Barren Women

Author : Sara Verskin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311059658X
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barren Women written by Sara Verskin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barren Women is the first scholarly book to explore the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world. Through an examination of legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching, Sara Verskin illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions; legal theories pertaining to marriage, divorce, and inheritance; and scientific theories of reproduction contoured the intellectual and social landscape infertile women had to navigate. In so doing, she highlights underappreciated vulnerabilities and opportunities for women’s autonomy within the system of Islamic family law, and explores the diverse marketplace of medical ideas in the medieval world and the perceived connection between women’s health practices and religious heterodoxy. Featuring copious translations of primary sources and minimal theoretical jargon, Barren Women provides a multidimensional perspective on the experience of infertility, while also enhancing our understanding of institutions and modes of thought which played significant roles in shaping women’s lives more broadly. This monograph has been awarded the annual BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World.

Author : C. Celeste Marshall
Publisher : Heavenly Light Press
ISBN 13 : 9781631831973
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Barren Woman written by C. Celeste Marshall and published by Heavenly Light Press. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith and fasting are a combination often overlooked in the Christian world. Memoirs of a Barren Woman takes you on the ten-year faith and fasting journey of a woman waiting on God to fulfill a promise.Celeste¿s desire to be a mother burned in her heart, and despite all the odds, would not go away. Doctors told her she could never conceive a child, and the promise from God seemed impossible. Ten years of annual fasting, preceded a specific three-day fast, regarding a medical procedure and two days prior to surgery, Celeste made a last minute life-changing decision. Her life transformed in an instant, and God¿s promise was fulfilled.Whether you are praying for an unsaved loved one, a dream that seems impossible, a marriage that seems broken beyond repair, or something so personal that only you and God know, Memoirs of a Barren Woman is a story that will build faith as you wait for your own divine miracle from God.

Author : Amanda Hope Haley
Publisher : HarperChristian Resources
ISBN 13 : 1401679765
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barren Among the Fruitful written by Amanda Hope Haley and published by HarperChristian Resources. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of infertility has reached epidemic levels in our society. It is projected that 40 percent of women currently 25 and younger will have difficulty conceiving a child or reaching a live birth. Amanda Hope Haley had married David, the man of her dreams, and earned a master’s degree from Harvard. She and David purchased their first home and settled down to start a family. All her hopes and dreams were coming true according to plan—until the family didn’t happen. After spending seven years begging God for a child, Amanda discovered that God gives only one hope: Jesus. Amanda having a baby wasn’t to be her happy ending. Finding wholeness by hoping only in God was her happy ending! Using Amanda’s personal stories, and the stories of other women who have struggled to have children, Barren Among the Fruitful surrounds those women struggling with infertility or miscarriage with a sense of community while providing honest facts. It leads women from confusion to understanding. Each chapter is titled with a well-meaning, but sometimes thoughtless comment Amanda was offered during her seven-year struggle with infertility. Features include: Personal stories from women who have struggled with infertility or miscarriage An honest look at the problem of infertility Questions for individual thought or group discussion

Author : Anna North
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635575435
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outlawed written by Anna North and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK * INDIE NEXT SELECTION * LIBRARY READS SELECTION * AMAZON EDITORS' CHOICE * WASHINGTON POST BEST OF THE YEAR The "terrifying, wise, tender, and thrilling" (R.O. Kwon) adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all. Featuring an irresistibly no-nonsense, courageous, and determined heroine, Outlawed dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. Anna North has crafted a pulse-racing, page-turning saga about the search for hope in the wake of death, and for truth in a climate of small-mindedness and fear.

Author : Katie Schuermann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934328156
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book He Remembers the Barren written by Katie Schuermann and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tackles the difficult subject of infertility using Jesus Christ's teachings and the Christian faith.

Author : Elaine Tyler May
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674061828
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barren in the Promised Land written by Elaine Tyler May and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, May reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of our lives--sexuality, procreation, and family.

Author : Leah Campbell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781483911335
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Single Infertile Female written by Leah Campbell and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in the baby carriage.”That's how the story goes, right? We all grow up hearing the same fairy tales, and imagining the same futures. But what happens when the future you have always pictured for yourself, is ripped away before you ever even get the chance to pursue it?Single Infertile Female tells the story of a girl, still young and looking for love, who is hit with a medical diagnosis that threatens to destroy the future she always believed she would have. Faced with a choice between now or never, she has to decide if love and marriage should always have to come first. And if they don't, can you still keep looking for them, even while actively pursuing that baby in the baby carriage?

Author : Whitney Henneman
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1973691159
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Barren Cry written by Whitney Henneman and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as Hannah pleaded with the Lord for her son Samuel in 1 Samuel 1:10, so this devotional is a focused journey of faith and intentional prayer on behalf of our deepest longings for a child. Each day in this three-week journey encapsulates what I have processed and learned through my season of barrenness in regards to my understanding of God amidst the greatest suffering I have known. For those who thirst for answers in the wilderness of waiting and long to hear from Him, this book is a practical guide to help strengthen your resolve under the load you bear. In my darkest moments of despair during our infertility battle and my husbands’ health crisis, we decided to do a 21-day fasting/prayer challenge. “It wasn’t easy” is an understatement. In fact, the increasing spiritual oppression we felt was staggering. But guess what? The Lord showed up. Not immediately, as it was months later we heard from Him; but we ultimately experienced Him profoundly! So I’m challenging you today: commit to praying to the Lord for 21 days for your innermost yearnings for motherhood and healing. I think you will be blown away by the power you hold in asking and in the graciousness of our Father in answering you. Hannah’s barren cry is what moved the heart of God. So of you, your barren cry is not powerless—it is powerful! I dare you to faithfully impress your requests upon the heart of God and not encounter an experience of life changing proportions.

Author : Damasus C. Okoro
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725265702
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Women and the Shame and Pain of Infertility written by Damasus C. Okoro and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In African Women and the Shame and Pain of Infertility: An Ethico-Cultural Study of Christian Response to Childlessness among the Igbo People of West Africa, Okoro discusses the shipwreck that is associated with infertility in marriage in Africa. Within this space, childlessness places a big question mark on a woman’s femininity and the self-esteem of the man. The stigma of infertility most often leads to social isolation and humiliation, particularly of married women, even when the source of infertility may not have come from them. Unfortunately, this situation goes against the highly valued Igbo ethical principle of onye aghala nwanne ya, meaning “no kith or kin should be left behind.” Therefore, the purpose of the book is to help married people in Igbo land and Africa at large to appropriate this indigenous principle in their response to the problem of infertility. To attain this, the author critically evaluates discrimination and oppression of infertile couples, particularly women, and shedding light on the paradoxes found in Igbo cultural expressions. He employs a constructive, ethical, cultural, religious, contextual, and theological approach that explores important Igbo religious paradigms like Chi (an Igbo religio-cultural understanding of personal destiny) and Ani (the feminine deity in-charge of the land and fertility) to argue the case for the liberation and integration of infertile couples.

Author : Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781439231562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silent Sorority written by Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era of "fertility for all" and dominated by Mom's Clubs and helicopter parents, Silent Sorority reveals the difficult business of rebuilding a life when infertility treatments prove fruitless.