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Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Empower young minds to embrace feminism! This is an unapologetic take on feminism as a thing that everyone can embrace, no matter their gender. It tackles ideas around equality, bias, and discrimination because of gender. It also empowers young girls and boys to embrace feminism and show up for others when they’re being treated unfairly."--
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Jennifer Palmieri realized that everything in her life had been shaped by men, she wanted to make a change. From work behavior and use of language to wardrobe choices, she decided to follow her own convictions and reject paternalistic expectations. In an era of wage gaps, the Kavanaugh hearings, the #MeToo movement, and a domineering administration, Jennifer found a way to move beyond the bounds of patriarchy and wants to show readers a way...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"As our newsfeeds become more and more glutted by stories of harassment and assault, it's no surprise women are turning to every power in their arsenal to fight back--even the magical ones. As Lindy West put it in her New York Times op-ed, "Yes, this is a witch hunt. I'm a witch, and I'm hunting you." Hexing the Patriarchy: Magical Resistance from A to Z is a book for women for women who want to join the resistance. Upbeat and inviting, without making...
Author
Publisher
Alto
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
Nous avons voulu sauver, dans ce qui nous entoure, une chose par jour, image, parole ou oiseau, et l ̌pingler sur le papier avant qu elle ne s ̌vanouisse. C est ainsi que nous avons cueilli au fil de deux saisons, tant̥t dans la p̌nombre et tant̥t dans la grisaille, une petite lumïre qui scintille : phare, ̌toile ou mouche ̉feu, l œil d un grand ȟron, la nacre d un coquillage, les paillettes sur la jupe d une fillette de quatre-ans-bient̥t-cinq...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The pathbreaking investigation into motherhood and womanhood from an influential and enduring feminist voice, now for a new generation. In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience-as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother-she finds the act of mothering to be both determined by and distinct...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Brenae Brazil is a rising star at Los Angeles Art College, the most prestigious art school in the country, and a pupil of the institution's equally famous and influential director, Hal Giroux. Brenae's path to art world stardom is all but assured, so why did she kill herself shortly after completing a provocative documentary about female bodies, violence, and self-defence? Maggie Richter's return to LA and her old job at the Rocque Museum was supposed...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Believe Me, contributors ask and answer the crucial question: What would happen if we didn't just believe women, but acted as though they matter? If we take women's experiences of online harassment seriously, it will transform the internet. If we listen to and center survivors, we could revolutionize our systems of justice. If we believe Black women when they talk about pain, we will save countless lives. With contributions from many of the most...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Like anyone who discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Caitlin Moran has often been confronted with the question: "But what about men?" And at first, TBH, she dgaf. Boys, and men, are fine, right? Feminism doesn't need to worry about them. However, around the time she heard an angry young man saying he was "boycotting" International Women' Day because "It's easier to be a woman than a man these days," she started to wonder: are unhappy...
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Nearly every day there's another news story, think piece, or pop cultural anecdote related to feminism and women's rights. Conversations around consent, equal pay, access to contraception, and a host of other issues are foremost topics of conversation in American media. And today' teens are encountering these issues from a different perspective than any generation has before. But what's often missing from the current discussion is an understanding...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep "ownership" of their slaves, through the centuries of colonialism, when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars tells a charged story of white women's active participation in campaigns of oppression. It offers a long overdue validation of the experiences of women of color."--
Author
Publisher
Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Despite huge progress since the original suffragette campaigns and wave after wave of new feminism, women are still not equal. On the centenary of one of the greatest steps forward for women - the Vote - Suffragette descendent and campaigner Helen Pankhurst takes the reader on a journey exploring how women's lives have changed over the last 100 years, and how we can take things even further.
Author
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Birth is the feminist issue. It's the feminist issue nobody's talking about. It's time to look again at the balance of power in the birth room. Pregnancy should be one of the most rewarding times of your life - but so often it's filled with anxiety and uncertainty over what you can, or should, expect. Milli Hill explores the history of birth through a feminist lens, and explodes the outdated conventions that mean women still aren't getting what they...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"On January 21, 2017, massive demonstrations in Washington DC and sister marches held in over 600 American cities drew crowds of over four million people. Popularly called "The Women's March," it became the largest single-day protest in American history. The feminism that shaped the consciousness of millions in 2017 had distinct roots in the 1990s. In They Didn't See Us Coming, historian Lisa Levenstein argues we have missed much of the past quarter...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays--funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls' and women's progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a "half-changed world." Named one of the "40 women who changed the media business in the last 40 years" by Columbia Journalism Review,...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperColinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In Break the Good Girl Myth, women's leadership expert and podcast host Majo Molfino shares how design thinking methods can help women identify and dismantle the self-sabotaging myths that negatively impact their work, relationships, and wellbeing"--
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