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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work—a phenomenal biography of a towering human spirit of everlasting relevance.”—Norman Lebrecht, Wall Street Journal“Wilson, a Moscow-trained cellist and biographer of Shostakovich, has found details of, it seems, every concerto, every appearance, every job Yudina did.”—John Lloyd, Financial Times“As this fascinating book shows, the real story of Yudina is more moving and extraordinary than any of the myths.”—Ivan Hewett, Daily Telegraph“The author of biographies of Shostakovich and Rostropovich turns her attention to the great Soviet pianist Maria Yudina (1899–1970), famous for eccentricity and moral courage. Wilson emphasizes Yudina’s passionate intellectual life; a disciple of Bakhtin, . . . she was as interested in philosophy as she was in music.”—New Yorker“Wilson illuminates the life of one of twentieth-century Russia’s most brilliant pianists and uncompromising individuals. . . . Through her meticulous research, Wilson disabuses us of the many legends that surround Yudina’s peculiar character.”—Nadia Beard, Times Literary Supplement“Wilson, a musician and writer who authored a fine book on Dmitri Shostakovich, has now produced the first English-language biography of Maria Yudina, one of Russia’s greatest twentieth-century pianists. Her study gains strength from its vivid reconstruction of the classical music scene under Soviet rule.”—Tony Barber, Financial Times, “Best Summer Books of 2022: History”“The author is extremely well placed to narrate Yudina’s life and provide some insight into her art. . . . Reading a biography of her as thorough and informed as Playing with Fire, one grows ever more incredulous that she survived so long and went on performing until very near the end of her life.”—Michael Tanner, Spectator“An insight into the agony of intellectual life under [Stalin’s] rule”—Sophie Roell, Five Books, “Notable Nonfiction of Early 2022”“An adroit and revealing narrative of [Maria] Yudina’s life”—Michael Prodger, New Statesman“Wilson follows Yudina carefully from her birth in what is now Belarus to her death in Moscow in 1970. The threads of her life interweave to illustrate not only an astonishing career, but also aspects of Russian life and culture before and during the Soviet era. . . . Clearly, this book is filled with dramatic experiences and detail, but Wilson’s craft as a storyteller ensures that it is a captivating read.”—Vin Arthey, The Scotsman“This book is filled with dramatic experiences and detail, but Wilson's craft as a storyteller ensures that it is a captivating read.”—Vin Arthey, Yorkshire Post“Clearly and unpretentiously written, with sensitive but never blindly hagiographic appreciations of Yudina’s recordings. Where they were dissenting voices about the quality of Yudina’s playing or teaching, she does not hesitate to report them. The text is also studded with fascinating asides.”—David Fanning, Gramophone“This most satisfying biography and appreciation of one of the twentieth-century’s greatest pianists brims over with facts, anecdotes and observations. It’s both an invaluable document and an absorbing and stimulating read. . . . It is surely definitive.”—Stephen Greenbank, MusicWeb International“A brilliant pianist closely connected with the leading lights of 20th-century Russian music, literature and philosophy, Maria Yudina was a seminal figure whose devout religious beliefs brought her into direct collision with the Soviet state. Elizabeth Wilson's great achievement is to have brought Yudina's extraordinary life out of the shadows. With this revelatory biography she takes us deep into the heart of Russian artistic genius at its most passionate and uncompromising.”—Rosamund Bartlett, author of Chekhov Scenes from a Life and Tolstoy: A Russian Life “Maria Yudina, one of the great pianists of the 20th century, reached cult status in the USSR, but is still little known abroad. This fascinating biography by Elizabeth Wilson, combining scholarly erudition and captivating storytelling, not only fills this gap but reads like a powerful Russian novel!”—Mikhail Rudy, award-winning concert pianist “So much more than a great and deeply unusual pianist, Maria Yudina was at once mystic and visionary, a pioneer of modernism and a tremendous friend to those who loved her. Few writers and musicians in the English-speaking world are better placed than Elizabeth Wilson to tell the story of this mysterious and far too little-known 20th century musician. And the story is a revelation.”—Gerard McBurney, composer and writer “An engaging read that tells the story of Russia’s preeminent pianist of the 20th century in lucid and approachable language, this long-needed book illuminates Maria Yudina’s work and life through recollections of her contemporaries and considerable archival research.”—Elena Dubinets, Artistic Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra “Presents an absorbing picture of a tragic period of Russian history. At its center is the towering figure of Maria Yudina, a remarkable pianist and one of the most influential personalities of Soviet cultural life. A riveting read.”—Boris Berman, Head of Piano, Yale University School of Music

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Book SynopsisUnited States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healingTrade ReviewPraise for Joy Harjo: “I turn and return to Harjo’s poetry for her breathtaking complex witness and for her world-remaking language.”—Adrienne Rich “[Harjo’s] poetry is light and elixir, the very best prescription for us in wounded times.”—Sandra Cisneros, The Millions

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Book SynopsisIn this follow-up to her international bestseller How Women Rise, Sally Helgesen draws on three decades of work with executives and aspiring leaders around the world to offer practical ways to build more inclusive relationships, teams, and workplaces. Participants at leadership conferences often tell Sally, “Please don’t spend your time telling us why developing and retaining a diverse workforce is important. We get it. The problem is, we don’t know how to do it.” Rising Together provides that missing how in full detail by identifying both what holds us back and specific tactics that can help us move forward. First, Sally identifies the eight common triggers most likely to undermine our ability to collaborate across divides—not only of gender, but also of age, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and life experience. These triggers are widespread, yet rarely acknowledged. They include differences in how people from different backgrounds view ambition, competence, perceptions, fairness, communication, networks, attraction, and humor. Sally then offers specific practices designed to address these triggers: simple behavioral tweaks that we can use on a daily basis; a method for informally enlisting allies to hold us to account; and a means for cultivating and disseminating the dynamic power of we.Rising Together is for readers at every stage and level in their careers who recognize that building a broad range of relationships is essential to their advancement, now and in the future. This book also serves as an indispensable guide for HR, diversity, and leadership professionals tasked with addressing the misunderstandings, resentments, and derailments caused by the eight triggers. Sally’s focus on behaviors—how we act—rather than bias—how we think—promises to redirect the inclusion conversation in a grounded, real-world way that brings us together.  

