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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list

Oct 11, 2017
From pushing boundaries within the medical field to making sure that all children have access to top-notch schooling and care, these women are changing the game.
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Books By Black Women Academics 2017

For Black History Month, Black Feminisms has put together this list, picking their best academic literature from women this year.

Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Policy

Health Equity in Brazil: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Policy

Kia Lilly Caldwell

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Brazil's leadership role in the fight against HIV has brought its public health system widespread...

Medicine gender studies social issues
Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community

Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community

Riché J. Daniel Barnes

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Winner of the 2017 Race, Gender, and Class Section Book Award from the American Sociological...

Gender studies social issues finance
Shadow Bodies: Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics

Shadow Bodies: Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics

Julia S Jordan-Zachery

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What does it mean for Black women to organize in a political context that has generally ignored them...

Black Women's Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability

Black Women's Mental Health: Balancing Strength and Vulnerability

Stephanie Y Evans, Kanika Bell and Nsenga K. Burton

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This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of...

Psychology social sciences gender studies
The Revelations of Asher: Toward Supreme Love in Self – (This Is an Endarkened, Feminist, New Literacies Event)

The Revelations of Asher: Toward Supreme Love in Self – (This Is an Endarkened, Feminist, New Literacies Event)

Jeanine M. Staples

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The Revelations of Asher: Toward Supreme Love in Self is an endarkened, feminist, new literacies...

Performing arts education essays
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Emma Watson recommended Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide in Books (curated)

 
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof | 2009
4.0 (1 Ratings)
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"Half the Sky depicts, in eye-opening detail, the various cultures and customs that suppress women and gives a voice to those individuals who need to be heard the most. Traversing through Africa and Asia, Kristof and WuDunn introduce us to some incredibly strong women and describe their stories of suffering and survival. Most importantly, the book spotlights how these women were able to stand up and transform their lives and, through their inspiring examples, we learn that the key to enabling change and economic growth is in unleashing women’s potential (the title of the book, after all, comes from the ancient Chinese proverb, ‘Women hold up half the sky’). Kristof and WuDunn dare us, as readers, to join the cause and Half the Sky shows us how, by doing even a very small amount, we each have the power to change other women’s lives."

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ClareR (5854 KP) rated The Pull of the Stars in Books

Nov 8, 2020  
The Pull of the Stars
The Pull of the Stars
Emma Donoghue | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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This book, and in particular the Audible version that I listened to, really pulled me into the world of 1918 Dublin. This isn’t a story for the faint-hearted. It’s really graphic and gory in a lot of places, and it portrayed just what life was like for women in Ireland at this time. Childbirth was portrayed as a punishment, babies being still born equally so. This was a time where it was normal for women in Ireland to birth baby after baby: on average ten.

Nurse Julia Power is unmarried at 30 and seems to be happy with that, as she sees women whose bodies are worn out from giving birth so many times and so closely together, women who have been abused by their fathers and forced to bear their children, women who have conceived their babies outside of marriage and will be forced to give them up - as well as young women who have been institutionalised from birth and forced to give up their lives to repay the nuns who raised them through free labour (Magdalene laundries). Like I said, this was no time to be a woman. The abuse and poor treatment of the women on the ward is alluded to, but never explicit.

Whilst most of the story takes place on the quarantined labour ward, we do get a glimpse in to the home life of Nurse Power, and it was interesting to see how the war had impacted on and affected her brother.

This is a beautifully told story packed full of heart. It may not have been my best move to read it during a pandemic, but nevertheless, I absolutely loved it.