Bøger af Josephine May

A story that could happen to anyoneAnd a woman's determinaton to heal her familyRaised in a big Catholic family, Josepine May is a promising student and a track star. At 19 she and her boyfriend Cal have their whole lives ahead. When an unexpected pregnancy derails her plans, Josephine embraces her new role as the mother to a beautiful daughter, and commits herself to making her life with Cal work.Despite her best efforts, her husband turns out to be self-centered, cold, and an unpredictible father. Still, Josephine persists, year after year, in trying to make a family life like the one she dreamed of.Finally, revelations about Cal's abuse come to light, and the real struggle begins as Josephine must rejoin the workforce, find counseling for her children, and fight off the unending legal assault of her ex-husband.A story of undying spirit and love, Ice Under Snow is critical reading for survivors of abuse or their loved ones. May's journey will let you know that you are not alone, and that love will always find a path to healing.

Draws on Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot and Jessica Hoffmann Davis' methodological adoption of the use of portraits and portraiture to frame our history of women educators and highlight their unsettled acceptance of contemporary constraints and pressures exerted on educated women. This book will be essential reading for those involved or interested in the historiography of women's education.

Reel Schools takes a fresh look at the history of Australian schooling through the lens of Australian cinema from the silent era until 2010. In exploring the relationship between cinematic representation and educational history, Josephine May shows how numerous Australian feature and documentary films offer access to powerful vernacular imaginings about school education in Australia. May argues that the cinematic school is a pervasive metaphor for the Australian nation. She demonstrates that, while Australian films about schooling have consistently commented on the relationship of schooling to the Australian class structure, they also increasingly explored gender, race and ethnicity at school, especially after the 1970s. From then on the egalitarian dream of school education and the nation's capacity to generate meaningful futures for the young became increasingly contested.