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Book SynopsisFrom diggers and weeders, to artists and colourists, writers and dreamers to trend-setters, plantswomen to landscape designers, women have contributed to the world of gardening and gardens. Here Deborah Kellaway, author of The Making of an English Country Garden and Favourite Flowers , has collected extracts from the 18th century to the present day, to create a book that is replete with anecdotes and good-humoured advice. Colette, Margery Fish, Germaine Greer, Eleanor Sinclair Rohde, Vita Sackville-West, Rosemary Verey, Edith Wharton and Dorothy Wordsworth are some of the writers represented in this book.Trade ReviewA glorious and fertile compendium. - INDEPENDENTBoldly editied, the equivalent of a well-planted border with not a gap of bare earth, all season-colour interest, and no visible pea-sticks. - Lynne Truss, SUNDAY TIMESKellaway's intelligent and tender book enlarges the sense of human possibility. - OBSERVERGreen thoughts from Gertrude Jekyll to Germaine Greer- a delight for lovers of gardening and literature. - WOMAN AND HOME

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Book SynopsisThe definitive anthology of writings on women in art by the late Linda Nochlin, one of the most influential and revolutionary voices in feminist art history.Trade Review'Linda was a pioneer … her writing is vivid and persuasive' - The Artist

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Book SynopsisThe story of one woman, one baby, a slipped disc and rather too many wrinkles, The Secret Diary of a New Mum (Aged 43 1/4) follows a midlife mum as she makes the transition from experienced TV producer to utterly inexperienced parent.Trade Review‘Hilariously candid’ Daily Mail‘This honest laugh-out-loud account gives a wonderful insight into the incredible journey to becoming a mum’ The Sun‘Brilliantly observed… funny, embarrassing and yet cruelly honest. It feels good to laugh about it, now the stiches are out’ Fay Ripley‘Warm, witty and very, very wise – the perfect antidote to all those po-faced pregnancy books. As a fellow “Geriatric Mother” I found myself constantly laughing and nodding along in agreement’ Imogen Edwards-Jones

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Book SynopsisNancy Marie Brown lays to rest the hoary myth that Viking society was ruled by men and celebrates the dramatic lives of female Viking warriorsTrade ReviewMagnificent. It captured me from the very first page! -- Pat Shipman, author of The InvadersOnce again, Brown brings Viking history to vivid, unexpected life – and in the process, turns what we thought we knew about Norse culture on its head. Superb -- Scott Weidensaul, author of A World on the WingA complex, important and delightful addition to women’s history. Introduces us to a broader version of the Viking world -- Pamela D. Toler, author of Women WarriorsThis amazing book offers nothing less than a paradigm shift … Carefully researched and beautifully written, this journey into the distant past has a lot to offer for current discussions of gender bending, the instability of scholarly “facts”, the dynamics of misogyny and the legacy of slavery -- Gísli Pálsson, author of The Man Who Stole HimselfA much-needed alternative retelling ... refreshing and thought-provoking -- Marianne Moen, author of The Gendered LandscapeEngrossing ... Brown engages the reader fully with her storytelling and with her unique point of view -- William R. Short, author of Viking Weapons and Combat Techniques

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Book SynopsisCelebrate 45 women artists, and gain inspiration for your own practice, with this beautiful exploration of contemporary creators from the founder of The Jealous Curator. Walk into any museum, or open any art book, and you''ll probably be left wondering: where are all the women artists? A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women) offers an exciting alternative to this male-dominated art world, showcasing the work of dozens of contemporary women artists alongside creative prompts that will bring out the artist in anyone!This beautiful book energizes and empowers women, both artists and amateurs alike, by providing them with projects and galvanizing stories to ignite their creative fires. Each chapter leads with an assignment that taps into the inner artist, pushing the reader to make exciting new work and blaze her own artistic trail. Interviews, images, and stories from contemporary women artists at the top of their game provide added inspiration, and h

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Book SynopsisIn this age of limitless digital connections, we are somehow lonelier than ever. This isn''t just bad news--it''s dangerous news. Loneliness puts us at greater health risk than smoking or obesity, but we would sooner label ourselves overweight than admit we are lonely. It is a secret that is killing us.Contrary to all our efforts, the answer is not found in more connections, but deeper ones that mirror God himself as the originator of friendship and the original Friend. The Art of Friendship walks with you into a greater understanding of how God has equipped you to be a friend and to have meaningful friendships. With step-by-step guidance, you will begin to strategize how to fulfill your divine calling as a friend. And through God''s Word, as you come to understand the depth and width and breadth of God as Friend, you will discover that the spiritual discipline of friendship is both life-changing and life-giving.

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Book SynopsisWeaving personal stories with biblical truth, pastor Paige Allen gives hope to all women feeling unseen, unheard, and unknown. Unpacking the life-changing stories of seven nameless women in the Bible, she shows how one encounter with the love of Jesus empowers you to let go of shame and discover the courage and grace to live seen and make him known.

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Book SynopsisUsing Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism, this “provocative and pleasurable romp through contemporary gender politics . . . is as fun as it is illuminating” (Ariel Levy, New Yorker) Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies? Gaga Feminism answers these questions while attempting to make sense of the tectonic cultural shifts that have transformed gender and sexual politics in the last few decades. This colorful landscape is populated by symbols and phenomena as varied as pregnant men, late-life lesbians, SpongeBob SquarePants, and queer families. So how do we understand the dissonance between these real experiences and the heteronormative narratives that dominate popular media? We can embrace the chaos! With equal parts edge and wit, J. Jack Halberstam reveals how these symbolic ruptures open a critical space to embrace new ways of conceptualizing sex, love, and marriag

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Book SynopsisAs women’s reproductive rights are increasingly under attack, a minister and ethicist weighs in on the abortion debate—offering a stirring argument that “the best arbiter of a woman’s reproductive destiny is herself” (Cecile Richards, former President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America)Here’s a fact that we often ignore: unplanned pregnancy and abortion are a normal part of women’s reproductive lives. Roughly one-third of US women will have an abortion by age forty-five, and fifty to sixty percent of the women who have abortions were using birth control during the month they got pregnant. Yet women who have abortions are routinely shamed and judged, and safe and affordable access to abortion is under relentless assault, with the most devastating impact on poor women and women of color.Rebecca Todd Peters, a Presbyterian minister and social ethicist, argues that this shaming and judging reflects deep, o

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Book SynopsisAn unprecedented look at women’s everyday clothes—from Sylvia Plath’s Girl Scout uniform to psychedelic microminis, modern suits, and fast-food workers’ uniforms—this fascinating volume shows how American women from every background have lived, worked, and dressed for 200 years.Groundbreaking in its focus on the everyday clothing of ordinary American women—a subject neglected in most fashion histories—Real Clothes, Real Lives highlights over 300 garments and accessories from the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection. This unique survey honors countless lives, tracing through the lens of dress how women’s roles have changed over the decades. Each piece holds colorful stories about the woman who wore it, the one who made or bought it, and her context in place and time. Whether homemade or ready-made, many of the garments are modest and inexpensive. Some are one-of-a-kind pieces; others are examples of clever makin

