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Book SynopsisThe perfect gift for the Spice Girls fan in your life!‘Lauren Bravo is one of my very favourite writers.’ Dolly Alderton'A joyous and energetic celebration of girlhood, friendship and pop culture. If you have ever sung into the lid of a can of Impulse body spray, you need to read this.' Daisy BuchananThe words 'girl power' conjure vivid memories of short skirts and platform boots. But it wasn't just about the look, it was about feminism. The Spice Girls gave a generation their first glimpse of the power of friendship, of staying true to yourself, of sheer bloody-mindedness. And the girl power generation went on to kick-start a new conversation around gender equality.We may have grown up asking What Would the Spice Girls Do?, but their particular brand of feminism is as relevant today as it was twenty years ago – we still need that fun and fearlessness, we still need accessible and all-embracing equality… we still need a zig-a-zig-ah.‘The Spice Girls’ arrival on the pop scene marked the gateway to a modern form of feminism, all dressed up as a riotously good time.’ StylistAs featured in Elle magazine's Best Feminist Gift BooksTrade ReviewLauren Bravo is one of my very favourite writers. -- Dolly AldertonBravo’s tender, funny, kind book is a joyous and energetic celebration of girlhood, friendship and pop culture. If you have ever sung into the lid of a can of Impulse body spray, you need to read this. -- Daisy Buchanan

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Book Synopsis**The People’s Book Prize 2022/23 Shortlisted Title**There’s one group consistently ignored in most companies’ diversity strategies, but which could be your business’s secret weapon.Professional women over 50 are faced with a triple-whammy of discrimination: they are not male, young, or linear in their career paths. As a result, they are leaving corporate life and taking their career into their own hands. And with it, they take their abundant wisdom, energy and ambition.Drawing on new research by Dr Lucy Ryan that fills a longstanding data gap, this book shows that assumptions about declining midlife motivation and energy just aren’t true for women and reveals how you can retain and develop this invaluable talent pool with a better understanding of their challenges and a few simple changes.Professional women have transformed our world. And women over 50 are deserving of your attention and ready to step up in your business.Dr Lucy Ryan is a leadership coach, consultant, author and passionate advocate for women’s professional development. Her doctoral research project explored the phenomenon of midlife for professional women, a long-standing data gap, and she works with companies internationally to unlock the potential of this key talent pool.Trade ReviewThis book is based on research in the UK but has application for the United States too. The author talked in depth to women executives to blow up the false narratives on why women leave organizations at the top of their game. Often the mythology is that women want freedom to strike out on their own or are in the "sandwich" generation and need to take care of children and aging parents. What organizations don't look at typically are the systemic challenges in organizations that keep women from achieving their potential...There is a section on Menopause which is critically important and only recently has been getting focus in the news and among legislators. I encourage leaders and HR professionals to read this book to start examining the systemic barriers for women in organizations - GoodReadsIt’s hard to disagree with anything in this book. It’s clear. It’s pithy. It’s enraging. - Christina Patterson, The Sunday Times'...what an absolute triumph of a book...Seriously good, seriously thought provoking and seriously worth a read if you are a midlife women or are in an organisation wondering how you can support them, get the best out of them, retain them for longer.'- LinkedInI recommend the book particularly for anyone in DEI, HR, Recruitment, but to be honest, I think everyone else should read it too! Isn't it such a brilliant name for a book on this topic? I just love that headline - revolting women! - LinkedInAt times, the sheer volume of evidence illustrating the challenges midlife women face in business was a lot - but then it is in real life too. The inspiring stories and the invitation to create a positive agenda for change were uplifting. The perfect combination. - AmazonAt last someone is articulating my own experience in the workplace and giving it a compassionate and powerful formulation and suggestions for change- really helpful. ...Thank you Lucy Ryan for putting together this impressive piece of work. - AmazonTable of ContentsPreface:Jane’s Story: Collision and coincidence.IntroductionEmbarking on this journeyPart 1 – What’s the problem?Chapter 1Midlife: the forgotten age Crisis, what crisis? The diversity conundrum Lies, damn lies and statistics Where have all the (older) women gone? Diane’s Story: The creative collaboratorChapter 2Midlife Myths in a man-made world #1 It’s all old news (and solved) #2They don't want it #3 We’ve got one, thanks #4 It’s all downhill from here #5 They’re mad, bad and sadSarah’s Story: Going to the festivalChapter 3Looking back to look forwards A brief history of female anatomy and ‘inferiority’ Proving the gender difference Medicalising the older woman Female stereotyping and leadership Niamh’s story: Stepping up or outPart II – Ageing in the workplaceChapter 4Strangers within Feeding the food chain The power of language Acting young Silver fox meets silver vixen Joelle’s story: the 50-minute make-up workout Chapter 5Critical collisions The midlife ‘smash-up’ Losing control and running on empty Who Cares? Empty nesting and other syndromes Nicki’s story: To stop, to pause, to changeChapter 6Menopause matters Facts and frictions Symptoms and the lived experience HRT and other solutions Jo’s story: Dressing for the BoardChapter 7The Ticking Clock Facing loss and finding purpose Avoiding the ‘nasties’ Existential angst and the big M Frankie’s story: What is it worth?Chapter 8Motivation and Midlife The Motivation Myth The imprint of old science Raring and ready to… retire? Claire’s story: Stepping out to step upPart III – Rewriting the rules: alternative perspectivesChapter 9Mirror, mirror: on the other hand Energy ambition and ageCyn’s story: Bucking the trend Resilient midlife womenBrenda’s story: Braver, stronger, fitter Post-menopausal zest!Lori’s story: Feeding all parts of my life Chapter 10Reconfiguring success: the organisation’s perspective Tackling assumptionSimon’s story The flexible midlife workplaceSteph’s story Creative collaboration across the generationsGeraint’s story Chapter 11A positive agenda for change For policy makers For employers For women For men For you Additional Reading and resourcesReferencesAcknowledgementsIndex.

