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The four Makioka sisters lead very complicated, strenuous lives, although on the surface nothing much ever happens to them. Part of a fading Japanese aristocracy in the years leading up to World War II, they cannot escape the wide net of the family name--something always brings them back to the reality of "being a Makioka." Running out of money, living in falling-apart houses, growing older beneath the sunlight of the modern world, they do their best to preserve the rituals of the past. The two older sisters work diligently to arrange a marriage for the third sister, Yukiko. Desperate to find someone to take care of her, they keep lowering their standards. One night they find themselves out with a drunk, selfish crackpot who has no money, but who is supposed to be related to a man who works for an important utility company. The fact that he is even a candidate for their sister's hand is a sign of how far they have fallen.
There are other signs in this remarkable, utterly compelling Japanese epic. At one point, a flood overwhelms their small town of Osaka. The youngest sister, Taeko, is having tea at the impeccably decorated home where her sewing teacher, Mrs. Tamaki, lives with her son Hiroshi. When the rain first appears beneath the door,
the three were still rather enjoying themselves, shouting at each other in the best of spirits. They all had a good laugh when Hiroshi, reaching to grab the briefcase in which he had brought home his school books, bumped his head on the bobbing radio. But after perhaps a half hour, there came a moment when the three fell silent. Almost immediately, Taeko remembered afterwards, the water was above her waist. As she clutched at a curtain, a picture fell from over her head; the curtain had probably brushed against it. It was a picture Mrs. Tamaki was especially fond of.
Junichiro Tanizaki wrestled throughout his career with the idea of a country where tribes of aristocrats live as relics, grasping at the past through gestures, manners, small and intricate private laws. The narrative suspense of The Makioka Sisters is rooted in this single-minded nostalgia, this strict attention to the details of domestic life as the outer world becomes more and more incomprehensible. Pages are devoted to musing about whether Yukiko should "risk" meeting a potential husband when there is a spot above her eye--maybe she should play it safe and go to the doctor about it; maybe the potential husband will interpret it as bad luck. Tanizaki manages to make the struggle over this small, dark spot wildly compelling. I could not sleep until I discovered its fate.
If epic literature is based in the dramatic and forward-moving narrative of a male hero's journey, The Makioka Sisters is a female epic of inaction--trying to figure out what to wear, crying for no reason at the same time every afternoon. With each perilous, pathetic step, the sisters are heroes setting out for the new world. They're like Odysseus, except without the ship and without the sea. --Emily White
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Every Family Has Their Ups and Downs.......2007-03-09
This beautiful novel set in pre-World War II Osaka completely transported me to it's time and place. Mr. Tanizaki has drawn the characters of the Makioka family with great care and precision. I sat bolt upright when he first puts Yukiko together with her domineering little niece Etsuko, a scene that perfectly illustrates the personalities of both characters with subtle directness. At that point Mr. Tanazaki had an attentive reader and so I remained. It is said that this is a "novel about nothing" but that couldn't be further from the truth, it's about life as perceived through the eyes and experiences of one family, principally the four sisters. Life is often about nothing much, I suppose that's why we have the desire to read. The writing has a beautiful ethereal quality, I am reminded of fog or mist or cigarette smoke and yet at the same time it is robust and gripping. The details of the city, Japanese arts, kimono and nature are superb giving great ambience and sense of place. The pace is leisurely but a sense of urgency is implied through the nerve wracking task of getting the recalcitrant Yukiko married off and the knowledge of the cataclysm of war that is lurking but never delved into. I suppose this is a work for a particular audience that can revel in the slower pace of sixty plus years ago in a tightly confined social structure but Mr. Tanizaki rewards the reader again and again with flights from the ordinary into the sublime. The Everyman version with translation by Edward G. Seidensticker is a good choice.
Family drama in every detail.......2006-10-23
Before soap operas or movie dramas, Japan had to rely on books. The Makioka Sisters is about four sisters living in pre-World War Two Japan. The sisters are from a Samurai family which is declining in fortunes. Two of the sisters are married and spend most of the three books trying to get the other two sisters married. The book really allows us to see Japanese daily life, from interaction between families, worries about employment, the traditions, the holidays, the fashions and even problems a normal family had. The book, funny enough, got the author in trouble because it was about nothing. It neither attacked the government or military nor did the book support or help the national war effort. It was thought of as a waste of paper.
