Yours In Sisterhood

Author : Amy Erdman Farrell
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807866672

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Yours in Sisterhood by Amy Erdman Farrell Pdf

In the winter of 1972, the first issue of Ms. magazine hit the newsstands. For some activists in the women's movement, the birth of this new publication heralded feminism's coming of age; for others, it signaled the capitulation of the women's movement to crass commercialism. But whatever its critical reception, Ms. quickly gained national success, selling out its first issue in only eight days and becoming a popular icon of the women's movement almost immediately. Amy Erdman Farrell traces the history of Ms. from its pathbreaking origins in 1972 to its final commercial issue in 1989. Drawing on interviews with former editors, archival materials, and the text of Ms. itself, she examines the magazine's efforts to forge an oppositional politics within the context of commercial culture. While its status as a feminist and mass media magazine gave Ms. the power to move in circles unavailable to smaller, more radical feminist periodicals, it also created competing and conflicting pressures, says Farrell. She examines the complicated decisions made by the Ms. staff as they negotiated the multiple--frequently incompatible--demands of advertisers, readers, and the various and changing constituencies of the feminist movement. An engrossing and objective account, Yours in Sisterhood illuminates the significant yet difficult connections between commercial culture and social movements. It reveals a complex, often contradictory magazine that was a major force in the contemporary feminist movement.

Author : Stephanie Gilmore
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Second-wave feminism
ISBN : 9780252075391

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Feminist Coalitions by Stephanie Gilmore Pdf

A fresh new look at the productive partnerships forged among second-wave feminists

Author : Gary David Comstock
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 082641429X

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Unrepentant, Self-Affirming, Practicing by Gary David Comstock Pdf

Praise for Unrepentant ... : "For open-minded religious leaders, there are nuggets of enlightenment in this ecumenical array."--Publishers Weekly "Surprisingly readable as well as informative." - San Francisco Chronicle "A significant body of knowledge." - Theology Today "Publishers' catalogues are full of books on the church's view of homosexuality; Comstock here offers gay views of the church. Given the often hostile environment, he asks why gay people stay in religious institutions. Using social scientific methods, he summarizes thirty-six surveys of gay attitudes toward religious communities, including Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, and Native American traditions. He adds data from his survey of gay people in two mainline Protestant denominations." --Religious Studies Review "Explores how each religions accepts, half-accepts, or rejects gays and lesbians and how they themselves feel about their religion. The book is also filled with personal stories of how spiritual people who discovered they are homosexual came out within their community and their congregation, and how they feel about the central figures and tenets of their belief." --Gatherings "With its succinct, accessible language and rich collection of empirical research findings on lesbigay peoples, Unrepentant, Self-Affirming Practicing, would be an excellent addition to academic libraries and could be appropriately used as well in an undergraduate religion or sociology classroom." --Journal for Scientific Study of Religion>

Author : Christine Lynxwiler
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1597893552

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Promise Me Always by Christine Lynxwiler Pdf

Allie Richards has always dreamed of having her own landscaping business and her Pinky Promise girlfriends convince her to enter Shady Grove's Beautiful Town Landscaping Competition. Daniel Montgomery, the man behind the camera who is filming the competition, is after more than just a story. Will he be satisfied with anything less than Allie's heart?

Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807877999

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Game, Set, Match by Susan Ware Pdf

When Billie Jean King trounced Bobby Riggs in tennis's "Battle of the Sexes" in 1973, she placed sports squarely at the center of a national debate about gender equity. In this winning combination of biography and history, Susan Ware argues that King's challenge to sexism, the supportive climate of second-wave feminism, and the legislative clout of Title IX sparked a women's sports revolution in the 1970s that fundamentally reshaped American society. While King did not single-handedly cause the revolution in women's sports, she quickly became one of its most enduring symbols, as did Title IX, a federal law that was initially passed in 1972 to attack sex discrimination in educational institutions but had its greatest impact by opening opportunities for women in sports. King's place in tennis history is secure, and now, with Game, Set, Match, she can take her rightful place as a key player in the history of feminism as well. By linking the stories of King and Title IX, Ware explains why women's sports took off in the 1970s and demonstrates how giving women a sporting chance has permanently changed American life on and off the playing field.

Author : Jessa Crispin
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781612196022

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Why I Am Not a Feminist by Jessa Crispin Pdf

Outspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism . . . and a bracing manifesto for revolution. Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist . . . or so the feminists keep insisting. But somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left us with a banal, polite, ineffectual pose that barely challenges the status quo. In this bracing, fiercely intelligent manifesto, Jessa Crispin demands more. Why I Am Not A Feminist is a radical, fearless call for revolution. It accuses the feminist movement of obliviousness, irrelevance, and cowardice—and demands nothing less than the total dismantling of a system of oppression. Praise for Jessa Crispin, and The Dead Ladies Project "I'd follow Jessa Crispin to the ends of the earth." --Kathryn Davis, author of Duplex "Read with caution . . . Crispin is funny, sexy, self-lacerating, and politically attuned, with unique slants on literary criticism, travel writing, and female journeys. No one crosses genres, borders, and proprieties with more panache." --Laura Kipnis, author of Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation "Very, very funny. . . . The whole book is packed with delightfully offbeat prose . . . as raw as it is sophisticated, as quirky as it is intense." --The Chicago Tribune

