Background
Ann Jones was born on September 3, 1937, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the United States. She is the daughter of Oscar Trygve and Miriam Berenice (Rufsvold) Slagsvol.
(This informative book: "Everyday Death: The Case of Berna...)
This informative book: "Everyday Death: The Case of Bernadette Powell", is a true life murder story. Author, Ann Jones has accomplished an extraordinary feat. Her powerful study of women who murder is exhaustively researched, persuasively argued, and beautifully written. This is a ground breaking book, filled with originality on every page.
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1985
( Millions of women each year find themselves in relation...)
Millions of women each year find themselves in relationships with controlling or abusive partners and don't know what to do, or even what's wrong. A woman may feel anxious, inadequate, intimidated -- and as if she is walking on tiptoe. And she may find herself trying harder and harder to make things right without ever being successful. Ann Jones and Susan Schechter bring together their more than fifteen years of experience working with women in abusive relationships to offer an eyeopening new analysis of controlling partners and a wealth of empowering information for women who want to change their lives for the better. Full of moving first-person stories, When Love Goes Wrong shows women what their options are in or out of the relationship, provides concrete guidance on finding safety and support for themselves and their children, and includes a comprehensive list of agencies offering information or assistance.
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1992
(From the Florida roadside prostitute and first convicted ...)
From the Florida roadside prostitute and first convicted serial killer Aileen Wuornos to the Empress poisoner of ancient Rome, this is the biggest collection of the world's most dangerous women newly revised and expanded, including: Ruth Snyder, the last woman in the US to go to the electric chair; the English multiple murderess who chopped up the bodies of children and scattered them from a plane; Rosemary West - unsuspecting dupe or cold-blooded killer; the mother who hired a killer to eliminate her daughter-in-law; Lizzie Borden - separating fact from fiction; and, Myra Hindley - Britain's most infamous murderess.
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1996
(The adventure began when a young British photographer, Ke...)
The adventure began when a young British photographer, Kevin Muggleton, suggested driving from one end of Africa to the other–“You know, the old ‘Cape to Cairo’ sort of thing.” For the renowned feminist writer Ann Jones, it soon became an expedition with a mission: to find the legendary Lovedu, a tribe ruled by a great rainmaking queen and dedicated to the “feminine” ideals of compromise, cooperation, tolerance, and peace. Setting out from Tangier in a battered old blue-and-yellow Land Rover, Jones and Muggleton face daunting physical challenges, from shifting sand in the Sahara to deep mud wallows in Zaire. They encounter severe food shortages in Mali, military roadblocks in Nigeria, and corrupt border guards all over. In Mauritania they meet a young girl who offers to give Jones her baby sister. As they pass through the ever-changing face of Africa toward a meeting with the Queen of the Lovedu, Jones is perceptive, funny, moving, astute–everything a good travel writer should be. You’ll feel you’re right there beside her, meeting the people, marveling at the physical beauty of the land, sharing in the grand adventure.
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2001
( A sharp and arresting people's-eye view of real life in...)
A sharp and arresting people's-eye view of real life in Afghanistan after the Taliban Soon after the bombing of Kabul ceased, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city, determined to bring help where her country had brought destruction. Here is her trenchant report from inside a city struggling to rise from the ruins. Working among the multitude of impoverished war widows, retraining Kabul's long-silenced English teachers, and investigating the city's prison for women, Jones enters a large community of female outcasts: runaway child brides, pariah prostitutes, cast-off wives, victims of rape. In the streets and markets, she hears the Afghan view of the supposed benefits brought by the fall of the Taliban, and learns that regarding women as less than human is the norm, not the aberration of one conspicuously repressive regime. Jones confronts the ways in which Afghan education, culture, and politics have repeatedly been hijacked--by Communists, Islamic fundamentalists, and the Western free marketeers--always with disastrous results. And she reveals, through small events, the big disjunctions: between U.S promises and performance, between the new "democracy" and the still-entrenched warlords, between what's boasted of and what is. At once angry, profound, and starkly beautiful, Kabul in Winter brings alive the people and day-to-day life of a place whose future depends so much upon our own.
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2006
advocate educator journalist Photographer writer
Ann Jones was born on September 3, 1937, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the United States. She is the daughter of Oscar Trygve and Miriam Berenice (Rufsvold) Slagsvol.
Jones graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1960. Next year, she received her Master of Arts degree from the University of Michigan. She also earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1970.
Jones started her career as an assistant professor of English at City College of New York in 1970. Three years later she went to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she worked as an assistant professor of English and coordinator of women's studies. Since 1975, Jones began her career as a freelance writer, however, since 1986, she became a member of writing faculty at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley. She hold that position for 11 years.
Since 2002, Jones works as a freelance writer and human rights researcher, women's advocate, and English instructor in Afghanistan, living in New York.
During her career Jones also was a panelist at New York State Council for the Arts, board member of Millay Colony for the Arts, and visiting professor at such universities as the University of Southern Maine and Boise State University.
(From the Florida roadside prostitute and first convicted ...)
1996( A sharp and arresting people's-eye view of real life in...)
2006(The adventure began when a young British photographer, Ke...)
2001( Millions of women each year find themselves in relation...)
1992(This informative book: "Everyday Death: The Case of Berna...)
1985Ann Jones is a member of the PEN, the Authors Guild, the National Writers Union and the National Book Critics Circle.