The chronology in the front of the book is very useful to understand what is happening during the author's life. If you want a taste of Japanese life, this is it. But it isn't a bus or train book. It is 498 pages of small print, complex plots and twisted sisters. Not easy, no matter how much you love Japanese culture. But worth it.
Truly a classic.......2006-06-03
This is Tanizaki's masterpiece. The characters are multifaceted, with all the complexity of real life. The writing is simple and elegant, yet filled with beauty and emotion.
The world in a grain of sand.......2005-11-05
The Makioka Sisters (Sasame Yuki, Light Snow), first published in 1948, was written by Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965). Tanizaki wrote The Makioka Sisters after translating the Tale of Genji into modern Japanese and the Murasaki novel is said to have influenced his own. It tells of the declining years of the once powerful Makioka family and their last descendants, four sisters. It has been translated by Edward G. Seidensticker in 1957. Powerfully realistic, it mourns the passing of greatness while celebrating in wonderfully evocative detail the beauty of a particular time and place, Osaka in the 1930s. In its creation of beauty out of sadness it can be compared to another family saga, The Maias (1888), by the Portuguese master Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900).
Why is this long book, largely concerned with trivial family procedures, one of the finest novels written? It is not concerned with great events, causes or philosophies. It has little concern with the war Japan was fighting with China, and then the USA, when the book was first published. Indeed its characters don't think about the war, and in a positive way, which doesn't trivialise their concerns at all (most people in fact don't think about the reasons for a war: perhaps it's better that way). This doesn't mean the book is escapist or superficial, just as the concern with women's lifestyle, dress, makeup, etiquette or social vanity make it something written just for women (books and films were once made - by men - to capitalise on what were considered women's 'little' concerns). Tanizaki does that wonderful thing a great artist can do, he finds the universal in the most exact examination of the particular, and makes a work of relevance to us all. Read another family saga, The Brothers Karamazov (1880) and my candidate for the greatest novel yet written (though I'm more than cynical about the word 'great') and marvel at the many routes artists find to the universal.
My review is impossibly partial: The Makioka Sisters is the most beautiful novel I've ever read. The language (translation) is so smooth and flowing, the characters and situations so gentle and muted, yet precise and meaningful, that reading the book is like seeing the universe in a drop of water - you see, which is moving, and awareness of where and how you see brings amazement and then a real pleasure.
In this beautiful book the characters have a greater degree of reality than many real people - Tanizaki is a great master of characterisation. I know more about them than I do about most of the people I know. It is done by the accumulation of enormous amounts of detail, but detail which, trivial though it may appear, is just right. The result is the creation of a most ethereal and delicate beauty, a lovely world crumbling to extinction yet all the more precious because of its inevitable passing away.
Sachiko, the second sister and her husband Teinosuke are that rare achievement, a convincing depiction of really good and admirable people, though in no way heroic. They are very ordinary people, but their goodness, their little troubles and worries, their faults, even weaknesses, all serve to charm and captivate. Of all the characters in the book these two are the loveliest. It is a real affirmation of humanity to have created two such kind and gentle and sensitive people, and to have made them so real and convincing.
The careworn life of Tsuruko (first sister), the hesitations of Yukiko (third sister), the unhappiness of Taeko (Koi-san, fourth sister) all gain from contrast with the stability and happiness of Sachiko and Teinosuke. And what an evocation of the old ways of Japan. Changing rapidly even as Tanizaki writes of them.
Detail by detail - Etsuko's games with the German girl Rosemarie, Itakura's leather coat, the 'old one', Koi-san's mimicry and mingled love and resentment of Yukiko...there are literally thousands of details. Teinosuke's love of Spring in his garden, the vitamin injections the sisters take, the forthrightness of Itani - all, everyone, is so precise, not random at all, chosen to evoke mood, reveal character, show milieu.
So powerful and evocative has the book been - yet nothing really happens, except to Koi-san. The war approaches, the old Japan changes, Yukiko gets married - unforgettable!
I've seen advertised a TV serialisation of The Makioka Sisters, but can't imagine how it could succeed. So much of the book's effect is through language. Visually, certain scenes stand out, such as the cherry blossom viewing or the flood. The narrative though is largely uneventful, small actions that dramatically and convincingly reveal a character's state of mind, early history or personality.