Author : Fern Michaels
Publisher : Zebra
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420150131

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Sisterhood Bundle by Fern Michaels Pdf

The first three novels that launched the #1 New York Times bestselling Sisterhood series! The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and years of adventure. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until every wrong is made right. WEEKEND WARRIORS Life isn’t fair. Most women know it. But when Myra Rutledge loses her daughter in a tragic hit-and-run, she recruits six of her closest friends to right the wrongs they’ve suffered too long. Together, the Sisterhood will learn that when bad things happen, justice is theirs to serve . . . PAYBACK When Julia Webster’s husband, a U.S. Senator, betrays her for his own personal gains, the Sisterhood gather to embark on their second mission. Because the senator crossed the wrong woman . . . and there are six more where she came from . . . VENDETTA It’s been five years since Myra’s pregnant daughter was killed by a hit-and-run driver—the playboy son of an ambassador with diplomatic immunity. But now the time has finally come for the Sisterhood to execute some long-awaited and very sweet revenge . . . “Readers will enjoy seeing what happens when well-funded, very angry women take the law into their own hands.” —Booklist “Michaels manages to surprise and delight fans of all ages with her novel’s unexpected twists and turns.” —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars, on High Stakes Visit us at www.kensingtonbooks.com

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : UVA:X030252501

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In Love and Struggle by Margaretta Jolly Pdf

"Margaretta Jolly provides the first cultural study of these letters, charting the evolution of feminist political consciousness from the height of the women's movement to today's e-mail networks. Jolly uncovers the passionate, contradictory emotions of both politics and letter writing and sets out the theory behind them as a fragile yet persistent ideal of care ethics, women's love, and epistolary art. She follows several compelling feminist relationships sustained through writing and confronts the mixed messages of the "open letter," which complicated political relations between women (such as Audre Lorde's "Open Letter to Mary Daly," which called out white feminists for their implicit racism)."

Author : Pamela Nadeau
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05-24
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1462079806

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Reaching Out by Pamela Nadeau Pdf

We may feel we are spiritual beings living inside physical bodies yet know that life's big challenge is to live a spiritually good life. For, how can we be spiritually good when life can invite us to be unloving, unkind or just plain confused? Is this dilemma different as we enter the 21st Century, with its complex technologies and renewed threats to global survival? Are there simple solutions to staying spiritually good and physically alive, no matter when we live in history? Or, does each generation need to find its own way? The author had no answers to such thoughts - only more questions - until the day an extraordinary entity joined her debate. Hailing from an Egypt of 5000 years past and communicating through channeled material, Princess Hats upset wades deep into the topic with her endearing blend of humor, metaphor and compassion. She wins (and heals) the hearts of those who read her. Are we so different from our forebears? Read about ? and experience - the magical mysteries of an Ancient Sisterhood of Healing Hearts. Will your 21st century heart also be healed?

Author : Fern Michaels
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420118087

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Deadly Deals by Fern Michaels Pdf

An adoption scam brings out the Sisterhood’s righteous fury in this gripping thriller from the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Vanishing Act. After years of trying to become pregnant without success, Rachel Dawson and her husband Thomas felt their dreams had finally come true the day they brought home their newly adopted twin babies. Though the lawyer Baron Bell who arranged for the surrogate mother charged a hefty six-figure fee, one glance into the eyes of their precious children told them it was all worth it. Until the birth mother reappeared, first demanding more money, then the twins themselves. Suddenly Baron Bell was nowhere to be found, and the Dawsons were once again childless, heartbroken and nearly destitute. When the case finds its way to the offices of high-profile attorney Lizzie Fox, she can’t wait to take down the so-called “Mr. Wonderful.” And she knows she’ll have all the help she needs as it’s just the kind of crime that really gets the Sisterhood’s adrenalin flowing. Once they get their hands on the perpetrators there will be hell to pay, and it will cost a lot more than cold, hard cash . . . Series praise “Spunky women who fight for truth, justice, and the American way.”—Fresh Fiction on Final Justice “Readers will enjoy seeing what happens when well-funded, very angry women take the law into their own hands.”—Booklist on Weekend Warriors “Delectable . . . deliver[s] revenge that’s creatively swift and sweet, Michaels-style.”—Publishers Weekly on Hokus Pokus "Revenge is a dish best served with cloth napkins and floral centerpieces. . .fast-paced. . .puts poetic justice first."--Publishers Weekly on Payback “/DIV>

Author : So Mayer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857729941

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Political Animals by So Mayer Pdf

Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines. The last decade has witnessed: the first Best Director Academy Award won by a woman; female filmmakers reviving, or starting, careers via analogue and digital television; women filmmakers emerging from Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Pakistan, South Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Burkina Faso, Kenya and The Cree Nation; a bold emergent trans cinema; feminist porn screened at public festivals; Sweden's A-Markt for films that pass the Bechdel Test; and Pussy Riot's online videos sending shockwaves around the world. A new generation of feminist filmmakers, curators and critics is not only influencing contemporary debates on gender and sexuality, but starting to change cinema itself, calling for a film world that is intersectional, sustainable, family-friendly and far-reaching. Political Animals argues that, forty years since Laura Mulvey's seminal essay 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' identified the urgent need for a feminist counter-cinema, this promise seems to be on the point of fulfilment. Forty years of a transnational, trans-generational cinema has given rise to conversations between the work of now well-established filmmakers such as Abigail Child, Sally Potter and Agnes Varda, twenty-first century auteurs including Kelly Reichardt and Lucretia Martel, and emerging directors such as Sandrine Bonnaire, Shonali Bose, Zeina Daccache, and Hana Makhmalbaf. A new and diverse generation of British independent filmmakers such as Franny Armstrong, Andrea Arnold, Amma Asante, Clio Barnard, Tina Gharavi, Sally El Hoseini, Carol Morley, Samantha Morton, Penny Woolcock, and Campbell X join a worldwide dialogue between filmmakers and viewers hungry for a new and informed point of view. Lovely, vigorous and brave, the new feminist cinema is a political animal that refuses to be domesticated by the persistence of everyday sexism, striking out boldly to claim the public sphere as its own.

Author : Tina Opie,Beth A. Livingston
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781647822842

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Shared Sisterhood by Tina Opie,Beth A. Livingston Pdf

Gender equity can't happen without racial equity. We need Shared Sisterhood. Bias persists in organizations and society. Despite efforts that have been made in the last few decades, gender and racioethnic equity still hasn’t been achieved. What's worse, Black, Indigenous, Asian, and Latina women are being held back more than their White counterparts. We need to change how we strive for equity. We must move beyond individual solutions toward collective action, where people from historically power-dominant and marginalized groups work together, so that all women experience the benefits of professional growth and equity. We need Shared Sisterhood, and anyone, regardless of gender, can join in. Professor Tina Opie first started Shared Sisterhood as a movement to drive gender and racial equity in organizations. Since then, she and professor Beth A. Livingston have worked together to spread the word to leaders across organizations, with thousands of followers joining the cause. In this book, they explain how to use vulnerability, trust, empathy, and risk-taking to build Shared Sisterhood and break down three key parts of the process: Dig into your own assumptions around racioethnicity, gender, and power Bridge the divide between women of all backgrounds through authentic relationships Advance all women across the organization and beyond Balancing a mix of history, research, and real-life examples—including the authors' own experiences—this book encourages everyone to join Shared Sisterhood and advance equity for all.

Author : Kathleen Jones
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312227310

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A Passionate Sisterhood by Kathleen Jones Pdf

In this group biography of the women who featured in the lives of the poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey, Kathleen Jones takes us into the kitchens, sickrooms, and eventually the madwoman's attics of these major Romantic households. The image of the familiar rustic idyll of Romantic poetry depends upon the bracing way these women bore the brunt of domestic realities. Their letters and journals form the basis for an illuminating new account of their interconnected lives--their passionate attachments, jealousies, the deaths of children, the realities of chronic ill health--at the same time contributing to our understanding of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey as all-too-fallible human beings.

Author : Charles Warren Currier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Monasticism and religious orders
ISBN : UCAL:$B377475

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History of Religious Orders by Charles Warren Currier Pdf

Author : Fern Michaels
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420119251

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Game Over by Fern Michaels Pdf

“Political intrigue, high-level high jinks, and characters with charisma to spare . . . a real crowd-pleaser” in the New York Times bestselling series (Booklist, starred review). With yet another successful assignment behind them, the ladies of the Sisterhood have enjoyed a relaxing break together and celebrated the wedding of Myra and Charles on Big Pine Mountain. But as soon as the newlyweds return from their shortened honeymoon, they are hit with some exciting yet unsettling news . . . It seems their dear ally Lizzie Fox, recently ensconced as Chief White House Counsel, is rumored to be near the top of the short list for a soon to be vacated seat on the Supreme Court. While the Sisters are thrilled for Lizzie, they are concerned about her being ripped to shreds in the approval process, partly due to her connections with the Sisterhood. They also fear it will delay or even derail their long-awaited pardon promised to them by President Martine Connor. It will take a masterful plan—and loyal friends aiding them at every turn—for the Sisters to succeed in protecting Lizzie while securing their own freedom at last. Series praise “Spunky women who fight for truth, justice, and the American way.”—Fresh Fiction on Final Justice “Readers will enjoy seeing what happens when well-funded, very angry women take the law into their own hands.”—Booklist on Weekend Warriors “Delectable . . . deliver[s] revenge that’s creatively swift and sweet, Michaels-style.”—Publishers Weekly on Hokus Pokus