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Book Synopsis''A testament to the revolutionary power of sisterhood'' Kelechi Okafor, author of Edge of Here''A guide to manifesting sisterhood that lasts a lifetime and nourishes beyond the surface level'' DazedFrom the hosts of the hit podcast, To My Sisters, comes this frank, funny, and essential guide to sisterhood for fans of Keep The Receipts and Slay In Your Lane.Join online big sisters Renée Kapuku and Courtney Daniella Boateng as they share their lessons, learnings and stories on sisterhood, and teach you how you can find, build and nourish lifelong friendships. Using their friendship profile framework, you'll discover what kind of friend you are open, demanding, reserved, strong or closed and how this impacts how you show up in your friendships. From setting your own goals and dreams, to outlining what you desire from your platonic relationships and identifying where you are being underserved, this book is your essential toolkit for buiTrade ReviewThe heart is a wonderful thing and can hold much more than romantic relationships. To My Sisters is a testament to the revolutionary power of sisterhood. -- Kelechi Okafor, Actress and author of Edge of HereTo My Sisters puts some respect on platonic friendships in a world where we're told that the utmost accomplishment is getting a ring and walking down the aisle. Beautifully written. -- Jamelia Donaldson, TreasureTressTo My Sisters is an essential read. Courtney and Renée are incredibly wise and yet so relatable and encouraging. -- Victoria Sanusi, co-host of the Black Gals Livin' PodcastA toolkit to female friendships! I encourage you to read this book with an open mind and heart to truly embrace Courtney and Renée's layered lessons of sisterhood. -- Adessy AkereleA guide to manifesting sisterhood that lasts a lifetime and nourishes beyond the surface level. -- Adele Walton, DazedWith a focus on the importance of sisterly love and relationships, To My Sisters guides you through the process of building and nourishing these healthy connections. -- Hena J. Bryan, Bookish BabeLifelong friendships are so important. Beautifully written for the next generation of sisterhood. -- Davina Ajana, Sadé Magazine

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Book SynopsisSappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs about love, friendship, rivalry, and family around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Everything that survives - substantial poems and fragments, including three recently discovered poems - is here presented in a graceful modern translation, together with professional recordings.Table of ContentsNote on the 2014 papyri; Introduction; Note on translation: from Sappho to Sappho; Sappho; Notes.

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Book SynopsisCombine the best parts of your personal and professional life to live the life you really want Balance is B.S.is an unflinching and honest look at the challenges today's working woman faces in balancing her professional and personal lives. In the United States, women comprise over 40% of household income. Increased gender diversity in the modern business landscape continues to have a positive impact on bottom lines and revenue reports across the economy, and offers significant benefits for ambitious women in the workplace. This increase of women in the workforce does present a serious problemwomen are working longer and harder outside of the home, but their workload has not lessened inside of the home. While their career prospects rise, expectations of their family and personal lives remain flat. Women pursue the mythical work-life balance, and feel guilty for not reaching it. There is a better way. This insightful book provides working women with real-world advice, enabling them toTable of ContentsDisclaimer ix Acknowledgments xi Part I Balance Is Bullshit 1 Rising without Compromising 3 2 The Myths That Keep Us Down 9 3 Balance Is Bullshit: Blend Instead 15 Part II A Workbook for Rising Women 4 “Moving Up” versus Rising: How to use this book to lift up every area of your life 21 5 V Squared: How to know your values and know your value 27 6 Vision Boards Are Bullshit: How to set effective goals 43 7 It’s All About the Journey: How and why to write your bucket list 55 Self 8 Filling Up Your Soul: How to stay stable and ride the roller coaster 61 9 Breaking Out of Your Bubble: How to keep growing into the person you want to be 89 Work 10 Choose Your Own Adventure: How to make career moves that match your values 97 11 Work-Life Blend: How to ditch balance and get people on board with blending 109 12 When Breadwinning Doesn’t Feel Like “Winning”: How to cope with pressure and keep your financial promises 123 Personal 13 “Thanks for asking”: How to name expectations, make agreements, and carry your own bags 135 14 “Mommy, don’t go!”: How to get over guilt and be the parent you want to be 149 15 The Business of Family: How to build culture and be a leader at home 173 16 Territory versus Tribe: How to foster friendships that bring out your best 185 17 Why Blending Matters: How to get laser focus to create your legacy 195 Part III Keep Blending for Life 18 Things to Do Because I Want To: Build your own blended life 211 Conclusion: What’s Next? 215 Index of Coaching Exercises 217 Index 219

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Book SynopsisExtend the principles of diversity and inclusion to your company's suppliers Many people are familiar with the importance of ensuring and advancing inclusion, equity, and diversity amongst their employees and managers. But do your efforts include supplier diversityan equally as important and essential part of any holistic diversity effort? In Supplier Diversity For Dummies, nationally recognized small business strategist and economic inclusion and supplier diversity expert Kathey Porter delivers an empowering and informative guide to implementing this integral part of any robust inclusion initiative: supplier diversity. You'll understand the relevance of supplier diversity and why it's important to encourage equal opportunity for diverse suppliers and businesses owned and managed by underrepresented groups. In this book, you'll also find: The answers to your most pressing questions about how to build a coherent and sustainable supplier diversity programWays to contribute more fully Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started with Supplier Diversity 5 Chapter 1: Understanding the Growing Demand for Supplier Diversity 7 Chapter 2: Understanding the Foundation of Supplier Diversity 21 Chapter 3: Supplier Diversity Management: A New Way of Thinking 31 Chapter 4: Distinguishing between Supplier Diversity and DEI 43 Chapter 5: Digging into Supplier Diversity within the Organization 53 Part 2: Developing Internal (Organizational) Supplier Diversity Efforts 69 Chapter 6: Gauging Your Organization's Diversity Climate 71 Chapter 7: Making the Case for Supplier Diversity 89 Chapter 8: Building Support for Supplier Diversity Programs 97 Chapter 9: Identifying Common Barriers to Supplier Diversity 107 Chapter 10: Creating an Effective Supplier Diversity Plan 117 Part 3: Supplier Development and Supplier Diversity 129 Chapter 11: Creating an Environment that Puts Diverse Businesses First 131 Chapter 12: Building Capacity 143 Part 4: Examining External (Community) Supplier Diversity Efforts 153 Chapter 13: Highlighting the Stages of Supplier Diversity Programs 155 Chapter 14: Cultivating Community Partners to Drive Supplier Diversity 165 Part 5: Using Technology and Compliance to Enhance Supplier Diversity 175 Chapter 15: Telling the World About Your Supplier Diversity Efforts 177 Chapter 16: Establishing Supplier Diversity Metrics, Benchmarks, and KPIs 185 Chapter 17: Understanding Tier 2/Subcontracting Spend 197 Chapter 18: Getting a Grip on Goal Setting in Supplier Diversity 207 Chapter 19: Tracking, Measuring, and Reporting Metrics in Supplier Diversity: It's All in the Numbers 215 Part 6: Building a Career in Supplier Diversity 227 Chapter 20: Becoming a Supplier Diversity Professional 229 Chapter 21: Supplier Diversity Certifications and Continuing Education 239 Part 7: The Part of Tens 249 Chapter 22: Nearly Ten Ways to Become an Effective Supplier Diversity Leader 251 Chapter 23: Ten (Plus One) Ways to Create a World-Class Supplier Diversity Program 257 Chapter 24: Ten Myths about Supplier Diversity 265 Index 271

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Book SynopsisI will lead with integrity and I will tell the truth.Kamala Harris wants your voice to be heard. I'm Speaking is a collection of empowering words from a trailblazing leader who believes we can reach a better, stronger tomorrow together. She is no stranger to being the first to take action and break into new leadership roles, and her example, resolve, and strength of character affirm that she will not be the last. This book of quotations is not only a source of her wisdom, but a beacon of compassion, encouragement, and assurance that the future is for everyone. I'm Speaking is a hopeful reminder that unity is not found by following the loudest voice, but by inspiring us all to speak up and speak out until everyone's voice is heard.- Pore over nearly 150 moving quotes on integrity, leadership, and empathy- Admire Kamala Harris's power, poise, and limitless aspirations for a better world- Look to a brighter future and celebrate the first Bla

