Headed Home

Download or read book Heading Home written by Shani Orgad and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in today’s advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to “lean in.” The media and government champion women’s empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women—lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others—give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How do they feel about their decision and what do their stories tell us about contemporary society? Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women’s experience of continued injustice. Shani Orgad draws on in-depth, personal, and profoundly ambivalent interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children while their husbands continued to work in high-powered jobs. Despite identifying the structural forces that maintain gender inequality, these women still struggle to articulate their decisions outside the narrow cultural ideals that devalue motherhood and individualize success and failure. Orgad juxtaposes these stories with media and policy depictions of women, work, and family, detailing how—even as their experiences fly in the face of fantasies of work-life balance and marriage as an egalitarian partnership—these women continue to interpret and judge themselves according to the ideals that are failing them. Rather than calling for women to transform their feelings and behavior, Heading Home argues that we must unmute and amplify women’s desire, disappointment, and rage, and demand social infrastructure that will bring about long-overdue equality both at work and at home.

Download or read book Headed Home written by Glenn Wilson and published by Lucid Books. This book was released on 2011-11-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson, a first-round draft pick of the Detroit Tigers in 1980, played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball. Injuries and disappointment shortened his career, and when investments soured causing business ventures to fail, he found himself living in pain and misery. In that pain, he came to know what it meant to truly have a relationship with God.

Download or read book Heading Home with Your Newborn written by Laura A. Jana and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive guide to caring for newborns, and contains information on health care, feeding, sleeping habits, traveling, sickness, and more.

Download or read book Headed Home written by Katie Pittsenbarger and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A city girl goes to the country to find and escape from the reality of her friend's suicide. What she finds is a man looking for the family he thought he'd never have.

Download or read book Musings of a Traveler Headed Home written by Thomas Ashley Young and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a follow-up to his best-selling book, “Going Home - A Backpacker’s Journey,” Thomas Ashley Young continues his travels this time from everyday experiences that border on the insane. Ripe with peripheral invisibleness, Tom’s journeys could be your own; that is, if you jump ouside the box that others have crystallized for you. His expanded use of outside-the-writing-rules techniques have earned him raised eyebrows from even his closest friends. Said one, “Tom is a certified nut, but at least he’s screwed onto the right Bolt.”

Download or read book Edmonisia Headed Home in the Wrong Direction written by Joe W. Kincade Jr and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about a women who was a slave and wanted to be free more than anything her chance came when she moved south ----.

Download or read book Headed Home written by C. Carol Oravetz and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God is our creator and wants us to follow Him, why does everything have to be so complicated? Timeline gaps and the laws of physics forcefully argue against such vague spiritual nonsense. No wonder so many ignore God Almighty and His primary means of communication, the Bible. Combining whimsy with apologetics and scripture-based teaching with personal challenges, C. Carol Oravetz leads readers on a soul-searching, forty-day journey through the Advent season, the frontier of life, and beyond. Within a nontraditional devotional, she follows the footsteps of Moses, who led the infant nation of Israel from Egyptian slavery, through a vast wilderness of fear and rescue, failure and victory, poverty and provision, discipline and faith, heartbreak and monotony, until they reached their final destination, Canaan, The Promised Land, Home. Over a thousand years later, the lessons of the wilderness would be embodied in a man who would change the world, Jesus of Nazareth. Headed Home chronicles the life of Moses and explores the divine instructions he received revealing God’s love and rescue plan for humanity.