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Book Synopsis"A beautifully written and argued book." - Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyThere is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one frighteningly basic question seems never to be answered: why does it happen? If men are not inherently evil and trans women do not intrinsically invite reprisal-which would make violence unstoppable-then the psychology of that violence had to arise at a certain place and time. The trans panic had to be invented.Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson takes us from the bustling port cities of New York and New Orleans to the streets of London and Paris in search of the emergence of modern trans misogyny. She connects the colonial and military districts of the British Raj, the Philippines, and Hawai'i to the lively travesti communities of Latin America, where state violence has stamped a trans label on vastly different ways of life. Weaving together the stories of historical figures in a richly detailed narrative, the book shows how trans femininity emerged under colonial governments, the sex work industry, the policing of urban public spaces, and the area between the formal and informal economy.A Short History of Trans Misogyny is the first book to explain why trans women are burdened by such a weight of injustice and hatred.Trade ReviewJules Gill-Peterson is one of the most original thinkers on gender of the past decade; now in this beautifully written and argued book, she makes her compelling vision accessible to everyone. -- Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyThis is a sharply argued work by a brilliant thinker. By placing current the familiar and current political attack on trans femininity in Europe and North America within a much broader global and historical context, this text provides us with a rigorous and scholarly understanding of the origins and rationale of such violence. It educated and challenged me and it will become a vital contribution to political thought and organising around gender. -- Shon Faye, author of The Transgender IssueIn Jules Gill-Peterson's provocative and generative framing, trans misogyny is not a minoritizing term for describing the disparagement of femininity in trans women; it is a ubiquitous, infrastructural pressure that effects everyone to some degree, informing the hierarchy of lives deemed worth living. Details inside. -- Susan Stryker, Transgender History: The Roots of Today's RevolutionA Short History of Trans Misogyny is a nuanced, wide-ranging, and instantly canonical account from one of our foremost historians. Rich and eloquent with archival detail, this is a trans history that honors the complexity the subject deserves, that exposes the violence of colonial and neocolonial forms of sexualization, and that describes spaces of refusal to this brutality, both within the past and as threads of resistance in our present political landscape. An urgent, propulsive, and profound book." -- Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the FoxTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Femmes against Trans1. The Global Trans Panic2. Sex and the Antebellum City3. Queens of the Gay WorldConclusion: Mujerísima and Scarcity FeminismAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing on years of research with activists around the world, sociologist Naomi Braine describes the strategies, politics, and tactics of direct action feminists bringing abortion pills, information, and support to people seeking to end unwanted pregnancies. From combatting the legal strictures of Bolsonaro's Brazil, to navigating the NGO-dominated landscape of Kenya and Nigeria, feminist activists are making safe, accessible abortion care available against the odds.Even more important, these women are building a robust transnational feminist network. Tactics developed in the Global South - hotlines, practices of accompaniment and peer-to-peer care, and scientific information - are now being shared with activists in Europe and North America, building a new model for international feminist solidarity.Trade ReviewThis book is a must-read for anyone who wants to know how the global feminist movement for self-managed abortion has been providing access to safe and quality pregnancy termination-beyond legal and medical authority. -- Nayla Luz Vacarezza, National Council for Scientific and Technical Research, ArgentinaRead this book and learn all about the creative strategies and intrepid people making a real difference in the lives of millions. -- Francine Coeytaux and Elisa Wells, Cofounders, Plan CTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Abortion Is Unstoppable: The Emergence of a Transnational Movement2. We Are Everywhere: The Shape of the Global Movement for SMA3. An Act of Solidarity between Women: Strategies to Share Information and Enable Safe Abortions4. Being an Activist Is Not Easy: Managing Security and Sharing the Risks5. We Have Become the Experts: Scientific Research, Medical Protocols, and Movement Knowledge6. We All Work Together: Building Activist Networks from the Local to the Global7. In It for the Long Term: The Lives of Committed ActivistsConclusion: Moving ForwardAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisRegan Penaluna is a senior editor at Guernica Magazine, a global magazine of art and politics. Previously she was an editor at Nautilus magazine. She has also written for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Philosophy Now and The Philosophers' Magazine. Penaluna has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a PhD in philosophy from Boston University. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Book Synopsis'Utterly magnificent . . . gripping, accomplished and dark' Marian KeyesWINNER: Newcomer of the Year at the IBAs WINNER: Bookseller YA Prize WINNER: CBI Eilis Dillon Award Buzzfeed's Best Books Written by Women in 2014The bestselling novel about beauty, body image and betrayaleves are designed, not made. The School trains them to be prettyThe School trains them to be good.The School trains them to Always be Willing.All their lives, the eves have been waiting. Now, they are ready for the outside world.companion . . . concubine . . . or chastityOnly the best will be chosen.And only the Men decide.Trade ReviewGripping ... like all the best dystopias, Only Ever Yours is about the world we live in now * Irish Times *The Handmaid's Tale meets Mean Girls' * The Vagenda *Utterly magnificent ... gripping, accomplished and dark * Marian Keyes *Deserves to be read by young and old, male and female, the world over in the same way Harry Potter and The Hunger Games were * Sunday Independent *A dark dream. A vivid nightmare. The world O'Neill imagines is frightening because it could come true. She writes with a scalpel * Jeanette Winterson *Deep, dark and frighteningly believable, this book will stay with you for a long time * Marie Claire *Compelling writing ... this only-too-real dystopia grips from beginning to end * SFX *Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale with a post-millennial twist * The Journal.ie *The bleakness of The Catcher in the Rye, the satire of The Stepford Wives and it made me recall Nineteen Eighty-Four ... a fresh and original talent * Irish Independent *Terrifying but captivating * Company *A sparkling debut that will really make you think * Heat *'Compelling and frightening' * Irish Examiner *An ingenious exploration of gender roles, female identity and female competition * Buzzfeed *'Terrifying and heartbreaking, O'Neill's story reads like an heir to Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and MT Anderson's Feed, and, like those two books, it's sure to be discussed for years to come' * Publisher's Weekly *'A stunning debut set in a dystopian future that has everyone talking . . . once read, will never be forgotten' * Irish Independent *Dark, gripping . . . should be mandatory reading everywhere * The F Word *

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Book Synopsis"Girls are powerful": the ?70s feminist posters of See Red Women?s WorkshopA feminist silkscreen poster collective founded in London in 1974 by three former art students, the See Red Women?s Workshop grew out of a shared desire to combat sexist images of women and to create positive and challenging alternatives. Women from different backgrounds came together to make posters and calendars that tackled issues of sexuality, identity and oppression. With humor and bold, colorful graphics, See Red expressed the personal experiences of women as well as their role in wider struggles for change.Written by See Red members, detailing the group?s history up until the closure of the workshop in 1990, and with a foreword by celebrated feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham, See Red Women?s Workshop features all of the collective?s original screenprints and posters. Confronting negative stereotypes, questioning the role of women in society, and promoting women?s self-determination, the power and energy of these images reflect an important and dynamic era of women?s liberation?with continued relevance for today.

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Book SynopsisEdited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on.Vogue, 10 of the Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2018 Harper's Bazaar, 10 New Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2018Elle, 21 Books We're Most Excited to Read in 2018Boston Globe, 25 books we can't wait to read in 2018Huffington Post, 60 Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2018Buzzfeed, 33 Most Exciting New Books of 2018In this valuable and timely 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 sexual-abuse survivors are 'routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked, shamed, gaslit, insulted, bullied' for speaking out. Highlighting the stories of well-known actors, writers and experts, as well as new voices being published for the first time, Not That Bad covers a wide range of topics and experiences, from an exploration of the rape epidemic embedded in the refugee crisis to first-person accounts of child molestation and street harrassment.Often deeply personal and always unflinchingly honest, this provocative collection both reflects the world we live in and offers a call to arms insisting that 'not that bad' must no longer be good enough.Trade Reviewan important book...observationally sharp, the writing often as vivid as bruises...the voices here are clear and compelling and crushing. * Observer *The diversity is striking - not only of perspectives, but approach, too. This is a book of testimonies, indignations, reproaches, meditations, written with poignancy and skill. * TLS *Gay's introduction moved me to tears, as did many of the pieces contributed by household names-Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy-but accounts from "regular" women moved me even more. Perhaps that's the lesson we're meant to take away from Not that Bad: we're all "regular." Shocking as they are, many of these stories will be familiar to us all-and we all deserve better * Glamour *The lauded social critic and provocateur curates a diverse and unvarnished collection of personal essays reckoning with the experiences and systemic dysfunction that produced #MeToo. * O: The Oprah Magazine *an unflinching look at the world and the way in which women are treated...In this potent book, these are the stories that need to be heard; these are the stories that will make change happen. * Emerald Street *Full of spectacular writing from both established and emerging voices. * Elle *Perhaps unsurprisingly, Not That Bad is not an easy read: it is emotional, it is troubling, but it is also absolutely essential. * The F Word *Table of Contents0: Introduction - Roxane Gay 1: Fragments - Aubrey Hirsch 2: Slaughterhouse Island - Jill Christman 3: & the Truth Is, I Have No Story - Claire Schwartz 4: The Luckiest MILF in Brooklyn - Lynn Melnick 5: Spectator: My Family, My Rapist, and Mourning Online - Brandon Taylor 6: The Sun - Emma Smith-Stevens 7: Sixty-Three Days - AJ McKenna 8: Only the Lonely - Lisa Mecham 9: What I Told Myself - Vanessa Mártir 10: Stasis - Ally Sheedy 11: The Ways We Are Taught to Be a Girl - xTx 12: Floccinaucinihilipilification - So Mayer 13: The Life Ruiner - Nora Salem 14: All the Angry Women - Lyz Lenz 15: Good Girls - Amy Jo Burns 16: Utmost Resistance: Law and the Queer Woman or How I Sat in a Classroom and Listened to My Male 16 (cont.): Classmates Debate How to Define Force and Consent - V. L. Seek 17: Bodies Against Borders - Michelle Chen 18: Wiping the Stain Clean - Gabrielle Union 19: What We Didn't Say - Liz Rosema 20: I Said Yes - Anthony Frame 21: Knowing Better - Samhita Mukhopadhyay 22: Not That Loud: Quiet Encounters with Rape Culture Miriam - Zoila Pérez 23: Why I Stopped - Zoë Medeiros 24: Picture Perfect - Sharisse Tracey 25: To Get Out from Under It - Stacey May Fowles 26: Reaping What Rape Culture Sows: Live from the Killing Fields of Growing Up Female in America - 26 (cont.): Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes 27: Invisible Light Waves - Meredith Talusan 28: Getting Home - Nicole Boyce 29: Why I Didn't Say No - Elissa Bassist I: Contributors II: Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisA literary, thoughtful, provocative and intelligent look at sexual assault and the global discourse on rape from the viewpoint of a survivor, writer, counsellor and activist.

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Book SynopsisOne summer, Alice Maddicott was adopted by a beautiful tabby called Dylan, and together they shared six years of loving friendship. Alice collected second-hand photos - orphan images - and in her sadness after Dylan's death, she pored over the old photographs of women and their cats. Cats in gardens, cats on laps, cats in alleys and on steps, accompanied by women who were diffident and affectionate, fierce and whimsical, young and old. What did these cats mean to the women who cared for them? Why have cat-owning women always been viewed with suspicion? And where did the Crazy Cat Lady stereotype emerge from, when other cultures revere rather than fear this relationship? Examining these questions and many more, Cat Women is a moving exploration of wild natures and domestic affections.

