of intersectionality, identity contradiction, and the political potential that lies within the practices of self-integration. Grounded in Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of mestiza consciousness as well as in Western political thought, this reconsideration of the self promises to reshape our thinking on issues such as immigrant incorporation, national identity, political participation, the socially constructed sources of will and political critique, and the longevity of racial and gender conflicts. With its accessible style and rich cross-pollination among disciplines, Wealth of Selves will reward readers in political science, philosophy, race, ethnic, and American studies, as well as in borderlands, sexuality, and gender studies.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603440690

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9781603440691

Multicultural Education

A Source Book, Second Edition

By: Patricia Ramsey,Leslie R. Williams,Edwina Vold

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Multicultural Education

A Source Book, Second Edition

By: Patricia Ramsey,Leslie R. Williams,Edwina Vold

The second edition of this source book contains essays and annotations on a number of issues related to multicultural education. The authors define multicultural education as a process-oriented creation of learning experiences that foster an awareness of, respect for, and enjoyment of the diversity of our society and world. Inherent in this definition of multicultural education is a commitment to create a more just and equitable society for all people. This book, then, offers suggestions relevant to the teaching of all children, all teaching and curricular decisions, and every aspect of educational policy.

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595

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Routledge

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1135582203

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9781135582203

Behavioral Addictions

By: Edwina Rogers

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Behavioral Addictions

By: Edwina Rogers

Behavioral Addictions provides a front row seat onto the late-breaking developments in one of the most rapidly evolving domains of diagnosis. The American Psychiatric Association’s recent recognition of the first-ever behavioral addiction, Gambling Disorder, has brought renewed attention to the broader spectrum of other behavioral compulsions. This book provides a conceptualization of behavioral addictions and a brief overview of the varied forms of addictive behaviors and treatments, including gambling, online gaming, food addiction, pornography addiction, sex addiction, compulsive shopping, Internet addictions, and a variety of impulse control disorders, among others. Developments in the conceptualization, prevention and intervention are addressed, as well, in relation to the rapidly developing field of behavioral addictions.

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166

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Xlibris Corporation

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1984552376

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9781984552372

Irish Modernism

By: Edwina Keown,Carol Taaffe

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Irish Modernism

By: Edwina Keown,Carol Taaffe

An examination of the emergence, reception and legacy of modernism in Ireland. Engaging with the ongoing re-evaluation of regional and national modernisms, the essays collected here reveal both the importance of modernism to Ireland, and that of Ireland to modernism. This collection introduces fresh perspectives on modern Irish culture that reflect new understandings of the contradictory and contested nature of modernism itself.--

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Peter Lang

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3039118943

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9783039118946

Twenty Names in Modern Literature

By: Edwina Connor

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Twenty Names in Modern Literature

By: Edwina Connor

Presents brief biographies of twenty major figures in modern literature.

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Cavendish Square Publishing

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0863079644

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9780863079641

Twenty Names in Modern Literature

By: Edwina Connor

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Twenty Names in Modern Literature

By: Edwina Connor

Presents brief biographies of twenty major figures in modern literature.

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Prismatic

By: Edwina Grey

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Prismatic

By: Edwina Grey

JOINT WINNER OF THE 2006 AUREALIS PRIZE FOR BEST HORROR NOVEL. History is out to get you. Jacqueline is a struggling academic. Unless she can kickstart her failed thesis, she will lose everything she's ever dreamed of. A lucky find leads to the discovery of a lifetime--a cache of documents detailing a century-old murder. She can finish her thesis, and garner the prestige to make her career. But as Jacqueline digs into the records, a mysterious plague strikes Sydney--identical to the mysterious illness detailed in the historical documents, causing unnatural outbreaks of violence and madness. And the man she made the discovery with--biologist Daniel O'Connor--may be the source of the infection. An ancient conspiracy surfaces, desperate to bury the ancient truth. Threatened on all sides, Jacqueline must confront a dark legacy, or everything she knows and loves will be consumed by malevolent forces. If you like If you like Stephen King's Cell and James Bradley's The Resurrectionist, you'll devour Edwina Grey's dark horror story that draws on Australia's blood-soaked past as a prison for Britain's most monstrous criminals. This terrifying, award-winning novel is only one click away.

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Book's by Edwina Connor

Unloose My Heart

Unloose My Heart

She's Leaving Home

She's Leaving Home

This Honourable House

This Honourable House

Strayed Homes

Strayed Homes

Wealth of Selves

Wealth of Selves

Multicultural Education

Multicultural Education

Behavioral Addictions

Behavioral Addictions

Irish Modernism

Irish Modernism

Twenty Names in Modern Literature

Twenty Names in Modern Literature

Twenty Names in Modern Literature

Twenty Names in Modern Literature

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