Biography, Autobiography & Life Writing
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From ![]() NEW! Part Three: Section IIWomen and Depression: Auto/biographies |
This reading consists of the following essays: Asylum: Diary of the Last Seven Days in a Women’s Psychiatric Ward [c.1973] – M: A Daughter’s Tale [c.1982] | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 10 | 2020 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part Three: Section IIIUndomesticating Violence |
This reading consists of the following essays: Against the Beating of Children: Submission to a Parliamentary Sub-committee on the Corporal Punishment of Children [2013] – Three Letters … | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part TwoFrom: The Mantle of Struggle |
Part two explores Douglas’ move to Canada to attend Sir George Williams University in Montreal during the 1960s. These chapters detail his life during this time; his civil rights activism … | Irving Andre | 102 | 2023 | $10.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part Two: Section IWhy and How to Count Unwaged Work |
This reading consists of the following essays: Valuing Unwaged Work: A Preparatory Brief for CARICOM Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs Attending the 4th World Conference on Women … | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part Two: Section IIBreaking the Frontier between Home and Street, Unwaged and Waged |
This reading consists of the following essays: Strike for a Millennium which Values all Women’s Work and all Women’s Lives: A Call to Action [2000] – The Impact of the IMF … | Alissa Trotz; Andaiye | 40 | 2020 | $4.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Part Two: The Big City |
Part Two reflects on MacDonald’s early adolescence, the move to Toronto, his last visit to his mother, skateboarding, school, first loves, experimenting with weed, teenage rebellion, being … | Chris MacDonald | 71 | 2022 | $7.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! PartitusFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Discusses Partition, Singh’s relationship to and removal from those events as something that occurred before his time that his mother scarcely talked about. | Jaspreet Singh | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Party or No Party?Part 3. Beginning Your Campaign From: Women Winning Office |
In Party or No Party? Nash examines the decision to support and join a political party for which to run for office. The chapter explores topics such as branding of political parties, differences … | Peggy Nash | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Pass the SpudsFrom: Up the Coast |
Chapter Seven focuses on the cook house, the cook Dave, the routine at the logging camp, grizzly bears in the shed, and the cook Lousia the nazi. | Kathryn Willcock | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() Passing the Torch1982-1989 |
Chapter twenty of George Manuel’s biography examines the end of his life, the momentum he generated and his legacy. He was in a wheelchair the last years of his life, and he was finally … | Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() PassionFrom: On Love and Tyranny |
This chapter explores Arendt’s relationship with the philosopher Martin Heidegger. | Ann Heberlein | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() Passport to fairylandFrom: The Wheel of Things |
Mollie Gillen | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add | |
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From ![]() Path to Independence California, 1959-60From: Holocaust to Resistance |
Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis … | Suzanne Berliner Weiss | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Patterns of a Childhood in KashmirFrom: My Mother, My Translator |
Chronicles Singh’s childhood in India—family trips, dinners, and challenges, including the complexities and division created through language. | Jaspreet Singh | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() Peace and Fire |
This chapter is told from the author’s father’s perspective. It gives insight into the changes and challenges faced by the family under the communist government. | Jolie Phuong Hoang | 3 | 2021 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() Pediatric Hidden Agendas and MythsFrom: A Lucky Life |
Talks about the hidden agenda of parents who bring their children to the pediatrician for complaints that may seem trivial to the physician. Most hidden agendas fall into one of the following … | Richard B. Goldbloom | 15 | 2013 | $1.50 Add |















