age ~77
from Gallup, NM
Author
Joan Jacobs
ISBN #
0664501508
Author
Joan Jacobs
ISBN #
0842308563
"Timely and sympathetic . . . a work of impassioned advocacy." --PeopleA hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today American women have more s...
Author
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN #
0679735291
EAN Code
9780679735298
ISBN #
1
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN #
6
Author
-Vintage-
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Paperback
ISBN #
3
Joan Jacobs is a wise and experienced grandma. She wants grandmothers everywhere to love what they do and to grow in faith. She brings her theological training, life experience, good humor, and imagination together in an inspiring reflection on one of life's greatest opportunities--being a grandma. ...
Author
Joan Jacobs
Binding
Paperback
Pages
104
Publisher
Geneva Press
ISBN #
0664501508
EAN Code
9780664501501
ISBN #
10
Winner of four major awards, this updated edition of Joan Jacobs Brumberg's Fasting Girls, presents a history of women's food-refusal dating back as far as the sixteenth century. Here is a tableau of female self-denial: medieval martyrs who used starvation to demonstrate religious devotion, "wonders...
Author
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Binding
Paperback
Pages
400
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN #
0375724486
EAN Code
9780375724480
ISBN #
7
Most Americans regard "kids who kill" as a problem unique to our era. But in historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg's important new work, Kansas Charley, she reminds us that it is, tragically, a long-standing dilemma. Through the moving tale of Charles Miller, Brumberg takes us into a world of poverty, tra...
Author
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Publisher
Viking Adult
ISBN #
067003228X
EAN Code
9780670032280
ISBN #
5
Critically acclaimed for Girl Culture and Fast Forward, Lauren Greenfield continues her exploration of contemporary female culture with Thin, a groundbreaking book about eating disorders. Greenfield's photographs are paired with extensive interviews and journal entries from twenty girls and women wh...
Author
Lauren Greenfield
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
224
Publisher
Chronicle Books
ISBN #
081185633X
EAN Code
9780811856331
ISBN #
4