Each year, thousands of pilgrims visit the celebrated New Orleans tomb where Marie Laveau is said to lie. They seek her favors or fear her lingering influence. Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau is the first study of the Laveaus, mother and daughter of the same name. Both were legendary leaders of religious and spiritual traditions many still label as evil.The Laveaus were free women of color and prominent French-speaking Catholic Creoles. From the 1820s unti...

Winner of the 2004 Eudora Welty PrizeEach year, thousands of pilgrims visit the celebrated New Orleans tomb where Marie Laveau is said to lie. They seek her favors or fear her lingering influence. Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau is the first study of the Laveaus, mother and daughter of the same name. Both were legendary leaders of religious and spiritual traditions many still label as evil.The Laveaus were free women of color and p...

Takes a cross-cultural approach to the study of womenA World Full of Women, 6/e, combines descriptive ethnography, gender theory, and international statistics to present a comprehensive picture of the lives of women. Readers will better comprehend and contextualize women’s issues and experiences in today’s world. This title explores the diversity of women’s lives from class to culture, with examples ranging from women’s work to marriage patterns, health issues, vi...

Raine Campbell never knew she was special until her dormant magic unleashed to protect her friends. But it couldn’t be contained or controlled. Enter the School of Necessary Magic, where magical teens are taught to master their abilities and maybe learn some math. During a forbidden trip into the massive underground city beneath the school—off limits to freshman—Raine discovers druids are disappearing. And no one seems to care. Refusing to stand by and ignore it like everyone else, she div...

Momentslife is a sequence of them. In the joyous times, the spectacular instances seem to hurry by too quickly. In the routine of everyday life, ordinary moments slip by often unnoticed. During anxious times, it is as though every minute creeps by at an agonizingly slow pace. But as Rev. Martha Ward illustrates, God is present at all times, and if we open ourselves to that reality, every moment is holy. In Holy Moments: When Life and Faith Intersect, Rev. Ward links her own personal storie...

This field of Black girls’ and women’s health (BGWH) science is both transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary. As such, the contributors to this edited collection offer a unique lens to BGWH science, expanding our collective scientific worldviews. The contributing authors draw upon their ontological and epistemological knowledge to formulate pathways and inform methodologies for doing research and praxis to address BGWH. Each contributor draws upon these knowledges and offers the reader a w...

Poor Women, Powerful Men chronicles the achievements and subsequent failure of the Louisiana Family Health Foundation, the most extensive family planning program ever to operate in the United States. Martha C. Ward's even-handed account reveals the mechanisms—of politics, poverty, and public health policies—at work in the perpetual controversies surrounding reproductive rights and the delivery of health care services to the poor. Ward's book begins in the early 1960s when Louisian...

Over a decade ago, the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional societies, is covered regularly in the media, and affects people everyday around the globe. In response to the increasing need for information about medical genetics and biotechnology as well as t...

Martha Sheridan, the daughter of a wealthy oil tycoon and a student at Princeton University, witnessed something that she shouldn't have seen. Now, she is the target of foreign spies entered into our country illegally. Fortunately, an intervention saved the life of the attractive co-ed for the moment, but a more permanent plan need to be devised to hide the girl from a deadly danger.Can Tim and Buddy formulate a workable solution? They need a scheme which would rescue Martha for all...

Obra colectiva que integra oportunidades para favorecer la orientación vocacional entre la infancia y la juventud en diferentes niveles educativos. Por una parte, presenta experiencias innovadoras para llevar a cabo en la práctica docente, que se clasifican en distintos escenarios, como precursoras de las áreas de ciencias, STEM y humanidades, desde la perspectiva de género, la transdiciplinariedad, la equidad y la interculturalidad. Por otra parte, a través de un fichero que integra una g...

T******he first book to focus on evidence-based social work practice with low-income womenThis one-of-a-kind book presents evidence-based coverage of the assessment and treatment of the most common mental health disorders among women, particularly low-income women. For each disorder— depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and trauma (including sexual abuse), generalized anxiety disorder, substance use disorder, and borderline personality disorder—the a...

The history behind one of the oldest all-girls prep schools in the South.During the final days of the Civil War, Dr. William Ward and his wife, Eliza Ward, envisioned a school for young women in Nashville that would evolve into one of the nation's most prestigious institutions. As the New South dawned, Ward Seminary opened its doors in September 1865.Merging with Belmont College for Young Women in 1913, Ward-Belmont operated as a college preparatory school,...