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Since the publication of the groundbreaking "Bad Feminist and Hunger," Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society--state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, womens rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy--alongside more individually personalized matters: Can I tell my co-worker her perfume makes me sneeze? Is it acceptable to schedule a daily 8 am meeting? In her role as a New York Times opinion...
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English
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Attempting to answer society’s weirdly unasked question: What About Men?, the New York Times best-selling author, interviewing men in her orbit, bringing up very difficult and candid topics and receiving vulnerable and honest responses about perceptions and expectations, opens a genuinely new debate about how to reboot masculinity for the 21st century.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In 2050, behind the exclusive Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world, three women, employees of the billionaire/women's rights advocate responsible for this strange new society, notice cracks in the system, in this thrilling story of queer love, betrayal and chosen family"--
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Lady Petra Inquires volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiancé in an accident, she announces that she will never marry. Instead, she plans to continue enjoying the best of society without any expectations. But when gossip suggests that a friend has died of a fit due to her “melancholia” while in the care of a physician, Petra vows to use her status to dig deeper—uncovering...
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxxi, 208 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
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English
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"This book looks at the needs of feminist movements and the champions and organizations that are behind them. We know that everyday women start and sustain modern social movements like Black Lives Matter, Me Too, Mi Unas Menos, etc. But we only hear about these women and their work in very limited ways. This book will look back at popular and not so popular social movements and the women behind them. It analyzes the periods in which these movements...
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English
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"1792. As a child, Mary Wollstonecraft longed to disappear during her father's violent rages. Instead, she transforms herself into the radical author of the landmark volume A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she dares to propose that women are equal to men. From conservative England to the blood-drenched streets of revolutionary France, Mary refuses to bow to society's conventions and instead supports herself with her pen until an illicit...
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Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
Description
Since the beginning of the #MeToo movement, tens of thousands of people in South Korea have taken to the street to end a decades-long abortion ban and bring down powerful men accused of sexual misconduct. South Korean feminists battle against their own patriarchal society as well as challenging stereotypes of docile Asian women in the Western imagination. Jung takes readers into public and private spaces where spycam porn crimes are rampant, and shows...
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
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xiii, 370 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"In Search of a Beautiful Freedom brings together the best work from Farah Jasmine Griffin's rich forays on music, Black feminism, literature, the crises of Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19, and the Black artists she esteems. She moves from evoking the haunting strength of Odetta and the rise of soprano popular singers in the 1970s to the forging of a Black women's literary renaissance and the politics of Malcolm X through the lens of Black feminism....
9) Barbie
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Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite, twenty-eight women devised a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the civil rights movement, had called this renegade meeting from attendees at the annual conference of state women's commissions. Fed up with waiting for government action and trying to work with a broken system, they laid out a vision...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 online resource (4 volumes) : illustrations
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English
Description
This encyclopedia captures the experiences of women throughout world history and illuminates how they have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes. It contains over 1,300 signed articles covering six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society; organizations and movements; womens and gender studies; and topics in world history.
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Publisher
National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year
Pub. Date
1977.
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1 online resource (125 pages in various pages) : illustrations.
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English
Description
A set of guildelines aimed at assisting with workshop development on improving the status of women in the arts and humanities.
Publisher
Cult Epics
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Nederlands
Description
"Three women, strangers with no premeditated thoughts, kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day. A female psychiatrist is assigned to the case to find out why. This provocative, radical, acclaimed feminist film was a hit both in Holland and abroad when it was released in theaters and is a feminist classic today"--Container.
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Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2005
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x, 228 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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This study of Black feminist activism challenges the prevailing assumptions that Black women have avoided feminist political ideology as irrelevant to their lives & to the liberation of Black communities.
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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiii, 261 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
"This compelling history traces contemporary feminist interest in science to the World War II and early Cold War years. During a period when anxiety about America's supply of scientific personnel ran high and when open support for women's rights generated suspicion, feminist reformers routinely invoked national security rhetoric and scientific "manpower" concerns in their efforts to advance women's education and employment. Puaca brings to light the...
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Sourcebooks
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English
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"Women's rights activist Laura Bates is no stranger to misogynistic attacks online, but over time, the vitriol hinted at something widespread and toxic. Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women as Bates traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spiderweb of groups. Drawing parallels to other extremist movements around the world, Bates shows what attracts men to the movement, how it grooms and radicalizes...
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