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Racially and Ethnically Diverse Women Leading Education: A World View
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This book's primary focus is on racially and ethnically diverse women in educational leadership....
Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era
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In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and...
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Sarah Osborn's World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America
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In 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn pondered how to tell the story of her life,...
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Jun 13, 2023
Shelley Parker-Chan has added a twist to the story, though. The Zhu Yuanzhang in this story is actually female. Born a girl, she steals her brothers identity when he dies so that she can survive - girls were not important enough to survive otherwise. She decides to live her brothers life, and as a fortune teller has foretold, she will rise to great heights in his name. And this process starts by Zhu being taken in and educated by the monks at a monastery.
This isn’t fantasy as much as it is historical fiction. Ok, there is a little bit of magic, but I took that as being an explanation of a leaders charisma. The writing IS beautiful, particularly the descriptions of the relationship between Zhu and the eunuch General Ouyang, and the queer story of Zhu and her wife.
We’re left on a bit of a cliffhanger, I’ll warn you, but we won’t have long to wait for the sequel!
Gendering Radicalism: Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California
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In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor...
Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology
Farai Chideya and Vivek Wadhwa
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From one of Time Magazine's "Forty Most Influential Minds in Technology" comes an essential...
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Women develop a 'skein' that grows across their collar bone, and gives them the ability to control/ kill/ maim men and each other. Absolute power corrupts absolutely (who said that anyway?) after all.
This is the story of the genesis of the power, how it was triggered throughout a generation, who were then able to awaken it in older women. How women realised that they didn't have to be victims anymore, and began to take on many/ all of the attributes of their male counterparts (and not always the good ones). Men are viewed as the weaker sex, women as protectors and leaders.
I was fascinated by this whole idea. The characters showed us the different sides to the power - religion, organised crime, politics - and how it utterly changed the dynamic in society.
The museum pieces were very interesting, and the idea that this book was being written thousands of years in the future was very clever. And being written by a man. I liked how his editor (a woman) thought he would be taken more seriously if he were to write under a female pseudonym! Oh how times had changed!
I listened to this on audiobook, and read along to parts of it. The narration and voice actors were spot on - I couldn't stop listening until I had to, of course. Real life has a habit of interrupting reading and listening time!
Highly recommended.
