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Mary Ellen Pleasant: From Slavery to Fortune–America's First Self-Made Female Multimillionaire by Andy Lammers tells the extraordinary true story of a woman who defied the limitations of her time to become one of the wealthiest and most influential figures in 19th-century America.

Smart, sassy, and unapologetically feminine, In Praise of Difficult Women is an ode to the bold and charismatic women of modern history. Karen Karbo spotlights the spirited rule breakers who charted their way with little regard for expectations: Amelia Earhart, Helen Gurley Brown, Edie Sedgwick, and Shonda Rhimes, among others. Their lives provide inspiration and instruction for the new age of feminism we have entered. Karbo distills these lessons with wit and humor, examining the universal themes that connect us to each of these mesmerizing personalities today.

في إطار من المصالحة مع المرأة، يعرض الكاتب لمجموعة من الكتابات والأقوال التي جعلت من المرأة موضوعًا رئيسيًّا سواء منها ما مر عبر التراث أو من أقوال المحدثين، مسقطًا من خلال نماذج متنوعة للمرأة على الأوضاع الاجتماعية والاقتصادية والسياسية في بعض الأحيان.

En todo el mundo se han fundado movimientos de ideología antigénero dedicados a hacer circular la fantasía de que el género es una amenaza peligrosa para las familias, las culturas locales, la civilización, e incluso para el propio «hombre». Inflamados por la retórica de figuras públicas y operando en tándem con los engañosos relatos de la teoría crítica de la raza y el pánico xenófobo a la migración, estos movimientos han intentado derogar la justicia reproductiva, socavar las protecciones contra la violencia y despojar de sus derechos a las personas trans y queer demonizando las luchas por la igualdad.

يتأمل العقاد برؤيته الفلسفية العملية دور المرأة بوصفها "الإنسان الثاني" الذي يكمل الرجل، في علاقة أزلية تمزج بين العقل والعاطفة. ويناقش طبيعة المرأة وجوهرها، متناولًا أدوارها الاجتماعية والنفسية، وعلاقتها بالرجل عبر التاريخ والفكر.

Els casos de maltractament no acostumen a començar amb una bufetada o una empenta; abans d'arribar a aquest extrem es va teixint una xarxa d'accions petites que d'entrada poden semblar poc violentes però que poden anar pujant d'intensitat fins a convertir-se en un veritable infern. De vegades tenim la sensació que aquest tipus de coses no ens poden passar a nosaltres, però la violència de gènere és transversal i afecta tothom. Red flags és un llibre imprescindible que ajuda a detectar els senyals d'una relació abusiva i a agafar la força necessària per sortir-ne al més aviat possible.

After a love affair with a man 3,000 miles away, whom she met online, Suzanne Portnoy, mother of two and a top executive in the entertainment industry, begins her sexual reawakening. Insatiable, she dives into the swinging scene and works her way through an entire spectrum of sexual experience, including exhibitionism, group sex, and fetish clubs. The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker is a story that is shocking and heart-warming in equal measure.

On the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote, Helen Pankhurst - great-granddaughter of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst and a leading women's rights campaigner - charts how women's lives have changed over the last century, and offers a powerful and positive argument for a new way...

“A foundational text for anyone hoping to understand transgender politics and culture in the U.S. today.” —NPR Named as one of 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time by Ms. Magazine Julia Serano shares her experiences and insights—both pre- and post-transition—to reveal the ways in...

Revised and updated to include current studies, politics, and discussions, The Macho Paradox is the first book to show how violence against women is a male issue as well as a female one - and how we can come together to stop it. Written by pioneering anti-violence educator Jackson Katz, The Macho Paradox incorporates the voices and experiences of women and men who have confronted the problem from all angles, the discussions surrounding currents events in politics and pop culture, and where the violence is ignored or encouraged in our upbringing.

معظمُكُم قد سمعَ عن أخبار الهاربات من ذويهم، ولكنّكم لم تقرؤوا عن كواليسهم التي مرُّوا بها !مِنَ السهل أن ترفضَ فكرةَ هروبِهم.. وهذا طبيعي .. ولكن من الجُنونِ أن تعيشَ هذه الفكرةَ أو تُقدِمَ عليها!في هذه الرواية .. أحداثٌ وقعَت فيها الفتاة السعودية سارة .. التي قرّرت أن تهربَ من واقع أُسرَتِها السيِّئ جدّاً .. فوجَدَت نفسَها قد هَرَبَت باتّجاه الهَاوية !استمع لها قَبل أن تَحكُمَ على فَعلتِها الجريئة .. فللحقيقةِ في هذا الزمنِ ..وجهانِ .. وجهٌ يبثُّه الإعلامُ .. ووجهٌ آخرُ يقبعُ من ورائه الكواليسُ المرعبة

Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation (2003) brings two Americans together in Tokyo, each experiencing a personal crisis. Both are distant — emotionally and spatially — from their spouses. They are lost until they develop an intimate connection. In the film’s poignant, famously ambiguous closing scene, they find each other, only to separate. In this close look at the multi-award-winning film, Suzanne Ferriss mirrors Lost in Translation’s structuring device of travel: her analysis takes the form of a trip, from planning to departure...

“A self-help guide that blends neuroscience, mysticism, and psychology to argue that sleeping alone is the key to well-being for women.”—Kirkus Reviews Explains the energetic, emotional, and physical power of having your own sacred space to sleep Offers 64 step-by-step rituals for...

From a member of the Pussy Riot collective: An urgent, intimate, firsthand account of grassroots dissent, bravery, art, and spectacle in Putin's Russia Picking up where Riot Days left off, Maria (Masha) Alyokhina takes us through her activist experiences between 2014 to 2022. In vivid...

‘Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most importantly, buy it for your children’ Sunday Express Essential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy on Gender Equality. Not a single country anywhere in the world has...

La cancelación surgió originalmente como una herramienta de los grupos oprimidos para enfrentar las injusticias. En este libro, adrienne maree brown replantea desde los cuidados comunitarios y la justicia transformativa una discusión cooptada por sectores conservadores. La autora, con una experiencia de décadas en la mediación comunitaria, toma una perspectiva antirracista, queer y feminista para responder a preguntas urgentes: ¿podemos enfrentar el daño más allá del castigo? ¿Cómo rendir cuentas de nuestros propios actos y exigir a los demás responsabilidad y justicia?

To be a woman is to be half the world’s population but, in many countries, unfortunately still now and for most of history, women were decidedly second class, normally no more than chattels and the bearers and nurturers of children. As society involved into a complex and overlapping system where education and equality begin to seek space things began to change. In this volume our authors describe and reveal how life actually felt for almost all women before the recent past.

Full of effective, efficient, brain-science-based ways to make positive changes to your voice, in your head and coming out of your mouth, I’m Speaking also teaches the listener how to fearlessly use that voice, personally and professionally: ask for what you want and get what you need, speak up against toxicity, communicate everything better, have the difficult conversations, and cultivate resilience.

Celebrating a decade of Columbia Global Reports, the Forerunners series revives groundbreaking works of investigative journalism and incisive analysis published a century before CGR’s founding. These texts, once forgotten or underexplored, reflect CGR’s core mission: fearless reporting...

When eight-year-old Amy Erdman Farrell moved with her family to Akron, Ohio, in 1972, she found herself adrift in a sea of taunting boys and mean girls. Shy by nature, she dreaded her long, unhappy days at school. But a few years later, Farrell found an escape from bullying, the promise of sisterhood, a rising sense of confidence, adventure, and—best of all—lifelong friendship when she joined a Girl Scout troop.