Written with love, a strong love of people and place, the book creates love in the reader. Because of Tanizaki I have loved Osaka in the late 1930s and have learned to treasure and respect its people. For those hesitating to undertake reading such a 'Japanese' work as The Makioka Sisters there is the perfect bridging novel The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Nejimaki-dori kuronikuru, 1995) by Haruki Murakami, which does mention the war - and Charlie Parker and 'hard-boiled' detective stories and Jungian archetypes and the surreal: a roller coaster of a novel and one of the best as well.
Unhurried elegance in the tradition of Genji.......2005-04-27
The Makioka Sisters reminds one of the Tale of Genji, a work which Tanizaki himself was deeply influenced by. The characters belong to an upper class family, and are concerned with appearances, understated refinement, and tradition. Scenes such as the cherry blossom viewings and the firefly hunt are given as much importance as great floods and miscarriages. Although the characters have great depth, they are still not quite accessible--they belong to a different age and class, and float before the reader like a painting on a silk screen. Although the themes of encroaching modernity and falling family fortunes are forever in the picture, in the end it is tradition that has the happy ending, modernity that has her hopes crushed. As other readers have remarked, this is a significant shift from Naomi, where the "modern girl" is the clear and decisive victor.
In many ways, The Makioka Sisters is a full-length novel version of Tanizaki's essay "In Praise of Shadows." Few pages go by without a mention of traditional elements of Japanese culture: poetry writing, architecture, nature, dance, etc. None is a casual reference; all have layers of nuance and undertone. Still, there is the feeling that Tanizaki has Traditional Culture win the battle but lose the war, for he--like us--knows that Japan has lost World War II and the elegant world he has created will not survive the following decades of strongly Western-influenced modernization. The youth and beauty of the Makioka sisters and their world is to scatter in the wind like the petals of so many cherry blossoms.
Captured best in the scene where Sachiko lies awake watching a lone firefly play about in her kimono sleeve before she lets it go, the book is a reminder that there is no such thing as true timelessness. The Makioka Sisters is very much a story about a family, a nation, and a culture on the brink of violent change. This book will reward readers with the insight and patience to savor every detail and contemplate every nuance. Tanizaki's masterpiece, this book deserves five stars.
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The Makioka Sisters
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Heather Wells Rocks!
Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two -- and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
The cops and the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. But Heather knows teenage girls . . . and girls do not elevator surf. Yet no one wants to listen -- not the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives -- even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways. So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective!
But her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, and lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. And nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong . . .
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HEATHER WELLS ROCKS!
Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two -- and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of endless mall appearances are in the past, Heather's perfectly happy with her new size 12 shape (the average for the American woman!) and her new job as an assistant dorm director at one of New York's top colleges. That is, until the dead body of a female student from Heather's residence hall is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
The cops and the college president are ready to chalk the death off as an accident, the result of reckless youthful mischief. But Heather knows teenage girls . . . and girls do not elevator surf. Yet no one wants to listen -- not the police, her colleagues, or the P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives -- even when more students start turning up dead in equally ordinary and subtly sinister ways. So Heather makes the decision to take on yet another new career: as spunky girl detective!
But her new job comes with few benefits, no cheering crowds, and lots of liabilities, some of them potentially fatal. And nothing ticks off a killer more than a portly ex-pop star who's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong . . .
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Not impressed.......2007-10-10
Honestly, from reading all of the reviews, I was expecting more. I have read all of Meg Cabot's other adult books, and this one was far below the cut. I certainly know what I am getting into with Meg Cabot - chick lit of course, but very very light chick lit - but this book was definitely not what I was expecting. Heather is an okay enough protagonist although rather immature and disturbingly wallowing in self-pity and misery at times, but the story just was not good - it was a sub par mystery, the jokes were not funny and the overall plot was not terribly enthralling. Just know if read this that you will not be receiving work that is of the author's normal caliber.
BEST book EVER!.......2007-09-02
This book is simply amazing! I loved it loved it loved it! If you even LIKE Meg Cabot you are going to fall in love with her writing in this one! It is simply amazing and just fantastic! I definitely did not expect it to be this great but it was!! Buy with confidence- you are going to love this book!! The best book ever!!
A great book in a new genre for Cabot.......2007-08-24
Meg Cabot has written some of my favorite books in recent years ("All American Girl" is a work of comic genius). I was a little doubtful when I'd heard she was entering the mystery genre, but this book rocks! The story of Heather Wells, a has-been teen pop idol, and how she investigates the mysterious deaths of two residents in the dorm (um, I mean, residence hall) where she now works, is funny, well-written, hip, and just sexy enough. Great job, Meg! I look forward to more entries in this series soon.
A quick and entertaining read.......2007-08-22
This book was a change of pace from my usual chick lit reading. Heather, the main character, went through the typical 20s angst but with humor and a mystery thrown in. I was also anxious following her crush on Cooper to see where it'd lead, and I like that things didn't end on such a "final" note like these books usually do. I'm reading Size 14 is not Fat Either right now, and it picks up nicely where the old one left off. I can't wait to see what Heather Wells does next!
Size 12 is PHAT.......2007-08-07
Meg Cabot is an outstanding writer who's crossed from romance to Chick Lit and into the Teen genre writing comedic works that appeal to women of all ages without any hiccups. And you can't doubt that having a book on the shelf titled Size Twelve is Not Fat will appeal to 99% of women since it is the most common size. Though that was the catalyst to picking up this book, I ultimately bought it becuase the main character was named Heather - and I don't find books with my namesake as the titled heroine often.
Heather Wells was a has-been teen star coping with some extra pounds, the loss of her hot and adulterous R&B star boyfriend and the crush she has on his older brother - who's also her roommate. Got it? On top of that, she's the glorified Resident Assistant who runs a dorm building for a NY college, and she's as curious as Cusrious George to find the culprit of the killings that happen on her turf.
I liked Heather Wells even though she was 25 and she still acted 15 and I enjoyed the easy beach read that this was. I was even surprised to find the murderer was who it ended up being. However, even though nothing was resolved in regards to her heavy crush on her roomate and she never takes her new songs to a record label, the book was satisfying and made me smile here and there. If there's anything Cabot is good for, it's a laugh and an entertainingly fluffy read. The catch to this is I'm not interested in the second book even though Cabot's made it known she's going to make it a Heather Wells Mystery collection of who-know's-how-many books. And in the coming books for Heather Wells - where I'm sure she eventually completes all that she set out to do in this first edition, I am content at just where I am - and readers may be like me and not feel it neccesary to read beyond this.
4 Stars for a well-seasoned author who adds a little mystery to her chick lit to thicken her plots.
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Bretagne, 880 AD Alain, the bastard son of the witch of Dead Ox Wood, can only dream of wielding the magic of the ley lines, until the day when a mad spirit threatens his life, and he pierces the barrier to reach his hidden talent. But his new-found skills do not lead to the prosperity of his dreams. Instead, they place him on a path to a destiny he never imagined. He is thrust into the center of a centuries-long battle for power over the Lands of Men. Is Alain the mage foretold by ages past? Is he the Fair One? His talent draws others to him-enemies and allies alike-and pits him against the most powerful mages of this world, and of the next! In this engrossing novel, the author of the Fallen Cloud Saga and Dreams of the Desert Wind, creates an exciting alternate world that blends magic and politics, myth and history. The Dark Ages come alive with depth and honesty, taking the reader on a journey filled with prophecy, magic, and twists of fate.
