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A Woman's Odyssey Into Africa

Tracks Across a Life
Buch | Hardcover
243 Seiten
1992
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-56024-155-3 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
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Chronicling the author's solo backpacking treks through sub-Saharan Africa, this tells the story of one woman's mid-life flight from her middle-class, psychologically crippling existence into a world of high adventure, hardship and endurance, which ultimately led her to autonomy and recognition.
Here is the intriguing story of one woman’s mid-life flight from her stultified, middle-class, psychologically crippling, and unfulfilled existence into a world of high adventure, danger, hardship, and endurance, which ultimately leads her to autonomy and recognition. In her new book, A Woman’s Odyssey Into Africa, Hanny Lightfoot-Klein chronicles three year-long solo backpacking treks through remote areas of sub-Saharan Africa. In the process, she discovers the mainsprings of strength within herself as she follows her own drummer, finding the courage to face the darkest and most secret convolutions of her own mind. She weaves the story of her journey through the men, women, and children she meets, and the dangers and adventures she faces as a lone woman traveler--part and parcel of the path she has chosen to take.She infuses readers at any stage of life, especially women, with the courage to do what their individual drummer dictates, as she did, to find fulfillment in life. Lightfoot-Klein assures readers in her book: “Even a life of quiet desperation is not beyond redemption. Change starts with a reassessment of the distortions in self image one has been programmed to accept. It starts with an inner rebellion, a realization that something has been amiss and a desire to set it right, if only to leave a better heritage for one’s children. And then, most important of all, it begins with a single, wild, breathless moment, where one picks up an unaccustomed load and steps off into the unknown . . . ” Her message is truly for everyone.

Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, MA, is an independent researcher underthe auspices of the American Foundation for Gender and GenitalMedicine and Science. Ms. Lightfoot-Klein studied female genitalcircumcision during three year-long treks through Sudan, Kenya,and Egypt; she lived with families of all social levels and geographicareas and interviewed over 400 people in all walks of life inregard to psychological, sociological, historical, sexological, medical,religious, and legal aspects of female circumcision. An avidwriter, Ms. Lightfoot-Klein has published many articles in theJournal o f Obstetric Gynecology and Neo-Natal Nursing, MedicalAspects o f Human Sexuality, Journal o f Psychology and HumanSexuality, Journal o f Sex Research and several British and Germanpublications as well. She is a member of the Association of Womenin Psychology, Society for Sex Therapy and Research, NationalWomen’s Studies Association, and the Society for the ScientificStudy of Sex. Her first book, Prisoners o f Ritual, was also recentlypublished by The Haworth Press, Inc.

Contents
Letter from Kadugli

 First Steps
 The Flight from Egypt
 Garden
A Sudanese Proverb: When Allah Created Sudan, Allah Laughed
Costi
The Barbaric Practice
Sex Education
Personal Demons
Charade at Wad Cherrifay
Small Sins
Lightfoot
El Shadida
The Faces of My Beloved
Your Death is Always with You
Port Sudan Haute Cuisine
Stephanie’s Song
Requiem for a Goliath Heron
Karen Blixen Never Returned to Africa
Krystallnacht Revisited

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.4.1992
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 488 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber
Reisen Reiseberichte Afrika
ISBN-10 1-56024-155-1 / 1560241551
ISBN-13 978-1-56024-155-3 / 9781560241553
Zustand Neuware
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