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In 1977, Bonnie Robichaud accepted a job at the Department of Defence military base in North Bay, Ontario. After a string of dead-end jobs, with five young children at home, Robichaud was ecstatic to have found a unionized job with steady pay, benefits, and vacation time. After her supervisor began to sexually harass and intimidate her, her story could have followed the same course as countless women before her: endure, stay silent, and eventually quit. Instead, Robichaud filed a complaint after her probation period was up.

Accomplished feminist activist and executive Latanya Mapp Frett delivers a powerful and practical exploration of the factors that make a feminist social movement impactful in its place and time. In the book, you'll discover popular and not-so-popular social movements and the leaders, art, research, and narratives that drove them. The author explains what made these social movements so effective and explains the steps that organizations, nonprofits, and social impact professionals can take to replicate that success on the ground and in the present.

Journalist and Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung exposes the insidious--and often unseen--connections among domestic abuse, state-based violence, political disenfranchisement, and the carceral state. For readers of The Revolution Starts at Home, Feminism for the 99%, and Good and Mad. Incisive...

Eine Mischung aus Donnerwetter und Liebeserklärung an die feministische Szene. Die Genderstudies sind ein Minenfeld: Eine "woke" Jugend cancelt, was nicht bunt genug ist, während ein Großteil der feministischen Fortysomethings fragt, was die Streits um Privilegien, Gendersternchen oder Pronomen-Salat überhaupt sollen. Ist das Problem im heutigen Feminismus in Wahrheit ein Generationenkonflikt? Dabei könnte es doch so einfach sein: Raus aus dem "ich weiß alles besser" – und zwar auf beiden Seiten.

Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces moves beyond stories of individual heroines, taking a thematic, synthesizing, and global in scope approach to challenge previous understandings of heroines in history. Responding to Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces, Katie Pickles explores the idea of a transcultural heroine archetype that recurs through time. Each chapter addresses an archetypal theme important for heroines in history.

The Foxfire Magazine, a literary journal first published in 1967 in Rabun Gap, Georgia, was founded on the belief that stories and meaning could be found in Appalachian spaces, not only in classics such as Shakespeare. Filled with poetry and prose from local students and authors, the magazine also featured interviews with relatives and neighbors. These oral histories conducted by students from the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School quickly became the star of the magazine. Now, pulled from the vast Foxfire archive, come twenty-one oral histories from southern Appalachian women.

How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway? Guided by Katy Hessel, art historian and founder of @thegreatwomenartists, discover the glittering paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in the nineteenth-century United States, and the artist who really invented the "readymade." Explore the Dutch Golden Age, the astonishing work of postwar artists in Latin America, and the women defining art in the 2020s.

Die Ehe ist in unserer Gesellschaft unantastbar. Trotz ihrer Institutionalisierung wird sie als Inbegriff der Liebe romantisiert und mythisch verklärt. Dabei verschärft eine Heirat für Frauen oft die Ungleichheit, und sie führt zu finanzieller Abhängigkeit. Die Bestseller-Autorin Emilia Roig blickt hinter die Fassade eines patriarchalen Konstrukts und weist Wege zu einer Revolution der Liebe. Die Ehe normiert Beziehungen und Familie, kontrolliert Sexualität, den Besitz und die Arbeitskraft. Sie ist eine wichtige Stütze des Kapitalismus und lässt uns in binären Geschlechterrollen verharren.

Ein faszinierender Einblick in die weibliche Seele und die Arbeit einer Psychotherapeutin – fantastisch erzählt. Terri steht kurz vor der Hochzeit mit ihrem Verlobten, doch sie flüchtet sich immer wieder in One-Night-Stands mit Frauen. Warum? Tia erlebte schon als Kind, als ihr Vater ihre Mutter betrog, dass weiße Frauen scheinbar liebenswerter sind als schwarze. Als Erwachsene versucht sie, sich neu zu erfinden - doch zu welchem Preis? Agatha, zweimal geschieden, verliebt sich mit 67 Jahren zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben.

