Winner Women's Issues / Women's Studies 2021 Best Book Awards
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Feminism. Boomers. Ageism. Binge-Eating Disorder. Sexual Abuse. Women's Studies. The 1960s. The wry and relatable narrator of GRAY IS THE NEW BLACK--a memoir of ageism, sexism and self-acceptance--came of age in the psychedelic sixties. Now in her sixties, it's time to take stock. After decades struggling to be thin enough, pretty, sexy and successful enough to deserve love and happiness, she devotes a year to cracking the code, a journey that forces her to confront the gnarled roots of female shame.
If you have a complicated relationship with your mother, food, your hair, your body, your past self, or your current self, you will likely find GRAY IS THE NEW BLACK a page-turning, resonant read.
Featuring 9 Solas Award-winning stories, including "The Trout Baron" and "Tea in Kabul"!
Diane LeBow's stories, like her life, take you to places and experiences you've probably never imagined. They are passionate, poignant, funny, sometimes tragic, and always unexpected. Share a meal with Corsican rebels in the ragged mountains of this ancient island, meet a black stallion in a blizzard on the Mongolian steppes, assist Afghan women exiled in Tajikistan in writing a Declaration of their Rights for the new Constitution, and savor a love affair with an elegant French Baron.
LeBow gives us peeks behind the curtains into women's and men's lives around the world in our search for answers to universal human questions such as how to experience the best our world offers, ways to balance our desire for love with yearning for freedom and adventure, and longing for a sense of home within ourselves and in our worlds.
With carefully curated social media and news stories, it can be easy to forget that successful people have had their own hardships to overcome. But everyone faces obstacles and setbacks throughout their life, regardless of race, gender, faith, or social status.
In Over, Under, around, and Through the authors craft biographies of fifty successful women, based on interviews and historical records. In the process, they uncover some of the secrets to how these women surmounted obstacles and used the lessons they learned through hardship to become stronger, smarter, and more resilient. The women featured in the book have all been inducted into halls of fame across the United States and the world, and each of their profiles discusses how they handled significant challenges in their lives.
Mobile Midwives: Transforming Birth Options takes readers on a journey through Marge Foley's far-reaching career as a midwife in Australia. Marge was a senior midwife and hospital maternity unit manager before becoming a director of Mobile Midwives NT in the country's tropical Top End.
During her midwifery career, she supported midwives to create changes in maternity care that would help improve outcomes for mothers and babies. When providing care to women, her goal was to make that birth as easy and joyous as possible.
By sharing both her hospital and home-birth midwifery experience, Marge wishes to inspire midwives to consider a continuity of care service model. The professional insights she has included throughout the book may also provide valuable information to students and practicing midwives.
Autism has long been considered a boys' condition, but there is more to this story. The truth is, autism looks different in women and girls. They're much better at "pretending to be normal" by masking their autistic characteristics.
How can we look behind the mask to recognize autism, when it has been so well camouflaged? Recognizing Autism in Women and Girls: When It Has Been Hidden Well provides the perspective needed to see how autism manifests in gendered ways, allowing for a more accurate diagnosis.
In addition to describing each point in the diagnostic manual to include feminine presentations, Dr. Marsh has created “Seven Fictional Female Figures” who've been misdiagnosed because they also display symptoms of other similar conditions. She describes their behaviors, both obvious and hidden, from early childhood to adulthood, and demonstrates how these behaviors meet diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder.
About 200 million women and girls worldwide have undergone the practice of female circumcision or female genital mutilation (FGM), more is expected after the pandemic. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report 2021.
It's a practice that has gone on for thousands of years, spanning from the coast of West Africa across the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea to India. It has claimed lives and left an indelible mark on survivors.
Who is behind it, how, and why?
Called from their ordinary day living, Babza Tabor and Candice Zakeih embarked on a journey to search for answers. In their hunt, they dove into the heavenly abode of God, the creator of the universe. Using biblical events from the books of Genesis to Revelation as a guide, they unmasked the greatest hijack of all time.
“Latina sisters: we are the best-kept secret in the history of the United States. Welcome home.“
Valeria Aloe’s Uncolonized Latinas: Transforming our Mindsets and Rising Together lays out an unprecedented, detailed map of the Latino mindset and what is holding the community back from achieving its highest potential. Along the way we meet immigrant Latinas and daughters of immigrants who, through trials and tribulations, have uncolonized their limiting mindsets and have found success in their lives and careers.
This book guides us to:
Embrace our individual and collective greatness, as we honor our stories and our ancestry.
Become more aware of the limiting cultural narratives that have been running us.
As a Latina, thrive in your career and life from a place of self-esteem, as you learn from those Latinas who figured out how to navigate the system.
As an Ally, feel confident and become more effective when mentoring diverse talent.
Through this journey we can learn how to experience transformational change—open our heart, mind, and eyes.