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Book Synopsis'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, uncles and nephews, too.' - indy100'Here's to no more forgotten women.' - Evening StandardForgotten Women reaches around the world and its history to rediscover, retell and reinstate the lives of over 190 important and significant women. From Neolithic times to modernity, Zing Tsjeng has traced the women who have shaped their age and revolutionised society. In this book lies the strength, lives and sacrifices of women who have refused to accept the hand they've been dealt and have changed the course of our futures accordingly.

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Book SynopsisThe political response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the pressures on the global capitalist economies has, once again, imposed the priority of markets over life. Add to this the climate crisis and, undoubtedly, the task of sustaining life continues to be privatized, made invisible, and feminized. We must ask: what does a dignified life look like, especially one that transforms the gendered labor divisions and a racialized, exploitative feminized care economy that falls mainly on the shoulders of women—from the household to the wider effects of the capitalist economy on social reproduction. At the same time, these questions are intimately connected with considerations of our environment. The Feminist Subversion of the Economy makes the conection between patriarchy, capitalism, and ecological crisis—and rallies women, the LGBTQ+ community, and movements worldwide to center gender and social reproduction in a vision for a just ecology and economy. Public intellectual, academic, and activist Amaia Pérez Orozco offers a vision beyond the myths of development (unlimited growth), wealth (accumulation of capital), and work (limited to waged labor) and, at the same time, accounts for the tasks, networks, and economic subjects that, materially and daily, guarantee that life keeps going. Newly translated and updated in collaboration with Liz Mason-Desse, who has won a PEN translation award for her work on feminist economics, The Feminist Subversion of the Economy shows the urgent need to radically and democratically discuss what we mean by a dignified life and how we can organize to sustain life collectively.Trade Review“Through a rigorous, relentless exposure of the destructive logic governing capitalist development, Orozco sets the foundations for a feminist politics capable of subverting the myths propagated by capitalist economy and radically transforming the conditions and ends of our social reproduction. A must not only for feminists movements but for all engaged in the struggle to create a more just society.”—Silvia Federici, author of Revolution at Point Zero and Caliban and the Witch“Amaia Pérez Orozco skillfully recenters the feminist critique of contemporary capitalist economics on the practices of sustaining life. The result is analytically rich and politically provocative.”—Kathi Weeks,Feminist Subversion of the Economy well articulates the road to creating a clear commitment to achieve the interconnections and solidarity that will create and sustain a better world. Amaia Perez Orozco’s contributions for life against capital remind us of our humanness, and the contributions of ecofeminism to dismantling hierarchies, exploitation, and invisibleness, in order to fulfill our collective responsibilities to establish a good life for all.—Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Professor of Community Justice and Social Economic Development, Department of Africana Studies, John Jay College, City University of New York; and author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice. author of The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries“In the last decade, feminist political economy has experienced an efflorescence, as a generation of new thinkers has critically revised the practice of reading the interconnected spheres of misery produced by capitalism, in all its debilitating forms. Why? Because such heterodox, ruptural feminisms offer the most robust theorization of the multidimensional confluence of ecological devastation, state-sanctioned racism, deteriorating mental and physical wellbeing, colonial exploitation, reliance on unpaid work (including care), heteropatriarchal division and social murder. These crises are synthetically and historically produced in and through capitalism, a global totality and the epicenter of these problems. Amaia Pérez Orozco’s The Feminist Subversion of the Economy is not just the exemplar of this critical-analytic tradition; this book is a further contribution towards the construction of “a solid base from which to fight”; a “utopian horizon”; a life-sustaining collectively-pedagogical project of “buen convivir”; and a feminist degrowth transition. This book will compel you think differently--and even better, with others!--as to how we can create a life-sustaining economy.”—Kai Bosworth, author of Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the 21st Century

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Book SynopsisThe secret hurts her image of an âœideal wifeâ much to her husbandâs chagrin. Will Neetu realise her true potential and achieve her dream?

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Book SynopsisA vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolitionAbolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, What if abolition is something that grows? As we struggle to build a liberatory, caring, loving, abundant future, we have much to learn from the work of birthing, raising, caring for, and loving future generations.In We Grow the World Together, abolitionists and organizers Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson bring together a remarkable collection of voices revealing the complex tapestry of ways people are living abolition in their daily lives through parenting and caregiving. Ranging from personal narratives to policy-focused analysis to activist chronicles, these writers highlight how abolition is essential to any kind of parenting justice.Contributors include:Beth RichieHarsha WaliaEJ, 6 years oldDorothy RobertsRuth Wilson GilmoreDylan RodríguezBill Ayers and Bernardine DohrnShira HassanVictoria LawMariame KabaThe PDX Childcare Collectiveadrienne maree brown and Autumn Brownand more

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Book SynopsisOn May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that had claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infiltrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction on flimsy evidence in 1977 as an accomplice to murder. This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard long projected by the media and the state. With wit and candor, Assata Shakur recounts the experiences that led her to a life of activism and portrays the strengths, weaknesses, and eventual demise of Black and White revolutionary groups at the hand of government officials. The result is a signal contribution to the literature about growing up Black in America that has already taken its place alongside The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the works of Maya Angelou. Two years after her conviction, Assata Shakur escaped from prison. She was given political asylum by Cuba, where she now resides. Trade Review"A deftly written book . . . A spellbinding tale." -- The New York Times Book Review"A sober, restrained, but forceful recollection. . . . A must book for those interested in the 'revolutionaries' of the 1960s" -- Chioce"A compelling tale of the impact of white racism on a sensitive and powerful young black woman." -- Library Journal

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Book Synopsis''Destined to become a new classic'' Chris KrausA dazzlingly original reassessment of women''s stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.For decades, feminist artists have confronted the problem of how to tell the truth about their experiences as bodies. Queer bodies, sick bodies, racialised bodies, female bodies, what is their language, what are the materials we need to transcribe it?Exploring the ways in which feminist artists have taken up this challenge, Art Monsters is a landmark intervention in how we think about art and the body. Weaving daring links between disparate artists and writers from Julia Margaret Cameron's photography to Kara Walker's silhouettes, Vanessa Bell's portraits to Eva Hesse's rope sculptures Lauren Elkin shows that their work offers a potent celebration of beauty and excess, sentiment and touch, the personal and the political.The Susan Sontag of her generation' Deborah Levy

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Book SynopsisA provocative and inspiring book on the culture and politics of black women's rightsTrade Review'A fiery piece of polemic filled with merciless criticism of feminism and black activism alike for their neglect of black women's rights ... provocative and inspiring ... visionary' -- New Statesman'One of the twenty most influential women's books of the last twenty years' -- Publishers Weekly'Her commentary about the impact of racism and sexism on black women is still relevant today. The book reminds me that in order to fight for true equality for all women, we must take into account the movement's past injustices' -- Emma Watson

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Book SynopsisFrom the Author of WOMEN, RACE AND CLASS, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflictsIn these newly collected essays, interviews and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world.Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality and prison abolitionism for today''s struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles, from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African anti-Apartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyses today''s struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine.Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that ''Freedom is a constant struggle.''Trade ReviewAngela Davis new book made me think of what Dear Nelson Mandela kept reminding us, that we must be willing to embrace that long walk to freedom. Understanding what it takes to really be free, to have no fear, is the first and most important step one has to make before undertaking this journey. Angela is the living proof that this arduous challenge can also be an exhilarating and beautiful one -- Archbishop Desmond TutuIncisive, urgent, and comprehensive . . . These essays take us back in history to the founders of revolutionary and anti-racist struggle, but they also take us toward the possibility of ongoing intersectional solidarity and struggle. Angela Davis gathers in her lucid words our luminous history and the most promising future of freedom -- Judith ButlerWhether you've grown up with the courage and conscience of Angela Davis, or are discovering her for the first time, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle is a small book that will be a huge help in daily life and action . . . [Davis] exposes facts and makes connections, but also leads in the most important way by example -- Gloria Steinem

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Book SynopsisThe 50th Anniversary edition of the ground-breaking, worldwide bestselling feminist tract.The Female Eunuch retains that power of transformation; it asserts the possibility of creativity within female experience' GuardianA worldwide bestseller, translated into over twelve languages, The Female Eunuch is a landmark in the history of the women's movement.Drawing liberally from history, literature and popular culture, past and present, Germaine Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is at once an important social commentary and a passionately argued masterpiece of polemic.Probably the most famous, most widely read book on feminism ever.Trade Review‘A dazzling tract, erudite, outrageous, funny.’Cosmopolitan ‘Brilliantly written, quirky and sensible, full of bile and insight…The best feminist book so far’New York Times ‘A dazzling combination of erudition, eccentricity and eroticism.’Newsweek ‘Intelligent, funny and beautifully written’Vogue ‘Germaine Greer in THE FEMALE EUNUCH converted me to Women’s Lib, as much by her bawdy sense of humour as by the bite of her polemic’ Kenneth Tynan, Observer ‘A fine, continuous flow of angry power…terrific polemical force’ Listener

