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A RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'Sometimes it's hard to be a woman and sometimes it's time to be a hard woman . . . This is a book for all those times.Once upon a (very very) long time ago Jo Brand was what you might describe as 'a nice little girl'. Of course, that was...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2018-10-18
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Selected for the Evening Standard present gift guide of the year'To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews,...
Editeur :
Brazen
Parution :
2018-03-08
Collection :
Forgotten Women
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An urgent testament to the trials of life for women living without a financial safety net Indie icon Michelle Tea -- whose memoir The Chelsea Whistle details her own working-class roots in gritty Chelsea, Massachusetts -- shares these fierce, honest, tender essays...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2018-02-27
Collection :
Live Girls
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Slutever is a call-to-arms, a confessional memoir, and a slut manifesto—and it's all thanks to a sex-radical hedonist in a pink PVC mini dress. "Slut" is a great word. It just sounds perfect-so sharp and clear and beautiful. It's one of...
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Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2018-02-06
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10,99€
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WINNER OF THE EUROPEAN ESSAY PRIZEFROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED'It's hard to overstate the pleasure and the comfort that such demystification provides . . . it does indeed make the world feel larger, more expansive, more alive to the touch'...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2017-11-16
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An urgent account of sexual politics, feminism, and the rules of power in America-and a potent vision for the way forward As a veteran feminist and agenda-setting sex educator, Jaclyn Friedman is on the frontlines of the war for equity between the sexes. In Unscrewed,...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2017-11-14
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15,99€
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The motif of the ‘identity quest’ features strongly in much contemporary French women’s writing, but nowhere more so than in the work of Nina Bouraoui. Author of numerous books since 1991 and winner of the 2005 Prix Renaudot, Bouraoui persistently explores the question...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-10-25
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An NPR Best Book of 2017Celebrate the witchiest women writers with an inventive guidebook that pairs imaginative vignettes with whimsical, folkloric illustrations. Literary Witches reimagines visionary writers as witches: both are figures of formidable creativity,...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2017-10-10
ePub
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11,99€
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Nasty women, unite—and read this compendium of fascinating quotations about powerful women through history. “My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today. I knew it then as purpose.”...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2017-09-05
ePub
Offre spéciale
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8,99€
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This collection of essays takes up the most famous feminist sentence ever written, Simone de Beauvoir's "On ne naît pas femme: on le devient," finding in it a flashpoint that galvanizes feminist thinking and action in multiple dimensions. Since its publication, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-07-20
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Women’s emancipation in Uganda is one of the most successful ventures an African country has ever undertaken. The reality of its success, however, remains a challenge in a society with a long-held structure of patriarchy and institutional, cultural beliefs.
After a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-05-05
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Over the course of thirty-seven chapters, including an editorial introduction, this handbook provides a comprehensive examination of scholarly research and knowledge on a variety of aspects of women's collective activism in the United States, tracing both continuities...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-05-05
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Dieses Buch geht der Frage nach, welche sozialökonomische Stellung Frauen und Kinder in der patriarchalisch geprägten Ständeordnung in Russland und in der traditionell geprägten schweizerischen Gesellschaft am Ende des 19. und zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts innehatten....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-04-18
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Vulnerability reins our time. People know that their world is changing in ways that they cannot foresee. Communities disintegrate and boundaries lose their relevance. Drawing on the concept of vulnerability as an affective relation individuals hold with their world and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-03-21
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A trail-blazing and inspiring collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience and psychology featuring The Delusions of Certainty, winner of the European Essay Prize 2019.As well as being a prize-winning, bestselling novelist, Siri Hustvedt is widely regarded as a...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2016-12-01
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Aus historischer Perspektive wird in diesem Sammelband ein Blick auf Geschlecht bzw. Gender geworfen, wobei unterschiedliche Wissenschaftsdisziplinen zu Wort kommen – die Theologie, die Geschichtswissenschaft, die Germanistik sowie die Erziehungswissenschaft. Die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-10-31
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For most of recorded history, men have held nearly all of the most powerful leadership positions. Today, although women occupy an increasing percentage of leadership positions, in America they hold less than a fifth of positions in both the public and private sectors....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-03
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Dangerous Discourses brings together new work by feminist scholars who provide a multifaceted view of the ways contemporary media discourses inscribe particular understandings of gendered social identities, gun violence, and public policy. The chapters examine multiple...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-08-15
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The thoroughly revised Women in Culture 2/e explores the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, gender identity, and spirituality from the perspectives of diverse global locations. Its strong humanities content, including illustrations and creative writing, uniquely...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-06-16
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Obwohl das Leitbild der Hausfrauenehe 1977 abgeschafft wurde, wird es noch immer gefördert. Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Geschlechterungerechtigkeit, die der vermeintlich freien, jedoch vor dem Recht nicht gleichbehandelten Wahl des Lebensmodells zugrunde liegt....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-06-10
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