The Most Selfish Woman In America

Author : Christia Sale
Publisher : BalboaPress
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781452532141

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The Most Selfish Woman in America by Christia Sale Pdf

You have experience a traumatic event in your life. Divorce! Feels like your emotions have been stomped on with a big, ugly boot! Your needs have been neglected for so long now you forgot how to put yourself first! You could use some guidance and direction. I'm going to show you how to become a Selfish Woman, and make your Dream Life your reality! I'm going to show you how to make your divorce the best thing that ever happened to you! I will teach you how to release the power your past has over you, and create the life you've always dreamed of living. You will find your zest for life again. You will regain your strength and power. You will learn your lessons, and gain wisdom from your experience. You will learn how to handle life's challenges with balance and control. You will learn to dictate your happiness and your success. You will choose to be vibrant, dynamic and better than ever! It is all in your control! And it's your turn!

Author : Lisa Downing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000020618

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Selfish Women by Lisa Downing Pdf

This book proceeds from a single and very simple observation: throughout history, and up to the present, women have received a clear message that we are not supposed to prioritize ourselves. Indeed, the whole question of "self" is a problem for women – and a problem that issues from a wide range of locations, including, in some cases, feminism itself. When women espouse discourses of self-interest, self-regard, and selfishness, they become illegible. This is complicated by the commodification of the self in the recent Western mode of economic and political organization known as "neoliberalism," which encourages a focus on self-fashioning that may not be identical with self-regard or self-interest. Drawing on figures from French, US, and UK contexts, including Rachilde, Ayn Rand, Margaret Thatcher, and Lionel Shriver, and examining discourses from psychiatry, media, and feminism with the aim of reading against the grain of multiple orthodoxies, this book asks how revisiting the words and works of selfish women of modernity can assist us in understanding our fraught individual and collective identities as women in contemporary culture. And can women with politics that are contrary to the interests of the collective teach us anything about the value of rethinking the role of the individual? This book is an essential read for those with interests in cultural theory, feminist theory, and gender politics.

Author : Albert Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Periodicals, English
ISBN : NYPL:33433081668653

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American Monthly Review of Reviews by Albert Shaw Pdf

Author : Meghan Daum
Publisher : Picador
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781250052940

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Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed by Meghan Daum Pdf

SIXTEEN LITERARY LUMINARIES ON THE CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECT OF BEING CHILDLESS BY CHOICE, COLLECTED IN ONE FASCINATING ANTHOLOGY One of the main topics of cultural conversation during the last decade was the supposed "fertility crisis," and whether modern women could figure out a way to have it all-a successful, demanding career and the required 2.3 children-before their biological clock stopped ticking. Now, however, conversation has turned to whether it's necessary to have it all (see Anne-Marie Slaughter) or, perhaps more controversial, whether children are really a requirement for a fulfilling life. The idea that some women and men prefer not to have children is often met with sharp criticism and incredulity by the public and mainstream media. In this provocative and controversial collection of essays, curated by writer Meghan Daum, sixteen acclaimed writers explain why they have chosen to eschew parenthood. Contributors include Lionel Shriver, Sigrid Nunez, Kate Christiensen, Elliott Holt, Geoff Dyer, and Tim Kreider, among others, who will give a unique perspective on the overwhelming cultural pressure of parenthood. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed makes a thoughtful and passionate case for why parenthood is not the only path in life, taking our parent-centric, kid-fixated, baby-bump-patrolling culture to task in the process. What emerges is a more nuanced, diverse view of what it means to live a full, satisfying life.

Author : Albert Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101064161969

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The Review of Reviews by Albert Shaw Pdf

Author : Jared Sparks,Edward Everett,James Russell Lowell,Henry Cabot Lodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : American fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092623693

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The North American Review by Jared Sparks,Edward Everett,James Russell Lowell,Henry Cabot Lodge Pdf

Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.

Author : Colin Turnbull
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473524170

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The Forest People by Colin Turnbull Pdf

The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with nature -- and an all-time classic of anthropology. For three years, Colin Turnbull lived with an isolated group of Pygmies deep in the forest of the African Congo, experiencing their daily life first-hand. He attended their hunting parties and initiation ceremonies, witnessed their music and their rituals, observed their quarrels and love affairs. He documented them as an anthropologist but was accepted among them as a friend. A ground-breaking work in its time, The Forest People made him one of the most famous intellectuals of the 1960s and 1970s. It remains a transporting account of an earthly paradise and of a legendary and fascinating people. With a new foreword by Horatio Clare.

Author : John W. Chapman,William Arthur Galston
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780814714997

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Virtue by John W. Chapman,William Arthur Galston Pdf

In this 34th volume in the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy series, an international group of scholars examine what is meant by "virtue," probing various historical and analytical meanings of virtue; notions of liberal virtue, civic virtue and judicial virtue; the nature of secular and theological virtue. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752421866

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Franklin Kane by Anne Douglas Sedgwick Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Franklin Kane by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Author : Regan Penaluna
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802158819

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How to Think Like a Woman by Regan Penaluna Pdf

From a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential 17th and 18th century feminist philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and her predecessors who have been written out of history, and a searing look at the author’s experience of patriarchy and sexism in academia As a young woman growing up in small-town Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academician, the first step, she believed, to becoming a self-determined person living a life of the mind. What Penaluna didn’t realize was that the Western philosophical canon taught in American universities, as well as the culture surrounding it, would slowly grind her down through its misogyny, its harassment, its devaluation of women and their intellect. Where were the women philosophers? One day, in an obscure monograph, Penaluna came across Damaris Cudworth Masham’s name. The daughter of philosopher Ralph Cudworth and a contemporary of John Locke, Masham wrote about knowledge and God, and the condition of women. Masham’s work led Penaluna to other remarkable women philosophers of the era: Mary Astell, who moved to London at age twenty-one and made a living writing philosophy; Catharine Cockburn, a philosopher, novelist, and playwright; and the better-known Mary Wollstonecraft, who wrote extensively in defense of women’s minds. Together, these women rekindled Penaluna’s love of philosophy and awakened her feminist consciousness. In How to Think Like a Woman, Regan Penaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell the stories of these four women, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy as well as her own search for love and truth. Funny, honest, and wickedly intelligent, this is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally.

Author : Virginia Sapiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018748967

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Women in American Society by Virginia Sapiro Pdf

Introducing women's studies, this book offers information on women in employment, the significance of sex/gender systems, childbirth, childcare, sexuality and the state's view of marriage and property. The author also provides coverage of the issue of abortion and recent Supreme Court rulings.

Author : Andrew Sheldon
Publisher : Andrew Sheldon
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780992249922

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True Anarchy & Its Misconceptions by Andrew Sheldon Pdf

This 99pp eBook offers an outline of anarchy and describes some of the pressing issues that tends to skew debate about what constitutes anarchy, and why much of the discussion around the left vs right anarchy tends only to engender political apprehensions that tilt the debate towards mainstream or contemporary politics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1218 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCR:31210016258533

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North American Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Andrew Corcoran,Patrick John Ryan,Edmond Francis Prendergast
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : NYPL:33433081752796

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The American Catholic Quarterly Review by James Andrew Corcoran,Patrick John Ryan,Edmond Francis Prendergast Pdf

Author : Richard Dawkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0192860925

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The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins Pdf

Science need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up are the concepts of altruistic and selfish behaviour; the genetical definition of selfish interest; the evolution of aggressive behaviour; kinshiptheory; sex ratio theory; reciprocal altruism; deceit; and the natural selection of sex differences. 'Should be read, can be read by almost anyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.' W.D. Hamilton, Science