This handy collection contains 58 prayers that address common life experiences and concerns of mothers. Each contemporary prayer is accompanied by Scripture, making the book appropriate for use in personal or group devotion.
Containing prayers that take women from their first day on the job to retirement, Huffman provides prayers for dealing with issues such as office politics, co-workers, traffic jams, success, finances, being a working mother and Christian life in the workplace.
Sanger was a pioneer in establishing birth control as a basic human right and a founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Her autobiography is a classic of women's studies.
Writings by the pioneering feminist include the travelogue Summer on the Lakes, contributions to the literary journal The Dial, dispatches from revolutionary Italy, essays, and unpublished journals.
Publisher's description: The birth control crusader, feminist, and reformer Margaret Sanger was one of the most controversial and compelling figures in the twentieth century. This first volume of The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger documents the critical phases and influences of an American feminist icon and offers rare glimpses into her working-class childhood, burgeoning feminism, spiritual and scientific interests, sexual explorations, and diverse roles as wife, mother, nurse, journalist, radical socialist, and activist. These letters and other writings, including diaries, journals, articles, and speeches, most of which have never before been published, have been selected and assembled with an eye to telling the story of a remarkable life, punctuated by arrests and imprisonments, exile, love affairs, and a momentous personal loss--a life consumed with the quest for women's sexual liberation. Because its narrative line is so absorbing, volume 1 may be read as a powerful biography. Volume 1 covers a twenty-eight-year period from nurse's training and early socialist involvement in pre- World War I bohemian Greenwich Village to Sanger's adoption of birth control (a term she helped coin in 1914) as a fundamental tenet of women's rights. It traces the intersection of her life and work with other reformers, activists and leaders of modernity on both sides of the Atlantic, including Havelock Ellis, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, Emma Goldman, Max Eastman, and Eugene Debs, as well as many leading radical artists and writers of the day. It highlights her legislative and organizational efforts, her support of the eugenics movement, and the alliances she secured with medical professionals in her crusade to make birth control legal, respectable, and accessible. This volume also includes letters from women desperately in need of fertility control who saw Sanger as their last hope. Supplemented by an introduction, brief essays providing narrative and chronological links, and substantial notes, the volume is an invaluable tool for understanding Sanger's actions and accomplishments. The documents assembled here, more than 80 percent of them letters, were culled from the Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition, edited by Esther Katz, Cathy Moran Hajo, and Peter C. Engelman. Two subsequent volumes will address later periods in her life, and an additional volume will cover her international work in the birth control struggle.
A collection of letters between Margaret Mitchell & Lucille Busey providing glimpses into the lives of these women & their families during the war years, 1938-1946. "Scarlett O'Hara may be the best-known fictional heroine in history, but what about the woman who created her? In these letters we gain much insight into the thinking & beliefs of Margaret Mitchell. We learn that, in stark contrast to the vain & self-seeking Scarlett, Mitchell was deeply concerned about others. This collection is MUST reading for those who want a personal glimpse into the character & thinking of the creator of the most successful novel of all time."--James A. Autry, Author of: Love & Profit, Nights Under a Tin Roof, Life After Mississippi. "Much has been written about Margaret Mitchell, author of the bestselling novel of all times. But little is known about the Margaret Mitchell who was passionately concerned about the education & well-being of the people of her beloved Southland. This small but significant grouping of letters & other documents illustrates, in a charming fashion, Mitchell's love for libraries & her even stronger love for the people of her native Georgia."--Thomas L. Camden, Head, Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Georgia.
A memoir consisting of episodes in the life of Margaret Benham. Its genesis was in the author's participation in "Save Your Life," a memoir-writing group.
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