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"Are you a feminist?" That is the question Travis Greenley has tried to answer for the last ten years. Working in an all-female environment in the field of violence against women has given Travis the chance to see things differently. But has that been enough to allow him to be called a feminist?
During his journey as a Violence Prevention Educator in local schools, Travis has tried to share what he has learned to help people explore the issues surrounding...
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This book explores how traces of the energies and dynamics of Orthodox Christian theology and anthropology may be observed in the clinical work of depth psychology. Looking to theology to express its own religious truths and to psychology to see whether these truth claims show up in healing modalities, the author creatively engages both disciplines in order to highlight the possibilities for healing contained therein. Dynamics of Healing elucidates...
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Florencia Angilletta sostiene que el feminismo no existe, porque el singular es más una construcción de cierto feminismo que de los feminismos. El plural no es un simple cliché lingüístico, sino la posibilidad de mostrar zonas de conflictos y promesas.
¿Los feminismos se pueden institucionalizar? ¿Qué pasa cuando la política se convierte en moral y cancela conversaciones en lugar de abrirlas? ¿Puede ser el código penal la nueva educación...
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Le ressenti tellement actuel et collant à l'actualité d'une femme mûre, active, consciente de son environnement et qui exprime sa colère et ses émotions dans un ouvrage sans filtre. Elle parcourt les différents volets de notre société en y analysant la place de la femme et ce qu'elle devient avec un sentiment de révolte envers les bien-pensants et tous ceux qui croient être seuls à détenir la vérité et nous l'imposent.
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Extrait: "Le 4 janvier 1717, la frégate française la Valeur courait à toutes voiles sur la Martinique, portant à son bord le marquis de Varenne que le conseil de marine venait de nommer gouverneur général des îles. Vers le soir, le capitaine, afin d'éviter les atterrissages pendant la nuit, fit virer de bord à la frégate, au grand désappointement des passagers."
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Full of sparkling festive magic, Little Woodville is all set for Christmas…
Belle Nightingale hasn't celebrated Christmas properly since she lost touch with her Gran and left the tiny village in the Cotswolds behind two decades ago.
Back in Little Woodville to sell the cottage she inherited, Belle finds herself wondering whether her own dreams have been pushed aside in her quest to please everyone else.
The cosy cottage, nostalgia and her tenant...
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Unelectable takes-a-look at the ways in which we are seeing a greater willingness of society to have a more open, honest and vulnerable conversation about the struggles women face in US politics.
In this book, you'll learn about:
• The conflicting, and gender biased standards that female leaders face in politics
• The people and organizations working to support female leadership and inclusivity
• The stories and experiences that have shaped...
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Fourteen young university students, murdered because they were women, are memorialized in this definitive account of the tragic day that forced a reckoning with violence against women in our culture. The victims of what became known as the "Montreal Massacre" are remembered, their lives cut short on December 6, 1989 when a man entered École Polytechnique and systematically shot every young woman he encountered. The killer was motivated by a misogyny...
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Susan Moller Okin (1946-2004) was a prominent feminist philosopher and the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society at Stanford University. Her books include Justice, Gender, and the Family and Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?
In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand...
931) In Full Velvet
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These poems, likened to Elizabeth Bishop's, are about desire, love, seeing, gender, difference, ecology, queerness in the "natural" world, loss, LGBTQ lineage, and its community. They contain a sinuous, shape-shifting quality that makes her explorations of sex and selfhood all the more resonant.
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Why mothers are still unhappy
Mothers today feel like they are going absolutely crazy. They are exhausted, underpaid and under-appreciated. They feel like slaves to their kids, homes, husbands and careers – just like our mothers did. So what went wrong?
Most people blame mothers for this state of affairs. We tell women that motherhood is blissful and it's up to them to find work-life balance. We remind them that they chose to have children and...
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Héritage d'un patriarcat antique, accessoire vestimentaire le plus sexiste et discriminant que l'homme ait inventé, quintessence de l'inégalité femme -homme, le voile dit « islamique » fait débat en France depuis trente ans. Par une obsession sexuelle exacerbée dont la religion n'est que le prétexte régulateur, les islamistes en ont fait leur cheval de Troie politique.
Pourtant, son histoire, sa raison d'être et ses prescripteurs restent...
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Disrupting the racist and sexist biases in conversations on reconciliation Chanequa Walker-Barnes offers a compelling argument that the Christian racial reconciliation movement is incapable of responding to modern-day racism. She demonstrates how reconciliation's roots in the evangelical, male-centered Promise Keepers' movement has resulted in a patriarchal and largely symbolic effort, focused upon improving relationships between men from various...
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In the space of a year, Laurie Penny has become one of the most prominent voices of the new left. This book brings together her diverse writings, showing what it is to be young, angry and progressive in the face of an increasingly violent and oppressive UK government.
Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent collects Penny's writings on youth politics, resistance, feminism and culture. Her journalism is a unique blend of persuasive analysis,...
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In a female-ruled society, she's trapped in an ancient struggle between the sexes. Will she be the spark to restore unity?
6,000-years ago. The mighty High Priestess Lilith is torn between her sacred duty and following the truth in her heart. Haunted by the mandatory servitude that sent her twin brother away, Lilith yearns for the civil change that would set men and boys free from her temple's tyranny. But, with a secret prophecy of masculine domination...
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A radical novel of love, gender, and being seen for who you are from the groundbreaking author of The Female Man.
Meet Esther, an English professor. Since her divorce more than a decade ago, she has lived in a kind of limbo-a sexless, cold, and self-contained existence. Though surrounded by so-called intellectuals, she is still boxed into life according to her gender, expected to defer to her male colleagues and mocked for her feminist beliefs.
But...
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Malika Amar Shaikh was born to Communist-activist parents-her father, Shahir Amar Shaikh, was a trade-union leader and legendary Marathi folk singer. Brought up amidst the hurly-burly of Maharashtrian politics of the 1960s, and exposed to the best and the brightest in Bombay's cultural scene, Malika was a cosseted child, drawn to poetry and dance. She was barely out of school, when she married Namdeo Dhasal, co-founder of the radical Dalit Panthers,...
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Who is my neighbor? As our world has increasingly become a single place, this question posed in the gospel story is heard as an interreligious inquiry. Yet studies of encounter across religious lines have largely been framed as the meeting of male leaders. What difference does it make when women's voices and experiences are the primary data for thinking about interfaith engagement? Motherhood as Metaphor draws on three historical encounters between...
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