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Forget "Having It All"
How America Messed Up Motherhood--and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
A clear-eyed look at the history of American ideas about motherhood, how those ideas have impacted all women (whether they have kids or not), and how to fix the inequality that exists as a result.
After filing a story only two hours after giving birth, and then getting straight back to full-time...
by Mary Wollstonecraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2018
This ebook contains the following works:
Works
—Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787)
—Mary: A Fiction (1788)
—Original Stories from Real Life (1788)
—A Vindication of the Rights of Men: Reply to Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution (1791)
—A Vindication of the Rights...
Storm in My Heart
Memories from the Widow of Johann Most
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
Partner of one of the most infamous anarchists of her time, Johann Most, Helene Minkin joined the anarchist movement after emigrating from Russia in 1888 with her father and sister. Framed as a reaction and corrective to Emma Goldman's Living My Life, Minkin's memoir provides a unique account of turn-of-the-century...
by Rebecca Solnit
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 19, 2017
«La voce della Solnit non ha paura, nel suo arco ha frecce potenti.»
The Independent
«Un libro acuto e audace… tipicamente Solnit.»
Publishers Weekly
«In questi saggi accessibili a tutti l'autrice affronta i grandi temi del gender e del potere. Una lettura fondamentale per chi...
by Eve Merrier
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This uplifting illustrated collection warmly celebrates inspirational women from comedians and pirates to innovators and freedom fighters. Entertaining descriptions of remarkable and ground-breaking achievements are interspersed with light commentary and quick lists of key women from history you should...
The Hunting Ground
The Inside Story of Sexual Assault on American College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
The debate over sexual violence on campus is reaching fever pitch, from headlines about outof-control fraternities, to the ”mattress protests” by female students at Columbia University and other colleges.
The Hunting Ground, the new documentary by award-winning filmmakers Kirby Dick and...
Fleshing the Spirit
Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina, and Indigenous Women’s Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Fleshing the Spirit brings together established and new writers exploring the relationships between the physical body, the spirit and spirituality, and social justice activism. Examining the complex and dynamic connections among these concepts, the writers emphasize the value of “flesh and blood...
Homegrown
Engaged Cultural Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
In Homegrown, cultural critics bell hooks and Amalia Mesa-Bains reflect on the innate solidarity between Black and Latino culture. Riffing on everything from home and family to multiculturalism and the mass media, hooks and Mesa-Bains invite readers to re-examine and confront the polarizing mainstream...
The Every Woman's Guide to Equality
How achieving real equality will change women's lives forever!
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
The Every Woman’s Guide to Equality takes a different look at women’s equality. It is a comprehensive discussion about how inequality exists in every area of women’s lives: the healthcare system, judicial system and work sector, and how negative behavior left unanswered diminishes the level...
by Goldwin Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Please be aware that this is a text first published in 1875 which positions itself against Female Suffrage in the UK. It is essential to consider the book within the historical context in which it was written. In his book Goldwin Smith fires a virulent shot into Mr. Forsyth's Bill, and indeed into...
The Societal Evolution of Male Stereotypes
Gender Bashing of Men in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
"When a negative trait or practice is generally and entirely attributed to a people of a particular race, gender or origin, it is an unfair generalization that we call a ‘stereotype’. When it manifests unchallenged and unanswered, it can over time cause society to lose respect for a particular...
Sexing the Body
Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by...
Black Looks
Race and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television,...
Footbinding
A Jungian Engagement with Chinese Culture and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
In this book Shirley See Yan Ma provides a Jungian perspective on the Chinese tradition of footbinding and considers how it can be used as a metaphor for the suffering of women and the repression of the feminine, as well as a symbol for hope, creativity and spiritual transformation.
Drawing...