A Rising Public Voice
Title | A Rising Public Voice PDF eBook |
Author | Alida Brill |
Publisher | Feminist Press at CUNY |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781558611115 |
Leaders from thirty countries reveal the problems, sacrifices, rewards, and realities of women in public life.
High Rise Stories
Title | High Rise Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Audrey Petty |
Publisher | McSweeney's |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2013-09-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1940450055 |
In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago’s iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high-rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly at the heart of our national identity.
Dancing at the River's Edge
Title | Dancing at the River's Edge PDF eBook |
Author | Alida Brill |
Publisher | IPG |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0980139406 |
An invaluable resource for medical professionals, victims of chronic illnesses, and their loved ones, this dual memoir by a doctor and his longtime patient traces the growth of their unique friendship over a span of decades. By exploring the bond between caregiver and sufferer, this sensitive account evokes not only the constant day to day frustrations and emotional toll suffered by the chronically ill, but also an understanding of the mental struggles and conflicts that a conscientious doctor must face in deciding how best to treat a patient without compromising personal freedoms. In alternating chapters, the narrative explores the frustration, joy, despair, grief, and pain on both sides of the doctor-patient relationship.
The Feminine Mystique
Title | The Feminine Mystique PDF eBook |
Author | Betty Friedan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Feminism |
ISBN | 9780140136555 |
This novel was the major inspiration for the Women's Movement and continues to be a powerful and illuminating analysis of the position of women in Western society___
Gender, Media and Voice
Title | Gender, Media and Voice PDF eBook |
Author | Jilly Boyce Kay |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2020-07-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3030472876 |
This book explores the increasing imperatives to speak up, to speak out, and to ‘find one’s voice’ in contemporary media culture. It considers how, for women in particular, this seems to constitute a radical break with the historical idealization of silence and demureness. However, the author argues that there is a growing and pernicious gap between the seductive promise of voice, and voice as it actually exists. While brutal instruments such as the ducking stool and scold’s bridle are no longer in use to punish women’s speech, Kay proposes that communicative injustice now operates in much more insidious ways. The wide-ranging chapters explore the mediated ‘voices’ of women such as Monica Lewinsky, Hannah Gadsby, Diane Abbott, and Yassmin Abdel-Magied, as well as the problems and possibilities of gossip, nagging, and the ‘traumatised voice’ in television talk shows. It critiques the optimistic claims about the ‘unleashing’ of women’s voices post-#MeToo and examines the ways that women’s speech continues to be trivialized and devalued. Communicative justice, the author argues, is not about empowering individuals to ‘find their voice’, but about collectively transforming the whole communicative terrain.
Raise Your Voice
Title | Raise Your Voice PDF eBook |
Author | Kathy Khang |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2018-07-31 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830885323 |
It can be hard to speak up when power dynamics keep us silent and marginalized, especially when race, ethnicity, and gender are factors. Activist Kathy Khang roots our voice and identity in the image of God, showing how we can raise our voices for the sake of God's justice. We are created to speak, and we can both speak up for ourselves and speak out on behalf of others.
Women & Power
Title | Women & Power PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Beard |
Publisher | Profile Books |
Pages | 87 |
Release | 2017-11-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1782834532 |
An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Beard explores the cultural underpinnings of misogyny, considering the public voice of women, our cultural assumptions about women's relationship with power, and how powerful women resist being packaged into a male template. A year on since the advent of #metoo, Beard looks at how the discussions have moved on during this time, and how that intersects with issues of rape and consent, and the stories men tell themselves to support their actions. In trademark Beardian style, using examples ancient and modern, Beard argues, 'it's time for change - and now!' From the author of international bestseller SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome.