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Only Women Can Save the World all women have to come together to make this happen. This book is to uplift the thinking of women and to motivate them to get the job done. Man is so out of control, you as a woman must be Lord God like my mother, and take total control to save the world.
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Incisivo, ecléctico y políticamente comprometido, Ver como feminista es un libro audaz y de amplio alcance.
Para la escritora Nivedita Menon, el feminismo no se trata de un triunfo final sobre el patriarcado, sino de una transformación gradual de la esfera social decisiva para que las antiguas estructuras e ideas cambien para siempre.
Este libro reivindica el mundo a través de una lente feminista, entre la experiencia concreta de la dominación...
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In April 2011, a team of five people put together SlutWalk Toronto, a protest responding to slut shaming and victim blaming culture, exemplified by a recent event at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. In the name of campus "safety," Toronto Police Constable Michael Sanguinetti advised "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order to not be victimized." The sentiment of those in the over 3000 person crowd that day were shared by folks around...
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En 1793, la escritora de la primera reivindicación de los derechos de la mujer, Olympe de Gouges, fue guillotinada en la actual Place de la Concorde de París. En plena Revolución francesa, de Gouges se convierte en una de las intelectuales más osadas de su tiempo: empuñaba su pluma para escribir tratados, diatribas, ensayos epistolares e incluso teatro abolicionista, enfrentando los incesantes sabotajes de sus pares políticos y literarios.
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Kimberly, a beautiful narcissist, commits a murder of passion and ends up in an insane asylum. Her father agrees with the doctor's recommendation for her cure. Riley Nacht is a criminal psychopath whose heinous crimes lands him in the same institution. When Kimberly was a child, she had watched one of Riley's murders. Eddie Fisk, a hospital assistant working in the asylum, knows both patients and is drawn into their circumstances to his own demise....
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To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sharon Hays' landmark book, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, this collection will revisit Hays' concept of "intensive mothering" as a continuing, yet controversial representation of modern motherhood. In Hays' original work, she spoke of "intensive mothering" as primarily being conducted by mothers, centered on children's needs with methods informed by experts, which are labor-intensive and costly...
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La autora, una de las principales pensadoras del siglo XX, reacciona ante la enorme presión sobre las "madres subrogadas" y la demanda de legalización de prácticas que niegan el aspecto ético y la dignidad de la mujer. En su análisis considera los "vientres de alquiler" como la forma más actual de explotación del cuerpo de las mujeres, reflexiona en torno a la relación de la mujer con su propio cuerpo -a la luz de un neoliberalismo cultural...
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The performance of being a man, from the moment we open our eyes, until we gasp our last breath, is damaging us, and those around us.
Phil Barker has written thousands of words about being a man in these strange and terrible times. As a journalist, he has spent years investigating the modern epidemics of suicide, domestic violence, pornography, and misogyny, but also the essential bonds of male friendship, fatherhood, and men's relationships with...
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«Carmen tiene la valentía de hacerse preguntas y de querer mirar a otro lado. No como acto de dejadez sino de justicia social. De sanación y de reparación. De hacer honor a la verdá entendía como se entiende cuando alguien canta un fandango y se le dice que la tiene: la verdá. En la garganta.
Se hace preguntas y reconoce el baile que somos entre opresiones y privilegios. Tan importante esto...
A las andaluzas que arrastramos historias de pobreza...
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Las claves esenciales para conocer el movimiento de lucha por la emancipación de la mujer: sus raíces, las estrategias de lucha, sus conflictos y contradicciones, sus heroínas y pensadoras, sus aliados y enemigos, sus tópicos y prejuicios, su evolución y su futuro. Atrévase a saber y sentir que el feminismo no es una cuestión de mujeres, sino de derechos humanos; una revolución activa que sigue cambiando la sociedad.
– El movimiento feminista...
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The book argues that the category of mother is distinct from the category of woman, and that many of the problems mothers face-social, economic, political, cultural, psychological, and so forth-are specific to women's role and identity as mothers. Indeed, mothers are oppressed under patriarchy as women and as mothers. Consequently, mothers need a feminism of their own, one that positions mothers' concerns as the starting point for a theory and politic...
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Voici un premier ouvrage sur la place des femmes dans les médias audiovisuels au Québec. Il propose une rencontre entre les réflexions d'artistes et les études d'universitaires portant sur les créations et les représentations des femmes dans les domaines du cinéma, de l'art vidéo, des jeux vidéo et de la télévision. Célébrant la créativité des femmes, leur esprit de résistance, leur refus de se taire, ce collectif s'adresse aux personnes...
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"Don't women with children travel?" Marybeth Bond and Pamela Michael enquire, in their book A Mother's World: Journeys of the Heart (1998), when discovering the absence of portrayals of travelling mothers. Addressing this absence, our book Travellin' Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel explores the multiple dimensions of motherhood and travel. Through a variety of compelling creative pieces and critical essays with a global outlook and wide-ranging...
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Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations About Men, Mothers, and Mothering thinks from the nexus of gender, essentialism, and care. The authors creatively blend the philosophical and the personal to collectively argue that while gender is essential to our social and theoretical definitions of care, it is dangerously co-opted into naturalized discourses, which limit particular identities and negate certain forms of care. The perspectives curated in Essential...
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El camino de las mujeres norteafricanas o de origen norteafricano hacia la igualdad no está exento de retrocesos. Así, tras décadas de lucha para dejar atrás rémoras culturales patriarcales, la llegada de un nuevo islam fundamentalista, fomentado desde los países del Golfo, está en vías de anular los avances del movimiento feminista.
La difusión masiva del velo es el símbolo más claro de este proceso reaccionario: una prenda uniformada,...
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"Las gallinitas", un grupo de amigas integrado por seis mujeres, se reúnen en el bar para comentar sus vivencias y experiencias. Durante una semana completa, Paula, Tote, Laura, Ada, Mercedes y María José irán explorando temas clave que afectan de forma clara y directa a las mujeres y su convivencia en una sociedad fálica y machista.
Pablo Martín Tharrats, el autor de este ensayo novelado, completa las reflexiones de las protagonistas con datos...
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El campo de estudios feministas y de género en el mundo, con diferentes ritmos a nivel local, pasó de ser el cuarto de atrás de las ciencias sociales a convertirse en un espacio dinámico, en crecimiento y con una importante producción editorial desde hace pocas décadas. Los programas de formación académica y los centros de investigación dedicados a estos temas se fortalecieron en los últimos años en Ámerica Latina. Asimismo, en armonía...
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Letters to a Young Feminist is a visionary message from a leading feminist to the next generation of feminists, both women and men. Phyllis Chesler discusses basic aspects of feminism, explains feminism's relevance in a world that has taken it for granted and derided it and helps the next generation reclaim feminism for itself. Chesler examines sisterhood, sex, families, motherhood, work, feminist heroism and the economics of power, providing guidance...
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A large proportion-and in many jurisdictions the majority-of incarcerated women are mothers. Popular attention is often paid to challenges faced by children of incarcerated mothers while incarcerated women themselves often do not "count" as mothers in mainstream discourse. This is the first anthology on incarcerated mothers' experiences that is primarily based on and reflects the Canadian context. It is also trans- national in scope as it covers related...
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Patricia Hill Collins has given new meaning to the institution of motherhood throughout her publishing career. Introducing scholars to new conceptions, such as, "other mothering" and "mothering of mind," Collins through her creative and multifaceted analysis of the institution of motherhood, has in a large sense, reconceived what it means to be a mother in a national and transnational context. By connecting motherhood as an institution to manifestations...
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