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One of the Best Books on Women's Health Issues.......2001-02-12
"Lucid, smart, passionate, and compassionate, Women, Poverty & AIDS puts the calss back into class analysis. Through a diversity of voices, experiences, geographies and disciplines, the contributors argue that poverty as a factor in the global HIV epidemic is pervasive, neglected, and urgent. Povery is inescapably linked to gender. Acall to arms on behalf of health and social justice for poor women, its impact is searing." --Paula Treichler, University of Illinois, Urbana, editor of The Feminist Dictionary
"Exceedingly well-written, this book shows that AIDS is a wake-up call--we must be about the business of transforming our world, if for no other reason than to prevent the creation of a worse epidemic, which could be the inevitable sequel to our failure to contain this one. A compelling presentation of people, programs and ideas, Women, Poverty & AIDS has an important message of hope." --Robert Fullilove and Mindy Fullilove, M.D., Columbia School of Public Health
"Moving beyond a simple biomedical model, this book compels us to view AIDS in women in a wholly new way, as an inescapable event in lives devalued by the forces of poverty, racism, and sexism. This extraordinary multidisciplinary effort should serve as the guidebook for those who want to understand how AIDS could become a leading killer of young women in a mere decade." --Deborah Cotton, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, editor of The Medical Management of AIDS in Women
"Women, Poverty & AIDS makes a major contribution by staying always close to the lived realities of real people in real places, and refusing the old, empty, pat answers to difficult questions. A hard-nosed, real-life analysis--an antidote to status quo thinking--this should be required reading for all who care about AIDS--or public health." --Jonathan Mann, M.D., Director of the International AIDS Center, and the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health
A terrible contradiction.......2000-12-21
WPA is a book that makes a horrible contradiction, it asks professionals working in related fields to the AIDS pandemic to examine certain kinds of structural violence regarding gender and poverty, which the authors correctly claim have been mostly overlooked - that is, poor women forms one of the groups most brutally hit by AIDS. No help, no medicine, no programs, no interest from academics, public health institutions, etc results in brutal and lethal suffering for poor women and their families. On the other hand, by the language they use to talk about prostitution systems, WPA authors practice and perpetuate serious forms of structural violence against poor women and children.
The book is divided into 3 parts: 1) "Rethinking AIDS" tries to take a global look at the AIDS pandemic specially regarding poor women; 2) "Rereading AIDS," examines problems with social science, public health, and clinical medicine on AIDS and poor women; and 3) profiles organizations who offer services to people with AIDS with a sensitive framework towards poverty and women.
Throughout the book, where the issue of prostitution regularly appears, the authors adopt the trend to refer to women and children in prostitution as "sex workers." They do alternatively use "prostitute," but the emphasis is "sex worker," "sex tourism," "sex industry," words which serve to hide any form of violence, crime, and torture in prostitution systems. Even in their own vignette of Lata, a prostituted teenager, which is such a typical case in prostitution or the rape tourism industry, which exemplifies so many of the forms of violence suffered by prostituted children and women, the authors use mostly a falsely non-violent language that serves to make invisible and push away from conscience the very violence the authors are describing. Lata is an Indian girl who is "sold" by her parents to a pimp, she is raped, kidnapped, and sexually and psychologically abused into a prostitution system, and after all of that, while still in captivity, while still being coerced to have sex with men (i.e. being systematically raped), she is called by the authors a "sex worker." It is particularly disgusting to see authors who write a book asking people to take into account structural forms of violence against women - in particular, the brutal consequences of poverty: lack of safety, human rights, medical care, care for their children, economic survival, psychological well being- and who at the same time use a vocabulary and language that serves to hide so many forms of violence perpetrated against these very women and children in prostitution systems. I don't see using "sex worker" as a step forward from "prostitute." If the word "prostitute" carries a stigma, the problem won't be resolved by using a language that serves to hide the violence involved in the system. Authors can come up with something less irresponsible than that.
The term "sex worker" is so comfortable, so nifty, so postmodern-chic, so trendy-but so disgustingly violent, so corrupt in its insensitivity to the suffering and trauma perpetrated against defenseless children and women in prostitution, and so in collusion with every single person who would like to erase from the public eye, and consequently from accountability and punishment, the great violations of various human rights involved in systems of prostitution and the rape tourism industry. This is particularly problematic in a book that has subtitles such as " the use of culture and construction of denial to explain this or that," "making it explicit: women, poverty, AIDS," "exaggeration of poor women's agency," and not least, "lack of accountability." It's Orwellian.
Authors such as those from WPA usually justify their practice of the above violence by saying that "sex worker, et al" is a vocabulary that does not stigmatize those in prostitution. But the compounded horrendous forms of violence (specially structural ones) in prostitution are much worse than the processes of stigmatization. So why, when there is so much violence in prostitution, have academics adopted such a camouflaged, deceptive wording? How privileged, dehumanized, and lacking in accountability regarding a language that erases real violence from conscience in prostitution systems are these and other authors?
The answer, unfortunately, is "very." Albeit WPA provides some very important information, plus heartbreaking profiles of diverse women, nationally and internationally brutalized by AIDS, plus the discussion of various serious problems regarding poor women and AIDS, it felt, in my view, like two steps backwards, one step forward. Purporting to raise issues of the violence of poverty towards women and their families - of which prostitution is a significant destroyer of human rights-the authors end up caught up in the same problem they are trying to denounce.