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Book SynopsisThe ultimate playbook for crushing it at work, from the first CEO of Barstool Sports.She worked hand-in-hand with a founder who was a lightning rod for controversyOK, for stepping in it. She grew a chaotic company (Vanity Fair called it a pirate ship) housed over a dentist's office outside of Boston that published giveaway papers into a juggernaut with more than 5 billion monthly video views and 225 million followers valued at 550 million dollars. Erika Ayers Badan calls herself a token CEO, the rare female employee in the highest rank of a bro-roar sports and new media culture. She's also a massive student of work: how to do it, how to be effective at it, how to get noticed, how to crush it, how to figure out what you love and do it as a job. She's figured it out, after big marketing jobs in large traditional corporations like Microsoft and AOL, for herself; she's figured it out for friends; she figured it out for the thousands of people who listened to her

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive and engaging biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of the beloved classic The Yearling.Trade Review"McCutchan is a sensitive observer of Rawlings’s work, and of her deeply unconventional life... It’s a pleasure to meet this cursing, hard-drinking, brilliant, self-destructive, car-wrecking, fun-loving, chain-smoking, alligator-hunting, moonshine-making, food-obsessed woman again on the page... Come to this biography for Rawlings’s outsize personality... Stay for the portrait of a woman whose writing meant everything to her." -- Dwight Garner - New York Times"[McCutchan] has a graceful style enlivened by glints of wry humor... The book re-creates the lush tropicality of north-central Florida in the 1930s and 1940s, before developers began to bulldoze over its natural wonders. And readers get a penetrating look at one driven writer's work process... [A] vivid portrait of a woman who gave her all to do her best work." -- Mary Ann Gwinn - Minneapolis Star Tribune"An engaging, lively biography of an accomplished and complicated woman... All of it adds up to a rich portrait of a woman who loved Florida, and of a Florida that’s now all but vanished." -- Colette Bancroft - Tampa Bay Times"Rawlings cleared her path through life as though armed with a machete; McCutchan, gracefully, records every chop." -- Jonathan Miles - Garden & Gun"Absorbing, affectionate, and long overdue... McCutchan looks closely at Rawlings’ letters, stories, novels and memoirs and mines the ways they reveal Rawlings’ writerly mind... The Life She Wished to Live is the biography that Rawlings has long deserved." -- BookPage"It’s been a quarter of a century since we’ve had a new biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and Ann McCutchan delivers. From Rawlings’s early newspaper days to the triumph of The Yearling, McCutchan shows us a writer of complexity, ambition, and conviction. A deeply researched and satisfying read." -- Martha Ackmann, author of These Fevered Days"An affectionate biography of the beloved author…Work by work, McCutchan carefully details Rawlings’s gradual development as a professional writer who keenly absorbed [Cross Creek, Florida’s] history, culture, and dialects…An all-inclusive and intimate assessment that could help Rawlings attract a new generation of readers." -- Kirkus Reviews"In Ann McCutchan’s welcome biography, we follow Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s evolution as a writer, glimpse her friendships with writers as various as Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, Margaret Mitchell and Zora Neale Hurston, and witness her vibrant literary life. Most striking is the fascinating account, unearthed from letters, of Rawlings’ personal struggle against what we would now call racist consciousness and her evolution as an ally of early 20th century struggles for social justice." -- Honor Moore, author of Our Revolution"How many contradictions can one life contain? Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings bridged the world of alligator hunting/orange growing/racially segregated early 20th century Florida and the world of legendary writers and elite New York-based editors. Ann McCutchan’s richly researched biography of the Pulitzer prize-winning author vividly portrays the uncompromising, hard-drinking and versatile Rawlings, who was equally at home wading through swamps as she was writing a novel or a cookbook, or conversing with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston and Robert Frost. The complexities of Rawlings’ massive inner insecurities and her outward, outsized personality make for a compelling and thoughtful biography." -- Julie Dobrow, author of After Emily

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Book SynopsisRooted in feminist political thought, She City illuminates how gender shapes our urban spaces and city design. Through three sections: ''Resisting Sexist Cities'', ''Designing Feminist Cities'', and ''Prioritizing Safer Cities'', Kalms examines barriers to women''s public participation and focuses on the practical strategies, policies and actions to overcome them.Addressing significant themes such as violence against women and gender-sensitive design, She City not only provides direction for practitioners but also inspires confidence to pursue new paths towards women-centered urban environments. This book is an essential resource for architects, urban designers, planners and the plethora of built environment specialists committed to building cities that truly meet the diverse needs of women and girls.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Acknowledgments 1. Women in Cities: An Introduction 2. Don't Stand So Close to Me: Sexist Street Harassment and Women's 'Safety Work' 3. Fake Happy: Hypersexual Cities and Women's Inequity 4. Missing Women: Smart Women in the Data Gap 5. Girls to the Front: Mainstreaming Women's Needs 6. Not Neutral: Designing Cities for Women 7. Expanding Expertise: Women's Safety Audits 8. Train Wreck: Public Transport and Women's Safety 9. Eyes on the Street: Women and Urban Crime Prevention 10. On the Edge of the Night: Women and the Nighttime Economy 11. Run the World: Co-design in a Feminist Framework References Index

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Book SynopsisThrough a series of arresting vignettes and a collection of nameless characters, Alice Birch examines the language, behaviour and forces that shape women in the 21st century. The play asks what''s stopping us from doing something truly radical to change them?Written in response to the provocation that well-behaved women seldom make history, the play is an assault on the language that has fueled violence against women throughout history. Problematic language frequently attached to women is interrogated, from lazy sexist clichés to the conventions around a marriage proposal. Through doing so, the play rails against the conventions of work, sex, motherhood, aging and love. Revolt. She said. Revolt again was first performed at the 2014 Midsummer Mischief Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon. It transferred to the Royal Court Upstairs and was more recently produced at New York''s Soho Rep.It is published here in a Student Edition alongside commentary and notes by Marissia Fragkou, who locTrade ReviewAlice Birch doesn’t want this work to be unseen. Her angry and frantic play Revolt. She aaid. Revolt again is an experimental work focused on using a feminist voice which is loud; a feminist voice which seeks to change the world not through small increments but through a revolution: through the destruction of language; through the destruction of society... * Guardian *Ms. Birch’s play, which became a hit for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2014, has a way of making you question everything you say when it comes to discussing women and their relationships with men, one another and a world in a state of unending upheaval... Linguistic confusion plagues the frantic souls portrayed... Even the play’s title, with its use of periods instead of commas, suggests the difficulty of getting words out and how inadequate they seem when you do... Yet Revolt teems with the same anarchic fury that possessed Jimmy Porter [in Look Back in Anger] and the same frustrated awareness that there are no easy fixes for an unsatisfactory social system... Instead, Ms. Birch is articulating the alternatives that come to women’s minds in dealing with how they are dealt with — as objects of love and lust, as employees and employers, as mothers and daughters. * New York Times *Acts One to Three are dialogues. Issues of gender language change into material questions of marriage, of women in capitalism, women raped and colonised, women desperate for refusal of the roles imposed on them. By Act Four, everything is deconstructed and there isn’t dialogue anymore... We witness conversations, haunting solo performances, disturbing statements about or directed to women, and a lack of genuine solutions provided in a system that benefits from oppression... In many ways, this play is a call to arms. It exposes the contradictions in simply refusing sexism in words, which is promoted as “revolutionary” by the very agents of the status quo. * Diva Mag *Table of ContentsIntroduction Historical and cultural contexts Scene analysis Critical reception List of key productions Works Cited Revolt. She said. Revolt again Notes

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Book SynopsisAn entertaining and insightful portrait of life as a policewoman in the Met from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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Book SynopsisA focused history of the daily life and challenges of the American War for Independence as they affected women.

