Educated

a memoir

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Tara Westover: Educated (2018)

493 pages

English language

Published Aug. 15, 2018

ISBN:
978-0-525-58998-3
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OCLC Number:
1023554914

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Choose the good -- The midwife -- Cream shoes -- Apache women -- Honest dirt -- Shield and buckler -- The Lord will provide -- Tiny harlots -- Perfect in his generations -- Shield of feathers -- Instinct -- Fish eyes -- Silence in the churches -- My feet no longer touch Earth -- No more a child -- Disloyal man, disobedient heaven -- To keep it holy -- Blood and feathers -- In the beginning -- Recitals of the fathers -- Skullcap -- What we whispered and what we screamed -- I'm from Idaho -- A knight, errant -- The work of sulphur -- Waiting for moving water -- If I were a woman -- Pygmalion -- Graduation -- The hand of the almighty -- Tragedy then farce -- A brawling woman in a wide house -- Sorcery of physics -- The substance of things -- West of the …

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Ya sabíamos del papel de la religión católica en la educación, y del daño que produce especialmente en las mujeres. Aquí, Tara Westover nos pone negro sobre blanco la situación de las mujeres mormonas y su educación en un mundo gobernado por una iglesia que las considera un simple bulto. Debería ser lectura obligatoria en el instituto.

Subjects

  • Subculture
  • Home schooling
  • Family
  • Anecdotes
  • Victims of family violence
  • Women college students
  • Christian biography
  • Rural conditions
  • Survivalism
  • Biography
  • Women

Places

  • United States
  • Idaho