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Book SynopsisA Room of One''s Own is Virginia Woolf''s most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Carlotte Brontë to the silent fate of Shakespeare''s gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity.Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major twentieth-century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of ''The Bloomsbury Group''. Between 1925 and 1931 Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One''s Own (1929).If you enjoyed A Room of One''s Own, you might like Woolf''s Orlando, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.''Probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in this century''Hermione Lee, Financial Times

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Book Synopsis 'Funny, angry, urgent. Ghodsee is going to start a revolution' Daisy Buchanan, author of The Sisterhood A witty, fiercely intelligent exploration of why capitalism is rigged against women and what we can do about it.Unregulated capitalism is bad for women. Socialism, if done properly, leads to economic independence, better labour conditions, better work/family balance and, yes, even better sex. If you like the idea of such outcomes, then come along for an exploration of how we can change women’s lives for the better.Trade ReviewWonderful … Kristen Ghodsee doesn’t wear rose-tinted spectacles … but she seeks with great brio and nuance to lay out what some socialist states achieved for women … That Ghodsee also makes this a joyous read is the cherry on the cake -- Suzanne Moore * Observer *Ghodsee’s book could not have been published at a better moment ... There are many reasons to revisit socialist policies in a time of widening inequality, but a feminist perspective offers some of the most powerful incentives -- Emily Witt * Guardian *Brilliant ... engaging ... Ghodsee is not naive [and] brings the necessary scepticism to her thesis [which] comes into sharp focus when she looks at what happened after the Wall fell ... [a] valuable record of how things were and how they could be -- Rosie Boycott * Financial Times *Convincing, provocative and useful * Times Higher Education *Capitalism’s triumph is a calamity for most women. Kristen Ghodsee’s incisive book brilliantly reveals their plight -- Yanis Varoufakis

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Book Synopsis'It is absolutely brilliant, I think every woman should read it' PANDORA SYKES, THE HIGH LOW ‘My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist will read this book in a state of hushed and humble respect ... Essential reading' ELIZABETH GILBERT All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the many, but on increasing privilege for the few. Meeting basic needs is a feminist issue. Food insecurity, the living wage and access to education are feminist issues. The fight against racism, ableism and transmisogyny are all feminist issues. White feminists often fail to see how race, class, sexual orientation and disability intersect with gender. How can feminists stand in solidarity as a movement when there is a distinct likelihood that some women are oppressing others? Insightful, incendiary and ultimately hopeful, Hood Feminism is both an irrefutable indictment of a movement in flux and also clear-eyed assessment of how to save it.Trade ReviewRequired reading for any feminist, Kendall explores why mainstream feminism neglects to see how race, class, sexual orientation and disability intersects with gender with a clear-eyed assessment of how to fix it * Evening Standard, The best books to look forward to in 2020 *In expertly tying the racial justice and feminist movements together, Kendall’s is one of the most important books of the current moment * Time, 100 Must Read Books of 2020 *My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist (as I do) will read this book in a state of hushed and humble respect ... It’s long overdue that we drop our defenses, listen to her arguments carefully, and then change our entire way of thinking and behaving ... Essential reading -- Elizabeth GilbertIn Hood Feminism, author and activist Mikki Kendall looks at how feminism is neglecting marginalised communities, and what can be done to challenge and confront those inequalities from within the feminist movement * Stylist, The 29 best non-fiction books out in 2020 *Poignant and page-turning ... Marks Kendall as an original addition to the black feminist canon * AnOther *Blistering ... A fresh new and necessary Black voice in feminist literature * Refinery29 *It is absolutely brilliant, I think every woman should read it. -- Pandora Sykes * The High Low *A searing indictment of feminism, how to modernise it, and ultimately how to save it. * Cosmopolitan *Compelling and timely ... A searing indictment of feminism, how to modernise it and ultimately, how to save it. * Cosmopolitan, Books by black and POC authors you’ll be reading in 2020 *This is the feminist intervention we have all been waiting for. -- Fatima BhuttoThis book is an act of fierce love and advocacy, and it is urgently necessary -- Samantha IrbyEvery white lady should have this book assigned to them before they can talk about feminism. -- Linda TiradoMikki’s book is a rousing call to action for today’s feminists. It should be required reading for everyone -- Gabrielle UnionMikki Kendall tells it like it is, and this is why she has long been a must-read writer for me: incisive, clear-eyed, and rightly willing to challenge readers when necessary. Her exploration of how feminists’ fight for liberation has too often left poor people, Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color behind is critical reading for anyone who is or wants to be involved in work addressing complex and longstanding inequalities -- Nicole ChungMikki has been writing for years about protection, "problem children", the limits and the usefulness of different kinds of anger, and the way sisterhood can be wielded as a demand. She’s here for her community, and this book has everything to do with expanding access to it -- Daniel Mallory OrtbergMikki Kendall has established herself as an important voice in current feminist discourse, and Hood Feminism cements that place. With a compelling, forceful piece, Kendall has written the missive that feminists - especially white feminists - need to remember the racist history of who we are as a movement and to move forward with an intersectional and deliberately anti-racist focus -- Dianna AndersonA critical feminist text that interrogates the failings of the mainstream feminist movement and gives us the necessary expertise of Black women. Kendall skillfully illuminates the many intersections of identity and shows us the beauty and power of anger -- Erika L. SanchezKendall offers a fresh voice in black feminism. She argues that mainstream feminism focuses on increasing privilege for the few rather than ensuring the basic needs – food security, education, safety, medical care, a living wage – needed by the many. * Suitcase, Your Reading List For 2020 *

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Book Synopsis"Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex."Outrageous and violent, SCUM Manifesto was widely lambasted when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published the book just before she became a notorious household name and was confined to a mental institution. But for all its vitriol, it is impossible to dismiss as the mere rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact, the work has proved prescient, not only as a radical feminist analysis light years ahead of its time-predicting artificial insemination, ATMs, a feminist uprising against underrepresentation in the arts-but also as a stunning testament to the rage of an abused and destitute woman.In this edition, philosopher Avital Ronell's introduction reconsiders the evocative exuberance of this infamous text.Trade ReviewThe SCUM Manifesto is a document of profound vulnerability, written in a voice of profound empowerment. It's a brutal call to arms, written by a woman in a world of hurt. This tension between powerlessness and power makes it an enduring piece of writing. Never have the personal and the political been so mercilessly zipped together, like little steel teeth. -- Claire Dederer * Nation *Solanas is as relevant today as she was in the 1960s, because nothing much has changed for women. -- Julie Bindel * Spectator *You either happen to think this is a work of unadulterated genius, or you dismiss it as the ravings of a loony psycho-bitch, not understanding that this is exactly what makes it so compelling and so charged with insight. -- Suzanne Moore * New Statesman *Valerie Solanas wrote a very angry and very precise portrait of what she considered the male to be: something between a human and an ape; an unresponsive blob only concerned with physical sensation and without the capacity for empathy or self-knowledge or intimacy, and at the same time full of hatred and jealously and shame and guilt. Her description is beautiful and on some level, I think, entirely accurate. -- Nick CaveIts nihilism is a form of utopia for Solanas, a pre-punk aesthete who fearlessly tossed out ideas that people are just now beginning to raise . As a mixture of social philosophy and fine shtick, her work has the rare virtue of seeming at the same time totally insane and totally right. * Los Angeles Times *As Solanas reminds us, revolutionary ideas don't emerge quietly from the elite stratum of a society; they often bloom from its scum. * Dissent *Articulate, angry and funny. * Guardian *Gleefully incoherent, crackling with energy. * Bookslut *

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Book SynopsisContains essays that feature feminist social theory and female body experience. This book discusses female movement, pregnancy, clothing, and the breasted body.

