A Rising Public Voice

A Rising Public Voice
Author: Alida Brill
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781558611115

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Leaders from thirty countries reveal the problems, sacrifices, rewards, and realities of women in public life.

Gender, Media and Voice

Gender, Media and Voice
Author: Jilly Boyce Kay
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2020-07-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030472876

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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.

The Paradox of Gender Equality

The Paradox of Gender Equality
Author: Kristin A Goss
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2020-07-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0472037838

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Kristin A. Goss examines how women’s civic place has changed over the span of more than 120 years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these changes matter for women and American democracy. As measured by women’s groups’ appearances before the U.S. Congress, women’s collective political engagement continued to grow between 1920 and 1960—when many conventional accounts claim it declined—and declined after 1980, when it might have been expected to grow. Goss asks what women have gained, and perhaps lost, through expanded incorporation, as well as whether single-sex organizations continue to matter in 21st-century America.

High Rise Stories

High Rise Stories
Author: Audrey Petty
Publisher: McSweeney's
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1940450055

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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.

Dear Princess Grace, Dear Betty

Dear Princess Grace, Dear Betty
Author: Alida Brill
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN: 9781936182848

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"This is a memoir of the author's life in and around the feminist movement from the early 1960s to the present day, and of her lasting friendships with Betty Friedan and other key figures in women's rights over the decades"--

Dancing at the River's Edge

Dancing at the River's Edge
Author: Alida Brill
Publisher: IPG
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0980139406

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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

The Feminine Mystique
Author: Betty Friedan
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2010
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780141192055

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When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. Friedan's controversial book about these women - and every woman - would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality. This groundbreaking and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it was forty-five years ago, and is essential reading both as a historical document and as a study of women living in a man's world. 'One of the most influential nonfiction books of the twentieth century.' New York Times 'Feminism ...... began with the work of a single person: Friedan.' Nicholas Lemann With a new Introduction by Lionel Shriver

The Rising Tide

The Rising Tide
Author: Winnie Byanyima
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2003
Genre: Women
ISBN: 9789970847006

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Women of Power

Women of Power
Author: Torild Skard
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2015-03-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1447315804

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CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2015 Do women national leaders represent a breakthrough for the women’s movement, or is women’s leadership weaker than the numbers imply? This unique book, written by an experienced politician and academic, is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of how and why women in 53 countries rose to the top in the years since World War II. Packed with fascinating case studies detailing the rise to power of all 73 female presidents and prime ministers from around the world, from 1960 (when the first was elected) to 2010, the motives, achievements and life stories of the female top leaders, including findings from interviews carried out by the author, provide a nuanced picture of women in power. The book will have wide international appeal to students, academics, government officials, women’s rights activists and political activists, as well as anyone interested in international affairs, politics, social issues, gender and equality.

Fictions of Authority

Fictions of Authority
Author: Susan Sniader Lanser
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1992
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780801480201

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Annotation Writing from positions of cultural exclusion, women have faced constraints not only upon the "content" of fiction but upon the act of narration itself. Narrative voice thus becomes a matter not simply of technique but of social authority: how to speak publicly, to whom, and in whose name. Susan Sniader Lanser here explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. Drawing upon narratological and feminist theory, Lanser sheds new light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power.