Cotton-Patch Schoolhouse is a memoir of the author's year as a young and inexperienced teacher in rural Marengo County, several miles from Linden, Alabama, in 1926. Seeking to earn money to continue college after her freshman year at Alabama College in Montevallo, the author welcomed the opportunity to teach eight children at five different grade levels in a one-room schoolhouse in the middle of a cotton field. Youthful enthusiasm, native wit, and a sense of adventure helped her transform the simple schoolhouse into a place of learning and excitement.

In these beautifully written essays, Gloria Wade-Gayles is at times painfully candid as she confronts such controversial subjects as rape, homophobia, interracial relationships, and even "looking and acting too young" for her age. Yet what emerges from each piece is a powerful connection to her community, which serves as her well-spring of strength, sheltering her faith.

A feminist literary study of the friendship between two modern British writers as manifested in their works.

Four Black women talk candidly about their lives, their roles as wives, mothers, and daughters, and their work, set within the context of the history of Black women in America

An anthology gathers essays, poems, and photography by twenty-seven contemporary Black women who chronicle the lives of ancestors, and uphold the value of activism

Bundel essays waarin de schijnoplossingen die aan de - voornamelijk door de moderne media bepaalde - wensen en verlangens van vrouwen tegemoetkomen, geanalyseerd worden.

The spread of the AIDS virus has introduced a new element into the formula-versus-breastfeeding controversy. Mothers, particularly those in developing nations, have been urged to breastfeed in order to better nourish their infants and protect them from disease or contaminants in the water used to prepare formula. Now, however, mothers and healthcare workers must consider the danger of transmitting AIDS via breastfeeding. When HIV-infected women nurse their children, they significantly increase the risk of transmitting the virus. The issue is further complicated in countries where the alternatives are not very promising and in cultures that stigmatize women for even undergoing AIDS testing. This informative analysis includes the development of research into HIV and breastfeeding, the medical and political questions surrounding the controversy, and options and solutions for women to consider in feeding their infants. Fully indexed, this book is an important contribution to the social and medical studies of one of the most tragic facets of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Presents poems written throughout her lifetime by a writer now in her eighties, including works about her grandmothers and her husband, the cities of Dublin and Hiroshima, and the ways in which everyday experience defies simple explanations