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The Woman Warrior: White Tigers and Ghosts

Every 500 years, dragon becomes tiger in order to learn more and prepare; tiger becomes the dragon in order to do more. This system of change patternd after the chancing of the north/south pole every several 1000 years, and the dance of male and female, or the circling around of God's hands. Back and forth bewteen worlds is where the author lives.

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FireWife: A Story Of Fire and Water

Disabled children are bought as slaves and forced to beg on the streets while their owners take the money. Women are used a dining tables in some countries. Pre-teen girls are sold for sex. Impoverished women lease their bodies for ad space. All of these things changed this author's life as she researched her book - FireWife.

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Asian Women's Sorrows - The Joy Luck Club

In San Francisco's Chinatown -- The stories of this book cluster around first Chinese American Jing-mei (June) Woo's journey of discovery to China to meet her half-sisters left by a roadside: the twins Chwun Yu and Chwun...

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Nushu writing is inked down the webbing of the fan, each section a full message or response between two females.77

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

"Snow Flower" describes the rural beauty and intricate horrors of life in the Chinese provinces in the 1820s. Few non-Chinese know about these things and the Chinese American author traveled to that continent in order to interview the oldest women and learn the truth.

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What is Child Abuse?

I have worked with programs designed to prevent child abuse and other forms of abuse for all ages and genders for over 20 years and will list some signs and indications of abuse here. But first, to answer...

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