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Free Download The Female Body Bible: A Revolution in Women’s Health and Fitness by Emma Ross
English | May 11, 2023 | ISBN: 1787636194 | 384 pages | PDF | 4.57 Mb
Did you know women: * can harness their hormones to improve menstrual cycle symptoms, work productivity and exercise habits. * are up to six times more likely to suffer a joint injury than men. * lay down all our bone density by the age of 30, after which it starts to decrease. * are 40% more likely to suffer insomnia than men. * can achieve a 4% increase in performance by wearing a well-fitted sports bra – when running a marathon this means finishing by a mile earlier. The data gap in women’s health remains huge: in sports science and medicine in 2020 as little as 6% of research was conducted exclusively on women. Worse still, of that 6%, only 8% was found to be of high enough quality for the outcomes to be trusted. Women go through various life stages, with each moment bringing a new set of challenges and opportunities. Yet we rarely speak openly about these, or share our knowledge and solutions with each other. We use euphemisms to describe periods rather than saying the word. We don’t acknowledge leakages or admit that we don’t know how to find our pelvic floor or even what it does. We buy trendy sports bras without thinking how they work for breast health or exercise performance. We see young women giving up exercise in their teens to the detriment of their health at an older age. We barely mention the menopause. Body literacy is something every woman is entitled to. Health and fitness are not the same as aesthetics and photogenics. Instead of prioritising how a body looks we need to focus on how it feels and functions. How it works. When we listen to the body, embrace it and nurture it, health and fitness will follow. Merging the expertise of sports research scientist Dr Emma Ross, athletic coach Baz Moffat and NHS doctor Bella Smith, The Well HQ champions the non-negotiables when it comes to understanding our health and wellbeing as women, throughout all stages of our lives.

Free Download Ariel Clark Silver, "The Book of Esther and the Typology of Female Transfiguration in American Literature"
English | ISBN: 149856478X | 2017 | 240 pages | EPUB | 490 KB
The enduring search for female salvation in American literature is first expressed through typology, an interpretive framework that pairs type with antitype, historical scriptural promise with future spiritual fulfillment. When Cotton Mather invokes the typos of Esther in Ornaments of the Daughters of Zion, a Puritan conduct book, he offers a female type of divine wisdom, authority and force. In the biblical Book of Esther, Esther acts as a female type of wisdom and redemption, but her story also engages the larger history of Hebrew salvation. In nineteenth-century America, Margaret Fuller seeks to extend the spiritual claims once made by Mather and establish the role of the divine female in the salvation of American culture and society. Fuller supplants the type of male sacrifice with a type of female transfiguration in works such as Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Nathaniel Hawthorne then transforms these iconoclastic ideals into literary life by engaging the multi-faceted figure of Esther as a typos of female redemption and salvation in "Legends of the Province House," The Scarlet Letter, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun. Through his female characters – Esther Dudley, Hester Prynne, Zenobia, and Miriam – he seeks to fulfill the divine destiny of the American woman. Hawthorne discovers, however, that female redemption is followed by revenge, as Esther turns from saving her people to ensuring an end to their oppression. When Henry Adams later revives Esther Dudley in his novel Esther, he rejects male redemption for the American woman. In Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel, and The Education of Henry Adams, Adams envisions an independent, eternal woman who can rival the political, scientific, artistic, and theological power of men. The movement from male to female salvation is achieved when the terms of female redemption are transformed and the American woman is established as her own source of divine wisdom, power, retribution, and force. The typology of female transfiguration in America is fulfilled by Fuller, Hawthorne, and Adams through the promise extended by the type of Esther.

