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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.
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Before Tererai Trent landed on Oprah's stage as her "favorite guest of all time," she was a woman with a forgotten dream. As a young girl in a cattle-herding village in Zimbabwe, she dreamed of receiving an education but instead was married young and by eighteen, without a high school graduation, she was already a mother of three. Tererai encountered a visiting American woman who assured her that anything was possible, reawakening her sacred dream.
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"Creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog, MsAfropolitan, Minna Salami, takes an original look at racism and sexism, from an Africa-centered feminist sensibility that challenges illusions around oppression and liberation-in a global publication"--
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"Feminist girls and boys like all colors, wear their hair as long as they want and choose their own toys. They love to play all together and express their emotions. But, above all, they refuse to classify things as "girl´s stuff" and "boy´s stuff". Luis Amavisca and Blanca Lacasa, with Gusti's wonderful illustrations, present, in the form of everyday situations, a brief manual for feminist girls and boys. Equality is everyone's responsibility."--Amazon.com....
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'By the Light of Burning Dreams' chronicles some of the most important moments of activism from the 60s and 70s, and ties them into the arrival of today's major political players and major progressive movements. David and Margaret Talbot are both very well-connected, with contacts such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., George R.R. Martin,Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, and Oliver Stone. From the founder of Salon, and the author of 'The Devil's Chessboard.'...
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Though all women are women, no woman is only a woman, wrote Elizabeth Spelman in The Inessential Woman. Gone are the days when feminism translated simply into the advocacy of equality for women. Women's interests are not always aligned; race, class, and sexuality complicate the equation. In recent years, feminist ideologies have become increasingly diverse. Today, one feminist's most ardent political opponent may well be another feminist. As feminism...
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Get the Summary of Janina Ramirez's Femina in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Femina" by Janina Ramirez offers a comprehensive exploration of medieval women's lives, examining their roles in diplomacy, art, warfare, literacy, and leadership. The book emphasizes the importance of considering social class, religion, age, and family status in historical narratives and advocates for an inclusive perspective that acknowledges...
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¿Qué significa (y qué debería significar) "ser hombre" hoy en día. Este divertidísimo e inteligente manifiesto nos da la clave.
¿Qué clase de hombres haría "del mundo un lugar mejor para todos"? ¿Qué pasaría si redefiniésemos la vieja, machista y anticuada versión de la masculinidad para abrazar una nueva manera de "ser hombre"? La práctica de lo masculino suele identificarse con experiencias extremas: ganar batallas, seducir a mujeres...
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Through ethnographic case studies and activists' narratives, Contesting Publics analyses the challenges feminists face as they seek to engage with new spaces of participatory democracy in Latin America.
Lynne Phillips and Sally Cole analyse how new silences, exclusions and re-inscriptions of inequalities have emerged alongside these new spaces of participation. They re-examine the relationship between public and private and address a larger theoretical...
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Winner of the MLA's 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ Studies
How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality. The Color of Kink explores black women's representations and performances within American pornography and BDSM (bondage and discipline, domination and submission, and sadism and masochism) from the 1930s to the present, revealing the ways in which they illustrate a complex and...
14) Animals in Irish Society: Interspecies Oppression and Vegan Liberation in Britain's First Colony
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The first exploration of vegan Irish epistemology, one that can be traced along its history of animism, agrarianism, ascendency, adaptation, and activism.
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"A partir de la crítica hacia los falsos universales heredados de la teoría política liberal, Contraciudadanía y democracia feminista examina formas de impugnación que configuran la praxis de la contraciudadanía, claves en la puesta en ejercicio de una democracia feminista. Para Nicole Darat, tal objetivo implica preguntarse qué significa dicha democracia, cuál es su
relación con la institucionalidad y con las políticas afirmativas. A lo...
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Mike Pauro, aka 'Ajax Moon' and his daughter, Morgan Deeble, aka 'Bridey Moon' remake the aphorism examined by James Allen for women. In this transposition of Allen's classic, the authors revisit the impact of thought on health, purpose, achievement, ideas, and serenity from the female perspective. The work is accompanied by imagery from early 20th century postcards passed down for generations in their family. The images were selected to be contemporaneous...
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Faith and Feminism brings together leading voices in biblical studies, inter-religious encounters, theology and ethics. Originally delivered as part of the Phyllis Trible Lecture Series at Wake Forest University School of Divinity (2003-2013), these essays demonstrate the breadth of feminist interpretation on compelling topics: interpretation of sacred texts; Judeo-Christian and Islamic perspectives; gender and sexuality; race and cultural identity;...
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A seminal work of the eco-feminist movement, connecting patriarchal society's mistreatment of women with its disregard for the Earth's ecological well-being Woman and Nature draws from a vast and enthralling array of literary, scientific, and philosophical texts in order to explore the relationship between the denigration of women and the disregard for the Earth. In this singular work of love, passion, rage, and beauty, Susan Griffin ingeniously blends...
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Finalist, 2019 PROSE Award in Biography, given by the Association of American Publishers
Fifty years after the start of the women's liberation movement, a book that at last illuminates the profound impact Jewishness and second-wave feminism had on each other
Jewish women were undeniably instrumental in shaping the women's liberation movement of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Yet historians and participants themselves have overlooked their contributions...
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