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Book SynopsisCommemorates the role of service and serving women in the Second World War.

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Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the 20th century Morris dancing had all but died out in much of England. It was militant suffragettes and slum girls who kick-started the revival that returned the forgotten dances of the countryside to towns and villages across the nation. As a result of their commitment to preserve and pass on the dances, the Morris survived as a living tradition that is still performed to this day. And the impetus to do so came from the women's aspiration to change society for the better, the same impetus that drove them to militant action and to prison.The Morris revival and the militant suffrage movement were inextricably linked. The leader of the dance revival, Mary Neal, was a life-long radical campaigner for the rights of women and children. With her friend Emmeline Pethick she ran the Esperance Girls' Club in one of London's most deprived areas. She and Emmeline both sat on the national committee of Mrs Pankhurst's militant Women's Social and Political Union, the most notor

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Book SynopsisDiscover the stories of the intrepid women who have raced cars from 1897 onwards and see that the idea of women as racing drivers is almost as old as motorsport itself.

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Book SynopsisA fresh and modern reevaluation of this fascinating princess.

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Book SynopsisAn original, compellingly told story of women''s fight to represent their country abroad in the face of opposition from the men of the Foreign Office''A fascinating account of the manoeuvres of the leaders of the Foreign Office to prevent the admission of women to its diplomatic and consular services'' Spectator''The women are striking, the trajectories of their often brief careers compelling'' ObserverThroughout the twentieth century and long before, hundreds of determined British women defied the social conventions of their day in order to seek adventure and influence on the world stage. Some became travellers and explorers; others business-owners or buyers; others still devoted their lives to worthy international causes, from anti-slavery and women's suffrage to the League of Nations and world peace. Yet until 1946, no British woman could officially represent her nation abroad. It was only after decades of campaigning and the heroic lTrade ReviewA lustrous book which traces the often agonising rise of women in the Foreign Office and mercilessly dissects the resistance they encountered * Peter Hennessy *A path-breaking account, from one of our leading and most original historians of modern Britain, of how the male-dominated world of British diplomacy gradually – and grudgingly – let professional women in. It should be read by everyone who works in the Foreign Office, or in British embassies overseas, and by anyone, anywhere, who is concerned about the part that women have played, do play and should play, in the making of foreign policy and the conduct of international relations * David Cannadine *McCarthy has produced a sometimes humorous but often dispiriting picture of what women who had set their sights on foreign posting continued to experience, long after they had won a toehold in other fields * Literary Review *Helen McCarthy has conducted a lot of valuable interviews for her book and researched assiduously * Evening Standard *A fascinating account of the manoeuvres of the leaders of the Foreign Office to prevent the admission of women to its diplomatic and consular services * Spectator *The women are striking, the trajectories of their often brief careers compelling * Observer *This pioneering study gives a penetrating, readable and most welcome introduction to a neglected set of issues, and will be gratefully received by a wide readership * Times Higher Education Supplement *

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Book Synopsis''A brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, exasperating fury of a book'' New York Times''Germaine Greer has given women just the book they need for this time of their lives. Read it, pass it on, talk about it, disagree with it, keep the circle going'' Washington PostThe seminal, ground-breaking and controversial feminist text on the menopause, revised and updatedWhen The Change was published in 1991, menopause' was a word of fear. Then, as now, expensive magazines advertised even more expensive anti-ageing preparations, none of which worked. Big pharma was pushing replacement hormones, but doctors were dragging their feet. Some women told horror stories of their experiences with replacement hormones; others called them lifesavers.Nobody knew why some women went through this change of life without difficulty. What was working for them, when other women were tormented almost to madness?It seemed that we were close to an answer to that question, bTrade ReviewA brilliant, gutsy, exhilarating, exasperating fury of a book * New York Times *Germaine Greer has given women just the book they need for this time of their lives. Read it, pass it on, talk about it, disagree with it, keep the circle going * Washington Post *Like Simone de Beauvoir, she has the wit and elegance to lift the [feminist] argument beyond the dreary catalogue of injustice into the realm of cultural excitement ... she is clever, witty, learned and courageous * Independent *Brilliant … Greer combines a Keatsian sense of post-climactic fruitfulness with the cackling wisdom of a white witch … An ageing Greer – she is now seventy-nine – is a good deal more interesting than most men or women, and a good deal funnier … This is an important and necessary book -- Frances Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book Synopsis''A brave new voice that reaches out to us all'' Miranda Doyle, author of A Book of Untruths 28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia amid patriarchal customs reminiscent of The Handmaid''s Tale, and her journey to find freedom in India, Germany and the UK.Talkhani offers a fresh perspective on living as an outsider and examines her relationship with her mother and the challenges she faced when she experienced hair loss at a young age. Rejecting the traditional path her culture had chosen for her, Talkhani became financially independent and married on her own terms in the UK. Drawing on her personal experiences Talkhani shows how she fought for the right to her individuality as a Muslim feminist and refused to let negative experiences define her.Trade ReviewTalkhani writes with disarming honesty about how she was able to finally forge an identity away from the confines of family and religion. * Vogue *A fearless voice that tells its hard-won truths with immense strength, and a lot of love. It is a beautiful and important book which belongs at the centre of our cultural life. * Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young *Fascinating * Scotsman *Touching on often taboo subjects like hair loss, Talkhani's story of grit is a portrait of a young woman who refused to let others define her. * ELLE *Insightful...Written with unflinching honesty . . . Political, personal, religious, revealing and beautifully written, Talkhani is a writer to watch. * Stylist *Brilliant and brutally honest, this memoir ropes you in with every page. The intimacy that Zeba evokes will remind you of your own sister opening her heart to you. * Meena Kandasamy, author of When I Hit You, shortlisted for The Women’s Prize *An addictive, vital read. Talkhani interrogates the outsider narrative in ways that feel expansive, timely and wholly inspiring. * Irenosen Okojie, author of Butterfly Fish *A brave new voice that reaches out to us all. * Miranda Doyle, author of A Book of Untruths *

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Book SynopsisUsing detailed case studies, this innovative book draws upon new archival research, industrial analysis and close textual readings to consider cinema's place in the fictions and critical writings of major female literary figures.

