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Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In Chingona, Mexican American activist Alma Zaragoza-Petty helps us claim our inner chingona, a Spanish term for ""badass woman."" Badassery can be an asset, especially when we face personal and collective trauma. Unleashing our inner chingona will help us imagine a just and healed world from the inside out.
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The book collects dozens of Hurley's essays on feminism, geek culture, and her experiences and insights as a genre writer, including "We Have Always Fought," which won the 2013 Hugo for Best Related Work. The Geek Feminist Revolution will also feature several entirely new essays written specifically for this volume.
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
xii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this valuable and revealing anthology, cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are “routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked, shamed, gaslit, insulted, bullied” for speaking out. Contributions...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this "vulnerable yet powerful and provocative collection of essays, Savala offers ... reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces: between black and white, between rich and poor, between thin and fat--as a woman"--
Author
Publisher
H. Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of our country's premier cultural and social critics, Bell Hooks has always maintained that eradicating racism and eradicating sexism must go hand in hand. But whereas many women have been recognized for their writing on gender politics, the female voice has been all but locked out of the public discourse on race. Killing Rage speaks to this imbalance. These twenty-three essays are written from a black and feminist perspective, and they tackle...
Publisher
Grijalbo Mondadori
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"El estado machista y sus decisiones, el covid-19, la crisis económica subsecuente y la violencia brutal se han ensañado con las mexicanas. Ante esto, la palabra y la sororidad, los datos irrefutables, la explicación, la inteligencia y el diálogo son sus armas. En esta obra, seis periodistas de primer nivel --coordinadas por Nayeli Roldán, ganadora del premio Ortega y Gasset y del Premio Nacional de Periodismo 2018-- ofrecen reportajes que retratan,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A history of American white male identity by the author of "So You Want to Talk About Race" imagines a merit-based, non-discriminating model while exposing the actual costs of successes defined by racial and sexual dominance.
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? Oluo shows how, throughout the last 150 years of American history, white male supremacy has wrought devastating consequences...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords results in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. But what happened on Earth that this new world order came to pass in the first place? Return to the grim corridors of Auxiliary Compliance Outpost #2, to uncover the first clues to the history of the world as we know it -- and meet President Bitch.
71) Barbie
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.
Author
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
441 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? [The author and editor] finds the answer in something she calls 'pleasure activism,' a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, she challenges us...
73) Las modernas
Author
Publisher
Plaza Janés
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Una evocadora novela sobre los retos que tuvieron que afrontar las primeras universitarias españolas.
1928. Catalina viaja a Madrid contra la voluntad de su madre para estudiar Farmacia y se instala en la Residencia de Señoritas. Su ilusión, su pasión y sus ganas de aprender pronto la llevarán a hacer nuevas amigas, a verse envuelta en los conflictos políticos de la época y a entrar en contacto con iconos feministas como Elena Fortún y María...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 284 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"They didn't ask to be remembered," historian Ulrich wrote in 1976 about the pious women of colonial New England. And then she added a phrase that has since gained widespread currency: "Well-behaved women seldom make history." Today those words appear on T-shirts, bumper stickers, and more--but what do they really mean? Here, Ulrich ranges over centuries and cultures, from the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan, who imagined a world in which...
75) Snakeskin
Author
Physical Desc
280 pages
Language
English
Description
Snakeskin is an anthology born out of sandstone and heart hurt and healing. It's a love letter to the Colorado Plateau and a eulogy to erosion. Break open. Become anew. Women have always been dragons.
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