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For many women in their 20's and 30's, the greatest professional
hurdle they'll need to overcome has little to do with their work
life. The most focused, confident, and ambitious women can find
themselves derailed by a tiny little thing: a new baby. While more
workplaces are espousing family-friendly cultures, women are still
subject to a "parenting penalty" and high-profile conflicts between
parenting and the workplace are all over the news: from the
controversy over companies covering the costs of egg-freezing to
the debate over parental leave and childcare inspired by Marissa
Mayer's policies at Yahoo. Here's the Plan offers an inventive and
inspiring roadmap for working mothers steering their careers
through the parenting years. Author Allyson Downey,founder of
weeSpring, the Yelp for baby products," and mother of two young
children,advises readers on all practical aspects of
ladder-climbing while parenting, such as negotiating leave, flex
time, and promotions. In the style of #GIRLBOSS or Nice Girls Don't
Get the Corner Office, Here's the Plan is the definitive guide for
ambitious mothers, written by one working mother to another.
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This book considers what work and retirement mean for older women,
how each is experienced, and how working fits with other facets of
their lives. The authors draw on data collected from women
themselves, employers, industry stakeholders and older workers'
advocates, to explore older women's experiences of work and
retirement against a backdrop of current policy efforts to extend
working lives in response to ageing societies. Contrary to common
representations of the situation of older workers, the data reveal
how workplaces can be seen as relatively benign, and retirement
viewed positively. It contributes to academic debate regarding
identity, purpose and meaning in later life, identifying challenges
for work-focused public policy. Students and scholars of human
resource management, sociology, gerontology and social policy will
appreciate the extension of understanding older women's life course
trajectories that the book offers. Public policy-makers will
benefit from the different representations of older women in the
book, and the identification of where they would benefit from
policy changes.
Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal
way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our
emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner,
and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our
suffering. We must be productive and heterosexual, we must have
babies and buy a house. But the kicker is most people cannot and do
not want to achieve these goals. Instead we are left feeling
atomised, exhausted and disempowered. Radical Intimacy shows that
it doesn't need to be this way. Including inspiring ideas for
alternative ways to live, Sophie K Rosa demands we use our radical
imagination to discover a new form of intimacy. Including critiques
of the 'wellness' industry that ignores rising poverty rates, the
mental health crisis and racist and misogynist state violence;
transcending love and sex under capitalism to move towards
feminist, decolonial and queer thinking; asking whether we should
abolish the family; interrogating the framing of ageing and death
and much more, Radical Intimacy is the compassionate antidote to a
callous society. Now as an audiobook, to listen to on the go.
’n Bloemlesing gedigte oor vroue, deur vroue – en vir dié wat met vroue leef. Lees oor beroepsvroue en huisvroue, verliefde, geliefde en ontnugterde vroue, vroue met kinders en sonder kinders, vroue wat in die kalklig staan en vroue wat deur grense breek. Hierdie verse beskou die heelal deur ’n vroulike blik. ’n Bundel om aan te gee vir ’n vriendin of ’n suster, vir ma’s en vir dogters, vir geliefdes – omdat ons almal ’n bietjie so is, en ook nié so is nie.
We Are Being Lied To It's time to get honest with ourselves.
