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"What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you're a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are? When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the University of California, Berkeley, where she becomes one of over a hundred children who are research subjects in an unprecedented 30-year study of personality development that predicts who she and her cohort...
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The subject of this book is best reflected in the prologue of Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum book, Dark Mother, African Origins and Godmothers. On page 25 of her book she writes: The hypothesis of this book is that everyone's genetic beautiful mother is African and dark and that she is the oldest divinity we know. Now the consensus among world scientists is that Africa is the cradle of the most ancient living beings that paleo-anthropologists are willing...
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On entend souvent parler du choix des femmes. Soit parce que d'aucun-e-s ne les considèrent comme incapables de faire un choix, soit parce qu'on leur reconnaît une autonomie qui implique de pouvoir choisir librement ou pas, soit parce qu'il est plus facile de tolérer des discriminations ou des violences en mettant le soi-disant choix à la charge des femmes.Dans de nombreux domaines o les femmes se battent pour leurs droits et leurs choix, ces...
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Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel. The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Perkins sends a man forward in time to a better world, but gives him deep difficulties in adjusting to it. Herland describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "THE COLLECTED WORKS OF CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN: Short Stories, Novels, Poems & Essays". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
Contents:
The Yellow Wallpaper
Why I wrote the Yellow Wallpaper
What Diantha Did
The Crux
Moving the Mountain
Herland
With Her in Ourland
Three Thanksgivings
According To Solomon
Her...
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Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel. The book was one element in the major wave of utopian and dystopian literature that marked the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Perkins sends a man forward in time to a better world, but gives him deep difficulties in adjusting to it.
Herland describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict...
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Table of Contents:
The Yellow Wallpaper
Why I wrote the Yellow Wallpaper (1913)
What Diantha Did
The Crux
Moving the Mountain
Herland
With Her in Ourland
Three Thanksgivings
According To Solomon
Her Housekeeper
A Middle-Sized Artist
When I Was A Witch
A Coincidence
The Cottagette
Mr. Robert Grey Sr.
The Boys And The Butter
My Astonishing Dodo
A Word In Season
Turned
The Giant Wistaria
Essays and Sketches:
The Man -Made World, Or, Our Androcentric...
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Based on interviews with women who are HIV positive, this sobering pandemic brings to light the deeply rooted and complex problems of living with HIV. Already pushed to the edges of society by poverty, racial politics, and gender injustice, women with HIV in South Africa have found ways to cope with work and men, disclosure of their HIV status, and care for families and children to create a sense of normalcy in their lives. As women take control of...
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Universalisme ou différentialisme ? Féminisme et laïcité ?Et le genre dans tout ça ? Faut-il être fière d'être une femme ?Libération sexuelle et prostitution. Le féminisme à l'épreuve dureligieux. Menaces sur les droits des femmes. Défendre les femmes,ou défendre une idée ? Parité, mixité ou entre soi ?Toutes ces questions, et d'autres encore, l'auteur les aborde dans undialogue avec sa fille adolescente. L'occasion d'une balade dansl'histoire...
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Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia provides a unique firsthand portrait of peasant family life as recorded by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, an ethnographer and painter who spent four years at the turn of the twentieth century observing the life and customs of villagers in a central Russian province. Unusual in its awareness of the rapid changes in the Russian village in the late nineteenth century and in its concentration on the treatment of women...
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A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down
Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing to do anything to get the shot. It was a time when the Internet was still the Wild West, and when slut-shaming, fat-shaming, and revenge porn were all considered...
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2021
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The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about.
Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women and traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spider web of groups. It includes eye-opening interviews with former members of these communities, the academics studying this movement, and the men fighting back.
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Forget the adventure stories of James Bond, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs and Co., espionage is not just a boys' game.
As long as there has been conflict, there have been female agents behind the scenes. In Belgium and northern France in 1914-18 there were several thousand women actively working against the Kaiser's forces occupying their homelands. In the Second World War, women of many nations opposed the Nazis, risking the firing squad or decapitation...
18) A Joosr Guide to... Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
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In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com. What is it that makes men and women seem to think and act so differently from each other? Are our minds...
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Hanna Reitsch longed to fly. Having broken records and earned the respect of the Nazi regime, she became the first female Luftwaffe test pilot, and eventually became Hitler's personal heroine.
An ardent Nazi, Reitsch was prepared to die for the cause, first as a test pilot for the dangerous V1 flying bombs and later by volunteering for a suggested Nazi 'kamikaze' squadron. After her capture she complained bitterly of not being able to die with her...
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How can the seemingly separate lives of philosopher, feminist, and follower of a religious tradition come together in one person's life? How does religious commitment affect philosophy or feminism? How does feminism play out in religious or philosophical commitment? Wrestling with answers to these questions, women who balance philosophy, feminism, and faith write about their lives. The voices gathered here from several different traditions-Catholic,...
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