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For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their mindsfeebler, their role subservient. No less a scientist than Charles Darwin asserted that women were at a lower stage of evolution, and for decades, scientists--primarily men--claimed to find evidence to support this. From intelligence to emotion, cognitionto behavior, science has continued to tell us that men and women are fundamentally different....
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"Explores the global history and contributions of the feminist revolution. The Feminist Revolution offers an overview of women's struggle for equal rights in the late twentieth century. Beginning with the auspicious founding of the National Organizationfor Women in 1966, at a time when women across the world were mobilizing individually and collectively in the fight to assert their independence and establish their rights in society, the book traces...
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Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider shared their time-tested techniques for finding the "one." Controversial yet effective, THE RULES has changed millions of women's lives all over the world since 1995. From Oprah to the Today Show, they helped women attract love through confidence and self-esteem. Over the past 30 years, the world has changed dramatically. Today, anything goes with fast paced dating and social media. While technology has accelerated...
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The twentieth anniversary release of a groundbreaking feminist text: a powerful indictment of the current state of feminism, and a passionate call to arms
Today, people of all genders strive to uphold the goals of feminism and proudly embrace the term, but the movement itself is often beset with confusion and questions. Does personal empowerment happen at the expense of politics? Is feminism for the few-or does it speak to the many as they bump up...
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"Revelations of Divine Love" is a text of Julian of Norwich's dream visions that she had when she was near death. Then, after being miraculously healed, Julian of Norwich dedicated the rest of her life to writing her series of sixteen visions for all to read and understand. During her life, Norwich had suffered through three different bouts of the Black Death. Julian of Norwich remained optimistic in her faith, though; she denied that the plagues...
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Extrait: "Par une belle matinée du mois de mai, pendant que les cloches de Sainte-Marie sonnaient joyeusement à grande volée, plusieurs voitures aux chevaux parés de bouquets et de rubans blancs ainsi que les cochers et les laquais, roulaient avec rapidité vers l'un des faubourgs de la ville de***. Toutes vinrent l'une après l'autre s'arrêter devant une jolie villa qui disparaissait à moitié au milieu d'épais bosquets de lilas et de rosages...
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Los humanos conformamos un grupo variado de convicciones, experiencias y moralidades. Los sistemas de opresión prosperan por nuestra incapacidad para reconciliarnos con la diferencia y dañan la relación que mantenemos con nuestros cuerpos.
El cuerpo no es una disculpa propone el concepto "autoamor radical" como bálsamo para sanar las heridas infligidas por estos sistemas violentos. Su autora critica la asimilación de la delgadez a lo deseable,...
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In the fall of 1991, Anita Hill captured the country's attention when she testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee describing sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas, who had been her boss and was about to ascend to the Supreme Court. We know what happened: she was challenged, disbelieved, and humiliated; he was given a life-long appointment to decide America's judicial fate. What is lesser known is how many women and men were inspired by Anita...
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With this book we see a philosopher well steeped in the Western tradition thinking through ancient Eastern disciplines, meditating on what it means to learn to breathe, and urging us all at the dawn of a new century to rediscover indigenous Asian cultures. Yogic tradition, according to Irigaray, can provide an invaluable means for restoring the vital link between the present and eternity -- and for re-envisioning the patriarchal traditions of the...
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The Masculine Mystique, the second volume of Marilyn French's monumental, readable, and unprecedented history of women, analyzes and evaluates the lives of women in societies around the world between feudal times and the French Revolution. Drawing upon fifteen years of collaboration with a team of researchers and prominent historians, the volume opens with fascinating chapters comparing medieval Europe and Japan, disparate cultures which nevertheless...
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From "The Glass Girl":
On certain evenings in dark motels, she could transform her lip into the edge of the bottle, imagining her face was made of amber glass and the men paused above her only to take a drink of breath. Over the years, men drank and drank until there were only two sips left inside. They began sucking the air out of the glass that grew warm in the wrong places because of heat radiating off their hands. The men's breath along with...
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The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment. The growing slave trade and the enactment of Black codes placed the city's Black women within the rigid confines of a social hierarchy ordered by race and gender. At the Threshold of Liberty reveals how these women--enslaved, fugitive, and free--imagined new identities and...
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The Man-Made World (1911) is a sociological study by American author and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Inspired by her work as a social reformer and advocate for women's suffrage, Gilman sought to write a work of nonfiction that explained the effects of patriarchy not only on the lives of women, but on the structure and health of society at large.
In the beginning, Gilman observes that though biology naturally attributes motherhood and fatherhood...
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The conclusion of the four-volume history by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Women's Room. In the twentieth century, women became a force for change, in part through suffrage, and in part through mass organizing. This final volume of Marilyn French's wide-ranging survey offers a vibrant history of multiple political revolutions as well as the century's horrors-including genocides and the atom bomb. It ends with a thoughtful investigation...
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Le slogan féministe des années 1970 « Un enfant quand je veux, si je veux » résonne encore aujourd'hui. Il pose la question de la liberté de choix dans l'espacement des naissances, dans la décision des femmes d'être mère. Il interroge peu le choix de ne pas être mère. Pourtant, elles sont nombreuses à avoir fait le choix d'une vie sans enfant. Face à « l'évidence du naturel », devant l'injonction moderne au désir d'enfant, ces femmes...
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Extrait: "Parmi tant d'institutions qui se sont évanouies au souffle brutal de la Révolution, et au nombre des plus regrettables, il faut compter les chapitres nobles de filles. Ces asiles, qui n'étaient point des couvents, o beaucoup de jeunes filles ne faisaient que passer, le temps seulement, dirait-on, d'y goûter le charme pénétrant d'une existence semi-religieuse, avant de s'engager dans les réalités prosaïques de la vie mondain".
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Women are the majority in almost every cultural or social group. However, their roles vary in various cultures, religions, and traditions. In some cultures and religions, they are highly honored, while in others they are neglected, oppressed, and segregated. This book examines women's role in a few selected world religions, namely Christianity, Islam, African Traditional Religion, Hinduism, and Buddhism. It also surveys the concept of patriarchy and...
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The Everyday Sexism Project was founded by writer and activist Laura Bates in April 2012. It began life as a website where people could share their experiences of daily, normalized sexism, from street harassment to workplace discrimination to sexual assault and rape.
The Project became a viral sensation, attracting international press attention from The New York Times to French Glamour, Grazia South Africa, to the Times of India and support from...
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Abortion is--and always has been--an arena for contesting power relations between women and men. When in 1973 the Supreme Court made the procedure legal throughout the United States, it seemed that women were at last able to make decisions about their own bodies. In the four decades that followed, however, abortion became ever more politicized and stigmatized. Abortion after Roe chronicles and analyzes what the new legal status and changing political...
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