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Book SynopsisPrison writings from 22 Kurdish women who were elected to office in Turkey and then imprisoned by the state on political groundsTrade Review'This compelling collection highlights personal experiences of imprisoned Kurdish women politicians and their feminist struggle against gender inequality, patriarchal social structures and anti-Kurdish repression in Turkey' -- Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Siena College in Albany, New York'Takes the reader beyond mere political struggle to a vibrant interconnected memories and inner lives of Kurdish women political prisoners' -- Shahrzad Mojab, Professor at the University of Toronto and co-author of ‘Women of Kurdistan’'A powerful testament that a caged bird can still sing, this is an inspiring chorus for people world-wide to join hands and carry forth the fight for freedom, and for life, no matter what the circumstances' -- Alpa Shah, author of the award-winning 'Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas', and Professor of Anthropology at London School of EconomicsTable of ContentsTranslation Coordinators’ Preface - Ruken Isik, Emek Ergun, and Janet Biehl Preface to English Edition - Gültan Kışanak Overview: The Growing Struggle for Women's Liberation - Gültan Kışanak 1. How Will You Find That Many Women? - Aysel Tuğluk 2. Mother, Child, Prison - Burcu Çelik Özkan 3. We Never Considered It from That Angle - Çağlar Demirel 4. Hurry up and Fix Things-Don't Let Us Down Before Our Husbands- Diba Keskin 5. I Struggled Hard, But I Never Gave Up - Dilek Hatipoğlu 6. We Have Your Keys. You Can Come and Get Them - Edibe Şahin 7. Women's Worked Viewed as Frivolous - Evin Keve 8. You're Going to Eat with the Men? - Fatma Doğan 9. History Has No Love for Women Who Stop and Keep Quiet - Figen Yüksekdağ 10. Three Times Elected, Three Years Barred from Serving - Gülser Yıldırım 11. Being a Woman is Hard … Even Dangerous - Gültan Kışanak 12. Are Men Going to Walk Behind a Woman? - Leyla Güven 13. Mayor, We Don't Dare Say Anything to These Women Anymore - Mukaddes Kubilay 14. One Must Travel from City to City. Women Can't Do It - Nurhayat Altun 15. Women Should Be the Ones to Handle Finances - Sara Kaya 16. This Woman Is Tough as Nails - Sadiye Süer Baran 17. From Prison to Parliament - Sebahat Tuncel 18. Imprisoned for Providing Services - Selma Karakoç 19. One Woman Became Eighty - Yıldız Çetin 20. Is Sir Chiefwoman in? - Zeynep Han Bingöl 21. They've Turned It into a Women’s Municipality - Zeynep Sipçik 22. Breaking Down the Doors - Selma Irmak Freedom for Aysel Tuğluk Translators and Coordinators

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Book SynopsisIn Willful Subjects Sara Ahmed explores willfulness as a charge often made by some against others. One history of will is a history of attempts to eliminate willfulness from the will. Delving into philosophical and literary texts, Ahmed examines the relation between will and willfulness, ill will and good will, and the particular will and general will. Her reflections shed light on how will is embedded in a political and cultural landscape, how it is embodied, and how will and willfulness are socially mediated. Attentive to the wayward, the wandering, and the deviant, Ahmed considers how willfulness is taken up by those who have received its charge. Grounded in feminist, queer, and antiracist politics, her sui generis analysis of the willful subject, the figure who wills wrongly or wills too much, suggests that willfulness might be required to recover from the attempt at its elimination.Trade Review"Willful Subjects is a rich, complex, wondrous archive of willfulness. The array of texts, voices, problems and approaches is both painstaking and playful, validating and challenging." -- Heather Rakes * xcphilosophy blog *“In Willful Subjects, cultural theorist Sara Ahmed provides a history of willfulness. Her study reveals some significant and fascinating aspects of this history, and points to areas of future scholarly enquiry. . . . The book offers a comprehensive and intellectually rigorous treatise on a topic that is more complex than it may initially appear. This text also provides further evidence of Ahmed’s scholarly nous. “ -- Jay Daniel Thompson * M/C Reviews *“Ahmed has produced an erudite archive of willfulness, tracing the ideas of the will and willfulness through Western thought since Augustine. Admonitory fairy tales and George Eliot’s novels serve as articulations of philosophy. Ahmed engages in a queer reading of willfulness, a reading that does not presume that willfulness is negative. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.” -- J. L. Croissant * Choice *“Ahmed effectively imitates the twisting together of thought, affect, memory, and insight, drawing connections between things that may appear disparate, and noticing disjunctions in what was previously knit together. … [B]y drawing widely and richly on works of philosophy, literature, film, and everydayness, Ahmed shows how in social life, one affect or action may be judged to be quite another. This allows us to attend not only to behaviors and orientations, but to how those are read by others, to why and in what ways certain actions and affects are felt and interpreted as problematic, as willful.” -- Anna Mudde * Hypatia *“Ahmed’s insights, as always, are both intellectually fertile and provocative; Willful Subjects will not disappoint.” -- Margrit Shildrick * Signs *“Willful Subjects is essential reading for those working in feminism, disability studies, queer theory, critical race studies, and/or phenomenology who reject the notion that a new world or a better one is simply tied to asserting the will to make it so. This is a book for those willing to slow down to queer the will and contemplate what we have been up to, willingly or not.” -- Tanya Titchkosky * Contemporary Women's Writing *“Without being too idealistic, this book should be in the collection of every activist and organiser working to create a different world. The last chapter in particular offers much that can reinforce and reinvigorate the willful when feeling isolated and downbeat. Followers of Sara Ahmed’s work will not be disappointed with her latest offering.” -- Lizzy Willmington * Feminist Legal Studies *"This rousing text remains a valuable assessment of historical and contemporary ideas of will and willfulness and a far-reaching exploration of potential new perspectives on our identification and evaluation of the willful subject." -- Hannah Simpson * College Literature *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: A Willfulness Archive 1 1. Willing Subjects 23 2. The Good Will 59 3. The General Will 97 4. Willfulness as a Style of Politics 133 Conclusion: A Call to Arms 173 Notes 205 References 257 Index 277

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Book SynopsisIn Spill poet, independent scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs presents a commanding collection of poetry inspired by Black feminist literary critic Hortense Spillers depicting scenes of fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism.Trade Review"Gumbs’s writing has luscious urgency and rhythmic drive, which will make it of interest beyond its titular audience." -- Barbara Hoffert * Library Journal *"Spill is not just a poetic collection where art meets criticism or where art is criticism. Instead, it is an intricately woven, polyvocal, ever-expansive map that details and gives rise to new and old black feminisms instructing us how to live and move with(in) these proliferating epistemologies." -- Sasha Panaram * New Black Man (In Exile) *"Inspired by the work of black feminist intellectual Hortense Spillers, Gumbs’ collection of poems appear as a series of powerful scenarios. Reading the volume is akin to being a member of a theatre audience. The fourth wall is peeled away and one is suddenly witness to heartbreaking, inspiring and insightful scenes depicting fugitive black women and girls – unsung and celebrated 'sheroes' – seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism." -- Thomasi McDonald * News & Observer *"Spill is poetry that invites the reader to imagine these poems weren't written- they was lived, they were felt, and in some deep sense, re-membered. In other words, this book happened in somebody's body, a body committed to Black Feminist ways of knowing and feeling in the world.... By embracing and applying these through the form of the parable, Spill speaks to the radical, spiritual power that belongs to those 'black women who made and broke narrative.'" -- Lara Mimosa Montes * Poetry Project Review *"Gumbs’s poetry takes up the detritus of the everyday that surrounds theory — the affective social and political worlds in which black feminist theorists write — and bends it, splits it, like a prism breaking a beam of light into a rainbow." -- Maria Velazquez * Cascadia Subduction Zone *"Gumbs seamlessly moves between historic reference, inherited memories, and a series of visions or a journal of dreams-the result is bigger than text itself. Her writing blurs the lines between past, present, and future. The book communes with ancestral knowledge while offering conjectures of what could be, reminding us that Black women have always seen what comes next, past the edges of what seemed or seems possible.... Spill is first and foremost a love offering to all Black women, but all readers who bear witness will leave its pages knowing of radical imagined possibilities and the difficult path laid before us toward elsewhere: 'our work here is not done.'" -- Zaina Alsous * Bitch *"This book is a commanding collection of scenes depicting fugitive Black women and girls seeking freedom from gendered violence and racism. Like Audre Lorde, Gumbs writes for the complexity of her vision." -- Jaki Shelton Green * NBC News (NBCBlk) *"Blending my love of Black queer feminist authors with genre bending and analytically complex poetry, Gumbs’s work inflicted pleasantly unfamiliar feelings upon me that I cannot 'claim to have invented.' Spill transformed me from a reluctant bystander of theory and poetry into a willing and enthused participant…. Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Spill is an offering for all seeking an unpredictable and experimental journey of Black feminist artistic expression and self-discovery." -- Eden Sena Kokui Segbefia * Scalawag *"Gumbs not only speaks to the spiritual, bodily and otherworldly experience of black women, she allows readers to imagine new possibilities for poetry as a portal for understanding and deepening feminist theory." * Triangle Tribune *"This book is alive. The more I read it, the more gingerly I found myself handling its pages, despite the strength and determination of the women depicted within. . . . The scenes read as half song, half sermon (though intimately pitched), and taken as a whole create a richly textured chorus through which an exhilarating and deeply intelligent life force surges." -- Kim Adrian * The Rumpus *"[G]round-breaking. . . . Gumbs’s trilogy embraces the lyric beauty in the acts of naming, remembering, and finding one’s way back to the source. . . . Reading Gumbs’s books feels like reading an archive that will someday, who knows maybe even someday soon, usher in an era of radical transformation." -- Kathryn Nuernberger * West Branch *Table of ContentsA Note xi How She Knew 1 How She Spelled It 17 How She Left 31 How She Survived until Then 45 What She Did Not Say 61 What He Was Thinking 75 Where She Ended Up 91 The Witnesses the Wayward the Waiting 111 How We Know 125 The Way 141 Acknowledgments 151 Notes 153 Bibliography 161