Since the beginning of the #MeToo movement, tens of thousands of people in South Korea have taken to the street, and many more brave individuals took a stand, to end a decades-long abortion ban and bring down powerful men accused of sexual misconduct—including a popular presidential contender. Author Hawon Jung shows the world that these women are no delicate flowers—they are trailblazing flames. Flowers of Fire takes the listener into the trenches of this fight for equality.

WER HAT DIE MACHT ZU HASSEN? – Erkundung eines politischen Gefühls. Der Hass, dieses knirschende, zersetzende Gefühl, ist allgegenwärtig. Er brüllt von den Straßen oder flüstert in gutbürgerlicher Feindseligkeit. Er wächst in Parlamentsreden, Querköpfen und Kinderzimmern, und ganz bestimmt nicht im Verborgenen, auch wenn viele ihn gerne dorthin verdammen würden. Şeyda Kurt holt den Hass raus aus der Verbannung und begibt sich auf die Spuren seines widerständigen Potentials.

For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. Yearning collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s. Addressing topics like pedagogy, postmodernism, and politics, hooks examines a variety of cultural artifacts, from Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing and Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire to the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison.

Íntima, reveladora y provocadora, Comunión es una obra que desafía a todas las mujeres a que asumamos el valor de reclamar la búsqueda del amor como el viaje heroico que todas debemos escoger para liberarnos de verdad.

According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore Bell Hooks's electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As Hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a "powerful site for intervention, challenge and change." And intervene, challenge, and change is what hooks does best.

In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. In evoking the act of breaking bread, the book calls upon the various traditions of sharing that take place in domestic, secular, and sacred life.

In childhood, Bell Hooks was taught that "talking back" meant speaking as an equal to an authority figure and daring to disagree and/or have an opinion. In this collection of personal and theoretical essays, Hooks reflects on her signature issues of racism and feminism, politics and pedagogy. Among her discoveries is that moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side, a gesture of defiance that heals, making new life and new growth possible.

UNA DE LAS NOVELAS MÁS ESPERADAS DEL AÑO SEGÚN THE GUARDIAN, THE IRISH TIMES Y DAILY MAIL ¿A qué estaríamos dispuestos a renunciar para crear un mundo mejor? Un libro cuya inquietante imaginación atraviesa la página y no nos suelta hasta el final. 26 de agosto, 7.14 de la mañana: Jane Pearson amanece ante un mundo radicalmente distinto, uno en el que todos los hombres han desaparecido, incluidos su hijo y su marido. Mientras los busca sin perder la esperanza de traerlos de vuelta, ante ella surge una sociedad nueva, mejor, más feliz y segura que la anterior.

Seks hebben we bijna allemaal. Waarom praten we er dan nauwelijks over? Milou Deelen helpt in Hoe doen we het? veertien inspirerende vrouwen de drempel over, en dat levert bloedeerlijke en herkenbare verhalen op. Onder anderen Hedy d'Ancona, Tjitske Reidinga, Lale Gül, S10, Ellen Laan en Berget Lewis vertellen alles over hun seksuele ontdekkingsreis: van hoe hun eerste keer was, tot met welke seksuele moraal zij zijn grootgebracht, en of ze weleens ongewenste intimiteiten meegemaakt hebben tot wat hun persoonlijke definitie van goede seks is.

Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and surprising humor, these essays range from investigative—probing the Cambodian garment industry, the history of menstrual products, or the gender biases of patent law—to uncomfortably intimate.

La reflexión sobre la condición femenina es urgente en nuestro tiempo.Nunca hasta hoy hemos estado más cerca de comprender la igualdad de valor entre los sexos. Y nunca nos hemos encontrado más alejados y confundidos, al convivir en una cultura que niega el valor de la diferencia. Precisamente en esto reside la paradoja de nuestro mundo. Nuestro tiempo acelerado, obsesionado en "hacer cosas útiles", mina la disposición femenina a la acogida y a la ternura, así como la natural empatía tan propia de la mujer, y su apertura a la vida.