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....

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...

"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...

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,...

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...

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...

A liberal feminist text. Rather than considering what is appropriate masculine or feminine behavior, we should investigate what it is to be human.

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...

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". À...

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...