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Book SynopsisA blueprint for the next generation of feminist activists Fight Like a Girl offers a vision of the past, present, and future of feminism. With an eye toward what it takes to create actual change and a deep understanding of women's history and the key issues facing girls and young women today, Megan Seely offers a pragmatic introduction to feminism. Written in an upbeat and personal style, Fight Like a Girl offers an overview of feminism, including historical roots, myths and meanings, triumphs and shortcomings. Sharing personal stories from her own experience as a young activist, as a mother, and as a teacher, Seely offers a practical guide to getting involved, taking action, and waging successful events and campaigns. The second edition addresses more themes and topics than before, including gender and sexuality, self-esteem, reproductive health, sexual violence, body image and acceptance, motherhood and family, and intersections of identities, such as race, gender, class, and sexualiTrade Review"Feeling angry about how women are treated? Fight Like a Girl is perfect for women of all ages, with thoughtful analysis, helpful advice, and useful resources." -- Cindy Pearson,Executive Director of National Women's Health Network (NWHN)

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Book SynopsisReimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of knowledge productionIn Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics. Each chapter draws our attention to particular aspects of pornotropic capture that black and brown bodies must always negotiate. Though these technologies differ according to the nature of their encounters with white supremacy, together they add to our understanding of the ways that structures of domination produce violence and work to contain bodies and pleasures within certain legible parameters.To do so, Sensual Excess analyzes moments of brown jouissance that exceed these constraints. These ruptures illuminate multiple epistemologies of selfhood and sensuality that offer framewoTrade ReviewTending to a lush theoretical ground of brownness and being realized through the senses, Amber Musser’s Sensual Excess challenges the very dimensions of normative ways of reading and sensing minoritarian epistemologies…. Inviting empathy and embodiment to ways of knowing, the text pulses with both sentient and critical offerings from an archive of explicit body performances that center racialized and sexualized works of art. * Women & Performance *Seductive, urgent, and poetic, Sensual Excess is a vital contribution to psycho-analytic theory, critical race studies, and queer theory. Guided by the senses and therefore not inhibited by mastery, Musser still manages to astonish the reader with her dazzling theoretical dexterity, a model for the relentless engagement one must deploy in projects concerning flesh. * QED *In a feat of sheer poeticism, Sensual Excess offers readers a lucid consideration of various representational strategies employed by artists of color in order to rewrite the scripts positioned on their bodies. Mussers attunement to the sensesespecially taste, touch, and smelllend a particularly textured quality to the book, and aids in her brilliant construction of an expansive and juicy framework for pondering the rich versions of the self, and the other, as staged in brown feminine performance. -- Uri McMillan, author of Embodied Avatars: Geneaologies of Black Feminist Art and PerformanceThis book is a model for how to read, engage, think with, and celebrate black, brown, feminist, queer, and sex-centered art practices. Sensual Excess is a sustained argument for and celebration of the sensual politics of work by artists like Xandra Ibarra, Mickalene Thomas, Nao Bustamante, and Lyle Ashton Harris. Mussers writing centers on the performative space of the encounter with art objects and practicesblack and brown life unfolds not only in these artworks but around and through them. Mussers writing is distinguished by a devotion to the material detail of these works, to their vitality, to their philosophical intensities, to their ecstatic and transformative potential. -- Jennifer Doyle, author of Hold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

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Book SynopsisCalifornia Dreams and American Contradictions establishes a genealogy of western American women writers publishing between 1870 and 1965 to argue that both white women and women of color regionalized dominant national literary trends to negotiate the contradictions between an American liberal individualism and American equality. Monique McDade analyzes works by María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Helen Hunt Jackson, Sui Sin Far, and a previously unstudied African American writer, Eva Rutland, to trace an archive of western American women writers who made visible what dominant genres subsumed under images of American progress and westward expansion. Read together these writers provide new entry points into the political debates that have plagued the United States since the nation’s founding and that set the precedent for westward expansion. Their romances, regional sketches, memoirs, and journalism point to the inherently antagonistic relationship between a RoosTrade Review“California Dreams and American Contradictions shows great intellectual agility in its ability to make complex connections using fluent and highly readable language. It is deeply intersectional. . . . It is a book that any scholar on the topic will want to read from cover to cover, and it opens new ground for future scholarship.”—Victoria Lamont, author of Westerns: A Women’s History“Especially in our current moment of reckoning with the legacies of exclusion and racism in the United States and globally, this study performs essential work of historical recovery and intervention. It makes a substantial contribution to feminist critical regionalism in the U.S. West and to feminist and American studies more broadly. It engages a powerful set of theoretical tools to create a sophisticated argument across disciplines and fields of study.”—Audrey Goodman, author of A Planetary Lens: The Photo-Poetics of Western Women’s WritingTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: A Frontier Ethic and the American Paradox 1. “Autoethnographic” Heroines: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton’s Sentimental Novels, Who Would Have Thought It? and The Squatter and the Don 2. The Liberal Fantasy: Helen Hunt Jackson’s Sentimental Advocacy in Ramona 3. Sui Sin Far’s Genre of Intervention: The Regional Sketch and the “Real” in Realism 4. An Autobiography of Western American Integration: Eva Rutland and Her Alternative Politics of Respectability Conclusion: Joan Didion’s Sacramento and Arlie Russell Hochschild’s “Deep Story” Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe women of the Third Reich were a vital part in a complex and vilified system. What was their role within its administration, the concentration camps, and the Luftwaffe and militia units and how did it evolve in the way it did? We hear from women who issued typewritten dictates from above through to those who operated telephones, radar systems, fought fires as the cities burned around them, drove concentration camp inmates to their deaths like cattle, fired Anti-Aircraft guns at Allied aircraft and entered the militias when faced with the impending destruction of what should have been a one thousand-year Reich. Every testimony is unique, each person a victim of circumstance entwined within the thorns of an ideological obligation. In an interview with Traudl Junge, Hitler's private secretary, she remembers: There was so much hatred within it's hard to understand how the state functioned I am convinced all this infighting and competition from the males in Hitler's circle was highly detrimental to its downfall'. _Women of the Third Reich_ provides an intriguing, humorous, brutal, shocking and unrelenting narrative journey into the half lights of the hell of human consciousness - sometimes at its worst.

