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"For years, Holly Whitaker wore her workaholic-party-girl persona as a badge of honor, while privately feeling increasingly miserable. She believed that if she could just eat cleaner, save more money, and be more perfect, her life would finally snap into place. Yet all of her attempts to fix herself just added up to more chaos and the chaos added up to more pain and so she added more wine. When she finally had enough and started looking around for...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
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In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. And while they sleep they go to another place, a better place, where harmony prevails and conflict is rare. One woman, the mysterious "Eve Black," is immune to the blessing or curse of...
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Publisher
HELVETIQ (Halvetiq Sari)
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
88 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Patriarchy means "the rule of the father" and describes a system where men are in control. At least since the time of Aristotle, loud-mouthed men have called women weak and inferior. In entertaining comic book form, Smash the Patriarchy shames the culprits and salutes more than 100 inspiring women--from Pharaoh Hatshepsut to Mary Wollstonecraft to Petra Herrera--who stood up to them. The book is not afraid to examine some of the worst crimes--public...
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
420 pages : map ; 21 cm
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English
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"The year is 1953. Edward VIII and Wallis are preparing for their coronation, and the country is tense with expectation. In honor of the event, Adolf Hitler will be making his first visit to the UK since its surrender to the Germans in 1940. One oppressive change conforming with Nazi ideology is the strict classification of women into hierarchical groups, ranging from the beautiful and privileged Gelis (named after Hitler's adored niece) down to the...
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English
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"This is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you. From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times bestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series Shrill, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've...
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Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xv, 411 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated...
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"In Louise O'Neill's world of 'Only Ever Yours' women are no longer born naturally, girls (called 'eves') are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasuring men until they come of age. Freida and Isabel are best friends. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companions -- wives to powerful men. All they have to do is ensure they stay in the top ten beautiful girls in their year. The alternatives -- life...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From corsets to crime fighting , Mae Foley challenged the patriarchal status quo by not only juggling family life, but also by forming the first female auxiliary police force in the City That Never Sleeps. After the 19th Amendment passed in 1920, Foley galvanized 2,000 women to join her "Masher Squad" and eventually became one of the first sworn officers with the NYPD. The "Masher Squad" brought down robbers and rapists, investigated the notorious...
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Publisher
Crown
Language
English
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"An urgent exploration of men's entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl, which Rebecca Traister called "jaw-droppingly brilliant." In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. Ranging widely across the culture, from the Kavanaugh hearings and "Cat Person" to Harvey Weinstein and Elizabeth Warren, Manne shows how...
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Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 318 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A history of American white male identity by the author of "So You Want to Talk About Race" imagines a merit-based, non-discriminating model while exposing the actual costs of successes defined by racial and sexual dominance.
What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? Oluo shows how, throughout the last 150 years of American history, white male supremacy has wrought devastating consequences...
11) Rich man's sky
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Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When billionaires control the space program, where does that leave the rest of us? Space: a tycoon's playground. From a space station full of women to a monastery on the Moon, from a Martian reality-TV contest to a solar shade large enough to cool the Earth, the dreams of a handful of trillionaires dictate the future of humanity. Outside the reach of Earthly law and with the vast resources of the inner solar system at their disposal, the 'Four Horsemen'...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 370 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"James Carroll weaves together the story of how his Irish mother inspired little Jimmy to believe in the Church, despite his young doubts, with the story of how the Catholic Church evolved in history to become an institution that places dominance and power in an all-male clergy. Carroll argues that clericalism is both the root cause and the ongoing enabler of the present Catholic crisis, and compromises the ability of Pope Francis to create change...
13) Buck breaking
Publisher
King Flex Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Buck Breaking is a documentary film that explores the history of sexual exploitation of Black people by the dominant society. The film particularly covers the taboo subject of sexual exploitation of Black males throughout history. The film Buck Breaking is produced draws parallels between ancient forms of this sexual exploitation, to the modern forms of buck breaking being used on Black people today. The film shows the correlation between the historic...