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Backlash against Welfare Mothers is a forceful examination of how and why a state-level revolt against welfare, begun in the late 1940s, was transformed into a national-level assault that destroyed a critical part of the nation's safety net, with tragic consequences for American society. With a wealth of original research, Ellen Reese puts recent debates about the contemporary welfare backlash into historical perspective. She provides a closer look at these early antiwelfare campaigns, showing why they were more successful in some states than others and how opponents of welfare sometimes targeted Puerto Ricans and Chicanos as well as blacks for cutbacks. Her research reveals both the continuities and changes in American welfare opposition from the late 1940s to the present.
Reese brings new evidence to light that reveals how large farmers and racist politicians, concerned about the supply of cheap labor, appealed to white voters' racial resentments and stereotypes about unwed mothers, blacks, and immigrants in the 1950s. She then examines congressional failure to replace the current welfare system with a more popular alternative in the 1960s and 1970s, which paved the way for national assaults on welfare. Taking a fresh look at recent debates on welfare reform, she explores how and why politicians competing for the white vote and right-wing think tanks promoting business interests appeased the Christian right and manufactured consent for cutbacks through a powerful, racially coded discourse. Finally, through firsthand testimonies, Reese vividly portrays the tragic consequences of current welfare policies and calls for a bold new agenda for working families.
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No Place Left to Bury the Dead: Denial, Despair and Hope in the African AIDS Pandemic
Nicole Itano
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EVERY DAY in Africa, approximately 7,000 men, women, and children are erased from the face of this planet by the devastating AIDS virus that -- even after more than two and a half decades -- continues to wreak havoc around the globe, especially in underdeveloped nations. No Place Left to Bury the Dead dares to go where media, governments, and ordinary individuals in the West seldom venture -- face-to-face with fellow humans suffering in the shadow of our collective ignorance and neglect.
In this haunting investigation, acclaimed journalist Nicole Itano goes beyond traditional journalistic methods as she eats, sleeps, and lives with the women who struggle daily with the raging epidemic of AIDS. Working from the personal accounts of a few real women living with the disease, Itano traces their moments of discovery and diagnosis, their first symptoms, and the ways they cope with treatment and manage the news with their families. Itano's masterful blend of the personal, scientific, and historical turns statistics into stories and balances tragedy with hope as she outlines the scope of new treatment and prevention.
In a time when celebrity and political heavy hitters such as Bono and Bill Clinton are rushing to find a remedy for Africa's increasing problem, No Place Left to Bury the Dead shows the world how the transformation of a few courageous women can heal entire communities and eradicate denial, and how books like these increase global awareness of one of the worst epidemics in human history. Like And the Band Played On and The Coming Plague, this book is a wake-up call that is urgently needed.
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Continues to offer insight and information.......2001-02-09
Now in a newly updated edition, Mimi Abramovitz's Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women And Welfare In The United States continues to offer insight and information on recent developments in welfare "reform" and welfare rights activism. Abramovitz documents the impact of that recent historic changes in welfare policies have had on the lives of impoverish single mothers and their children. Contrary to popular wisdom, governmental hype, and media reports, poor women have always had the courage and ability to fight injustice in behalf of themselves and their children. That struggle continues today as political activists continue to strive to humanize and truly reform current welfare policies. Under Attack, Fighting Back is "must" reading for women's rights advocates, political activists, social reformers, welfare policy makers, and welfare program administrators.
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The interrelationship between gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS in South Africa. : An article from: Journal of International Women's Studies
Chineze J. Onyejekwe
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This digital document is an article from Journal of International Women's Studies, published by Bridgewater State College on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 3158 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The interrelationship between gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
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Journal of International Women's Studies (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2004
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This digital document is an article from Population Briefs, published by The Population Council, Inc. on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 867 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Unsafe behaviors most common among poor women.(HIV/AIDS)
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Title: Vulnerability, not just sex, responsible for high AIDS prevalence in Africa.(HIV/AIDS)
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Reproductive Health Matters (Refereed)
Date: November 1, 2003
Publisher: Reproductive Health Matters
Volume: 11
Issue: 22
Page: 192(1)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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Women with AIDS and Their Children (Children of Poverty)
Sharon E Walker
Manufacturer: Routledge
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Binding: Hardcover
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