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, the rise of research-creation—a scholarly activity that considers art practices as research methods in their own right—has emerged from the organic convergences of the arts and interdisciplinary humanities, and it has been fostered by universities wishing to enhance their public profiles. In How to Make Art at the End of the World Natalie Loveless draws on diverse perspectives—from feminist science studies to psychoanalytic theory, as well as her own experience advising undergraduate and graduate students—to argue for research-creation as both a means to produce innovative scholarship and a way to transform pedagogy and research within the contemporary neoliberal university. Championing experimental, artistically driven methods of teaching, researching, and publication, research-creation works to render daily life in the academy more pedagogically, politically, and affectively sustainable, as well as more responsive to issues of social anTrade Review“In this beautifully argued, eminently readable book, stories are the center of attention. Morphing art and knowledge in the neoliberal university situates thinking and pedagogy. Curiosity-driven transdisciplinary practice is both motor and object of analysis. Natalie Loveless asks how stories craft worlds in politically and sensually attuned modes. I treasure the extensive knowledge of modernist performance art and art activism broadly, as well as rich semiotic and psychoanalytic readings of stories and performance. This book is itself a loving act of research-creation.” -- Donna J. Haraway, author of * Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene *“In her evocative book How to Make Art at the End of the World, Natalie Loveless has captured the most urgent and far-reaching question concerning our cultural environment, that is, how to inhabit it in an era of geopolitical uncertainty. This is a daunting task; her ambitious answer, grounded in examples of alternative critical pedagogies, aims to reduce the toxic colonial footprint in arts education by developing a sustainable research-creation model based on differential multiplicities. And that gives us hope.” -- Mary Kelly, Judge Widney Professor, USC Roski School of Art and Design“In this succinct book, Natalie Loveless explores the claim that art-making practices are well situated to challenge and change existing knowledge-making practices in the contemporary research university…. Her primary audience, researchers in art and fine art, will find the manifesto gives a sophisticated form to an emerging desire—an eros and 'attunement'—to not just study the world, but to have an impact on it.” -- David Theodore * RACAR * “A necessary read for artists and scholars who are drawn to, or already working with, artistically driven methods of teaching and researching.... Through the text, readers will gain a deeper understanding of how research-creation, beyond doing artistic research, is about creatively intervening in feminist and anti-racist research practices.” -- Jo Billows and Stephanie Springgay * Journal for Artistic Research *

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Book SynopsisBuilding on the foundational Affect Theory Reader, this new volume gathers together contemporary scholarship that highlights and interrogates the contemporary state of affect inquiry. Unsettling what might be too readily taken-for-granted assumptions in affect theory, The Affect Theory Reader 2 extends and challenges how contemporary theories of affect intersect with a wide range of topics and fields that include Black studies, queer and trans theory, Indigenous cosmologies, feminist cultural analysis, psychoanalysis, and media ecologies. It foregrounds vital touchpoints for contemporary studies of affect, from the visceral elements of climate emergency and the sensorial sinews of networked media to the minor feelings entangled with listening, looking, thinking, writing, and teaching otherwise. Tracing affect’s resonances with today’s most critical debates, The Affect Theory Reader 2 will reorient and disorient readers to the past, present, and future pTrade Review“The Affect Theory Reader 2 surveys the burgeoning field whose development its predecessor did so much to catalyze. In the intervening thirteen years, the study of affect has spread its capillaries across an ever-growing spectrum of disciplines, while at the same time expanding the scope of its own problematics. This new anthology skillfully presents a much-needed digest of the state of the field today. The essays it brings together address a wide range of topics, opening new perspectives on some of the most pressing issues of our time, including, in a reckoning that is long overdue for the field, an emphasis on issues of race. This is an excellent and timely volume that readers interested in affect studies and allied areas will find indispensable.” -- Brian Massumi, author of * Couplets: Travels in Speculative Pragmatism *“The essays in The Affect Theory Reader 2 offer galvanizing, clarifying experiments with thought and form. Wholly reimagined from its previous incarnation, this ‘cluster of attunings’ showcases the maturity of this line of inquiry and so many of its emergent conversations, while at the same time finding the mettle to rethink the origins and legacies of ‘affect theory’ as such. An exciting offering for anyone who imagines the minor registers of experience deserves an unmistakably major volume.” -- Jordan Alexander Stein, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Fordham UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction: A Shimmer of Inventories / Gregory J. Seigworth and Carolyn Pedwell 1 Part One. Tensions, In Solution 1. The Elements of Affect Theories / Derek P. McCormack 63 2. Ambiguous Affect: Excitements That Make the Self / Susanna Paasonen 85 3. Tomkins in Tension / Adam J. Frank and Elizabeth A. Wilson 103 4. Affect and Affirmation / Tyrone S. Palmer 122 5. Unfuckology: Affectability, Temporality, and Unleashing the Sex/Gender Binary / Kyla Schuller 141 Part Two. Minor Feelings and the Sensorial Possibilities of Form 6. Minor Feelings and the Affective Life of Race / Ann Cvetkovich 161 7. Resisting the Enclosure of Trans Affective Commons / Hil Malatino 179 8. Too Thick Love, or Bearing the Unbearable / Rizvana Bradley 191 9. Migration: An Intimacy / Omar Kasmani 214 Part Three. Unlearning and the Conditions of Arrival 10. Unlearning Affect / M. Gail Hamner 233 11. Why This? Affective Pedagogy in the Wake / Nathan Snaza 255 12. The Feeling of Knowing Music / Dylan Robinson and Patrick Nickleson 273 Part Four. The Matter of Experience, or, Reminding Consciousness of Its Necessary Modesty 13. Nonconscious Affect: Cognitive, Embodied, or Nonbifurcated Experience? / Tony D. Sampson 295 14. Catch an Incline: The Impersonality of the Minor / Erin Manning 315 15. Emotions and Affects of Convolution / Lisa Blackman 326 16. Haunting Voices: Affective Atmospheres as Transtemporal Contact / Cecilia Macón 347 Part Five. A Living Laboratory: Glitching the Affective Reproduction of the Social 17. The Affective Reproduction of Capital: Two Returns to Spinoza / Jason Read 367 18. Algorithmic Governance and Racializing Affect / Ezekiel Dixon-Román 384 19. Dividual Economies, of Data, of Flesh / Jasbir K. Puar 406 20. Algorithmic Trauma / Michael Richardson 423 Coda 447 A Note / Kathleen Stewart 449 Poisonality / Lauren Berlant 451 Contributors 465 Index 471

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Book SynopsisHow are women supposed to make sense of the world today? Women have never had more freedom - yet questions of inequality persist from the bedroom to the boardroom. A quarter of a century after the publication of her seminal text, Misogynies, Joan Smith looks at what women have achieved - and the price they've paid for it. From spiteful media campaigns and a justice system that allows rapists to go free, to domestic violence, 'honour crimes' and sex-trafficking, Smith shows that womanhating has assumed new and sinister forms. Smith celebrates the fact that the female eunuch has become the public woman, but argues that we're living in an increasingly hostile world. A call to arms, The Public Woman sets out what we're up against - and how to fight back.Trade Review"Joan Smith dares to expose woman-hating in all its forms. She does not shy away from naming religion and cultural relativism as barriers to liberation, and names men and the system of patriarchy as the problem. Read this book, not least because it will open your eyes to how much needs to be done before we consign male supremacy to the museum of ancient relics." Julie Bindel "Brilliant - A compelling rap sheet of 21st century misogynies and a reprimand to anyone who declares the battle for gender equality is over." Robin InceTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1: Display Britain's Got Narcissism Polar Disorder Performance Vagina Cantata 2: Domination Queen Wag Calm Down, Dear Crystal's Story Keeper of the Flame Veiled Messages 3: Enforcement Possession 'Tis Pity She's A Whore Buying Power The Witches of Perugia Conclusion Declaration of the Rights of Women

