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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
A common thread runs through the life of those women who leave a
lasting impact on others. Resolve. It doesn’t make them perfect women,
just purposeful women—women who are intentional about charting the
pathway of their lives in the direction of God’s promises.
Living with this kind of intentionality is what this book is all about.
Quickly a New York Times bestseller when it was first published, The
Resolution for Women returns in this newly revised edition, updated
with ten years’ worth of fresh insights and reflections on what it
means to chart a steady course through disruptive, conflicting times.
Although US history is marred by institutionalized racism and
sexism, postracial and postfeminist attitudes drive our polarized
politics. Violence against people of color, transgendered and gay
people, and women soar upon the backdrop of Donald Trump, Tea Party
affiliates, alt-right members like Richard Spencer, and right-wing
political commentators like Milo Yiannopoulos who defend their
racist and sexist commentary through legalistic claims of freedom
of speech. While more institutions recognize the volatility of
these white men's speech, few notice or have thoughtfully
considered the role of white nationalist, alt-right, and
conservative white women's messages that organizationally preserve
white supremacy. In Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity
Politics, and the Internet, author Wendy K. Z. Anderson details how
white nationalist and alt-right women refine racist rhetoric and
web design as a means of protection and simultaneous instantiation
of white supremacy, which conservative political actors including
Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Sarah Huckabee
Sanders, and Ivanka Trump have amplified through transnational
politics. By validating racial fears and political divisiveness
through coded white identity politics, postfeminist and motherhood
discourse functions as a colorblind, gilded cage. Rebirthing a
Nation reveals how white nationalist women utilize colorblind
racism within digital space, exposing how a postfeminist framework
becomes fodder for conservative white women's political speech to
preserve institutional white supremacy.
A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.
For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently—and far less seriously—than its male counterpart.
That is, until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them. In the years since the book’s initial publication, countless women have learned through Nagoski’s accessible and informative guide that things like stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman’s sexual wellbeing; they are central to it—and that even if you don’t always feel like it, you are already sexually whole by just being yourself.
This revised and updated edition continues that mission with new information and advanced research, demystifying and decoding the science of sex so that everyone can create a better sex life and discover more pleasure than you ever thought possible.
Continually Working tells the stories of Black working women who
resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the
1940s to the 1970s. The book explores the job-related activism of
Black Midwestern working women and uncovers the political and
intellectual strategies they used to critique and resist employment
discrimination, dismantle unjust structures, and transform their
lives and the lives of those in their community. Moten emphasizes
the ways in which Black women transformed the urban landscape by
simultaneously occupying spaces from which they had been
historically excluded and creating their own spaces. Black women
refused to be marginalized within the historically white and
middle-class Milwaukee Young Women's Christian Association (MYWCA),
an association whose mission centered on supporting women in urban
areas. Black women forged interracial relationships within this
organization and made it, not without much conflict and struggle,
one of the most socially progressive organizations in the city.
When Black women could not integrate historically white
institutions, they created their own. They established financial
and educational institutions, such as Pressley School of Beauty
Culture, which beautician Mattie Pressley Dewese opened in 1946 as
a result of segregation in the beauty training industry. This
school served economic, educational and community development
purposes as well as created economic opportunities for Black women.
Historically and contemporarily, Milwaukee has been and is still
known as one of the most segregated cities in the nation. Black
women have always contested urban segregation, by making space for
themselves and others on the margins. In so doing, they have
transformed both the urban landscape and urban history.
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Pauline
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In this comprehensive study of the role of women in the Italian
mafia, Ombretta Ingrasci assesses the roles and spaces of women
within traditionally male, patriarchal organized crime units. The
study draws on an extensive range of research, legal reports and
interviews with women involved with the mafia, public officials and
police. Placed within a framework of political, social, cultural
and religious history, post-1945, this book provides an excellent
history of women and organized crime in modern Italy.
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Finding Me
(Hardcover)
Inocencia Tupas Malunes; Contributions by Sandra Lee, Fermin Rodriguez
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R606
Discovery Miles 6 060
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