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Book Synopsis'Full of wisdom and insight ... I cannot recommend it enough' Julia Samuel'Brilliant' Katy Hessel'Fascinating ... a valuable contribution to a wider debate about how women are permitted to own and express their desires' GuardianFrom a young bride-to-be struggling to accept her sexuality, to a mother grappling with questions of identity and belonging, and a pensioner falling in love for the first time, What Women Want is an enthralling and deeply intimate examination of womanhood.With empathy and bravery, psychotherapist Maxine Mei-Fung Chung delves into what makes us who we are. Through her conversations with her patients, she lays bare our fears, our secrets, our wants, and ultimately, our capacity for healing.To desire is an action. This extraordinary book liberates and empowers us to claim what we truly want.Trade ReviewThis début from a leading psychotherapist is an enthralling, intersectional investigation of female desire * Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller *I couldn't stop thinking about these women's stories. The best book on female desire and longing since Three Women * Abigail Bergstrom, author of What a Shame *Maxine's book is insightful, tender and brilliant. I am enraptured by these women's stories. * Katy Hessel, Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Story of Art without Men *A rich and intimate examination of female desire, Maxine's book is full of wisdom and insight. I cannot recommend it enough * Julia Samuel *A compelling read * Sally Huband *

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Book SynopsisA bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of Latin American writers.'You can't really know another woman until you know yourself.'Weaving together two parallel narratives, this is the story of Feliciana, an indigenous curandera (healer), and of Zoë, a journalist: two women drawn together by the murder of Feliciana's cousin Paloma.In the tiny village of San Felipe in Jalisco province, where traditional ways of life and belief are a present reality, Feliciana tells the story of her life, her community's acceptance of her as a genuine curandera and the difficulties faced by her cousin Paloma who is a Muxe (both male and female), in her case a trans woman.Growing up in Mexico City, the heart of modern Mexico, Zoë attempts to find her way in a hostile world made for men, as she reflects on what drew her to Feliciana and Paloma, and her own relationship with the innate powers of a curandera.This extraordinary novel envisions the writer as healer, one who uses El Lenguaje (Language) to read El Libro (The Book) that contains the mystery of the world, and offers a generous and distinctly female way of understanding the complex world we all inhabit.Translated from the Spanish by Heather ClearyTrade ReviewBraiding together the voices of two women - a mystic and a skeptic - Witches, to borrow Brenda Lozano's words by way of Heather Cleary's translation, runs into shadows to bring light. This is a story of the world's repeated failure to control feminine power and the sheer magic of language itself. An enthralling, passionate story about secrets both holy and profane -- Catherine Lacey * author of Pew and Nobody is Ever Missing *Like the language of mushrooms: beautiful, brutal and beguiling, opening a new path to knowledge. -- Chloe AridjisHighly original, beautifully written and graced with a hypnotically compelling narrative style. A remarkable book -- Jon Lee AndersonAlternating between the quotidian and the incantatory, Witches weaves together two personal and political histories, casting a potent spell of fury and curiosity, heartache and healing. Sibylline, rich, and incredibly precise in its construction, Witches exhibits Lozano's total mastery of her art on every page, insisting on the primacy and power of storytelling, and the right of all Others to claim it -- Maryse Meijer * author of The Seventh Mansion *"Though the book chronicles violence against women and those who present as women, it highlights, in both rural and urban communities, an atmosphere of freedom and mobility that is a pleasure to read about" * New York Times *The language that Brenda Lozano invokes in Witches belongs to unknown realms but also builds bridges between worlds-it knits kinships and illuminates ancestral knowledge still present today. In this superb, precise and ethical translation by Heather Cleary, Lozano's language truly becomes a site of revelation -- Gabriela JaureguiThe two women's coming of age tales are simply and subtly told, and made more immediate by the book's structure with its emphasis on oral recall. Lozano manages to portray two disparate worlds convincingly, while persuading us of their parallels . . . [daring] to imagine a Mexico that sees commonalities across cultures and genders -- Patrick Graney * Literary Review *Lozano knows she is gifted and has no shame in showing it -- Margarita García Robayo * author of Fish Soup *Brenda Lozano is among several contemporary Mexican writers whose playfully innovative work has met with acclaim in the UK . . . Let's hope more of [her] work will follow * Guardian *An invitation for readers of all genders to disinherit themselves from their roles and to renounce the omnipresent male narrator * El Economista *An injection of electricity, a music that continues to be heard far beyond its pages * Mauro Libertella *Brenda Lozano is a splendid writer, brilliant, funny, subtly perverse, always moving -- Francisco Goldman