Culture's beauty standards are messed up. We all know it, and we
all think we can resist the pull to look a certain way. Yet most of
us--our daughters and nieces too--still strive for a broken kind of
beauty and feel I'm. not. good. enough. For Melissa Johnson, a
marriage and family therapist, this lie eventually led to battling
an eating disorder. Through that experience, she saw that chasing
broken beauty breaks women in so many ways. She also realized that
true, soul-deep beauty is not impossible--it abounds in us and all
around us. And now Melissa's on a mission to help you · uncover
the hidden damage cultural lies about beauty have on your mind and
soul · reconnect with God, in whose image you are made · walk
away from shame and striving · love yourself--and
others--unconditionally True beauty is the fullness of life we are
longing for. It's the reality that blows our minds, affirms our
true worth, and invites us into an adventure that meets our deepest
longings. And it's true beauty that will save us if we open our
eyes to it. "Nothing is more shattered or more misunderstood in our
lives than beauty. On our own, we are unable to recapture God's
vision for it, and every generation needs guides who can
reintroduce it to us again for the first time. In Melissa Johnson,
we have such a guide."--CURT THOMPSON, MD, author of The Soul of
Desire and The Soul of Shame
Build learning environments that support Black girls' excellence
and academic achievement. In this thought-provoking and
illuminating book, former educator and social justice advocate
Monique W. Morris addresses the harmful policies, practices,
conditions, and assumptions that too often criminalize Black girls'
behavior and steer them down "school-to-confinement pathways" in
disproportionate numbers. The key to disrupting such punitive
pushout is for educators to develop meaningful relationships with
Black girls-connections that are grounded in cultural understanding
and focused on helping Black girls develop their identities as
valued individuals and contributors to the larger community. Such
relationships, Morris argues, can shift Black girls' schooling from
a punishment-oriented experience to one that is joyful, healing,
and transformative. Along with her own research and experience,
Morris explores the topic through in-depth conversations with three
distinguished educators and clinical practitioners: Venus
Evans-Winters, Janice Johnson Dias, and Kakenya Ntaiya, who provide
insights about the challenges of educating Black girls and
uplifting accounts of success in promoting their excellence and
achievement. These conversations and takeaways for practice are
essential guideposts for any teacher, school leader, and
policymaker committed to creating learning environments that dispel
damaging attitudes and practices and allow Black girls to flourish.
Today, women everywhere clamor for the latest erotic bestselling
novels--their scenes of daring sexual exploits have fired up our
collective imagination. But before we turned to fiction for our
turn-ons, Nancy Friday unleashed a sexual revolution with her
collections of uninhibited writings--the "real "fantasies of "real
"women, in books that broke "all "the rules. . . .
FORBIDDEN FLOWERS
After "My Secret Garden," Nancy Friday's first boundary-shattering
collection, rocked America and freed women to put their most
private longings and secret desires into words for all to read,
hundreds more were inspired to do just that: From the seeds sown in
"My Secret Garden "grew "Forbidden Flowers," an even more explicit
and colorful gathering of daring imaginings, uninhibited dreamings,
and real-life experimental encounters experienced by women just
like you. More fun than fiction, more supremely sexy than you ever
imagined, here are the kinds of fantasies that dare you to cross a
line and pluck some forbidden flowers of your very own.
Performing an in-depth exploration of the gendered nature of
marketing theory and practice, this timely book unpacks the many
ideological assumptions embedded in marketing thought and action.
Drawing on past and present scholarship at the intersection between
marketing and feminism, Pauline Maclaran and Andreas Chatzidakis
highlight the gendered silences in the history of marketing. By
referencing core bodies of feminist theory and engaging with
interdisciplinary perspectives on feminism and marketing, they
illustrate a comprehensive understanding of the subtleties at work
in the gendering of marketing. Structured around five key areas,
the book examines the history of marketing thought, communications,
product design and branding, marketing's free externalities, and
the marketing organisation. Identifying the biases, misconceptions
and prejudices perpetuated by gendered marketing, it concludes by
questioning if and how marketing can be de-gendered, in order to
empower and transform consumers. Tracking the evolution of feminist
thought and its critique of market-related structures and
activities, this book will prove invaluable to students and
scholars of marketing, media studies, sociology and gender studies.
With insights into industry practices, it will also prove a vital
reference guide to practitioners and policymakers working in
advertising, marketing and the media who are concerned with gender
and feminism.
This unique book analyses the impact of international human rights
on the concept of gender, demonstrating that gender emerged in the
medical study of sexuality and has a complex and broad meaning
beyond the sex and gender binaries often assumed by human rights
law. Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko skilfully illustrates the dynamics
within the field of human rights which hinder the expansion of the
concept of gender and which strategies and mechanisms allow and
facilitate such an expansion. Gender and Human Rights surveys the
development of human rights from the creation of the United Nations
up to the present day and discusses key examples of the prohibition
of violence and the regulation of culture and family in the context
of human rights. This multidisciplinary study also incorporates
additional perspectives from medical science, feminism and queer
theory. This concise yet engaging book will be a valuable resource
for scholars, students and activists working at the intersection of
gender law and human rights law, providing a critical overview of
the topic alongside strategies for future growth.