For years, women’s self-defense courses have focused on handling physical altercations, while domestic violence advocacy has circled around helping women who are already in abusive relationships. Meanwhile, the statistics on violence committed against women have remained stagnant for decades.
It’s time to make a change.
As a woman, you have unbelievable intuition skills. You notice when a loved one is "off." You feel the vibe or energy of a place. Your amazing instincts help you take care of others. What if you could use these natural abilities to build your situational awareness and avoid a physical fight? What if you could learn to recognize the red-flag behaviors and get safe before the violence starts?
Finalist Women's Issues / Women's Studies 2021 Best Book Awards
In a "brilliant and exhilarating" memoir, Liz Maguire chronicles her 45-year career dedicated to advancing reproductive choice in developing countries and shares the keys to an exciting and rewarding life.
Maguire highlights the critical work of the organizations where she held leadership positions and her rich and varied experiences in North and sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In the 1990s, she served as the first woman director of the global family planning and reproductive health program of the U.S. Agency for International Development, followed by 16 years as CEO of the international non-profit, Ipas.
Maguire discusses the major challenges that remain in achieving sexual and reproductive health and rights for all, now exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. She calls for accelerating the global fight for reproductive and social justice.
Finalist Women's Issues / Women's Studies 2021 Best Book Awards
“My struggle wasn’t unique by any stretch of the imagination, but it was silent.” —Angel G. Henry, Dents in the Ceiling
Dents in the Ceiling is a first-hand account from more than 30 women of color working in tech and Corporate America about their experiences navigating sexism and racism, forging allies, and rebounding resiliently throughout their careers.
Through the narratives, Angel G. Henry affirms women and helps them reclaim their voices. Dents in the Ceiling is a playbook for emerging minority women in tech and assists active allies with tools to break non-inclusive corporate norms.
Finalist Women's Issues / Women's Studies 2021 Best Book Awards
I Had A Secret for Seventeen Years is the redemptive life story of Tori Shaw, centered around her abortion as a teenager. She spent years covered by guilt and shame while enduring continual abandonment and rejection. Childhood experiences taught her to hide hardship, so she silently dealt with depression, fear, anxiety, self-loathing, and addictions. After hiding her dark secret for seventeen years, Tori shares her story with the world. A woman who once walked in fear and self-doubt is now willing to go wherever God wants her to go. Through Tori’s story, God builds a ministry that helps abortion-minded women choose life for their babies and shares God’s forgiveness and love with post-abortive women. I Had a Secret for Seventeen Years enables the reader to see a post-abortive woman come full circle and embrace the world of possibilities God makes available to those who are willing.
Finalist Women's Issues / Women's Studies 2021 Best Book Awards
Nobody’s Child: A Biography is an urban drama. It takes place in the Brooklyn, Queens & Harlem sections of New York City, from the beginning of the Second Great Migration to the present day. It is a family drama rooted in the life experiences of a mother, my mother Brenda. It’s about overcoming drug addiction, complicated black family dynamics, surviving domestic violence, and the healing of family trauma. It’s about choices parents make and how those choices affect their children and everyone else around them. And, It’s also about secrets kept and the far-reaching, dysfunctional affects those secrets have on families. Finally, it’s about LOVE. Love between mothers and daughters, mothers and sons, love between women, sisters and friends, husbands and wives and fathers and their daughters.One thing is certain… no life is perfect. This story is about imperfect lives, the ones lived by my family, mainly my mother – a most beautiful, God-fearing soul.
Finalist Women's Issues / Women's Studies 2021 Best Book Awards
Is it possible for a lesbian to fall passionately in love at age 65? Ruthie Stein is about to find out. Having spent 23 years as a lesbian in her first and passion-filled partnership with the brilliant and attractive, Ruth, Ruthie believes no one could again fill her heart with overflowing love as we discovered in the novel, The Two Ruths and She Who Is Without Sin, Ruthie has no interest in searching for love again. Living in rural Upstate New York in the still closeted 1970’s and 1980’s, Ruthie sees no point in making such a search.
It is now 1985, and into Ruthie’s workplace walks a woman who appears to be a physically and emotionally battered victim of a twisted woman partner. Ruthie has no intention of getting involved in their mess, but how can she not intervene when the battered woman has a Mona Lisa smile and gentle manner certainly undeserving of such treatment?
Finalist Women's Issues / Women's Studies 2021 Best Book Awards
Shine On You Crazy Diamond is a book written especially for women.Through inspirational quotes and personal experiences, Catherine shares lessons learned as she went through the process of clearing out the debris of shame, guilt, unrealistic expectations from self and others, social stigmas and conditioning, childhood traumas, and all the other unnecessary and unrealistic pressures that we as women often put on ourselves.
Catherine's hope in writing this book is to inspire you to use your personal experiences, circumstances, past decisions, hurts and disappointments, as opportunities for healing and growth. She knows it is possible to free yourself from the cages that keep you from believing in yourself, to live your life with intention, joy, love and purpose, to stand in your truth and light and to become the incredible woman that you are meant to be.