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Book SynopsisA fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell and the places we call home. Flyover country, the middle of nowhere, the space between the coasts. The American Midwest is a place beyond definition, whose very boundaries are a question. It’s a place of rolling prairies and towering pines, where guns in bars and trucks on blocks are as much a part of the landscape as rivers and lakes and farms. Where girls are girls and boys are boys, where women are mothers and wives, where one is taught to work hard and live between the lines. But what happens when those lines become increasingly unclear? When a girl, like the land that raised her, finds herself neither here nor there? In this intrepid collection of essays, Melissa Faliveno traverses the liminal spaces of her childhood in working-class Wisconsin and the paths she’s traveled since, compelled by questions of girlhood and womanhood, queerness and class, and how the lands of our upbringing both define and complicate us even long after we’ve left. Part personal narrative, part cultural reportage, Tomboyland navigates midwestern traditions, mythologies, landscapes, and lives to explore the intersections of identity and place. From F5 tornadoes and fast-pitch softball to gun culture, strange glacial terrains, kink party potlucks, and the question of motherhood, Faliveno asks curious, honest, and often darkly funny questions about belonging and the body, isolation and community, and what we mean when we use words like woman, family, and home.Trade Review“[A] winning debut collection…Readers who prefer to answer their questions about gender and sexuality with more questions will appreciate this perceptive meditation.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Delves deeply into gender identity and the many confusions and complications involved…Throughout the collection, Faliveno remains inquisitive and resistant to labels, always maintaining her empowering agency…the essays are well-rendered investigations of self-identity. An expressive voice evolving deliberately, resisting having to be one thing or the other.” —Kirkus Reviews “Encountering Faliveno is a pleasure…a sensitive commentator on the topsy-turvy world of the gender systems she grew up in and an exquisite self-analyst of her own androgyny…writing with a quality of cinematic vividness…Recommended.” —Library Journal “Faliveno’s dynamic essay collection…inhabits the spaces in-between—male and female, Wisconsin and New York, personal and political, fear and desire—and probes the profound paradoxes of personhood.” —OprahMag.com “A wonder to read. Bravo.” —Alma “Together, the essays offer a full-dress portrait of a writer whom most readers will be intrigued to know.” —Booklist “Melissa Faliveno transports readers to the Midwest, a region of the country that, not unlike the idea of a ‘tomboy,’ resists neat categorization. The book blends personal essays with culture reporting to explore the liminal spaces Faliveno—and so many other queer folks—inhabit and navigate each and every day.” —NewNowNext “In this essay collection about identity, class, sex, and gender, you’ll find deeply personal revelations that anyone can connect with. Each essay offers a unique perspective on topics we’ve all thought about, whether we’re a tomboy from the suburbs, a straight mountain man, or anything in between. Because there is no binary.” —Electric Literature “Gender, class, geographic placing, and so much more are explored honestly and fully in this collection of essays.” —Vogue.com “In her debut collection of essays, [Faliveno] examines the complicated—and often contradictory—parts of her life: the first time she shot a gun; her experiences in BDSM as a feminist; and navigating androgyny and bisexuality, womanhood and rage, religion and myth, loneliness and love.” —PureWow “These essays are a love letter to, reckoning with, and examination of [Faliveno’s] midwestern upbringing…Faliveno doesn't always definitively answer the questions she asks—and after all, how could she, when existential issues of identity, belonging, language, and the body are rarely if ever static—but she does manage to get satisfyingly close…to have roots, Tomboyland seems to be saying, is to have the ability to grow upward, out, and sometimes away, but to always have a context to return to.” —NPR.org “The book is a love letter to the Midwest, celebrating its strength and complexities.” —Wisconsin Public Radio “Faliveno is an excellent essayist, expertly braiding seemingly disparate threads into engrossing and funny explorations of self and society…The theme of violence intertwined with fear, love and reverence for place and created family propels Tomboyland into captivating territory. On the surface, its beautiful prose belies the darker complexities it scrapes at, making it all the more gratifying to read.” —The Washington Post “[A] wide-ranging, triumphant debut essay collection. With tenderness and honesty, Faliveno explores boundaries, intersections, and the overall blurriness of life.” —The Millions “Tomboyland is everything I want an essay collection to be: beautiful, smart, difficult, honest, hopeful, and haunting, just like the experiences it depicts. It is a book that charts the history of a body against the land that defines it. It is a song for anyone who felt at once estranged and inextricably bound to a place. Melissa Faliveno has written a gorgeously complex ode to the Midwest that is destined to be passed urgently from hand to hand, an anthem sung by all the misfits in those vast places who have not yet seen themselves written.” —Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me “Tomboyland, Melissa Faliveno’s excellent collection of essays on growing up in Wisconsin and then beyond it, will give many people permission to be who they are and to write into and about where they’re from. It will also show you how and when to leave that place, and how you can’t ever leave it completely. Each essay carries Faliveno’s Wisconsin inside it and made me want to lift weights in a dingy gym, welcome a moth infestation, kick ass at softball, rewatch Twister, and even visit Mount Horeb, the ‘Troll Capital of the World.’ If it can work on me this fast, I can only imagine what this book will do to you.” —Ander Monson, author of I Will Take the Answer and Neck Deep and Other Predicaments “These essays showcase, via hard-won displays, a twenty-first-century mind working to understand itself. Among the many treats of Tomboyland is how Melissa Faliveno’s self-investigation doesn’t just look inward to memory, experience, or feelings. Over the course of this book, she also looks externally in her quest for personal knowledge—turning to archives, interviews, and journalistic immersion. Such an extensive and dogged scope shows both how unique and how interconnected a single life can be. In Faliveno’s deft hands, we experience all that builds a consciousness—food and sex and softball, dark bars and sprawling landscapes, roller derbies and deep conversations, and the F5 tornado that is human love.” —Elena Passarello, author of Animals Strike Curious Poses “In these smartly constructed, urgently delivered essays on class, gender, violence, rage, love, and sexuality—issues as entwined in these pages as they are in life—Melissa Faliveno brilliantly scrutinizes our most contemporary, most vital questions of self and culture. I didn’t just read Tomboyland, I scribbled in its pages, photographed its passages, pressed it on friends, and felt an urgent need to talk about it. It will spark conversations that will become conflagrations. Tomboyland is a blaze of a book, as fiery and expansive as the Midwestern sky.” —Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, author of The Fact of a Body “I felt Melissa Faliveno’s Midwest on a gut level—its F5 tornadoes, its rolling prairies, its bighearted people working their asses off. I grew up here, but it’s okay if you didn’t; Tomboyland will show you, tangling your body in place and the overwhelming need to both go back home and get the hell out. Faliveno’s deeply felt and deeply researched essays—part personal narrative, part cultural criticism—feature softballs and guns, dresses and babies and bondage. They interrogate gender and expectations, what it means to be a family, to build a home in this beautiful mess of a world. My brain is still buzzing. So is my heart.” —Megan Stielstra, author of The Wrong Way to Save Your Life “In Tomboyland, Melissa Faliveno examines the spaces, selves, histories, and futures that live in the distance between binaries: between the bodies we have and the ones we claim, between the homes that have made us and those we have made for ourselves. This is a remarkable debut. I am grateful for the arrival of this bold new voice.” —Lacy M. Johnson, author of The Reckonings “Tomboyland works through unlikely juxtaposition—tornadoes alongside God, vegetarianism alongside kink, guns alongside love. It is a coming-of-age story where everything is examined, everything is questioned, where the word driftless is both a region and a state of mind. At one point Faliveno’s mother, while cooking meat, states, ‘If I think about it, then I have to look at my whole life.’ Faliveno takes this as a challenge, as she builds a life for us before our eyes. It is, in the end, about the nature of relationships, of love, of being alive.” —Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and The Ticking Is the Bomb

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Book SynopsisWomen are often told by their communities that being a mother will complete or define them. But many mothers find themselves depleted and spiritually stagnant amid the everyday demands of being a mom. They long to experience a rich inner life but feel there is rarely enough time, energy, or stillness to connect with God in a meaningful way. This book takes the concept of rewilding and applies it to motherhood. Just as an environmentalist seeks to rewild land by returning it to its natural state, Shannon Evans invites women to rewild motherhood by reclaiming its essence through an expansive feminine spirituality. Drawn from the contemplative Catholic tradition and Evans's own parenting experience, Rewilding Motherhood helps women deepen their connection to God through practices inherent to the life they're living now. Topics include work-life balance, identity, solitude, patience, household work, and mission for the common good. Throughout, Evans encourages women to see motherhood as an opportunity to discover a vibrant feminine spirituality and a deeper knowledge of God and self.Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionPart 1: Growing Inward1. Forging Identity: Self-Actualization beyond the Roles We Serve2. Maintaining Boundaries: Generosity toward Self and Others3. Holding Tension: The Sacred Work of Integration4. Reclaiming Solitude: Transforming Loneliness into anInner Well5. Following Anger: The Redemptive Power of Outrage6. Staying Curious: Fearless Nurture of Our Spiritual Selves7. Cultivating Patience: Holy Resistance in an Age of Rush8. Heeding Intuition: Divine Movement through Feminine WisdomPart 2: Flowing Outward9. Embodying Hospitality: Fertility That Embraces the Whole World10. Becoming Gentle: Tenderness in Exchange for Criticism11. Releasing Control: Permission to Stop Playing God12. Valuing Work: Spiritual Teachings of Household Labor13. Living Incarnation: Finding God in Our Bodies, Home, and Earth14. Reimagining God: Making Space for a Divine MotherhoodBenediction

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Book SynopsisA visual and global chronicle of the triumphs, challenges, and impact of over 100 women in architecture, from early practitioners to contemporary leaders. Marion Mahony Griffin passed the architectural licensure exam in 1898 and created exquisite drawings that buoyed the reputation of Frank Lloyd Wright. Her story is one of the many told in The Women Who Changed Architecture, which sets the record straight on the transformative impact women have made on architecture. With in-depth profiles and stunning images, this is the most comprehensive look at women in architecture around the world, from the nineteenth century to today. Discover contemporary leaders, like MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, spearheading sustainable design initiatives, reimagining cities as equitable spaces, and directing architecture schools. An essential read for architecture students, architects, and anyone interested in how buildings are created and the history behind them.

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Book SynopsisIn a post-pandemic job market, creating a truly mum-supportive workplace is the ultimate competitive advantage. Sarah Wells, CEO of Sarah Wells Breast Pump Bags, a multimillion-dollar company empowering working mums, gives managers an inside look at what mothers really want from their leaders.

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