The Feminist Reference Desk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Feminist Reference Desk write by Maria T. Accardi. This book was released on 2017. The Feminist Reference Desk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This edited collection considers how feminist strategies and philosophies might initiate, reshape, and critique approaches to library reference services"--
Sexism and Sin-Talk
Sexism and Sin-Talk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sexism and Sin-Talk write by Rachel Sophia Baard. This book was released on 2020-01-01. Sexism and Sin-Talk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Early feminist theologians criticized the Christian doctrine of sin for its focus on female sexual purity and its enabling of the marginalization and oppression of women. Others have questioned whether the entire theological category of sin should be abandoned in favor of other ways of talking about the human predicament. In this new book, Rachel Baard argues for a feminist critique of traditional sin-talk alongside a constructive reinterpretation of the doctrine of sinone that can be life affirming for all persons. She claims that the Christian idea of sinthat tragic flaw at the core of human experienceprovides one of the best tools for understanding the evils of sexism, patriarchy, and traditional sin-talk itself. She likewise provides a new rhetoric of sin-talk, one that accounts for the diverse experiences of the human family, not simply those of powerful men.
Father Figure
Father Figure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Father Figure write by Jordan Shapiro. This book was released on 2021-05-11. Father Figure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A thoughtful and "utterly mind-blowing" exploration of fatherhood and masculinity in the 21st century (New York Times). There are hundreds of books on parenting, and with good reason—becoming a parent is scary, difficult, and life-changing. But when it comes to books about parenting identity, rather than the nuts and bolts of raising children, nearly all are about what it's like to be a mother. Drawing on research in sociology, economics, philosophy, gender studies, and the author's own experiences, Father Figure sets out to fill that gap. It's an exploration of the psychology of fatherhood from an archetypal perspective as well as a cultural history that challenges familiar assumptions about the origins of so-called traditional parenting roles. What paradoxes and contradictions are inherent in our common understanding of dads? Might it be time to rethink some aspects of fatherhood? Gender norms are changing, and old economic models are facing disruption. As a result, parenthood and family life are undergoing an existential transformation. And yet, the narratives and images of dads available to us are wholly inadequate for this transition. Victorian and Industrial Age tropes about fathers not only dominate the media, but also contour most people's lived experience. Father Figure offers a badly needed update to our collective understanding of fatherhood—and masculinity in general. It teaches dads how to embrace the joys of fathering while guiding them toward an image of manliness for the modern world.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Half of a Yellow Sun write by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This book was released on 2010-10-29. Half of a Yellow Sun available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughter” of Chinua Achebe. Now, in her masterly, haunting new novel, she recreates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria during the 1960s. With the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Adichie weaves together the lives of five characters caught up in the extraordinary tumult of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Ugwu is houseboy to Odenigbo, a university professor who sends him to school, and in whose living room Ugwu hears voices full of revolutionary zeal. Odenigbo’s beautiful mistress, Olanna, a sociology teacher, is running away from her parents’ world of wealth and excess; Kainene, her urbane twin, is taking over their father’s business; and Kainene’s English lover, Richard, forms a bridge between their two worlds. As we follow these intertwined lives through a military coup, the Biafran secession and the subsequent war, Adichie brilliantly evokes the promise, and intimately, the devastating disappointments that marked this time and place. Epic, ambitious and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a more powerful, dramatic and intensely emotional picture of modern Africa than any we have had before.
Feminist Conversations
Feminist Conversations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Conversations write by Christina Zwarg. This book was released on 1995. Feminist Conversations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a new account of the relationship between Margaret Fuller and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Christina Zwarg recreates a feminist conversation that has gone unheard. In Zwarg's view, the intimate, yet restrained, letters between the two writers are most significant in confronting the challenges posed by gender and desire. Focusing on their exploration of Charles Fourier's utopianism and particularly his concept of "passionate attraction," Zwarg offers the only detailed reading of Emerson's letters to Fuller.