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Book Synopsis Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics is a groundbreaking collection that centers the imaginative intellectual perspectives, voices, and experiences of Black American feminist anthropologists. Twenty-five years ago, as the Foreword states, this book dared to put three words together in the title—Black. Feminist. Anthropology— “that have not always kept company with each other—and in the minds of many both in and outside of the academy, they should remain separate.” Standing the test of time, it is still a bold reimagining of anthropology, and all social sciences, as inclusive and decolonized, while establishing a new Black feminist anthropology canon that decades later is too often taken for granted as normative. Black Feminist Anthropology is filled with a message of theoretical possibilities that anyone who enters its pages will find “healing,” “life-saving,” and an affirmation

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Book SynopsisWhat do you do when you fall in love with your next-door neighbour? You peer at each other through a hole in the fence and eventually climb over. Sybil is a member of The Good-Hearted Gardeners, a Society for Well-Meaning Efforts for the Betterment of Language and the Salvation of the Planet, which her lover, Demo, is allowed to join. It’s funded by MI5, who ask them to monetise and weaponise the English language. Soon afterwards they discover that English is even more widespread than anyone had thought. Even the birds and the fish, the cows and the kangaroos can speak it – when they choose. The Good-Hearted Gardeners set about trying to talk to anyone – crows, magpies, robins, goldfish, cows, horses, rats, mice – who will talk to them. With climate change and technology gone mad, what’s in store is a frightening scenario that threatens everyone – humans, animals, plants. Can the headlong rush to extinction be halted? When the birds, and the cows and the horses and the mice and all the rest come together, much is made possible. But at what cost? Will the planet and its inhabitants be saved? A comedic allegory for our future.

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Lifelike, replica women and girls produced for men’s sexual use, sex dolls and robots represent the literal objectification of women. They are marketed as companions, the means for men to create their ‘ideal’ woman, and as the “perfect girlfriend” that can be stored away after its use. Advocates claim the development of sex dolls and robots should be actively encouraged and will have many benefits – but for who? Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating exposes the inherent misogyny in the trade in sex dolls and robots modelled on the bodies of women and girls for men’s unlimited sexual use. From doll owners enacting violence and torture on their dolls, men choosing their dolls over their wives, dolls made in the likeness of specific women and the production of child sex abuse dolls, sex dolls and robots pose a serious threat to the status of women and girls. “Sex dolls and robots in the female form function as an endorsement of men’s sexual rights, with women and girls positioned as sexual objects. The production of these products further cements women’s second class status.”

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Book SynopsisA new definition of woman has taken hold in Western societies. Instead of a matter of biology and material reality, we are told it is an identity. Anyone who declares herself to be a woman is a woman; the body has henceforth become irrelevant. Gender, we are told, is a spectrum, and it resides in the mind. In countries such as Norway, Canada, Argentina, and Australia, laws have been enacted that give anyone the right to change his or her legal sex, irrespective of whether the person has had a medical procedure. At the same time, the industry for gender reassignment surgery is growing at an unprecedented pace. Seven out of 10 teenagers who seek treatment are now girls. The new definition of sex has been hailed as progressive. But is it really? And is it new? In this groundbreaking book, Swedish feminist and Marxist author Kajsa Ekis Ekman traces the ideological roots of this new definition.Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Part 1: Seventy-One Genders - A Revolution in the Making 1. "We're Expanding the Concept of What It Means to Be Human" 9 2. "Transwomen Are Women - But What Is a Woman?" 12 3. Boys Climb Trees, Girls Make Bead Necklaces: The Return of Stereotypes 18 4. Chasing the Gendered Brain 25 5. Gender Is in the Eye of the Beholder 42 6. 2007: The Order of Modernity 50 7. 2017: The Gender-Congruent Person 55 8. Help - My Son Loves Pink! 62 9. An Invisible Theory 71 10. The History of Sex : One-Sex and Two-Sex Theories 76 11. Return of the One-Sex Theory 83 12. What Happens to Biological Determinism When There Is No Body? 85 13. How Feminism Started Loving Gender 89 14. How Patriarchy Incorporated Its Dissidents 100 Part 2: One Pill Makes You a Girl, One Pill Makes You a Boy - The 71 Genders Become Two 15. When States Reassign Their Citizens' Sex 119 16. "Doctors are Salivating at the Prospect of Applying Puberty Blockers" 125 17. They Will Probably Become Infertile, But That's the Price You Pay - The New Era of Sterilisations 135 18. When States Convert Homosexuals 144 19. What Is a Man without a Penis? 149 20. Younger, Faster, Happier? 153 21. Hormone Evangelists in the Pharmaceutical Industry 160 22. Tumblr, Trans and Trauma - Testimonies from Teens 171 23. Mastectomy or Death: Harnessing the Threat of Suicide 182 24. The Industry Under Pressure 202 Part 3: The One Sex Theory 25. A Tale of Trans People? 207 26. Woman: A Dangerous Word 209 27. Vagina: A Dangerous Word 218 28. The Creation of the Cis-Person - or How We Fell in Love with Gender Roles 222 29. Gender Self-Identification 235 30. A Room of One's Own 238 31. Unspeakable Violence 247 32. Every Man's Right 250 33. Invisible Trans Men 253 34. Open Female Spaces, Closed Male Spaces 257 35. "The End of Women's Sport as We Know It" 262 36. "It Started with the Realisation that Women Do Not Exist" - A Fatal Blow to Equality Policies 275 37. "She Deserves a Kick in the Ovaries" 280 38. Sex, Race, Class, or ... An Exception to Intersectionality 292 39. Nature/Nurture - A Dialectical View 304 40. Notes on the Word 'Woman' 309 References 313 Index 329

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Book SynopsisAt once a heart-wrenching personal narrative and a unique historical document, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt is the ultimate example of the personal as political.Eleanor Roosevelt stands as one of the world's greatest humanitarians, having dedicated her remarkable life to the liberty and equality of all people. In this sincere and frank self-portrait she recounts her childhood marked by the death of her mother and separation from the rest of her family at age seven her marriage to Franklin D. Roosevelt; and the challenges of motherhood, including the tragic death of her second son, all of which occurred before her twenty-fifth birthday.It wasn't till her thirties that Eleanor Roosevelt began the life for which she is known. A committed supporter of women's suffrage, architect of the welfare state, leader of the UN Commission on Human Rights and author of the Declaration of Human Rights, as well as being a prolific writer, diplomat, visionary, pacifist and commiTable of ContentsPreface Part I: This is My Story Part II: This I Remember Part III: On My Own Part IV: The Search for Understanding Afterword, Nancy Roosevelt Ireland Index

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Book Synopsis'Raw, elemental and beautiful.' Telegraph'This is quite simply the best book about motherhood I have ever read.' - Eleanor Mills in the Sunday Times Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her touching, provocative and profoundly insightful book, she captures a sense of what motherhood really feels like - how intense, sensuous, joyful, boring, profound and dark it can be.My Wild and Sleepless Nights examines what it means to be a mother, and reveals with unflinching honesty the many conflicting emotions that this entails: the joy and the wonder, the loneliness and despair. MORE PRAISE FOR CLOVER STROUD:'Clover's expertise is writing about family life in a way that feels both new and entirely familiar' - Pandora Sykes'As tender, blazing, funny and unflinching as the love it describes. I want to give this triumphant book to every mother I know' - Rachel Joyce'Stroud is always willing to rip open her very soul in order to reveal the truth about her life - and every time a woman tells the truth like this, it sets another woman free' - Elizabeth Gilbert'I read in one greedy gulp and am still slightly reeling. Extraordinary writing... For mothers and those even vaguely interested in family dynamics it is fascinating' - Alexandra HeminsleyCharting the course of one year, the first in her youngest child's life, Clover searches for answers to questions that many of us would be too afraid to admit to - not only about motherhood, but also about female sexuality and identity. Her story will speak to all mothers, and anyone about to embark on that journey.Trade ReviewA beautifully written, brutally honest dissection of motherhood by a woman who has five children, from pregnancy to teenagers, covering both the extreme highs and lows. Stroud's writing examines what it is to be a woman with the same sensitive skill fans of her first memoir, The Wild Other, will recall. * Independent *The best evocation of the all-consuming, self-eroding reality of motherhood, while also being luminous with love. * The Sunday Times *What does being a mother really feel like? Clover Stroud’s powerhouse of a memoir gets closer than anything else I have read to answering that question. The motherhood she describes is the very antithesis of the sanitised, smiling vision we are sold in washing powder ads... She excels in evoking the feral, instinctive forces that motherhood unleashes... This is a vision of motherhood for the (now middle-aged) MDMA generation... The reader is simply swept up in her painful, wonderful world. Buy it, read it, and enjoy it for the wild ride it is. * The Guardian *Clover Stroud's brilliantly unvarnished memoir finds the heroism and poetry in having kids ... Much of this book ..reads like a nature memoir, full of landscape both external and internal ... How brilliant for someone to write about the blankness as well as the beauty. -- Nell Frizzell * Telegraph *This is quite simply the best book about motherhood I have ever read: touching, tender, honest and true. Even as she’s bracingly direct about the frustrations of motherhood, Stroud also revels in the delights. Bliss and boredom coexist side by side — and the contradictions are at the core of it all. Stroud’s book will give anyone heading out on this fearsome journey a lantern to guide the way. The book is not always pretty, and sometimes its directness is shocking, but it is full of love and honesty. * The Sunday Times *