*A WATERSTONES 'BEST POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'* *A TIMES 'BEST
PHILOSOPHY AND IDEAS' BOOK OF 2021* *A GUARDIAN 'BEST POLITICS
BOOKS OF THE YEAR'* LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BUSINESS BOOK AWARD 'A
brilliant manifesto explaining why women are still so
underestimated and overlooked in today's world, but how we can also
be hopeful for change' - Philippa Perry 'An impassioned,
meticulously argued and optimistic call to arms for anyone who
cares about creating a fairer society' - Observer __________
Imagine living in a world in which you were routinely patronised by
women. Imagine having your views ignored or your expertise
frequently challenged by them. Imagine people always addressing the
woman you are with before you. Now imagine a world in which the
reverse of this is true. The Authority Gap provides a startling
perspective on the unseen bias at work in our everyday lives, to
reveal the scale of the gap that still persists between men and
women. Would you believe that US Supreme Court Justices are
interrupted four times more often than male ones... 96% of the time
by men? Or that British parents, when asked to estimate their
child's IQ will place their son at 115 and their daughter at 107?
Marshalling a wealth of data with precision and insight, and
including interviews with pioneering women such as Baroness Hale,
Mary Beard and Bernadine Evaristo, Mary Ann exposes unconscious
bias in this fresh feminist take on how to address and counteract
systemic sexism in ways that benefit us all. Includes interviews
with pioneering women such as: Baroness Hale Mary Beard Bernadine
Evaristo Mary McAleese Julia Gillard Dolly Alderton and Pandora
Sykes Cherie Blair Liz Truss Amber Rudd Frances Morris Laura Bates
__________ 'Hugely exciting' - Emily Maitlis 'Deeply researched,
profoundly thoughtful and a book very much for the here and now:
Mary Ann Sieghart's The Authority Gap is the book she was probably
born to write' - Andrew Marr 'At last here is a credible roadmap
that is capable of taking women from the margins to the centre by
bridging the authority gap that holds back even the best and most
talented of women. - Mary McAleese, Former President of Ireland
Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France
by Nicholas Shakespeare is a transcendent work of narrative
nonfiction in the vein of The Hare with Amber Eyes.
When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a trunk full of his
late aunt's personal belongings, he was unaware of where this
discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden
past. The glamorous, mysterious figure he remembered from his
childhood was very different from the morally ambiguous young woman
who emerged from the trove of love letters, journals and
photographs, surrounded by suitors and living the precarious
existence of a British citizen in a country controlled by the enemy
during World War II.
As a young boy, Shakespeare had always believed that his aunt
was a member of the Resistance and had been tortured by the
Germans. The truth turned out to be far more complicated.
Piecing together fragments of his aunt's remarkable and tragic
story, Priscilla is at once a stunning story of detection, a loving
portrait of a flawed woman trying to survive in terrible times, and
a spellbinding slice of history.
In 1941, Greer Garson earned an Academy Award nomination for her
portrayal of Fort Worth's Edna Gladney in "Blossoms in the Dust."
All eyes turned toward the small yet mighty Gladney and her fight
for children's rights and adoption reform. Born in 1886, Edna
Gladney was labeled as "illegitimate" from birth and, as an adult,
lobbied for that label's removal from all birth certificates.
During World War I, when many women left the home to work, Edna
opened an innovative daytime nursery to care for the children of
these workingwomen. What became the Gladney Center for Adoption has
changed the lives of families and children the world over. Author
and Gladney parent Sherrie McLeRoy tells Edna's amazing story
alongside the making of the movie that launched Edna and adoption
reform beyond Fort Worth's borders to national recognition.
A fearless innovator who inspired designers, models,
photographers, and artists, Diana Vreeland, the famed editor of
Vogue, reinvented the way we think about style. In this first
full-length biography, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart tells the story of
Vreeland's childhood on New York's Upper East Side, her first job
at Harper's Bazaar, her renowned post at Vogue, and her role as
special consultant to the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Empress of Fashion is an intimate and surprising
look at an icon who made a lasting mark on the world of
couture.
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