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How black women have personified art,expression,identity, and freedom through performance
Winner, 2016 William Sanders Scarborough Prize, presented by the Modern Language Association for an outstanding scholarly study of African American literature or culture
Winner, 2016 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, presented by the American Society for Theatre Research
Winner, 2016 Errol Hill Award for outstanding scholarship...
2) Comprendre le féminisme Découvrez de manière claire et concise tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le f
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Le mouvement MeToo, le gender pay gap, le manspreading, le catcalling - autant de termes que l'on entend de plus en plus souvent aujourd'hui et qui tournent tous autour d'un thème : le féminisme. Le féminisme nous concerne tous et il est essentiel d'avoir des connaissances de base sur le sujet. Dans ce livre, vous apprendrez ce que signifient tous ces termes et en quoi ils sont liés au féminisme. Mais qu'est-ce que le féminisme ? Ne sommes-nous...
3) Understanding Feminism Find Out Everything You Need to Know About Feminism, Its Origins and Its Vari
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MeToo movement, gender pay gap, manspreading, catcalling - you hear these terms more and more often these days, and they all revolve around one topic: feminism. Feminism affects us all and a sound basic knowledge of the subject is essential, especially at the moment. In this book, you will learn what all these terms mean and how they relate to feminism. But what exactly is feminism? Haven't we all had equal rights for a long time?In which areas is...
4) Bitching
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In the early 1970s, the national conversation regarding feminism was very different. Public discussions of womanhood-single life, marriage, workplace harassment, rights, gripes-were often channeled through movement spokeswomen and always refracted through the lens of talking to men about men. Little was shared about the chats happening behind closed doors where everyday women talked to women without the threat of men listening in. But, all that changed...
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A riveting exploration of terrorism's relationship to sex, with a new preface by the author Terrorism is the international crime that has captured the attention of the entire world, forcing governments to make radical changes in security and civil liberties. Meanwhile, everyone tries to comprehend the real reasons that inspire such violence. This is where political philosopher Robin Morgan begins The Demon Lover, a groundbreaking work of investigative...
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Sisters, daughters, mothers, wives-Marilyn French's life-affirming saga celebrates four generations of women With Bella Dabrowski close to death, her daughter Anastasia, who has reinvented herself as Stacey Stevens, is trying to penetrate the longstanding barriers between them to understand the woman who gave her life. Through the eyes of Stacey, a divorced, feminist New York photographer, we get to know Bella, a remarkable woman, wife, and mother....
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The personal papers of one of feminism's most passionate leaders, with a new preface by the author As an activist for social justice, Robin Morgan has acquired a reputation for strong convictions and a life-affirming way of expressing them through writing. Nowhere is this more evident than in Going Too Far, which takes us behind the scenes in Morgan's life and in the women's movement until 1977. We watch the development of an organizer who is a complex...
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Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer women who write and perform their own comedy have become stars-and often they've been successful because they were willing to be funny-looking, from Fanny Brice and Phyllis...
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Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren't funny. But today's funny women didn't come out of nowhere. Fay Tincher's daredevil stunts, Mae West's linebacker walk, Lucille Ball's manic slapstick, Carol Burnett's athletic pratfalls, Ellen DeGeneres's tomboy pranks, Whoopi Goldberg's...
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A dazzling survey of women in punk, from the genre's inception in 1970s London to the current voices making waves around the globe.
As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman has an unusually well-rounded perspective on music journalism. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes-identity, money, love, and protest-to explore what makes punk such a liberating art form for women.
With her visceral style, Goldman...
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Worshiped in Ancient Greece as a protectress of young girls, Artemis was the goddess of hunting, nature, and chastity-the original "wild woman." In Artemis, Jungian analyst and bestselling author, Jean Shinoda Bolen, revives the goddess Artemis to reclaim the female passion and persistence to survive and succeed.
But an indomitable spirit isn't just reserved for the gods. In her book, Dr. Bolen revives the myth of Atalanta, an archetypal Artemis...
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"Tramuta sweeps away the tired clichés of the Parisian woman with her vivid profiles of the dynamic and creative 'femmes' now powering the French capital." -Eleanor Beardsley, NPR Paris correspondent
The New Parisienne focuses on one of the city's most prominent features, its women. Lifting the veil on the mythologized Parisian woman-white, lithe, ever fashionable-Lindsey Tramuta demystifies this oversimplified archetype and recasts the women of...
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An account of how the women's rights movement found fertile ground on Long Island and succeeded thanks to the suffragettes' classic grassroots campaign.
For seventy-two years, American women fought for the right to vote, and many remarkable ladies on Long Island worked tirelessly during this important civil rights movement. The colorful, and exceedingly wealthy, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was undoubtedly the island's most outspoken and controversial...
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