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"In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She ends on a serious note-- because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something...
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"SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent, and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact,...
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Day in, day out, women anticipate and manage the needs of others. At home, we shoulder the mental load required to keep our households running. At work, we moderate our tone, explaining patiently and speaking softly. No wonder women everywhere are overtaxed, exhausted, and simply fed up. Hartley gives voice to the frustration and anger of performing thankless emotional labor. She illuminates how this fuels gender inequality, limits our opportunities,...
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From the author of New York Times bestseller You're Wearing That? this bestselling classic work draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words. Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words. Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including eight months at number one, You Just Don't Understand is a true cultural...
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If you've ever questioned the logic of basing an entire identity around what you have between your legs, it's time to embark on a daring escape outside of the binary box... Open your eyes to what it means to be a boy or a girl -- and above and beyond! Within these pages, you get to choose which path to forge. Explore over one hundred different scenarios that embrace nearly every definition across the world, over history, and in the ever-widening realms...
9) White girls
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McSweeneys Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
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xi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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Outlines psychology-based strategies for focusing on a child's unique strengths rather than on gender expectations, counseling parents on how to avoid cultural inclinations that limit a child's potential.
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Anchor Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
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52 pages ; 16 cm
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English
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"In this personal, eloquently-argued essay|adapted from her much-admired TEDx talk of the same name|Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning author of Americanah, offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century, one rooted in inclusion and awareness. Drawing extensively on her own experiences and her deep understanding of the often masked realities of sexual politics, here is one remarkable author|s exploration of what it...
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Aguilar
Pub. Date
2015.
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Primera edicion.
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233 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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No eres tu la que tiene que cambiar, tampoco el. Simplemente piensan de forma diferente. Deja de romperte la cabeza tratando de entender a tu hombre: con esta guia practica y llena de humor, podras entender de manera sencilla como funciona la mente masculina. Shawn T. Smith, psicoterapeuta experto en relaciones de pareja, te muestra como trabajar de la mano con el amor de tu vida para construir una relacion basada en la comunicacion y en el respeto...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
840L
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x, 308 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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An anthology of historical short stories features a diverse array of girls standing up for themselves and their beliefs, forging their own paths while resisting society's expectations.
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Bitch planet. Triple feature! volume 1
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Image Comics Inc
Pub. Date
2017-
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volumes (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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English
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"Set in a political patriarchy, Triple feature is an anthology companion to Image Comics' hit satire series, Bitch planet. Women who displease the regime are labeled non-compliant ("NC") and shipped to an off-world prison to fend for themselves. Newly non-compliant? Buckle up, buttercup: no punches are pulled herein"--Page 4 of cover.
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