Holding Her Head High: 12 Single Mothers Who Championed Their Children and Changed History
by Janine Turner
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Author: Janine TurnerEdition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2008-03-04
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
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Book Review: You Go Girl-Get Up and Run!
Summary: 5 Stars
Television actor and movie star turned author Janine Turner offers a great read on single motherhood's historical struggles in "Holding Her Head High" (2008 332-page hardback). These well researched (with 7 pages of end notes) vignettes cause one to pause and reflects on the plight of singles mothers. Her stories are visionary vignettes.
Stepping from her own experience of similar circumstances, Turner walks across history from the 3rd into the 20th century telling the stories of 12 women raising children without spouses. She adroitly presents Helena (mother of Roman emperor Constantine), Blanche of Castile (queen mother of medieval France), Eliza Pinckney (mother of two 18th century American statesmen), Abigail Adams (mother of an American President), Belva Lockwood (mother who ran for President) to name only a few. Each of these stories is gripping and thought provoking. My favorite chapter relates Cara Brown's life-long search for daughter Eliza Jane after their heartless forced separation by a pre Civil War slave sale. (By chapter 16's end, I was tearing up and cheering, "You Go Girl, Get Up and Run!").
Turner's style is comfortable and persuasive. Her single mothers come alive with personality, strength, and vision. They love their children and work the near impossible to succeed. You'll want to stand along-side them with each hardship, through each mishap, during each celebration. The author draws on her own religious background and Christian faith for interpreting each single mom's trouble. By the end, Turner is correctly able to say that single parenthood is a dramatic gift from God (given to those with the personal courage and faith to see it through).
This book is an excellent gift candidate, particularly for those wanting to know how others overcame adversity through faith, hope, and love. Once again, Janine Turner proves that she is much more than just another pretty Texan!
HAPPY ADVENT!
Summary of Holding Her Head High: 12 Single Mothers Who Championed Their Children and Changed History
Life lessons from single mothers throughout history form the inspiration for single mothers today.
Single moms are not just a product of our modern culture. There have been single mothers throughout history, women who have raised not only their children but also nations with a higher vision for life. Holding Her Head High recounts stories of twelve such women from the third to the twenty-first centuries, women who found ways to twist their fates to represent God's destiny for their lives.
These uniquely powerful, brave women, within the scope of their own world and times, are like the ninety-nine percent of single mothers today who never intended to carry that distinction. They are abandoned, widowed, or divorced, all carrying wounds, yet they also all found ways to exhibit courage, kindness, dignity, and faith to heal themselves by healing others.
Actress Janine Turner, herself a single mother, describes the social implications for women and children from the Roman Empire through the Middle Ages to Pioneer days, including a single mother of slavery. Stories from women like Rachel Lavein Fawcett, abandoned single mother of Alexander Hamilton; Abagail Adams, a wartime widow; Harriet Jacobs, an unwed mother of slavery whose autobiography was published the year the Civil War began; and widowed Belva Lockwood, the first woman to officially run for President, all carrying wounds but all offering insight, wisdom, and encouragement. Lessons include:
- Listen for God's higher calling
- Hold your head high
- Dare to dream
- Champion your children
- Heal with humor
- Don't Give Up Before the Miracle
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