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Book SynopsisTerrific and timely' Elizabeth Day'Stories that will make you cringe, weep and laugh out loud'Scarlett Curtis Brilliant, informative and funny.'Jennifer SaundersPassionate, informed and thought-provoking.' Jane Garvey Clever, useful and wise. Read it. Pass it on to your daughters. And then to your sons.' Fi GloverCuts right through all the myths and embarrassment with searing facts, honesty and, perhaps more importantly, humour. A bleeding good read.'Yomi Adegoke Revised and updated with a new chapterIn this frank, funny rallying cry, Emma Barnett shares her story, as well as those of others, to ask why we've clammed up about menstruation. She'll make you laugh, weep, and maybe squirm, about the natural process that nobody talks about, and smash this taboo once and for all.Because it's about bloody time.Period.Trade Review‘Empowering and liberating’ The Daily Telegraph ‘I wish this book had been written before I stopped having them. I might have enjoyed them more! It’s brilliant, informative and funny. Period.’ Jennifer Saunders ‘I want to hear what Emma Barnett says about everything, and this terrific and timely book proves to be no exception.’ Elizabeth Day ‘A brilliant, myth-busting, funny and poignant book.’ Helen Pankhurst ‘Why has it taken so long for this powerful, fearless book to be written?’ Emma Freud ‘Uniquely funny and forthright.’ Pandora Sykes ‘Passionate, informed and thought-provoking.’ Jane Garvey ‘A must read for everyone. Period.’ Kirsty Wark ‘Clever, useful and wise. Read it. Pass it on to your daughters. And then to your sons.’ Fi Glover ‘Emma cuts right through all the myths and embarrassment with searing facts, honesty and, perhaps more importantly, humour. A bleeding good read.’ Yomi Adegoke ‘A fascinating and heartfelt read’ Red

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Book SynopsisSea Statemarks the arrival of a gifted and exciting new voice' Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE PORTICO PRIZEA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021'It's extraordinary. It takes you places so few books do'ObserverAcidic, addictive reporting with a fictional veneer. Sea State's writing alone is worth the admission price'Financial TimesTabitha Lasley left her job, her relationship and London, and headed to Aberdeen to meet offshore oil rig workers. She wanted to see what men are like with no women around. She soon finds out what she is like with no one else around, save for itinerant men who spend half their lives stranded in the middle of the sea. Alone, and contemplating the wreckage of her former life, she dives into a relationship with the first rig worker she meets, a reckless affair that lays them both bare.She has the skill, a Joan Didion kind of skill, of inflecting non-fiction material subjectively, a habit of assessing situations via her nervous system' Andrew O'Hagan, author of MayfliesTrade Review'A breathtaking memoir … The prose is stunning: gimlet-eyed and brutal' Tomiwa Owolade, Sunday Times, Books of the Year ‘Contemporary writing at its finest, without any hint of effort, egoism or pretentiousness on Lasley’s part. She is an astoundingly good writer, and this is an astoundingly good book’ Irish Times 'These are powerful and moving stories of working lives in a dangerous and all-male environment, made all the more powerful by the way Lasley refuses to absent herself from the telling. The writing is carefully and unobtrusively polished, with hard edges and unflinching clarity … Sea State marks the arrival of a gifted and exciting new voice’ Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13 ‘It’s extraordinary. It takes you places so few books do … it gets inside the heads that are mostly ignored by publishing’ Observer ‘A startlingly original study of love, masculinity and the cost of a profession that few outside of it can truly understand’ Guardian ‘She has the skill, a Joan Didion kind of skill, of inflecting non-fiction material subjectively, a habit of assessing situations via her nervous system … Sea State has all the presentness of fiction, as well as the exactitude of the non-fiction novel and the gleam of confession’ Andrew O’Hagan, author of Mayflies, LRB ‘Acidic, addictive reporting with a fictional veneer. Sea State’s writing alone is worth the admission price’ Financial Times ‘A powerful blend of journalism and memoir … Beautifully written, disquieting, it reminds me of Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women’ David Nicholls, author of Sweet Sorrow 'Piercing, brutally candid, addictive. A memoir like no other … If you were gripped by Lisa Taddeo's Three Women, this is for you' Rachel Cooke, author of Her Brilliant Career ‘Incredibly compelling’ Sarah Hall, author of Burntcoat

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Book SynopsisFrom ‘one of the greatest writers of our time’ (Toni Morrison) – the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon – a collection of remarkable short stories from the Harlem Renaissance With a foreword by Tayari Jones, author of An American MarriageTrade Review‘wickedly funny’ THE OBSERVER NEW REVIEW ‘Published in one gorgeous volume for the first time … [these] stories are fascinating, harrowing and beautifully written’ Stylist ‘this collection reaffirms [Hurston’s] status as a truly visionary writer.’ Vogue UK ‘the rediscovery of [Hurston’s] work has been one of the literary joys of recent decades.’ The Financial Times ‘Illuminating’, ‘every day is a good day to read Zora Neale Hurston’s brilliant writing’ REFINERY29 ‘[A] jewel of the Harlem Renaissance’ New Statesman ‘Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick … helps illuminate Hurston’s path to iconic status’ ‘Add [Hurston’s] matchless powers of observation, exemplary fidelity to idiomatic speech and irresistible engagement with folklore, and the outcome is a collection of value to more than Hurston completists. Any addition to her awe-inspiring oeuvre should be met with open arms.’ New York Times Book Review ‘Fans and scholars of Hurston’s work and the uninitiated alike will find many delights in these complex, thoughtful and wickedly funny portraits of black lives and communities… [this] is a significant testament to the enduring resonance of black women’s writing.’ Washington Post ‘Decades on, this new collection is a powerful reminder of [Zora Neale Hurston’s] lasting resonance.’ Time Magazine ‘Fluid, polymathic voice; what a class act’ Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times Praise for Barracoon ‘A searing reminder of how recently American slavery ended, and the depth of the pain it caused’ The Economist ‘A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life’ Daily Telegraph ‘Barracoon and its long path to print is a testament to Zora’s singular vision amid so many competing pressures that continue to put us at war with ourselves’ Huffington Post

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Book SynopsisI adored this book. It's so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read' Emma Thompson A Times Film and Theatre Book of the Year 2022From two-time Academy Award winner and screen icon Geena Davis, Dying of Politeness is the candid, surprising tale of her journey from her epically polite childhood to the roles that put her in the spotlight and gave her the strength to become a powerhouse in Hollywood.At three years old, Geena announced she was going to be in movies. Now, with a slew of iconic roles and awards under her belt, she has surpassed her childhood dream, but her journey has been one of fits and starts, with a pothole or two along the way.In this hilarious memoir, Geena regales us with tales of a career playing everything from an amnesiac assassin to the parent of a rodent in Stuart Little; a soap star in her underwear to a housewife turned road warrior in Thelma & Louise; a baseball phenomenon in A League of Their Own to the first female President of the United States in CTrade Review Praise for Dying of Politeness: ‘Candid, self-deprecating and vastly entertaining…. Davis’s frank appraisal of her psychological and physical merits, and demerits, is not only disarming, but likely to strike a chord with many of her readers’ The Times, Peter Sheridan ‘Her combination of humour and self-deprecation is immediately appealing’ The Observer, BOOK OF THE DAY ‘A marvellous memoir… an endearing and inspiring account of one “offbeat” woman finding her own voice… I’m often bored by the second half of celebrity memoirs, but Davis’s just keeps building momentum. It’s a real-life feel-good movie, in which the downtrodden heroine finds her power. She guards her privacy without ever getting pompous or dull. If you want to know about the pimples on Brad Pitt’s bum, then she’ll spill. If you want to know how she conceived her kids at 47? Back off, that’s her business… I closed her book with the firm conviction that she’s the celebrity I’d most like to hang out with’ Daily Telegraph ‘Entertaining… After decades of silently seething, Thelma & Louise star Geena Davis lifts the lid on Hollywood sexism’ Daily Express ‘The book’s a blast… it really is a supremely jolly read’ The Times, Polly Vernon 'Brilliant… read it cover to cover. Absolutely awesome'Chris Evans ‘Davis is truly inspiring, and her book is warm and relatable’ Woman’s Weekly

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