Free Download Nana Abena Amoah-Ramey, "Female Highlife Performers in Ghana: Expression, Resistance, and Advocacy"
English | ISBN: 1498564666 | 2018 | 192 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This book offers a detailed analysis of the history of female musicians in the Highlife music tradition of the Republic of Ghana, particularly the challenges and constraints these women faced and overcame. Highlife – a form of West African music infusing Ghana’s traditional Akan dance rhythms and melodies with European instruments and harmonies – grew in popularity throughout the 20th century and hit its peak in the 1970s and 1980s. Although women played significant roles in the evolution and survival of the genre, few of their contributions have been thoroughly explored or documented. Despite being disregarded and ignored in many spheres, female Highlife musicians thrived and became trailblazers in the Ghanaian music industry, making particularly vibrant contributions to Highlife music in the 1970s. This book presents the voices of female Highlife artists and documents the ideological transformations expressed through their musical works, exploring the challenges they confronted throughout their musical careers and their contributions to music and culture in Ghana.

Free Download Jill Liddington, "Female Fortune: The Anne Lister Diaries, 1833-36: Land, gender and authority: New Edition"
English | ISBN: 1526164418 | 2022 | 336 pages | PDF | 10 MB
‘A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister’

Free Download A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination by Mary Haverstick
English | November 14th, 2023 | ISBN: 0593727819 | 544 pages | True EPUB | 27.74 MB
The true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film’s subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Free Download Kristina S. Gibby, "Ancestral Voices, Healing Narratives: Female Ghosts in Contemporary US and Caribbean Fiction "
English | ISBN: 1666909645 | 2023 | 130 pages | EPUB, PDF | 351 KB + 1265 KB

Free Download Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BRBW7WFP | 2023 | 15 hours and 54 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 461 MB
Author: Cat Bohannon
Narrator: Cat Bohannon
An ambitious, eye-opening, myth-busting, and groundbreaking history of the evolution of the female body, by a brilliant new researcher and writer. Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? And does the female brain really exist? In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, she covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex.

Free Download A Woman I Know: Female Spies, Double Identities, and a New Story of the Kennedy Assassination (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C2DGS978 | 2023 | 14 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 420 MB
Author: Mary Haverstick
Narrator: Mary Haverstick
The true story of a filmmaker whose investigation of her film’s subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she’d stumbled onto the project of a lifetime-a biopic of aviation pioneer Jerrie Cobb, the key figure in a group of extraordinary women who in 1960 passed the same tests as the legendary male astronauts of the Mercury 7 but never went to space. Just as casting was set to begin, Haverstick received a mysterious warning from a government agent; soon she began to suspect that there was more to Jerrie’s story than what met the eye.

Free Download Carey Millsap-Spears, "Star Trek Discovery and the Female Gothic: Tell Fear No "
English | ISBN: 1666910511 | 2023 | 192 pages | EPUB, PDF | 289 KB + 1187 KB
While many scholars agree the Gothic mode has been a precursor to science fiction since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Carey Millsap-Spears argues in this book that the made for streaming series Star Trek Discovery draws on an even older gothic formula, namely the Female Gothic of Ann Radcliffe’s romance novels, including The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho. Millsap-Spears reads the streaming series through the lens of the Female Gothic, illustrating that each season contains the formulaic elements of a mystery, a gothic villain and heroine, an escape narrative, and the explained supernatural. In doing so, the author expands Star Trek scholarship and sheds new light on the intertextual connections between gothic literature and contemporary science fiction.

Free Download J. Vanessa Lyon, "Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens "
English | ISBN: 9462985510 | 2020 | 256 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens argues that the Baroque painter, propagandist, and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens, was not only aware of rapidly shifting religious and cultural attitudes toward women, but actively engaged in shaping them. Today, Rubens’s paintings continue to be used – and abused – to prescribe and proscribe certain forms of femininity. Repositioning some of the artist’s best-known works within seventeenth-century Catholic theology and female court culture, this book provides a feminist corrective to a body of art historical scholarship in which studies of gender and religion are often mutually exclusive. Moving chronologically through Rubens’s lengthy career, the author shows that, in relation to the powerful women in his life, Rubens figured the female form as a transhistorical carrier of meaning whose devotional and rhetorical efficacy was heightened rather than diminished by notions of female difference and particularity.